1 hour ago, Swoop said:

I've been here the entire time, but okay

My apologies, I kinda lumped a bunch of people together. It's frustrating when there are like 15 issues and some people only complain about Hurts, and that's what that particular post felt like in the moment, after a frustrating loss. Sorry 😞

Just now, Eriv20 said:

In all honesty, it’s much easier for bigbsy.. the d isn’t selling out to stop him. Once other teams realize when he’s in he’s getting the ball, he’s cooked as well

Ok but until he’s stopped do what’s working.

2 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Sydney Brown starting at safety will be a total liability if that’s the case on Friday. The guy is a total rock head and his only fit is being on special teams roughing guys up. I hope Reed’s injury isn’t bad.

I don’t think Sydney Brown is as bad as people bash him to be. The problem is who he’s replacing. Sydney Brown can probably get honed in with Blankenship out there. Brown and Mukuba are going to be a mess.

3 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

That's a big problem though. If you are "an offensive mind" but cant use a player like Hurts to his strengths and instead want to try to Jam a square peg into a round hole you simply aren't a good coach.

Average offensive minds are average, but they aren't bad. This means they have a scheme, and they can tweak it some, but they're not going to be able to suddenly throw everything out the window and conjure new crap that relies on completely different things than the league is used to. That is why these people get the opportunity to CHOOSE a QB that fits what they're trying to do. And not just do so, it's considered arguably the most important decision of a Head Coach's CAREER.

That's not a coincidence.

That's why every person who's successful in this scenario is hired immediately. It's because they KNOW working with Hurts in this situation is challenging.

This quote was made by Mike McCarthy after the Cowboys parted ways with Kellen Moore. Put differently, Kellen was known for his ability to help out in the passing game, and not necessarily being crazy with the running game. This same exact person came to the Philadelphia Eagles, started off with more of a passing identity, then after realizing what we had, decided to just put it on the damn ground and run the football. That was the decision of a guy with NOTABLE passing game chops in the NFL.

This season, what have we not been able to do all that well? Run the damn ball. By that measure we were jamming a square peg into a round hole as soon as the OL had such a dip in run blocking results.

5 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

Like I said did you watch the 04 SB? Changes can be made.

Offense isn’t the same as defense

Just now, NOTW said:

My apologies, I kinda lumped a bunch of people together. It's frustrating when there are like 15 issues and some people only complain about Hurts, and that's what that particular post felt like in the moment, after a frustrating loss. Sorry 😞

I’ve been one of the biggest hurts haters his entire tenure. But this year I’ve leaned more towards the scheme, play calling. Is he perfect, far from it. But when we run decent concepts he’s pretty good lot of the time.

Get a decent OC and he’s fine, clearly

1 minute ago, Eriv20 said:

In all honesty, it’s much easier for bigbsy.. the d isn’t selling out to stop him. Once other teams realize when he’s in he’s getting the ball, he’s cooked as well

Yeah, I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there. Saquon is out there dancing. BIgsby hits the hole and goes fast and hard. That's why he is having more success. I broke it down and over the last five games Bigsby is massively outplaying Saquon.

1 minute ago, NOTW said:

My apologies, I kinda lumped a bunch of people together. It's frustrating when there are like 15 issues and some people only complain about Hurts, and that's what that particular post felt like in the moment, after a frustrating loss. Sorry 😞

You're good. We're all frustrated.

To be clear, I wasn't talking about you with the Allen comment. I know you were doing a bit

12 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

There’s no outside OC that’s going to come in now and adjust to the Nick Sirianni offense and do anything better than Patullo.

The choices are give Sirianni play calling or give it to Parks Frazier. Either way the offense is going to be the same concepts they have practiced since July.

The plays are in the playbook, we’ve seen that. It’s timely playcalling and sequencing that is maddening.

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

Got to imagine Epps is starting next week over brown. Unless blank and kuba are both out.

Epps is on IR and not eligible to come back

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Would be news if Landon Dickerson wasn’t hobbling.

3 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I don’t think Sydney Brown is as bad as people bash him to be. The problem is who he’s replacing. Sydney Brown can probably get honed in with Blankenship out there. Brown and Mukuba are going to be a mess.

#21 actually rolled Mukuba’s ankle. After Dallas targeted his side of the field, with success.

Another game where Dotson is just out there running cardio. I say it every week, but there has to be 2 or 3 plays for him per week where he can contribute.

3 minutes ago, Eriv20 said:

I’ve been one of the biggest hurts haters his entire tenure. But this year I’ve leaned more towards the scheme, play calling. Is he perfect, far from it. But when we run decent concepts he’s pretty good lot of the time.

Get a decent OC and he’s fine, clearly

Hurts is what he is. He needs a lot of support, makes some horrendous decisions and is inconsistent for stretches.

He can also get red hot, look the part, become Superman and win you some games.

As I've said before when the talent drops off I sincerely question how far we'll be able to go. We've seen how terrible he's looked in the playoffs without AJ.

2 minutes ago, AmericanEagle77 said:

Average offensive minds are average, but they aren't bad. This means they have a scheme, and they can tweak it some, but they're not going to be able to suddenly throw everything out the window and conjure new crap that relies on completely different things than the league is used to. That is why these people get the opportunity to CHOOSE a QB that fits what they're trying to do. And not just do so, it's considered arguably the most important decision of a Head Coach's CAREER.

That's not a coincidence.

That's why every person who's successful in this scenario is hired immediately. It's because they KNOW working with Hurts in this situation is challenging.

This quote was made by Mike McCarthy after the Cowboys parted ways with Kellen Moore. Put differently, Kellen was known for his ability to help out in the passing game, and not necessarily being crazy with the running game. This same exact person came to the Philadelphia Eagles, started off with more of a passing identity, then after realizing what we had, decided to just put it on the damn ground and run the football. That was the decision of a guy with NOTABLE passing game chops in the NFL.

This season, what have we not been able to do all that well? Run the damn ball. By that measure we were jamming a square peg into a round hole as soon as the OL had such a dip in run blocking results.

You might want to put some deep blue on your shoulder after reaching that hard. Two different OC's have had major success with Hurts as the QB. Hurts had success at two different college programs with different coaches. The few games that Sirianni called plays and the two seasons that he had internal hires running his offense the offense has sucked. Not to mention that the run game got completely shut down in the SB and Hurts lit Spag's defense up. So don't act like Moore's offense only worked because of the run game. Sirianni is just a bad coach who walked down the road and found a winning lottery ticket, it's that simple. Trying to throw shade at Hurts to justify Sirianni being a moron is a laughably bad take.

7 minutes ago, pisceschica said:

Sirianni is not an offensive genius. If hurts does better with experienced OC then stop deviating from that. You still haven’t answered.

Do you read the posts you reply to? Like I quite literally said this in the middle of the post you just responded to.

7 minutes ago, pisceschica said:

I asked whose fault is I that bigsby is outperforming saquan but only had one touch in this game? Or the stupid timeout?

Mostly Sirianni's, and Sirianni's. I don't recall saying that I thought he never makes mistakes? He's definitely player loyal, for better or for worse. I actually wish he was less player loyal, and would be more willing to make people ride pine for not being the best fit for what they're trying to do.

I've complained about the FO being too player friendly in general for a while now - not enough discipline because Lurie and Howie are a bit too prioritizing of what they call "Emotional Intelligence."

Didn't even last one year back in the NFL.

5 minutes ago, Eriv20 said:

In all honesty, it’s much easier for bigbsy.. the d isn’t selling out to stop him. Once other teams realize when he’s in he’s getting the ball, he’s cooked as well

2 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

Yeah, I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there. Saquon is out there dancing. BIgsby hits the hole and goes fast and hard. That's why he is having more success. I broke it down and over the last five games Bigsby is massively outplaying Saquon.

See this is where it’s on coaching. We can debate Hurts vs what this offense might look like with McKee. We’ll never know because changing QBs is a massive move you don’t do when you built your offense around a SB MVP and are headed to a playoff run.

You can change looks with RBs on every play. Is Barkley playing worse than Tank? Or is the D just selling out to stop him? Who cares? Doesn’t matter. When you need to get the ground game going, control the clock, or protect a lead, send out the guy that the opposing defense isn’t selling out to stop so that you can actually run the football. And if teams start stacking against Tank, that’s fine too. At least they won’t look pass every time Barkley rests.

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Offense isn’t the same as defense

True.

That said, I would still give loeffler the play calling duties. The reason why is because with Kevin Pattulo it’s been 11 games and I haven’t seen any real improvement. It would be one thing if he was real bad at the beginning of the year then you saw midseason until now he’s improving week to week. But that’s not happening. It’s largely the same issues week to week outside of a giants game.

I do not think it is going to save them. I think their ineptitude goes back to sirianni‘s offense is just not that complicated, he wants to be more conservative when they get ahead and they still won’t utilize their personnel correctly (hence using Calcaterra the way they do). However, I also don’t think this is gonna be a Matt Patricia type decline if they did it. It probably would be status quo over complete decline. IMO, Desai was given a defense that lacked talent and i don’t believe defensive players remotely liked Patricia.

1 minute ago, Sack that QB said:

Didn't even last one year back in the NFL.

Do it Howie 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

8 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Offense isn’t the same as defense

Ok.

7 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Epps is on IR and not eligible to come back

Yikes. I suspect they might be looking to sign Simmons. Although short week and probably not a good solution anyway