16 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

What a year to not have cap room, WR class is pretty good in free agency.

I said this like 2 weeks ago. So depressing considering there’s multiple that would really help us. Godwin, golladay, robinson, corey davis and fuller. 

Hamlin is the other safety from Pitt. It seems like Paris Ford got all the buzz. Hamlin is good too.

 

 

I tend to think Notre Dame players are really overrated, but this LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah looks incredible. 

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

I tend to think Notre Dame players are really overrated, but this LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah looks incredible. 

I saw him creep up the board on TDN but havent checked him out yet. Hes another small one, but that doesnt seem to matter at all these days. 

54 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

I kinda feel bad for Sirianni. Thanks to Howie, fans likely won't even get to fairly judge him as a coach in his first year since the roster will probably be awful. But he'll get the heat for it, because that's what happens.

Then again, the city has so turned on Howie to such an unprecedented level, maybe there will be patience with him if the team sucks early.

The guy is a head coach in the NFL. People would literally kill for that opportunity. I wouldn’t feel bad for him if he had to put Temple’s team out there on Sundays. 
 

And if us dip$hit fans know what he’s getting into then he most certainly does. 

18 minutes ago, UK Eagle said:

I guess Parks tweet was in regards to the WRs being schematically asked to be precise in their cuts and being required to not be lazy out there. Gonna be a hard work for some of them!

I refuse to believe that the receiver play on this team throughout the past two seasons is 100% on these guys just being stiffs. I think Doug's system severely hindered them and their ability to be at least decent contributors. I don't expect them to turn into Keenan Allen or Mike Williams, but I'd be willing to bet that we will see an improvement from guys like Reagor, Hightower, Watkins, and I even think with JJAW. They obviously need more help there with taking another WR as early as six possibly, but this group can't be worse than what we saw last season. 

I was watching WMU receiver Dwayne Eskridge since there seems to be some buzz from the Twitter scouts. He looked really good, but he’s 5-9 and turns 24 in March. Meh. 

6 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

I refuse to believe that the receiver play on this team throughout the past two seasons is 100% on these guys just being stiffs. I think Doug's system severely hindered them and their ability to be at least decent contributors. I don't expect them to turn into Keenan Allen or Mike Williams, but I'd be willing to bet that we will see an improvement from guys like Reagor, Hightower, Watkins, and I even think with JJAW. They obviously need more help there with taking another WR as early as six possibly, but this group can't be worse than what we saw last season. 

I don’t think Doug’s system caused Hightower to be soft or poorly track the ball, or Reagor to give up on routes or show minimal attention to detail. I don’t think Doug’s system led to Fulgham failing to beat press coverage. 

This isn’t to say Doug was any good this year, but these guys were just bad at a lot of things on their own accord. 

 

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I don’t think Doug’s system caused Hightower to be soft or poorly track the ball, or Reagor to give up on routes or show minimal attention to detail. I don’t think Doug’s system led to Fulgham failing to beat press coverage. 

This isn’t to say Doug was any good this year, but these guys were just bad at a lot of things on their own accord. 

It was both. It’s not that great of a group of WRs that have definite flaws and young. doug did them no favors with his play calling or working to what their strengths are. 

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I don’t think Doug’s system caused Hightower to be soft or poorly track the ball, or Reagor to give up on routes or show minimal attention to detail. I don’t think Doug’s system led to Fulgham failing to beat press coverage. 

This isn’t to say Doug was any good this year, but these guys were just bad at a lot of things on their own accord. 

I agree it is on the recs to do their jobs and get better. Part of it was on Doug as well though. Its his job to put the players in the best position to have success which he failed to do. If you have recs that struggle with route running, you need to design plays to create separation. if you have a player that can't get off the press you use motion. Ok Hightower just flat out sucked and couldnt hold onto the ball, lol. But Doug is at fault as well for their struggles. 

Eagles fans can accept a couple years rebuilding if the FO is honest about it, and so far that's been Howie's mantra this offseason.

They tried, they failed, move on.

The criticism of Sirianni "not being innovative" cracks me up, how innovative was Big Red, how innovative has he been in KC?

Identify players with potential, coaching them and putting them in position to succeed is more important than innovation in a sport where everybody obsessively studies video.

In fact, if I were to fault Big Red's tenure, it was his failure to find late round RB, WRs and TEs, other than Feeley, Celek, Buckhalter (4th), Martin (6th), Greg Lewis, Avant (#109), Herremans (#126), and Fraley/Jackson/Cole, almost all his offensive players were top 100 picks or FAs. Even on defense, Al Harris and Darwin Walker on waivers, Ike Reese (5th), Whiting (4th), Trent Cole (5th), Mikell. A few hits, but not as many as you'd expect over a decade. The team lived and died in the top of the draft and free agency.

I think Sirianni will fail or succeed based on his ability to identify and coach up "hidden gems." They have two deep drafts the next two years, but that's still only going to be 7-8 players taken in the top 100, and you're going to inevitably miss on a few no matter how well you draft. You have to find 40 or so players to build a real roster (22 starters, 10 or so top reserves, and 8 or so because players get injured so you need to develop talent behind them).

13 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I don’t think Doug’s system caused Hightower to be soft or poorly track the ball, or Reagor to give up on routes or show minimal attention to detail. I don’t think Doug’s system led to Fulgham failing to beat press coverage. 

This isn’t to say Doug was any good this year, but these guys were just bad at a lot of things on their own accord. 

well and the fact they either didnt get coached up correctly or couldnt be. We will find out in due time

27 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

I saw him creep up the board on TDN but havent checked him out yet. Hes another small one, but that doesnt seem to matter at all these days. 

6-1, 215? Damn. I can’t imagine he’s that light. 

2 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Man.  I thought Philly fans were nuts.  I’m on the Tennessee Vols Nation message board.  There’s some posters sharing flight maps of the UT plane to guess who they are interviewing.  

That was huge on the Arizona board when sean Miller was hired as the basketball coach and Kevin sumlin. College fans are crazy with things like that. They basically also tracked down sumlin to a restaurant in town after his plane landed. 

15 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I don’t think Doug’s system caused Hightower to be soft or poorly track the ball, or Reagor to give up on routes or show minimal attention to detail. I don’t think Doug’s system led to Fulgham failing to beat press coverage. 

This isn’t to say Doug was any good this year, but these guys were just bad at a lot of things on their own accord. 

agree it wasn't doug's so called system but it didn't help. IMO it was doug's coaching and coaches that didn't help the growth at the WR position.

Helluva sixth-round pick. 

5 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Helluva sixth-round pick. 

I was half-hoping with Fisher’s injury he’d be playing in the Super Bowl so posters on here could lose their minds 

26 minutes ago, downundermike said:

 

Howie is the dark cloud that looms over everything. It prevents me from being excited or hopeful about anything the Eagles do. No excitement for the coaching staff, no excitement for free agency, none for the draft, and none for the season itself. Until this dude is gone, that will never change.

Get this MFer outta here.

Just now, Sack that QB said:

Howie is the dark cloud that looms over everything. It prevents me from being excited or hopeful about anything the Eagles do. No excitement for the coaching staff, no excitement for free agency, none for the draft, and none for the season itself. Until this dude is gone, that will never change.

Get this MFer outta here.

A very large majority of the fans were thrilled and excited that Howie made the trade to bring DJax back. Yes it didnt work out, but lets not pretend us fans were not on board with this move now that it failed. 

Just now, DeathByEagle said:

A very large majority of the fans were thrilled and excited that Howie made the trade to bring DJax back. Yes it didnt work out, but lets not pretend us fans were not on board with this move now that it failed. 

I don't really mind the trade all that much, that post just reminded me of how much I hate Howie and felt like going off on him again. But, you're right they were. The GM is supposed to be many steps ahead of the fans though. There have been plenty of moves Philly teams have made that I liked when they were made and they turned out to be awful, and those teams don't get off the hook for making them because they're supposed to know better than you or I.

8 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Howie is the dark cloud that looms over everything. It prevents me from being excited or hopeful about anything the Eagles do. No excitement for the coaching staff, no excitement for free agency, none for the draft, and none for the season itself. Until this dude is gone, that will never change.

Get this MFer outta here.

The more I dig into and read about the coaching hires, the more I like them.  Hopefully everyone is on the same page when we get to the draft.  There was to many cooks in the kitchen last  year, Howie, Doug, Doug's 27 offensive assistants.  Looks like Sirianni is hiring his own staff, so that is a good start.  Maybe Jeff and Howie learned the error of their ways with Doug, and things will work the way they should.  The fact we went from champs to last in 3 years may  have opened some eyes.

Next hurdle to clear once the staff is complete is how are we getting under the cap by March 17th.

8 minutes ago, DeathByEagle said:

A very large majority of the fans were thrilled and excited that Howie made the trade to bring DJax back. Yes it didnt work out, but lets not pretend us fans were not on board with this move now that it failed. 

There was a pretty vocal crowd saying it was idiotic at his age to trade then redo his contract especially when he wasn’t reliable week to week. I know @4for4EaglesNest and I both alluded to it over and over again. 

Yikes.