9 hours ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Who’s going to be the drunkest player at the parade tomorrow? I’m going with Dickerson. Wildcard Blankenship. 

I think Dickerson has a high tolerance, and it won't be so glaringly obvious.   But Reed.... yeah, he was lit in the locker room.  He'll show it.  

4 hours ago, DrPhilly said:

Go back and look at the season again.  Starting with the week after the bye those things all but disappeared along with the TOs.  He still took an occasional idiotic sack but otherwise he was rock solid.  His progression was slow and steady and totally obvious. Finally, in the Steelers game, he was asked to perform and he did.

The injury in the Wash game was a temporary setback.  From there, he was awesome in the playoffs.  Everyone poo pooed the GB game but he stood patiently in the pocket on the 2nd play of the game and waited for Dotson to come free and then threw a perfect strike.  From there the Eagles simply managed the game and made sure to take care of the ball.  In the Rams game he was hurt again and was mediocre in the snow but didn't turn the ball over.  Then he had two awesome games.

The mistakes that plagued him in all of '23 went away during '24.  Not 100% but certainly enough to make them a non factor.  Will they return in '25?  They might.  Time will tell.

If he wasn't doing those things consistently, people wouldn't have been complaining. Was it every single play? No, but it was 3-4 plays every game and when he's only being asked to throw 20 times those plays stick out.

Add on that he clearly had the ability to play well as evidenced in the 2022 super bowl, he just wasn't. And that's why there was frustration until the steelers game where he finally looked normal.

At the end of the day, doesn't matter. We have a phenomenal defense and a superstar running back that led the way for 17 games and hurts came through when it counted the most. And now off to the parade to celebrate!

Think he nailed hurts perfectly lol

 

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8 hours ago, Joe Ball said:

As spectacular as the roster was up and down on both offense and defense, Saquon was the biggest game changer, franchise impacting factor this year. The success he had opened things up for others. The attitude and confidence he played with spawned that expectation in every other player. I think it even motivated and helped the defense early in the year and once they got going BEHIND the tone he set for the team, they just went off and became something of their own.  

Good football, the attitude, the expectation to win and succeed is infectious, he infected the whole team. I honestly believe that. Like I said to start this post, great roster, but he was the X factor.

Edit: Saquon should have been the league MVP this year imo. Best rb performance in a very very long time.

No question.  But he plays the wrong position.  Instead the argument came down to Lamar and Allen and yet, all they did was the same as what they always do.  Nothing there that was unique.  Great players, but that's just their standard year.

8 hours ago, jamiller said:

That's one of the ones we won, right?

The first!   

9 hours ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Who’s going to be the drunkest player at the parade tomorrow? I’m going with Dickerson. Wildcard Blankenship. 

Dickerson and Lane

9 minutes ago, devpool said:

If he wasn't doing those things consistently, people wouldn't have been complaining. Was it every single play? No, but it was 3-4 plays every game and when he's only being asked to throw 20 times those plays stick out.

No, he wasn't doing those things over the last 12 games of the year.  Yes, he did those last year and in the first four games but not thereafter.  Go back and look.

12 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Forever.

The exact quote I told my friend just before kickoff.  It was a great thing to say back in 1974 and it applied to Sunday as well.

3 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

No, he wasn't doing those things over the last 12 games of the year.  Yes, he did those last year and in the first four games but not thereafter.  Go back and look.

Wrong 

20 hours ago, Esage said:

Its the DVD/Blu-ray that was posted a couple pages back. 

Oh THAT's what you meant. Thank you for that information, I didn't know that's the only format they do it in now. Very helpful to know.

7 minutes ago, Godfather said:

Dickerson and Lane

Dickerson will get redneck drunk which is to say it will be hard to notice.  My money is on Jurgens to look the drunkest.  

11 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

No, he wasn't doing those things over the last 12 games of the year.  Yes, he did those last year and in the first four games but not thereafter.  Go back and look.

Yea, that's not accurate. The turnovers were the only thing that stopped completely (which were obviously the biggest problem). I think you're forgetting or ignoring all the stuff from after the bye because they won those games, which is what everyone did last year until the dam broke because the defense sucked.

It was great he stopped turning the ball over, he was still doing all those things and maybe it was because he was trying so hard not to turn the ball over. For example, the interception he threw in the super bowl. During the regular season he eats that ball and takes a sack that puts us out of field goal range

9 hours ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Who’s going to be the drunkest player at the parade tomorrow? I’m going with Dickerson. Wildcard Blankenship. 

Drink the most might be Dickerson. But drunkest you've got a factor in tolerance. I'm going wildcard someone like Tanner McKee.  He seems like is more a chocolate milk guy than a beer guy. 

7 hours ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

That may very well be true regarding RT, but my question would be whether that is critical in the "right now". If you truly believe Johnson will play through, say, the '26 season, why wouldn't that be something that could be worried about next offseason rather than this one?

Who's the swing OT?   I think Johnson (Fred) leaves.  We need a backup that can play immediately.  Injuries happen.   I expect a draft pick (mid to late at least) and for Stoutland to break out the NFL OT 101 course.

7 hours ago, mattwill said:

I would indeed call it a need IF Becton is allowed to walk.

In that case, resigning Becton is a NEED.  

5 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Drink the most might be Dickerson. But drunkest you've got a factor in tolerance. I'm going wildcard someone like Tanner McKee.  He seems like is more a chocolate milk guy than a beer guy. 

Mormons don’t even drink - quite the baptism.

11 hours ago, mattwill said:

CJGJ 2024 was a much more balanced and effective team player. 

Some might say that is the Fangio effect

Ah, but he used naughty words. Ban him for life.

1 hour ago, we_gotta_believe said:

I hate to judge an entire career by one single play, but it's gonna be tough for him to play well enough to erase this one from memory.

My guy got to kneel down in the Super Bowl.   How many NFL QBs can make that claim?

 

 

And... how cool for a lifelong Eagles' fan to get to do that for the Birds!?!

6 minutes ago, devpool said:

Yea, that's not accurate. The turnovers were the only thing that stopped completely (which were obviously the biggest problem). I think you're forgetting or ignoring all the stuff from after the bye because they won those games, which is what everyone did last year until the dam broke because the defense sucked.

It was great he stopped turning the ball over, he was still doing all those things and maybe it was because he was trying so hard not to turn the ball over. For example, the interception he threw in the super bowl. During the regular season he eats that ball and takes a sack that puts us out of field goal range

Maybe you didn't watch the games.  As I said, he still occasionally allowed an idiotic sack but over the span of a couple of games after the bye he completely stopped with the stupid "move back and to the right" and he started to throw the ball away when he needed to do that.  We discussed the progression in here week to week as it happened.

Ok, need the blog opinion here. 
 

In 2001, I got my first tattoo, the Birds logo on my left arm. I always left the space above blank because I had always planned to get the logo of their first Super Bowl win put there, which I did of course. A friend of mine got the wheels in my head turning about adding the LIX logo. The only thing making me hesitant is the amount of red in it. We had the idea that I could customize it and just replace the red with Eagles green. Should I get it customized, or use the original logo as is? Thoughts?

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

 

 

Frog legs would have been more appropriate... but harder to source in bulk.

38 minutes ago, tuffstuff07 said:

Think he nailed hurts perfectly lol

 

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That's pretty much dead on with what happened in an interview he did in Disney World.   

 

IT'S PARADE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET'S CELEBRATE ONE OF THE GREATEST TEAMS OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7 minutes ago, KINGnabb said:

 

IT'S PARADE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET'S CELEBRATE ONE OF THE GREATEST TEAMS OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big if true.