58 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

So Dallas fired their DC yesterday afternoon and already have interviews set up for tomorrow.

Meanwhile Eagles knew at least a week ago Schwartz wasn’t coming back and so far crickets. 
 

Great job 

DC by committee?  

17 minutes ago, RLC said:

Slay, unquestionably, is a good #1 CB. We also had no #2 outside CB and no backup outside CB. Maddox is a slot CB.

Instead of trading for Slay, we could have signed
- Dre Kirkpatrick: 1Y/1M
- Desmond Trufant: 2Y/20M
- MacKenzie Alexander: 1Y/4M

The total cost is the same for all 3 from an AAV basis, but we don't give up any picks, are not on the hook for future years' salaries and are protected against injury. Doing so, also means we don't need NRC and give Maddox the slot.

 

I have no problem acquiring Slay.  Mills and Darby were garbage, and other teams were actively game planning to attack the Eagles defense through their outside CBs.  Slay restored some validity to the position.  Outside of the SEA game where Metcalf went off, the Eagles were successful in eliminating the constant 50+ yard passing plays that plagued the defense through 2018 and 2019.  
 

Trufant and Kirkpatrick wouldn’t have been successful in doing that 

Afan is trolling you guys hard today.  

Michael Pittman, another WR I'd take over Reagor 😤

16 minutes ago, austinfan said:

Hindsight is 20/20, and these exercises always assume you could sign those guys at those deals at that time, as if 31 other teams aren't out there, players don't have their own preferences, and the timing is right (one reason some FAs are cheap is they hope to get a better deal and wait too long - but that means waiting with them and risking losing out).

PS: Plus we don't know how they would have played under Schwartz and of course, we do know they would have gotten injured.

Hindsight is 20/20 and is the only way to evaluate the performance of GMs and coaches.

Howie has not done a good job since 2017. No amount of excuses and tortured narratives will change that.

10 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Afan is trolling you guys hard today.  

Apparently trolling gets you banned

12 minutes ago, austinfan said:

Yes, and those are the kind of guys we're gonna sign the next two years, watch most of them get torched, and hope a couple step up and show themselves worthy of a new contract to play for the team when it turns the corner. When you're rebuilding, you have the luxury of watching players stink out the joint as part of mass auditions. But go back and watch the Dallas, game, that's what happens when you audition young CBs against NFL QBs.

A better question is why Poyer, Ware, Jones, Douglas, and Sullivan finished the season starting for other teams.

If the Jones are referring to here is Sidney Jones, he finished the season on injured reserve. He missed 6 games this year due to injury (including the final 3 games) and left another one early. Also he was statistically worse this year than he was last year with the Eagles.

TL;DR he still sucks and still can't stay healthy

39 minutes ago, DeathByEagle said:

That could mean good or bad news. 1- They want someone from a coaching staff on a playoff team perhaps. 2- They are hiring internal. Either way, they are late to the party as usual. 

Forgot to add number 3- they have no clue who or what they want, they are clueless and scrambling right now. 

3 

And I’ll add #4. They take forever to make actual decisions because they make everything harder than it needs to be.

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

3 

And I’ll add #4. They take forever to make actual decisions because they make everything harder than it needs to be.

It does seem as though they like to re-invent the wheel.

Crazy to think both these HCs were with the eagles at one point and both are miles ahead of Doug. 

1 minute ago, wtfcares said:

Crazy to think both these HCs were with the eagles at one point and both are miles ahead of Doug. 

This team started smelling themselves, and fell hard and fast.

3 minutes ago, EagleJoe8 said:

It does seem as though they like to re-invent the wheel.

If they want to wait because they are targeting a guy in the playoffs, fine, but that’s not an excuse to not do your due diligence and interview guys available now in case you need a backup plan. It’s simple stuff like this that drives me crazy. I can already see it now, they will wait and wait and wait, ask for permission for a guy or two, get denied, panic, promote Burke. 

4 minutes ago, wtfcares said:

Crazy to think both these HCs were with the eagles at one point and both are miles ahead of Doug. 

Hey, Doug's the only one with a Lombardi too.

So that’s what a kick return looks like 

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

If they want to wait because they are targeting a guy in the playoffs, fine, but that’s not an excuse to not do your due diligence and interview guys available now in case you need a backup plan. It’s simple stuff like this that drives me crazy. I can already see it now, they will wait and wait and wait, ask for permission for a guy or two, get denied, panic, promote Burke. 

It does seem very likely.

Jonathan Taylor can be added to the not all that short list of rbs who are better than Miles "if he were used correctly” Sanders.

Miles is great when the play is blocked perfectly and he can race for 70 yards. Other than that, he's a 3rd down back with little physicality. 

I should probably over-clarify as to be crystal clear... This doesn't mean he should only be used on 3rd downs. It's about his style of play.

Your score is: 45116 (GRADE: A)

Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 6: DeVonta Smith, WR, Alabama (A)
Round 2 Pick 9 (DEN): Paulson Adebo, CB, Stanford (A+)
Round 3 Pick 9 (DEN): AmonRa St Brown, WR, USC (A-)
Round 3 Pick 23 (TENN): Eric Stokes, CB, Georgia (A+)
Round 3 Pick 36 (TENN): Kolby Harvell-Peel, FS/SS, Oklahoma State (A+)
Round 4 Pick 24 (TENN): JaCoby Stevens, FS/SS, LSU (A+)
Round 5 Pick 6: Adrian Ealy, OT, Oklahoma (A+)
Round 5 Pick 10: Ben Brown, OG, Mississippi (A+)
Round 6 Pick 6: Ryan McCollum, C/OG, Texas A&M (A+)
Round 6 Pick 35 (COMP): Aubrey Solomon, DT, Tennessee (A+)
Round 6 Pick 39 (COMP): Justin Foster, DE/OLB, Clemson (A+)
Round 7 Pick 6: Bobby Brown, DE, Texas A&M (A+)

9 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

Miles is great when the play is blocked perfectly and he can race for 70 yards. Other than that, he's a 3rd down back with little physicality. 

Holy Cow is this wrong.  He is not a bruiser, but he isn't a wallflower either.

1 minute ago, Freshmilk said:

Holy Cow is this wrong.  He is not a bruiser, but he isn't a wallflower either.

Agree to disagree

1 hour ago, austinfan said:

The only bad move was the Jeffrey restructure.

DeSean cost money which would have been spent on another FA WR, one that might have worked out better or worse (hindsight is always 20/20). 6th rd picks are early starts on UDFAs.

4th for Avery was a whiff, but I doubt that was Howie, those kinds of deals are coaches begging for help. Same with Tate. I think a lot of the mistakes were due to coaches wanting the wrong players for their schemes, Howie is a consensus guy, I doubt he pushes players on coaches they don't want. If Eagle players are out of the league, that's on the drafting, if they go elsewhere and play better, that's on the coaches.

Malik wasn't stupid at the time, durable one gap pass rusher to pair with Cox after Jerrigan hurts his neck. Hargrave was 27 and due to Malik's foot injury.  Crap happens. But again, just cap money. And they were a playoff team (or thought they were) when these deals were made to keep the window open.

Slay or write off the season, we saw what our secondary looked like without Slay, scary movie. Ended up writing off the season anyway, but this isn't going to cripple us going forward. Though if you want to go 2-14, trade Slay and give up 30+ points every game!

JJAW. every team whiffs in the draft, look at KC, the top franchise in the NFL. They have had lots of whiffs since AR took over. The real bad drafts were the two years under Chip.

Shifting dead money forward is normal for teams at the end of a window, when you rebuild, you're going to have a lot of cheap players and can clear out the dead money, which is exactly what the Eagles will do the next two seasons. If you dump the veterans instead of shifting money, you just start the losing a year earlier. Either way, we aren't going to be competitive until 2023, but we won a SB.

I think every fan here would accept a 3 year rebuild as the price of a SB win.

 

I dont have it in me to parry each of your dodges.  Tons of money for old players and then we are shocked when they get hurt?  Nah... that foolish.

Does Buffalo know it's a playoff game? They're running sideline plays towards Buckner. 

Colts got "good" Rivers today. 

Rivers has been solid this year.

5 minutes ago, RLC said:

Colts got "good" Rivers today. 

Also their defense is playing really well so far. Giving up just 7 to the bills in a half is a good accomplishment. The bills the last couple weeks have been scoring 24+. Only given up 108 yards so far.