SOOOO in essence,their pass blocking SUCKS and they are vulnerable to the run also. All we need to do is figure out where they are placing their guys. This is a big game(in MY VIEW) for Siri to prove he won't be outcoached. He has been very good lately at adjusting on the fly,something I had said I wanted to see from him this year. Need to do what we did vs the Gnats. STOP their first series and score on ours. Take the crowd away,it will make things much better

Like to see Goedert in,but used a bit sparingly. Get the rust off,get him ready to play VS Dullaz. We need to watch their TE also

2 hours ago, mjkline1958 said:

You don't think players see when the cap is expanded and want more? I don't see why the 53 can't be expanded. What team hasn't been affected by injuries?

I actually think expanding rosters hurts teams dealing with injuries. The key becomes available talent not locked up on rosters under team control. So the better the players on the street or PS the better your option become. Expanding rosters of protected players actually limits available talent.

5 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

SOOOO in essence,their pass blocking SUCKS and they are vuleranble to the run also. All we need to do is figure out where they are placing their guys. This is a big game(in MY VIEW) for Siri to prove he won't be outcoached. He has been very good lately at adjusting on the fly,something I had said I wanted to see from him this year. Need to do what we did vs the Gnats. STOP their first series and score on ours. Take the crowd away,it will make things much better

This is why I say Dak should be running for his life. At least on paper. Like to see 2/3 DT's in. We know Suh can be a "bad boy" 

2 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

I'm kinda waiting to see if Purdy was a fluke last week. Although it doesn't take alot of talent to hand off to Caff

Their team model has been built on not relying on the QB so much. Im not a fan of what Lance could do for them this year. He would have held them back. Jimmy G I think limited them also. So you take a team that’s very talented but been being held back by QB and galvanize them to rally around the Mr irrelevant third string nobody I think strengthens them. First two QBs I think frustrate them. They all come together now knowing they gotta cover for this kid. Could see them rally similar to how we did behind Foles. Actually worries me. They are built to give us problems as much as anybody in our conference. Their Dline and Warner at LB really matchup to give us a problem. Don’t see us throwing up 32 on them. Going to be an ugly gritty get 24 we win type game. Might be more like 17.

But first things first, beat DaBears

2 hours ago, mjkline1958 said:

Do remember you saying that and I agreed except think it would be the more injury prone areas - linemen etc. Look at what dullass is going thru - where are you going to find SB worthy linemen this late in the game? Do they think JP scares us now? A little speed he's done, can't play a whole game and you're toast rotatating

He’s an all time player for us. But for some reason I’m holding a little resentment still about the end. Plus being a cowboy. I want to see him get smoked.

2 hours ago, mjkline1958 said:

ooooh, latest from dullas is JJ says stand bye on OBJ decision.

Ummmm JJ - who cares?

He kept peeps talking about dullass and that's how he makes them seem important.

Hope we kick their butts, I mean brutally. Their OL sucks, take dak out.

Gotta think he’s driving the price up. If it’s against the giants signing him I love it.

1 hour ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Yeah it would allow 3 more spots for whatever. Players seem to be getting hurt more than they used to despite all the precautions???? Just seems weird. maybe it's just there is more attention paid than before. 

The problem arises when you get hit by multiple injuries at one position. So I don’t see expanding the roster helping that so much. Almost no factor t help most of the time actually. You still gotta go to the available players. So shrinking that pool limits any emergency options.

1 hour ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

So if you're SF and Purdy is lighting it up,what do you do with the 2 other QB's? Jimmy was playing well too(even before Caff). They would basically have 3 starting QB's lol. it's a nice spot to be in but rather confusing I would think

I think you ponder how many picks and money you’ve wasted. I don’t think Lance has looked good at all. The opposite really. But he was inexperienced. Known developmental. Jimmy G just been carried by a great team. Arguably holding them back as much as helping. Kind of makes a good play then a bone headed one. Having Samuel take everything around the line of scrimmage to carry him isn’t a vote of confidence in the QB. Too D carried that team. So what do you do indeed. GM done great on bringing in tons of talent. Sh17 the bed on the QB decisions. Gave up picks and paid up for Jimmy G less than great play. Gave up the farm to slightly move up for fantasy ceiling Lance. If they used all those picks and money elsewhere and just started Mr Irrelevant  the whole time they’d be unstoppable. They’ve been close even with all that. Crazy! Almost like the SB winning Ravens situation. If they just didn’t make the bad decisions…twice at QB they’d be by far the most stacked team. They arguably been in that conversation anyway.

2 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

I think dem boyz are WAY overrating themselves. I mean they had to fight to comeback against a 1 win team? Seriously?(although I shouldn't talk,we lost to the wuss lol). A win this week means they make post season.I wanna smack them in the mouth after they do the week after. i want to beat them,yet hold a few things out cause we could see them in post season,but a good beat down would make me feel terrific 

Excellent point. IDK I don't pay attention to them either

We were only up on the Texans by a couple points late in the fourth. But they have a bit of rivalry going with Dallas. They are the ugly stepsister to Americas team. Cowboys stand as our biggest threat right now. Dak I believe has been overrated in his career. I’m obviously biased. He’s been terrible in the first half. But his numbers in the second half are incredible. Breakdown and compare their team to ours. It’s close. Could come down to how you compare the QBs. Everything on the line somehow still. If we lose to them we are one step from going from top seed and bye with homefield throughout…to Wild Card playing in the road all postseason. Pressure and atmosphere should be at those max levels. Closest this teams been to that was last years playoff game. Didn’t go well. Everything for us to prove right there in this game. I’m still calling it a must win! 

1 hour ago, mjkline1958 said:

And you wonder why I think about the secondary for next season? There are contracts and negotiations, a bunch of bs before we get there. Right now I think it's a high consideration for the 1st pick in the draft - but before the negotiations and such I can't see spending time on it. Heck, McShay has us taking that RB Robinson w/ the 1st pick, another "talking head" has us taking him at 31 - which is kinda cool cause that means he has us winning the SB. Think about winning the next game.

You calling me a talking head now 😂 I think you gotta consider RB at 31. Top ten I can’t get behind. Robinson would be insane for us though. Rather over pay Sanders than spend top ten pick at RB. I’m really just loving how Sanders performing this season. He looks great! Just bulked up noticeably. North and south without dancing to not give the negative plays. Got the burst to go long but also running folks over. He’s consistent hitting LB and going forward this season. Not sure I ever saw him with that potential. Sanders has the lowest milage I’ve ever seen in a fourth year starting NFL RB. Be nice to keep. Think his hands underrated. But his blocking isn’t good. He’s proving he candle be the top guy. But he isn’t that monster carry level back each game. But I’m fine with that. He can handle enough touches a game for me to work with. Think he answered most all the questions I had about him this season. Not McCaffrey or Henry level back….but that next tier.

1 hour ago, mjkline1958 said:

Mailatta seems way too nice to be nasty on the field. Remember Dawk saying how that switch gets thrown once he came out of the tunnel

Oh yeah. Vikes Randle was like that too. Good guy…but insane once he stepped on the field. We now have Suh. His brain seemingly shuts off on the field. 

3 hours ago, mjkline1958 said:

God Ham, you write novels. I've had 5 beers and a vodka tonic and can't keep up - my bad

Novels yet can't ever answer a question directly... I didn't read anything he wrote....figuring it was simple just to name teams that had 4 quality safeties. 

I would imagine everyone would love a roster that had all quality starters and all quality backups at each position.  The reality is that it's not feasible.  

Thr reality is also our front office has done the best job on the league to improve the roster in 2022.

If anyone disagrees...the simple thing is just to name another team you think did a better job.  Not really difficult. 

When you write a novel and avoid the answer... nobody is fooled.

1 hour ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Exactly, that’s a win. Even if it’s just one yard. Disappointing in most views as the bar is set at probably the five in mine. I’ve always believed in just punting out of bounds. Perfect that. You’d never get a return on my team except on a shank. But these athletes are unreal. See them getting down there and downing these punts at the one is a huge victory….when it works. Almost any offense has to just strictly fight on getting out if the end zone at that point. Playbook shrinks to near nothing.

It's 2022...  the Eagles start from the 20...or their own 5..  are you giving them an excuse for not scoring if they start from the 5?

I agree with all this back in the day...the game has changed, a hot offense will drive it 99 yards or 80 yards no difference.

In the old days where the scores were lower it made more of an impact.  Today, you just want your punter to avoid a huge mistake...ie. a turnover or a shank on your side of the field. The other stuff is gravy. 

The bigger picture if your punter lands a punt inside the 5 or 10...is your offense messed up not getting another first down to get in FG range.   

In 2022...the field position battle for FGs isn't going to win you a SB.  You give the ball back to Mahomes or Allen, not going to really matter to them to go another 5 or 10 yards for a score. 

 

14 minutes ago, joemas6 said:

Novels yet can't ever answer a question directly... I didn't read anything he wrote....figuring it was simple just to name teams that had 4 quality safeties. 

I would imagine everyone would love a roster that had all quality starters and all quality backups at each position.  The reality is that it's not feasible.  

Thr reality is also our front office has done the best job on the league to improve the roster in 2022.

If anyone disagrees...the simple thing is just to name another team you think did a better job.  Not really difficult. 

When you write a novel and avoid the answer... nobody is fooled.

Exactly. I go through in depth answering your question that near impossible to answer. Yet you’ll claim I didn’t answer your question . All while my question you won’t answer. Great deflection. I don’t expect you to answer. It’s what you do. When confronted with clear and obvious proof against what your point is…you’ll deflect to claim my several long posts answering your questions that are complicated to answer didn’t happen. Where’s your answer? I don’t care that much really. Is what it is. You’ll answer or avoid. Impossible questions I attempted to answer the best I could. Took a long time to hash out all that. My question was very short answer. But answering will doom your point. You just won’t admit your wrong. It’s ok. We are who we are. I’ll go through paragraphs answering yours. You can’t give a simple answer to what I made a very simple question. To me your non answer speaks more volumes than any of your other posts. What you refuse to acknowledge and admit is the obvious truth.

1 hour ago, cunninghamtheman said:

We were only up on the Texans by a couple points late in the fourth. But they have a bit of rivalry going with Dallas. They are the ugly stepsister to Americas team. Cowboys stand as our biggest threat right now. Dak I believe has been overrated in his career. I’m obviously biased. He’s been terrible in the first half. But his numbers in the second half are incredible. Breakdown and compare their team to ours. It’s close. Could come down to how you compare the QBs. Everything on the line somehow still. If we lose to them we are one step from going from top seed and bye with homefield throughout…to Wild Card playing in the road all postseason. Pressure and atmosphere should be at those max levels. Closest this teams been to that was last years playoff game. Didn’t go well. Everything for us to prove right there in this game. I’m still calling it a must win! 

We were up by 12.   That's 2 TDs... it's not anywhere close to Dallas trailing the whole game.  

2 minutes ago, joemas6 said:

It's 2022...  the Eagles start from the 20...or their own 5..  are you giving them an excuse for not scoring if they start from the 5?

I agree with all this back in the day...the game has changed, a hot offense will drive it 99 yards or 80 yards no difference.

In the old days where the scores were lower it made more of an impact.  Today, you just want your punter to avoid a huge mistake...ie. a turnover or a shank on your side of the field. The other stuff is gravy. 

The bigger picture if your punter lands a punt inside the 5 or 10...is your offense messed up not getting another first down to get in FG range.   

In 2022...the field position battle for FGs isn't going to win you a SB.  You give the ball back to Mahomes or Allen, not going to really matter to them to go another 5 or 10 yards for a score. 

 

I’ll answer again…yes your offensive playbook is massively effected inside your own 5. You aren’t fighting fir a first down on first down. Just fighting to get out the endzone. Much of the time you see two straight runs. Then third down you get one play to get that first down. Completely different mentality when your QB is standing in his own endzone. Field position battle for a field goal still is huge. What game you watching? How many games just come down to getting in field goal range to win or tie? Like a fourth of the games I seem to watch. Field goal kickers really overall stepped up big time too. 50 yarders became the norm. Not sure what league you watch. But I witness one score contests weekly. It’s the norm. You try a field goal that’s 50 yards and miss and you aren’t up by at least four…your practically screwed. You punt from midfield and get them inside the five…..completely different. D has a shot then. No room for error on the short field. You give the D weapons they gotta go the long route. Seems like very basic obvious stuff to me.

4 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Exactly. I go through in depth answering your question that near impossible to answer. Yet you’ll claim I didn’t answer your question . All while my question you won’t answer. Great deflection. I don’t expect you to answer. It’s what you do. When confronted with clear and obvious proof against what your point is…you’ll deflect to claim my several long posts answering your questions that are complicated to answer didn’t happen. Where’s your answer? I don’t care that much really. Is what it is. You’ll answer or avoid. Impossible questions I attempted to answer the best I could. Took a long time to hash out all that. My question was very short answer. But answering will doom your point. You just won’t admit your wrong. It’s ok. We are who we are. I’ll go through paragraphs answering yours. You can’t give a simple answer to what I made a very simple question. To me your non answer speaks more volumes than any of your other posts. What you refuse to acknowledge and admit is the obvious truth.

Ham... who is a better team the Eagles or the Texans.    The normal world answers the Eagles... don't need to go through a novel.

The GM did a great job on the roster. ...THIS YEAR.     That's it.  Very simple 

No team has 22 great starters and 22 quality backups.  It doesn't exist.   So to cherry pick on the S position because you just can't give the GM credit...it's petty.

This " I'm the only one crap "  again it's narcissistic.   But obviously everyone here would love depth everywhere... still doesn't mean we need to not give credit.

12-1... on way to top seed... enjoy it.   

3 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

I’ll answer again…yes your offensive playbook is massively effected inside your own 5. You aren’t fighting fir a first down on first down. Just fighting to get out the endzone. Much of the time you see two straight runs. Then third down you get one play to get that first down. Completely different mentality when your QB is standing in his own endzone. Field position battle for a field goal still is huge. What game you watching? How many games just come down to getting in field goal range to win or tie? Like a fourth of the games I seem to watch. Field goal kickers really overall stepped up big time too. 50 yarders became the norm. Not sure what league you watch. But I witness one score contests weekly. It’s the norm. You try a field goal that’s 50 yards and miss and you aren’t up by at least four…your practically screwed. You punt from midfield and get them inside the five…..completely different. D has a shot then. No room for error on the short field. You give the D weapons they gotta go the long route. Seems like very basic obvious stuff to me.

I'll answer again... in 2022... you are not effected by the field position like you were before. 

But of course you need to go to the extreme.  The stat is inside the 20...because of the touch back.   Not inside the 5.  But I will agree at the 1 yard line it might be tough for an offense. 

But ask yourself...how many 3 and outs you see now when teams are pinned deep as compared to back in the day.  It's rare.

But the bigger picture.   You guys act like the injured punter is a huge liability.   I didn't watch Sunday until 4th Q, so I didn't see the play he got injured.. but I can't remember a block or a shank to where I was upset at the punter?

The bulk if the punters in the league are with 2 yards net?   So we aren't talking one guy keeps getting punts inside the 5 vs our guy getting touch backs.   It's 44 punts less than 2 yards difference per.   It's irrelevant.  

" But No Mas what if....." what if is a lower mentality.   We just got a replacement with a worse net average and yet people think it's going to make a difference?  For what?? 

28 minutes ago, joemas6 said:

Novels yet can't ever answer a question directly... I didn't read anything he wrote....figuring it was simple just to name teams that had 4 quality safeties. 

I would imagine everyone would love a roster that had all quality starters and all quality backups at each position.  The reality is that it's not feasible.  

Thr reality is also our front office has done the best job on the league to improve the roster in 2022.

If anyone disagrees...the simple thing is just to name another team you think did a better job.  Not really difficult. 

When you write a novel and avoid the answer... nobody is fooled.

No you asked what GM did the best job. Now you changing the question. Convenenient. Best GM job can be measured many ways. Like I said…mostly to judge the best GM job you see the effects for a decade or at least years. You want to pose a new question now…that’s different. But the answer is I know so much about the Eagles. All the details I broke down in these posts. I don’t remotely know any other team at that level. So it would take a month to research the whole league to that level. Incredibly difficult question. Now you reframe it because you didn’t like my answer. I understand. You realized you didn’t want to frame the question the way you originally did at all. But I answered…almost exhaustively …but thoughtfully. But just start with Rosie. How do you judge each of those moves? I started with how do you judge his offseason master plan? Had some major major holes in that plan. No starting outside corner. One S. Failing several times at his WR attempts…which worked out great for us. Failing to make the middling move at outside corner was terrible…but worked out great Giants gifted us the perfect answer. Failing to basically have any plan at the whole S room that was even close to decent worked out ok because he recognized how bad he had screwed up that he had to address it in a big way. Saints gifted us a S. Rosie Master plan worked out to improve the teams future. Trade out if 19 for Saints 2023 first and 2024 second. Draft players that aren’t contributing much their rookie seasons. I like the players for the most part. But can you praise his draft? Got AJ. Best part. But it’s all hope with the draft results. I think their good players. Haven’t produced squat. Our trade up high pick Davis helped the team on a few snaps this year. Other guys look pretty good in their clean pro uniforms. So for 2022 GM as far as draft. Terrible besides AJ. Almost nothing.

Just now, cunninghamtheman said:

No you asked what GM did the best job. Now you changing the question. Convenenient. Best GM job can be measured many ways. Like I said…mostly to judge the best GM job you see the effects for a decade or at least years. You want to pose a new question now…that’s different. But the answer is I know so much about the Eagles. All the details I broke down in these posts. I don’t remotely know any other team at that level. So it would take a month to research the whole league to that level. Incredibly difficult question. Now you reframe it because you didn’t like my answer. I understand. You realized you didn’t want to frame the question the way you originally did at all. But I answered…almost exhaustively …but thoughtfully. But just start with Rosie. How do you judge each of those moves? I started with how do you judge his offseason master plan? Had some major major holes in that plan. No starting outside corner. One S. Failing several times at his WR attempts…which worked out great for us. Failing to make the middling move at outside corner was terrible…but worked out great Giants gifted us the perfect answer. Failing to basically have any plan at the whole S room that was even close to decent worked out ok because he recognized how bad he had screwed up that he had to address it in a big way. Saints gifted us a S. Rosie Master plan worked out to improve the teams future. Trade out if 19 for Saints 2023 first and 2024 second. Draft players that aren’t contributing much their rookie seasons. I like the players for the most part. But can you praise his draft? Got AJ. Best part. But it’s all hope with the draft results. I think their good players. Haven’t produced squat. Our trade up high pick Davis helped the team on a few snaps this year. Other guys look pretty good in their clean pro uniforms. So for 2022 GM as far as draft. Terrible besides AJ. Almost nothing.

Ham...I'm not reading the novel..   which GM you think did a better job.  Which roster is better than the Eagles.   

Simple answer here . .a couple sentences ..it's not E= mc2.  

You have the 2022 results so far...plus an extra 1st round pick that currently sits at the 5th pick... idk which front office you could consider with better results?

There were holes all over the roster...and they were all addressed at the starter level...some even at backup level.  

Perhaps players were a surprise to us...but not to the people on the inside.  And I'm talking about the S position that there has been an obsession with like I've never seen before on here?    Crazy.

And i will say that luck is involved when finding opportunities to make moves. 

Lucky Tennessee didn't want to pay AJ.  Luck that the Ridley situation fell through.   Luck that the Saints front office was dumb enough to trade us.

That's part of being a good front office, communication and staying on top of the player market.   Then these lucky opportunities find themselves.