It’s an astounding thing to have a team coming off a SB win, leading the division by two games, third seed, and the HC should be fired at season’s end, but that’s where we are.

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

The pettiness coming out of the entire Kane kiffin situation is hilarious

NCAA football really sucks. No disrespect to those who follow. There are so many conflicting and special interests that it ruins any chance of genuine parity or programatic development.

You've got a coach leaving a team that is a 100% guarantee for the playoff with a realistic non-zero chance at a national title for a bitter conference rival. If you allow that coach to stay through the playoff (which he wanted), he gets unfettered access to poach an entire roster and coaching staff while being on the payroll of two competing programs simultaneously. From a competition standpoint, players should not be allowed to enter the transfer portal to get poached by a resigning HC at their new, rival program...but, of course, that's not entirely fair to the student-athletes to restrict them like that.

There is no sense of commitment whatsoever. However...back when the players weren't paid, it was harder to enforce commitment or restrict their movement. Wasn't fair. Now that they are paid professionals, a little contractual responsibility wouldn't hurt.

8 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I think the Lurie/Howie style of doing things would be to keep Siri to avoid the drama of a coaching change, not allow him to run an offense, and hire their guy to run the offense as OC. If that guy has success and gets HC offers, then you have to promote him to HC here. I predicted that would go down with Moore and Siri after the 2023 debacle, but I was one OC cycle early.

Then if there is no success, then they have to move off Hurts. And Siri probably isn't the guy you want for the new QB anyway, unless the offense sucks next year, they bench Hurts midseason, and Mckee runs with it.

Yeah, I don’t see them doing that. If they hire that OC, he does a really good job and the eagles find themselves back in the nfc championship game or even Super Bowl 3 out of 6 years they aren’t doing that sirianni. I could see them doing that if the offense looks good but they are losing games still due to poor in game coaching decisions.

Lurie has fired people when he’s thought it was the right time. He fired chip before the end of 2015. He was going to retain Doug then gave him an ultimatum and then fired him. Tbh lurie in all of his coaching searches were dragged out cause he likes to talk and interview a lot of people. I don’t see him if he thought sirianni should be replaced not doing a interview process

1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

NCAA football really sucks. No disrespect to those who follow. There are so many conflicting and special interests that it ruins any chance of genuine parity or programatic development.

You've got a coach leaving a team that is a 100% guarantee for the playoff with a realistic non-zero chance at a national title for a bitter conference rival. If you allow that coach to stay through the playoff (which he wanted), he gets unfettered access to poach an entire roster and coaching staff while being on the payroll of two competing programs simultaneously. From a competition standpoint, players should not be allowed to enter the transfer portal to get poached by a resigning HC at their new, rival program...but, of course, that's not entirely fair to the student-athletes to restrict them like that.

There is no sense of commitment whatsoever. However...back when the players weren't paid, it was harder to enforce commitment or restrict their movement. Wasn't fair. Now that they are paid professionals, a little contractual responsibility wouldn't hurt.

I 100% agree with you. The NCAA has opened up this can of worms and it is getting worse each year. Because they knew the day was coming that they were gonna have to pay athletes and they just kept ignoring it. Instead of having the structure in place. now you were in the wild wild West of college football and college basketball. it’s hurting the sport for the fans. money rules the day. It’s one of the reasons we have 2 super conferences in big 10 and sec and partially reason why pac 12 is gone from what it actually used to be.

6 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

NCAA football really sucks. No disrespect to those who follow. There are so many conflicting and special interests that it ruins any chance of genuine parity or programatic development.

You've got a coach leaving a team that is a 100% guarantee for the playoff with a realistic non-zero chance at a national title for a bitter conference rival. If you allow that coach to stay through the playoff (which he wanted), he gets unfettered access to poach an entire roster and coaching staff while being on the payroll of two competing programs simultaneously. From a competition standpoint, players should not be allowed to enter the transfer portal to get poached by a resigning HC at their new, rival program...but, of course, that's not entirely fair to the student-athletes to restrict them like that.

There is no sense of commitment whatsoever. However...back when the players weren't paid, it was harder to enforce commitment or restrict their movement. Wasn't fair. Now that they are paid professionals, a little contractual responsibility wouldn't hurt.

They need to have an offseason. No player or coach can leave until after championship game. Then everyone is free.

Just now, Casey @ Bat said:

They need to have an offseason. No player or coach can leave until after championship game. Then everyone is free.

Again the ncaa knew what was coming and they did a poor job planning it. Then again the ncaa has always been about their bottom dollar and being greedy. It’s why we’ve seen re-alignment taking at the scale it has over the last decade

These Broncos uniforms are hideous.

Mariota 🤣

Imagine the absolute chaos if NCAA football had a salary cap and all players signed 2 year contracts. It is college sports...players could always choose to play for free or for less to stay at the same school. But if you want to get paid, you owe that program 2 years of your NCAA eligibility. The talent drain in the transfer portal would flip in the opposite direction.

42 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

@devpool

I only see 4 times. Minnesota had a pick 6 so they only score 21 that game.

Oh yea I didn't do a deep dive just ran through the schedule, i'm glad to hear it's worse than I originally thought

Boneheaded move by Nix there, almost a fumble

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

Again the ncaa knew what was coming and they did a poor job planning it. Then again the ncaa has always been about their bottom dollar and being greedy. It’s why we’ve seen re-alignment taking at the scale it has over the last decade

It's not just the NCAA. The NFL has the same problem with assistant caoches being poached before they finish their playoff run. The NFL needs to put a lid on coach movement until after the Super Bowl as well. But they never will. It makes it harder to repeat and provides more parity which is what the league really wants.

7 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Imagine the absolute chaos if NCAA football had a salary cap and all players signed 2 year contracts. It is college sports...players could always choose to play for free or for less to stay at the same school. But if you want to get paid, you owe that program 2 years of your NCAA eligibility. The talent drain in the transfer portal would flip in the opposite direction.

I mean, it’s pure chaos now. I can speak on the college basketball aspect. I have two friends that cover the University of Arizona basketball team. Az has a good NIL. It’s not top five or even top 10. It’s top 20. But there’s schools that if they want a particular player on their roster that they can just outpay as Az doesn’t have the same budget to afford to pay that player that salary and keep 2 other players. For instance veesar going from Arizona to unc. That was a money bag drop. The court settlement in June has helped somewhat level the playing field. It’s why a lot of players got into the portal early for basketball and committed faster cause a chance when they ruled they’d not be able to make the type of money or receive type of offers they did before that ruling.

28 minutes ago, just relax said:

It’s an astounding thing to have a team coming off a SB win, leading the division by two games, third seed, and the HC should be fired at season’s end, but that’s where we are.

Yea I hear the arguments about "optics of firing a coach coming off a super bowl win". Right now the optics are "this coach can't be trusted to make offensive decisions because his two super bowl seasons came from 2 great coordinators (steichen and fangio), and his two OC hires were absolute, undisputed failures."

Why should a guy who has personally handicapped the team TWICE with his idiotic OC hires be given a long leash? The only argument for sirianni is players like him. If lurie cares that much about having a players' coach he can tell sirianni no longer has any input on OC hires and his offensive input will be minimal, if any. See if he sticks around on his own after that

34 minutes ago, just relax said:

It’s an astounding thing to have a team coming off a SB win, leading the division by two games, third seed, and the HC should be fired at season’s end, but that’s where we are.

4 straight weeks of complete offensive ineptitude will have people searching for answers... the team sure doesn't seem to have any.

56 minutes ago, Eriv20 said:

I would rather fire Siri and keep hurts. At least we’ve seen coordinators get results with hurts. Once those coordinators are gone, Siri has no idea what he’s doing.

Youre on the other side of the chicken or egg debate. I know that Siri had a different offense (In Indy) before Hurts was his QB. This is the Hurts offense. We have seen OCs try things and have to stop because Hurts only runs the same limited stuff. Im sure any coaching changes, while keeping Hurts will not do a thing.

Hurts has not done well in the past because of a different OC. He has only done well when he has had a dominant run game. This OC has tried to establish the run game. Its less effective with OL injuries, and Hurts not wanting to be a threat on the ground himself.

3 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

It's not just the NCAA. The NFL has the same problem with assistant caoches being poached before they finish their playoff run. The NFL needs to put a lid on coach movement until after the Super Bowl as well. But they never will. It makes it harder to repeat and provides more parity which is what the league really wants.

That’s an issue for college football. But they also have the issue that they open the transfer portal before the end of the bowl season/college football playoff. They have the same issue with the NCAA tournament going on when the transfer portal opens. Again this is because the NCAA when all this was coming to fruition, they lacked a good plan and avenue to regulate everything. It’s been known for a while that the players were going to be paid for their likeness and free movement without the transfer rules in place anymore. That’s why I said in a previous post it is a wild Wild West situation that could’ve probably been better governed if the NCAA was better prepared with a plan of action.

Now the court settlement in June this year has helped set some parameters where the school directly can pay the athletes. But prior it was whoever had the largest NIL pockets and boosters were dropping ridiculous money.

1 minute ago, HazletonEagle said:

Youre on the other side of the chicken or egg debate. I know that Siri had a different offense (In Indy) before Hurts was his QB. This is the Hurts offense. We have seen OCs try things and have to stop because Hurts only runs the same limited stuff. Im sure any coaching changes, while keeping Hurts will not do a thing.

Hurts has not done well in the past because of a different OC. He has only done well when he has had a dominant run game. This OC has tried to establish the run game. Its less effective with OL injuries, and Hurts not wanting to be a threat on the ground himself.

Siri is an Italian chef preparing sushi rolls because Jalen Hurts is tuna. That part is inarguable. There is too much evidence to state otherwise.

The real question is if Jalen Hurts is bluefin tuna belly or canned tunafish. And if Siri, given his more traditional ingredients, belongs at Olive Garden or Vetri. (I think Vetri is overrated, but you all get the point).

Nick Nurse makes me feel better about Sirianni. I can’t remember the last time the Sixers had a coach as bad as this dude. Eddie Jordan or Randy Ayers maybe. He is so bad. Worst Philly coach I can remember in a long long time. Every game the team is awful offensively, can’t run any functional offense without pissing all over themselves, turn into everyone standing around at the ends of games, they suck every 3rd quarter, they suck on defense, they can’t rebound, they are bad with fundamentals, every game he’s on the bench yelling at the refs over something. Total clown show every night with this guy. He’s just an embarrassment.

8 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Nick Nurse makes me feel better about Sirianni. I can’t remember the last time the Sixers had a coach as bad as this dude. Eddie Jordan or Randy Ayers maybe. He is so bad. Worst Philly coach I can remember in a long long time. Every game the team is awful offensively, can’t run any functional offense without pissing all over themselves, turn into everyone standing around at the ends of games, they suck every 3rd quarter, they suck on defense, they can’t rebound, they are bad with fundamentals, every game he’s on the bench yelling at the refs over something. Total clown show every night with this guy. He’s just an embarrassment.

I could be upset with nurse. He’s not gonna be here by the time the 76ers hopefully can get off of Paul George and Joel Embiid. The bigger issue with the 76ers is they have two contracts that are horrific. That’s taking up money to put around the young nucleus that can make them a really good team. Paul George I could at least understand. You thought with maxey, Embiid and him that it was your last remote chance at a title. Plus, it’s only a four year contract. Only 1.5 years away from being tradable as an expiring contract. Frankly i think even next offseason it’s moveable. It’s going to be hard but not impossible

The issue with Embiid’s extension was you didn’t need to do it at that time. He was coming off a bad knee injury. He didn’t look great when he was in the Knicks series. He didn’t look great at the Olympics. And you had to know before he signed that contract and he did a physical that his knee was in the condition that it was. They should’ve never given him that extension until after last year if he showed he could hold up. That contract is immovable for at least 3 years. 

12 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Nick Nurse makes me feel better about Sirianni. I can’t remember the last time the Sixers had a coach as bad as this dude. Eddie Jordan or Randy Ayers maybe. He is so bad. Worst Philly coach I can remember in a long long time. Every game the team is awful offensively, can’t run any functional offense without pissing all over themselves, turn into everyone standing around at the ends of games, they suck every 3rd quarter, they suck on defense, they can’t rebound, they are bad with fundamentals, every game he’s on the bench yelling at the refs over something. Total clown show every night with this guy. He’s just an embarrassment.

Don't disagree- his "offense" is either 4 guys on the perimeter standing still while the man with the ball tries to dribble around double teams or picks 25-30 feet from the basket and set with no intention of making a good, hard pick.

Sixers win tonight but Maxey couldn't finish. Make 1/2 of his free throws at the end of the 1st OT and Sixers win.

26 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

4 straight weeks of complete offensive ineptitude will have people searching for answers... the team sure doesn't seem to have any.

The O has been inept all year.

I almost forgot we did go out west to Seattle on MNF and face their back up when the collapse began