18 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

ToddFather played a game with a fully torn bicep…a single game.  Maybe that’s where it’s coming from?

Yeah maybe that's what he meant, not sure.

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

To be honest, that sequence never made any sense at all. You can't decline then change your mind. There must have been something that happened in between to explain it all. 

Curious if Sirianni will be asked about this or the failed 4th down QB sweep. Doubt he'll tell us the truth, but hopefully someone at least asks what happened.

 

10 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I haven’t seen anyone on here give Sirianni the proper credit for declining then accepting the 10-yard penalty against the Rams to force them into a 3rd and long leading to a sack, instead of a very doable 4th and short.  Worked the officials perfectly as soon as he saw McVay leave his offense on the field.  Normally a coach will need to burn a timeout to do that, or not be allowed to at all.

It doesn’t feed into the narrative that the head coach of a 9-2 team doesn’t know what he’s doing, though.

Someone probably told him to do that

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

 

I'm not crying. You're crying.

Last night was all time awesome 

3 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Someone probably told him to do that

You, Barkley!  Run to the end zone!

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

 

I forgot that BG wore 54 for part of his career.

2 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

Lost in the Barkley performance was Hurts played maybe his best game last night. Took a bad sack but aside from that he was decisive.

One of the things that makes Hurts performances "look bad" are the repetitive QB run plays that NEVER work. The outside QB runs are hot garbage and should never be called again. They make Hurts look bad and I can understand why it might frustrate people with Hurts, when that frustration should be taken out on Kellen Moore. Throw those plays away. Hurts should be running when the pocket collapses, QB sneak and the occasional QB draw. THAT'S IT.

2 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Let's not get crazy.

Not saying HE IS Barry just that he reminds me of him especially as an anytime homerun threat.

14 minutes ago, mattwill said:

I forgot that BG wore 54 for part of his career.

Yep, he sure made the right move back to his college number. Ray Farmer would be proud to see 55 go out like this.

I was just watching a replay of the Chiefs/Panthers and Mahomes is a **** with the fake run out of bounds an the league enables it. If you light him up you get a penalty like the Bengals two years ago. If you don't nail him he does cheap crap like that. At this point I hope teams light his ass up and take the 15 and maybe that crap will end.

30 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I haven’t seen anyone on here give Sirianni the proper credit for declining then accepting the 10-yard penalty against the Rams to force them into a 3rd and long leading to a sack, instead of a very doable 4th and short.  Worked the officials perfectly as soon as he saw McVay leave his offense on the field.  Normally a coach will need to burn a timeout to do that, or not be allowed to at all.

It doesn’t feed into the narrative that the head coach of a 9-2 team doesn’t know what he’s doing, though.

I said it when it happened, and then later after the game said I give Siri credit for improving in recent weeks. I also said periodically over the last few weeks that he has controlled his emotions and outbursts. When he got that national attention for yelling at his own fans, then apologized the next day it seems the organization got the message through to him. He's also made better in-game decisions and balanced his aggressiveness with smarter decisions.

1 hour ago, TEW said:

Nah.

Barkley rarely gets tackled behind the LOS, and he uses a LOT of power to get his yards. Shady was closer to Barry as a runner.

Barkley looks like the most complete runner I’ve ever seen though. Excellent vision, patience, burst, speed, elusiveness, power, balance… he has every trait at an elite level.

Makes you wonder what Barry could have done behind an O-line like the Eagles.

I think most of his career his line wasn't very good and yet he still put up the numbers he did in only 10 seasons I believe. It's why I feel Barry is the GOAT as far as RBs.

Jalyx Hunt szn. BGs injury is why I wanted to go after a vet pass rusher at the deadline. He was playing with is hair on fire too! 

4 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

I was just watching a replay of the Chiefs/Panthers and Mahomes is a **** with the fake run out of bounds an the league enables it. If you light him up you get a penalty like the Bengals two years ago. If you don't nail him he does cheap crap like that. At this point I hope teams light his ass up and take the 15 and maybe that crap will end.

Either replicate it or try to stop it. Same thing we tell people bishing about the tush push

4 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

Either replicate it or try to stop it. Same thing we tell people bishing about the tush push

You can't replicate it when the league enables it by protecting him the way they do. He is afforded protections other QBs don't get and he's taking advantage of it, which is smart, but it's still BS.

Ravens make a ton of sense

1 hour ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

If we lose on Sunday, how fast does the "Here comes another collapse!" narrative take hold here.

No.  If they lose by alot then struggle with Carolina then I can see it.

39 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

To be honest, that sequence never made any sense at all. You can't decline then change your mind. There must have been something that happened in between to explain it all. 

My guess is that he hadn't been "officially" consulted and the referee simply assumed the Eagles wanted to decline it to force fourth down. Otherwise it makes no sense, I agree.

3 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

My guess is that he hadn't been "officially" consulted and the referee simply assumed the Eagles wanted to decline it to force fourth down. Otherwise it makes no sense, I agree.

I think that’s what happened. Ref assumed they were declining because it was fourth down but when Sirianni saw the offense staying out there he was like "hey, wait a min here I didn’t say I was declining!” Ha 
 

 

51 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I haven’t seen anyone on here give Sirianni the proper credit for declining then accepting the 10-yard penalty against the Rams to force them into a 3rd and long leading to a sack, instead of a very doable 4th and short.  Worked the officials perfectly as soon as he saw McVay leave his offense on the field.  Normally a coach will need to burn a timeout to do that, or not be allowed to at all.

It doesn’t feed into the narrative that the head coach of a 9-2 team doesn’t know what he’s doing, though.

That was good. 

49 minutes ago, mattwill said:

I'd have to give consideration to Earl Campbell.

Biggest legs on a human

1 hour ago, vikas83 said:

Well, went to the game after all, and it was 65-70% Eagles fans in there. Haven't watched the game on replay yet (getting out of that stadium's parking lot is a debacle), but here's some thoughts from watching it live.

OFFENSE

- I'd make this a solid B+ game from Jalen. No huge plays, no mistakes, and didn't seem like he missed too much either. He was very efficient using his legs to get yards when necessary. The stalls in the red zone the 1st 2 drives were annoying, but on the 2nd one when he missed Goedert (may have been Calcaterra), it wouldn't have counted because somehow we were offsides...on offense. The drive to take the lead before the half -- used his legs to get a 1st down, then threw the TD. Same with the drive to go up 27-14 - made the plays necessary to answer the last real challenge from the Rams.

- I've got no words to describe Saquon. Seeing him pull away live...he's so much faster than everyone else on the field it's stupid. Seems like he gets what is blocked, makes a juke and it's off to the races. Every play feels like he might break it. And he just took the heart out of the Rams and their fans. Opposing fans just shaking their heads and muttering. Got to the point they were praying we would pass.

- Our offensive line just wears teams out. You can just see it in the 2nd half. The Rams defense was spent and wanted no part of us in the 2nd half. We ran all over them, and they couldn't get near Hurts.

- AJ Brown is a monster in real life. AJ, Saquon, the O-Line, Jalen -- we are just beating the hell out of people. 37 points without Smitty is bananas.

DEFENSE

- Stafford had no time to breathe. Obviously losing BG is terrible, but it felt like everyone on the D-Line was winning consistently.

- OK, I have a question for the refs -- have we decided holding Jalen Carter is legal? I focused on him a bunch, and he was constantly beating double teams and then being tackled by an offensive lineman.

- Speaking of the refs, that sure as hell didn't look like PI in the end zone. They gifted them a TD.

- Stafford is really good and made some insane throws (there was one to Nacua against Slay that I couldn't believe he attempted let alone completed). Seeing the field -- nothing was open. There were no easy throws down the field at all.

- Cooper locked up Cooper.

- Baun didn't stand out as much, but Dean was everywhere. 

- Isiah Rodgers is no Slay. They clearly went after him.

SPECIAL TEAMS

- Thanks for coming back Jake.

 

 

Refs gifted them 2 TDs with ticky tack PI calls.

53 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I haven’t seen anyone on here give Sirianni the proper credit for declining then accepting the 10-yard penalty against the Rams to force them into a 3rd and long leading to a sack, instead of a very doable 4th and short.  Worked the officials perfectly as soon as he saw McVay leave his offense on the field.  Normally a coach will need to burn a timeout to do that, or not be allowed to at all.

It doesn’t feed into the narrative that the head coach of a 9-2 team doesn’t know what he’s doing, though.

A) I'm surprised they let it happen.  Unless they never asked him in the first place and just assumed he would decline it which the broadcast official mentioned as a possibility. 

B) I would think you'd take the penalty and make it 3rd and long rather than decline and keep it 4th and short.  You know McVay is going to go for it if it's 4th and short.   

I'm with Sirianni but he should have accepted it and moved them back to begin with.

9 minutes ago, jamiller said:

Biggest legs on a human

Bigger than Lizzo?