This obsession philly has with trying to run every coach out of town and blaming them after they're starting the season 4-0 and coming off a win that no one even expected is just insane. They had a great plan in the first half and executed well. Bucs decided to nut up in the second half and play like another undefeated team at home. People act like there's some conspiracy against the WR when in reality this is the offense Hurts has admitted to wanting and it's working. Not much has changed except they're not able to get the run game going which hurts the passing game. The Oline has looked bad, our position players are missing blocks or just flat out not blocking. Hurts targeted AJ like 9 times and had some terrible misses when he was open. crap happens and they won again. Learn and move on. This is the same crap that happened last year with Moore. "THEY CAN'T SUSTAIN THIS OFFENSE". Yeah. blah blah blah. Everyone on that field needed to play better in the second half. Every single team is going to stumble during the season, but they're not going 4-0.

Just now, mattwill said:

Jalen was sliding … equivalent of being a passer.

He did slide but very very late...

2 minutes ago, Joe Ball said:

Trade him.

You laugh, but last year after he dropped a pass early in the season a guy started a topic to bench him to teach him a lesson.

13 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

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

Yeah, in general the homer term is overused but Sunday sounded like a local Bucs broadcast

3 hours ago, just relax said:

You are quite right, teams are not selling out to stop the run. The problem is a simple one. Mailata, Dickerson, and Lane are all hurting and playing sub-par. All three of them whiffed on run plays one time or another. Teams are not stacking the line; quite the contrary. They're playing their LBs 5-6 yards off the ball. That makes it tough for our OL on inside zone runs to reach them. I blame Fangio for that because it's what he does with Baun and Campbell. It gives them time to read the play and fill the right gap. Other teams have noticed.

I don't think it's that simple, I've also noticed how fast they attack when Barkley gets the ball, almost like a run blitz. They sell out to stop him.

What I don't see is Patullo taking advantage of that aggressiveness in his play calling.

26 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

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.

Does Dickerson knock him off of 92? Steen gets no push on him but Dickerson running past him makes it compounds the issue. This is the big difference between Becton and Steen.

26 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

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.

Does Dickerson knock him off of 92? Steen gets no push on him but Dickerson running past him makes it compounds the issue. This is the big difference between Becton and Steen.

6 minutes ago, mattwill said:

Jalen was sliding … equivalent of being a passer.

He didn't start to slide until the defender already had lowered his shoulder and was a split second from contact.

1 minute ago, NCiggles said:

Does Dickerson knock him off of 92? Steen gets no push on him but Dickerson running past him makes it compounds the issue. This is the big difference between Becton and Steen.

Great observation. Now watching it again and he does. Now ask, does that look anywhere near to a healthy Dickerson making that pull? He's high, he looks off balance and he looks slow. He still makes a great kick out block though. So he makes a play, but he impacts the others. Get Dickerson out of there for goodness sake.

5 hours ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

No. The passing scheme is universally seen as very simple. Everyone is shocked when we see the occasional wrinkle. But four different OCs have been through here and it hasn't changed.

Why? IMO, it is because, as I have been suggesting, Hurts is the limiting factor. Under-center, play-action would be lethal with our skill position players. A bunch of heavy outside zone action with bootlegs would flourish. But Hurts obviously doesn't like to turn his back to the defense.

I've accepted it as the reality we'll have to deal with. Join me and you will no longer be shortening your life expectancy when they run four curls.

I suspect Siri is the limiting factor.

Hurts has light it up in the post-season, when you play better teams and the pressure is on.

I think Siri focuses so much on not making turnovers that it limits what they do until they have to score.

But it's hard to argue with 19-1. It's like telling Lombardi he ran the ball too mucjh.

1 hour ago, Mike030270 said:

Haven't they ran a fake before?

Yeah, they ran that fake a couple times, one time getting the first down and I remember another time where Barkley got stuffed.

1 hour ago, hukdonfoniks said:

It's Brian Johnson all over again.

We come out flat against the Rams and make major adjustments in the second half to win. Now we come out sharp against Tampa and then go super flat in the second half.

Something major has to be fixed here. Consistency like this shouldn't be a problem, especially when we had it last year and dominated like we did.

Consistency last year didn’t start happening until at least mid October. And even then there were some frustrating games like Carolina.

Seems like everyone remembers the NFCCG and SB as "last season”.

The entire first month last year was not pretty. These things do take a few games.

Now, if Patullo is still rolling out the Pee Wee offense in October, then it’s time to start being concerned.

14 minutes ago, mattwill said:

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.

He sucks at adjustments in game. Whoever helped him prep for Tampa did a good job. Someone had to help him vs the Rams. Maybe they should be calling the plays.

31 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

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.

Life isn’t Manechean

14 minutes ago, Parrot Head said:

Consistency last year didn’t start happening until at least mid October. And even then there were some frustrating games like Carolina.

Seems like everyone remembers the NFCCG and SB as "last season”.

The entire first month last year was not pretty. These things do take a few games.

Now, if Patullo is still rolling out the Pee Wee offense in October, then it’s time to start being concerned.

Can Even say the passing game was frustrating in the ravens, Carolina games then finally busted out against the Steelers. At one point people were also questioning Moore and the passing games ability to be enough and finally really hit off nfc title game and SB.

Ultimately i think we will be fine however if we get to the bye and it’s like this then im not sure if it’ll get changed this year. Im really hoping we start seeing improvements week to week with consistency.

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

Can Even say the passing game was frustrating in the ravens, Carolina games then finally busted out against the Steelers. At one point people were also questioning Moore and the passing games ability to be enough and finally really hit off nfc title game and SB.

Ultimately i think we will be fine however if we get to the bye and it’s like this then im not sure if it’ll get changed this year. Im really hoping we start seeing improvements week to week with consistency.

My benchmark was always October. Told my son this many times before the season even started.

Thrilled to be 4-0 while still figuring it out.

Now it’s October. 4 games in. Time to see progress.

You can only re-sign 2 of the 3 to 2nd contracts here. What are you doing?

Jalen Carter, Cooper DeJean, Quinyon Mitchell.

98 and 27

98 and 33

33 and 27

5 minutes ago, Parrot Head said:

My benchmark was always October. Told my son this many times before the season even started.

Thrilled to be 4-0 while still figuring it out.

Now it’s October. 4 games in. Time to see progress.

I was hoping to get through the first 5 games 4-1 and fine with 3-2. It’s a hard schedule to start the year. Really want to see us build on games now and find more consistency.

24 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

He didn't start to slide until the defender already had lowered his shoulder and was a split second from contact.

I would have to go and look at the replay in order to fully agree with that, but for the sake of discussion, let’s say that that’s the case. However, the defender did not have his forearm extended toward Hurts when the slide started. He struck the Hurts with a clear blow that originated after the slide had started. If it had been a fist rather than a forearm there would have been no question that it was a late hit.

2 hours ago, NCiggles said:

Just as many QBs get injured in the pocket. He didn't do a good job of getting down in that game.

And Jalen has to take his chances in the pocket IN ADDITION to the designed runs. That's additional exposure to injury, and I don't like it for my QB.

When the Eagle face teams with top WRs they scheme them open. The Eagles don't so Brown has some points. There is no reason SB can't be the focus yet still have a plan 1B where Brown is the focus when they throw and to find ways to get him open.

17 minutes ago, mattwill said:

Life isn’t Manechean

The Eagles need a better plan for TE1 in 2026 than hoping Cameron Latu becomes that guy. If Howie follows that plan, its malpractice.

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

Wouldn't be surprised. They like to not share anything until after the season and even then sometimes we don't get info