4 hours ago, CouchKing said:

Sirianni is something like 34-17. 66% winning percentage. 

He's 48-20 after this season, which is 70.6% Round it up to 71%.

On 2/22/2025 at 10:14 PM, EagleJoe8 said:

I loved when we got all the international calls for the Philly Special, and BG's strip sack. I wonder if anyone made a compilation clip of Smitty's TD. I would love to hear that.

There's one of the DeJean pick 6.

3 minutes ago, Dweedlebug said:

There's one of the DeJean pick 6.

I know. I mentioned that off the heels of Procus or someone posting that compilation clip. 

This was a funny article, made me laugh when I read it. 

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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/super-bowl-lix-was-a-huge-party-for-deranged-eagles-fans.html

The Super Bowl Was a Huge Party for Deranged Eagles Fans

By Will Leitch, a contributing editor covering sports and film at New York since 2008 

The fundamental dichotomy between the NFL as a monocultural juggernaut and the NFL as it is actually experienced by its most dedicated customers can perhaps be best summed up by the lunatics that are Philadelphia Eagles fans. You might have enjoyed a casual night out eating nachos at your Super Bowl party. Meanwhile, these guys were painting their faces green, screaming into a mirror, clawing out their eyeballs and gnawing off their own hands. You merely adopted the dark. They are born in it.

What are Eagles fans like? Well. The last time they won the Super Bowl, during the championship parade, an Eagles fan, egged on by his fellow green-clad crazies, literally picked up a piece of horse manure, put it in his mouth, and started chewing. The crowd exploded in joy. I doubt the man regrets it one bit. I wonder what he’ll chow down on this time.

Super Bowl LIX began with Lady Gaga, flanked by Tom Brady and Roger Goodell, singing a song of national healing on tragedy-scarred Bourbon Street. It included billions of dollars of surreally dismal commercials starring the glossiest names in entertainment, and, of course, it welcomed the president of the United States, laundering all his chaos and madness with some sideline glad-handing and a crisp national-anthem salute. But to be at the Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday night was to be engulfed by the stark-raving mad, almost psychosexual connection Eagles fans have to their beloved Birds. While we were all looking for Taylor Swift and hissing at AI ads, Eagles fans were frothing at the mouth. That they were doing so out of pure ecstasy didn’t make it any less terrifying.

The Eagles absolutely demolished the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, in a 40-22 shellacking that was not as close as the score indicated. Patrick Mahomes, attempting to make the Chiefs the first team ever to win three consecutive Super Bowls, was running for his life on every snap. And while he threw two interceptions, including one that was returned by Eagles rookie folk hero Cooper DeJean for a touchdown, it’s honestly impressive that he didn’t throw more. The Chiefs gained a total of only 14 yards in the first half, and Mahomes looked simultaneously afraid and befuddled every time he dropped back in the pocket. For all you people who were wondering what Drake, ensconced in Australia, must have looked like during Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show, you need not dwell in mystery: Look at any clip of Patrick Mahomes in this game, and that’s totally what Drake looked like.

Speaking of the halftime show: For all its greatness, nothing Kendrick could have done, no matter how innovative or electrifying, was going to stir the crowd into a frenzy more than a song written in 1955 and performed, many decades ago, by the Philadelphia Eagles Sound of Brass band. "The Eagles’ Victory Song,” more commonly known as "Fly, Eagles, Fly,” played in the stadium after every Eagles score on Sunday, which means it got enough Spotify streams tonight alone to keep the Sound of Brass band’s grandchildren wealthy and for the rest of their natural lives.

Every single thing the Eagles did on Sunday went right, like they were playing Madden on a cartoonishly easy setting. And Eagles fans handled it with the trademark aplomb. At one point, while waiting on line for a urinal, I stood behind two of them standing next to each other. The whole bathroom erupted in an infinite scroll of "E-A-G-L-E-S!” chants, and after the final "S,” the two men turned and, I swear to God, headbutted one another and screamed. Then they went back to finishing their business. Took them another 30 seconds, too.

There was such a large Philly contingent here that the crowd began vigorously booing every Chiefs fan who showed up on the Jumbotron and cheering any Eagles fan. At one point, nearly 65,000 people roared upon seeing Bradley Cooper. Later, Swift was greeted with a booming chorus of boos, to which she reacted with a perfect deadpan faux-bewildered side-eye. One particularly nice touch: As the clock ran down on the Eagles victory, their fans started collectively doing the Chiefs’ tired Native American chant, in a final bit of delicious mockery.

The Eagles’ dominance instantly evaporated every other possible subplot of the game, from Trump’s appearance to what one suspects will be the last high-profile Travis Kelce moment for a while, to the event itself, which ran much more smoothly than the last time it took place in New Orleans. All the pomp and circumstance for sports’ signature event was washed away by 60,000-plus psychotic, deranged, so-happy-they-were-collectively-levitating Eagles fans, throwing their own private party in front of the entire world. The Super Bowl can be massive and hypercapitalist and everything that is great and terrible about the United States, but at the end of the day, it is just a football game. And that game is most cherished not by people looking for funny commercials, but by the diehards. It’s always the diehards. It’s the people who feel so euphoric about their team winning that they will pick horse poop off the ground, eat it, and smile. Eagles fans don’t care about your moment of silence, Eagles fans don’t care about pleas for national unity, Eagles fans don’t care about your celebrity romance or your bid for history. They just want to sing their old song and headbutt at urinals and scream into a mirror and eat all the crap they can stomach. And they do it all together, one big-ass glorious green hoagie, and they have the time of their goddamned lives.

Just watching the game replay (again!). I'm up to halfway through Q2. Some observations...

* Q and Coop were everywhere. Flying all over
* there were some bad callls for both sides early
* Dotson was quietly excellent
*Those lines are a killer on both sides of the ball, oh mercy

Oh, and that Coop pick six was the absolute killer, alongside the dagger from Jalen to Smitty

How blessed are we right now? Holy moly

That defensive sequence

Sack

Sack

INT

TFL

Amazing

Short gain, and another sack. Man, I knew the defense balled out but that was wild

14 minutes ago, kiwinavega said:

That defensive sequence

Sack

Sack

INT

TFL

Amazing

 

13 minutes ago, kiwinavega said:

Short gain, and another sack. Man, I knew the defense balled out but that was wild

 

21 hours ago, kiwinavega said:

That defensive sequence

Sack

Sack

INT

TFL

Amazing

The pick six series? I watched that again last night.

That was probably the most disastrous series of Football for a team that I've ever seen, especially in a Super Bowl.

1st Down Sack
2nd Down Sack
3rd Down Pick Six

GLORIOUS! 

1 hour ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

The pick six series? I watched that again last night.

That was probably the most disastrous series of Football for a team that I've ever seen, especially in a Super Bowl.

1st Down Sack
2nd Down Sack
3rd Down Pick Six

GLORIOUS! 

And it's not like it was a team that just lucked into the Super Bowl and had a journeyman QB !

A few posters on here said prior to the game that the Eagles were winning this handily as the Chiefs had no idea what they were walking into.

They were spot on 👏👏.

Chiefs had no answer at all, Eagles could've put 50 up easily, but declared at 40 😀

I still can't believe how good the D and DLine played. Just amazing.

CBs played a lot of man coverage, the Safety's and LBs played an umbrella coverage, and the DLine just hunted and dominated. A beautiful thing.

On 2/25/2025 at 2:30 AM, VaBeach_Eagle said:

He's 48-20 after this season, which is 70.6% Round it up to 71%.

It's funny.... when they were 2- 2 early in the season, I was angry about the previous years collapse carrying over, and I trashed nearly EVERYONE. Fire Siri. The Georgia Bulldogs are all wasted picks. Slay is old and washed. Hurts is a RB, not a QB. I went nuts. Why? Because i am passionate about this team and want them to be excellent all the time. But to watch them grow like that, and how fast they pulled it together was amazing. Whatta team. Whatta D. Hurts showed out, the Bulldogs became pit bulls, and Siri got the job done. When Siri said during the game....about the bomb about to be thrown to the Slim Reaper "This could end the game- just call it"- awesome. Fangio is a freekin legend. Well, at least I was honest about it.🤣

On 2/26/2025 at 2:24 PM, gregbwfc1 said:

And it's not like it was a team that just lucked into the Super Bowl and had a journeyman QB !

A few posters on here said prior to the game that the Eagles were winning this handily as the Chiefs had no idea what they were walking into.

They were spot on 👏👏.

Chiefs had no answer at all, Eagles could've put 50 up easily, but declared at 40 😀

Yeah, I thought the Eagles would win convincingly, and my prediction was like 34 to 20.  I was way off when you consider what the final score should've been, lol.   I did think Barkley would have a big game, and I assumed Hurts would play well. So KC surprised me by essentially shutting down Saquon. 

1 hour ago, MF POON said:

So KC surprised me by essentially shutting down Saquon. 

He still had nearly 100 total yards to be fair to him. 

Okay so nearly a month on and I’ll be honest… I’m ready for the season to start and to see us go and defend our title. I thought I’d just sit back this year and if we aren’t very good then I wouldn’t be as bothered… But nope I’m ready and hungry for more.

1 hour ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

He still had nearly 100 total yards to be fair to him. 

Okay so nearly a month on and I’ll be honest… I’m ready for the season to start and to see us go and defend our title. I thought I’d just sit back this year and if we aren’t very good then I wouldn’t be as bothered… But nope I’m ready and hungry for more.

Yeah, but in the run game, he was essentially shut down.  He had a couple of nice runs and picked up some needed first downs, but their gameplan to limit Barkley in the run game worked - it's just that they failed to stop everyone else lol.

2 minutes ago, MF POON said:

Yeah, but in the run game, he was essentially shut down.  He had a couple of nice runs and picked up some needed first downs, but their gameplan to limit Barkley in the run game worked - it's just that they failed to stop everyone else lol.

Yeah I mean by shutting him down they let Hurts sit back there and pick them apart. So Barkley contributed by forcing KC to focus everything on him.

FYI, NFL Films is producing "Super Bowl LIX: America's Game".   It will air before opening day on September 3rd 2025.  I don't know who will be selected but wouldn't be surprised if it's Jalen, Saquon and Nick and maybe someone on Defense like Brandon again or Zach.  Last time it was Nick, Carson, Brandon and Lagarrett.  

2 hours ago, KINGnabb said:

I don't know who will be selected but wouldn't be surprised if it's Jalen, Saquon and Nick...

Do they still do a separate episode for the coaches? In 2018, they did 'Philly Special' and also 'America's Game'. The first being all coaches, the second being all players. 

2 hours ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

Do they still do a separate episode for the coaches? In 2018, they did 'Philly Special' and also 'America's Game'. The first being all coaches, the second being all players. 

I think Do Your Job,  DYJ II, and Philly Special were all made by NFL Films.  I would not be surprised if they make one this year.

I think it helps that the Eagles have such close ties to NFL Films in Mount Laurel.

I have no idea if any were made for the Chiefs, Bucs, or Rams.

On 3/3/2025 at 9:57 AM, Talonblood said:

It's funny.... when they were 2- 2 early in the season, I was angry about the previous years collapse carrying over, and I trashed nearly EVERYONE. Fire Siri. The Georgia Bulldogs are all wasted picks. Slay is old and washed. Hurts is a RB, not a QB. I went nuts. Why? Because i am passionate about this team and want them to be excellent all the time. But to watch them grow like that, and how fast they pulled it together was amazing. Whatta team. Whatta D. Hurts showed out, the Bulldogs became pit bulls, and Siri got the job done. When Siri said during the game....about the bomb about to be thrown to the Slim Reaper "This could end the game- just call it"- awesome. Fangio is a freekin legend. Well, at least I was honest about it.🤣

I think we were all upset at 2-2 after the 1-6 collapse. We are from Philly, our upset is a bit more vocal than other places. We were not unjustified in having concerns and they made significant changes during the bye week  (run heavy, ball protection, Cooper DeJean in the slot, and so on) Siri even shaved his head.

I think there is a terrible trend in the last 5 years or so (CBA related) to use September for what used to be done in preseason so in some ways the teams bring the early season frustration on themselves.

20 minutes ago, SkippyX said:

I think Do Your Job,  DYJ II, and Philly Special were all made by NFL Films.  I would not be surprised if they make one this year.

I think it helps that the Eagles have such close ties to NFL Films in Mount Laurel.

I have no idea if any were made for the Chiefs, Bucs, or Rams.

I don't really watch the shows for the other teams, so I just figured that they did it that way for all of them. 

4 hours ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

Do they still do a separate episode for the coaches? In 2018, they did 'Philly Special' and also 'America's Game'. The first being all coaches, the second being all players. 

I'm unsure, sometimes the Coaches are apart of "America's Game" but it seems it's mostly been the players in the last couple of episodes. Andy did the Chiefs one recently.  I would be shocked if Nick isn't in this one but again Doug wasn't in the last one.   Here is the full history, they've even updated the Eagles episode date but it obviously hasn't been shot yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Game:_The_Super_Bowl_Champions