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12 minutes ago, Cliftoma said:

Can someone run down the basement and unplug the EMB, wait 30 seconds and plug it back in please?

It's fine here, no lag. How are other web sites?

13 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Nah instant that knee hits he is down by contact and at best it wasnt even a simultaneous catch

Had he established control when the knee hit the ground? I think that is where this becomes a very difficult call.

Nick Foles only 36. Payton should give him a call.

I'm fine with Daboll interviewing we all knew he would. Just wouldn't be my top choice.

4 minutes ago, eglz1 said:

It's fine here, no lag. How are other web sites?

I've been having problems since late last night

10 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

The two biggest problems that Buffalo has is that Sean McDermott is not the guy that’s going to get them over the top. This feels very much like Tony Dungy with the buccaneers. Where he got him to a certain point, and he just couldn’t get them over the hump.

Secondly their defense is not good. I thought they were very fortunate to beat the Jaguars with that defense. Jaguars could’ve ran all Over that defense with how tuten and ETN looked. The fact they only got 14 carries and coen had that game plan was ridiculous. That said in the last six losses that Buffalo has had in the playoffs they’re giving up 33 points. Furthermore they haven’t held a team below 27 points in any of their playoff losses since 2020. just for comparison the last 6 eagles playoff losses, opponent has only scored 27+ 3 out of 6

I absolutely agree that McDermott is not the guy (Dungy level) I just don't see an obvious Gruden target in 2025. (Tampa over the top reference)

10 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

I like him as a candidate for several reasons.

• He ran a hybrid QB offense and that QB did well (Allen in Buffalo)

• He has lots of experience

• He will yell back at Siri and tell him to F off.

• He knows Hurts (not that they are buddies (I have no idea) but that they know each other on a football level)

• He will not automatically get a job next year if the Eagles go to a SB with the 5 7 ranked offense

I think JBC would have been a good guy for last year. JBC is not enough this year.

This, 1,000x this.

16 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Nick Foles only 36. Payton should give him a call.

No way could he play on Sunday but they could coach him up in 2 weeks if Stidham is bad but they find a way to win.

Even if he did not play he is a great guy in the room and has unique experience for this situation.

1 minute ago, bpac55 said:

This, 1,000x this.

Pick to me

10 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I like Allen and his offense still scored 30 but this is a big reason they lost tonight. (Also saw he has 15 fumbles in 15 playoff games)

Way too much hero ball

1 hour ago, Sack that QB said:

I thought Monken went to the Giants with Harbaugh?

I think if we delete all the Hurts talk the board will run faster

19 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

He has 30 more TDs than Hurts since the start of 2022 and way more than anyone else.

Its even more from 2021-present.

His playoff numbers are excellent (but he obviously had a disastrous game yesterday)

This is just pathetic recency bias propaganda.

The OT rules were changed because they were BS.

He did not lose to KC the same way. In 2024 he missed the SB because the refs cheated (they also cheated the Texans vs KC)

The refs made 40-6 happen because Buffalo deserved to be in the SB and KC did not.

He lost another one because his D could not hold a lead for 13 GD seconds.

Allen is QB1. I'm not rooting for him. I don't like him. Its just the truth.

Mahomes is a better HoF prospect (for 2018-2022) but Mahomes has been just below mediocre over the last 3 years.

A punt hitting a 49ers leg and a slick grass field + Gannon does not make Mahomes a better QB right now.

Burrow lost to terrible NE and lost every single shootout in 2024. He earned the 8th seed (no playoffs)

Some delusional clowns will try to say Burrow is better than Allen.

Stafford is a bad joke, He has the easy button this year and he has still been wildly erratic.

He played Bryce Young to a tie over 2 games by sucking. (Disastrous in game 1 and invisible in the middle of game 2)

Stafford's last throw for the TD vs 8-9 Carolina was a good throw to a covered guy. He hit wide open dudes the rest of the day when not missing them.

He pulled another 5 for 17 type middle of the game in Carolina last week.

Allen is just like Hurts. They are both just the worst QBs except for all the other ones.

26 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

I've been having problems since late last night

I haven't had any problems at all.

He really can't help himself. He's literally taking the most desired names of the fan base and ranking them in reverse order as his most desired names.

Last year you could make a case for Lamar as QB1 but his playoff resume sucks and he fell off a cliff this year.

Two years ago you could maybe still say Mahomes but not now.

Said in the other thread the Kingsbury front has been quiet. I think he's gotten a reputation as difficult throughout league

Ideally, the Eagles will do some thorough self scouting, as they like to call it, with regards to who they are, how they got here, and where they are going. I think there are 4 main groups that impact the on-field results: coaching, QB, offense, and defense. QB being important enough to be its own sector. What's interesting is to break down each of these groups according to their bizarre trajectory. As a team, it's been a wild, pendulum-like ride since 2021.

Team wide:
2021: stabilized from 2020, went to the playoffs. But let's be clear; this was not a good team. They were in the playoffs because of the expanded field and never really competed. Coaches get credit for the turnaround.
2022: Breakthrough. Great corners, reliable safeties, elite DL with waves of quality players. Hurts with the best year of his career and an offense really centered on AJ Brown and Devonta Smith as maybe the best WR duo in the NFL that year. Both coordinators get HC jobs.

2023: Wheels fall off. One of the worst teams in the NFL by the end of the year. Easily the worst defense in the NFL that wasn't actively trading off players at the deadline. Hurts was not good. Both coordinators fired.

2024: Defense goes from worst to best on the shoulders of a massive DC upgrade, grand slam rookie draft picks in Mitchell and Dejean, grand slam offseason addition Baun, as well as internal players ascending like Carter, Milton Williams, Nolan Smith. Offense explodes because the OL peaks and they also added the best player in the NFL to run behind them. Hurts was not productive and frankly not that good at baseline...but he was consistently clutch all year and in big moments. Win SB, OC gets HC job.

2025: Defense is excellent but not quite 2024 and lays an egg in the playoffs. Rookies don't help much. OL and Barkley are a shell of what they were a year ago. AJ Brown and Devonta Smith are officially no longer a feared duo...whether the cause of that lies on their shoulders, the coaches, or the QB is fiercely debated. But they aren't dangerous anymore either way. Hurts was not good.

So the question...is there a way to have yet another rebound and tell a better story for 2026? Or is this the beginning of a downward trajectory? The 2025 team WAS better than 2023. But that offseason was almost completely impossible to reproduce. Turning that 2023 team into a 2024 SB winning involved two fantastic coordinator hires, 3 absolute all-pro level additions on defense, 1 MVP level addition on offense. This offseason simply will not provide that kind of shot in the arm to the 2025 team transitioning into 2026.

You get a longer offseason. You get a shot at a major, meaningfully upgraded OC. It's hard to ask the draft to immediately make the team better. What's going to catapult this team from losing at home to a 49ers team with a roster that couldn't even compete in the playoffs to suddenly competing for a SB next year? The defense is going to have continued personnel erosion that they simply cannot reverse thanks to their mess of an overpaid offense, which both commands new draft picks and destroys our cap at the same time. So while the 2026 defense will still be good, a little worse than 2025 which was a little worse than 2024 is not an unreasonable trajectory. I'm not sure that simply adding a viable OC to a QB who is who he is and an aging OL/RB situation is going to put this team over the top.

A few random thoughts for this Sunday afternoon:

-I think Josh Allen seems like a good dude and he is damn fun to watch. He is also amazing in fantasy football. He might just be THE Most overrated player in the league though. That performance yesterday was embarrassing. You can even take away all of the turnovers and he still missed a WIDE OPEN Dawson Knox for the game winning TD and throw a worm burner to a WIDE OPEN Mecole Hardman the play before the Cooks no catch/catch INT.

-Can you imagine if Jalen Hurts had a playoff game like Allen had yesterday? People would be calling for him to be run out of the league. Hurts throws a ball slightly too high to Devonta on that crucial third down and gets killed, meanwhile Allen has 20 turnovers and misses multiple receivers way worse with the game on the line but he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. HMMMMMM........

-At this rate we could be looking at one of the leaste watched SB's in NFL history. This final four is shaping up to be gross.

-That loss to 49'ers wasn't as bad as Eagles fan thought. Nope, after last night it's about a million times worse. I REALLY hope the Eagles organization are aware of just how bad and utterly pathetic that was.

-Yes the officiating was horrible in the Denver/Buffalo game. Moss did the exact same thing to Cooks at the end of regulation in the end zone to the first PI against Buffalo and probably did so worse with no call. There was contact on the 2nd one with White but after everything they let go in that game that was questionable as hell to throw that flag in that situation. With all of that being said, Buffalo should be looking no further than their franchise QB for why they lost. That ridiculous fumble at the end of the first half alone could have been the difference, not to mention the other turnovers and all of the missed throws to wide open receivers.

-We better not hire Robinson, Cooter, or Kafka.

Have a great day everyone, can't wait for Bears/Seahawks and Patriots/Broncos next week so I can throw up in my mouth.

I recall getting bashed by a certain poster in here when I said Josh Allen was inconsistent and overrated as a passer or something to that effect.

44 minutes ago, eglz1 said:

It's fine here, no lag. How are other web sites?

All sites are fine except this one. Slow as molasses

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

Glad you're happy with the amount of clutch he brought this season. Not nearly enough for me.

I'm not, I was just saying he didn't have "zero" clutch games this year.