19 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Never saw myself defending Daniel Jones, but they’re most likely a playoff team if he doesn’t go down.

Yeah that’s a shame.

31 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

I think it’s safe to say the 2025 Colts collapse is substantially worse than the Eagles 2023 collapse.

I wouldn’t understand how. One was a team just in the Super Bowl with no significant injuries and a legitimate chance to get back. One is a team most thought were overachieving with Daniel Jones who they ended up losing to injury.

5 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I wouldn’t understand how. One was a team just in the Super Bowl with no significant injuries and a legitimate chance to get back. One is a team most thought were overachieving with Daniel Jones who they ended up losing to injury.

The Colts just seemed like the team to beat the first half of the season - similar to the Eagles in 2023. Now the Colts aren’t even going to make the playoffs - albeit losing Jones is the main reason.

13 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

They’re playing basically the same cream puff schedule the NFC North played last season.

Surprisingly enough the NFC SOS for the year so far shows of the teams most likely to be in the playoffs the top three in SOS are LAR (by a good margin), then CAR, then SEA. CHI has the weakest, likely expected.

50 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

A ton? Please elaborate. Here are the drives for your support.

Here they go 66 in 8 plays before the drive stalls.

Here they go 43 yards in seven plays before Hurts is sacked.

The 10 minute drive where crap playcalling got bailed out by 2 defensive penalties? The same drive, 2 penalties took them from the one and then nullified a TD. Luckily the scored, 9/10 times with this team those penalties are drive killers. So their best drive got saved by totally a unnecessary illegal contact call and then they tried to kill it themselves on the goal line.

They looked like crap against a bad team, it's weird that it's even being debated.

44 minutes ago, Joe Ball said:

Surprisingly enough the NFC SOS for the year so far shows of the teams most likely to be in the playoffs the top three in SOS are LAR (by a good margin), then CAR, then SEA. CHI has the weakest, likely expected.

That’s influenced by the division games - all the inflated records playing each other.

Well 9ers cleaned up The Colts badly and that pretty much ends our slim #1 Seed hopes. #2 is still there but #3 is looking more and more likely. The playoff generator still has us potentially playing the whole field outside of Tampa/Carolina depending on seeding. With that said, only one #1 Seed NFC Team has won the Super Bowl in last 8 years. That was our Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII (Eagles lost as a #1 Seed in 2022, 9ers lost two Super Bowls as #1 Seed 19'/23'). I'm fine with everyone playing next week but Week 18 is going to be our defacto-bye.

1 hour ago, KINGnabb said:

Well 9ers cleaned up The Colts badly and that pretty much ends our slim #1 Seed hopes. #2 is still there but #3 is looking more and more likely. The playoff generator still has us potentially playing the whole field outside of Tampa/Carolina depending on seeding. With that said, only one #1 Seed NFC Team has won the Super Bowl in last 8 years. That was our Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII (Eagles lost as a #1 Seed in 2022, 9ers lost two Super Bowls as #1 Seed 19'/23'). I'm fine with everyone playing next week but Week 18 is going to be our defacto-bye.

God I really don’t want the Niners to get the #1 seed. That team is a joke and I freaking hate them.

So right now we’d face the Rams? With the Niners moving up to the #5 seed. Would we rather face the Niners or Rams? Tough one really… Rams are the better team and the harder game. Niners would be the more crushing loss and help them on their way to another potential SB appearance.

1 hour ago, KINGnabb said:

Well 9ers cleaned up The Colts badly and that pretty much ends our slim #1 Seed hopes. #2 is still there but #3 is looking more and more likely. The playoff generator still has us potentially playing the whole field outside of Tampa/Carolina depending on seeding. With that said, only one #1 Seed NFC Team has won the Super Bowl in last 8 years. That was our Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII (Eagles lost as a #1 Seed in 2022, 9ers lost two Super Bowls as #1 Seed 19'/23'). I'm fine with everyone playing next week but Week 18 is going to be our defacto-bye.

No reason at all to put Lane Johnson and Jalen Carter back on the field until the playoffs. Hell, for that matter, let's see what some of the young guys can do. If Dean walks (which he shouldn't), it would be nice to see what Trotter can do over the course of 2 games. Ty Robinson better play as many snaps as he can. Same goes for Jackorian Bennet, Mac McWilliams, Drew Kendall, Darius Cooper, EJ Jenkins. Put Kelee out there to see if he can generate any kind of momentum to cause a team to want to trade for him. Let Tanner McKee generate some hype. I think I saw something like 8 teams might be looking for QBs next year. There aren't 8 QBs worth drafting, especially at this development rate.

39 minutes ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

So right now we’d face the Rams? With the Niners moving up to the #5 seed. Would we rather face the Niners or Rams? Tough one really… Rams are the better team and the harder game. Niners would be the more crushing loss and help them on their way to another potential SB appearance.

Niners. If we can't beat them then we aren't going anywhere anyway. The Rams are the most dangerous team out there. Better we get them in the NFC Championship game should we get that far.

56 minutes ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

God I really don’t want the Niners to get the #1 seed. That team is a joke and I freaking hate them.

Rams or Seahawks will mostly likely get it. With the Bears having an outside chance if they beat them next week. I can't see them winning both their last games.

25 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

No reason at all to put Lane Johnson and Jalen Carter back on the field until the playoffs. Hell, for that matter, let's see what some of the young guys can do. If Dean walks (which he shouldn't), it would be nice to see what Trotter can do over the course of 2 games. Ty Robinson better play as many snaps as he can. Same goes for Jackorian Bennet, Mac McWilliams, Drew Kendall, Darius Cooper, EJ Jenkins. Put Kelee out there to see if he can generate any kind of momentum to cause a team to want to trade for him. Let Tanner McKee generate some hype. I think I saw something like 8 teams might be looking for QBs next year. There aren't 8 QBs worth drafting, especially at this development rate.

I would like them to knock off rust but I kind of agree about keep them out until then. They did bring Dallas back to knock off rust before the playoffs last year. I watched Lane on Hark Knocks and he's been rehabbing hard. I was shocked about JC procedures happening at that moment but it is what it is. I think them playing is more about knocking off rust but I agree. I kind of feel just wait till the Playoffs. But all things are pointing to one more game against a Playoff contender and then shut it down next week.

7 hours ago, devpool said:

The 10 minute drive where crap playcalling got bailed out by 2 defensive penalties? The same drive, 2 penalties took them from the one and then nullified a TD. Luckily the scored, 9/10 times with this team those penalties are drive killers. So their best drive got saved by totally a unnecessary illegal contact call and then they tried to kill it themselves on the goal line.

They looked like crap against a bad team, it's weird that it's even being debated.

How is that "a ton”? Every team has penalties. This isn’t a unique eagles experience

8 hours ago, 315Eagles said:

Pretty crazy that the NFC West might have 3 teams with 12 wins this year.

This is not a shock at all.....The whole NFC West had a very easy schedule this year and I absolutely called the 49'ers having this many wins as their schedule was the easiest in the NFL this year. Where as the Eagles..with all their struggles and ineptitude still had the toughest schedule, 5 short weeks, not one area where they had 2 home games in a row (home, away, home, away all year) and are still 10-5. And yes, you can say that they should have lost the Rams game, but they really should have won Dallas, Chargers, Denver and Bears. It wouldn't shock me if the Eagles lost in the first round, it also wouldn't shock me if they repeated. This year especially, there is no dominant team and it seems any team can beat any team this year.

34 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

How is that "a ton”? Every team has penalties. This isn’t a unique eagles experience

In one breath saying how damaging the Eagles penalties are but in the other saying they were bailed out by penalties on the other side. That's the way it works with penalties.

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

No reason at all to put Lane Johnson and Jalen Carter back on the field until the playoffs. Hell, for that matter, let's see what some of the young guys can do. If Dean walks (which he shouldn't), it would be nice to see what Trotter can do over the course of 2 games. Ty Robinson better play as many snaps as he can. Same goes for Jackorian Bennet, Mac McWilliams, Drew Kendall, Darius Cooper, EJ Jenkins. Put Kelee out there to see if he can generate any kind of momentum to cause a team to want to trade for him. Let Tanner McKee generate some hype. I think I saw something like 8 teams might be looking for QBs next year. There aren't 8 QBs worth drafting, especially at this development rate.

The Bears have to play he 49ers and the Lions the last 2 weeks. There's a legit chance they lose both those games. If they do, and the Eagles win their final two games, then the Eagles are the 2 seed. So it makes since to play everybody at least this week agsint the Bills. And if the Bears lose, then play the starters against the Commanders too.

2 hours ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

God I really don’t want the Niners to get the #1 seed. That team is a joke and I freaking hate them.

I don't know anybody on the whiners that can stay healthy for two more games.

2 hours ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

So right now we’d face the Rams? With the Niners moving up to the #5 seed. Would we rather face the Niners or Rams? Tough one really… Rams are the better team and the harder game. Niners would be the more crushing loss and help them on their way to another potential SB appearance.

Its more likely wind up playing Seattle or niners. If the niners win out, rams win out and Seattle goes 1-1/0-2 (if niners win out then Seattle loses at least one as play niners week 18) then the 6 seed is Seattle. If rams win out, Seattle wins out and niners go 1-1/0-2 then niners are 6 seed. The way we’d face the rams is: if the rams lose to AZ or at Atlanta and SF has same record after losing one of their last 2 games; rams lose their last 2 games with GB doesn’t win out (this relies on the fact the eagles stay at the 3 seed and don’t move up to the 2 which bears would have to lose last 2 games and we win out— that scenario happens, rams lose out an packers win out then rams are the 7 seed as packers would be 11-5-1 and rams 11-6). If we lose out, Carolina wins out and we are the 4 seed then if rams win out, Seattle goes 1-1/0-2, niners win out we play the rams (believe we’d be the 4 as eagles would have the same conference record of 8-4 an run goes to common opponents. Eagles/panthers both beat rams, tampa, GB. But eagles 1-1 vs. Dallas and panthers 1-0 (both would also have lost to Buffalo)

I believe if Seattle loses their last 2 and rams lose to cardinals then both are 12-5 with 3-3 division record and 7-5 conference so goes by common opponent. It comes down to rams beat Tampa and Seattle lost (as both would’ve lost to Carolina) so rams 5 and Seattle 6 (if stay at 3 seed then Seattle). If Seattle loses last two and rams lose to falcons but beat cardinals then they are 5 seed as both are 12-5 but rams 4-2 in the division and Seattle would be 3-3

11 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Everything I’ve seen about Buffalo is it’s open air

I see that now. It is going to have a partial cover.

11 hours ago, Mike030270 said:

Any of you cap guys can explain why it voids the guaranteed money?

He has a crash out clause in his extension

10 hours ago, Birdman said:

Poor Rivers, came out of retirement only to do his job and watch Cots D get smoked on every possession

Is Niners offense this good, or is Colts D just ass?

I haven’t watched much colts but outside of sauce what other injuries did they have? They were a top defense even before the trade I thought.

3 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

I see that now. It is going to have a partial cover.

It's open air, but the design of the stadium is that every seat is "covered". Kind of like Hard Rock with the huge canopy.

If Lurie goes to a dome my enthusiasm will degrade. There are already several things that are just not good going on in today's NFL.

11 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

I haven’t watched much colts but outside of sauce what other injuries did they have? They were a top defense even before the trade I thought.

Tbh the colts after their bye had one of the toughest schedules in the league. Had at KC, vs. Houston, at jags, vs. sf, vs. jags and at Houston. Divisional games but 5 out of 6 games against teams in the playoffs and have double digit wins now. Even before Daniel jones was done for the year they had lost 2 in a row and weren’t trending in the right direction. Jones Achilles injury really ensured it would fully implode.

Imo their defense was never as good as analytics showed. They got a lot of bad teams early like cardinals, titans, dolphins, raiders and falcons. But when they faced rams, broncos, chargers and Steelers they gave up on avg 26.5 ppg.

I felt at the time they made that sauce gardner trade that it wasn’t a smart move (believe leanmean and manu agreed). You were putting way too many eggs in the basket that Daniel Jones was just automatically going to continued to play well and then be good in 2026. ultimately blew up in their face this year due to injury. However I just don’t know even if he didn’t get hurt if Daniel Jones plays at that level consistently after he got to the tougher part of the schedule after the bye and in 2026 if he could continue the trajectory of 2025. I thought that was a dangerous trade to make with those first round picks, not knowing if Daniel Jones was legitimately a franchise quarterback for more than a half a season and if he could replicate it back to back years.