33 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Fulgham and Reagor should be the ones leading the team in snaps. Fulgham needs to be targeted and fed early and often for his style of play. Reagor is the more manufactured touch guy but also you expand his route tree over time. Ward should be your slot guy. AJ/JJAW really should be almost RZ only unless your bringing in JJAW to block. Hightower/Watkins are your developmental guys that should get a few snaps per game if they can earn them. It's that simple, really. 

You can see it, the rest of us on here can see it.  Why can the coaches getting paid see it?  It's so frustrating cheering for this team.

11 minutes ago, Br3 said:

Now that you mention Blank, I think I can recall an owner firing hc and gm in the same offseason about a year or 2 ago and watching to a segment on tv about the challenge of who to hire first: HC or GM.

That being said, I respect Blank now for having the balls to say enough is enough, you’re both fired. Having said that, good luck hoping Lurie will do that 

I remember the discussion. It's a good one IMO. I'm not sure how I feel about it. You can hire the GM and have him hire everyone else. It'd be his show then. Or you can hire them separately and have them work together. Having the GM be in charge of everything seems to be the more popular route

12 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

For what its worth, I loved Huff, thought he had huge upside but couldnt stay out of his own way

I agree.  I loved Huff coming out and thought he would be dynamic.  

1 minute ago, bpac55 said:

You can see it, the rest of us on here can see it.  Why can the coaches getting paid see it?  It's so frustrating cheering for this team.

Probably because the reports of Howie meddling in who plays vs who doesn't has more merit then anyone wants to believe. 

The young buck is earning serious respect from the team. Good for moving forward. 

1 minute ago, Iggles_Phan said:

BTW, many of those moving parts are on the coaches.  There's been a myriad of bad personnel decisions and flatly, misuse of players all season.  The flanker screen to Ward continues to stand as the shining beacon of stupidity.  Not that they tried it once or twice, but that it was a major part of the offense and you could count on it happening sometimes 2 or 3 times a game... for a total of 6 yards.   Doug hasn't shown much in terms of putting players in a good position to maximize their skill set.   Reagor not getting the ball in space on designed plays.  Sanders going into the witness protection program constantly.

 

And Fulgham was not a UDFA.  He was a 6th round pick of Detroit that the Eagles picked up on the waiver wire.  Let's keep the facts straight.  And like I said, the 'cool off' of Fulgham was really precipitated by the return of Jeffery.  That fact is undeniable.  Now, whether there's causation or not, that's debatable, but there's no debate that those events are correlated.

The nice thing about seeing what a different QB looks like in this offense is that we'll be able to see how much of it really was Doug, scheme, the other players, etc.  When you have a QB with a 73 QB rating running the offense, just about everything you pointed out looks that much worse. 

I could go on about it but I think some of it will likely showcase itself in the next few games.

 

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Because you can see on tape him not being where he needs to be, running terrible routes, falling over untouched, etc. His passer rating when being targeted is lower than just throwing the ball away. This is all why he's losing snaps, because he's a liability when he's out there.

Now, dont get me wrong, it doesn't make sense to throw Alshon out there so much instead of the younger guys. They should be the focus going forward. 

This is the Eagles coaching problem then. They scouted him, they drafted him and now they need to play him! So what if he’s struggling, he’s a rookie and I thought he was turning a corner and developing mid October. Coach the kid up! Jesus what do our coaches get paid to do SMH

Hightower has his snaps reduced for bad routes but we kept throwing Agholor out there last year for entire games and he was literally losing ball games for us in the 11th hour. I think Agholor cost us 3-4 games last year dropping game winning TDs but we sit a rookie who was catching bombs because of bad routes ???? There is ZERO consistency with this team. 

6 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Just you guys wait till the real hot hand D-Jack, comes back.

He wont be back here but I swear if he goes elsewhere and plays even 10 games then something is really wrong with the way the Eagles do things as far as getting guys healthy.

Just now, 315Eagles said:

He wont be back here but I swear if he goes elsewhere and plays even 10 games then something is really wrong with the way the Eagles do things as far as getting guys healthy.

Howie Roseman:

4 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

I remember the discussion. It's a good one IMO. I'm not sure how I feel about it. You can hire the GM and have him hire everyone else. It'd be his show then. Or you can hire them separately and have them work together. Having the GM be in charge of everything seems to be the more popular route

The Eagles also have Tom Donahoe as director of player personnel, who would need to be gotten rid of in order for any new GM to have full say.  Donahoe has had a rather spotty record over the past 20 years or so; it's troubling that the Eagles keep him around.

Mike Mayock had 5 1st round picks in 2 years and left with Ferrell, Jacobs, Abram, Arnette and Ruggs. That is sub-optimal (Abram is especially bad). Given the cap space/picks he had, the Raiders should be waaay better than a 500 team. Moving forward, he no longer has cap space or excess draft picks (he's actually down picks for 2021). The Raiders are set up for 500 purgatory for the foreseeable future. 

 

3 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

The nice thing about seeing what a different QB looks like in this offense is that we'll be able to see how much of it really was Doug, scheme, the other players, etc.  When you have a QB with a 73 QB rating running the offense, just about everything you pointed out looks that much worse. 

I could go on about it but I think some of it will likely showcase itself in the next few games.

 

Sure... and we saw Jeffery explode last game.   1 reception for 15 yards and a TD.    Still dramatically below anything that Fulgham had done in his pre-Jeffery weeks, but it was nice for the old salt to fall down with the ball this time, instead of just falling down as the ball was picked off by the Browns.

 

Well, Doug's scheme sure changed when the new QB came in.  He shelved the flanker screen to Ward and ran one for Reagor.  That was nice to see.  Of course, it has nothing to do with who the QB is.  But, it was still nice to see.

11 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

 

His interests are different from out interests.

25 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I agree.  I loved Huff coming out and thought he would be dynamic.  

I totally disagree, not a fan of that pick. I was wanting Telvin Smith or Jordan Tripp at LB or Moncrief at WR. I guess only one of those options was better though

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Those two plays may have been nice, but I can assure you Hightower has not been playing well. 

Hightower can get deep.  Frankly, he does it better than Reagor.  But you are right...overall, he was playing horribly.  He reminds me of a Todd Pinkston who does all the little things wrong.

13 minutes ago, Desertbirds said:

His interests are different from out interests.

That is true.   But, the bigger issue isn't even about draft position... its about certain people keeping their current position.

25 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Doesn’t make him a better PR option than Reagor or Watkins.  

I'm about to say something somewhat conflicting.

For Reagor, he looks so uncomfortable returning punts.  He looks uncomfortable running routes too.  He is a LOT more raw than advertised.  For a player in those shoes, we all saw the upside he brings returning punts, but he's also literally going to put the ball on the turf 20% of the time.  I'd rather let his mind calm down and focus on being a polished WR.  Let's isolate that development and advance it as fast as possible.

Watkins, on the other hand, can't sniff the football field.  PR is an opportunity for him to show his talent and elusiveness to a coaching staff that won't trust young players unless they are absolutely forced to.  It's also a chance for him to get his feet wet in ANY capacity and compete, since it won't happen on offense with these coaches.  

So, if it were up to me, I'd keep Reagor away from PR and introduce it to Watkins.

28 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

The Eagles also have Tom Donahoe as director of player personnel, who would need to be gotten rid of in order for any new GM to have full say.  Donahoe has had a rather spotty record over the past 20 years or so; it's troubling that the Eagles keep him around.

Lurie needs to do a clean sweep. I think Lurie shouldn't have one guy hire everyone though

22 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

 

He's not the future. He's playing for right now. Also every player likely has the same sentiment. They all want to win

As said above players interests aren't the same as fans

Just now, Iggles_Phan said:

That is true.   But, the bigger issue isn't even about draft position... its about certain people keeping their current position.

And that's the biggest problem. Is having a higher draft pick more advantageous? Yeah I think so. You're more likely to get a top top talent and a wider pick of the top pool of players. But if you have the wrong man making that decision then it really doesn't matter too much. 

7 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I'm about to say something somewhat conflicting.

For Reagor, he looks so uncomfortable returning punts.  He looks uncomfortable running routes too.  He is a LOT more raw than advertised.  For a player in those shoes, we all saw the upside he brings returning punts, but he's also literally going to put the ball on the turf 20% of the time.  I'd rather let his mind calm down and focus on being a polished WR.  Let's isolate that development and advance it as fast as possible.

Watkins, on the other hand, can't sniff the football field.  PR is an opportunity for him to show his talent and elusiveness to a coaching staff that won't trust young players unless they are absolutely forced to.  It's also a chance for him to get his feet wet in ANY capacity and compete, since it won't happen on offense with these coaches.  

So, if it were up to me, I'd keep Reagor away from PR and introduce it to Watkins.

I'd be willing to put greend back there, as long as I don't have to watch Ward anymore.

1 minute ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Sure. Fine with protecting the 1st round pick, even though it was a bad pick.  So Watkins or someone.  For God sakes.  Scott is a liability.  As is Ward for that matter.  

Watkins was a JAG returning punts in college, though.  Not seeing anything to make me believe he'd be any better than Ward there.

2 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

That’s cute.  Of course he would say that.  And we shouldn’t care.  But it’s not just about losing for the draft position.  It’s also about losing so Lurie would wake the F up and clean house.  This ish isn’t working.  Kelce doesn’t care about 4 years from now.  I do!

yup

Football players are not like us

Just now, Alphagrand said:

Watkins was a JAG returning punts in college, though.  Not seeing anything to make me believe he'd be any better than Ward there.

If he will catch the ball at the 11, so that it doesn't roll to the 2, that would be improvement.

Just now, RLC said:

Football players are not like us

I'm guessing he had someone else making the line calls for him then.    

 

and... OUCH!