12 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

So his expected YPC and actual YPC were the same?

He got about 0.3 ypc above expected, but that expected ypc is ridiculously high (about 5.2).

2 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I think you can cross DEN and IND off the list for McDaniels to get interviews.

😆

7 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

So his expected YPC and actual YPC were the same?

He was about a half a yard above the expected.  It's still better than average and I think those numbers are somewhat of a guess.  I mean it's someone making a guess based on where everyone's positioned at the hand off.  It doesn't mean the players held the blocks or the defensive players didn't make the play sooner than expected.  I would guess that Landon Dickerson being well positioned at hand off has a better outcome than Opeta even if they are in the same place.  

Just now, ManuManu said:

That’s actually an interesting question. 27?

I'd put it at 24.

27 would be an okay performance.

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

That’s actually an interesting question. 27?

If the Eagles score 38 then I'm content with 37.

I think the highest scoring game the Eagles could realistically hope to win, though, would be something like 30-27 -- so you're likely very close.

Anything under 30 would give them a chance.

23 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Turned on sports radio in the afternoon for the first time in a while because it's playoff week, and the first call I hear

"I don't think the Bucs are as good as people think, that WR Mike Williams on the Bucs I think is overrated

"You mean Mike Evans?"

"Yeah, I think he's overrated"

Ok then.

Well Mike Williams was overrated with the Bucs.  

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

That’s actually an interesting question. 27?

I think 27 would be pretty great. I think context for how the team is playing matters though. If the offense is going 3 and out too much, there isn't much any defense could do against Brady. They allowed 28 last time they played, i'd like to keep them under that again.

8 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

You can look at it that way. I look at it as the Eagles were fortunate to play in the **** NFC East in 2019 otherwise that team is not a playoff team. They were the benefactors of a division being awful that someone had to win  

I look at it this way and I don’t really care what other fans around the nfl think, just simply making the playoffs isn’t good enough nor some amazing accomplishment. The Steelers just made the playoffs with a quarterback that really can’t even throw the ball down the field anymore. My biggest concern with the Eagles is they get themselves stuck in purgatory. They can make the playoffs the next 10 years in a row. but if they’re doing it with only 9 wins every year and they really don’t have a legit shot to win a Super Bowl then what does that mean exactly? 

The Eagles have no control over the crappiness of the division. Hell, New England benefitted massively from a complete lack and disregard for competition in the AFC east for 20 years. And I think the Giants, Wash and Dallas would gladly trade the last 10 years with us. Hell, I'd bet money that Green Bay would gladly trade their last 10 years with ours, and they're perennial contenders. 

This purgatory thing is overblown. You can quickly turnaround a roster, and even more so as we see every year rookies having greater impacts. For me, making the playoffs is great, especially in a "rebuilding" year. I don't care how we did it, I don't care that we're the lowest playoff seed. We are basically playing with house money this year, and if we get knocked out Sunday, we have 3 picks in the top 20. Franchise wise, we're in a really good f'ing spot. Enjoy it!

35 minutes ago, RLC said:

Both the OL, and Miles, are very good.

no that says our OL is outstanding is Sanders is a little above average

16 minutes ago, wussbasket said:

The birds can't win a shootout, they are going to need to lean on the ground game and control the clock. They absolutely cannot let TB have quick scoring drives, defense will need to step up and make plays.

They only need these two things to work all game, unfortunately, they haven't been able to do either this season.

We can trust Gannon to not let up the big play - even in the first game TB only scored 28… it’s just a methodical march down the field. I’d hope we blitz either LB a fair amount, as they aren’t offering much with their zone coverage.

27 minutes ago, TorontoEagle said:

The Eagles have no control over the crappiness of the division. Hell, New England benefitted massively from a complete lack and disregard for competition in the AFC east for 20 years. And I think the Giants, Wash and Dallas would gladly trade the last 10 years with us. Hell, I'd bet money that Green Bay would gladly trade their last 10 years with ours, and they're perennial contenders. 

This purgatory thing is overblown. You can quickly turnaround a roster, and even more so as we see every year rookies having greater impacts. For me, making the playoffs is great, especially in a "rebuilding" year. I don't care how we did it, I don't care that we're the lowest playoff seed. We are basically playing with house money this year, and if we get knocked out Sunday, we have 3 picks in the top 20. Franchise wise, we're in a really good f'ing spot. Enjoy it!

 New England might’ve played in crappy division but they dominated it. they weren’t just squeaking by in a bad division with a team with no chance at winning a super bowl. That is a massive difference between New England dominating a bad division and the Eagles squeaking by in a bad division in 2019. 

and I’m going to highly doubt the Green Bay Packers if they win it this year and made 5 nfc title games this decade would trade spots.  

you can feel any way you want. I disagree. We disagreed back at the end of that 2019 season when I said their window was closed and they need to do a rebuild and you disagreed telling me the window was still open.  I never said I wasn’t happy they made the playoffs. I just think it’s a watered down accomplishment now.   However just having three picks means nothing unless you cash in on them and hit on them. You actually have to hit on those picks. Yeah you can turn a team around fast and you can also get yourself stuck in purgatory fast by not doing anything with those picks and giving out bad restructures and contracts. I think there’s more teams stuck in purgatory right now then you realize. 

 

26 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

You can look at it that way. I look at it as the Eagles were fortunate to play in the **** NFC East in 2019 otherwise that team is not a playoff team. They were the benefactors of a division being awful that someone had to win  

I look at it this way and I don’t really care what other fans around the nfl think, just simply making the playoffs isn’t good enough nor some amazing accomplishment. The Steelers just made the playoffs with a quarterback that really can’t even throw the ball down the field anymore. My biggest concern with the Eagles is they get themselves stuck in purgatory. They can make the playoffs the next 10 years in a row. but if they’re doing it with only 9 wins every year and they really don’t have a legit shot to win a Super Bowl then what does that mean exactly? 

i’m not saying you have to feel the same way I do. You can feel they way you do and go with that. I look at the playoffs this way now. They added an extra team. So in the NFC there is 16 teams. That means you have to be just barely have to be better than half the NFC to make the playoffs. And there’s legitimately 8 just  bad teams in the NFC. 

 The advantage the Eagles have over most of the NFL, is having strong O-Line and D-Line play, pretty consistently throughout the past 20 years.  That strategy alone has helped the Eagles get high draft picks in trades for QB’s, like Bradford, Foles, Feeley, etc, because they have performed well behind strong O-Line’s as most average QB’s can.   Matt Cassel years ago in New England is another one. Average teams win games with good lines and thats why the Eagles are near and into playoffs year after year.  
 
 
 

 

So which FOX broadcaster team are we getting on Sunday?

4 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

So which FOX broadcaster team are we getting on Sunday?

Its the only Fox game so I'm guessing Aikman and Buck

12 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 New England might’ve played in crappy division but they dominated it. they weren’t just squeaking by in a bad division with a team with no chance at winning a super bowl. That is a massive difference between New England dominating a bad division and the Eagles squeaking by in a bad division in 2019. 

and I’m going to highly doubt the Green Bay Packers if they win it this year and made 5 nfc title games this decade would trade spots.  

you can feel any way you want. I disagree. We disagreed back at the end of that 2019 season when I said their window was closed and they need to do a rebuild and you told me It was still open for 2-3 more seasons.  I never said I wasn’t happy they made the playoffs.  However just having three picks means nothing unless you cash in on them and hit on them. You actually have to hit on those picks. Yeah you can turn a team around fast and you can also get yourself stuck in purgatory fast by not doing anything with those picks and giving out bad restructures and contracts. 

Go back to the early Reid days....the NFC then was fairly weak, and we dominated it. Nobody complained then, as far as I can remember. But what did we have to show for being a perennial contender? Same as GB now, multiple deep playoff runs with no Super Bowl to show for it all.

And if GB loses in the NFCCG again this year, you still don't think they'd trade our last 10 years for theirs? They would in a heartbeat. 

Brady has really skewed the Super Bowl formula, that it seems fans think you need to have a generational talent at QB to not be stuck in "purgatory". 

After 2019, Wentz looked closer to his 2017 version. 2020 was a disaster, and he was better this year, but that 2019/2021 Wentz is who he is. We didn't know that Howie was gonna bungle the 2020 draft so badly, it torpedoed our season. This year, we were projected to be a bottom 10 team. We're in the playoffs, have tons of draft capital (which we can worry about later), and the 2021 draft looks like an early success (too early to say either way). You seem so quick to think we'll be stuck in "purgatory". Howie, for all his faults, isn't afraid to make extremely bold moves to prevent that sort of thing. They don't always work, but I don't think they'll be content to sit on being the 7th seed and think everything is kosher. 

 

@LeanMeanGM Eagles- 26 Bucs- 23

Bonus: Tom Brady not sacked

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Its the only Fox game so I'm guessing Aikman and Buck

🤢

thankfully Merrill and Mike is still an option, even for us out of market folks

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Its the only Fox game so I'm guessing Aikman and Buck

The cowboys/niners is on cbs? That’s weird. I’m guessing switched every year now due to the super wild card weekend and different stations getting games. 

Just now, metal said:

🤢

thankfully Merrill and Mike is still an option, even for us out of market folks

Aikman/Buck is somehow a breath of fresh air compared to the garbage we've gotten the last two months

 

6 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

So which FOX broadcaster team are we getting on Sunday?

 

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Its the only Fox game so I'm guessing Aikman and Buck

Yes.   

 

And WTH is with this Nickelodean playoff game coverage? Are they really gonna put kids style graphics overtop of an NFL game during the LIVE broadcast? Like WTF for?  I mean, who the hell needs that?  I am hoping this will be an alternate broadcast ? Cause I will not watch one minute of it, if it's the only broadcast. 

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Aikman/Buck is somehow a breath of fresh air compared to the garbage we've gotten the last two months

one step above Collinsworth

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Aikman/Buck is somehow a breath of fresh air compared to the garbage we've gotten the last two months

Maybe but it's pretty likely it will be a Brady slobberfest. It might not be as bad as Michaels/Collinsworth but I can't handle it.

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

The cowboys/niners is on cbs? That’s weird. I’m guessing switched every year now due to the super wild card weekend and different stations getting games. 

They got the Nickelodeon game which is Viacom so CBS gets it

6 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Its the only Fox game so I'm guessing Aikman and Buck

No Madden/Summerall but bout as good as they come these days. I do like Romo as well.