New Defense

[Boondocker]

Ok, enough of the interchangeable chess piece DB shenanigans. We have corners who tackle well for corners trying to tackle well as safeties and failing. ( go back to corner Goblin )

Maddox : gonna sit a while, you’re short. Who knows maybe you’ll grow. 
 

Point is the interchangeable player stuff is getting schemed by opponents.

 

Starting Corners : Slay Goblin

Nickel: Jacquett

Safeties : McCloud & Wallace.

Wht do we have to lose, go back to this and use Parks for an occasional different look.

I miss Buddy Ball 46 Defense

[Mike030270]

First thing is fire Schwartz 

[Boondocker]

He’s not really the problem whoever is calling the offense is the problem. The defensive scheme is bad, but Schwartz can play different 

[Boondocker]

3rd & 18 & he calls a draw???!

[EazyEaglez]

It’s just all moving interchangeable parts of suckage. Relying on undrafted free agents, late round picks, and bargain basement players, but we are expecting a top five offense and defense. There is money invested in certain places on this team. Unfortunately it’s poorly invested and there isn’t enough money spent on a well balanced team and there isn’t enough young talent on this roster that’s good enough to force the old guys out. 

[phil77]

Step One :  Fire GYM SHORTS

Step Two:  Hire Dan Quinn

Step Three:  Get players Dan Quinn needs 

[EagleMatt]

Maddox aka candybar boykin.

[EagleVA]

5 hours ago, Mike030270 said:

First thing is fire Schwartz 

I've never been a Schwartz fan, he thinks he's a pretty boy and his defenses are passive.

With that said, you gotta give the guy a pass at this point, he's playing with no LBers, not a one is worth a damn, this isn't on Schwartz, that's Howie's doings.    

[weko]

Howie can't draft CB, S, LB, so so at DE, can't draft DT or OL, WR, back up QB in the 2nd?  NFL teams are built thru the draft.  There is no other way.

[brkmsn]

You can save a ton of salary cap space on defense and get similar results to what we get half the time. It's clear now that to fix our 2021 cap, we are getting rid of a lot of our current defensive starters. 

[Portyansky]

18 hours ago, Boondocker said:

Ok, enough of the interchangeable chess piece DB shenanigans. We have corners who tackle well for corners trying to tackle well as safeties and failing. ( go back to corner Goblin )

Maddox : gonna sit a while, you’re short. Who knows maybe you’ll grow. 
 

Point is the interchangeable player stuff is getting schemed by opponents.

 

Starting Corners : Slay Goblin

Nickel: Jacquett

Safeties : McCloud & Wallace.

Wht do we have to lose, go back to this and use Parks for an occasional different look.

I miss Buddy Ball 46 Defense

Mills is trash at CB. Way worse than what we have. He is fine where he is.

[Boondocker]

2 hours ago, Portyansky said:

Mills is trash at CB. Way worse than what we have. He is fine where he is.

I don’t completely disagree that he is not the greatest CB, but he’s not a great safety either. McCloud is our free safety and Wallace is better than Mills at SS so give Wallace a shot to develop 
 

I say Jacquett earned a starting role. If you don’t like my above scenario, here is another secondary:

Slay / Jacquette     Starting Corners

Maddox    Back to nickel,

too short for outside. Insert Nickell Roby, or LeBlanc here also if you prefer

McCloud / Wallace. Starting Safeties

Mills / Parks back up...whatever position they’re supposed to be. 
 

Get where I’m going? 3 true corners and 2 true safeties. Forget the chess piece crap.

[birdman#12]

I saw a load of lack of effort yesterday on the defense's part.  That's a discipline thing. Too many mistakes too.......

[EagleVA]

2 hours ago, Portyansky said:

Mills is trash at CB. Way worse than what we have. He is fine where he is.

FIXED!!

Too many folks think because he's not targeted he's playing well, just wait until a teams targets his sorry arse, nothing has changed with that bum.

[Portyansky]

9 minutes ago, EagleVA said:

FIXED!!

Too many folks think because he's not targeted he's playing well, just wait until a teams targets his sorry arse, nothing has changed with that bum.

I agree. But so far, he is better at S than CB.

[Mike030270]

Dline is stealing money

Also what happened to Slay? He was balling in the beginning. Is dealing with an injury?

[EagleVA]

29 minutes ago, Portyansky said:

I agree. But so far, he is better at S than CB.

He's never in the picture at S, where ever the action is, look in the other direction and you'll find Mills because he's running away from contact, not what I want at S.

[seengreen]

This is off topic slightly. But, remember the yearly fan-fare that is over zealous in regard to Josh Sweat as soon as he gets 2 sacks in a 3 game span in September? Where he at though? I know Barnett is out there and he is rotational. But, even with the rotation, Barnett as a 1st pick and Sweat who is supposedly sooo athletic, don't sustain high level of play through the season to the end of the season. Barnett hasn't been the walking offsides and personal foul machine this season. But, he's not doing much else either. Old ass Vinny Curry is outperforming them on less snaps.

[Boondocker]

Bunny Curry has been a nice surprise, not sold on the Sweat train myself either. 

[seengreen]

21 hours ago, Mike030270 said:

Dline is stealing money

Also what happened to Slay? He was balling in the beginning. Is dealing with an injury?

Slay has been good IMO. But, he isn't Lockdown, lockdown anymore. He just isn't going to get opportunities because teams see so much dearth at the other CB positions. I noticed he was saving himself when Jones ran for the TD and he of fleet of foot Slay (nor any of the other LB's or 2nd level DB's) did not hustle to even attempt to tackle him. Funny that the Eagles have had a lack of play makers in the secondary for years. Yet, they cut Douglas who was their best in air/on ball playmaker and tackler. 

[Boondocker]

4 hours ago, seengreen said:

Slay has been good IMO. But, he isn't Lockdown, lockdown anymore. He just isn't going to get opportunities because teams see so much dearth at the other CB positions. I noticed he was saving himself when Jones ran for the TD and he of fleet of foot Slay (nor any of the other LB's or 2nd level DB's) did not hustle to even attempt to tackle him. Funny that the Eagles have had a lack of play makers in the secondary for years. Yet, they cut Douglas who was their best in air/on ball playmaker and tackler. 

And now look at Rasul thrive. Funny how they do that when they leave ... a lot of em anyway. See the article about current Eagles from last year on other teams?

[seengreen]

29 minutes ago, Boondocker said:

And now look at Rasul thrive. Funny how they do that when they leave ... a lot of em anyway. See the article about current Eagles from last year on other teams?

Yes, I did. Different schemes most often results in maximizing that players talents.

[Godfather]

On 11/15/2020 at 1:23 PM, Mike030270 said:

First thing is fire Schwartz 

This. His contract is up and the end of the year. Doesn't seem like they have the balls to fire anyone

[Traveler Vic]

On 11/16/2020 at 8:27 AM, Mike030270 said:

Dline is stealing money

Also what happened to Slay? He was balling in the beginning. Is dealing with an injury?

the whole team is unprepared to play.

[Saltpeter]

They need to put Mills at CB, slide Maddox inside, and use Parks/Wallace at S. Maddox is such a liability on the outside because he doesn't have the hops or strength to compensate for his lack of size. End the experiment; you have better (still not ideal) options.