Defense wins championships???

2 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Granson and Calcaterra are completely useless to this team. Why they keep running that personnel package I have no idea.

1,000,000% Having Calcaterra lead block for Barkley is completely useless. I’d rather it be Smitty than Calcaterra.

Just now, SkippyX said:

The problem we have with Hurts appreciation is we don't watch enough of the other QBs and all their failings.

Their failings are legion.

I do. I said earlier this week the Lions feast on bad defenses and mediocre defenses. they get hyped up because they put all these crazy numbers up against those bad and mediocre defenses. then they face a good defense, they look lost most of the game and they just don’t look very good.

2 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

In no order, why the offense struggled.

Quality of the opponent

Execution

Penalties

Play calling

Weather

Game flow

Where does coaching fit in that list?

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

We didn’t get to 8-2 exactly as I expected, and plenty of work left for the offense, but the defense looks playoff ready.

Offense doesnt even need to be great. Maybe average will do. Pretty good would be awesome.

I will add, Hurts bad passing tonight. They tried forcing the pass game, forced to AJ to make him happy. Patullo, bad game play calling.

Barkley actually had his 3rd best yardage game this season.

Eagles pass D the last two weeks vs Love and Goff…34/73, 0 TDs allowed

2 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

AJ is wearing defensive back spandex every time Hurts throws him the ball. I want someone to screen shot some all-22 of the last time the guy was open.

I don’t think anyone got more than 2 yards of separation all night.

2 minutes ago, SkippyX said:

The problem we have with Hurts appreciation is we don't watch enough of the other QBs and all their failings.

Their failings are legion.

We don't bother appreciating Hurts because you do enough for the rest of us.

2 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

The Lions had their JV secondary out there. No excuse for the offense to need the defense to bail them out so much.

Yet people were scared of them. And we won

3 minutes ago, NOTW said:

People will complain. We all want more from the offense, we all want more we get it. But, the Lions are the top competitor of ours in the nfc. Some of you were scared of playing them and thought we would lose. The Eagles won.

Leading the division. One of the top records in the NFL despite one of the hardest schedules. These other teams with the top winning records have beat absolutely no one and have the weakest schedules. So many people said the schedule will be brutal for the Eagles and yet they keep winning.

Many of you all have doubted the Eagles all season. Doubted the defense early when they were getting used to new players and rookies. And dealing with injuries.

Yes, yes again I will say we all want the offense to do more and we all realize they have stars on the roster and should be doing more. But teams around the league, there are no elite teams. The Eagles are the best team in the NFL and they will continue to do well.

The offense is going to take years off our life though while the defense gives us CPR

Amazing performance in back to back weeks by the defense - we just beat the Packers and Lions in back to back weeks.

*whispers* I was actually fine with Sirianni going for it on 4th down.

3 minutes ago, devpool said:

I hate that penalty cause now all i'm getting is 40 messages about how the refs are on the eagles side. Absolutely awful and unnecessary call

After this game, EVERYONE is going to play conservative against us.

The whole league knows the deal — 17 points wins it, so take every opportunity for a field goal you get and all you have to do is have 1 fluke TD.

They play the unquestioned second worst defense in the nfl next week. If the offense does not look viable against Dallas, this is what we get for the rest of the year.

Just now, ManuManu said:

*whispers* I was actually fine with Sirianni going for it on 4th down.

So was I.

3 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Might end up the best team with the worst offense of all time. Huge win.

2000 Ravens called.

2 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

We knocked the Lions out of the playoffs.

They were calling it a must win. This one has to hurt in that locker room. Wonder how they respond. They can unravel. Although theyve proven to be incredibly resilient with all those injuries last year.

Just now, Ace Nova said:

Amazing performance in back to back weeks by the defense - we just beat the Packers and Lions in back to back weeks.

I doubt many of us thought we'd go through Minny, GB, and Detroit before the season. Even as good as we thought they'd be. That is brutal

2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Where does coaching fit in that list?

Game flow.

1 minute ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

I don’t think anyone got more than 2 yards of separation all night.

The only one that comes to mind was the Goedert miss. Not sure if Barkley had two yards on the miss down the right sideline.

Nick’s late game reckless and inexcusable decisions will cost them eventually. You can’t keep doing that crap and dodging bullets. Just absolute insanity.

@Connecticut Eagle I want to be respectful to Saquon but we need Tank to get a larger share in games like this.

Let Saquon win the Heisman vs DC and the Raiders.

Or at least stop so many runs up the middle.

There was a decent amount of good tonight, but its still too sloppy in scheme, playcalling, and personnel IMO