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.

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'd expect considerably easier sledding for the Eagles (Hurts or Mckee) than what any of those QBs saw. Like I posted before, the closer you get to the end of the season, the fiercer the competition for the #1 pick gets. The Raiders can't screw this up. And playing an out-of-conference team (all of those QB's but Mariota were in-conference games earlier in the year) cools off the motivation even more.

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2 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I really think Brian Daboll is the absolute perfect OC for the Eagles in 2026.

He has worked with Hurts. He has benched Hurts. He is the guy responsible for refining Josh Allen, a far more talented but similarly enigmatic and erratic passer, into his best passing seasons. He is familiar with the division.

He's a bit ballsy and impulsive...and this is a 1 year job anyway. Either he fails and we get a whole new coaching staff anyway or he hits it out of the park and he's interviewing for new jobs or taking Siri's job.

Daboll was on the same staff as Sirianni in KC. He was the OC for that team. I have mixed feelings on him because aside from 2 great seasons with the Bills, his teams have been below average. He has had more bottom 5 offenses than top 5. Part of that is certainly the QB talent. I am not sure he would be able to make something work with Hurts. He will be on Howie's list of potential replacements. The top 2 replacement candidates will probably be Daboll and Kevin Stefanski.

The Phillies are going to be brutal in 4-5 years anyway. Paying Scwharber big money to hit .180 and 29 HR in his last year of that deal won't be of consequence.

5 minutes ago, greend said:

I have zero confidence the Eagles can beat anyone.

What, they have beaten themselves 3 weeks in a row.

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

Ideal scenario at this point. The draft pick out of playoffs will obviously be better than the draft pick as a 1 and done team.

I think I'm going to start 2026 draft prep early this season. I don't see this as a 2023 repeat because the defense is still strong and I believe they'll beat the poor teams left on the schedule, where the 2023 Eagles were losing to the NYG and ARI down the stretch, but I don't see them lasting long in the playoffs.

I'm going to start my draft prep assuming the Eagles first round pick is somewhere in the 20-22 range. I'll start with OL, CB. Depending on their evaluation of Tyler Steen there's a chance the Eagles draft both RT and RG early at the draft.

The Tankathon website is mocking the Eagles to go WR, EDGE, S in the first three rounds. Not sure I see that happening at all -- assuming they can re-sign Phillips.

24 minutes 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?

The biggest expectations for McKee would be the O moving efficiently and getting the ball players the ball in a variety of different levels. Stats wise, it would depend on the running game seeing an uptick, plateau or regression with a run threat at QB. I wouldn't see a 300 yard/3 TD type performance at all.

Regardless, the byproducts of that will highlight where some of the issues lie; is the O really a KP coaching issue, or is the QBs limitation? Or both

2 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

Daboll was on the same staff as Sirianni in KC. He was the OC for that team. I have mixed feelings on him because aside from 2 great seasons with the Bills, his teams have been below average. He has had more bottom 5 offenses than top 5. Part of that is certainly the QB talent. I am not sure he would be able to make something work with Hurts. He will be on Howie's list of potential replacements. The top 2 replacement candidates will probably be Daboll and Kevin Stefanski.

Tbh i think he’s fine as an OC. HC he’s a disaster. I thought he did a good job with jones his first year as HC too. That said he also helped in the development of Josh Allen. Give Josh Allen a lot of credit because he turned his career into where it is. However helped in his development. When he got into the league, there was a massive transition from Wyoming and he wasn’t nearly as accurate as he is now. I thought dabol did a great job developing him earl out of Wyoming. It just took 2 years to finally get him to blossom.

If this season goes into the ****, I don't think it would be the worst thing in the world if it sets the team up better in the long run. What you don't want to happen is the failures of this season to affect future seasons. They won a Super Bowl last season. It's hard to repeat. I'd love them to, but if this season falls apart and they respond how they usually respond after embarrassing seasons, then I'll be satisfied. But what I don't want to happen is for them to delude themselves into thinking things aren't as broken as they are, because that will ruin next season too.

21 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

And the Phillies gave KS 5 years. This day sucks

This will help you out brother

4 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

What, they have beaten themselves 3 weeks in a row.

😂 They are 3-0 against the Eagles the past 3 weeks!

3 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

This will help you out brother

The definition of insanity. The Flyers are showing signs of moving in the right direction, I guess .....

4 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I think I'm going to start 2026 draft prep early this season. I don't see this as a 2023 repeat because the defense is still strong and I believe they'll beat the poor teams left on the schedule, where the 2023 Eagles were losing to the NYG and ARI down the stretch, but I don't see them lasting long in the playoffs.

I'm going to start my draft prep assuming the Eagles first round pick is somewhere in the 20-22 range. I'll start with OL, CB. Depending on their evaluation of Tyler Steen there's a chance the Eagles draft both RT and RG early at the draft.

The Tankathon website is mocking the Eagles to go WR, EDGE, S in the first three rounds. Not sure I see that happening at all -- assuming they can re-sign Phillips.

Desperately need Lane’s replacement

Strong possibility they bring Becton back. Curious what they do with Phillips

I’m worried that Cam and Landon will always be injured

Checking in to see if anyone has been fired or benched yet..

3 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

Desperately need Lane’s replacement

Strong possibility they bring Becton back. Curious what they do with Phillips

I’m worried that Cam and Landon will always be injured

They are going to have to lean heav6 into OL this draft. Need some young blood there

6 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

This will help you out brother

Well, at least someone else paid for the tickets and the car service -- all I paid for was 2 beers and a bottle of water. What a completely horrible experience and soul crushing loss -- make no doubt about it, this team is irreparably damaged and the season is over. Here are my thoughts - I haven't watched the replay and certainly don't plan on it (seeing it live in person was torture enough). Oddly enough, we SHOULD have scored 30 points last night...

Coaching

• Maybe it is controversial, but there were some parts of the play design and offense that seemed improved. We managed to outgain the Chargers by 90 yards. They moved the pocket at times. The fake brotherly shove was a great call. But there were 3 in game decisions that were just awful, and they fall on Nick:

  • First and goal at the 2, and we don't just run the brotherly shove 4 damn times??? I know it's been less successful this year, but come on. Yeah, the holding call on Mailata was weak, but it's insanity we didn't score a TD there. Just brutal -- left 4 points on the field.

  • End of the half -- OK, you want to make sure the FG ends the half, but still - maybe hand it to Barkley and hope he finds a seam. Just airmailing it out of bounds was dumb. Jake misses and we cost ourselves 3 points (maybe getting closer helps).

  • Last drive of regulation. AJ drops the TD on one of Jalen's few good throws. So on 3rd and long we...run a screen to Smitty that he doesn't catch, and the incompletion stops the clock. If you're playing for the FG (and they really couldn't have thought the screen pass would convert on 3rd and 11), run the ball and make LA use their last timeout. Just stupid.

• I hated the decision to kick in OT -- the defense just was on the field for 11 plays. Let them rest.

Offense

• Jalen was terrible, there's no other way around it. He's been subpar since the bye, but he completely crashed out last night. Let's just go through the picks for fun:

  • On the 1st one, he thinks it is cover 0 and gets it wrong, throws it right to the LA player - meanwhile, Dotson is open for a TD on a post. Let's put aside setting NFL history with 2 turnovers on the same play, it was just an inexcusable mistake.

  • The second one, it was unclear in the stadium if Smitty was knocked down or slipped, but again -- why are you throwing that?

  • Number 3 -- yes, AJ got his hands on it and should have caught it. But that was a hospital ball and AJ was about to get rocked in his ribs if he came down with it. Blame on both parties. Oh...and it was 1st and 10 FFS.

  • Game ender -- yes, the safety made a nice play peeling off DG. But Jalen messed the play up from the start - the edge stayed home, so he should have given it to SB. Instead, he keeps, has pressure in his face and throws late off his back foot (pass looked like it would have been behind Dotson).

• Do I think Tanner might give them more? Yes. Is there really any point to it? I don't think so. I'm a contractual realist when it comes to Jalen -- he's unmovable (can't be cut given the cap hit, and can't be traded because of his NTC and who would give up assets for him). I'm not sure we have any better choice than playing him, but it's hard to watch. There were guys open last night, and he missed them (and his few good throws were dropped). Plus, it's not like this team is winning the Super Bowl anyway.

• Barkley had some juice early, broke the TD, and then...back to running into the middle with no hope.

• AJ...yeah, he's quit on this team. The first drop was bad - would have been a nice catch, but one he has to make. The INT - yes, he's going to get lit up, but you still gotta come down with it. But the drop in the end zone was brutal. You HAVE to bring that in.

• The line seemed a little better, but low bar. I don't think Lane coming back fixes everything, but might help a little.

Defense

• Yes, the Chargers O-Line is a mess, but the defensive line, without it's most talented player, was unreal last night. 7 sacks, forcing Herbert into a very poor passing night, OK against the RBs (28 carries for 103, so less than 4 YPC). The Herbert scrambles were annoying (Dean, learn to tackle), but you really can't put any blame on them. Jordan Davis and Byron Young (yes, Byron Young) played out of their minds. Hunt got the sacks, but Phillips was a monster too.

• Dean is a fantastic blitzer, but someone teach him to wrap up please. Baun and Campbell were solid.

• The secondary was fantastic against a good QB and quality weapons. Of course the pass rush helped, but the Chargers scored their only TD off a big play on the 1st drive followed by an egregious pick play. Holding them to 5 FGs from there, despite the offense turning it over 4 times (technically 5, but count Jalen's double as one TO) was heroic.

• They wouldn't show the PI on Q in the stadium, so I'm guessing it was total BS.

• I didn't notice Epps, which is likely a good thing.

• Coop might be a top 10 CB in the NFL.

All in all, the defense can't carry this offense any more than they did last night. And I fear the defense will be gassed for the last 4 games, and who can blame them. My silver lining from last night -- Davis and Hunt are coming into their own, and Q and Coop are the best 1-2 punch at CB in the NFL. But the offense, where we put all our money, is trash.

Just now, Captain F said:

Checking in to see if anyone has been fired or benched yet..

Speaking of which, I thought Byron Young was pretty decent last night. Granted, the Chargers OL is rather decimated. Adoree Jackson was serviceable at CB2. He's never going to be a "good" player, but he didn't kill the team last night. He fought pretty hard and got an INT. Nolan Smith made some smart plays; he reacted very quickly to Herbert taking off and made two really good tackles.

If only Bigsby could get a few more touches.

4 minutes ago, Captain F said:

Checking in to see if anyone has been fired or benched yet..

Yes, the pillars of the blog have been replaced by some 2 x 4's

2 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

Speaking of which, I thought Byron Young was pretty decent last night. Granted, the Chargers OL is rather decimated. Adoree Jackson was serviceable at CB2. He's never going to be a "good" player, but he didn't kill the team last night. He fought pretty hard and got an INT. Nolan Smith made some smart plays; he reacted very quickly to Herbert taking off and made two really good tackles.

If only Bigsby could get a few more touches.

I honestly don't think anyone on defense had a bad game. They can't play any better than that.

3 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

They wouldn't show the PI on Q in the stadium, so I'm guessing it was total BS.

It could have been flagged perhaps for illegal contact as he put his hand on the WR waist when he was on his out-cut, but very ticky-tack. Souldn't have been flagged, and definitely not DPI.

2 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

It could have been flagged perhaps for illegal contact as he put his hand on the WR waist when he was on his out-cut, but very ticky-tack. Souldn't have been flagged, and definitely not DPI.

Was that the play where the rules guy said it was basically a weak flag and Troy and Buck kept harping on it or am I thinking of another penalty?