All Lurie said was "you want to be a top 5 offense to have your best chance at winning a Super Bowl". He's never said more than that.

1 hour ago, Alphagrand said:

We’ll get an idea of how much power Doug has left to motivate and coach this team up during this stretch.  I’ve been hearing that he’s been uncharacteristicly snarky all week.  I’m sure most people feel the Eagles will lose these next 5 games to drop to 3-10-1.  We’ll see.

I posted my score prediction of CLE by 14, but in the NFL you never know 

He also threw some players under the bus what he normally doesn’t do much of. If I remember reading the transcript from his president right he said something about Kelce

I have a weird feeling that they’re going to wind up somehow someway winning one of the next five games. The NFL is weird where the Packers almost lost last week to the Jaguars

 

Is Doug trying to get fired?

Yup. Reagor looked out of sorts running his route. 

23 minutes ago, Swoop said:

Yeah, I don't believe that. How would Caplan know that and, didn't running the football effectively play a major part in us winning the SB?

I call BS.

Haven’t listen to the inside the birds podcast but I know Caplan and mosher were on 975 on mondays for their usual slot. He did say something to the effect lurie understands this is an offense driven league and really a passing league.  He mentioned that lurie was upset/angry before the Dallas game about how the offense was running and how the offense has performed so far the season especially after the moves they may to bring in other coaches. And this was well known inside the eagles organization and inside the locker room. 

 

2 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Yup. Reagor looked out of sorts running his route. 

Wentz definitely double clutched and made bradberry have a chance to make a play on the ball. However watching that play I thought if fulgham ran his route a half yard more the two giants players would’ve collided with one another and made it impossible for bradberry to get there even with the double clutch. That said I wonder if fulgham thought if that happened there would be a penalty flag thrown on him. 

8 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

He also threw some players under the bus what he normally doesn’t do much of. If I remember reading the transcript from his president right he said something about Kelce

I have a weird feeling that they’re going to wind up somehow someway winning one of the next five games. The NFL is weird where the Packers almost lost last week to the Jaguars

 

I think the Eagles win 2 of the next 5.  I wouldn’t bet a nickel of my own money on it; just a feeling I get.

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Yup. Reagor looked out of sorts running his route. 

I thought he was going to trip and fall down.

2 hours ago, justrelax said:

So, personally we agree but it doesn't matter since the f.o. and coaches don't. They'll say, "Hey, we're in first place!"

I believe so

2 hours ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

This year? He's had issues throughout to be fair with accuracy and hitting guys in stride etc. He's fairly often missed on those swing plays and guys in the flat. 

disagree

3 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I think the Eagles win 2 of the next 5.  I wouldn’t bet a nickel of my own money on it; just a feeling I get.

I really want to pick them to win this week. I wanted to pick the Giants to win last week but I just ultimately refused to believe they would lose. i should’ve listened to what my gut was telling me then. 

13 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Yup. Reagor looked out of sorts running his route. 

Still didn't need to double clutch

33 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Haven’t listen to the inside the birds podcast but I know Caplan and mosher were on 975 on mondays for their usual slot. He did say something to the effect lurie understands this is an offense driven league and really a passing league.  He mentioned that lurie was upset/angry before the Dallas game about how the offense was running and how the offense has performed so far the season especially after the moves they may to bring in other coaches. And this was well known inside the eagles organization and inside the locker room. 

I’m not sure why anyone would question what Caplan is reporting. Lurie has all but said he wants a top passing offense and neutered Pederson when it comes to putting his staff together. 

There are so many things at play here that it’s tough to pinpoint why the offense is struggling. 

1) Wentz has regressed. Why?

2) Situational play calling. We have too many brutal in-game decisions/play calls by Pederson.

3) Forcing new coaches on Pederson. Clearly he didn’t want to move on from Groh. Even if Groh was bad, you would think a SB winning coach would have the sway to tell Lurie to let him construct his own offensive staff. Let’s look at our alleged list of "OC candidates.” Harrell, Urban and Scangarello couldn’t possibly be more different. They supposedly wanted to hire Harrell, but he declined because he couldn’t call plays. Scangarello isn’t the OC, but his foundation is nothing like Harrell’s. The Baltimore system is nothing like either. What exactly was the plan? Just get ideas or to actually change the O?

4) Too many cooks? I liked the Scangarello hire. His on-paper weaknesses (namely he was too conservative) weren’t a problem here because Doug is aggressive. However, our play-action game has cratered, and Scangarello’s influence has not appeared helpful in the slightest. Mornhinweg... who knows what he actually does. Did he basically bring the Lamar junk plays from Baltimore? Press Taylor: What would you say you do here? Wentz is a mess. How hard is he coaching him? Who is our second in charge on offense? How much of a say does Wentz get in the game plan?

There are so many questions with this offense right now. I think the injuries were a legit excuse for awhile, but the past two weeks the offense has been pathetic. No. 1 is getting Wentz right. How do they do it? I have no damn clue. 

7 minutes ago, greend said:

Still didn't need to double clutch

I don’t blame him for it. The mesh point of the pick was really clunky. I bet he thought Reagor might not get to the correct spot. 

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

I don’t blame him for it. The mesh point of the pick was really clunky. I bet he thought Reagor might not get to the correct spot. 

Meh, I'm not sure how much of a timing play that is. He was looking right at him and he was open (wouldn't have gone far) more open then he was after he clutched

20 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Wentz definitely double clutched and made bradberry have a chance to make a play on the ball. However watching that play I thought if fulgham ran his route a half yard more the two giants players would’ve collided with one another and made it impossible for bradberry to get there even with the double clutch. That said I wonder if fulgham thought if that happened there would be a penalty flag thrown on him. 

The rule is that that's legal within 1 yard of the LOS... it is illegal to run into the defender (aka, block them) deeper than that.   So... this is a case of 'showing our youth', and the lack of time working together between Fulgham and Reagor.    Fulgham wasn't with the team during the TC.  Reagor has been out since Fulgham has emerged.  So... they've never really worked on the mesh concept like that until this week, or maybe the last two.  That's something that they can absolutely get better at... BUT... only if the young guys are allowed to work together and not get bumped off the field by a crabby old vet that has a bone to pick.  Alshon has no place taking reps from any of these WRs.   He needs to get placed back on the shelf... he's NOT going to be tradable.  No matter what he does in the last 7 games.

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I’m not sure why anyone would question what Caplan is reporting. Lurie has all but said he wants a top passing offense and neutered Pederson when it comes to putting his staff together. 

There are so many things at play here that it’s tough to pinpoint why the offense is struggling. 

1) Wentz has regressed. Why?

2) Situational play calling. We have too many just brutal in-game decisions by Pederson. 

3) Forcing new coaches on Pederson. Clearly he didn’t want to move on from Groh. Even if Groh was bad, you would think a SB winning coach would have the sway to tell Lurie to let him construct his own offensive staff. Let’s look at our alleged list of "OC candidates.” Harrell, Urban and Scangarello couldn’t possibly be more different. They supposedly wanted to hire Harrell, but he declined because he couldn’t call plays. Scangarello isn’t the OC, but his foundation is nothing like Harrell’s. The Baltimore system is nothing like either. Why exactly was the plan? Just get ideas or to actually change the O?

4) Too many cooks? I liked the Scangarello hire. His on-paper weaknesses (namely he was too conservative) weren’t a problem here because Doug is aggressive. However, our play-action game has cratered, and Scangarello’s influence has not appeared helpful in the slightest. Mornhinweg... who knows what he actually does. Did he basically bring the Lamar junk plays from Baltimore? Press Taylor: What would you say you do here? Wentz is a mess. How hard is he coaching him? Who is our second in charge on offense? How much of a day does Wentz get in the game plan?

There are so many questions with this offense right now. I think the injuries were a legit excuse for awhile, but the past two weeks the offense has been pathetic. No. 1 is getting Wentz right. How do they do it? I have no damn clue. 

I completely agree with you. I don’t think Adam Caplan just made that up. I think he had somebody tell him that that he trust and that’s why you put it out there. On the rest of your points I 100% agree. The last two weeks the Eagles have been healthier than any other point in the season. Not only that they face the Giants who are in a very good defense of team and Dallas who is one of the worst defensive teams in the league and they manage to only score on offense 15 and 17 points. So the offense is regressing from what they did against the Steelers and ravens. Frankly I thought the Steelers and ravens game were more of fools gold we’re both of those teams got a big lead and kind of took the foot off the pedal and nearly lost the game because they did that more than the Eagles offense began clicking. 

I don’t know how to get Carson back on track. I think there’s something bigger going on between doug and Carson. 

26 minutes ago, RLC said:

Is Doug trying to get fired?

Why?

 

So Dillard gets traded in 2 of the scenarios I saw. I just can't see them giving up on Dillard already

25 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

Had no idea Parkey was with the Browns now

4 minutes ago, greend said:

Meh, I'm not sure how much of a timing play that is. He was looking right at him and he was open (wouldn't have gone far) more open then he was after he clutched

But if he didn’t think he was getting through the pick or that the pick was effective enough to disrupt the corner it could have been an interception in his mind. 

It was poor execution by the WRs, and Wentz didn’t trust it as it played out. I don’t blame him for double clutching. Reagor’s route was clunky as hell. 

35 minutes ago, RLC said:

Is Doug trying to get fired?

Why the hell is Alshon Jeffery getting snaps that are taking away from your young kids who and fulgham likely going to be your starter on the outside next year and going forward? 
 

I don’t disagree with his point he’s having coverage rolled more his way but the eagles in the Dallas game really didn’t even target him until the third quarter. And last week he barely had two targets into the third-quarter. That is a lack of targeting him by the offense. I don’t think the Giants or the cowboys are good enough on defense where they’re going to stop him if you’re actually targeting him. If fulgham was targeted more than seven times in that Dallas game he likely goes over 120 yards because Dallas had no answers for him once they began targeting him

another interesting note is Jalen Reagor since he has returned has had 13 targets and fulgham has had 12. So I look at that and say maybe the eagles are trying to justify that pic by force-feeding him when he’s been underwhelming with the routes he has run at times and in general when he’s played so far this year.

11 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

The rule is that that's legal within 1 yard of the LOS... it is illegal to run into the defender (aka, block them) deeper than that.   So... this is a case of 'showing our youth', and the lack of time working together between Fulgham and Reagor.    Fulgham wasn't with the team during the TC.  Reagor has been out since Fulgham has emerged.  So... they've never really worked on the mesh concept like that until this week, or maybe the last two.  That's something that they can absolutely get better at... BUT... only if the young guys are allowed to work together and not get bumped off the field by a crabby old vet that has a bone to pick.  Alshon has no place taking reps from any of these WRs.   He needs to get placed back on the shelf... he's NOT going to be tradable.  No matter what he does in the last 7 games.

Let him take some of Ward’s snaps. Ward brings little to the offense anyway, and Alshon if healthy is the better player. Anything to help Wentz play better should be on the table. 

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

Let him take some of Ward’s snaps. Ward brings little to the offense anyway, and Alshon if healthy is the better player. Anything to help Wentz play better should be on the table. 

I'm not sure Alshon helps Wentz.

Just now, Iggles_Phan said:

I'm not sure Alshon helps Wentz.

We already know Ward doesn’t. 

3 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I'm not sure Alshon helps Wentz.

Honestly I’d rather see John hightower out there. He’s had some bad plays but he’s also had some big plays for the Eagles. That long reception against the Giants in the first game started the come back. I much prefer him going through growing pains then alshon being out there.