2 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

What's tricky is next week is the Raiders. I have no doubt that Mckee would look excellent next week en route to a big win and the best passing performance by any QB all year for the Eagles. But it won't be real.

And with the Hurts offense, we are probably looking at a vintage 2024 game where they run for 200+ and Hurts only needs to go 10-12 for 110 yards and 1 TD in order to win the game comfortably. As bad as our run blocking has been, there is ZERO chance the Raiders hang in there in the trenches if the Eagles keep pounding the football. And that's not real either.

That's what happens when you play an out-of-conference team competing for the #1 overall pick late in the year. It's not a "get right" game. It's going to be the equivalent of playing your starters for 4 quarters in the last preseason game and scheming up everything against a team that is wondering wtf you are doing.

Sounds like a great opportunity for a QB that hasn't played much

Just now, greend said:

Turnovers can be the result of forcing plays to players or holding the ball hoping for players to get open or bouncing off whiney board handed players.

Yeah he forced a ball to smith… so that’s on aj? Or maybe our Qb has not played very well cause he’s not played well. Pass offense has had issues consistently for 2 years. Bigger issues than AJ

Pretty wild how they were 8-2 and up 21-0 on Dallas and now sit at 8-5 after losing three straight. The roller coaster of this team is just incredible.

2 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

There has been something to that in the past, but we'd easily be 0-3 with him in those games too.

Yep. The offense has stunk with Lane too.

1 minute ago, Lambo said:

What would be the expectation of McKee? People are going to say the Raiders this, the Raiders that, the Raiders suck. Here is how the teams they have played faired against the Raiders at home.

Bo Nix, 16 of 28 for 150 yards, 1 TD and 2 interceptions in a 10-17 win.

Herbert, 15 of 20 for 151 yards, 2 TD's and 1 interception in a 31-14 win.

Mahomes, 26 of 35 for 286 yards and 3 TD's in a 31-0 win.

Daniel Jones, 20 of 29 for 212 yards and 2 TD's in a 40-6 win.

Mariota, 15 of 21 for 207 yards and a TD in a 41-24 win.

Drake Maye, 30 of 6 for 287 yards, 1 TD and 1 int in a 20-13 loss in week 1.

So lets say for some reason that I can not think of yet, that Tanner McKee starts this Sunday, and goes 18 of 32 for 240 yards, 2 TD's and 1 interception, and the Eagles win 27-10. What would the narrative be?

Some will say it's all Hurts fault then. Some will say it's just because the Raiders. Some will just be happy to see something different

Some may even be upset because they're hoping to lose out so Lurie fires Nick and KP

14 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

The fault of the pass not being complete was on AJ. Yes, Hurts made it tougher than it needed to be but Brown should still have made the catch and that's 100% on AJ.

This should be universally accepted as correct.

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

Yeah he forced a ball to smith… so that’s on aj? Or maybe our Qb has not played very well cause he’s not played well. Pass offense has had issues consistently for 2 years. Bigger issues than AJ

Aj is getting what he wanted and we're losing pretty big coincidence whether you want to admit it or not

Just now, ManuManu said:

This should be universally accepted as correct.

It is

1 minute ago, Lambo said:

What would be the expectation of McKee? People are going to say the Raiders this, the Raiders that, the Raiders suck. Here is how the teams they have played faired against the Raiders at home.

Bo Nix, 16 of 28 for 150 yards, 1 TD and 2 interceptions in a 10-17 win.

Herbert, 15 of 20 for 151 yards, 2 TD's and 1 interception in a 31-14 win.

Mahomes, 26 of 35 for 286 yards and 3 TD's in a 31-0 win.

Daniel Jones, 20 of 29 for 212 yards and 2 TD's in a 40-6 win.

Mariota, 15 of 21 for 207 yards and a TD in a 41-24 win.

Drake Maye, 30 of 6 for 287 yards, 1 TD and 1 int in a 20-13 loss in week 1.

So lets say for some reason that I can not think of yet, that Tanner McKee starts this Sunday, and goes 18 of 32 for 240 yards, 2 TD's and 1 interception, and the Eagles win 27-10. What would the narrative be?

I'm so over Eagles fans that just can't wait for their HC to be fired, or for their starting QB to get benched in favor of the "underdog" backup.

Anyway, you don't have to worry about a narrative because he isn't playing.

Lololololol

49 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Against the raiders though would create all kinds of cans of worms

We already have a can of worms... and maggots... and dung beetles...

Just now, greend said:

It is

Sure doesn’t seem like it…

24 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

I’m starting to feel like Jordan Davis is the next BrandonGraham. Everything about him I want around the team for the long haul

13 years from now we’ll have a bunch of 22 year old Dlineman and old man Davis with his grey dreads

He definitely seems like a good dude, an entertaining weirdo

And the Phillies gave KS 5 years. This day sucks

5 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Sure doesn’t seem like it…

Okay. The loss was 98% on Hurts, 1% on coaching and 1% on AJ.

AJ Brown was up-and-down last night. Hurts just stunk, and with remotely average QB play the Eagles win the game. That's as obvious as the earth rotating around the sun.

16 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Don't. Just keep him out until the 2nd Washington game

Curious how long the defense will last. Can't be long when they're just too gassed

2 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

Okay. The loss was 98% on Hurts, 1% on coaching and 1% on AJ.

AJ Brown was up-and-down last night. Hurts just stunk, and with remotely average QB play the Eagles win the game. That's as obvious as the earth rotating around the sun.

I’m fine putting 100 percent of the loss on Hurts. He sucked. A merely bad game by him ends with a victory. Instead we got a disaster class. But AJ has to make that catch. No excuses.

My assumption is that the Eagles, even as currently constructed, can beat the Raiders and Washington 2X which will win the division. I picked them to be 12-5 before the season and they'll likely be 11-6 and the NFC #3 seed. If that holds, the likely current scenario would have them playing the 49ers at home in a 3 vs 6 matchup. I would hate to lose to those turds to end a season. If they win at home, they would go to Lambeau and likely lose to the Packers. That ending seems more likely.

8 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

Okay. The loss was 98% on Hurts, 1% on coaching and 1% on AJ.

AJ Brown was up-and-down last night. Hurts just stunk, and with remotely average QB play the Eagles win the game. That's as obvious as the earth rotating around the sun.

1% on AJ? Really? What about the TD he dropped? The deep ball on the first drive he dropped? The ball he tipped that was intercepted? That's 1%? Nah. AJ was bad, with some good moments. Hurts was bad, with some good moments. Pretty much everyone on offense was bad, with some good moments. That might have been Hurts' worst game as a professional. I'll grant that, and I'm no Hurts apologist. But, he had plenty of help with the suckage that happened last night. By no means was it 98% Hurts.

12 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

It's 4 years.

4 minutes ago, greend said:

Aj is getting what he wanted and we're losing pretty big coincidence whether you want to admit it or not

I think the bigger coincidence is when you have 9 turnovers and QB has done this in the past. using strictly aj brown for the reason is an easy scapegoat. They have massive coaching issues (their offense is poorly designed and executed) a poor play caller, a QB that has been turnover prone for stretches before, team constantly shooting them selves in the foot (even special teams getting a penalty on 4th down to extend a drive for chargers), OL not blocking like Previous years and aj brown complaining about the pass offense/offense not being good enough to sustain winning the way they were.

the fact are that the pass offense for two Fing years hasn’t been even mediocre. Even end of 2023 it wasn’t. When hurts was turnover prone early last year, Jets game in 2023 and down the stretch in 2023 they have struggled. Aj is an issue too but frankly they weren’t winning a sustainable way. The offense was on a historic rate of 3 and outs. They were super fortunate to win games where offense disappeared for 8 or 9 drives out of 12.

I will also point this out, they were up 21-0 against Dallas and they were going to AJ Brown consistently. After that happened, the Eagles only targeted him once until the fourth quarter. They had one first down over that time. Then began moving the ball again when he got targeted again until fumble by Barkley, bad penalty by offense and fumble by special teams.

I have zero confidence the Eagles can beat anyone.

15 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Don’t love the 5 years but i do like schwarber coming back.