8 minutes ago, austinfan said:

If you're Lurie, you either stick with the guy who rebuilt the team twice, his first rebuild earned two 10-6 seasons before Chip imploded the team, his second rebuild won a SB and two more playoff appearances before imploding - or you take a chance on an unknown or a retread.

Exactly what "football guy" is out there with a better than 50/50 chance of running a successful rebuild?

The top GMs aren't going anywhere, so you're hiring their assistants, of course, that's what Howie did when he hired Douglas. So Douglas has had two years in NY, how are the Jets doing?

It took Licht 7 years to rebuild TB, think Eagle fans are that patient?

I don’t care if someone is a football guy or not.  In some ways, I prefer they are not, at least at the GM level.

hate 2 gapping. I was afraid of that when I read "Stop the run first"

 

2 gapping? What year is this. 

12 minutes ago, RLC said:

2 gapping? What year is this. 

so much crazy athleticism coming in to the NFL along the DL these days and we are going to have guys who just stand there eating up blockers. Dont like it. 

1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Clearly the biggest attraction was playing for kingsbury.....  lol

More thanks to the University of Houston. Kingsbury started his coaching career at UH.  So Scottsdale is Houston west. 

1 hour ago, schuy7 said:

Mostly Cover-2, 2-gap DL so probably a larger front 7, maybe some double A-gap blitzes like the Vikings do. No more wide-9 like we did with Schwartz.

I doubt that.  Coach is going to look at what his players are familiar with and build on that migrating based on talent.  

39 minutes ago, austinfan said:

Two gap? Basic 4-3 formation with NT and "3", bigger DE who can rotate inside on pass downs.

Cover 2, cover 3 hybrid, with press coverage on the outside and lots of disguising, also zone blitzes.

More like what we saw with J Johnson and Asante and S Brown, no one who can cover like Vincent (unless we draft Farley).

Draft Farley.  

43 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Howie sucks 

Fire Howie 

16 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

I doubt that.  Coach is going to look at what his players are familiar with and build on that migrating based on talent.  

The coaches are installing the playbook now. Surely, the roster will look different in September, and very different a couple years down the road. You always adjust your system to your players, but there are base systems put in place.

1 hour ago, RLC said:

The fanbase is more apathetic than angry. That's in many ways worse. 

Yup. I think some people are really underestimating how an apathetic fanbase is going affect the team at the ownership level. This isn't the 80s and 90s where people were born into a culture of terrible teams. We've had about 20 years of success, fans are used to that now. Seeing the team continuing a downward spiral and acting like there's nothing wrong is infuriating and they will not last another year with Howie if he keeps making moves like the last few years.

The eagles really lucked out with fans being unable to be at the games this past year, and it's looking like they won't be as lucky this year. If this team is playing as bad as they did this past season at the halfway point and the fans are able to show it to lurie's face, Howie will be gone. 

1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Gonna need to check Twitter to confirm 

Twitter wasn’t as bad 

 

Their fb is a mess.  Every single post they make is completely hijacked with fire Roseman posts. 

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

hate 2 gapping. I was afraid of that when I read "Stop the run first"

 

 

50 minutes ago, RLC said:

2 gapping? What year is this. 

Obligatory first. 
 

Fire Gannon. 

32 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

so much crazy athleticism coming in to the NFL along the DL these days and we are going to have guys who just stand there eating up blockers. Dont like it. 

20 years ago, I liked the concept of big 2 gap DTs with hyper athletic edge rushers.  I suppose that's fine now.  The league has sort of moved beyond that, but offense in the league has moved beyond defense and no one has caught up with the right scheme on that side of the ball.  We don't really have the edge talent to complement 2-gap DT's though.

The issue with what Schwartz did, probably even more head scratching...his modified wide-9 placed an emphasis on contain with the edge guys and they consistently went out and got premium, expensive interior DL/DT talents to rush the passer from the interior.  Match that up with rarely blitzing, and it just made for a pretty vanilla defense.  Granted, Schwartz did a good job of turning middling talent into average points against units.  That's what a vanilla scheme gets you.

I always argue that we should have 22 pro-bowlers and that the bar needs to be set higher, but I think teams are setting themselves up for failure if they plan on recreating a dominant defense from the 1970's-2000's...and if they invest accordingly.  Shut down secondary, ferocious pass rush...I think the NFL is phasing those things out of the league.  It could turn into a draft pit and salary cap pit if you chase after it.

This PFF Mock game is ridiculous. I have three first plus whatever Indy’s is next year and three in 2023, three seconds in 2022, three thirds, two fourths, multiple day three picks and by the time I got to the sixth and seventh I didn’t care because they aren’t making the team.  Hell, I even drafted two back up QBs. 23 f’in picks and I got every player I wanted in the first three rounds.  

If we are so put off by 2-gapping, why did we support spending $1,000,000,000,000,00 on DTs over the last 4 years who combined for about 8 sacks over that same time frame?

I realize Schwartz didn't run 2-gap, but emphasizing a stout interior DL without getting much pass rush is the same concept.

Where did the idea come from that we’re going to be a two-gapping DL? Zimmer often uses a 1 technique paired with a 3 tech who shoots the gap. 

Hargrave has shown to be a really good NT, so he’s a terrific fit. 

2 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Where did the idea come from that we’re going to be a two-gapping DL? Zimmer often uses a 1 technique paired with a 3 tech who shoots the gap. 

Hargrave has shown to be a really good NT, so he’s a terrific fit. 

Not a lot of NT's out there making $13m per year.

Of course, our GM thought that would be a nice use of the last of our cap space.

They had me at cover 2 and double A gap blitzes.

5 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Not a lot of NT's out there making $13m per year.

Of course, our GM thought that would be a nice use of the last of our cap space.

No, but there are more than a few making $9M plus. DJ Reader makes a hair more than Hargrave as a NT too. 

 

My wife just started binge-watching New Amsterdam; looks surprisingly good 

 

10 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

 

My wife just started binge-watching New Amsterdam; looks surprisingly good 

That ranks somewhere just ahead of Grey's Anatomy and just behind the Avengers in terms of overall realism and believability.  

4 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

That ranks somewhere just ahead of Grey's Anatomy and just behind the Avengers in terms of overall realism and believability.  

Considering you're in the medical profession that really says something that you rank The Avengers as more real and believable than Grey's Anatomy.  I've never seen GA, but I know quite a bit of people (well, women, exclusively) who watch that show religiously and have done so more than once.

 

5 minutes ago, Green_Guinness said:

Considering you're in the medical profession that really says something that you rank The Avengers as more real and believable than Grey's Anatomy.  I've never seen GA, but I know quite a bit of people (well, women, exclusively) who watch that show religiously and have done so more than once.

 

I don't want too much TV; the boards are my inefficient time-suck of choice.  But when I do flip channels and see one of those shows, I'll keep it on for a bit to see how they portray things.

GA is a soap opera.  The medical content is more abstract window dressing with no basis in reality.  Ditto shows like the Resident, New Amsterdam, House.  House was sort of entertaining/funny for the acting and dialogue.  The medicine is pure fantasy in all of them.

ER, Chicago med...sort of like a high resolution photograph.  The content is way off, but they do the best job of capturing the sights, sounds, and setting.  Basically like an unrealistic action movie that nails the realistic looking special effects.

Scrubs, far and away, is the only show that actually tries (and generally succeeds) in capturing the nuances, relationships, highs, and lows of working in medicine.  It's probably not one of the more entertaining ones, but it's definitely the most accurate.

1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

I don't want too much TV; the boards are my inefficient time-suck of choice.  But when I do flip channels and see one of those shows, I'll keep it on for a bit to see how they portray things.

GA is a soap opera.  The medical content is more abstract window dressing with no basis in reality.  Ditto shows like the Resident, New Amsterdam, House.  House was sort of entertaining/funny for the acting and dialogue.  The medicine is pure fantasy in all of them.

ER, Chicago med...sort of like a high resolution photograph.  The content is way off, but they do the best job of capturing the sights, sounds, and setting.  Basically like an unrealistic action movie that nails the realistic looking special effects.

Scrubs, far and away, is the only show that actually tries (and generally succeeds) in capturing the nuances, relationships, highs, and lows of working in medicine.  It's probably not one of the more entertaining ones, but it's definitely the most accurate.

Wow that says something considering it’s a dry comedy. I didn’t care for that show because of the main character but Dr. Cox was hilarious. Calling all of his male subordinates by girl names is the type of humor I miss that will never return to mainstream TV.