1 minute ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

It's been that way for a while, even before Patullo. There must be something in the water that makes four different OCs avoid passing the ball between the hashes.

Hurts

Also - it seems like every time a defender goes into the neutral zone and one of our guys reacts, it ALWAYS gets called against us for some reason.

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

TIFWIW

This is all starting to feel like the Wentz situation in the locker room.

Obviously we've been able to keep winning regardless

3 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

It's been that way for a while, even before Patullo. There must be something in the water that makes four different OCs avoid passing the ball between the hashes.

The one constant on offense

2 minutes ago, pgcd3 said:

So your argument is that in 5 years with a record winning percentage, 2 Super Bowls and 1 Championship he's not good because one year after a 10-1 start things fell apart?

What is he great at?

1 minute ago, Alphagrand said:

I'm only basing this on my own perception but, added to AJ Brown's "falling out" with Hurts, I don't think DeVonta Smith is all that fond of Hurts' play either -- just judging by body language and interactions we see on the sidelines. I'm not trying to be provocative with that; it's just a feeling I get. I think they get along well off the field, but I think there are some frustrations on the field.

Didn't Smith say Mac Jones a few years ago when asked which QB he thought was the best he's played with? People at the time took that as a shot at Tua, but he played a little bit with Hurts at Alabama too.

It's a shame we can't see McKee in this offense without something happening to Hurts.

Just now, Diehardfan said:

It's a shame we can't see McKee in this offense without something happening to Hurts.

If we keep taking care of business we might.

During the Eagles defense introductions, they showed PFF ranked Reed 89 out of 92 for safeties (unless I read it it wrong). Now I know PFF is subjective but 89th? Seems a tad low lol.

2 minutes ago, Swoop said:

This is all starting to feel like the Wentz situation in the locker room.

Obviously we've been able to keep winning regardless

The main difference is Howie didn't surround Wentz with enough talent; he invested heavily in the Infirmary Brothers (Jeffery, Jackson) at WR, and they were never there. Winning hides a lot of warts and by 2020 the winning stopped.

4 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

Hurts

It does.

1 minute ago, Keystone80x said:

During the Eagles defense introductions, they showed PFF ranked Reed 89 out of 92 for safeties (unless I read it it wrong). Now I know PFF is subjective but 89th? Seems a tad low lol.

Yeah, I don't know how you can have a top defense with one bad safety playing along aside a rookie.

4 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

It's a shame we can't see McKee in this offense without something happening to Hurts.

Eagles beat Packers and Lions so they are benching Hurts against Cowboys, right @mattwill ?

1 hour ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Hollowed out is a bit extreme. We are talking about letting Dean go to make room for a first-round pick.

Further, we are really talking about letting tier-2 guys go to be able to pay for the Pro Bowl level guys.

Isn’t Baun on essentially a 2 year deal?

3 minutes ago, Eriv20 said:

What is he great at?

Communicating with his players. Getting a bunch of young, highly-paid men to buy into a culture. You watch the team's videos during the week showing Siri talking to the team. He stresses hard work, physicality, together. Then you listen to the players on the locker room after a game and they are repeating those words. His message is sinking in and his players are following him.

1 hour ago, we_gotta_believe said:

I disagree, I'd say he's a natural safety being asked to play NCB, to get our best 11 on the field. I think he will eventually move to safety and be dominant there, with a somewhat similar trajectory as Malcolm Jenkins.

Agreed, calling him a NCB is slander to what he actually does out there. He pretty much lines up every where except DL and deep S.

I hope the injuries with Cam and Landon aren't going to be a continual thing but I am worried they're going to be our "they're great when healthy but always injured"

20 minutes ago, pgcd3 said:

I think it's tough to argue that Sirriani's approach with the players hasn't been successful since it overwhelmingly has by any measure

More of a criticism of the organization approach. I'm saying that I think they need a little more discipline rather than focusing almost exclusively on emotional intelligence. 80% EO, 20% discipline would be fine. Sirianni is consistently credited less than he should be for the move to a teaching based organization. His focus on teachers as staff probably makes Howie's drafts look even more successful. But I think they need to be a little harder on their offensive players because frankly, the lack of discipline is a mess. There REALLY needs to be a higher standard with working at weaknesses especially.

Eagles 3rd downs by distance:

3rd and 10

3rd and 15

3rd and 8

3rd and 1

3rd and 8

3rd and 10

3rd and 11

3rd and 15

3rd and 1... false start 3rd and 5

3rd and 15

3rd and 11

3rd and 6

3rd and 10

3rd and 6

3rd and 1

3rd and 1

3rd and 3 ... false start 3rd and 8

3rd and 8

12 of 18 were 8+ or 1 yard or less per play on 1st and 2nd down.

The 4 plays on 3rd and 1 were a penalty and 3 stuffs by the D

The 5 plays on 3rd and 3 or less were 2 penalties and 3 stuffs.

1 minute ago, Mike030270 said:

I hope the injuries with Cam and Landon aren't going to be a continual thing but I am worried they're going to be our "they're great when healthy but always injured"

They get an extra mini-bye between Chicago and the Chargers. Nine days of rest. Hopefully that would get them over the hump. Also, a 1 seed would be really helpful.

1 minute ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Communicating with his players. Getting a bunch of young, highly-paid men to buy into a culture. You watch the team's videos during the week showing Siri talking to the team. He stresses hard work, physicality, together. Then you listen to the players on the locker room after a game and they are repeating those words. His message is sinking in and his players are following him.

So nothing any other coach can’t do? Lol. Look around, the league is filled with that exact description of leader. Every team with a winning record and some with losing records share that exact type of leader.

What makes him great? What separates him as a legitimate great coach? If you put him on the panthers right now, you think they’d have the record they have?

You know what I was thinking last night. How insane this defense would be with Myles Garrett. This defense may never let up a point ever again.

Did we get any word about the severity of Lane's foot injury? NVM, top secret.

1 minute ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

It's been that way for a while, even before Patullo. There must be something in the water that makes four different OCs avoid passing the ball between the hashes.

I’ve said this in the past (2023, 2024 at times and 2025), this offense isn’t very complicated and it’s not schemed up all that well. There’s times where it can look like that. Last two games of last year but also get Carolina and browns games. But for the most part it relies on the fact that the eagles have over overwhelming abundance of talent on offense. To the point that most games, the Eagles offense due to their talent is going to eventually overwhelm you eventually and they’re gonna win that way.

Imo the Eagles record is really more of a credit to the fact that Howie has given Nick sitianni’s offense such great talent along with fangio/defensive talent that this team can win with inferior scheming/play calling and a ton of mistakes. Might also have stoutland to really thank cause last year and previous years the OL was really able to cover up some ineptitudes of the offense. This year they haven’t. Nick gets credit cause he has this team fighting hard every week and usually showing up for games. And they tend to fight for each other.

But if we’re gonna be honest with ourselves ask ourselves to the question is Sirianni when this talent begins to dwindle away going to be able to scheme up an offense that’s able to be successful enough? This feels very much like Doug Peterson when the talent on offense began fading more and more as we moved away from 2017 and he lost his best OC. Additionally in 2019 and 2020 i brought up they don’t know their personnel. They continuously used it poorly. (Similarly to now using calcaterra to block and granson running the routes he does) it was really never the same. then Doug went to Jacksonville and couldn’t make a consistent offense.

This isn’t saying he sucks. but this is saying IMO what are sirianni’s strengths are as a HC (besides the penalties getting fixed) aren’t what’s able to fix this offense. He’s not a great schemer and he struggles to utilize the talent he has to the max like fangio has shown. He's great at leading a team and establishing culture. But that isn’t capable of fixing a poorly designed/schemed offense with bad play calling.

Just now, Sack that QB said:

You know what I was thinking last night. How insane this defense would be with Myles Garrett. This defense may never let up a point ever again.

I've been drooling about that dream since January

This idiot offensive coaching staff think inside runs and sideways passes on early downs are safe.

Those plays are getting stuffed, getting penalties, and not leading to success on 1st and 2nd down.