20 minutes ago, GoEagles5921 said:

This is obvious to everyone. I think people need to be realistic and accept that this offense isn't good enough to win a Super Bowl this year. Hopefully we can get an OC that knows what they are doing next year while the window is still open and to not waste this defense.

Even though there isn’t another team in the NFL that has been demonstrably better?

3 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

From Russini:

So what’s A.J. Brown’s problem?

I’ve listened to everything A.J. Brown has said. All of it.

You’ve heard him explain his frustrations with the Eagles’ offense.

"You can’t just keep slapping a Band-Aid over that and you expect to win later in the year,” Brown told reporters.

There’s no more guessing about whether Brown is happy playing in this offense. He told the world he’s miserable. But why exactly? What’s being said behind closed doors?

After doing some digging and asking people inside the Eagles building, it was explained that multiple offensive players have grown frustrated with Jalen Hurts’ approach this season, particularly against zone coverage. They believe he’s become hesitant in tight windows, leaning on checkdowns or scrambles instead of trusting what’s open downfield.

Philadelphia ranks 30th in pass attempts. The result? Pass catchers become disinterested. Any top receiver I’ve covered in this league has said the same thing: They spend hours getting open. When the ball doesn’t come their way, frustration follows.

Still, this approach comes with a benefit, right? At their bye week last season, the Eagles had the second-most turnovers in the NFL. Now, in their first season under offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo, they have committed the fewest turnovers in the league, and Hurts has thrown just one interception all season. They’re also the best red zone team in football. As long as they get there, they figure they’re scoring touchdowns. It’s conservative, but it’s working … to a point.

It’s a talented offense that knows it’s underperforming. This isn’t just Brown venting. The whole unit wants more trust, more communication and maybe a little more edge from its leader.

Against the Lions on Sunday night in Philly, Hurts and the Eagles get their chance to show it.

"After doing some digging and asking people inside the Eagles building, it was explained that multiple offensive players have grown frustrated with Jalen Hurts’ approach this season, particularly against zone coverage. They believe he’s become hesitant in tight windows, leaning on checkdowns or scrambles instead of trusting what’s open downfield.”

Would love to know the people inside the organization who said this to her and what offensive players. I can guess one of them

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

"After doing some digging and asking people inside the Eagles building, it was explained that multiple offensive players have grown frustrated with Jalen Hurts’ approach this season, particularly against zone coverage. They believe he’s become hesitant in tight windows, leaning on checkdowns or scrambles instead of trusting what’s open downfield.”

Would love to know the people inside the organization who said this to her and what offensive players. I can guess one of them

Check downs maybe, but not scrambles. It’s my perception Hurts is running less this season, perhaps in an effort to conserve himself physically for the biggest games later on.

Just now, Alphagrand said:

Check downs maybe, but not scrambles. It’s my perception Hurts is running less this season, perhaps in an effort to conserve himself physically for the biggest games later on.

Could be they’ve realized in 2 of the previous 3 years he wound up getting banged up at the end of the year. 2022 he hurt his shoulder. 2023 he played all 17. 2024 he missed multiple games with a concussion.

Texas A&M played about as bad as a half of football I've ever seen in my life from a top tier team. In any level of football. They just cannot do anything right today.

13 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Are we hoping the Rams and Seahawks split or Rams sweep them? Rams have some challenging games but for the Seahawks this is really it outside of a home game against the Colts. Colts aren't going into Seattle and winning that game though.

Seahawks have 2 NFC losses and have lost to the the Bucs who we beat. So at least one loss to the Rams will give us a common opponents benefit and also NFC record. But if they split then we can only really lose 1 more game. I think we need the Rams to sweep the Seahawks then hope Rams lose to Bucs and/or Lions to give us some room for error.

I’m rooting for the Rams. I believe they are the more dangerous opponent for the Eagles, but we have the first two tie breakers in our favor with them and I would love to see Seattle not only be a game behind the Eagles (assuming we beat the Lions) plus the Seahawks would have 3 Conference losses, important as the second tie breakers.

Can Russini just STFU for a week? She whiffed on the AJ trade story and the basis or her point was that he was upset on social media. She’s a hack journalist operating on sensational/clickbait headlines.

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

"After doing some digging and asking people inside the Eagles building, it was explained that multiple offensive players have grown frustrated with Jalen Hurts’ approach this season, particularly against zone coverage. They believe he’s become hesitant in tight windows, leaning on checkdowns or scrambles instead of trusting what’s open downfield.”

Would love to know the people inside the organization who said this to her and what offensive players. I can guess one of them

The thing about football that is both beautiful and frustrating...and separates it from almost every sport...is that one can watch a game and have the completely wrong idea of who is doing their job and who isn't. You can even be a pretty intuitive and educated fan...hell, even a coach watching another team's game, and still not know. Sure, everyone can recognize a great play in space or isolate one OL and see how they look, but that's still a small piece of the puzzle.

Are the coaches muzzling Hurts and incapable of calling a functional passing offense? Is Hurts the one refusing to throw against zone coverage and can't pull the trigger on anything but a slam dunk? These things are ferociously debated because they are unknowable unless you are in the NovaCare building.

AJ Brown and his big mouth will probably spill the beans on who he thinks is to blame when he leaves, but that's not a guarantee and there's no certainty that he's actually right himself.

I will say...AJ had a point in his most recent rant. The team is winning, but this offense unquestionably isn't good enough for them to accomplish their goals. So sitting on their laurels and settling for band-aids because everyone should be content they are winning...that's not going to work. They need to evolve and try new things, otherwise it's not going to happen. He has a good point.

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

I said it throughout summer that I thought Ojomo could be as good if not better than Milton Williams. He has nearly matched Milton's production for all of last season and the Eagles are only halfway through the season. This year in 9 games Ojomo has 4 sacks while Milton in 11 games already for the Patriots has 3.5 sacks.

I was enjoying a cappucino and croissant (because, France) in Strasbourg last week and got a "GO BIRDS!" shout out from another patron.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

14 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

If the Seahawks sweep the Rams I can't see them losing more than one game and possibly winning out.

That also means they are legit. Right now there is a paper tiger possibility with them since their best wins so far are over the Jags and Steelers while the other teams with winning records have beat them: 49ers and Bucs.

Also if the Eagles don't get the #1 seed and it goes to the winner of the NFC West, I like the Eagles ability to go into LA and win much more than Seattle. LA game could be more Eagles fans.

Rooting for Rams.

Rams this game, but a split of the two games is the best scenario for us. It does only give us a one game advantage over the Seahawks, so if we lose one game our records will be the same, with no head to head, but a clear advantage on the Conference record tie breaker.

So Seahawks lose tomorrow and Rams in game two of their series.

5 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

All I will say is that I have appreciated the good conversation I have had about the eagles, and even Hurts over the past week. There were 2 instances where posters first response to me contained an attempted insult. aptos, and NOTW. Of course those interactions went how they should have figured theyd go when they started off with that tone. Of course though, I'm the troll.

I’m so sorry you had to go through that. Need me to call the wambulance?

Given all the injuries, the Eagles should win by 10.

But Patullo/Sirianni.

Reckless speculation, Russini puts out those Eagles articles whenever her psycho, Eagles fan of a Husband pisses her off. Only way to explain it.

4 hours ago, Waiting4Someday said:

Not a big fan of these equipment advantages, but it beats guys being smeared with pine tar I suppose.

Yeah it's remarkable how advanced the materials engineering is now compared to 20 or 30 years ago. The tackiness of these gloves is unreal. In my mid twenties some of my old high school buddies were putting a flag team together and asked me to join, so I bought some new cleats and a $50 pair of cutters (not even the most expensive pair on the shelf.)

Our first practice, I'm covering my buddy out wide, he faked the go and then cuts hard inside on a drag so he's got a couple steps on me but I make up some of the ground by the time he crosses the QB's face. The ball comes out a bit late and it's on his back shoulder so I dive for it, swat at the ball full stretch trying to break it up, and the F'ing thing just sticks to my hand and I come down with it. The QB (went a rival school and I never met him before) just looked at me stunned and asked, "hey, did you just catch that?" On my back, I look down at the ball, still in my hand, never having touched the other hand, and was like, "uhh, I guess?"

These gloves shouldn't even be allowed. People talk about QB's putting up gaudy numbers due to new rules to protect them and the WRs, but the gloves are a big part of that too. Not sure if there's any stats tracking it, but I bet the drop percentage across the league cratered within the past few decades.

1 hour ago, Alphagrand said:

Check downs maybe, but not scrambles. It’s my perception Hurts is running less this season, perhaps in an effort to conserve himself physically for the biggest games later on.

And even that part doesn't make sense the way it's framed by Russini. Ranked 30th in pass attempts could only be directly blamed on Hurts if he were pulling it down and scrambling a lot on called pass plays. But he's not really doing that, so a lot of it is because of the league leading 3 and outs (indirectly on Hurts) but also on the 3rd down runs called by Patullo.

Part of the Hurts psychosis is deflection.

All of us criticize him. He should have thrown the ball deep to DeVonta on that 2nd down when he toasted his man and was flying by a flat footed DB. I said it right after it happened.

How is that not criticism?

He sucked vs New York on Thursday night. Dude missed a 91 yard TD gift due to a great route and bad coverage.

His pick was really bad.

We said it right after it happened.

The problem is the mental disorder of thinking that the 10th best TD to INT QB in NFL history (not counting his 60 rushing TDs) is a bad QB.

He's also the 9th or 10th best TD to INT QB in NFL playoff history. (I may have missed some dude in the 70s)

Many of the haters all love some combo of Stafford and Burrow and Mahomes and Herbert because they only see the highlights.

Or they watch Herbert vs Pittsburgh and he misses about 6 terrible off target passes to open guys and Collisnworth blames the receiver every time and they think "That Collinsworth guy is wise!"

I had someone complaining that I dared to not put Manning with Rodgers, Brady, and Mahomes...

Give us a SB win this year but let Hurts have 3 TDs to 7 picks and no rush TDs. How exactly would he be treated here?

That was Peyton Manning's first SB run and he gets honor and respect from Eagles fans.

Eagles fans would have eaten 32-32 after 4 years Manning alive.

They would have flayed SEVEN 1 and done in 11 playoffs Manning.

But since he does not get held up to the standard of one of our QBs, he is allowed to be great.

I think Hurts is awesome for the same reason I think Foles was awesome. They win. They win by playing awesome. They are the best in the big spots. They win by elevating their teams.

2018 Carson Wentz was a 100+ rated passer with 279 yards passing a game. He was also a 5-6 loser because he went hero ball and he missed easy 3rd down conversions far too often.

A guy like Hurts took over at 6-7 and won 3 in a row.

2021-2025 Hurts makes his team better so they win more games. I like winning games. I like being in the Super Bowl. I like winning the Super Bowl.

At the same age as Hurts is now, Manning was 42-38 coming into his age 27 season and he was 7-2 after 9 games.

He was 0-3 in the playoffs at that point, just like Randall was. (Philly was not kind)

He had 18 TDs to 8 picks through those 9 games with a rating just under 100. That put him at 156 TDs and 108 picks.

He ran for 9 TDs so 165 TDs in 89 games or 1.85 TDs per game (Stafford level, not 2.14 like Hurts)

20 or 21 picks per 17.

He did this on a loaded All Star and HoF roster.

His weapons were Reggie Wayne, Marvin Harrison, Edge (after a year of Faulk), and 3 years of Dilger and Pollard and then just Pollard who peaked at 738 and 8 when Dilger left.

Dallas Clark was a rookie to go along with Pollard in his age 27 season.

His WR depth were 500 yard guys like Wilkins and Pathon

His backup RB had 1100 and 9 when Edge got hurt (Rhodes) And Edge only missed 10 games.

His RBs ran for 1814 and 12 in the year Edge only played 6 games.

Now fairly compare your guy through 9 games at age 27.

7 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

All I will say is that I have appreciated the good conversation I have had about the eagles, and even Hurts over the past week. There were 2 instances where posters first response to me contained an attempted insult. aptos, and NOTW. Of course those interactions went how they should have figured theyd go when they started off with that tone. Of course though, I'm the troll.

Please bear up under this trauma for you are blameless.

Would like him for the Eagles.

Saturday afternoon Eagles-Lions Score Predictions Update - 28 hours until Sunday Night Kickoff

35 predictions recorded. 20 are for an Eagles win, while 15 are for a Lions win. The average predicted score continues to be in favor of the Lions though ... Eagles 24 Lions 25.

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As always, please tag your prediction post with @mattwill that way I will be sure to see/record it.  Score predictions can also have an optional "Bonus Pick" tiebreaker prediction.  I will be taking predictions right up until Kickoff.

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2 hours ago, mikemack8 said:

I’m so sorry you had to go through that. Need me to call the wambulance?

I feel sorry for the other guys.