1 minute ago, time2rock said:

That is the primary reason why myself (and plenty of others) were scratching our heads at the addition of Pickett (vs someone like Fields who you wouldn't need to adjust the offense as much to make work).  But who knows ... maybe they did do their due diligence on him and that pursuit didn't work out for whatever reason (CHI not wanting to deal him to an NFC competitor, Pitt offering more than us, etc.).  

i was not a fan of the pickett signing either. gotta have a back up that has a similar style of play to the starter. pickett is nothing like hurts

11 hours ago, EazyEaglez said:

Can’t help but feel this would have been a blowout or at least a solid win if Hurts didn’t get knocked out of the game.

Saquon was about to go for 200 easy. There's a reason he barely gets contact until yards past the LOS and it's not just the OL.

1 hour ago, EmeraldArcher7154 said:

it will but it's not going to be the norm. pickett has won games in the nfl as a starter with way less talent on offense. i think he got messed up mentally by what happened with the whole pittsburgh thing

Going in cold hurt his chances. That pick he threw shouldn't have been thrown.

Yeah their coverage was atrocious at times. On the game winning TD, they didn't defend the whole endzone. They had too many defenders at the goal line, so that let the Wash player get behind them. Should have had a couple of defenders at the goal line, and a couple more in the middle to the back of the endzone. 

1 hour ago, Portyansky said:

Going in cold hurt his chances. That pick he threw shouldn't have been thrown.

He came out pretty hot though. He was like 3 for 3 with a TD. I think it took a bit before the Commanders adjusted. Once they realized Hurts wasn’t coming back everything changed.

3 hours ago, EmeraldArcher7154 said:

i was not a fan of the pickett signing either. gotta have a back up that has a similar style of play to the starter. pickett is nothing like hurts

I don't necessarily agree with that. I liked having a backup QB with experience like PIckett has. The main issue is his arm talent and ability to throw down accurately. He struggled with accuracy outside of a couple throws. The throw to Barkley up the sideline should have been a TD. Barkley had the defender beat and was wide open and Pickett underthrew him and it led to an incompletion.

I don't think Pickett not being as good a runner was a major issue. But Pickett not being able to get the ball to our elite offensive weapons consistently was an issue. Washington just focused on Barkley. There aren't a lot of great backup QB's in the league. Our last few, outside of Minshew, have not been great. Would have been interesting if they had pursued signing Wentz as a backup. Wentz is a great backup right now in KC.

Outside of a couple teams, nearly every team in the NFL tanks when the backup has to start more than a game or two.

When they dropped like 4 passes at the end of the game I knew it was over.

40 minutes ago, Devaster said:

I don't necessarily agree with that. I liked having a backup QB with experience like PIckett has. The main issue is his arm talent and ability to throw down accurately. He struggled with accuracy outside of a couple throws. The throw to Barkley up the sideline should have been a TD. Barkley had the defender beat and was wide open and Pickett underthrew him and it led to an incompletion.

I don't think Pickett not being as good a runner was a major issue. But Pickett not being able to get the ball to our elite offensive weapons consistently was an issue. Washington just focused on Barkley. There aren't a lot of great backup QB's in the league. Our last few, outside of Minshew, have not been great. Would have been interesting if they had pursued signing Wentz as a backup. Wentz is a great backup right now in KC.

Outside of a couple teams, nearly every team in the NFL tanks when the backup has to start more than a game or two.

with Hurt's injury history back up qb was a huge position of need. they really shouldve went hard for fields. fields can run the same style offense that hurts can and is an even better runner. he cant throw as well as hurts but washington would not have been able to ignore fields' running ability. it really was a terrible move sgning pickett. i still cant believe i thought pickett was capable of holding it down if hurts got injured. i was totally wrong

3 hours ago, Portyansky said:

Going in cold hurt his chances. That pick he threw shouldn't have been thrown.

100. i think he's cooked. more times than not when a qb is done mentally, they're done period.

The penalties and hidden yards on special teams led to the loss.

Sure WAS had some big penalties as well but instead of capitalizing on them they came away with FGs and Punts instead of tds.

Eagles turn the ball over WAS scores a TD, eagles have twelve on D WAS scores a TD 

As for the KR game, im not sure what the heck the Birds were doing on both sides, their returns were horrible, the blocking was bad and the returners worse, meanwhile WAS was routinely starring drives past the 40 outting even more pressure on the D.

As mentioned they held the ball basically the whole 3rd qtr, and only had 6 to show for it

All the mistakes in all 3 phases plus battling the refs all game off set the +4 turnover margin.

15 hours ago, Utebird said:

The penalties and hidden yards on special teams led to the loss.

Sure WAS had some big penalties as well but instead of capitalizing on them they came away with FGs and Punts instead of tds.

Eagles turn the ball over WAS scores a TD, eagles have twelve on D WAS scores a TD 

As for the KR game, im not sure what the heck the Birds were doing on both sides, their returns were horrible, the blocking was bad and the returners worse, meanwhile WAS was routinely starring drives past the 40 outting even more pressure on the D.

As mentioned they held the ball basically the whole 3rd qtr, and only had 6 to show for it

All the mistakes in all 3 phases plus battling the refs all game off set the +4 turnover margin.

The kickoffs were baffling. Mann's first kickoff was short of the target zone, which is basically like kicking it out of bounds (penalty which results in the offense starting from the 40). Everything else was short and the coverage team did a poor job of limiting the runs. Washington had decent field position for most of the game. That needs to get corrected ASAP. Maybe let Jake handle them.

6 hours ago, EmeraldArcher7154 said:

with Hurt's injury history back up qb was a huge position of need. they really shouldve went hard for fields. fields can run the same style offense that hurts can and is an even better runner. he cant throw as well as hurts but washington would not have been able to ignore fields' running ability. it really was a terrible move sgning pickett. i still cant believe i thought pickett was capable of holding it down if hurts got injured. i was totally wrong

Perhaps. I'm not as high as you are on Fields. I think Fields is even worse than Pickett and has far more negatives, with the only positive being his athleticism. There were some decent backup options better than Pickett, but they didn't explore them unfortunately.

15 hours ago, EazyEaglez said:

Not surprised you don’t think Jalen has anything to do with the wins. I’m sure anyone can go out there and win with this team. At least so I’m told.  

I didn't say that he has nothing to do with the wins, I said that it's more about Pickett and frankly Moore than Hurts. We have a starter and backup with radically different skillsets, so we have to approach the game differently if Hurts goes down. Historically in the league for this very reason, teams try to get backups and starters with relatively similar skillsets. Not exactly rocket science buddy. I get that you're a big Hurts guy, and there's nothing wrong with that, but if this outing on Sunday is your galvanizing proof with Kenny Pickett of all people, you might as well be saying if Josh Rosen couldn't win with the Eagles, it's proof that Jalen is top 5.

The reaction to acquiring Kenny Pickett was this negative for a reason, can we maybe retreat to a position of reason, or did you spend time in here being riddled by Hurts critical people and lose your mind while I bailed on the board for a few months?

16 hours ago, Devaster said:

Perhaps. I'm not as high as you are on Fields. I think Fields is even worse than Pickett and has far more negatives, with the only positive being his athleticism. There were some decent backup options better than Pickett, but they didn't explore them unfortunately.

i'm not saying he's good but he is more similar to hurts than pickett. plus he would be a threat to run which would allow barkley to continue to smoke the commies. plus fields his one of the best runners in the league.