2 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Not to worry. They pulled all-nighters leading up to Thursday's game. They will be very organized in the play calls this week.

Mr Bean is using the wrong thumb, he obviously didn’t learn a thing from Jerry.

Starting to see where AJ gets his lack of accountability from.

2 hours ago, Wentz_Era said:

His play design as a whole has been beyond atrocious. I’m not sure what you’re seeing play design wise outside of a handful of plays that aren’t middle school level concepts. Sure there’s been a growing rate of wrinkles…I’ll give him that but overall in whole. TERRIBLE

I want to know exactly what the play calling structure looks like in practice. During the Bucs game a few weeks ago it looked like the only thing that was practiced was red zone offense...which did look pretty good.

Lombardi once said that practice makes perfect which has been updated to "perfect practice" makes perfect. The Eagles should be practicing plays exactly as they plan on using them in games...beyond the scripted stuff. There should be a method to the madness as far as practicing plays. Practice is a great time to practice proper sequencing so the players can learn the different tweaks and options off each play.

7 minutes ago, aptosbird said:

yup...I still think it would be helpful to move KP to the press box and change his perspective. He could be surrounded by a couple of other people to share observations. I would then let the QB coach handle the communication with Hurts on the sideline in coordination with KP.

It also distracts him less with the other things going happening on the sidelines. His sole focus is playcalling, etc vs getting involved in any dramas. And the QB coach has enough experience, alongside the RB coach, the cost benefit becomes more even.

1 hour ago, Wentz_Era said:

The inability to scheme against zone is baffling, as that’s the litmus IMO for play design. Man is more often than not a talent vs scheme thing.

I honestly think that a bit of that falls on Hurts...McNabb had a similar issue. They wait until the receiver becomes open to deliver the football. I think Hurts struggles with the spatial awareness to throw to a spot just prior to the receiver hitting the gap in the zone. He instead is seeing things as being covered, and pulls off of it too soon or he throws too late.

25 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Lions and (Cle) Browns have never even played in a Super Bowl.

I can’t imagine being a MIN (record 32 playoff appearances) or BUF fan…each have been to four SBs and go 0-4…the NFC Beast owned BUF 90-93, good times.

1 hour ago, Vileborg said:

I didn't realize there were twelve teams that have never won one. I thought it was just the Bills and Texans.

I can't tell whether this is sarcasm.

5 minutes ago, aptosbird said:

I honestly think that a bit of that falls on Hurts...McNabb had a similar issue. They wait until the receiver becomes open to deliver the football. I think Hurts struggles with the spatial awareness to throw to a spot just prior to the receiver hitting the gap in the zone. He instead is seeing things as being covered, and pulls off of it too soon or he throws too late.

9 minutes ago, aptosbird said:

I honestly think that a bit of that falls on Hurts...McNabb had a similar issue. They wait until the receiver becomes open to deliver the football. I think Hurts struggles with the spatial awareness to throw to a spot just prior to the receiver hitting the gap in the zone. He instead is seeing things as being covered, and pulls off of it too soon or he throws too late.

Confidence and trust. Confident you can put the ball on target and trust your receiver will be at the target. You can rarely throw a receiver open in the NFL (typically only on broken pocket/scramble plays), you’re throwing to a spot that is going to be open after the route break in most cases, where separation is created.

9 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Starting to see where AJ gets his lack of accountability from.

Did anyone ask if he's doing a good job and they're moving the ball at a high rate, why they failed to move the ball the entire second half of the Bucs game and only were able to gain a total of 25 yards in the last 4 drives of the game against the Broncos.

21 minutes ago, aptosbird said:

I honestly think that a bit of that falls on Hurts...McNabb had a similar issue. They wait until the receiver becomes open to deliver the football. I think Hurts struggles with the spatial awareness to throw to a spot just prior to the receiver hitting the gap in the zone. He instead is seeing things as being covered, and pulls off of it too soon or he throws too late.

Well, we know that isn’t necessarily a strength of Hurts. So you def have to keep that thought in one hand, but the other is it seems like 90% (hyperbole maybe?) of the time routes are ins, outs, curls or comebacks. The double outs infuriate me, especially the routine stacking concepts. Against zone, from what I’ve seen is there’s no design to challenge the zone defenders at the stems. Nothing to get them flat footed, hesitate or execute hand offs. Last year the drag was the safety valve, teams are shutting that down. There seems to be way too many condensed looks too.

17 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Patullo trying to figure out how to beat zone coverage:

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3 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

Did anyone ask if he's doing a good job and they're moving the ball at a high rate, why they failed to move the ball the entire second half of the Bucs game and only were able to gain a total of 25 yards in the last 4 drives of the game against the Broncos.

Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story…c’mon man!

PHI OC this week

2 hours ago, Saltpeter said:

Big picture, the NFL hustle culture is so stupid to me. Who gives a crap if you sleep 2-3 hrs a night if your offense is trash? Try being efficient, you dope.

It's funny, a lot of people in the Navy also thing that working longer hours means working harder/better. What those people don't realize is they have to work longer because it takes them 3 times as long to do half as much work as a competent person, which seems to be the scenario here as well

2 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

Patullo is going to follow the Sirianni script, not throw his players under the bus.

He already has thrown them under the bus, saying the main issue is execution.

53 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Starting to see where AJ gets his lack of accountability from.

This guy is just delusional. Nothing he’s done has been impressive. Actually his flip to Goedert. Otherwise absolutely garbage can juice.

I wonder if Jalen could just run no huddle and X this guy out of playcalling. It’s clean the OC doesn’t know how to scheme open specific concepts, take advantage of simulated pressure, or get his WRs open in creative ways with quick outlets in case of pressure.

It’s almost like he’s just used to writing plays down but doesn’t actually know what any of them do versus a specific defense or how to pivot when something’s not working. Where are the motion misdirection play action dump offs, or the motion to identify defenses, the creativity of lining up AJ so he can’t be bracketed, moving the pocket intentionally to stifle the blitz, designed QB runs, why aren’t we running read options/speed options, veer/inverted veer options, shovels/screens to Dallas/Saquon, bubbles and breakout screens against stacked boxes, where are the crossers and overloading of zones concepts, 3 levels concepts on the outside, China concept, even a Texas concept that puts saquon and Goedert in space in the middle, using a 1 on 1 opportunity for AJ, and having smitty trail the safety Goedert takes away?

This offensive is boring and not in Rythm. Not because all of our players just magically suck - but because the guy we chose to run the show isn’t a good enough teacher, master, schemer, and has no chemistry or foundation for the players to hang their hats on. If everyone sucks I always blame coaching.

Patullo isn't running the show, Sirianni is, he's the head coach. If nothing is changing that's on the head coach.

5 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Patullo isn't running the show, Sirianni is, he's the head coach. If nothing is changing that's on the head coach.

This is BS. Steichen and Moore sequenced plays much better. You don’t need total control to do better than Patullo is doing now.

7 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Patullo isn't running the show, Sirianni is, he's the head coach. If nothing is changing that's on the head coach.

That may be true but Patullo does nothing to balance out Sirianni's worst tendencies and can't make up for what appears to be a significant gap in offensive game planning.

2 hours ago, DaBirds said:

What’s the deal with that anyway? I get the run blocking hasn’t been as good but why does it seem like the other backs can at least get a few yards while Saquon can’t get past the LOS?

You’d think even if Barkley lost a step from usage or was dinged he would have at least gotten lucky on a few runs.

Predictability: defenses know when we are going to run and the blocking scheme for said running play. People will say that we ran last year and teams still couldn't defend it. The difference? Running in pass formations, running outside when the alignment has been inside runs the previous 3-4 times. Line is not as good this year, but our predictability is off the charts. We run out of the same formations and run to the same spot 85% of the time we run. No defense has to think whatsoever.

5 minutes ago, Saltpeter said:

This is BS. Steichen and Moore sequenced plays much better. You don’t need total control to do better than Patullo is doing now.

I didn't say Patullo is great, I said Sirianni is running the show, not Patullo. It's absolutely ridiculous to put the lion's share of the blame on Patullo. The idea that Kevin Patullo is solely responsible for this offense falling to on of the worst offenses in the NFL is one of the craziest things yet. To get to the point they've been it's a lot of things all adding up, and Nick Sirianni is the overseer for all of it. Not to mention they've done other things poorly like discipline and not being able to get plays in on time. He's the damn head coach, it's his job to fix it. Can't just throw everything at the feet of a rookie OC, who was Sirianni's choice btw.

Sirianni is getting a pass because people like him, and Patullo is being skewered because he's the "new" guy.

It does stink that a team with SB aspirations is letting their new OC/play caller "learn on the job". Which, IMHO, is what's happening.

We all know what happened the last time the Iggles promoted from within. And conversely, we know what happened when they hired from outside the cocoon of the NovaCare Complex. 🙃

3 hours ago, Wentz_Era said:

His play design as a whole has been beyond atrocious. I’m not sure what you’re seeing play design wise outside of a handful of plays that aren’t middle school level concepts. Sure there’s been a growing rate of wrinkles…I’ll give him that but overall in whole. TERRIBLE

I forget who it was on ESPN that mentioned how predictable the Eagles are.

Carter hurt his heel somehow in a walk through