On 9/24/2025 at 6:18 PM, Poopy said:

Barkley hasn't really been a factor this year. He has had some pretty modest rushing numbers through the first 3 games (although he has scored twice) and he hasn't really been much of a threat as a receiver. I don't know how much is what they're running or the impact of losing Becton and replacing him with Steen. Becton was around 15th last year for run block grade out of all guards, Steen is currently ranked 65th of 95 guards. That is a huge drop off and for a team that wants to be run heavy.

The whole line is below par, Lane and DIckerson have both been way below last years level, people keep picking up Steen because he's the change but the fact is no one on the line is doing a great job this year, Mailata and Jurgens have been closest but still not great. what was supposed to be our strength has been having issues so far. Dickerson has an excuse in that he is clearly dinged up.

Our line always shows some rust throughout September. It's not new. They usually get things worked out after the first month. Things have been a bit harder for the line so far as teams were game-planning to stop our short game. Finally opening things up in the 2nd half last week will help defenses stay more honest going forward.

The offence is different this year because the O line is not as good as it was last year hopefully things will improve

Zero receptions 2nd half vs bucs. How does that happen?

The run game isn't working because teams are still focusing on shutting it down and forcing them to pass, and the O line has too many nagging injuries. Dickerson rushed back and wasn't ready, Mailata got a little banged up in week 1, Lane at his age struggles with injuries from time to time, Steen is getting used to starting, Cam still nursing back injury from last year, Pryor sucked at RT before Fred saved the day. They should rest the injured starters, if not this week then for the Giants game. Get them healthy.

And the pass game is bipolar: at times capable of big plays and making it almost look easy, and other times they look completely inept. Patullo calls the game too conservative and then when the players push for more and they need it, they ball out. In this game, they came out creative, scored, had a good lead and then played scared.

Where's the aggressive play calling like in the playoffs?

Then they force it to AJ several times in a row instead of just running the offense naturally. Like a 3rd and 2 play that took too long to develop. AJ has a man one-on-one. A quick slant inside is a 1st down all day.

Seems like a lot of stretches of seasons under Sirianni, the team can't put 4 quarters of football together, it's been a complaint every year.

37 minutes ago, NOTW said:

The run game isn't working because teams are still focusing on shutting it down and forcing them to pass, and the O line has too many nagging injuries. Dickerson rushed back and wasn't ready, Mailata got a little banged up in week 1, Lane at his age struggles with injuries from time to time, Steen is getting used to starting, Cam still nursing back injury from last year, Pryor sucked at RT before Fred saved the day. They should rest the injured starters, if not this week then for the Giants game. Get them healthy.

And the pass game is bipolar: at times capable of big plays and making it almost look easy, and other times they look completely inept. Patullo calls the game too conservative and then when the players push for more and they need it, they ball out. In this game, they came out creative, scored, had a good lead and then played scared.

Where's the aggressive play calling like in the playoffs?

Then they force it to AJ several times in a row instead of just running the offense naturally. Like a 3rd and 2 play that took too long to develop. AJ has a man one-on-one. A quick slant inside is a 1st down all day.

Seems like a lot of stretches of seasons under Sirianni, the team can't put 4 quarters of football together, it's been a complaint every year.

If anything, rest vs broncos and back to full power vs Giants. Division games are more important for the dub. I dont oppose that idea..

How this team can fail to get Brown and Smith routinely involved in the O is a baffling mystery. The offense, in general, just always feels to lack any creativity (the 2 Goedert plays yesterday aside). They never seem to "scheme" anyone open. They just "line up and play" and rely on their players to simply just beat the other guy on routine/standard-type plays. While they've won, obviously, I can't help but imagine what this offense could look like with a better offensive play designer. For example, imagine how good Kyle Shanahan could make this offense look. Sirianni has a lot of strengths as a HC, but offensive play designing is at the bottom of his list of attributes.

12 minutes ago, EagleMatt said:

If anything, rest vs broncos and back to full power vs Giants. Division games are more important for the dub. I dont oppose that idea..

I'm not saying rest all starters, just a few who are banged up. They can still beat the Giants. On offense, put Pryor for Dickerson and Fred Johnson for Lane (if needed). Adjust playcalling accordingly to get more outside runs and quick release passes (something we've been begging for anyway). On defense, might need to rest Carter depending on his nagging shoulder injury. That's really it, just a few linemen but they're very important players so you do take a risk, but I think they can win.

3 hours ago, EaglesAddict said:

How this team can fail to get Brown and Smith routinely involved in the O is a baffling mystery. The offense, in general, just always feels to lack any creativity (the 2 Goedert plays yesterday aside). They never seem to "scheme" anyone open. They just "line up and play" and rely on their players to simply just beat the other guy on routine/standard-type plays. While they've won, obviously, I can't help but imagine what this offense could look like with a better offensive play designer. For example, imagine how good Kyle Shanahan could make this offense look. Sirianni has a lot of strengths as a HC, but offensive play designing is at the bottom of his list of attributes.

We all know the reason for this.. But people get angry when you address that Elephant in the room. Its literally the one constant through all of this.

A caller on WIP just suggested that Howie Roseman and bean counters are involved in the playbook decisions. That's why it looks so bad. 🤣😂😆

Can’t say we are looking at any type of revolutionary offense, but the defense has had a major drop off too. Just lost too much talent. This feels like one of those retooling years

Having a new offensive coordinator just about every season for the last 5 or 6 seasons hasn't exactly helped. Kellen Moore was the best OC we'd had since winning 52

7 hours ago, JohnB said:

Having a new offensive coordinator just about every season for the last 5 or 6 seasons hasn't exactly helped. Kellen Moore was the best OC we'd had since winning 52

I have to say I was watching the games yesterday and looking at the teams who have a HC who calls the offensive plays and it would be nice. I know we have had success without that, and I know in fact we’ve been arguably the second best team in the NFL over the last 3-4 years under Sirianni, but I did think yeah I’m sure that would help!

3 hours ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

I have to say I was watching the games yesterday and looking at the teams who have a HC who calls the offensive plays and it would be nice. I know we have had success without that, and I know in fact we’ve been arguably the second best team in the NFL over the last 3-4 years under Sirianni, but I did think yeah I’m sure that would help!

I think that could go either way. If it's not a strength of Sirianni to call plays, I wouldn't want him calling them. It seems like his strength is in other areas, not play calling. He just needs an OC who isn't a green pea.

3 hours ago, JohnB said:

I think that could go either way. If it's not a strength of Sirianni to call plays, I wouldn't want him calling them. It seems like his strength is in other areas, not play calling. He just needs an OC who isn't a green pea.

Oh God no I wouldn’t want Sirianni to call the plays. He’s kind of part of the problem really. He can’t call plays and I’m not sure he’s a very creative offensive mind so the offense gets stale and struggles.

On 10/13/2025 at 1:53 AM, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

I have to say I was watching the games yesterday and looking at the teams who have a HC who calls the offensive plays and it would be nice. I know we have had success without that, and I know in fact we’ve been arguably the second best team in the NFL over the last 3-4 years under Sirianni, but I did think yeah I’m sure that would help!

If not call the plays then bring someone in who has no desire to leave for a HC job.

Yeah … it sure has changed!

Comparisons to the Mike McMahon days … now that’s bad!! Congrats KP!!

Hurts needs to be under center more. I know he doesn't like it for whatever reason but the numbers speak for themselves

16 hours ago, time2rock said:

Yeah … it sure has changed!

Comparisons to the Mike McMahon days … now that’s bad!! Congrats KP!!

Yikes that’s inept.

For whatever reason Hurts isn't scrambling. Not just runs, but even moving around in the pocket. Dude has been a statue more often than not. Teams aren't spying him anymore, and it makes this high school offense that much more easier to defend.

3 hours ago, Gannan said:

For whatever reason Hurts isn't scrambling. Not just runs, but even moving around in the pocket. Dude has been a statue more often than not. Teams aren't spying him anymore, and it makes this high school offense that much more easier to defend.

He’s not running and the offense isn’t running the ball well either. I do think Jalen’s lack of running is also effecting the run game as a whole and this team can’t overcome that. This is a run first team incapable of running the football. Is that scheme? Is that due to injury? If that due to overall player decline? Let’s not forget this team has been to multiple Super Bowls and playoffs appearances basically since Nick was hired. They have played a lot of football and frankly some of these guys might be more banged up than we realize.

For the first time this year to me the offense ran with the consistency of the past. They ran the ball, and distributed it to a lot of the players. They ran Jalen, and they played disciplined football. They used plays that played off one another, and used play action. There’s a glimmer of hope things are getting better finally.

42 minutes ago, EazyEaglez said:

For the first time this year to me the offense ran with the consistency of the past. They ran the ball, and distributed it to a lot of the players. They ran Jalen, and they played disciplined football. They used plays that played off one another, and used play action. There’s a glimmer of hope things are getting better finally.

On the same week most thought we were going to be even worse because Nick said he was going to be more involved...

1 hour ago, EazyEaglez said:

For the first time this year to me the offense ran with the consistency of the past. They ran the ball, and distributed it to a lot of the players. They ran Jalen, and they played disciplined football. They used plays that played off one another, and used play action. There’s a glimmer of hope things are getting better finally.

I touched on this in another thread, this was the first week the running and passing plays played off of each other. Verse the Chargers for instance, I was calling out the first down running plays and the direction we were running before the ball was snapped very consistently, and we were second and 11 the entire game. Im hoping it wasnt just a matter of "its the Raiders".

9 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

I touched on this in another thread, this was the first week the running and passing plays played off of each other. Verse the Chargers for instance, I was calling out the first down running plays and the direction we were running before the ball was snapped very consistently, and we were second and 11 the entire game. Im hoping it wasnt just a matter of "its the Raiders".

The Raiders are bad no doubt about that. Sometimes you need to play some bad teams to really get going though. Big time college programs do that all the time. I think they’re a lot of factors for the Eagles from being the champs, to injuries, new coaches.