2 hours ago, mattwill said:

Great graphic, but I’m not following the Cover 0 one. Can you help me understand what is going on there?

Just man coverage with no help over the top. C1 is also man coverage but the FS plays the deep zone.

59 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Or I’m just dumb. Still feels silly to rush him back for the Raiders

I had a feeling that they thought he might be able to be back by the Raiders game. I find that very optimistic with that injury even if it’s minor. Add on the Raiders are not a good football team. And at that point they just might be tanking anyways. You can win that game without lane. I would consider bringing him back for the commanders game, if the commanders play Jaden Daniels and if the foot is healthy. maybe you need to score points in that game although the Eagles defense has been playing well and if it’s mariota it’s very unlikely the commanders do much.

I feel like 4 weeks is a recipe where he might re-injure it. I’d much rather keep him out til commanders but really the bills game

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

You often hear free agents comment that they were drawn to a team to play with a QB when there is an elite one.

That doesn't happen for Hurts. We do know that.

Top 3 Eagles WR’s. Drafted, traded for a 1st round pick, traded for a 5th round pick.

Why didn’t Stefon Diggs come here to chase a ring? Or Keenan Allen, or Hopkins?

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

I had a feeling that they thought he might be able to be back by the Raiders game. I find that very optimistic with that injury even if it’s minor. Add on the Raiders are not a good football team. And at that point they just might be tanking anyways. You can win that game without lane. I would consider bringing him back for the commanders game, if the commanders play Jaden Daniels and if the foot is healthy. maybe you need to score points in that game although the Eagles defense has been playing well and if it’s mariota it’s very unlikely the commanders do much.

I feel like 4 weeks is a recipe where he might re-injure it. I’d much rather keep him out til commanders but really the bills game

If they IR Lane now and activate Lampkin or Hinton somebody will need to be cut when Lane comes back assuming nobody else goes on IR between then and now. Maybe they don't want to do that although are no shortage of guys they could cut like Dillon

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

I had a feeling that they thought he might be able to be back by the Raiders game. I find that very optimistic with that injury even if it’s minor. Add on the Raiders are not a good football team. And at that point they just might be tanking anyways. You can win that game without lane. I would consider bringing him back for the commanders game, if the commanders play Jaden Daniels and if the foot is healthy. maybe you need to score points in that game although the Eagles defense has been playing well and if it’s mariota it’s very unlikely the commanders do much.

I feel like 4 weeks is a recipe where he might re-injure it. I’d much rather keep him out til commanders but really the bills game

Yeah, put him on IR and let the guy heal up. They are idiots this year rushing OL back.

14 minutes ago, Eagles1960 said:

If they IR Lane now and activate Lampkin or Hinton somebody will need to be cut when Lane comes back assuming nobody else goes on IR between then and now. Maybe they don't want to do that although are no shortage of guys they could cut like Dillon

Tbh if they IR’d lane then he came back that there’s a chance they’d "IR” someone at a position where they have depth. OL would make sense as they’d have their starting 5, Toth, Pryor, Fred Johnson, Kendall and Hinton/lampkin,

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Or I’m just dumb. Still feels silly to rush him back for the Raiders

Dumb is rushing him back.

1 minute ago, Diehardfan said:

Yeah, put him on IR and let the guy heal up. They are idiots this year rushing OL back.

Maybe they do or don’t need him (tend to think they should be fine if Fred plays like he has), but when looking at their schedule there’s 2 games where i think we’d really like to have Lane. Chargers, which there’s no way he’s playing in that game. The other is buffalo. The rest of the games against Dallas, bears, Vegas and commanders imo they should be able to win them without him. Frankly they aren’t very good defenses. To me bringing him back for the raiders feels rushed back and potentially risking re-injury.

This is DeVonta with a new 'stay with Hurts' contract a week before they drafted McKee and Kenny Pickett was the backup.

No one asks him about Hurts but he mentions him around 4:10

Most of the questions are about AJ and DeVonta as a duo.

If there is anything you pick up anti-Hurts here its from the spiders in your brain.

And AJ, not a bad word about Hurts. He does not come up and Kellen Moore does not come up. WIP was a question.

Its really weird that these reporters do not acknowledge the existence of Jalen Hurts in either press conference. (To be fair they have probably asked both about Hurts 100+ times by this point)

AJ sounds like he trains for football with the same seriousness that Hurts takes for football in general.

Again, its the spiders in your brain telling you that AJ signed with a secret plan to replace Hurts.

Just now, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Maybe they do or don’t need him (tend to think they should be fine if Fred plays like he has), but when looking at their schedule there’s 2 games where i think we’d really like to have Lane. Chargers, which there’s no way he’s playing in that game. The other is buffalo. The rest of the games against Dallas, bears, Vegas and commanders imo they should be able to win them without him. Frankly they aren’t very good defenses. To me bringing him back for the raiders feels rushed back and potentially risking re-injury.

You are right but they have been idiots this year and won't learn their lesson. Sit the guy until the Bills game for all I care and make it like the preseason and let him play a quarter. The guy needs to be as healed as possible by the playoffs.

3 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

The lines connecting a defender to an eligible receiver would be in man coverage on that receiver. Everyone else is free to rush the passer. If one of those eligible players stays in to block, most of the time, that's an automatic dog read and that coverage player then comes on the blitz too.

Interesting. They have the left Boundary CB unmatched. Although it is easy to infer that he will be covering the right WR.

With that said, would a DC be likely to dial up Cover 0 if the opposing Offense came out in the depicted alignment?

1 hour ago, Waiting4Someday said:

Just man coverage with no help over the top. C1 is also man coverage but the FS plays the deep zone.

Thanks.

I was thinking about this in the car today:

If we had to cut all our players except for 1, and start over, who would be the 1 player you’d keep?

I’m a big Hurts supporter, but even though he’s a QB I don’t think he’s completely indispensable. I trust Howie to find another good qb soon

Jalen Carter is really good, but he hasn’t shown full Aaron Donald for a full season yet. There’s still a decent chance his knuckleheadedness catches up to him

Quinyon is a legit lock down corner, but corners have such a volatile shelf life in the NFL. One day Marcus Peters and Jaire Alexander are the best CBs in the league… 2 years later they’re done while still in their mid-late 20’s

I’d probably go Mailata. He probably has 6-7 elite years left

12 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

I was thinking about this in the car today:

If we had to cut all our players except for 1, and start over, who would be the 1 player you’d keep?

I’m a big Hurts supporter, but even though he’s a QB I don’t think he’s completely indispensable. I trust Howie to find another good qb soon

Jalen Carter is really good, but he hasn’t shown full Aaron Donald for a full season yet. There’s still a decent chance his knuckleheadedness catches up to him

Quinyon is a legit lock down corner, but corners have such a volatile shelf life in the NFL. One day Marcus Peters and Jaire Alexander are the best CBs in the league… 2 years later they’re done while still in their mid-late 20’s

I’d probably go Mailata. He probably has 6-7 elite years left

Cooper. He's young and can probably start at multiple positions if need be

1 hour ago, Waiting4Someday said:

Just man coverage with no help over the top. C1 is also man coverage but the FS plays the deep zone.

👍👍👍

2 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

You often hear free agents comment that they were drawn to a team to play with a QB when there is an elite one.

That doesn't happen for Hurts. We do know that.

Which free agent said, I'm not coming to the Eagles because of Hurts? As a matter of fact, if Hurts was that bad, why would Lane, Cam, Landon all except extensions, especially when they have to block for him? Why would Goedert come back? And specifically name one free agent that the Eagles wanted to sign that didn't sign here because of Hurts? Stop generalizing an idea with no specific information.

As a matter of fact, why did AJ accept his extension and not run for the hills?

56 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

You are right but they have been idiots this year and won't learn their lesson. Sit the guy until the Bills game for all I care and make it like the preseason and let him play a quarter. The guy needs to be as healed as possible by the playoffs.

IMO, the Eagles are woefully under committed to getting their OL healthy.

Having a crappy OL in the playoffs is far more likely to end their season than losing the #1 seed because they finally decided to let these guys heal.

They need to do whatever it takes to get these guys functioning at a better level. It’s their only chance to save the offense. Let them rest.

9 minutes ago, NYEagle said:

Which free agent said, I'm not coming to the Eagles because of Hurts? As a matter of fact, if Hurts was that bad, why would Lane, Cam, Landon all except extensions, especially when they have to block for him? Why would Goedert come back? And specifically name one free agent that the Eagles wanted to sign that didn't sign here because of Hurts? Stop generalizing an idea with no specific information.

As a matter of fact, why did AJ accept his extension and not run for the hills?

This reality they are describing only exists in their imagination. The expert knows more about Hurts' relationships than Hurts does.

Its clear to see why though. He listens to Seth saying he heard a rumor from D-Gunn who heard it from someone else but he can't say who and they may have heard it from their uncle at WaWa.

They also heard Howie say that its time for the age of McKee... oh, wait... that was Spike Eskin.

They lay out the world as they want it to be where a bunch of imaginary 27 year old Randy Moss and Jerry Rice types pick Bo Nix, Viking 9, and Trevor Lawrence as the elite dudes.

They want those guys to lead them to 1450+ yard seasons. Don't go to Philly where AJ had 1450+ 2 years in a row.

I get the delusion. They also have to think that Joe Burrow signing an extension does not mean he committed to Mike Brown and he is really just a victim.

The absolute best about this delusion is you can toggle it on and off.

Josh Allen? He has no weapons! No weapons want to play with him.

Hurts? Its not fair he has great weapons! AND Those weapons all hate him and don't want him to be the QB even though they signed extensions with him as QB.

See how useful it can be when you can just ignore reality?

1 + 1 = 3 if you can use it against Hurts.

1 hour ago, Eagles1960 said:

If they IR Lane now and activate Lampkin or Hinton somebody will need to be cut when Lane comes back assuming nobody else goes on IR between then and now. Maybe they don't want to do that although are no shortage of guys they could cut like Dillon

That’s kind of irrelevant since they will have to cut someone for Lampkin in the next 5 days. IR’ing Lane for Lampkin and then having 4 weeks to see what happens with everyone else would make more sense than just giving it one game.

7 hours ago, NYEagle said:

…and their mothers!

1 hour ago, NYEagle said:

Which free agent said, I'm not coming to the Eagles because of Hurts? As a matter of fact, if Hurts was that bad, why would Lane, Cam, Landon all except extensions, especially when they have to block for him? Why would Goedert come back? And specifically name one free agent that the Eagles wanted to sign that didn't sign here because of Hurts? Stop generalizing an idea with no specific information.

As a matter of fact, why did AJ accept his extension and not run for the hills?

In what world does a team with a bad QB not have anyone re-sign, or sign any new free agents? It happens all the time. The best you guys can do is say, well, the eagles still field a 53 man roster!! That doesnt mean those players sign specifically because they want to play with Jalen Hurts. No one has ever said that. It happened for Wentz, McNabb... never happened for Hurts.

1 hour ago, eagle45 said:

IMO, the Eagles are woefully under committed to getting their OL healthy.

Having a crappy OL in the playoffs is far more likely to end their season than losing the #1 seed because they finally decided to let these guys heal.

They need to do whatever it takes to get these guys functioning at a better level. It’s their only chance to save the offense. Let them rest.

You are right and that is on Nick

5 hours ago, Wentz_Era said:

Hurts is literally AJ’s kid‘s Godfather…AJ wanted to play with him.

They were working out & practicing together that offseason also, were friends. That started speculation that AJ Brown should go to the Eagles to play with Hurts. When he was traded here, there was a famous FaceTime video that Hurts and AJ were very excited to play together.

Also DeVonta Smith could have gotten more money to go play somewhere else, he decided to stay here. A quarterback is always going to be at least one of the factors for an offensive player signing another contract.

Off topic:

Tonight’s Flyers game was an incredibly heartening win. First, it was the second game of a back-to-back set, which up to tonight have been killers … and was a 6-3 win. Second, the box score below shows the six goal scorers. The youth movement paying dividends.

4 hours ago, Wentz_Era said:

https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-sign-wr-devonta-smith-to-three-year-75-million-extension

This is a figment of my imagination too? Say what you want about hurts but 2 top 10 WR’s signed extensions with the team so far.

Yep, the Hurts hater who claims to like facts forgot the facts that AJ & Hurts were friends, they worked out together that off season, his first call when traded was to FaceTime with Jalen and celebrate. It wasn't just a trade with no control, he had to agree to sign a contract as well. And he also chose to sign a contract extension here. Smitty and Goedert also chose to stay.

If someone is going to "grasp at straws" to spin a narrative that receivers don't want to play with Hurts, they've had two 1,000 yard receivers, there isn't an opportunity except for backups.

His receivers praise him, his RBs and O line praise him.

This debate is stupid.