November 18Nov 18 16 hours ago, scottr@pictips.com said:They most certainly are a factor. There are several issues with the O. The line struggling, the play calling, Hurts possibly feeling pressure to get AJ involved and forcing him the ball. I think there is also a case to be made for Hurts playing too safe and afraid to turn the ball over. That being said there is not just one issue on the offensive struggles, and they don't seem to be any closer resolving themHurts is playing safe, Sirianni literally said in the presser before the Detroit game that the philosophy is to win the turnover battle by taking care of the football, that's what the offense is designed to do.
November 18Nov 18 19 hours ago, Procus said:It does feel like 2023 in reverse - with the offense being the big problem this year and not the defenseHate to tell you. The offense was a big problem in 2023 as well. The offense now is exactly how it looked near the end of the 2023 season when teams figured out the Eagles.
November 18Nov 18 2 hours ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:Hurts is playing safe, Sirianni literally said in the presser before the Detroit game that the philosophy is to win the turnover battle by taking care of the football, that's what the offense is designed to do.Yes. Hurts is a game manager QB. We paying a QB top 5 money to be a game manager. The Defense and Run game carried us last year. Now its just the Defense carrying this team while they do nothing on offense all season.
November 18Nov 18 1 minute ago, Swimm said:Yes. Hurts is a game manager QB. We paying a QB top 5 money to be a game manager.The Defense and Run game carried us last year. Now its just the Defense carrying this team while they do nothing on offense all season.Hurts is a game manager Klaxon, the mid season 2024 re enactment of the mid season 2023 re enactment of the mid season 2022 re enactment of the mid season 2021 here's why I don't like Jalen Hurts festival is finally in full swing. Remember folks It's not deja vu, you really have been here before.
November 18Nov 18 5 hours ago, Swimm said:Yes. Hurts is a game manager QB. We paying a QB top 5 money to be a game manager.The Defense and Run game carried us last year. Now its just the Defense carrying this team while they do nothing on offense all season.Top 5 money? He's 11th amongst QBs, and the 10 in front of him haven't won a SB. And its bc of this why we have enough talent for him to be a game manager. The rest is agree on.
November 18Nov 18 5 hours ago, Swimm said:Hate to tell you. The offense was a big problem in 2023 as well. The offense now is exactly how it looked near the end of the 2023 season when teams figured out the Eagles.Well, the offense was good in 2023 until they played the 49ers (as you kind of alluded to). I don't think they got figured out, I honestly believe that carrying that horrific defense finally took its toll. After that 49ers loss, the team as a whole was awful and they lost their confidence. Still, AJ statistically had one of his 2 best seasons here with 106 rec, 1456 yds, 7 TDs and 2nd team AP. This years offense is definitely worse imo, the only difference is now we don't have a 32 ranked defense allowing opponents to score on almost every possession.
November 18Nov 18 5 hours ago, LacesOut said:Old man is gonna Old man.🥸😎There are a few things we could ding Howie on. Not already having Lane's replacement waiting in the wings is one of them. Perhaps they should've kept Becton and moved him back outside once Lane retired.
November 18Nov 18 28 minutes ago, EazyEaglez said:There are a few things we could ding Howie on. Not already having Lane's replacement waiting in the wings is one of them. Perhaps they should've kept Becton and moved him back outside once Lane retired.Becton can't stay healthy either.
November 18Nov 18 Sad- Lane is becoming Jason Peters- always hurt. Age does that to an athlete. Howie is going to have to rebuild the O line this offseason.
November 19Nov 19 6 hours ago, EazyEaglez said:Sucks. We need one of those first round picks to be lane's replacement.Need a QB first … amirite???
November 19Nov 19 On 11/17/2025 at 12:39 PM, Procus said:It does feel like 2023 in reverse - with the offense being the big problem this year and not the defenseWasn’t 2023 the Brian Johnson year? The offense sucked that year too.
November 19Nov 19 On 11/17/2025 at 7:19 PM, Procus said:Yes, but their record with Fred Johnson replacing LJ is considerably better.It just goes to show you..If you want to get somewhere....You got to have a Johnson.
November 19Nov 19 15 hours ago, Swimm said:Yes. Hurts is a game manager QB. We paying a QB top 5 money to be a game manager.The Defense and Run game carried us last year. Now its just the Defense carrying this team while they do nothing on offense all season.I don't care HOW ugly they win. There are no points for style. Last draft I was screaming at the board for Eagles to pick up an offensive lineman...but they did not. I guess it will be a priority in the next draft.
November 19Nov 19 So I’ve heard a few reports that say his season is likely done? I know that’s not what the team have said but apparently this isn’t an injury that will be okay to go in 4-6 weeks.
November 19Nov 19 30 minutes ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:So I’ve heard a few reports that say his season is likely done? I know that’s not what the team have said but apparently this isn’t an injury that will be okay to go in 4-6 weeks.4-6 weeks is what the team are saying publically, but that seems optimistic on a Lisfranc for a position that is all about anchoring your feet, even if it's just a sprain. Plus most of that 4-6 weeks he'll have to avoid putting weight on it and likely be wearing a boot so honestly how much use is Lane going to be in the play offs coming off 4-6 weeks with no football work? Not to mention rushing linemen back from injury has been biting us in the ass all season already.
November 19Nov 19 1 hour ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:So I’ve heard a few reports that say his season is likely done? I know that’s not what the team have said but apparently this isn’t an injury that will be okay to go in 4-6 weeks.McLane was reporting that as a possibility that this may be more than a 4-6 week thing. It’s still a Lisfranc but the severity is unknown … they need to x-ray but are unable to do so until the swelling goes down. Once they can x-ray then they will know if surgery is needed, which would obviously push that recovery time out longer.
November 19Nov 19 thankfully we have those 2 tackles on the practice squad hopefully they pan out in stout land U.
November 19Nov 19 33 minutes ago, time2rock said:McLane was reporting that as a possibility that this may be more than a 4-6 week thing. It’s still a Lisfranc but the severity is unknown … they need to x-ray but are unable to do so until the swelling goes down. Once they can x-ray then they will know if surgery is needed, which would obviously push that recovery time out longer.If it is severe enough that they couldn't examine it properly because of swelling and don't even know whether it needs surgery then 4-6 weeks is a hugely optimistic best case scenario, 4-6 weeks would be a minor sprain.
November 19Nov 19 1 minute ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:If it is severe enough that they couldn't examine it properly because of swelling and don't even know whether it needs surgery then 4-6 weeks is a hugely optimistic best case scenario, 4-6 weeks would be a minor sprain.I agree. I, too, think it is much more likely he is not going to be able to play for the rest of this season. Which obviously is a real bummer. But I do remember feeling the same when we lost Peters in that Washington MNF game back in 2017 and Big V ended up manning LT the rest of the way and on to our first Lombardi. So fingers crossed ...
November 19Nov 19 Since we're on the subject of the severity of Lane's injury, just came across this piece from Nick Tricome (Philly Voice):Can Lane Johnson make it back to the Eagles before the playoffs?Lane Johnson reportedly suffered a Lisfranc sprain in his foot. It's a tricky injury, but the Eagles do seem optimistic that their star tackle avoided the worst.By Nick TricomePhillyVoice StaffThe Eagles, as has been the case for more than a decade, can ill afford to be without Lane Johnson at right tackle. The two-time All Pro left Sunday night's win against Detroit with a foot injury, though, and the initial diagnosis was a Lisfranc sprain that is expected to sideline the veteran offensive lineman for 4-6 weeks, per an NFL Network report from Monday.That's a considerable amount of time to be missing a key piece of protection up front for the offense, and all in the home stretch of the regular season, while the playoff race really starts to shape up. But that also might be the best-case scenario for the Eagles. Johnson is still waiting to undergo X-rays, The Philadelphia Inquirer's Jeff McLane reported Tuesday. The inflammation in his foot still needs to go down, and once doctors are able to take the scans, there will be a clearer picture as to whether it's just a sprain that Johnson is dealing with or something greater that will require surgery and far more recovery time – possibly past this season.Johnson and the Eagles are stuck in an anxious waiting period until then, with an injury to a part of the foot that can get tricky.Dr. Dinesh Dhanaraj, the Attending Orthopedic Surgeon at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, offered an outside explanation as to why, along with an estimation of what Johnson could be dealing with rehab and recovery-wise in the weeks ahead.But before getting started, an important note: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and guest authors and do not reflect any official policy or position of any NFL team or a team's athletic physicians. Lisfranc injuries aren't unheard of in the world of professional sports, but that doesn't make them any easier to deal with, largely because of where in the foot those injuries happen, and what can get injured."It's a joint in the mid-foot," Dr. Dhanaraj explained. "It's on the medial aspect of the foot. It provides stability to the mid-foot. It also helps with the arch of the foot."But it's also a part of the foot that has a lot going on."There are numerous small bones in the foot that are held together with key ligaments, one of them being the Lisfranc, which goes from the second metatarsal to the medial cuneiform," Dr. Dhanaraj continued. The Lisfranc ligament can get torn or sprained, and the bones themselves can get fractured, which cuts into the foot's stability.For now, the initial ruling on Johnson is a sprain.When he exited Sunday night's game, the NBC broadcast did show him walking back through the Lincoln Financial Field tunnel with trainers, though with a limp. "It's a good sign, usually, if they can put weight and walk off of it," Dr. Dhanaraj said of athletes immediately getting up from foot injuries. "It's usually a good sign in general because the body tells you how bad the injury is sometimes."Plus, being able to walk points to optimism that the injury is less severe. "[The foot] might be more likely to be able to bear weight right off the bat," Dr. Dhanaraj said.Tuesday's report of inflammation in Johnson's foot delaying an X-ray, though, is not a good sign. However, Dr. Dhanaraj speculated from the outside that those X-rays might be more about finding out what kind of level of weight the foot can currently bear."They probably want to do what are called weight-bearing films," Dr. Dhanaraj said. "They have him stand on a plate, and they see if there's any dynamic instability with weight bearing. That kind of determines how much of a severity this ligament, this injury is."MRIs are helpful, too, for looking at the ligament itself and determining what kind of sprain has been suffered. Much like other sprains covered in the past across the Sixers, Eagles, and Phillies, Lisfranc sprains exist in three grades – Grade 1 is a strain, Grade 2 is a partial tear, and Grade 3 goes into the realm of a full tear or dislocation, where no athlete ever wants to be. Johnson and the Eagles seem like they avoided Grade 3 based on the initial report, and are probably holding out hope that if the sprain isn't a Grade 1, it falls into the low end of Grade 2. Even so, the middle of the foot is still tricky when it's injured.The 4-to-6 week window is out there, but considering the typical recovery and rehab process from a Lisfranc sprain, that window does seem a little over-optimistic in Dr. Dhanaraj's view."Because the initial time period is a couple weeks of non-weight bearing to treat it," he explained. "So to jump right back into full force and full speed is sometimes tough. If you treat them operatively and you need a full recovery, they can be like ACLs, where they take six months to a year, if they are like that Grade 3 that requires surgery. "So I think they're being optimistic that it's a mid-foot sprain, and if it's a Lisfranc, then it's a probably very, very minor one. A period of boot and crutches may be enough to do the trick, but I think they would have to get advanced imaging, an MRI, or even what's called weight-bearing films, to determine that."It's an anxious wait for the Eagles and their elite tackle until then.https://www.phillyvoice.com/lane-johnson-lisfranc-eagles-injury-breakdown-rehab-timeline-return-date-nfl-playoffs/
November 19Nov 19 1 minute ago, time2rock said:I agree. I, too, think it is much more likely he is not going to be able to play for the rest of this season. Which obviously is a real bummer. But I do remember feeling the same when we lost Peters in that Washington MNF game back in 2017 and Big V ended up manning LT the rest of the way and on to our first Lombardi. So fingers crossed ...Yeah I think Fred is the best back up tackle we've had for a while, and does look way better when he's got 1st team reps all week.8 minutes ago, time2rock said:Since we're on the subject of the severity of Lane's injury, just came across this piece from Nick Tricome (Philly Voice):https://www.phillyvoice.com/lane-johnson-lisfranc-eagles-injury-breakdown-rehab-timeline-return-date-nfl-playoffs/I'm looking at Lisfranc injuries from recently and I can't find one that was back in 6 weeks, in fact studies and literature for Lisfrancs puts Lane squarely in the worst categories for returns being a 12 year vet Offensive Lineman over 31 years old, they have to think it isn't actually a Lisfranc to throw that timetable out.As an illustration, of 33 Lisfranc injuries in the NFL at all positions between 2009 and 2020, 26 required surgery and 7 didn't, 27 players returned to play in the NFL and 6 didn't, and of the 6 players that never played another snap, 3 (50% duh!) were Offensive Lineman aged 30 and up, and all players who returned to play saw a decrease in performance for a year but generally recovered to pre injury level over the next 3. from "Return to Play, Performance, and Economic-Analysis Following Lisfranc Injuries in the National Football League" Abed et al, Univ. of Kentucky 2023
November 19Nov 19 13 hours ago, Road to Victory said:Wasn’t 2023 the Brian Johnson year? The offense sucked that year too.They were predictable AF and had a H.S. offense, but they could actually put up points. Hopefully Lane comes back and plays well for the postseason run. If the team can get the 1 seed, that's even better.
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