I know everyone is focused on the current state of the team. I want to take a step away and comment on the state of the reporting on the team.

In a word, it sucks. It is intellectually lazy, lacks effort, and it agenda driven.

For example, Reuben Franks write today:

"Years of poor drafts have diluted the talent level. Injuries have decimated the offensive line. Carson Wentz has mysteriously lost his ability to play at a high level."

WTF is mysterious about it?  The OL sucks and the skill positions suck.

Kempski is a waste of carbon. There is little actual content on his site and what is there is recycled crap. Must be nice to collect a paycheck for so little effort. Yeah, and the stick figures are old.

BLG and Solak have their agendas and the facts be damned.

OK, rant over.

 

3 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Major team needs moving forward:

1. GM

2. Offensive coach

3. QB

4. LT

5. WR1

6. RT

7. WR2

8. OG

9. OC

10. WR3

11. CB

12. DE

13. LB

14. S

 

Am I missing anything?

Jim Schwartz's replacement

1 minute ago, RLC said:

If a QB is holding the ball too long, and gets sacked, that's not on the OL.

No, but that wasn't the majority of sacks this game or all season.

And you have to look at the "22" to see if anyone was open.

Wentz is definitely uncomfortable in the pocket, but that's not surprising, not just the bad pass blocking (and bad blitz pickup as well), but when you constantly shift OL, the QB struggles to get a feel for the pocket b/c different OL block differently, and you lose the subconscious sense of where the safe spots are that you have with the same guys in front of you game after game.

3 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Major team needs moving forward:

1. GM

2. Offensive coach

3. QB

4. LT

5. WR1

6. RT

7. WR2

8. OG

9. OC

10. WR3

11. CB

12. DE

13. LB

14. S

 

Am I missing anything?

DC

12 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

My first sentence literally said, "The offensive line wasn't perfect last night".

And I'll say it for the 100th time and I'll keep saying it, it all starts with the QB, especially when you know pressure could be coming from your right side. (For whatever reason...poor O-Line play, blitz, etc.) It's the QB's responsibility to adjust the offense if he knows pressure is likely coming. 

Anyway, I'll wait until the all-22 comes out but as of now, it's not looking good.

The offensive line on the right side last night was bad. Your underwhelming remark it wasn’t perfect no they were BAD. It wasn’t perfect is a gross understatement. You can expect pressure coming from the right side every single play and yet doug is calling slow developing plays and yet you see no problem with that But have an issue with Carson not calling an audible to get out of that slow developing play? 

And let me add on the reason why they brought in Jordan Howard wasn’t so much for his goal line or short yardage running. It was because Miles Sanders and Boston Scott blitz pickup and pass protection have regressed majorly. Like I was surprise last year that Miles Sanders was good at Pass protection in his rookie season. This year he’s look like a rookie in pass protection. He and Scott has been terrible in that aspect.

5 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Major team needs moving forward:

1. GM

2. Offensive coach

3. QB

4. LT

5. WR1

6. RT

7. WR2

8. OG

9. OC

10. WR3

11. CB

12. DE

13. LB

14. S

 

Am I missing anything?

DC and QB coach

7 minutes ago, RLC said:

If a QB is holding the ball too long, and gets sacked, that's not on the OL.

I’ve watched it three times now I’m telling you right now the right side of the line was not holding up well pretty much all night. You can say Carson held ball too long on some plays but there was more play where the right side of the line was absolutely getting destroyed by a weak pass rush of the Seahawks or a blitzing Jamal Adams

6 minutes ago, RLC said:

If a QB is holding the ball too long, and gets sacked, that's not on the OL.

His average is 2.9 seconds making him 7th in holding the ball too long

https://nextgenstats.nfl.com/stats/passing#average-time-to-throw

The Oline couldn't block

At the end of 2012, we thought the team was devoid of talent. We went 10-6 the next year.
At the end of 2015, we thought the team was devoid of talent. We went 7-9 the next year with a rookie QB/Won SB next year.

There is talent on this roster. The coaching is bad. Better coaching will make a huge difference.

3 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Major team needs moving forward:

1. GM

2. Offensive coach

3. QB

4. LT

5. WR1

6. RT

7. WR2

8. OG

9. OC

10. WR3

11. CB

12. DE

13. LB

14. S

 

Am I missing anything?

I think Mailata will be fine at LT moving forward and hopefully Lane Johnson will be here for a few more years...with Andre Dillard playing swing tackle and eventually taking over for Johnson.  But we could always use an extra Tackle for insurance policy reasons.

That said, we desperately need at least one high-caliber guard...maybe two, depending on what the Brooks situation is moving forward and we will need  a center if Hebert doesn't take over at center. 

As for the rest, this team should just go BPA...there's plenty of holes to fill all over the roster, imo.

 

3 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

His average is 2.9 seconds making him 7th in holding the ball too long

https://nextgenstats.nfl.com/stats/passing#average-time-to-throw

The Oline couldn't block

To be fair it really wasn’t the left side of the line. The left side of the line played well. They were great but they played well. The right side of the line was freaking bad. Matt Pryor should not be playing. Matt pryor has been the Eagles worst offensive lineman all season long. Even Driscoll, herbig, and opeta I think I’ve played better than pryor. And Jason peters I’m sorry he’s done. It might be his toe that’s affecting him but the dude has not played well at two positions this year. Just move the F on already. He’s done. get over it and move on and grow some testicles and tell him that

17 minutes ago, RLC said:

I could not disagree more with this.

The play-calling is bad and the QB is a mess. It's not because of the OL. Wentz got good protection last night...and it didn't matter.

Six sacks and numerous pressures say otherwise.

17 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I think Reagor is failing to separate right now.  He has run some deep routes and has completely failed to generate any space, so I think some of those contested catch situations are on him.  He also looked like a deer in headlights as a PR.

I agree that Doug is stupid, but I think, once again, they drafted a WR in rounds 1-2 who wasn't ready.  

At least Reagor possesses physical upside.  They usually draft low upside players who aren't ready and need years of work.  

I'm not going to disagree there are times when reagor hasn't got much separation and one has to ask what WR on the team has got separation???

Reagor definitely had separation on the play he was left wide open and was open pre snap yet Carson fails to even look his way and throws in to a double covered goedert.

Wentz and reagor have zero chemistry and Doug does absolutely nothing to facilitate that.

Put reagor with a competent play caller/designer like in SF or Pitt and he's having more production. 

It's unreal watching game after game of other teams rookie receivers making plays and being schemed open to watch the eagles WRs week after week do nothing and conclude wow the eagles WRs suck, or maybe the coach and qb suck?

13 minutes ago, RLC said:

If a QB is holding the ball too long, and gets sacked, that's not on the OL.

This is simply agenda driven and devoid of empiricism.

1 hour ago, RLC said:

This is one of my favorite plays to show off that it's not on the WRs. 

How is this a bad decision?  Its bad execution, the decision was good

He had a 1 yard route open but the shot to Goeddert was there and they got a huge penalty from this

2 minutes ago, Desertbirds said:

This is simply agenda driven and devoid of empiricism.

Lots of plays with good protection in spread sets.

It's. The. QB.

5 minutes ago, Desertbirds said:

Six sacks and numerous pressures say otherwise.

ESPN had it as 18 pressures on his 53 pass attempts last night. When i went back and watched it the second time i counted 22. So you are around 35-40% of his pass plays 

23 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

My first sentence literally said, "The offensive line wasn't perfect last night".

And I'll say it for the 100th time and I'll keep saying it, it all starts with the QB, especially when you know pressure could be coming from your right side. (For whatever reason...poor O-Line play, blitz, etc.) It's the QB's responsibility to adjust the offense if he knows pressure is likely coming. 

Anyway, I'll wait until the all-22 comes out but as of now, it's not looking good.

It all starts with the OL, the entire offensive scheme is built around having a strong OL. The re are chunks of the playbook currently unavailable because the talent is not there on the OL.

4 minutes ago, RLC said:

Lots of plays with good protection in spread sets.

It's. The. QB.

Good luck getting people to admit that around here.  

7 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

How is this a bad decision?  Its bad execution, the decision was good

He had a 1 yard route open but the shot to Goeddert was there and they got a huge penalty from this

This is the play the ball bounced off Wagners helmet, not the DPI to Goedert later in the game.

 

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

ESPN had it as 18 pressures on his 53 pass attempts last night. When i went back and watched it the second time i counted 22. So you are around 35-40% of his pass plays 

Yeah, it's not rocket science. What does every DC say? "We have to get pressure on the QB and move him off his spots." Why do they say this? Are they just talking out their arse? No, they realize that a QB's effectiveness will decrease as a result. This is true for even the best QBs. How did the Giants beat Brady in the SBs?

There is nothing "mysterious" about it.

2 minutes ago, Desertbirds said:

Yeah, it's not rocket science. What does every DC say? "We have to get pressure on the QB and move him off his spots." Why do they say this? Are they just talking out their arse? No, they realize that a QB's effectiveness will decrease as a result. This is true for even the best QBs. How did the Giants beat Brady in the SBs?

There is nothing "mysterious" about it.

It’s not even just teams pressuring the Eagles. Some of the reasons why Carson Wentz is holding the ball so long is because we are doing slow developing plays. I ask people are on the Doug pederson could do no wrong bandwagon like he has no blame, why are we calling slow developing plays with only two starting offensive lineman out on the field and another playing guard for the first time in his career. And one of the starting offensive lineman has an elbow issue. That is a major problem.

You are calling place that you should not be running with the offensive line that you have in place. This goes back to not understanding who your personnel is and what they can do and what their strengths are

7 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

Good luck getting people to admit that around here.  

You guys are funny that you literally pick one or two plays each game out of almost 60 pass attempts a game. You're not going to find the open man every single play LOL. Watch the rest of the NFL and their quarterbacks you'll see the same thing. Now you want to show me 15 or 20 plays out of the 60ish with players completely open then you actually have something going

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

It’s not even just teams pressuring the Eagles. Some of the reasons why Carson Wentz is holding the ball so long is because we are doing slow developing plays. I ask if people are on the Doug pederson could do no wrong bandwagon like he has no blame, why are we calling slow developing plays with only two starting offensive lineman out on the field and another playing guard for the first time in his career. And one of the starting offensive lineman has an elbow issue

I would add that our receivers seem incapable of beating press coverage.