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

Don’t worry about him he’s just upset that the Tampa Bay buccaneers Might not be as good as he thought 

Tom Brady's QBR is just a few ticks better than Wentz. 59.1 to 51.0

I'm still not sure how QBR works but normally having a comparable rating to Brady is a good thing, this year not so much.☹️

Just now, Utebird said:

Yup the thinking  from top to bottom on that play was FUBAR

Agreed.   Doug often gets the opposing D in situations like that.  However, they usually call a timeout before the snap.  We didn't.

7 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Yup the thinking  from top to bottom on that play was FUBAR

Yeah. Like I want to go into more about Carson Wentz not playing well. He hasn’t for much of the season and a big reason we are 1-3-1. but I really don’t think they lost that game against the Steelers because of Carson.

My issue has been since week one that this defense can’t get stops on third down when they need to. washington twice on the game-winning drive convert a third down and 8 and third down and nine. the Rams they couldn’t get off the field on third down. Bengals game if you get a stop there on third down and 15 instead of giving Bernard 42 yards the Eagles get the ball back and they win 23-20 instead they get a tie because the Eagles can’t stop anybody on third down. The end of the Niners game was close cause of inability to get off the field. This game they were horrible at getting off the field on third down. Big Ben was 13-13 and had a 32 and 35 yard td. 

And then you add all that to the fact they are one of worst defenses in the red zone. They are giving up touchdowns 74% of the time in the red zone. It is hard to beat even bad teams like Washington if you’re allowing them to score 3 out of 4 trips and the only one you got a stop on watch them running out time with 30 seconds left. 

And I haven’t even talked about how bad they’ve been with misdirection and trick plays. They’ve given up 4 touchdowns on this directions. They’ve given up three plays of over 40 yards due to misdirection. This seems to be an issue that keeps coming up and they don’t adjust

 

The situation certainly should have led to a TO, but, yeah, linebackers often are forced to cover slot receivers down the seam in cover 2. Unfortunately Gerry is a bum and couldn’t even chase Claypool correctly. 

Schwartz is the right defense, but Big Ben easily sniffed it out, and we caught caught flat footed, even though NRC was screaming to Gerry what was coming. 

6 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Agreed.   Doug often gets the opposing D in situations like that.  However, they usually call a timeout before the snap.  We didn't.

Kind of frustrating that two years in a row we potentially lost a game because Doug doesn't call timeouts when our pants are down.

There have been too many plays this season where Gerry lets the opponent run past him, then turns around in chase mode and ends up watching a TD dance.  Even if he was a stellar run-stopper and/or made splash plays close to the LOS (he does neither), his lack of coverage ability would put him on the sidelines in most organizations.

No one can tell me he’s out there every snap because Doug and/or Howie is failing to get Schwartz a bonafide 3-down LB.  Far more likely to me that Schwartz told them that’s what he evaluated Gerry to be.

4 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

The situation certainly should have led to a TO, but, yeah, linebackers often are forced to cover slot receivers down the seam in cover 2. Unfortunately Gerry is a bum and couldn’t even chase Claypool correctly. 

Schwartz is the right defense, but Big Ben easily sniffed it out, and we caught caught flat footed, even though NRC was screaming to Gerry what was coming. 

I'll say it again, they didn't have a RB in the huddle, so Gerry should not have even been on the field.

20 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

One can only hope.

 

27 minutes ago, Arsenal79 said:

Sadly, the evidence this year shows this to be true.  We were hoping we had an elite top 5 QB, but we obviously don't.  

So you have made up your mind.  I ask again, what would you like the Eagles to do at this point ??

2 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

I'll say it again, they didn't have RB in the huddle, so Gerry should not have even been on the field.

I asked the question before and never got a response. Was he out there because he’s the only player with a radio?

And is it really that uncommon to have one LB on the field even with 5 wide? 

We’re bringing Shareef Miller in for a visit. My guess is he’s slated for the PS. 

19 minutes ago, greend said:

Trouble is nobody cares what you think.

Fourtantely I dont care what others think either,  in my book that makes things all good.

4 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I asked the question before and never got a response. Was he out there because he’s the only player with a radio?

And is it really that uncommon to have one LB on the field even with 5 wide? 

Could be, but there should at least be one other player with a radio, like a safety,  in case Gerry were to get hurt obviously.

As for being uncommon, I'm not sure I have any sort of data on it, but if offenses go double zero on you, and you're routinely trotting out a LB to cover one of them, you're asking for trouble.

1 minute ago, downundermike said:

So you have made up your mind.  I ask again, what would you like the Eagles to do at this point ??

There's nothing we can do.  Because of the ill-advised massive contract we're stuck with him until after 2021 at the earliest.

We'll probably be really bad until then so hopefully we can either build a team strong enough to carry him, or find someone else we can win with. 

2 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I asked the question before and never got a response. Was he out there because he’s the only player with a radio?

And is it really that uncommon to have one LB on the field even with 5 wide? 

No.  We always had Bradham on the field in Dime covering five wide.  Even without a true RB on the field, nothing stopping the O from lining up a WR in the backfield and running some sort of run play.

2 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

No.  We always had Bradham on the field in Dime covering five wide.  Even without a true RB on the field, nothing stopping the O from lining up a WR in the backfield and running some sort of run play.

Then your DBs come up and make a tackle. It's not difficult. This isn't some crazy mismatch scenario.

1 minute ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Could be, but there should at least be one other player with a radio, like a safety,  in case Gerry were to get hurt obviously.

As for being uncommon, I'm not sure I have any sort of data on it, but if offenses go double zero on you, and you're routinely trotting out a LB to cover one of them, you're asking for trouble.

Right, but just saying that doesn’t make Schwartz a moron. It’s probably quite rare to have zero LBs on the field. 

Just now, we_gotta_believe said:

Then your DBs come up and make a tackle. It's not difficult. This isn't some crazy mismatch scenario.

I mean, you saw the game. Epps whiffed badly on one Claypool TD and LeBlanc missed the tackle on a key failed third down stop. Mills took the worst route of all time on McCloud’s long run. 

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

Right, but just saying that doesn’t make Schwartz a moron. It’s probably quite rare to have zero LBs on the field. 

It does if he's asking Gerry to cover a slot WR down the seam. It would be one thing if he asked him to cover the flat or hook zone, or hell, god forbid he send him on a blitz with Rodney backfilling.

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

Yeah. Like I want to go into more about Carson Wentz not playing well. He hasn’t for much of the season and a big reason we are 1-3-1. but I really don’t think they lost that game against the Steelers because of Carson.

My issue has been since week one that this defense can’t get stops on third down when they need to. The Redskins twice on the game-winning drive convert a third down and 8 and third down and nine. the Rams they couldn’t get off the field on third down. Bengals game if you get a stop there on third down and 15 instead of giving Bernard 42 yards the Eagles get the ball back and they win 23-20 instead they get a tie because the Eagles can’t stop anybody on third down. The end of the Niners game was close cause a third down. This game they were horrible at getting off the field on third down. Big Ben was 13-13 and had a 32 and 35 yard td. 

And then you add all that to the fact they are one of worst defenses in the red zone. They are giving up touchdowns 74% of the time in the red zone. It is hard to beat even bad teams like Washington if you’re allowing them to score 3 out of 4 trips and the only one you got a stop on watch them running out time with 30 seconds left. 

And I haven’t even talked about how bad they’ve been with Miss direction and trick plays. They’ve given up for touchdowns on this directions. They’ve given up three plays of over 40 yards due to miss direction. This seems to be an issue that keeps coming up and they don’t adjust

Yup the back 7 has been awful.

Slay has played well except against steelers every other guy in back 7 has been either horrible( gerry, riley) or just meh. NRC went through a stretch of being one of the worst rated corners mills other than a couple sacks has been useless at safety and pretty meh at corner. Mcleod is probably the 2nd best guy in the back 7 and he's been pretty average. He's JAG.

I had hopes for mills at safety but he's been useless back there. Kavon wallace looks like almost rookie and epps looks like what he is a back up special teamer and don't get me started on maddox. I'm not sure if the coaches actually believed he was a sufficient outside corner or they just didn't want to say, " were fine there" 

The LBs are a disaster. Gerry's stat line of 23 catches on 23 targets 154 pass rating when targeted and 4 tds given up are something out of a stephen king novel, Scarry stuff😱

Riley isn't much better.

The Front 4 (8) have been good but they can't rush the pass and cover the back 7 is doing them no favors 

As for the misdirection stuff part of it is the aggressive up field scheme the DL plays and other part is nobody in the back 7 is recognizing or getting off blocks and making tackles.

Against steelers, leblanc missed an open field tackle on 3 rd down and instead of getting ball back steelers March down the field and get a td.

They just have zero reliable players in the back 7 other than slay so yeah none of that is Wentz fault and when Wentz turns the ball over that forces a crappy back 7 on the field to do more crappy things.😡

 

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

I mean, you saw the game. Epps whiffed badly on one Claypool TD and LeBlanc missed the tackle on a key failed third down stop. Mills took the worst route of all time on McCloud’s long run. 

Dude, come on.

If they line up Claypool in the backfield to hand it off to him on 3rd and 5 down by 2 late in the 4th, I'll take our chances on stopping him short of the sticks with Gerry on the sideline. 

4 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

No.  We always had Bradham on the field in Dime covering five wide.  Even without a true RB on the field, nothing stopping the O from lining up a WR in the backfield and running some sort of run play.

Seeing that they had Claypool moved to specifically to the spot should have been a tip off to call TO. I won’t kill Schwartz for having him on the field, but once they spotted the mismatch and we’re set to attack it...

1 minute ago, we_gotta_believe said:

It does if he's asking Gerry to cover a slot WR down the seam. It would be one thing if he asked him to cover the flat or hook zone, or hell, god forbid he send him on a blitz with Rodney backfilling.

These are common occurrences in every game. I get that you hate Schwartz, but there are plenty of instances where teams leave their LB to run with WRs down the seam. 

16 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

The situation certainly should have led to a TO, but, yeah, linebackers often are forced to cover slot receivers down the seam in cover 2. Unfortunately Gerry is a bum and couldn’t even chase Claypool correctly. 

Schwartz is the right defense, but Big Ben easily sniffed it out, and we caught caught flat footed, even though NRC was screaming to Gerry what was coming. 

Yup not sure why Gerry bit up on the short route. Who cares if claypool catches a 5 yarder give it to him and tackle him well before the sticks. Instead gerry bites up on claypools feint claypool runs right past him into the void and straight into the upside down for a TD😵

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

These are common occurrences in every game. I get that you hate Schwartz, but there are plenty of instances where teams leave their LB to run with WRs down the seam. 

Find me one where the offense doesn't have a RB on the field.