33 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

The casual thumbs down was the best part of that play and they didn’t show it.

6 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

That second video on Hurts is spot on. This and the Jets game are the two worst games I recall him playing.

Too many bad decisions and bad throws. I called out watching live that he had Dotson free on that double turnover play.

13 minutes ago, NOTW said:

Meme worthy photo right there

7 hours ago, eagle45 said:

OK let's talk about hitch routes. Some of the media astutely made this a talking point after noticing the extreme predilection the Eagles have for these routes. But this is the core of the problem and really deserves a deep dive, which, IMO, truly reveals the problem..

As the vast majority of blog superfans are aware, the hitch route is a short route characterized by a quick plant and turn towards the QB. It presents a stationary target. There is nearly zero possibility for YAC. A couple things to establish about why the Eagles run so many of them:

Fact:

1. The Eagles like hitch routes short of the 1st down marker on 2nd and 3rd down. This is a soft spot in the zone that is defended less rigorously. It is a more challenging throw and connection to go beyond the sticks, where the defense is really trying to stop you. This gets the Eagles into tush push territory for 3rd or 4th down.

2. An offense built on hitch routes will not generate YAC.

Assertion:

1. Given that hitch routes present a simpler, stationary target, the coaches prefer to overwhelmingly run these due to a lack of confidence in their QB. Contrary to popular belief, this is not the route tree the HC and OC want.

2. As the chatter about the hitch route obsession has gained momentum, the Chargers were actually the first team to really start jumping them. So far this year, other teams were content to permissively allow that underneath crap, especially considering the decreased efficacy of the tush push.

3. The Eagles coaches did, in fact, adjust to what the Chargers were doing. This was why we saw a "more aggressive" game plan that targeted more areas of the field with more diverse routes than we've seen all year. The Chargers pushed them into doing this. That's why we saw so many open players in the second level.

4. Hurts' INTs did not come off jumping hitch routes. They came off the Eagles coaches opening up the route tree and getting away from those routes in response to what the Chargers were doing.

5. #4 is the most damning of all for Hurts. It's exhibit A for WHY these coaches insist on running this maddening, vanilla offense. They tried to get away from that (no...were dared to get away from that by the Chargers)...and Hurts showed everyone exactly why we run the offense we run.

The INT on the pass to Smith was Donte Jackson sitting on the hitch and jumping that route. You are correct on the rest

Jeff McLane in his latest podcast episode said and I’m paraphrasing: "while I'm not calling for Hurts to be benched or think that he will, I brought up the possibility to maybe give him a bit of a break because I know there’s things going on behind the scenes that could have people believe that he’s not listening to the coaching.”