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

It’s pretty blatant here. parsons has no chance on this play besides trying to trip.

Come on, don't be so hard on the refs. I mean, it's really difficult to see penalties when they take place blatantly and right by/on the ball carrier.

Listening to Siri’s press conference makes me think that Hurts went rogue, saw something at the line, and called the play to AJ on that 4th down. Nick isn’t going to throw anyone under the bus in front of the media so I think he was covering for him.

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

It’s pretty blatant here. parsons has no chance on this play besides trying to trip. I don’t care if they don’t call it often. There’s stuff every year that rarely gets called but somehow manages to get called. Frankly rules that some fans don’t even know. they know the rules. Like if it wasn’t blatantly obvious, I would agree with you. But you could see it clear as day that Micah Parsons has no shot at making that tackle so just stick his leg out there. He’s lucky he didn’t hurt considering Barkley’s speed when running into it

I don't necessarily disagree but I think it happens more often than we think and is rarely called.

Just now, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Listening to Siri’s press conference makes me think that Hurts went rogue, saw something at the line, and called the play to AJ on that 4th down. Nick isn’t going to throw anyone under the bus in front of the media so I think he we covering for him.

I have seen others say this and it doesn't matter. Hurts should have never been on the field. Siri should have yanked him and the rest of the offense off the field and put the punt team out there. WORST CASE the punt is a touch back and you force them to gain an additional 15 yards or so from where they ended up with the ball with very little time and no timeouts. Best case you pin them inside the 10 and barring a legit miracle the game is over. It was one of the worst decisions I have ever seen a coach make.

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Just now, T-1000 said:

I have seen others say this and it doesn't matter. Hurts should have never been on the field. Siri should have yanked him and the rest of the offense off the field and put the punt team out there. WORST CASE the punt is a touch back and you force them to gain an additional 15 yards or so from where they ended up with the ball with very little time and no timeouts. Best case you pin them inside the 10 and barring a legit miracle the game is over. It was one of the worst decisions I have ever seen a coach make.

Well, if the call was to try to draw them offsides to get to a 4th and 1 to finish the game with a push, I agree with that call and think that was the right decision. It was at least worth a shot and if it doesn’t work just take the five yard delay and punt.

5 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

They'd make moving the pile illegal by doing that

Yep it used to be that way

Just now, T-1000 said:

I have seen others say this and it doesn't matter. Hurts should have never been on the field. Siri should have yanked him and the rest of the offense off the field and put the punt team out there. WORST CASE the punt is a touch back and you force them to gain an additional 15 yards or so from where they ended up with the ball with very little time and no timeouts. Best case you pin them inside the 10 and barring a legit miracle the game is over. It was one of the worst decisions I have ever seen a coach make.

Yep, unless we're defining "going rogue" as Hurts running the offense onto the field when a punt was called, then this falls at the coach's feet. You just don't even call anything other than a punt there. You just don't.

3 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Listening to Siri’s press conference makes me think that Hurts went rogue, saw something at the line, and called the play to AJ on that 4th down. Nick isn’t going to throw anyone under the bus in front of the media so I think he was covering for him.

I had to watch on my digital antenna (thanks YouTube TV/Disney) so I couldn’t rewatch the lead up to the play. Does Hurts give AJ a hand signal? Does he call anything at the line?

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2 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

I don't necessarily disagree but I think it happens more often than we think and is rarely called.

I think usually the tripping happens because somebody’s being blocked or during the course of the play a trip occurs but it’s not intentional. This was more Parsons was beat, saw Barkley was gonna go for a big run and the only thing he could do to stop it. IMO we won’t ever know, but I have a feeling Parsons figured Barkley was going go off for a big run so the trip of 15 yards might actually prevent even more yardage than that. may be even prevent a touchdown.

I’d love to see the all 22 of that play. Cause I have a feeling Barkley might’ve been able to take that to the house if he doesn’t get tripped.

4 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I had to watch on my digital antenna (thanks YouTube TV/Disney) so I couldn’t rewatch the lead up to the play. Does Hurts give AJ a hand signal? Does he call anything at the line?

He gave him a look and pointed. Steen saw it looking back for the silent count and tapped Toth to snap it. Maybe I’m wrong and it was by design, but I just can’t get over how asinine that call was.

If they had forced GB to use a 2nd timeout earlier none of that would have mattered but they tried to be aggressive on 2nd and 3rd on the prior drive and it failed. Most of their aggressive tries failed. I didn't like the calls at the time either but we won. It's a weird personality type here that chooses to focus on the negative from a win instead of the positive. It's not that the negative can't be discussed but some of you go right to it. Maybe you listen to that dumb radio station too much

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The decision to go for it was on Sirianni, the decision to chuck it deep was on Hurts. This is blatantly obvious.

Great point 🤣

2 minutes ago, pgcd3 said:

If they had forced GB to use a 2nd timeout earlier none of that would have mattered but they tried to be aggressive on 2nd and 3rd on the prior drive and it failed. Most of their aggressive tries failed. I didn't like the calls at the time either but we won. It's a weird personality type here that chooses to focus on the negative from a win instead of the positive. It's not that the negative can't be discussed but some of you go right to it. Maybe you listen to that dumb radio station too much

I agreed with the calls on 2nd and 3rd down to pass on the previous drive. Didn’t work out, but I thought it was the right move to stay aggressive. Not on that 4th down though.

6 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Well, if the call was to try to draw them offsides to get to a 4th and 1 to finish the game with a push, I agree with that call and think that was the right decision. It was at least worth a shot and if it doesn’t work just take the five yard delay and punt.

I'll explain this once, as I thought it would be obvious, but I guess not. You can't go from a no-snap dummy call to a go route with only an alert or check at the line. The only way Hurts "went rogue" is if there was another valid play called in, and he checked out of that to the go. That play could've been a run or a pass, but it was absolutely a valid play call because you can tell by how it was blocked and the other routes.

So no, Hurts didn't get the call in his earpiece telling him "no-snap, hard cadence only" and then he ignored it and called a pass play of his own liking in the huddle. I can suspend disbelief quite a bit, but that's pure fantasy.

2 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

I agreed with the calls on 2nd and 3rd down to pass on the previous drive. Didn’t work out, but I thought it was the right move to stay aggressive. Not on that 4th down though.

They should have punted on 4th. That 35 yard line tricked them into a bad decision. I bet if they were on the 40 they would have punted

Moving on to Detroit....

On offense, 4th in EPA/play and 7th in success rate. We are 11th and 20th, respectively.

On defense, 6th in EPA/play and 4th in success rate. We are 11th and 15th, respectively.

I think our A game is better than theirs. But it's been MIA most of the season.

32 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

We may get a bargain for Carter. This was supposed to be a breakout season for a big contract. Though Howie does do contracts based on potential a lot of times

The other one apparently emptied his gas tank a few weeks ago

Carter's agent is Drew Rosenhaus. Eagles won't be getting any bargain price. Would like Blankenship to stay. He is very solid and his worth goes way beyond the stat sheet. They don't have anybody close to replacing him on the present roster. He will get a middle class coantract and I don't want to se the Eagles make the same mistake as they did with Rodgers.

1 hour ago, we_gotta_believe said:

You don't even send him on to the field though. It's still not a first down even if they jump offsides. There was just no sensible reason not to punt there given how little time was left in the game. Please, show me some analytics or something that says otherwise. I'm dying to believe a Super Bowl winning head coach isn't that stupid. There's gotta be something I'm missing here. I don't want the illusion to be ruined, so just sell me on the math somehow.

Slight disagreement here. Putting the offense on the field on 4th & 7 is the right call IF you're only trying to bait them into offsides. But agreed that actually running a play is a terrible decision. If they don't jump offsides just take the 5-yard penalty then punt.

If they do jump offsides to make it 4th & 2 at the GB 30, then I'm pretty sure the analytics say to go for it or kick a FG.

5 minutes ago, Eagles1960 said:

Carter's agent is Drew Rosenhaus. Eagles won't be getting any bargain price. Would like Blankenship to stay. He is very solid and his worth goes way beyond the stat sheet. They don't have anybody close to replacing him on the present roster. He will get a middle class coantract and I don't want to se the Eagles make the same mistake as they did with Rodgers.

I'll be very surprised if we don't re-sign Blankenship. He's the "QB" of the D and shouldn't break the bank.