Just now, Wentz_Era said:

In a rudimentary way. They’re very balanced when operating well.

What’s happening right now is like what we saw when Castillo was asked to plan around Washburn’s and Bowles conflicting concepts. There is zero complimentary calls.

Sure but don’t underestimate the OL issues. Also, no one runs as much as the Eagles over the last three years. Yes they aim for a balance but very run heavy relative to other teams.

1 hour ago, Wentz_Era said:

I thought you were crazy when you predicted this paper tiger in SF.

My perspective on the 49ers benefits from living in Northern California. The sports radio is very Niners-centric. The Niners equivalent of Merrill Reese is Greg Papa the younger brother of deceased Philadelphia sportscaster Gary Papa.

12 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

This team is just far too talented to be so completely inept for such large swathes of games and need hero ball to be productive. They really need to study what they saw yesterday, the creative ways that Addison was schemed open and spread things out. The OL is going to continue to get abused playing in a condensed phone booth.

8 minutes ago, DaBirds said:

I cannot believe the narrative in the media that TJ caught that ball or that the call was somehow controversial. Just ridiculous

Let's concede that for a moment. Give them 4 more points. What's the final score?

Oh, they still lose? Sour grapes and morons go well together.

The OL and Patullo are problems 1A amd 1B. Pick the order.

You could see the difference in how the offense operated with the 5 starters and when Jergens went out. With Jergens, they were getting push and opening holes in the run game. With Toth, getting pushed back with Barkley getting hit in the backfield.

Howie needs to stop screwing around and get an IOL who is at least NFL quality. Toth isn't it.

17 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

IWhen you say RPO, who was the run going to? There's no way that was a RPO. Hurts gets the snap and drops back three steps. I disagree that AJ and Devonta are blocking. They engage but Devonta quickly gets off the block. He is getting into his route without regard to what Hurts is doing. I am glad you agree that it wouldn't have been a TD if he had thrown it to Dotson because the safety would have made the tackle.

Could have been a hurts run. Or a RSO. Brown looks like he cleared a lane up the sideline for Barkley.

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11 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

Eagles are a running team with a strategy built around a league best OL.

They became a running team out of necessity. They also have 2 elite, and highly paid WRs and a supposedly top 3 QB. So, they're not just built to be a run team. They became that when they couldnt pass last year.

@vikas83

Shipley has been pretty good on KRs or do you mean you just don’t want him risking injury?

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

They did actually do a pretty good job. I think Hurts got a generous spot on the conversion and it was likely short, but it's almost impossible to tell.

If anything, I think Eagles should hope more teams do that. The Eagles can counter with plays off the Tush Push and now have really only 10 defenders at most, less if the two guys pushing the horizontal guy can't get up and out of their stance. That could be a big play waiting.

That makes a whole lot of sense on a 3rd and 1 tush push ( I wanted to say Brotherly Shove but that name never took hold).

@vikas83

Shipley has been pretty good on KRs or do you mean you just don’t want him risking injury?

1 minute ago, HazletonEagle said:

They became a running team out of necessity. They also have 2 elite, and highly paid WRs and a supposedly top 3 QB. So, they're not just built to be a run team. They became that when they couldnt pass last year.

They ran a ton in ‘22 as well and only left it when Hurts was injured in ‘23. They tried to change that early ‘24 but Hurts turned it over too often and was bad in the pocket.

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

Figured you were just trying to pick out the ones you take issue with and not talking about the majority of the blog who disagree with you and say that Patullo is the main issue. At least you finally manned up and said it. What a puss.

You sound butt hurt HE.

Could you imagine if the members of the looney tunes brigade were still in here? 4for4, DUM, and that other guy who wanted his kid to fight people in the parking lot? This blog would be bonkers right now

Be thankful for the small things in life

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

Brings up a safety issue with that defensive tactic from a different angle. If a player is lined up basically on all fours at the OLs feet, and there are 2 other DL standing up, is that not the definition of high/low? Thats illegal and should be a 15 yard penalty against the defense.

Good point

5 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

@vikas83

Shipley has been pretty good on KRs or do you mean you just don’t want him risking injury?

He can't stay healthy doing it. And the returns have been OK, not great. You have 2 guys on the 53 who are supposed to be KRs -- Gipson and Bigsby. If Bigsby is that bad at it, then find someone else. We need Shipley for 3rd down.

11 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Let's concede that for a moment. Give them 4 more points. What's the final score?

Oh, they still lose? Sour grapes and morons go well together.

Hard to say what happens though. If they counted it as a TD, there are still 3 minutes on the clock with a two minute warning. Instead they kick the FG, waste the 2 minute warning and gave the Eagles the ball with only 1:52

1 minute ago, vikas83 said:

He can't stay healthy doing it. And the returns have been OK, not great. You have 2 guys on the 53 who are supposed to be KRs -- Gipson and Bigsby. If Bigsby is that bad at it, then find someone else. We need Shipley for 3rd down.

Yeah that’s what i thought you meant. As for Bigsby, I don’t remember him being effective elsewhere as a KR but maybe I just missed it.

25 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

Nah. The #1 problem is patullo. The OL would be fine if he could design anything that works with the established blocking schemes.

Oline might be the root of the problem and the OC hasn't adapted because he's just not a good OC

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

Brings up a safety issue with that defensive tactic from a different angle. If a player is lined up basically on all fours at the OLs feet, and there are 2 other DL standing up, is that not the definition of high/low? Thats illegal and should be a 15 yard penalty against the defense.

Or he gets himself injured, and it becomes the big topic for the next tush push vote

19 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

Sure but don’t underestimate the OL issues. Also, no one runs as much as the Eagles over the last three years. Yes they aim for a balance but very run heavy relative to other teams.

I've said a few times in the last month that guard needs to be a target. I'm biased towards wanting MB back that won't happen but if they can get someone the offense may look much better. If they can start running again and sucking up clock the defense won't be as worn out.

5 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Hard to say what happens though. If they counted it as a TD, there are still 3 minutes on the clock with a two minute warning. Instead they kick the FG, waste the 2 minute warning and gave the Eagles the ball with only 1:52

Sure, butterfly effect and all... but the Eagles immediately went down the field and just ran out the clock.. they could have even gotten a FG easily and then the Vikes need to get back into the End zone again, something they struggled with a bunch. And who says the Eagles don't score another TD on that last drive. Maybe Hurts floats the deep ball to AJ a little more since a TD makes the game out of reach and he scores on that play.

Ultimately, it wasn't even a catch. There was clear evidence that the ball was jarred loose by the ground. Incomplete by EVERY definition of a catch. And even with those extra points, that's not proof that they win. it wasn't the last play, it wasn't even the last potential scoring drive, as the Eagles were clearly in FG range at the end. Just a bunch of sour grapes... and morons sucking them up.

Basically, PFT is the one that had been going nuts about the Hockenson non-TD. Florio is a massive Vikings fan, so he won't shut up about it. The rest of the media runs with it.

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

Brings up a safety issue with that defensive tactic from a different angle. If a player is lined up basically on all fours at the OLs feet, and there are 2 other DL standing up, is that not the definition of high/low? Thats illegal and should be a 15 yard penalty against the defense.

I forwarded HE’s thoughts on to the Eagles for their consideration. It would be great if that defensive deployment is already illegal.

24 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Let's concede that for a moment. Give them 4 more points. What's the final score?

Oh, they still lose? Sour grapes and morons go well together.

Also keep in mind we sat on the ball near the redzone at the end, we get 3-7 there too if we needed it