2 hours ago, Boogyman said:

So resting or not resting was irrelevant, and you just dont think we can beat the 49ers? If thats what you believe, our seeding doesnt matter either as we wouldnt be good enough to get to the Superbowl.

Hey im just a pessimistic philly sports fan. I really wanted to have a chance at the 2nd seed and play the packers. Have the Rams take care of thr seahawks and then a nfccg at home like last year. It can still happen but with a 2nd seed the path would have been easier.

Do we bring in Gannon this week to gut the Niners again?

IF, and it's a big IF, Lane is playing it's a massive upgrade to the offense from a run-blocking perspective. Fred just can't move people.

4 minutes ago, RLC said:

Under no circumstance does Sirianni get to pick his guy/offense in 2026. Howie gets to pick him.

Right now, my list is Daboll, Stefanski (if no HC job), Davis Webb and Todd Monken (if he gets let go).

Howie and Lurie should pick them, but it's not going to matter if they come in and have to construct an offense based on what Sirianni directs them to run. They need to have full autonomy. If not, it'll be better, but still won't be as good as it can be. Last season wasn't either. The only reason last season's offense looked acceptable is because Barkley went nuclear. Otherwise, the passing game was a disgrace until the playoffs. Can't hire an OC and handcuff them to Sirianni's garbage scheme. They gotta come in and have full control of the offense.

6 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Feel terrible for Josh Sweat

No transfer portal in the NFL

Why? He chose to leave a SB winning team to go to a crap team for the money. He got what he wanted. Just like Myles Garrett. You take the money to play on a bad team, you don't get to complain when it's a bad team.

1 minute ago, RLC said:

IF, and it's a big IF, Lane is playing it's a massive upgrade to the offense from a run-blocking perspective. Fred just can't move people.

It also allows us to use Fred as a 6th OL, and our best EPA/Play by far came out of those formations.

Just now, RLC said:

IF, and it's a big IF, Lane is playing it's a massive upgrade to the offense from a run-blocking perspective. Fred just can't move people.

Lane makes the whole line better. And is better for Steen. And Fred comes in for the running game as a tight end. This week, the offense will look solid. No doubts in my mind. Jalen will be running more. More high tempo. And lots of 5 wide receiver sets. SF defense will have to pick their poison. They will get gashed as they run on fumes. All of this chatter will be hushed...til the following game.

2 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

It also allows us to use Fred as a 6th OL, and our best EPA/Play by far came out of those formations.

Fred as OL6 blocking LBs is so much better than Fred as RT blocking DL or Calcaterra blocking LBs.

I'm certainly looking forward to Lane coming back for the dozen or so snaps he plays before his foot/ankle gives out again

21 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

It's a combination of conservative scheme, play calling, OL health, TE blocking, and quality of opponent.

IMO, in the past, our OL made us successful despite the scheme and play calling. Getting back to a top-5 OL will solve a lot of problems.

I still stick most of the OL issues with the shortened offseason Many of them returned in July with health issues. I read somewhere that the full starting OL unit playing together was limited to a total of 5 snaps in practice. I am not talking about the games, just preseason practice. And it showed from game 1. The rest this week was really important.

This guy is awfully cocky for someone who hasn't won squat. Hoping GB shuts him up on Saturday.

https://x.com/DepBearsFan/status/2007977694982770950?s=20

30 minutes ago, pgcd3 said:

We should bring him in to help us gut those guys!

4 minutes ago, aptosbird said:

I still stick most of the OL issues with the shortened offseason Many of them returned in July with health issues. I read somewhere that the full starting OL unit playing together was limited to a total of 5 snaps in practice. I am not talking about the games, just preseason practice. And it showed from game 1. The rest this week was really important.

So a loss this week bodes well for the 2026 season?

Just now, EagleJoe8 said:

We should bring him in to help us gut those guys!

Fangio can now run the offense. On to something...

Fred Warner has been making noise about being back for the Divisional round, so this is the best week to play the 49ers and hopefully make sure he doesn't get there.

9 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

It also allows us to use Fred as a 6th OL, and our best EPA/Play by far came out of those formations.

One of the things I'm holding optimism for in the run game.

They're really going to need to sort out the O line this offseason, whether Lane retires or not they need his replacement on the roster. And they need to figure out the injury and recovery status and long-term projection for Jurgens and Dickerson. They went from dominance last year to banged up and ineffective this year.

3 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

Patullo doesn't deserve all of the blame for the Eagles being terrible and ineffiecient on offense. He also doesn't offer any solution. We haven't seen anything that is remotely creative outside of some red zone shovel passes to Goedert. The route trees for the WRs has 3 branches. The run formations and passing formations were so predictable to begin the year it was high school level. Teams knew what the Eagles's play call was based on that alone. They use the same motion from bunch to 2x2 that defenses didn't bother to react. These are not hard problems to fix and I do not think they are related to Hurts. He also magnifies Sirianni's worst tendencies. They are so turnover adverse they are overly conservative. He also may magnify Hurts's worst tendencies. They want to protect Hurts so much they refuse to use him in any reasonable way to help the run game. Hurts needs to be coached to run in a way that regularly allows that to be a productive part of the offense.

Sure Patullo was going to have ups and downs in play calling. He shouldn't have so many downs with play design and building a cohesive offensive system that disguises looks for defenses. That is a knowledge deficiency that this team hasn't had since Chip Kelly and Chip Kelly wasn't as bad as Patullo.

Couple things

My biggest issue with Pattulo is we’re week 18 going into the playoffs yet we have not seen improvements by him in his play calling. It’s the same thing we’ve seen from week one against Dallas to yesterday‘s game against the commanders. To me it’s OK if you struggle. It’s OK that there’s learning curves. You’re a first year offensive coordinator who’s never called place. So that was somewhat expected. However there should be improvements by the time you got to the end of the year they gave people confidence that you knew what you were doing. There is none. That to me is more damning on him than anything.

Secondly, their creativeness with the offense has never been remotely as great as the talent they had to overwhelm teams/defenses. Even last year it wasn’t so much that they were so creative. Their offensive line was so dominant in the running game that they could win new games by how great they were. The pass offense hasn’t been greatly schemed up for better part of 2 years. Frankly, they lived off it just being efficient in 2024 because of how great the running game was that they could live that way.

Third, they are very predictable. Routes and with their formations with what they are trying to do. The analytics tell you this. If teams know when you go under center that you are running the football 82% of the time they are going to gear up to do it. It’s why they’re bad at running the ball under center. It’s why they are so great when they throw the ball under center. Cause teams aren’t expecting them to do it every often. There are a lot more things you can go into that shows their predictability. This is not just a Pattulo thing, but this is also Sirianni isn’t McVey, Coen or some of these "guru” play callers and schemers. That’s not his strength. Unfortunate but that’s not his bread and butter.

Fourth I tend to think the eagles offense relies way too much on the fact that the eagle talent is usually greater than other team defenses. will eventually overwhelm other teams and break them. I thought Seth Joyner said it well last night that the talent gap isn’t what it was in previous years as guys aren’t playing at the level they did in previous years. the gap has shrunk. And it’s why you have to be better with your scheming and your play calling to maximize the talent that you have now.

Lastly, they kind of have a roster construction problem on offense based on what they try to do. Because if you want to use multiple tight end sets then can’t have Calcaterra or granson as your 2 backups. We have two tight ends on this roster that just can absolutely cannot block. (Goedert has also regressed as a blocker) And yet they continue to keep trying to use them in those ways and it continues to put them behind the chains. I’d add, if you keep Aj and smith then I’d like to see the 3rd option be more of a speed vertical threat. I think they could also use that. Add on need their guys making big money on the OL to start playing better (imo also could use better backups which might happen next year with Williams and Kendall stepping up)

Rumors that Sirianni doesn't like how Fangio overshadow what Nick feels he and KP have done well with the offense and he might push for Fangio to retire so he can bring back Gannon, whom he greatly admires.

5 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

This guy is awfully cocky for someone who hasn't won squat. Hoping GB shuts him up on Saturday.

https://x.com/DepBearsFan/status/2007977694982770950?s=20

Good. I hope the lack of rest results in them losing. That would be hilarious if the Eagles still host the next round despite #3 seed after all the drama around the decision.

I hope the players and coaches get fired up. The 40whiners want their revenge (they won't get it), the Packers hate playing us we keep beating them, the Bears we'll want our revenge for the regular season and the Rams probably want to beat us badly since we've beat them like 4 times in a row and their banner last year was they "almost" beat us. I just hope the birds are intense and focused, if they shape up they can beat anyone.

1 minute ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Rumors that Sirianni doesn't like how Fangio overshadow what Nick feels he and KP have done well with the offense and he might push for Fangio to retire so he can bring back Gannon, whom he greatly admires.

Fangio is reaching Jimmy Johnson status here. Going nowhere. Unless he wants to leave himself.

3 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Rumors that Sirianni doesn't like how Fangio overshadow what Nick feels he and KP have done well with the offense and he might push for Fangio to retire so he can bring back Gannon, whom he greatly admires.

Sources: per sources

8 minutes ago, aptosbird said:

I still stick most of the OL issues with the shortened offseason Many of them returned in July with health issues. I read somewhere that the full starting OL unit playing together was limited to a total of 5 snaps in practice. I am not talking about the games, just preseason practice. And it showed from game 1. The rest this week was really important.

I said this early in the season, these guys are not robots. Where in madden season ends and next begins and they are back to their old selves. Mailata talked about how guys bodies were not recovered late into the off-season. That they were still feeling the residual effects of last season into July.

The fact of the matter is Cam Jurgens had back surgery at the end of February. He came back in less than 6 months to practice then games. To me I always thought he was gonna start the season on PUP because of that. Felt like they kind of rushed him back maybe they didn’t trust Toth or Kendall yet? I don’t know but felt like he probably shouldn’t have been back that soon. Especially as someone dealing with a back injury for 8 months now. I’d add he was basically rehabbing all off-season just to come back. So he didn’t even have the training he normally would do. also wouldn’t be surprised if Jurgens doesn’t fully trust his back yet. Imo he could be overthinking things out there and trying to compensate so he doesn’t re-injure it. Which is also potentially effecting his play. So expecting him to be like what he was in 2024 was probably not realistic, considering back surgery

In Dickerson‘s case, he had that knee injury in the preseason. Imo I felt like they rushed back too fast too. I thought he was for sure was going to miss multiple games. He probably should’ve because I don’t think that knee was ever fully healed. Which I really wouldn’t be surprised contributed to him getting other injuries as he may have also compensated for that knee not being right.

On top of all of that in the last four years, the Eagles have played 9 extra games. Because of the playoff runs and being in the playoffs 4 consecutive years, they’ve played over a half a season more of games (going to be an extra 10 over last 5 years at a minimum). That accumulation of games is eventually going to catch up to guys at some point. It’s why the Chiefs doing what they did prior to this year was pretty remarkable even if we all hate their guts.

19 minutes ago, NOTW said:

Why? He chose to leave a SB winning team to go to a crap team for the money. He got what he wanted. Just like Myles Garrett. You take the money to play on a bad team, you don't get to complain when it's a bad team.

Not about leaving the eagles, but he had suitors. He chose Arizona likely because of Gannon, and now he’s stuck in one of the worst organizations in the NFL. He could be in NE right now with Milton or the Panthers & Chargers were rumored to be pushing for him

3 minutes ago, Saltpeter said:

Gannon would be a fascinating college coach. His Jocko Willink cosplay act would play well to 18-22 year olds, and he has the right amount of "look the other way” energy to succeed in the griminess of college football.

I had to google Jocko Willink. I think Gannon is more of a Doug Neidermeyer.

15 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Fred Warner has been making noise about being back for the Divisional round, so this is the best week to play the 49ers and hopefully make sure he doesn't get there.

It would be great if Trent Williams weren't out there either but that seems unlikely