Just now, Outlaw said:

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In the 4 major sports, NY and LA are the biggest markets. And in the NFL the Cowboys are the NFL's cash cow franchise. Those cities drive revenue. The leagues benefit financially when NY and LA teams are good, and in the case of the NFL, when the Cowboys are good. Philly in each of the leagues except the NHL(for LA) is a direct threat to these teams because they play in the same conference. These leagues want the LA, NY, teams, and in the NFL, the Cowboys, to be the best teams, and if Philly teams are great, it's going to directly impact that possibility.

And also there's a big brother little man complex of some of these corporate big wigs, who look down on Philly as a "little brother city" and are extremely bitter when they have teams that are better than the bigger market teams.

The NFL will hold Philly down whenever they're able to prop up those bigger markets. We saw in the Sixers/Knicks series last year where Maxey was blatantly fouled twice at the end of game 2, one of those he was tackled to the ground, that the refs were just not going to call a foul there no matter what. Meanwhile if you breathe on Brunson, he goes to the line.

They won't go as far as to outright fix games. But many calls in sports are judgement calls and "benefit of the doubt calls" and officials will just not give those to Philly teams like NY, LA get and in the NFL Dallas gets.

9 minutes ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

They already beat Minnesota and Green Bay on the road, the Green Bay win is the one impressive win on their season, all their other games against play off contending teams have been close and they've beaten up on weak teams.

They're a good team, but a couple of their wins are like the other side of the coin flip to our Atlanta game.

For sure. They have beaten them, but it's hard to beat a good division team twice, though. I'd obviously lean towards the Lions, but those aren't going to be locks. They totally got lucky with the Houston win, you are right.

24 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Yes it was. They were in C4 trix, so he has to carry his man deep and he slipped when Kupp broke to the skinny post. It happens. Credit to Kupp for the route and catch, and Stafford for the throw.

That TD to Kupp was 27 yards, and he gave up a reception earlier in the game for more than 2 yards, so it appears he has not been officially credited with the TD reception by the statisticians. Unless they don't count any other receptions for the rest of the game to him.

I'm gonna go ahead and keep the "No TDs given up by Mitchell" agenda going because it sounds better and makes him look better. And looks good on a DROY to win back to back with Carter.

1 minute ago, Sack that QB said:

That TD to Kupp was 27 yards, and he gave up a reception earlier in the game for more than 2 yards, so it appears he has not been officially credited with the TD reception by the statisticians. Unless they don't count any other receptions for the rest of the game to him.

I'm gonna go ahead and keep the "No TDs given up by Mitchell" agenda going because it sounds better and makes him look better. And looks good on a DROY to win back to back with Carter.

Depends on if you want to go with espn next gen or pff

 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Depends on if you want to go with espn next gen or pff

 

 

 

Listening to the radio broadcast on Westwood One, Ryan Radke called it the first TD Mitchell has given up all year, and Kurt Warner immediately interjected and said in that coverage scheme that Kupp was not Quinyon Mitchell’s responsibility.

TFWIW — but the guy is a HOF QB 

4 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Depends on if you want to go with espn next gen or pff

 

 

 

I will go with whatever affirms my truth.

The PI on Rodgers was BS. If you want to call the one on slay i dislike it cause it’s ticky tack PI when there’s far worse not called. But i could at least see it 

 

The ish was in garbage time who even cares guy is a stud true lock down 

10 minutes ago, jamiller said:

On that dump off to Kupp his acceleration to the tackle point is wild.  Impressive.

Kirk Ferentz has been quoted as saying DeJean could have played any skill position for the Hawkeyes...including QB. Said he's that badass an athlete.

9 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

In the 4 major sports, NY and LA are the biggest markets. And in the NFL the Cowboys are the NFL's cash cow franchise. Those cities drive revenue. The leagues benefit financially when NY and LA teams are good, and in the case of the NFL, when the Cowboys are good. Philly in each of the leagues except the NHL(for LA) is a direct threat to these teams because they play in the same conference. These leagues want the LA, NY, teams, and in the NFL, the Cowboys, to be the best teams, and if Philly teams are great, it's going to directly impact that possibility.

And also there's a big brother little man complex of some of these corporate big wigs, who look down on Philly as a "little brother city" and are extremely bitter when they have teams that are better than the bigger market teams.

The NFL will hold Philly down whenever they're able to prop up those bigger markets. We saw in the Sixers/Knicks series last year where Maxey was blatantly fouled twice at the end of game 2, one of those he was tackled to the ground, that the refs were just not going to call a foul there no matter what. Meanwhile if you breathe on Brunson, he goes to the line.

They won't go as far as to outright fix games. But many calls in sports are judgement calls and "benefit of the doubt calls" and officials will just not give those to Philly teams like NY, LA get and in the NFL Dallas gets.

Holy tinfoil hat, Batman.

3 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

Damn it. This made me like him a little.

24 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

It's not a conspiracy theory to say that officiating is biased against Philly teams. If you've watched the Sixers this year you've seen it. It's almost comical. If you've watched the games you know what I'm talking about. Even the beat guys who cover the team and 99% of the time don't mention refs because they're professionals have been jumping on the train that there is clear bias. Maxey will literally get tackled, the refs will call a foul, the opponent coach will challenge "Overturned, there was no foul on the play." Meanwhile, McCain will drive and get suplexed into the hardwood, no foul call... Sixers challenge. No call upheld. It's actually laughable how bad it's gotten.

And we see the same thing every week with the Eagles. I have my theories as to why this is going on, and it doesn't really require a tin foil hat to grasp it.

Interesting.  So what would you say the Sixers record would be this season with impartial officials?  Please keep in mind when answering that both Embiid and Paul George clearly lack the intangibles and don’t give a F at all.

 

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

The PI on Rodgers was BS. If you want to call the one on slay i dislike it cause it’s ticky tack PI when there’s far worse not called. But i could at least see it 

 

The unnecessary roughness was definitely just to make it offsetting penalties

1 hour ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Sirianni still sucks... but the talent overcomes stupidity.   The sequence at the end of the first half was a disgrace.  Absolutely an utter disgrace.   Oh, and the red zone offense still struggles mightily.   BUT, at least Sirianni seemed to have learned from the past and kicked the FGs early this time.   

 

But that sequence at the end of the first half was the stupidest sequence at the end of a half I think I've ever seen.  And the final play was the cherry on top.  

 

 

 

 

 

I agree that the sequence was terrible. I was excited to see Elliot redeem himself with a 50+ kick, but the play call was pretty bad. 

Having said that, every coach makes similar mistakes. You saw Dan Quinn taking his time to score down by 16 points last week. Yesterday you saw McCarthy with terrible time management up by 11 with 2 minutes remaining. McVay punted from the 38 in the freaking Super Bowl against the Patriots. Reid was famous for his questionable decisions before Mahomes started bailing him out.

With Sirianni we'll get moments like these, but overall he's more good than bad. 

 

 

8 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

That TD to Kupp was 27 yards, and he gave up a reception earlier in the game for more than 2 yards, so it appears he has not been officially credited with the TD reception by the statisticians. Unless they don't count any other receptions for the rest of the game to him.

I'm gonna go ahead and keep the "No TDs given up by Mitchell" agenda going because it sounds better and makes him look better. And looks good on a DROY to win back to back with Carter.

There is no official stat for allowing a TD, at the individual level. Any stat for defenders giving up such and such yards, or being targeted X number of times, is unofficially tracked by third parties like PFF.

1 minute ago, Mike030270 said:

The unnecessary roughness was definitely just to make it offsetting penalties

Yeah, it felt like every time the Rams were called for a penalty last night, it happened to be offsetting. So annoying and frustrating. Especially that one. That’s not a penalty 

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

You have a video of Mailata getting ran over? I wanted a replay of that to see if he was just off balance or something

Just now, Mike030270 said:

You have a video of Mailata getting ran over? I wanted a replay of that to see if he was just off balance or something

 

42 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

This is slightly misleading. They purposedly played smaller players with more men so their back 7-8 could drop out. 

Box counts are important, but so are body types. There's a reason why we drafted Jordan Davis. 

5 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

Interesting.  So what would you say the Sixers record would be this season with impartial officials?  Please keep in mind when answering that both Embiid and Paul George clearly lack the intangibles and don’t give a F at all.

Not many more, they blow. Even if the officials and reversed course and flat out fixed games for the Sixers, I don't even think that could save the Sixers they're so bad. Implode the entire franchise.

Renovations coming 

 

3 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

Gotta suck to see what Saquon and Xavier McKinney are doing and they didn't even bother to sign either of them.

3 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Renovations coming 

 

Hopefully those include making everything on the stadium kelly green colored and changing the jerseys back to it full time.