1 hour ago, Han Solo said:

Why was there no illegal forward pass penalty on this play?

It's not an illegal forward pass?

Just now, Connecticut Eagle said:

If you were watching the game and heard all the crowd eruptions in the second half, 'boring' wouldn't be the adjective that comes to mind.

I assume Brees means the entire body of work thus far. And to be clear, I understand what he's getting at because I think Patullo is failing miserably from a schematic point of view, and the offensive success has been mostly reliant on winning 1v1 matchups, rather than any systemic advantage provided by the play design itself. I just take issue with his framing that it's not worth watching, even as a neutral observer. Players like AJ Brown, Devonta Smith, Saquon Barkley, and Jalen Hurts are always worth watching, regardless of who's calling plays.

1 hour ago, Westbrook#36 said:

@mattwill

I forgot to put my score prediction in last week. Please put me down for:

Eagles 33

Rams 26

Bonus: Two blocked field goals

Thanks!

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20 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

Has anyone watched the film and figured out what happened to Mukuba on Sunday?

I watched again, focusing on Mukuba. He played much more than Brown in the first half and they had roughly equal snaps in the second. Both safeties played deeper in this game than against KC and Mukuba was usually the deeper of the two. Because he was playing 20+ yards off the ball he had few occasions for run support but, by my measure he made two tackles and assisted on a third, all in run support. I don't think Stafford threw in his direction all game. I didn't see any blown coverages by him.

Because of his size, he's easy to block and he didn't get off blocks. Brown is much stronger but he is also very linear. He's fine going forward but Mukuba is more agile in space. Basically it seemed that Vic's first choice was to play Mukuba but he began playing Brown more snaps because the Rams had success running. Olson commented on a pattern the Rams used of motioning a WR in and having him turn upfield one he got inside the TE. They did that a lot and when that happens, he's the safety's responsibility. Mukuba got blocked in those plays (when the WR did not release) but Brown stood the blocker up, clogging the gap. They have different strengths; put 'em together you'd have Dawkins, but neither is a complete player, yet.

20 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Yeah, I agree with Orlovsky, I don't give a F that it's boring. It works for this team, that's all I care about.

Beautiful loss >> Ugly win

/s

17 hours ago, Vileborg said:

Shiz pointed out that they are waived even if they are vested veterans, but with a vested veteran they immediately clear waivers, and are free to sign anywhere. So what you pointed out was correct, they do go through waivers and he immediately cleared them and was terminated. Therefore, he is free to sign anywhere.

Also, be careful with lazy journalists, I listened to a ton of them who never even went to training camp trying to report what others wrote.

17 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

That would make absolutely no sense as the rule would literally never be applicable in any way. There would be no reason for the NFL to have that rule in writing at all if that were the case.

You can even see on the daily transaction list the NFL has "terminated, vested veteran” as a separate listing than "waived” or "terminated via waivers”. They make that distinction for a reason.

Jordan Davis is NFC Special Teams Player of the Week.

4 minutes ago, DaBirds said:

Beautiful loss >> Ugly win

/s

When you watch 3 pointers all day, it's nice to see something different.

1 hour ago, Mike030270 said:

Lol would be funny if he doesn't get a sack

I think he'll go off...just to spite JJ. DAL is in a bad way, they were going to struggle this year to begin with, now they have lost Beebe (6-8 weeks, IR), and Booker (3-4 weeks with high ankle sprain) on the offensive side of the ball, they were already allowing too much pressure in Pass Pro even with those guys on the field and they are now working with less than adequate back-ups.

Injuries are part of the game, that's why a well rounded roster is critical and making sound contract decisions are so very important to allow for better reserves. DAL has had it pretty bad last year, and now starting this year with injuries. Not an excuse, just reality, as I said they were going to struggle this year even without the injuries. Diggs is horrible, the bad thing is DAL will let him go after this contract or even cut him before the end of this contract and he will move on the have a stellar career elsewhere.

It all starts with the culture, and DAL doesn't have the determination, and disposition to persevere and fight when things get tough. They are going to lay down until that culture is corrected and it starts at the very top with the head cheerleader.

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23 minutes ago, D-Shiznit said:

You can thank my post yesterday declaring it doable for this. If I didn't post that, it wouldn't be legal.

47 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

If you were watching the game and heard all the crowd eruptions in the second half, 'boring' wouldn't be the adjective that comes to mind.

2nd half... no.

1st half... that's another story altogether.

2 minutes ago, Joe Ball said:

I think he'll go off...just to spite JJ. DAL is in a bad way, they were going to struggle this year to begin with, now they have lost Beebe (6-8 weeks, IR), and Booker (3-4 weeks with high ankle sprain) on the offensive side of the ball, they were already allowing too much pressure in Pass Pro even with those guys on the field and they are now working with less than adequate back-ups.

Injuries are part of the game, that's why a well rounded roster is critical and making sound contract decisions are so very important to allow for better reserves. DAL has had it pretty bad last year, and now starting this year with injuries. Not an excuse, just reality, as I said they were going to struggle this year even without the injuries. Diggs is horrible, the bad thing is DAL will let him go after this contract or even cut him before the end of this contract and he will move on the have a stellar career elsewhere.

It all starts with the culture, and DAL doesn't have the determination, and disposition to persevere and fight when things get tough. They are going to lay down until that culture is corrected and it starts at the very top with the head cheerleader.

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The issue is the Cowboys' lack of any depth, let alone quality depth, is a direct result of Jerry's mismanagement of the cap. As everyone has already discussed, his insistence of waiting till the last minute costs the team tens of millions in cap space and saddles him with awful contracts like Dak being the highest paid QB. The less discussed reason is that Jerry is cheap. As an example, look at the Diggs extension. There are 2 ways in Jerry's frugality manifests itself and screws the roster. First, guys like Diggs are the ones he does sign "early" -- he overrates his players and thinks he's getting a "deal" on a guy like Diggs even though he wouldn't get paid that on the open market. Second, the Diggs contract has no void years for cap purposes to reduce the cap impacts. Now he has started using void years for Dak, Ceedee, Bland and Smith -- but he keeps large salaries instead of using option bonus structures to backload the cap hits. Yes, he can restructure in the future and convert salary into bonus...but will he.

Jerry is cheap and overrates the value of his non-superstar players.

33 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Jordan Davis is NFC Special Teams Player of the Week.

And is working out with the return team as the new kick returner. #freakbeast!!!

24 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

he must be blind cause sidney brown is a flag magnet on special teams and can't find a spot on defense

18 minutes ago, just relax said:

I watched again, focusing on Mukuba. He played much more than Brown in the first half and they had roughly equal snaps in the second. Both safeties played deeper in this game than against KC and Mukuba was usually the deeper of the two. Because he was playing 20+ yards off the ball he had few occasions for run support but, by my measure he made two tackles and assisted on a third, all in run support. I don't think Stafford threw in his direction all game. I didn't see any blown coverages by him.

Because of his size, he's easy to block and he didn't get off blocks. Brown is much stronger but he is also very linear. He's fine going forward but Mukuba is more agile in space. Basically it seemed that Vic's first choice was to play Mukuba but he began playing Brown more snaps because the Rams had success running. Olson commented on a pattern the Rames used of motioning a WR in and having him turn upfield one he got inside the TE. They did that a lot and when that happens, he's the safety's responsibility. Mukuba got blocked in those plays (when the WR did not release) but Brown stood the blocker up, clogging the gap. They have different strengths; put 'em together you'd have Dawkins, but neither is a complete player, yet.

I think the question will become whether the Eagles think one of them can take over Reed's role. Reed's main strength has been knowing what is going on and being in position. I don't think that is where Brown is best.

44 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

In other words, Howie told him no.

59 minutes ago, Joe Ball said:

I think he'll go off...just to spite JJ. DAL is in a bad way, they were going to struggle this year to begin with, now they have lost Beebe (6-8 weeks, IR), and Booker (3-4 weeks with high ankle sprain) on the offensive side of the ball, they were already allowing too much pressure in Pass Pro even with those guys on the field and they are now working with less than adequate back-ups.

Injuries are part of the game, that's why a well rounded roster is critical and making sound contract decisions are so very important to allow for better reserves. DAL has had it pretty bad last year, and now starting this year with injuries. Not an excuse, just reality, as I said they were going to struggle this year even without the injuries. Diggs is horrible, the bad thing is DAL will let him go after this contract or even cut him before the end of this contract and he will move on the have a stellar career elsewhere.

It all starts with the culture, and DAL doesn't have the determination, and disposition to persevere and fight when things get tough. They are going to lay down until that culture is corrected and it starts at the very top with the head cheerleader.

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This brings me great joy!

If Mukuba were struggling, I'd somewhat understand the desire initial desire to bring CJGJ back (I'm still not convinced we can resign him given we traded him). But Mukuba is playing well and growing, and we can sign Epps to the 53 now that he is out of elevations. There's less than ZERO chance CJGJ would agree to be a backup here, so bringing him in only stunts Mukuba's development.

Add on that multiple teams have gotten rid of him, and the Eagles ($4.62mm) and Texans ($2.586mm in 2025 and $5.66mm in 2026) are collectively taking cap charges of almost $13mm in 2025 and 2026 to have him NOT on the roster, and it's clear he's not worth the trouble.

So Fangio is talking up Ringo and I think we see him this weekend with the CB injuries. Again, I can't see how he's worse than Jackson. Been on that wagon for weeks. Let's hope!

Wow - so my cost estimate for the Texans may be low

The NFL got their sought after injury on the Tush Push

6 minutes ago, jojodancer said:

So Fangio is talking up Ringo and I think we see him this weekend with the CB injuries. Again, I can't see how he's worse than Jackson. Been on that wagon for weeks. Let's hope!

Fingers crossed, I don't think Ringo has the agility to stick to WRs out of their breaks for man coverage and on vertical routes where he has the speed he doesn't track the ball (C3) - maybe C2 or inverted C2 where he isn't really trailing receivers and is kept facing the QB? He is good against the run and will tackle.