And I should also add that even the veteran names aside, he could’ve, you know, used his 2nd or 3rd round pick on another WR knowing how horrible the unit was instead of taking two players who one sees the field like 2 times a game and the other who isn’t active. Howie Roseman has been worse the last 3 years than Matt Klentak and that’s saying a lot

1 minute ago, Ace Nova said:

Exactly.  Hindsight is 20/20.

Keep in mind, we Marquise Goodwin would have been in camp as well. 

Thats right I forgot about Goodwin. And he coulda looked really good here too. But, this was also to be expected of him. Whether he opted out or got injured we probably wouldnt still have him at this point in the season. 

Doug’s situational decisions are really head-scratchers. The game felt lost when he went for the 57 yarder instead of trying to get 5 yards on 4th down. Too much reliance on your defense when they were getting carved all day. Whether Elliott made it or not, you’re still giving Pittsburgh the ball back needing only a FG. That drive was TD or bust unless if you got close for a chip shot FG and had to take it on 4th down. You don’t settle for a 57 yarder in a stadium where guys rarely hit from 50+. 

Honestly, we’re missing Goodwin too. 

2 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

Exactly.  Hindsight is 20/20.

Keep in mind, we Marquise Goodwin would have been in camp as well. 

Which was another poor plan. The dude hasn’t been good since 2017 and he hasn’t stayed healthy since 2017. Again relying on unreliable wide receivers to play is a bad plan especially one who’s not been overly productive outside of one or two years in his career  

this is what you wanted to rely on? Either he’s hurt or not that good. 
 

Just now, WentzFan11 said:

Honestly, we’re missing Goodwin too. 

Let's be honest; he'd probably be hurt too. He has an injury history as long as your arm.

Hey Zach, Travis Kelce had 100 yards today. You may want to rethink your negotiating position. 

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

Which was another poor plan. The dude hasn’t been good since 2017 and he hasn’t stayed healthy since 2017. Again relying on unreliable wide receivers to play is a bad plan

this is what you wanted to rely on? Either he’s hurt or not that good. 
 

Come on man.  The guy was a zero-risk, cheap signing.  Literally cost us next to nothing. 

2 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Many of us wanted Robby Anderson...

He was on my list as well this off season. 

i also wanted to move up for Lamb in round 1 or worse case get the best route runner in Jefferson if we didnt get Lamb. Year before I wanted AJ Brown or Hollywood Brown in the first round. Then there was the Keep Nelson or Golden argument. I wanted to get rid of Nelson and keep Tate. Most thought I was crazy. But look at that, Tate is still playing well and Nelson is off the team a year later. 

There has been so many mistakes made at the WR position. You can;t have you best WRs being practice squad guys. Im happy we have them but that is still not the gold standard. 

15 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

Honestly we could do both, develop AND compete in this trash division.  Best of both worlds, I could care less about 10-15 draft picks considering our young players can get experience fighting for the playoffs

Im 100% on board with embracing the youth and just cleaning house of overpaid vetd

I think the difference in talent between a top 10 or 5 pick and picking around 20 again is huge.  I never WANT the Eagles to lose.  In this case however, with the lack of explosive talent on both sides of the ball a top draft pick would be huge.  You don't get a chance to draft high and the Eagles have been in that middle ground area ever since picking Lane Johnson and working magic to get to #2 for Carson.

Let's not be fooled by competing today.  This is still a very flawed, aging, talent lacking team with bad coaching.  A top draft pick can get us a #1 corner, #1 WR, potential stud DL.  

There is nothing to be proud of in winning an absolute trash division.  

3 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

And I should also add that even the veteran names aside, he could’ve, you know, used his 2nd or 3rd round pick on another WR knowing how horrible the unit was instead of taking two players who one sees the field like 2 times a game and the other who isn’t active. Howie Roseman has been worse the last 3 years than Matt Klentak and that’s saying a lot

Hurts and Taylor were both terrible picks. This team needs young talent ASAP and they took two complete projects round(s) early.

2 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Doug’s situational decisions are really head-scratchers. The game felt lost when he went for the 57 yarder instead of trying to get 5 yards on 4th down. Too much reliance on your defense when they were getting carved all day. Whether Elliott made it or not, you’re still giving Pittsburgh the ball back needing only a FG. That drive was TD or bust unless if you got close for a chip shot FG and had to take it on 4th down. You don’t settle for a 57 yarder in a stadium where guys rarely hit from 50+. 

I think I'm in the minority, but I don't have any problem with the decision to kick.

9 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Many of us wanted Robby Anderson...

Yeah, myself included. But I’m not going to convince myself that we were a Robby Anderson away from being a good team

22 minutes ago, Green_Guinness said:

That's funny, but if you scroll down to a tweet made by EaglesNation it shows that at the end of the half after Fulgham caught a 3rd down pass for a 1st down and was pushed OB that the clock (which should have stopped at 1:04) kept running and the Eagles lost 20 seconds of play time.  

He didn’t go out of bounds under his own will. 

13 minutes ago, greendestiny27 said:

I thought it was ridiculous how everyone seemed to be doing backflips for Howie’s day three of the draft. It’s DAY THREE of the draft lol such a joke and I hope Jeff makes some move in the personnel dept at the end of the year. If not it will just be more of the same

Holy crap wtf did you want Howie to do? He drafted speed with the picks he had. Maybe don't waste the draft pick on Hurts but that's about it. How about we see how Reagor does when he gets back?

Personally I hope they all work out, do you?

Miami up 24-7 against SF. That win continues to look less quality.

2 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

Honestly, we’re missing Goodwin too. 

Goodwin is a JAG. His ceiling this year wound have been Torrey Smith in 2017. 

1 minute ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Doug’s situational decisions are really head-scratchers. The game felt lost when he went for the 57 yarder instead of trying to get 5 yards on 4th down. Too much reliance on your defense when they were getting carved all day. Whether Elliott made it or not, you’re still giving Pittsburgh the ball back needing only a FG. That drive was TD or bust unless if you got close for a chip shot FG and had to take it on 4th down. You don’t settle for a 57 yarder in a stadium where guys rarely hit from 50+. 

If he played it smarter at the end of the half, and we got a FG there we would have had a lead at the time in the game when we trailed by 2 and decided on a FG attempt.

IF we had a lead there, I wonder if he then goes for it on 4th to hope to continue killing clock to preserve the lead. 

The run for a loss and no timeout, full huddle and slow walk to line up was inexcusable. That was a 2 minute warning with no urgency.

I can see taking your time if you completed a pass. But to lose 2 yards, on a run with the clock ticking and just take your time was pathetic. 

That was a coaching mistake and it magnified the Hightower mistake later in the drive. And proved costly when they ran out of time after the JJAW catch.

1 minute ago, metal said:

Let's be honest; he'd probably be hurt too. He has an injury history as long as your arm.

Missed 16 games the past two years. He’s played 16 games once in his entire career and he’s gone over 500 yards once in his career. People need to quit making Goodwin like he was going to be a huge difference maker. The likelihood is he’s either hurt or not that good. That’s why his career has shown 

How bad will it get next week before we see Hurts running the offense?

I say 38-10 in the 2nd quarter. 

1 minute ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Goodwin is a JAG. His ceiling this year wound have been Torrey Smith in 2017. 

Torrey Smith 2017 helped this team win a Super Bowl.  Like, hello?  

In the long run, I think losses are going to be more beneficial as we’re not contenders.

In a narrow loss on the road against a good but overrated Steelers team isn’t a bad result. 

Wentz looked better. 

Fulgham looked like a decent NFL receiver. He’s the anti-Ward, in my opinion. He beat legit coverage by good players. He broke a tackle, which our receivers never do. He separated. He beat man coverage. He beat zone. He won on the outside. He was in the slot. 
 

Mailata got bull rushed too often. He plays too high. That makes me wonder about his back. It’s like he doesn’t have the flexibility. All in all, the OL held up better in pass pro than I thought it would. 

1 minute ago, greend said:

Holy crap wtf did you want Howie to do? He drafted speed with the picks he had. Maybe don't waste the draft pick on Hurts but that's about it. How about we see how Reagor does when he gets back?

Personally I hope they all work out, do you?

I was so infuriated when he made the Hurts pick. Nothing against Hurts as a person or even player but that was a pick we needed on a different position

13 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Howie deserves some credit for finding Fulgham too. 

I give him all the credit in the world.  If there was a trophy for being able to find UDFA or PS guys, Howie should get it.  The problem is, as we all know, that Howie can't draft at all.  Another day, another rookie WR going off, this time against us.  Fulgham was great.  Let's see him keep it up.  Watkins and Hightower were lottery tickets that we missed out on.

Speaking of UDFA.  Can we find someone, anyone that is better than Scott and Clement?

1 minute ago, schuy7 said:

I think I'm in the minority, but I don't have any problem with the decision to kick.

I agree. Could have went either way. I though it was a situation spot where going for it made sense but had no problem with him trying for the 3. As they stated, if he made the kick, it would have been the longest made FG in the history of that stadium(54 is current record, that kick was 57). It was long enough, just a but wide from the wind. 

5 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

Come on man.  The guy was a zero-risk, cheap signing.  Literally cost us next to nothing. 

First they didn’t sign and they traded for him. In the draft they move back. I didn’t say I love or hated the fact that they did that. I said it was a stupid plan if that was your big veteran wr you brought in like he was going to change your wide receiving corps. He was not. He’s not Thay. good. Look at the stats over this career. you’re gonna tell me that’s the guy you want to put your eggs in your basket with Is the guy who had a career year on 2017 and the rest of the time he’s either hurt or not very productive. That was your great plan? That seems a little idiotic to think goodwin was a sufficient upgrade because most of his career he is hurt or unproductive. Let’s just ignore the fact that his stats and his injury plagued years And go straight to 2017. But let’s just ignore the other six years of his career that’s shown he’s not good enough to be a starting wr