5 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

We should be able to dominate running the ball. That controls the ToP. Keeps the D fresh. The problems seem to really get us when the D can’t get a stop. They haven’t been giving up big plays. It’s that they let QBs dink and dunk all the way down the field. 

The problems tend to come when the offense continues to stall again slow starts is what will kill us.

Wont matter how good the ground game is or can be if we go into half down by 2-3 scores 

2 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

TB is a team full of expiring contracts. They are built to try and win it all this year. Not us at all. We are taking on record dead cap. But we have some good youth infused. So our future looks pretty good potentially.

We are the best in the league at converting third downs….well ….behind Brady.

Skewed stats as I also said and as 93 also said. We cannot play 30 from this point forward. If we can't play 60 we're done

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/phi/2021.htm They held us to 100 rushing yards the first time And we had a dismal 113 passing yards,so I think they are well aware as to how to stop us

Not hard to understand why the ground game picks up for us in the 2nd half and that’s when our offense is at its best your going to wear teams down the issue stems from if we can’t keep the game close in the first half to let us keep using the ground game in the 2nd half. 

10 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Everybody tries to stop our rushing game. Still run on them.

LOL Dullaz allowed us 64 yards on the ground,TB 100,so this statement is also a fallacy

58 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/phi/2021.htm They held us to 100 rushing yards the first time And we had a dismal 113 passing yards,so I think they are well aware as to how to stop us

Not the team we are bringing this time. Going to have Dickerson much more prepared. Going to be ready to run. Have Lane this time. Mailata ready to play. Have Goedert this time.

8 hours ago, cunninghamtheman said:

I haven’t been saying we’ve been beating the SB champs. Never said that. Understood the schedule. Said before the season started the best chance for us was to improve and catch fire late taking advantage of the schedule. Still doesn’t change how we found our identity and improved. We became a dominant physical rushing team. Ditched Wilson at LB for Edwards. Wilson was known for being soft and missing tackles. Edwards known for being a punishing tackler.

But who did we become a " dominant physical team over"   bad teams.  This is absolutely THE MAIN FACTOR.  

Go look at the results of our opponents since the Chargers game... forget the results of when these teams played thr Eagles, but just look at their scores vs their other opponents. 

1 hour ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

LOL Dullaz allowed us 64 yards on the ground,TB 100,so this statement is also a fallacy

No, we stopped ourselves. Siri got his head out of his a22 and figured out we could run the ball.

9 minutes ago, joemas6 said:

But who did we become a " dominant physical team over"   bad teams.  This is absolutely THE MAIN FACTOR.  

Go look at the results of our opponents since the Chargers game... forget the results of when these teams played thr Eagles, but just look at their scores vs their other opponents. 

Washington was on a big win streak. Saints the top run D. Not sure what you getting at. Other than our second half schedule was soft. But Siri was the only one stopping us from running the first half of the season. Everybody(but you I guess) saw it and was complaining. Loudly and often. Whole crowd at the Linc was very vocal about it. 

Siri said he thought the best way to play the Cowboys was pass pass pass. That was his actual gameplan at the time.

So I don’t agree. I think we can run on anybody. Just needed to commit to it. Gameplan of our shootout the Cowboys is a dumb plan. Terrible offensive and defensive coaching early on. Defense….partly just took time to implement everything. So we were super vanilla. Offense? Siri was screwing up. We need Sanders for this postseason though.

1 hour ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Everybody tries to stop our rushing game. Still run on them.

Again... you need to look at who the " everybody" is.    

Just now, cunninghamtheman said:

So I don’t agree. I think we can run on anybody. Just needed to commit to it. Gameplan of our shootout the Cowboys is a dumb plan. Terrible offensive and defensive coaching early on. Defense….partly just took time to implement everything. So we were super vanilla. Offense? Siri was screwing up. We need Sanders for this postseason though.

Ok... so vs Washington when I saw a post on here complaining that we are weren't running the ball, yet when you look at the stats, we ran and passed 50%.  The pass plays were producing more yards.    It wasn't until the 2nd half when Washington stopped playing offense that the run game took over.   

Do you see a potential opponent coming up that will not continue to move the ball.  It's playoffs, lose and you go home.  Different game with a different opponent.  

21 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

No, we stopped ourselves. Siri got his head out of his a22 and figured out we could run the ball.

LMAO well if you cant pass OR run then.....they stopped both

32 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Not the team we are bringing this time. Going to have Dickerson much more prepared. Going to be ready to run. Have Lane this time. Mailata ready to play. Have Goedert this time.

All theory/conjecture. 

10 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

 We need Sanders for this postseason though.

Hmmm.... didn't seem to be an issue in your mind when Kamara and CMC didn't play... yet Sanders is needed?

Just curious " since we found our identity and all the players " bought in" under Hurts...   wonder what the rushing stats look Iike in the games Sanders missed vs the games he played????   Curious if someone who makes that statement can research that and find the answer?   Although this would actually be a tangible thing,  not a " theory " that he could just BS along to try to sound like the smartest guy in the room!

Btw... will it be Tampa as the 3 seed? Which you would think would be our matchup as the 6th seed?

23 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Washington was on a big win streak. Saints the top run D. Not sure what you getting at. Other than our second half schedule was soft. But Siri was the only one stopping us from running the first half of the season. Everybody(but you I guess) saw it and was complaining. Loudly and often. Whole crowd at the Linc was very vocal about it. 

Siri said he thought the best way to play the Cowboys was pass pass pass. That was his actual gameplan at the time.

Ham... Washington and the Saints both had 3rd string QBs. .  Washington guy wasn't even on the roster the week before.   Why is it hard to see that's a factor?  

19 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

So I don’t agree. I think we can run on anybody. Just needed to commit to it. Gameplan of our shootout the Cowboys is a dumb plan. Terrible offensive and defensive coaching early on. Defense….partly just took time to implement everything. So we were super vanilla. Offense? Siri was screwing up. We need Sanders for this postseason though.

With a good O line no we don't "need" Sanders. Anyone can run through a gigantic hole,but now we are going to face teams with much better LB's so getting to the second level becomes more difficult. I would think Howard would be better at this

https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/stats/_/name/phi/philadelphia-eagles

https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/big-picture-5-storylines-for-cowboys-eagles-2022

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2952192-nfl-playoffs-2022-predictions-for-afc-nfc-bracket-and-seeds

2 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

It's the only way this team wins, when the opponent is beat up and missing key players. We've been doing it all season and how we slopped our way into the playoffs. I do agree it's a winnable game and I imagine we will find out how good our O line really is and if Hurts can do multiple reads and you are also writing off Brate who is a decent enough TE and we'd better cover him. Siri may get schooled on the coaching front and if Brady is hot,we aren't stopping him unless our D is in his face all game.

Unfortunately, because of terrible management, this is the state of the NFL now. You have lawyers run your league and you get more rules, everything about liability, and diluting the product into water, and what you get is a mediocre product with bodies dropping left and right.

So what will be the differentiating factor in a league like this- game planning that minimizes injury and innovation in the medical department / body management. The Eagles have a chief medical officer from UPenn and he's doing things I haven't seen before. We are one of the healthiest teams in the league still and run blocking is a bodily movement that inflicts far less injury than pass blocking over time.

You will probably continue to see better teams fall because there is no longer any causality between being the better team and coaching staff and winning. And I used to watch every game too....

1 hour ago, joemas6 said:

Again... you need to look at who the " everybody" is.    

Everybody since we commited to it

1 hour ago, joemas6 said:

Ok... so vs Washington when I saw a post on here complaining that we are weren't running the ball, yet when you look at the stats, we ran and passed 50%.  The pass plays were producing more yards.    It wasn't until the 2nd half when Washington stopped playing offense that the run game took over.   

Do you see a potential opponent coming up that will not continue to move the ball.  It's playoffs, lose and you go home.  Different game with a different opponent.  

Wasn’t me posting that but…..Washington with Allen is strong in there. Ionnaits also. But the real problem…..Scott just average. Effective…but not any real threat.

2 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Everybody since we commited to it

Who is everybody?   And take a look at their results since Nov 7.  And you think Sanders vs Scott is this huge factor,  yet no factor with Kamara, CMC or going from 1st to 3rd string QBs?  

1 hour ago, joemas6 said:

Ham... Washington and the Saints both had 3rd string QBs. .  Washington guy wasn't even on the roster the week before.   Why is it hard to see that's a factor?  

Your acting like their starters are ARod. Not that kind of dropoff. But I can see that. Why can’t you see we are a new team with rookie coaches that were kind of flailing early on? Didn’t understand the identity of the team. Took a bit to get things implemented. I’d that not fair? Give the new coaches and players half a season to get it going.

Just now, joemas6 said:

Who is everybody?   And take a look at their results since Nov 7.  And you think Sanders vs Scott is this huge factor,  yet no factor with Kamara, CMC or going from 1st to 3rd string QBs?  

I think you are overblowing Heinicke, Jones and Winston. If it was ARod and Brady out? That’s a huge factor.