I have a feeling I'm going to be defending Kevin Patullo all season. But I'm fully prepared to fend of all the trolls who will be trashing the guy merely because they want someone to blame and he's the low hanging fruit.

This felt like the game that broke the camel’s back with the tush push. I’d expect it to be heavily officiated and scrutinized moving forward. Blandino basically gave a tell on the league’s opinion of the play with that comment at the end, not that it’s a surprise or anything.

1 minute ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

This felt like the game that broke the camel’s back with the tush push. I’d expect it to be heavily officiated and scrutinized moving forward. Blandino basically gave a tell on the league’s opinion of the play with that comment at the end, not that it’s a surprise or anything.

I figured it was getting banned next year anyway. I feel like now they’ll push the it’s too hard to officiate narrative to do it since the others didn’t work

6 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Deserves it. Steen every play is up and oooking back like he doesn’t know what’s going on. It’s not like once but it’s been consistent all game

Becton did that all last year. It isn’t that the RG doesn’t know what’s going on. I believe he is performing a communication function.

1 hour ago, Ace Nova said:

All joking aside, career wise he's among the top 5-10 pitchers in Phillies history. As fans, we should hope he pulls out of whatever he's going through because we're paying him a lot of money for several more years.

Not even F’n close. Nola isn’t in the top 30.

11 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

This felt like the game that broke the camel’s back with the tush push. I’d expect it to be heavily officiated and scrutinized moving forward. Blandino basically gave a tell on the league’s opinion of the play with that comment at the end, not that it’s a surprise or anything.

I expect the league to start screwing us with calls i.e. officiate super hard on any infringements by Eagles but be more lenient to the D such as how the Chiefs were lined up offsides multiple times.

An effort to help make the play less effective in the hope we abandon or at least reduce our use of it because it is no longer a near inevitability for conversion.

24 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

This felt like the game that broke the camel’s back with the tush push. I’d expect it to be heavily officiated and scrutinized moving forward. Blandino basically gave a tell on the league’s opinion of the play with that comment at the end, not that it’s a surprise or anything.

God forbid a team executes a play well, especially if it’s the Eagles. At this rate the NFL will make Philly play two-hand touch while everyone else tackles.

32 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

I have a feeling I'm going to be defending Kevin Patullo all season. But I'm fully prepared to fend of all the trolls who will be trashing the guy merely because they want someone to blame and he's the low hanging fruit.

Some posters in here were trashing Hurts. You have always been a Hurts supporter … strong supporter. With that said, if neither Hurts nor Patullo are to blame, what is the cause for the Offensive hiccups?

5 hours ago, NOTW said:

Ojomo had a regular season sack!

True. But Milton was a stud today once again.

1 hour ago, Alphagrand said:

Not even F’n close. Nola isn’t in the top 30.

If it’s just pitchers including relievers, he’s probably in the top 20. In Phillies history he’s 3rd in strikeouts, 3rd in K/9, 7th in wins, 6th in WAR for an Phillies pitcher all time and 6th in games started. I think the obvious starting pitchers ahead of him are Carlton, wheeler, halladay, Hamels, Roberts, schilling, bunning, Grover Alexander. Probably a couple more i missed. Didn’t go into RP. IMO he’s probably in the 15-20 range.

I think the problem Nola has is when the Phillies became good he wasn’t nearly as consistent. Nola’s most consistent stretch was 2017-2020 when the Phillies were pretty much non-contenders and sometimes just bad. When the Phillies finally got to being title contender good, he’s been hit or miss depending on the year. Good 2022 but bad last 3 starts of the playoffs. Not good 2023, then first 3 starts of playoffs was great and then game 6 start vs. dbacks to send us to World Series he went 4.1 giving up 4. Then last year he was good again then couldn’t go more than 5 vs Mets giving up 4. This year he has just been awful. there is no way around it. how he looks the next 5 years with this contract and if the Phillies win a WS will (rightfully or not) determine how some fans view Nola in terms of Phillies history.

2 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

I have a feeling I'm going to be defending Kevin Patullo all season. But I'm fully prepared to fend of all the trolls who will be trashing the guy merely because they want someone to blame and he's the low hanging fruit.

Well, tell me what you like about the performance today when even Brady is saying in the booth nobody is open and everything feels laborious. What makes you feel confident he is up to the task?

@Sack that QB fair point

11 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

@Sack that QB fair point

This is how I feel. This dude was on last year's staff, he knows everyone on offense and they promoted him with the idea of running the same offense. So how, through two games, does everything look awful like it's some system they've never run before

37 minutes ago, devpool said:

This is how I feel. This dude was on last year's staff, he knows everyone on offense and they promoted him with the idea of running the same offense. So how, through two games, does everything look awful like it's some system they've never run before

It looks unimaginative, dull and really hard work. If the idea was to have some consistency then I think it’s fair to say right now that hasn’t really worked so well.

4 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

I have a feeling I'm going to be defending Kevin Patullo all season. But I'm fully prepared to fend of all the trolls who will be trashing the guy merely because they want someone to blame and he's the low hanging fruit.

It would help if he didn't have five plays that he continues to rotate through the entire game.

3 hours ago, mattwill said:

Some posters in here were trashing Hurts. You have always been a Hurts supporter … strong supporter. With that said, if neither Hurts nor Patullo are to blame, what is the cause for the Offensive hiccups?

It's just early season ring rust, same as last year, Patullo can't just run Moore's playbook out again, plus Eberflus and Spags are top end DC's to get first two games.

If it still looks stuttery in 3 games then I'll start to be concerned, but I think a lot of people think that not looking like world beaters 2 games in means that Patullo is another Brian Johnson, when he could just as easily be another Kellen Moore (1-1) or Frank Reich (1-1).

5 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

I have a feeling I'm going to be defending Kevin Patullo all season. But I'm fully prepared to fend of all the trolls who will be trashing the guy merely because they want someone to blame and he's the low hanging fruit.

He's got room, maybe a lot of room, for improvement. My expectation is that he gets better as the season moves along. I'd like to see them push hurts a bit more with the passing game.

8 hours ago, eagle45 said:

Mukuba is a rookie DB. All everyone remembers is the INT return…an INT that bounced into his chest thanks to a drop. He wasn’t even in great position.

He did have a great tackle on (I think) Hollywood Brown (that’s like 180lb vs 170lb). He also single handedly marched the Chiefs down the field on their TD drive with a holding call, getting trucked by Mahomes, and torched by Kelce.

With a rookie getting their 1st action, it’s fair to assume the highs will continue and the lows will reduce themselves. So he’s on track. But he’s not entrenched as a great pick and present and future stud safety yet.

Also got great pressure on 2 blitzes, including 0.5 sacks.

6 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

Rookie stuff. Great hit there. Bad play when he got trucked by Mahomes. More good than bad and improvement is likely. I like his trajectory.

Good feeling the day after we beat the Chiefs again. Thought we would lose this game when the schedule came out and now we’re 2-0.

I get that some have the same vibe as in 2023 because we are winning close games. There are some similarities, but I’m viewing it differently for one main reason: the defense. I’ve been very skeptical of our D for years and wasn’t a fan of Vic when they got him. I was wrong with my assessment of him, as he is doing a tremendous job at the moment. Loved that he mixed it up with blitzes yesterday. Don’t be predictable and he wasn’t.

Really like what I’m seeing from this defense with all the young guys balling. It was a good call to keep Davis. He’s been really good.

Some thoughts:

Spags has been stewing about the 40 points ran up at the SB all offseason, and their D performance reflected that. Tough, focused, strong and unrelenting.  I wouldn’t be too hard on the O (yet) as it was stifling and attritional all day.  Credit to Spags there, prepped like a coach with a massive chip on his shoulder.

The Eagles D had Mahomes hearing phantom footsteps all day.  You can see he’s uncomfortable out there; its no longer easy for him and some missed throws show that. As for Trav?  He looks cooked right now.  Their O in general gives a whiff of ARs Eagles in 2011 and 2012.

X is unhappy at the favourable calls the Eagles got - which is ridiculous. Granted, Steen and Dickerson false started on some shoves, but equally, the Chiefs were lined up offside on every push too. The Chiefs OL showed great tackling technique on some snaps.  Ergo, the officiating was not good in general and there were some areas of the field, where I think they just gave up unless it was truly egregious.  The spot that Siri tried to challenge was not good. 

The Eagles O was too safe at times; to a point, I can understand it because the ball had to get out ASAP, but it shouldn’t be a crutch they rely on forever.  It needs to open up.

A win, is a win, is a win though