Very encouraged with the defense. Vic clearly had plans for Campbell and Mukuba before they were drafted. Both look to be chess pieces that can cover, blitz, and support the run.

Z Smith was a revelation in his first game. Feel real good about the pass rush again. Carter returns and their RBs go 19 carries for 55 yards - 2.9 ypc.

Jackson Hole is still a worry and the cohesion in the secondary needs some work, but we look to be another top-5 unit by mid-season.

1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

Aka they just need someone to take that spot.

Tbh i wouldn’t be shocked if there’s a solid tight end market available at the deadline. Have browns who stink and fannin is their guy long term. So njoku could be available. Kmet with the bears drafting Loveland and having ability to clear cap doing it and get draft pick(s). Juwan Jennings from the saints.

Not keeping Isiah Rodgers might have been a mistake.

4 minutes ago, NOTW said:

Man, is he ok? Last year people joked he was adjusting to that Miami life and starting to look like he's on coke. He looks depressed there, and he was rambling.

Their bye week is week 12. I’m pretty sure he’s not making it to week 12 at this rate.

• 2-0

• No major injuries to key players

Should be excited but I’m just not confident in this team yet.

That being said, I wasn’t confident this team could win it all last year until they beat the Ravens.

This might be the calmest I’ve ever seen Seth Joyner in a post game

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

He sounds awful and his body language looks just as bad in this presser.

Mukuba needs to hit the weight room this offseason, but he has very good awareness and is in position to make plays. He's looked pretty good out there.

2 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

Not keeping Isiah Rodgers might have been a mistake.

They made a strategic choice on how they wanted build their roster going forward. It was clear that they had a lot of top-end talent on big contracts and even more talent would be rolling off of rookie deals over the next few seasons. So they decided to, as Zach Berman has described, eliminate the middle class. Keep/pay their most talented players and fill out the roster with guys on rookie or one-year deals. Rodgers didn't fit into that model. It was also a reasonable assumption at the time that Ringo would successfully ascend into the CB2 role.

So, in hindsight, it looks like keeping Rodgers would have been a good idea. But I have no issue with the decision because it was part of a coherent plan.

Good for milt. I wish we could’ve signed him as i loved him as a draft prospect and what he became last year. but that contract for $100 mil i understood why they didn’t.

2 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I'm trying to make that my focus. We won a game that I had expected to be a loss. So, that's a major plus. The flip side is that the offense looked very pedestrian in the process. The good part is that once again, the defense looked very good. They have a few wrinkles to work through, but by and large, they are the strength of the team. It just goes to show the importance of having an old salt at DC. There are a lot of personnel changes on the defensive side of things, but the same system, the same attitude and the same pillars on the roster.

There is a LOT of good. No major injury issues, a win and now 2-0, another victory over KC and in Arrowhead, DL rotation really looked good with Carter/ZSmith, Mukuba looking the part, Campbell looking the part, Jake hitting clutch long FGs again, etc.

The two downers are the slow start of the O and of course the CB2 position. I'm not the least bit worried about the O at this point. Let's see where they are once they get into October. The CB2 is another story and there we have no answer as of yet. Overall, you have to feel good. This entire season is going to be one big/long slog.

1 minute ago, wussbasket said:

Mukuba needs to hit the weight room this offseason, but he has very good awareness and is in position to make plays. He's looked pretty good out there.

I don't know how much he can realistically add to his frame. I do think he can get stronger.

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

This might be the calmest I’ve ever seen Seth Joyner in a post game

Is he right to give it more time? No other choice, but like the X post I quoted a few pages back he was hired because he was supposed to be "plug and play". People have posted multiple times that they are telegraphing what they are doing before each play. If you become an OC at the NFL level that shouldn't be happening. Calls for him to be fired? No. Free pass from criticism considering how bad it looks? Nope.

Look at the other side of the ball and Vic is making it work even with Jackson and multiple changes to his starters. He's a lot more experienced, but still. That's plug and play.

4 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

I don't know how much he can realistically add to his frame. I do think he can get stronger.

Agreed - he's not ever going to be a 200lb+ safety, but Mukuba can improve his tackling technique further to overcome his weight and length limitations.

1 minute ago, Diehardfan said:

Is he right to give it more time? No other choice, but like the X post I quoted a few pages back he was hired because he was supposed to be "plug and play". People have posted multiple times that they are telegraphing what they are doing before each play. If you become an OC at the NFL level that shouldn't be happening. Calls for him to be fired? No. Free pass from criticism considering how bad it looks? Nope.

Look at the other side of the ball and Vic is making it work even with Jackson and multiple changes to his starters. He's a lot more experienced, but still. That's plug and play.

I think what Seth Joyner is talking about is the fact he’s never called plays. And if you’ve never called plays before there’s going to be a learning curve. You can have play designs that you like and things that you work on in practice and things you did really well last year and plug and play form a scheme standpoint. But it’s much different when you get to game day and you have to call plays with making adjustments to what you’re seeing out there with the play calling. I think that takes time. Patullo may be great Monday through Saturday, but if you’re not comfortable in play calling yet, just really learning on the fly how to set up plays for down the road in the game and you’re not able to adjust your play calling quickly as you are still figuring it out then it’s going to be issue

Another solution of the offense doesn’t get better just ask the Phillies to borrow Harrison bader. That worked for them. He’s 93 Phillies vibes

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

He’s 93 Phillies vibes

I hope not.

Nothing they’re doing at TE makes any sense.

If the plan was (stupidly) to feature TEs this year, why TF did they haggle with Goedert? Why completely ignore the position in the draft and UDFA? Why didn’t they acquire a TE2 who can block? Just dumb across the board.

If things keep trending the way they have been, Darius Slay will be our CB2 by week 8.

11 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

Is he right to give it more time? No other choice, but like the X post I quoted a few pages back he was hired because he was supposed to be "plug and play". People have posted multiple times that they are telegraphing what they are doing before each play. If you become an OC at the NFL level that shouldn't be happening. Calls for him to be fired? No. Free pass from criticism considering how bad it looks? Nope.

Look at the other side of the ball and Vic is making it work even with Jackson and multiple changes to his starters. He's a lot more experienced, but still. That's plug and play.

I am willing to give Patullo one more quarter to figure it out.

2 minutes ago, Saltpeter said:

If things keep trending the way they have been, Darius Slay will be our CB2 by week 8.

How did slay look yesterday. Saw box score kupp and Jsn went for 15 receptions and 193 yards

16 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

Forgot that was Strother Martin in that film LOL

"What we've got here is failure to communicate!"

4 minutes ago, Saltpeter said:

Nothing they’re doing at TE makes any sense.

If the plan was (stupidly) to feature TEs this year, why TF did they haggle with Goedert? Why completely ignore the position in the draft and UDFA? Why didn’t they acquire a TE who can block? Just dumb across the board.

Maybe Patullo didn't come up with the plan until this September. Goedert is in the last year of his deal. The Eagles don't want to extend him. Goedert's agent couldn't find a trade partner so the Eagles worked out a one year deal which is reasonable given his injury history. I am not sure why they didn't target anyone in the draft.

2 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Exactly, and when he does, he looks over his left shoulder, not his right shoulder, because he's running a go. All things that the QB would obviously know and factor into his decision on where to go with the ball, but people like HE will still get on their soapbox and paint it as some egregious miss.

Bad miss.