8 minutes ago, just relax said:

It’s the knee. He was beaten to his right several times Sunday. He can’t step and plant on his right leg.

I'd rather it be the knee than the back. It was not a serious knee injury nor major surgery. That will heal up given time. Back we have no idea what it even was and don't want an OL with a bad back plaguing him all season.

If the team felt like he needed a couple of weeks to sit, I would not be opposed to it. But, let’s face it, Landon is never healthy.

Add Verse to the therapy group with Chris Jones. AJ Brown can send them some merch from his mental health line.

Add to this the bet with Carter and him wearing Verse's chain afterward. 🤣

3 hours ago, Mike030270 said:

Brees had a noodle arm? Umm.. ok. He does now since his arm is shot I but I disagree that he always did

His arm was average in SD and noticeably worse after his shoulder injury

3 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

Nakobe nowhere close to coming back after seeing this

8 hours ago, devpool said:

Probably 1, and i think it has to be this year unless Lane plays one more season. Idk what this offense will look like without him for an entire season considering they haven't drafted a replacement yet like they did for Kelce.

They get a bona fide replacement at RT (doesnt have to be Lane level, just very good)

Hot take but I think we’ll be better next year than this year. Mukuba and Campbell have a lot on their plate for being rookies, Hunt/Q/Cooper also a year more mature, we have many holes right now and a lot of dead cap comes off the books next summer with Kelce and Cox and CJGJ and Slay and Sweat

4 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

His arm was average in SD and noticeably worse after his shoulder injury

The mole sucked all the energy right out of his shoulder

1 minute ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Hot take but I think we’ll be better next year than this year. Mukuba and Campbell have a lot on their plate for being rookies, Hunt/Q/Cooper also a year more mature, we have many holes right now and a lot of dead cap comes off the books next summer with Kelce and Cox and CJGJ and Slay and Sweat

Carter and Davis may be taking up close to 60 million of cap space (Carter $30-35 Davis $20-25), though. Howie will spread that out I'm sure, but that may offset the money coming off the books. I agree they may be better. Hopefully, Robinson is stronger and Mac has taken over the slot as well.

28 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I'll disagree with that. I think they will play through things we "normal" guys can't even comprehend. You hear about injuries you never knew about after the season. Dickerson is wired completely different too. You better believe he's pushing himself through whatever pain he can manage. You have to love and admire it, but at the same time you've gotta be able to say OK Landon, we know you can tough it out, but let's get your body right for the long run.

We don't know that they wouldn't if it came to that. I mean, I'm sure Nolan could play through the triceps strain, but they didn't want him to totally tear it again, so they made the decision for him. The trainer consults with these guys everyday. If they thought DIckerson was a liability, I'm sure he'd sit. I expect they think he is gradually getting healthier and there's no downside to playing him. This team is chasing a repeat, if they thought sitting him a couple weeks would do something I'm sure they'd force his hand too.

Just now, Diehardfan said:

Carter and Davis may be taking up close to 60 million of cap space, though. Howie will spread that out I'm sure, but that may offset the money coming off the books. I agree they may be better. Hopefully, Robinson is stronger and Mac has taken over the slot as well.

Extensions are often salary cap reductions or only minor increases.

For those two players, they still have rookie contract years left, so the extension won’t start until 2027 and 2028. All that’ll hit is 1/5th of the signing bonus

11 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

Probably just read the script.

Just now, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Extensions are often salary cap reductions or only minor increases.

For those two players, they still have rookie contract years left, so the extension won’t start until 2026 and 2027. All that’ll hit is 1/5th of the signing bonus

Good point

9 minutes ago, justwinbaby said:

Nakobe nowhere close to coming back after seeing this

I was coming here to post that video with the same thought. Not even remotely close

1 hour ago, eagle45 said:

This isn’t about Dickerson vs Toth. It’s about Dickerson down the stretch if he doesn’t rest vs Dickerson if he does.

We’ve got an all pro LG playing at a replacement level right now. If that continues, we aren’t winning the SB with how our offense is constructed. If extended rest gives him a chance to get back to normal, then you throw Toth in there for as long as you can, even if he is worse than this version of Dickerson.

Wallyhorse level conspiracy:

They should just have a scheduled loss week, create their own mini-bye. Backup OL, throw McKee in there, let bigsby and Dillon carry the load, anyone who needs rest on defense rests.

Thursday night against the giants, might be able to beat them even with McKee. That'll give 2 weeks rest after the Broncos game and then they only play 2 more games before the actual bye.

37 minutes ago, Parrot Head said:

If the team felt like he needed a couple of weeks to sit, I would not be opposed to it. But, let’s face it, Landon is never healthy.

That was the knock back during the year he was drafted. When he's healthy, he's a beast, maybe the best OG in the game currently. Trouble is, that's becoming less and less frequent.

The Eagles are going to have to invest more high draft capital on OL this upcoming draft. OT AND OG.

5 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

It's ugly and should be banned.

So even if I get my kickoffs back, the knuckleball will likely be here to stay unless they move the kicker back to the 20yd line or something or there's a hangtime element I don't understand. Oh well.

19 minutes ago, devpool said:

I was coming here to post that video with the same thought. Not even remotely close

I think he’s just doing some weird gait in that video. He was running and didn’t look too bad in August

56 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Hot take but I think we’ll be better next year than this year. Mukuba and Campbell have a lot on their plate for being rookies, Hunt/Q/Cooper also a year more mature, we have many holes right now and a lot of dead cap comes off the books next summer with Kelce and Cox and CJGJ and Slay and Sweat

Not exactly -- we already have $43mm of dead cap on the books, and that's not counting over $20mm from Goedert if he walks in free agency. Cox and Kelce will be off the books, but JB, Slay and BG are over $25mm while Huff's big hit of $16.6mm comes through as well. Remember, those guys all got spread out over 2025 and 2026. When it's all said and done, we'll hopefully carry a smaller amount of dead cap in 2026 (mid 60s) as compared to 2025 ($82mm).

The good news is we have ~40mm of cap space even with that, and Reed and DG are the only starters not under contract next year (not counting Dean as a starter). Extensions for Carter, Nolan and Davis (if they do all of them) shouldn't increase their 2025 cap numbers that much.

The way we do things, we're always gonna have at least 40-50 in dead cap though.

I was looking through the all the Rams field goal and PATs and found something that kinda surprised me. Throughout the game, the Rams kicker was pretty slow to the ball. Their whole process from snap to foot was often a little over 1.4 seconds. That's not good. Normally that process takes about 1.25 seconds or so. Roughly. That's generally what the Eagles do. But Karty was slow for sure. His first PAT looked to be around 1.45. Really deliberate.

So I was expecting to see that very thing on the two blocked kicks. But that wasn't the case. On the first block by Carter, the snap was a little low and inside and the holder did a good job of getting it placed properly. But Karty got there much quicker than he had the entire game (maybe 1.24) and the ball was still blocked. I'm wondering -- and this is just wild speculation -- if by quickening his steps he somehow hit the ball at a lower trajectory. Then on the game-ending block, it was similar. Not quite as fast (about 1.31) but definitely faster than on any of his first six successful kicks.

I think the fear of a block got in his head and got him too worried about hurrying up to avoid a block that it caused him to hit it low.

58 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

Good point

Carter's 2026 cap number is $6.9mm in 2026 in the last year of his rookie deal (before exercising the 5th year option). They'll exercise that and roll it into his extension like they did with DeVonta. I'd expect his 2026 cap number to be roughly the same or a little higher for 2026. Same thing with Nolan if they extend him -- his cap number is $3.8mm, so more likely that increases a few million. If they extend Davis, his number for 2026 will come down as his current cap charge is the full amount of the 5th year option at $12.9 million fully guaranteed.

I think a fair assumption is that if they extend all 3, the numbers will be reallocated but the aggregate cap charge should be pretty much unchanged.

11 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

I was looking through the all the Rams field goal and PATs and found something that kinda surprised me. Throughout the game, the Rams kicker was pretty slow to the ball. Their whole process from snap to foot was often a little over 1.4 seconds. That's not good. Normally that process takes about 1.25 seconds or so. Roughly. That's generally what the Eagles do. But Karty was slow for sure. His first PAT looked to be around 1.45. Really deliberate.

So I was expecting to see that very thing on the two blocked kicks. But that wasn't the case. On the first block by Carter, the snap was a little low and inside and the holder did a good job of getting it placed properly. But Karty got there much quicker than he had the entire game (maybe 1.24) and the ball was still blocked. I'm wondering -- and this is just wild speculation -- if by quickening his steps he somehow hit the ball at a lower trajectory. Then on the game-ending block, it was similar. Not quite as fast (about 1.31) but definitely faster than on any of his first six successful kicks.

I think the fear of a block got in his head and got him too worried about hurrying up to avoid a block that it caused him to hit it low.

It didn't look low. I think Davis just made an incredible athletic move, getting a couple steps of penetration while maintaining his balance so he could get vertical.

He's 6'6 so his reach is probably 10 feet or so - and those couple steps toward the kicker meant he'd be hitting ball lower in its trajectory - if he just jumps at the LOS the ball would be a foot or two higher.

20 hours ago, just relax said:

Carter DID get a few snaps at edge against the Rams. Well, quasi-edge. The Eagles lined up in a 4-man front and he was between the TE and RT. Smith showed outside but dropped so Carter was the edge. Here are two angles:

Carter and Smith can't replace most of Smith's snaps.

Because Nolan is more of a 3-4 LB, whereas D Smith and Carter might play edge in the 4-2, but aren't much of a threat to drop into coverage.

That makes it harder to disguise who you're sending.

One option, if he's able to play, would be to move Campbell outside for a few snaps, and play Mondon at ILB, otherwise play Hunt more snaps.

One interesting factoid - the current IR:

Wilson (24)

Cooper (24)

Hinton (23)

Williams (22)

Lampkin (23)

BVS (25)

Dean (25)

Bennett (25)

That's stashing a lot of young talent.