13 hours ago13 hr 7 minutes ago, NCiggles said:Trotter would probably be better than Dean at this point.Could be. I'm looking forward to seeing how it shakes out Sunday. Glad the game is in Philly.
13 hours ago13 hr 41 minutes ago, UK Eagle said:Eskin is There are those on this board that remember when Eskin called for Cunningham to be benched in favor of Jim McMahon.
13 hours ago13 hr 7 minutes ago, Freshmilk said:Could be. I'm looking forward to seeing how it shakes out Sunday. Glad the game is in Philly.Um...game is in Minnesota bro.
12 hours ago12 hr 1 minute ago, Sack that QB said:So offense is gonna look the same on Sunday confirmed.So they haven't taken feedback from players for 6 weeks?
12 hours ago12 hr 2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:So they haven't taken feedback from players for 6 weeks?The suggestion box got full and they finally decided to read it in the mini-bye. I saw one of the notes. Looked like this
12 hours ago12 hr 27 minutes ago, vikas83 said:Um...game is in Minnesota bro.Well, I'm less enthusiastic
12 hours ago12 hr 26 minutes ago, NCiggles said:@HazletonEagle Carson Strong wasn't mentioned once.🤣 Hopefully McKee is betterHurts is a race car you can win with and he's more dynamic than anyone else on the team, but as we saw the last two years you need the right driver. KP isn't that guy. He doesn't bring out the best in Hurts, he's predictable, and he doesn't adjust. They don't work well together and Nick isn't making a change at OC. We can keep watching them crash or see if McKee can make it work. He'd take what is there and make fast decisions progressing through targets. I'm willing to give it a chance at this point because the two of them together isn't working.
12 hours ago12 hr I would rather star key players that they cannot do without rest one additional game to get healthy for the entire rest of the season, rather than rush back and get hurt again and miss even more games. Long-term view vs short-term. Dickerson rushed back, Jurgens hasn't been 100%. Carter is different, he was still able to play. Hopefully his rest last game and the "mini-bye" will have him ready to go.
12 hours ago12 hr 5 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:🤣 Hopefully McKee is betterHurts is a race car you can win with and he's more dynamic than anyone else on the team, but as we saw the last two years you need the right driver. KP isn't that guy. He doesn't bring out the best in Hurts, he's predictable, and he doesn't adjust. They don't work well together and Nick isn't making a change at OC. We can keep watching them crash or see if McKee can make it work. He'd take what is there and make fast decisions progressing through targets. I'm willing to give it a chance at this point because the two of them together isn't working.Hurts is more like a kit car. He's a dodge neon with a Lamborghini body.Or in NEPA hes comparable to a Honda civic with a coffee can muffler. A lot of people think thats a race car.
12 hours ago12 hr Fangio is rare in press conferences. He'll say if a player is better than another, say specifics of what a player needs to improve on and those type of answers.Siri and Patullo are not going to do that. Their approach is to show confidence, that they have been working on things and will improve. They're not going to say specifics that fans want to hear. What we have to go by are actions: do they actually make changes. They won't say in a press conference that the routes are bad, the QB is missing throws, they suck against zone, whatever. They're going to give coach-speak.
11 hours ago11 hr 48 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:So offense is gonna look the same on Sunday confirmed.This was also just in the parking lot after practice he said "good work out there guys” and they said "thanks for the feedback” and drove away.
11 hours ago11 hr 23 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:Hurts is more like a kit car. He's a dodge neon with a Lamborghini body.Or in NEPA hes comparable to a Honda civic with a coffee can muffler. A lot of people think thats a race car.You've finally convinced me. I'm off the Hurts wagon. I've waited long enough for the improvement in his passing skills that's never going to come. Let's go Tanner.
11 hours ago11 hr 16 hours ago, Mike030270 said:Though we're all praying they figure it outHaving this kind of talent on offense while struggling is infuriating1000%
11 hours ago11 hr 8 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:No reason to have any confidence in his ability to call plays at all.Yeah a lot of talk about "situational” football where they seem required to call the same 3 ideas depending on the down and distance lol. Like 1st-3rd and 10 you can literally call anything in your entire playbook. He seems scared and his plays don’t set up success for more plays later off of similar looks or route concepts. This slows down progressions and allows defenders to sit. Does Jalen need to be better, absolutely, is he better with more consistency, play action, and plays that seem to be in a "flow” also yes. The inability to run, pass, convert on 3rd, and have more than 3 play drives cant be Jalen’s fault when we’ve seen him do all of things at high levels through his career.
11 hours ago11 hr 11 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:No reason to have any confidence in his ability to call plays at all.He's so predictable I didn't even have to watch to know what he said.
11 hours ago11 hr The primary issue with the offense is Patullo. The players comments all point to that.Smitty said they're not on the same page, and the timing of when they should be looking at Hurts for signals is off.Mailata said there are issues with getting the play calls (from Patullo) in to the players causing delays, which limits the time Hurts has for pre-snap reads.Lane said the offense is predictable. Barkley said similar.AJ said they're vanilla and conservative.Hurts said they need to stop playing just not to lose, don't play too conservative.That's all coaching. And Siri has to also take ownership. He hired Patullo, what has he done to set him up for success, or hold him accountable for changing?There are player problems as well.O line injuries have had a major impact.The return game sucks and they're making boneheaded decisions. The offense has had too many drives starting with awful field position.Hurts has his weaknesses (so does every QB). He's overthrown some balls that would be TDs (he's also thrown great deep balls that were TDs or big plays) He is what he is. So the coaching has to tailor to the player. A player that was a former runner up season MVP in 2022, and a Super Bowl winning MVP in 2024. We've seen QBs around the league leave to go to other teams and perform better under better coaching. Daniel Jones, Baker Mayfield and others. Coaching matters.The defense struggling hurts the offense (and vice versa). When the defense struggles and gives up points, the offense is playing from behind and now has to force things.For an offense returning 10 of 11 starters and with the skill players they have, we all agree they should be performing a lot better and what Siri sold us was continuity, which hasn't happened.Some positives to cling to:Most of the season the red zone efficiency was good, and there was some spark of creativity like the shovel pass and fake tush push.There have also been some short periods of better offensive performance, deep throws, a big pass play to Barkley, a couple outside runs, more WRs getting involved, and some good Barkley runs. Then, Patullo would shy away from all that and go back to conservative.Jake the Make is back to consistency. If the offense could be given better starting field position by the return game, and the offense can at least get in FG range that would put points on the board and keep a little momentum rather than not scoring at all. That affects morale for the defense as well instead of feeling defeated the offense couldn't score and they now have more pressure on them.They quickly learned from their mistake putting Pryor at RT, put in Fred Johnson and things got better.The tools are there. They're not firing Patullo. So far they haven't brought in any outside consulting help. They think they can figure it out themselves. The Vikings game offensive game plan will show is if they've changed anything or business as usual. Better coaching and a healthy O line should be able to fix this offense quickly.
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