7 minutes ago, rrfierce said:

I like his analysis but I wish he’d improve how he presents it. Filming a screen on your phone is very amateurish

Eh, it gives a film room feel to it. I kinda like it.

2 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

And Howie: how hard is it to find another TE that can block?

Sack, look through the 31 other TE1s throughout the NFL and list them in two columns … can block and can’t block. I doubt you will have more than 5 in the can block column.

19 minutes ago, aptosbird said:

Yup…I really believe this is the aftermath of playing in the Super Bowl in the 2nd week of February. It shortens the offseason…their bodies need time to not just rest but heal…and that is not a flexible timetable…having 4 really tough teams who are either divisional opponents or playoff rematches playing their own Super Bowls at the beginning of the season is a big ask. That is why this years depth is so important.

Said similar yesterday. But our fist 5 opponents feels like the toughest we’ve had to start a season in a while. Might be the hardest schedule through 5 weeks considering everyone but Dallas might be a playoff team. Only team I’ve seen close is the ravens and they got the browns.

12 minutes ago, rrfierce said:

I like his analysis but I wish he’d improve how he presents it. Filming a screen on your phone is very amateurish

Feel like baldy is probably clueless with technology

Watch this play frame by frame. If Steen just gets in the way and doesn't get blown up, Latu can get to his primary block and the lane is WIDE OPEN. Saquon hasn't had a chance at all this year. Blocking schemes are like dominos. Steen misses his guy which forces Latu to change his block to at least try to get him.

2 hours ago, T-1000 said:

Yep. I would have rather had Jack Stoll on the team.

Calcaterra has been kept as injury insurance for Goedert’s receiving skills/attributes. Stoll could never fulfill that function. He was only injury insurance for Goedert’s in line blocking.

Go Eagles !

1 hour ago, T-1000 said:

I actually heard some people complaining about how he played. I thought he played really well. His tackling wasn';t great but it was still an improvement over Jackson and he gave up next to nothing in coverage. Also Quinton is an absolute stud and I can't believe how much the Bus went after him.

That was my take as well, and even with the tackling it was really only two plays. Regardless he needs to wrap up and drive through, not just body block.

Here are the Strength of Victory percentages for the top 6 teams in the NFC.

1 hour ago, T-1000 said:

I actually heard some people complaining about how he played. I thought he played really well. His tackling wasn';t great but it was still an improvement over Jackson and he gave up next to nothing in coverage. Also Quinton is an absolute stud and I can't believe how much the Bus went after him.

That was my take as well, and even with the tackling it was really only two plays. Regardless he needs to wrap up and drive through, not just body block.

I take it there was no news about Jalen hitting his head? I didn’t see anything anywhere.

1 hour ago, NCiggles said:

His problem with tackling isn't effort it's that he's too much of a linear athlete. He needs to be able to slow down before he gets to the runner.

Wherever possible, square up, wrap up, and drive through.

Is this the first flex of the season?

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

Got to imagine there’s some regression at some point but he’s having an insane season so far

I agree about the likelihood of regression, but damn he has looked great so far.

8 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

Is this the first flex of the season?

No. Nolan Smith flexed in the Thursday night opener. Cost us 15 yards. 😕

31 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

100%. Loved that Brady was talking about it not being a penalty as the replay is showing the forearm to the facemask. It might have touched the shoulder first, but that was a blow to the head 100%

Brady was terrible. You would have thought the Bucs were up by 50

1 hour ago, jojodancer said:

I remember being here in the offseason and saying Howie can afford to keep a lot of these guys....if he wants to. He had a stubborn idea of accumulating draft picks (during a Superbowl Championship window), in which he's using in a futile way, in his last few trades anyway to replace the losses. The costs of Becton & Rodgers came in as value signings. Which is his specialty. Hating the Booker, Howell and Tank trades as well. And should have signed Milt Williams the previous offseason and not worried about any fallout on the defense or so called jealousy. Howie did outsmart himself this offseason and I have been one of his biggest supporters, but can admit that here.

Yeah you don't know who or who they couldn't have kept to fit under the cap. Who says they didn't try to resign milt a year earlier? It's been said multiple times there is a bunch of players coming up who also need to be paid. I do agree with Isaiah Rogers that's it.

I'll quote him because he's just listing stats rather than his "expert" opinion. Crazy to think they are continually running him in to the ground when it's clearly not working. Barkley hasn't even come close to breaking a run yet. His long is 16 yards and that was in week 1.

33 minutes ago, mattwill said:

If … what is it about that word that is so hard to process? It is a word that has particular resonance for me because of one of the greatest poems ever written.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting. Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies. Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, and yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster; and treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, and stoop and build ’em up with worn out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the Will which says to them: "Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; if all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run — yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it — and which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!

If I play the lottery I might just win and my bills will all be paid. I should forget about planning a more realistic solution to my financial worries because I have the if possibility of hitting the lottery.

Latu is a failed 3rd round pick for the 49ers, he's been cut by the Eagles passed through waivers and landed on the PS. He's not a guy you count on to become the TE1, you actively seek a better, more realistic plan. If he works out like you are projecting is a possibility then the Eagles have done the equivalent of winning the lottery. The odds are extremely low. They need a better plan than Latu for TE1.

1 hour ago, DaEagles4Life said:

The announcers have pointed out Barkley's missed blocks in more than 1 game this year.

53 minutes ago, hukdonfoniks said:

It's Brian Johnson all over again.

Yes and no. The no part is that Johnson never came close to the upside that we saw in the four quarters from Rams halftime to Bucs halftime.

2 minutes ago, NOTW said:

The announcers have pointed out Barkley's missed blocks in more than 1 game this year.

Trade him.

4 minutes ago, eaglestime34 said:

Yeah you don't know who or who they couldn't have kept to fit under the cap. Who says they didn't try to resign milt a year earlier? It's been said multiple times there is a bunch of players coming up who also need to be paid. I do agree with Isaiah Rogers that's it.

Nah. They ended up signing Zadarius Smith, Ojulari and these other guys who were reclamation projects. Had 2 guys that were dying to stay as Eagles in Becton and Rodgers who would have signed pretty cheap. They missed that boat. Clearly. Personally didn't care about Slay and Sweat. Understood that. And Williams got overpaid. Understood that as well. Although I valued him more highly than others. Couldn't keep everyone. But Howie tilted too far on one side here. And I thought that then. We are in a Superbowl window here. Left things a lil messy here. Should be fine though. Also, he's pretty lucky that JD showed up to mask some of this. Because everyone was high on drafting a DT in a "loaded draft" and was pretty adamant about MW replacement being found so easily there. 2x

54 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

The difference is that Jalen was a runner, and Baker was a passer. It's a two-tier system.

Jalen was sliding … equivalent of being a passer.

2 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I don't blame Hurts for the designed QB runs. That's on the HC, OC, and GM. Once they call the play, he's going to be a football player and do what they do. The HC, OC and GM need to help him not let his competitive juices get his body in trouble. I am against QB designed runs in principle. It forces the QB to have to make the decision of where to be aggressive and where to just get down to avoid contact too much. I'm just not a fan. Granted, doing it with Hurts got us to a Super Bowl and was a big factor in winning one as well. But, the downside is it leaves the QB vulnerable and potentially needing to find a replacement much sooner than if that QB wasn't getting as punished. JMO.

I have less problem with designed runs where Hurts is going N-S than the RPO when he's running laterally and the DE has carte blanche to hit him even if he hands off the ball.