10 hours ago10 hr 7 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.The Chargers clearly resolved to go after Jackson. And they did get one big completion past him, but they generally weren’t that successful with it.
10 hours ago10 hr 2 minutes ago, eagle45 said:The Chargers clearly resolved to go after Jackson. And they did get one big completion past him, but they generally weren’t that successful with it.Adoree has been serviceable lately. Not good, but not a complete embarrassment either. He's been fine as CB2 in nickel.
10 hours ago10 hr 2 minutes ago, Mike030270 said: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?I had the sound down a lot, but I know none of them thought Mailata's hold on the Brown TD should have been called a penalty. That one was pretty iffy as well, but it seemed like they thought Mailata should have been called for holding on Barkley's long TD run ... so it's pretty subjective.
10 hours ago10 hr 53 minutes ago, ManuManu said:Lololololol......and we all thought it was bad that they continue to have GC lead blocking on run plays. The stupidity of this staff has no bounds.
10 hours ago10 hr I'm sorry, but switching OCs isn't going to cut it if this thing collapses. Look at it this way. If the Eagles fire Patullo, they are making him the scapegoat. If they hire a new OC like Daboll, that's essentially the Eagles saying "We are hiring Daboll to fix our offense."But if you can't trust your own damn head coach to fix the offense, then what are we doing here? It's all so absurd.
10 hours ago10 hr 3 minutes ago, vikas83 said:Adoree has been serviceable lately. Not good, but not a complete embarrassment either. He's been fine as CB2 in nickel.Yep. Vic is able to coach around him and a hole at safety. Meanwhile the offense has all the talent in the world and can't coach for crap
10 hours ago10 hr As critical as I am of this team and its offseason and roster construction, as long as this roster has this kind of talent and gets guys back for the playoffs there is still a chance to do something here. The defense is getting better and more stable with all the new guys. Love how they played last night. Getting a rested Jalen Carter can only help. People are praising teams like the Texans who have a lights out defense and mediocre offense and see them as a playoff threat. Don't see why we can't be viewed in that same realm in the near future. 7 sacks without Carter is super impressive. For the most part since Phillips came we are seeing dominant output from front 7 and now the backend looks stable again. They are playing on the same page and very hard. It should be infectious to the offense at some point. You would hope. There is no dominant team out there. Eagles did show some progress on offense, but beat themselves more than anything. Hurts throws that many interceptions like never. Still don't think this is 2023, as many here probably have PTSD. This is a better roster that is just underachieving to this point on the offensive side. If they just progress to mediocre, we are in any game with anyone. Besides the Giants game, the Eagles have lost to pretty good teams. They have also beat some pretty good teams. So let's see.
10 hours ago10 hr 48 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.Depends on your perspective. In a vacuum you can put 98% of that game on Hurts, but the reality is Hurts is regressing under this coaching staff and that is on the coaches. In fact, every aspect of this offense is regressing. They even sucked in the red zone last night. Even the tush push is failing. So from that perspective I think the coaching deserves most of the blame. Their QB is slipping away and they are powerless to coach him or this offense to success.
9 hours ago9 hr 19 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 give young a ton of credit. He was awful against the bears. To the point, had to ask why he was playing and not giving more reps to Robinson over him. he was good last night. He had some mistakes but he really was always around the ball and making things happen.Our containment with Herbert was not good. He had some backbreaking runs due to miss tackle or lack of containment
9 hours ago9 hr So, moving ahead to 2026, we have $22.4mm in cap space and can gain just under $9mm by cutting Carter (we aren't paying him over $10mm next year). Extending JD could drop his cap number ($12.9mm on 5th year option). Extending JC likely doesn't add much. So at best we are playing with around $35mm in cap space. Now, that includes $20.5 million for DG not to be on the team -- they could extend him before the league years starts and reduce that, but who knows if they will. That could get them to $40mm. They would need to sign: a TE (if DG walks), a safety (Reed is a FA), try and extend Phillips and sign depth DEs, and depth DTs, and need a CB2 and WR3. My guess is they extend JD and Phillips, resign Reed, and then focus on the draft.Trading AJ before the draft would eat up over $20mm in available cap space, so that seems unlikely. We are basically stuck with this offense next year.
9 hours ago9 hr 3 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:Depends on your perspective. In a vacuum you can put 98% of that game on Hurts, but the reality is Hurts is regressing under this coaching staff and that is on the coaches. In fact, every aspect of this offense is regressing. They even sucked in the red zone last night. Even the tush push is failing. So from that perspective I think the coaching deserves most of the blame. Their QB is slipping away and they are powerless to coach him or this offense to success.They’ve been regressing in the red zone since the bye. It was never realistically sustainable to be scoring TDs at the clip they were prior to the bye. It’s why seyed and Sheil continuously harped on that. They are 5-10 since the bye. Really only game they were good was Dallas when they went 3-3.
9 hours ago9 hr Also, yes, they should absolutely try to extend Jordan Davis if the price is right. We're finally seeing the guy who was the 12th pick in the draft. He has been the best defensive lineman on the team.
9 hours ago9 hr For my mental health: The defense was without Carter but did what they needed to do. They should dominate the Raiders and Commanders, and I think they match up well with Buffalo.There were some semblances of life in the running game. I don't recall any presnap penalties on offense. They're pretty much locked into the #3 seed at this point. So if they can somehow use these next couple of weeks to keep working on the running game, get Hurts on the same page with whatever the hell they're trying to do on offense, try to get some momentum going into the Buffalo game and use that as a measuring stick type of game.Let's just do a reset. Play it safe, dust off the week 1 game plan and see if you can get a win you can feel good about vs. LV
9 hours ago9 hr 3 minutes ago, vikas83 said:So, moving ahead to 2026, we have $22.4mm in cap space and can gain just under $9mm by cutting Carter (we aren't paying him over $10mm next year). Extending JD could drop his cap number ($12.9mm on 5th year option). Extending JC likely doesn't add much. So at best we are playing with around $35mm in cap space. Now, that includes $20.5 million for DG not to be on the team -- they could extend him before the league years starts and reduce that, but who knows if they will. That could get them to $40mm. They would need to sign: a TE (if DG walks), a safety (Reed is a FA), try and extend Phillips and sign depth DEs, and depth DTs, and need a CB2 and WR3. My guess is they extend JD and Phillips, resign Reed, and then focus on the draft.Trading AJ before the draft would eat up over $20mm in available cap space, so that seems unlikely. We are basically stuck with this offense next year.Hoping they let JD and DG walk. I wouldn't be upset if they let Reed walk. Hope they bring Phillips back. Also Becton
9 hours ago9 hr 3 minutes ago, vikas83 said:Trading AJ before the draft would eat up over $20mm in available cap space, so that seems unlikely. We are basically stuck with this offense next year.
9 hours ago9 hr 3 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:For my mental health:The defense was without Carter but did what they needed to do. They should dominate the Raiders and Commanders, and I think they match up well with Buffalo.There were some semblances of life in the running game. I don't recall any presnap penalties on offense.They're pretty much locked into the #3 seed at this point.So if they can somehow use these next couple of weeks to keep working on the running game, get Hurts on the same page with whatever the hell they're trying to do on offense, try to get some momentum going into the Buffalo game and use that as a measuring stick type of game.Let's just do a reset. Play it safe, dust off the week 1 game plan and see if you can get a win you can feel good about vs. LVYou are sane and thinking correctly. Need to get raw emotion removed after losing 3 straight games and look at the whole picture. They are still a work in progress. I have seen Chiefs teams kind of look pretty mediocre on offense in 2 different championship seasons and still win it all as they turned it on at the right time. They are defending Superbowl Champions. Not over at all.
9 hours ago9 hr 5 minutes ago, vikas83 said:Also, yes, they should absolutely try to extend Jordan Davis if the price is right. We're finally seeing the guy who was the 12th pick in the draft. He has been the best defensive lineman on the team.He played really well last night. I thought the line in general did. Granted a beat up and bad chargers OL.That said Campbell was burned on one of the big runs by the chargers. I felt early in the season he was not great against the run. I was hoping he’d be better as the season went along but i understand why Vic wants Dean out there more. He is usually much better vs. run and Dean has been great when used as a blitzer.
9 hours ago9 hr Author How many designed runs for Hurts were called?From Kempski...https://www.phillyvoice.com/nfc-hierarchy-obituary-week-15-edition-2025-power-rankings/Remember back in the offseason, when every jabroni with a keyboard put out quarterback rankings? It always fascinated me how little credit Jalen Hurts got for how good the Eagles' rushing attack was. Let's look at the divisional round against the Rams, for example. First quarter, zone read, Jared Verse is going to be all over Saquon Barkley, so Hurts keeps it and runs for a 44-yard TD.A big part of the offensive philosophy and identity was built on the quarterback being a weapon as a runner. Opposing defenses had to respect it, and because of that, he also put Barkley in favorable positions to break off long runs, like he did all season long. For example, later in the game against the Rams, here's another zone read. Verse is purposely left unblocked and he respects the possibility of Hurts keeping the ball. Hurts gives to Barkley, and Verse is now eliminated from the play by the threat of a Hurts keeper. The Eagles get hat-on-hat blocking across the board up front, including a pancake by Mekhi Becton, and all Barkley has to do is beat the safety for a 62-yard TD run:That's all pretty basic stuff. There's nothing that's all that creative or groundbreaking schematically.In 2025, the threat of Hurts as a runner is not part of the offensive identity the way that it has been since he became the starter in 2021. Opposing defenses don't fear it, and when the Eagles try to go back to it on rare occasions, it's not as effective because it's not who they sought out to be this season, and it's far from the well-oiled machine it once was. (It also doesn't help that the offensive line isn't playing like it did in 2024, though the shift in identity is likely part of that.)As we have mentioned here over the past couple of weeks, it's my understanding that Hurts does not want a lot of designed quarterback runs in the game plan. And I think that what we're finding out this season is that if this major strength of his game is being put to waste, then he kind of is what the keyboard jabronis said he is.
9 hours ago9 hr 7 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:They’ve been regressing in the red zone since the bye. It was never realistically sustainable to be scoring TDs at the clip they were prior to the bye. It’s why seyed and Sheil continuously harped on that. They are 5-10 since the bye. Really only game they were good was Dallas when they went 3-3.I just don't know how you can keep the head coach given they do nothing well on offense. Not a single thing."They won a Super Bowl last season" to me isn't a valid reason. If that's the argument rather than someone able to tell me one thing he does well as a head coach, then you're just using baseless platitudes.
9 hours ago9 hr 35 minutes ago, NCiggles said:Yes, the pillars of the blog have been replaced by some 2 x 4'sAs long as it’s not by a bunch of 4for4s…
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