3 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I may be late to the party on this one, but did anyone else see that Reagor was placed on IR today?  Why wait?  With the constantly changing IR definition, what does that make his timetable for return?

I'm guessing there was no rush. They knew he would miss 5+ games or so anyway. He has to miss 3 games now before returning. So a Week 7 return would be the earliest.

Wait until Parks gets healthy.  He specializes in getting victimized by deep balls.  It's going to be like Hurts coming in for Wentz.  Bad to worse.

Coulda had Marlon Humphrey instead of Barnett. Another swing and a damn miss 

At least we're better than the Jets? 🤷🏻‍♂️

2 minutes ago, greendestiny27 said:

Coulda had Marlon Humphrey instead of Barnett. Another swing and a damn miss 

My concern with their drafting is that they try to be so fine with what they think makes a good prospect that they end up limiting their choices too much.

2 minutes ago, greendestiny27 said:

Coulda had Marlon Humphrey instead of Barnett. Another swing and a damn miss 

I was sitting there excited that Jonathan Allen and Malik Hooker fell far enough to be in reach for the Eagles; I’d expected Humphrey to be the pick when the Eagles selection came.  I was shocked they went with Barnett

When Reagor returns, he needs to come back healthy, he needs to come out swinging, and he needs to stay healthy.  

It's a lot to ask of a young player, but so much of a turnaround (forget 2020, I'm talking 2021, 2022) rests on his shoulders.

We can't have another dud draft pick.  Him completing a rookie season with about 8GP and 300 yards and 2 TDs would be a disaster.  They need a rookie to finally declare themselves as something better than a sloppy bunt for single.

2 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

When Reagor returns, he needs to come back healthy, he needs to come out swinging, and he needs to stay healthy.  

It's a lot to ask of a young player, but so much of a turnaround (forget 2020, I'm talking 2021, 2022) rests on his shoulders.

We can't have another dud draft pick.  Him completing a rookie season with about 8GP and 300 yards and 2 TDs would be a disaster.  They need a rookie to finally declare themselves as something better than a sloppy bunt for single.

He needs touches.

I'm amazed how little the have tried to scheme the ball into his hands early to break a tackle or make someone miss.

It's back to "don't know how to incorporate Tate" crap again.

They just out him in DJax role and run him down field a ton.

As we wait for Reagor, I'd like to see the starting offense go 11 personnel with Hightower/Watkins/Ward.

The Ward/Ertz combo gives Wentz some reasonable comfort underneath.  Hightower/Watkins may be rookies who may or may not know the offense, but at least they have some movement talent, unlike ANYONE else the Eagles have consistently put outside for the last 3 years.  They may be able to decompress the offense.

Get some stability with that lineup and see where it takes you.  Forget Jeffery, JJAW, and 12 personnel.

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

First off I wanna have a avonte Maddox playing on the outside. he sucks and he’s not an outside corner. Go look at his grade on pff. It’s a 45. He stinks the defense is getting torched  because slay is playing so good that they just pick on maddox. it’s because he’s been so bad. Do you want to know why Tyler Boyd had 125 yards and 10 reception? because Coleman and Maddox can’t cover anybody. So personally if parks is healthy I move him to starting safety Or wallace and I move Mills over the corner. Not because I think Mills is good at corner but he’s at least better than maddox who for two years has not been good

Additionally I don’t play my corners off 10 yards consider the fact I have Darius slay.  I think that’s a major reason why they haven’t got as many turnovers the last couple years. I did 2017 for Jim Schwartz was an outlier in the turnover department

Frankly I would like to get the ball in the hands of Miles Sanders more at the start of the game on the ground so we can ease Carson wentz into the game. Ease him into the game with a nice running game.  Instead of making comments we need to lean on Jjaw how about we lean on Sanders are best player on offense.

how about we also start utilizing Zack Ertz more than what we have. He has eight targets per game through the first three weeks. Seems a little low considering the fact that desean can’t stay on the field and missing snaps. we have no Jalen Reagor

Personally with how Jason peters is playing I’m not sure why you don’t go with Driscoll or mailata. which ever one you want to go with because at this point Jason peters was awful in 2 of the first 3 games. 

if i am the coaches this entire freaking week I’m telling Carson with you better get your mechanics down and your footwork because l a lot of these throws are errant and inaccurate due that factor. The decision making he has to get outside of his own head and start seeing the field better. so that’s on him I don’t know how to get through to him about that. But his footwork and his mechanics they should be harping on him every single second of every day 
 

do you want me to keep doing is there’s a bunch of them I can talk about I have even gotten to linebackers. Or Hargrave finally showing up for the Eagles after two weeks

I think you raise some valid points here.  It will be interesting to see if the Eagles implement (at least some) of the things you are recommending here.    

I can see them utilizing Sanders and Ertz more (pretty much by default). 

As far as Maddox goes, he is being targeted a lot because Slay is playing really well.  I'm not sure Mills (or anyone else) is going to do much better getting targeted as much as Maddox has, tough call there, imo.   

And it's also a "tough call" to bench a guy like Jason Peters but I wouldn't mind seeing Mailata given a larger % of snaps...he's played fairly decent in the limited opportunities he's had so far. 

As far as Wentz goes, I'm hoping he "snaps out of it" this week.  I really thought he would make the "turn around" against the Bengals...which really leads me to believe there could be some sort of "nagging injury" going on with him....that's usually the case when a QB's footwork and mechanics are "way off".

 

 

3 minutes ago, PrinceKelby said:

He needs touches.

I'm amazed how little the have tried to scheme the ball into his hands early to break a tackle or make someone miss.

It's back to "don't know how to incorporate Tate" crap again.

They just out him in DJax role and run him down field a ton.

I think some of the Reagor issue is that he started the season injured...we were all surprised he even played week 1, Wentz threw him a few hospital balls, he was constantly slow to get up, and then he promptly got hurt again.  

I don't think the coaches really had a chance to get him going.  They were trying to limit his damage from snap 1 of week 1.

14 minutes ago, PrinceKelby said:

He needs touches.

I'm amazed how little the have tried to scheme the ball into his hands early to break a tackle or make someone miss.

It's back to "don't know how to incorporate Tate" crap again.

They just out him in DJax role and run him down field a ton.

It absolutely irritates me that the Eagles refuse to run jet sweeps or he comes in motion and runs his route out of it or an end around. Aiyuk  is getting rushes with Kyle Shanahan last week. you know when deebo comes back that’s happening too. They get the ball into the play makers hands anyway possible. I feel like we don’t do that or we don’t do it nearly enough.  I feel like the most creativity we’ve had is Jalen hurts coming out to be a decoy 

Just now, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

It absolutely irritates me that the Eagles refuse to run jet sweeps or he comes in motion and runs his route out of it or an end around. Aiyuk  is getting rushes with Kyle Shanahan last week. Do you know when Devo comes back that’s happening too. They get the ball into the play makers hands anyway possible. I feel like we don’t do that or we don’t do it nearly enough.  I feel like the most creativity we’ve had is Jalen hurts coming out to be a decoy 

We can't run jet sweeps now that we don't have Agholor and his 0.5 ypjs (yards per jet sweep).

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

It absolutely irritates me that the Eagles refuse to run jet sweeps or he comes in motion and runs his route out of it or an end around. Aiyuk  is getting rushes with Kyle Shanahan last week. Do you know when Devo comes back that’s happening too. They get the ball into the play makers hands anyway possible. I feel like we don’t do that or we don’t do it nearly enough.  I feel like the most creativity we’ve had is Jalen hurts coming out to be a decoy 

It's infuriating.  Reagor would be perfect for this.  Not sure if it had to do with the health of the OL, but Shanahan is on another planet as far as offensive concepts, motion, and matchups are concerned.  

3 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

I think you raise some valid points here.  It will be interesting to see if the Eagles implement (at least some) of the things you are recommending here.    

I can see them utilizing Sanders and Ertz more (pretty much by default). 

As far as Maddox goes, he is being targeted a lot because Slay is playing really well.  I'm not sure Mills (or anyone else) is going to do much better getting targeted as much as Maddox has, tough call there, imo.   

And it's also a "tough call" to bench a guy like Jason Peters but I wouldn't mind seeing Mailata given a larger % of snaps...he's played fairly decent in the limited opportunities he's had so far. 

As far as Wentz goes, I'm hoping he "snaps out of it" this week.  I really thought he would make the "turn around" against the Bengals...which really leads me to believe there could be some sort of "nagging injury" going on with him....that's usually the case when a QB's footwork and mechanics are "way off".

 

 

The problem is it should’ve never come to be by default now that everyone’s hurt. they’re your two best offensive players and mismatches for Most teams. 

I agree slay is playing really well but Maddox has regressed the last two years since his rookie season. This isn’t like he was playing great last year either. His grade last year was a 55 and before he got knocked out by Sendejo he was giving up the most receptions and yards to slot receivers in the entire nfl. He’s really just not that good. Mills I don’t think is great by any means. But I know with Jalen mills he can play at an average level at times. I haven’t even seen maddox play average this year. 

Oh they won’t bench him. They should cause at this point you aren’t getting even average play out of him. Might as well give some guys experience so they can help you down the road. They might legit just be more serviceable now.

I wouldn’t be surprised if his groin injury in training camp is worse than the Eagles have led on. It wouldn’t be the first time the Eagles downplayed something like his back and then it reared itself. Granted I wouldn’t be surprise of that hit to the head last year in the playoffs is still affecting how he sees the field and playing. I think that’s an underrated point in all this that you get hit in the head like that you might start thinking about what who’s coming to hit you. instead of focusing on the guys down the field and making throws Or having good mechanics. And I’ve said this before I think they need a better quarterback coach. If for two years he’s had issues at times being consistent with his mechanics and footwork. If it’s been this open down at times then you need somebody in there that can get through to him because press Taylor is obviously not if we have inconsistencies. Like even in that four-game stretch he had inconsistencies that Zach Ertz injury was all because of poor mechanics in the ball sailed and got him hurt.

Now the decision making stuff I have no clue.  his second interception last week that was an awful decision to make the throw and especially put it where he did . If you put it where Zach can try to make the catch, it was almost impossible for that to be complete without a great catch. it could be the hit to the head. Could be he’s thinking about the pass rush because he doesn’t trust his oline or he’s pressing thinking he has to be the hero and forcing things. 

On the bright side, maybe they'll end up fully tanking for the Arch Manning draft in about 4-5 years.  Forget Trevor Lawrence.  That's the year I want #1 overall. 

4 minutes ago, hputenis said:

It's infuriating.  Reagor would be perfect for this.  Not sure if it had to do with the health of the OL, but Shanahan is on another planet as far as offensive concepts, motion, and matchups are concerned.  

I don’t know I complain about this before that it feels like we don’t maximize the personnel we have. We try to fit the offense to what we want to do instead of who we got and their strengths. Like Robert woods is a good receiver not great but the rams routinely run things he does well and it’s why he’s such an effective player for them. 

Had no idea that Brees hasn't won a game without Thomas since 2016

Just now, Mike030270 said:

Had no idea that Brees hasn't won a game without Thomas since 2016

Michael Thomas for mvp lol

This officiating crew hasn’t gotten the memo about letting the players play 

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

Michael Thomas for mvp lol

That's some serious team mvp for sure

12 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

Had no idea that Brees hasn't won a game without Thomas since 2016

How many games has he played without Thomas between 2016 and week 1 this year?

2 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

How many games has he played without Thomas between 2016 and week 1 this year?

Before this season he had only missed 1 game 

Miles Sanders isn't getting a second contract here, guy is on the injury report every other week for soft tissue injuries.

1 minute ago, devpool said:

Miles Sanders isn't getting a second contract here, guy is on the injury report every other week for soft tissue injuries.

Sanders can play for sure, but that egg was counted as a big draft hit well before hatching.  He really needs to show he can stay healthy as the primary back.