1 minute ago, Swoop said:

Now Hurts played great in basically every way yesterday. That's encouraging. He made some fantastic throws. Having said that, the dinking to the right is eventually going to get taken away and he will need to start spreading the ball and hitting the middle of the field as well.

You're right things will start to be taken away but then they'll open other things up for Hurts and the offense. He took what the defense gave him and they kept giving him the right right. 

Just now, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

You're right things will start to be taken away but then they'll open other things up for Hurts and the offense. He took what the defense gave him and they kept giving him the right right. 

Not necessarily though. He avoided the middle of the field all of last season as well. Teams are going to figure out that he doesn't go there and force him to. He's going to need to do so.

Just now, Swoop said:

Not necessarily though. He avoided the middle of the field all of last season as well. Teams are going to figure out that he doesn't go there and force him to. He's going to need to do so.

Perhaps yeah. I think we will start to see more and more from this offense. I think Sirianni wants to use the middle of the field quite a bit? Certainly that's what we were led to believe.

11 hours ago, Utebird said:

He was active but not sure he got any snaps on offense, I thought maybe he'd get a few but nothing🤷‍♂️

Because he's not that good. 

4 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Pretty ridiculous: mahomes has 35 tds and 0 ints in the month of September for his career. 

Imagine what he could do if he had a coach that could develop a quarterback

30 minutes ago, greend said:

Because he's not that good. 

He'll have his moments later in the year

1 hour ago, Swoop said:

Not necessarily though. He avoided the middle of the field all of last season as well. Teams are going to figure out that he doesn't go there and force him to. He's going to need to do so.

Time will certainly tell, but Hurts was definitely reined way in over last year.  It makes sense in week 1, but will it work weekly....likely NO.  He will have to make all of the throws sooner or later.  He played a good game yesterday and that is positive movement.

2 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

He'll have his moments later in the year

against the Giants (and maybe the Jets).

The Bipolar nature of Eagles fans is on full display today (especially the podcasts).  Sure, it was a good win and there are some clear positives from yesterday.  However, that was a bad Atlanta team.  The next 5 games will tell the tale of this season...no more pansies for awhile.

Just now, E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles said:

The Bipolar nature of Eagles fans is on full display today.  Sure, it was a good win and there are some clear positives from yesterday.  However, that was a bad Atlanta team.  The next 5 games will tell the tale of this season...no more pansies for awhile.

I certainly think it would be easy for fans to get carried away after yesterday. There is no getting away from the fact that this Atlanta team is not a good team. But at the same time Atlanta were favourites before the game and this was a team that won as many games as us last year. What yesterday showed was that Atlanta are a bad team. But we are a better team than many have thought.

Great First Week.   Not Perfect but was very dominating on both sides.  Yes ATL isn't world beaters but this was on the road.  New Coach and New QB.   You are suppose to take care of business against average to bad teams and they did that.    It only gets harder as we face a High Flying SF team, Our Arch Rivals in the Boys and the Juggernaut themselves Big Red and KC.   But it's one week at a time.   San Fran is next, D gave up a lot of points but they put up a 40 burger.   

No one really knows what a team is for about a quarter of the season, then teams adjust and you are what your record says you are.  

This is still very much a work in progress.

Well lots of positives from yesterday but one game doesn’t make a season and it’ll be based on how they play going forward and if they can repeat the good parts of yesterday and continue to eliminate the bad things from yesterday then I’ll be happy. I think the OL will take a lot from yesterday and kick on and hopefully lane Johnson in particular fixes what wasn’t good yesterday. 

6 minutes ago, E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles said:

The Bipolar nature of Eagles fans is on full display today (especially the podcasts).  Sure, it was a good win and there are some clear positives from yesterday.  However, that was a bad Atlanta team.  The next 5 games will tell the tale of this season...no more pansies for awhile.

Meh, you can only play the team in front of you...  to focus on the "howevers" and the "pansies" just seems like glass-half-empty stuff...  of course they'll be tougher challenges ahead...  it all depends on what your expectations were to begin with...  what I saw was a team ready to play, very well coached, & confident...  regardless of who they were playing, those were important things to see...

10 minutes ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

I certainly think it would be easy for fans to get carried away after yesterday. There is no getting away from the fact that this Atlanta team is not a good team. But at the same time Atlanta were favourites before the game and this was a team that won as many games as us last year. What yesterday showed was that Atlanta are a bad team. But we are a better team than many have thought.

I agree.  Good win.  I don't think yesterday gives me any good or bad feel for what the team is over the season.  We ran a no risk offense that was smart to start the season with...and a matching defense.  We are still paper thin at most positions, which has usually been our nemesis.  It was fun, but I want to see several weeks of it first.

5 minutes ago, Veejer said:

Meh, you can only play the team in front of you...  to focus on the "howevers" and the "pansies" just seems like glass-half-empty stuff...  of course they'll be tougher challenges ahead...  it all depends on what your expectations were to begin with...  what I saw was a team ready to play, very well coached, & confident...  regardless of who they were playing, those were important things to see...

Meh, you take it how you want.  We beat the "light touch" of our schedule yesterday by doing some good things and making no mistakes.  That's not negative at all. It was a good start. That's focussing on what actually happened.  It will be weeks or months, before we know what we really have. Decades of football tell us all that.

5 minutes ago, Veejer said:

Meh, you can only play the team in front of you...  to focus on the "howevers" and the "pansies" just seems like glass-half-empty stuff...  of course they'll be tougher challenges ahead...  it all depends on what your expectations were to begin with...  what I saw was a team ready to play, very well coached, & confident...  regardless of who they were playing, those were important things to see...

Lots of positives.  Limited negatives.  Need to tighten up the mental mistakes.  We don't know who this team is yet, but we saw a lot of things to be hopeful for.

8 minutes ago, E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles said:

I agree.  Good win.  I don't think yesterday gives me any good or bad feel for what the team is over the season.  We ran a no risk offense that was smart to start the season with...and a matching defense.  We are still paper thin at most positions, which has usually been our nemesis.  It was fun, but I want to see several weeks of it first.

They did what they needed to do. They handled a bad team and put up an impressive score in doing so. Typically bad teams don't handle and beat down on bad teams. If the Eagles were a bad team they'd have been involved in a much closer affair yesterday but they played well and handled their business. And as you say I think to some extent held back and ran a no risk offense.

6 hours ago, Westbrook#36 said:

OT

Watching "My 600lb Life" right now. Am I supposed to feel sorry for them, or just disgusted? I think people like this should be stared at and ridiculed. It shouldn't be socially acceptable. AITA?

We're now supposed to support them in all of their fatness.  I saw a commercial for Old Navy promoting women's pants up to size 30 with a bunch of severely overweight women dancing around which ended with some silly hashtag.  If you don't support them, you're fatphobic...it's a thing, and it's ridiculous. 

4 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

We're now supposed to support them in all of their fatness.  I saw a commercial for Old Navy promoting women's pants up to size 30 with a bunch of severely overweight women dancing around which ended with some silly hashtag.  If you don't support them, you're fatphobic...it's a thing, and it's ridiculous. 

They're not fat women, they are calorically-gifted menstruating persons.

17 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Lots of positives.  Limited negatives.  Need to tighten up the mental mistakes.  We don't know who this team is yet, but we saw a lot of things to be hopeful for.

Exactly what I was trying to get cross...  what we saw was very encouraging, and not necessarily related to the opponent...  for now, that's very satisfying, at least for me...  I've been a Philly sports fan for well over 50 years, I pretty much don't ever get ahead of my self with this stuff...  😁 

9 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

My favorite scene in all of them is the "Do you really wanna jump"

The smiley face on the shooting range was pretty good, as was the scene on the toilet.

50 minutes ago, Veejer said:

Meh, you can only play the team in front of you...  to focus on the "howevers" and the "pansies" just seems like glass-half-empty stuff...  of course they'll be tougher challenges ahead...  it all depends on what your expectations were to begin with...  what I saw was a team ready to play, very well coached, & confident...  regardless of who they were playing, those were important things to see...

Agree, but I don't think we should discount that they were a not so good team. I'm anxious to see how we do going forward , but very glad we looked good yesterday.

34 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

We're now supposed to support them in all of their fatness.  I saw a commercial for Old Navy promoting women's pants up to size 30 with a bunch of severely overweight women dancing around which ended with some silly hashtag.  If you don't support them, you're fatphobic...it's a thing, and it's ridiculous. 

Depends on the reason for their "fatness". If they are fat because they are lazy then no they should (for their own health) not be told it's okay that they are fat. (btw you can be over weight some and still be in decent shape). If they have some mental or physical disorder then yes they should be supported and helped as much as possible.

Just another example of why you can't judge someone based on their physical appearance.

This team was very well-coached. I loved the gameplan on both sides of the ball.

The Falcons' weakness on D are CBs and OLBs. What did we do? Constantly throw to the flat. We avoided Deion Jones as much as we could over the middle, as he's a top 5 ILB. We tried doubling Grady Jarrett, so Pees starting blitzing more to give him 1 on 1s. What did they do? Take another player out of coverage, so we could throw short asking their CBs/OLBs to tackle Reagor/Smith/Watkins/Gainwell/Sanders...all guys who can run! The speed we have on offense really opens up the passing game, both horizontally and vertically. Did we push the ball downfield? No. But why would we. High percentage throws were available all game. It didn't make sense to be inefficient.

The Falcons' weakness on offense is pass-protection, particularly LG. What did we do? Played a ton 2-high. Now, this leads to being vulnerable against the run, as we saw with the first couple of drives. The challenge is that it's difficult to sustain drives running the ball with an immobile QB. Once we rotated our DL to keep them fresh, against their OL in the 2nd quarter, we dominated the LOS. So now we're in 2-high, stopping the run with 7 in the box, with our DL doing well. We also very clearly doubled Calvin Ridley after the first drive. We weren't scared of Kyle Pitts either. On one snap, we put Maddox on him and he shut him down.