1 minute ago, Ipiggles said:

 

 

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. 

one step above Collinsworth

Normal broadcast is CBS.

You didn't watch the Nickelodeon broadcast last year??

2 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

 

 

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. 

one step above Collinsworth

 

They did it last year with the Nickelodeon broadcast. Two different broadcasts. 

I don't think anyone knows how good Sirianni is or isn't yet, but the fact that he was the only rookie head coach to make the playoffs after people dunked on Lurie and made racial implications about his lack of interest in hiring Duce Staley is pretty sweet.

Looking at you, Bo Wulf.

1 hour ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Making the playoffs 4 out of the last five seasons is representative of something other than the current state of the team.

It shows that, despite what you read on these boards, we have a pretty well-run organization.  We are a top-five team in terms of winning percentage this century.  The other teams had QBs like Brady, Favre/Rodgers, and Manning.  Just look around at the coaching carousel today and the usual suspects taking part.  The recent FO mistakes are real and frustrating, but there is a base level of competence that other teams would envy.

This is true, we arent the Lions, Bears or Jags...  but we are supposed to be better than them.  Maybe we are a little spoiled, but frankly, I get tired of being told by Lurie and Howie how great they are. 

I could be far more forgiving of the mistakes if they weren't so busy telling me how good they are at stuff.. gold standard, world class, QB factory... just stop digging a hole for yourself, raising expectations, etc.  Just do it, don't congratulate yourself so much.

1 hour ago, Next_Up said:

fair enough. Hard to find a comp for JJAW

A corpse?

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Normal broadcast is CBS.

You didn't watch the Nickelodeon broadcast last year??

LMFAO- I wouldn't have wanted to watch it as a kid either. I would have wanted to watch the real game without CGI slime cannons blocking my view, and adults talking down to me about Spongebob. 

It's just another sign of how poor our attention span is getting as a society. 

4 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

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

Romo is actually quite good.

2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

This is true, we arent the Lions, Bears or Jags...  but we are supposed to be better than them.  Maybe we are a little spoiled, but frankly, I get tired of being told by Lurie and Howie how great they are. 

I couod be far more forgiving of the mistakes if they weren't so busy telling me how good they are at stuff.. gold standard, world class, QB factory... just stop digging a hole for yourself, raising expectations, etc.  Just do it, don't congratulate yourself so much.

Agreed on this all the way

18 minutes ago, TorontoEagle said:

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. 

 

Yes cause they were dominating. Again the eagles squeaked by winning a crappy division in 2019 to make the playoffs. That’s nowhere near the same as reid dominating or ne dominating. The eagles weren’t a good team they benefitted from a bad division. It would be completely 100% different if that 2019 was actually good team and won a bad division. They werent. They were a team desperately needing a rebuild due to bad contracts, bad restructuring and poor drafts 2 out of 3 years and werent anywhere close to being a contender. So your comparison is apples to oranges. 

And i would take the packers last 15 years with rodgers over the eagles. 5 nfc title games, SB and world class QB for 1.5 decades. can make arguments like that too. And the packers managed to win a SB this year their decade is much better. For as bad as the giants have been (and they’ve been bad) and the eagles making the playoffs, they still have the same amount of SB as the eagles since 2010.

no you need to not consistently be at a high of 9 wins for 4 years, can’t beat good teams (0-6 against playoff teams and 2 wins against teams over .500 the last 33 games) and actually have a shot to win something (not just getting a 7th seed) to not be stuck in purgatory. 

I am concerned about them getting stuck in purgatory cause their draft success has been all over the place in the draft and for every great move howie makes he tends to have the next offseason where he reverts back to the opposite. Furthermore I’ve seen this organization at one point in this decade go 5 out of 6 years missing the playoffs and 4 out of 5 making it. So I’ve seen this organization not exactly be rock solid consistency over the decade and have big swings in momentum of where the team heads. 

2 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Let Watkins play more... let Greg Ward play more (whom folks around here know I am no big fan of)... 

The issue isn't Reagor's inability to produce based on limited opportunities, it's his limited production with the opportunities he has had.  As many as Greg Ward's warts are, he's far more productive in his limited opportunities than Reagor.  

 

Reagor has had 57 targets... for 299 yards, 2 TDs and 13 first downs... with a long of 34.    5.2 yards per target. 0.23 first downs per target.
Ward has had 11 targets... for 95 yards, 3 TDs and 4 first downs.... with a long of 27.   8.6 yards per target. 0.36 first downs per target.

 

And that's not to mention Reagor's rushes... 10 rushes for 32 yards, including 2 fumbles.

 

Every snap they give to Reagor right now is actually hurting the team versus having another player on the field.

Watkins was leading the WR in snap counts for a good majority of the year.  The problem is that Hurts doesn't go to him.

I'm a Reagor supporter but those numbers are just ugly.  I don't understand for the life of me why they still hand the ball off to him or throw him screen plays where he has to take a step back.  By forcing him to take a step back you're making him have to make more decisions which he just isn't good at right now.  

6 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

This is true, we arent the Lions, Bears or Jags...  but we are supposed to be better than them.  Maybe we are a little spoiled, but frankly, I get tired of being told by Lurie and Howie how great they are. 

I couod be far more forgiving of the mistakes if they weren't so busy telling me how good they are at stuff.. gold standard, world class, QB factory... just stop digging a hole for yourself, raising expectations, etc.  Just do it, don't congratulate yourself so much.

I would add, if they also admitted their mistakes (Like JJAW) instead of force feeding them into the starting line up. 

16 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

I'd put it at 24.

27 would be an okay performance.

Well 24 would be a disappointment because clearly the Eagles should be able to shut down Tampa.  Basically the only weapon they have is Gronkowski.  I mean Alex Singleton is going to lock him down.  I don't think he caught a single pass against us in the last game.  Mike Evans is  like a JJAW that can run routes, catch passes, has elite body positioning and decent speed.  Also not an issue.   Fournette presents almost no challenge for this team.  He barely did anything especially as a receiver against us in the last game.  I expect TJ Edwards to blanket him the entire game like he's capable of doing.  They don't have AB and he was the only reason they won that game.  That was before Marcus Epps became the new Brian Dawkins.  Also, it's been pretty much a down year for Brady.  I mean he's just barely over 5,000 yards and 40TDs.  It's not like he made it like he was running a 7 on 7 drill in the last game.  

6 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

 

Romo is actually quite good.

Yeah I agree. He’s my favorite right now. I don’t mind Aikman either but Romo is much better. 

I wish there was a way to add DeMeco Ryans to this coaching staff next year but I think his next step is a HC.  I think he's going to be a coaching stud.

5 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

LMFAO- I wouldn't have wanted to watch it as a kid either. I would have wanted to watch the real game without CGI slime cannons blocking my view, and adults talking down to me about Spongebob. 

It's just another sign of how poor our attention span is getting as a society. 

It wasn't that bad. I watched some of it out of curiosity to see how stupid it would be. My main takeaway was it's better than most broadcasts (looking at you Vilma). They showed the real game, the only "slime" or CGI stuff was on replays of TD's or between stoppage of play where the usual broadcast shows some dumb graphic about something mostly irrelevant anyway. It was an actual play by play guy who was pretty good and didn't try to over complicate it, with two kids were amazed at how high punts go. 

It's actually a pretty brilliant strategy to get the younger kids invested in the product.

the late great JJ would say hold them to 17 or under, and thats your target. 

Times have changed a bit so I will say 20 Points. But realistically our defense is NOT that talented - so on a curved scale based on what talent we have and going against Brady- I will say 25.

 

I dont think holding them to 25 will mean we win the game, but thats about as good as you can expect from o9ur current Defense. For the record, I think they will score 35+ 

@Ipiggles

I forgot the best part. They had the NVP award which was voted on during the course of the game. Immediately after the game was over, they gave it to Mitchell Trubisky who had to accept the award following a 9-21 loss with a stat line of: 19/29, 199 yards, 1td

 

 

9 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

Yeah I agree. He’s my favorite right now. I don’t mind Aikman either but Romo is much better. 

Greg Olson has become a favorite of mine.

Doesn't try to over achieve as much as Romo does.

26 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

 

 

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. 

one step above Collinsworth

They did last year and it was pretty cool. The only thing I didn’t like is they had some 16 year old girl who didn’t know anything about football as a color commentator. There are so many kids who know tons and love the game. Let one of them on there. 
 

19 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I wish there was a way to add DeMeco Ryans to this coaching staff next year but I think his next step is a HC.  I think he's going to be a coaching stud.

 

He's the 49ers defensive coordinator, how could they add him to this staff 

31 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

This is true, we arent the Lions, Bears or Jags...  but we are supposed to be better than them.  Maybe we are a little spoiled, but frankly, I get tired of being told by Lurie and Howie how great they are. 

I couod be far more forgiving of the mistakes if they weren't so busy telling me how good they are at stuff.. gold standard, world class, QB factory... just stop digging a hole for yourself, raising expectations, etc.  Just do it, don't congratulate yourself so much.

To add to this.  my concern stems from outside of 2017 since the start of the decade, the eagles resemble an organization have been a team stuck in purgatory without that 2017 season. As great as 2017 was and pray i get to see that type of season again, the rest of the decade has been a team that is quite frankly purgatory. They have 1 playoff win outside of 2017 since 20010. Outside of the one legit contender they created in 2017, they made the playoffs 4 times and missed 6 in the other 10 seasons. They are still searching and have an unknown at the QB position. Which tends to be the case with the eagles since mcnabb left outside of 3-4 seasons.  They have draft picks but it feels like every year alternates with good draft then bad draft. And howie for every great move he makes one offseason he tends to have a regression the next. So as much as i love and appreciate 3 firsts they mean nothing until they cash in on them. 

As much i love 2017 and you can’t take it away from lurie and howie. It is an amazing accomplishment. but the 6 years prior and 4 years since definitely make me have cause for concern and don’t think it’s that out of the question that purgatory is possibility that exist just like winning another super bowl also exists. I hope I’m just overly concerned and they crush it out of the park. But i don’t think that’s a given they just turn it all around just cause we made the playoffs this year at 9-8

22 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

Watkins was leading the WR in snap counts for a good majority of the year.  The problem is that Hurts doesn't go to him.

I'm a Reagor supporter but those numbers are just ugly.  I don't understand for the life of me why they still hand the ball off to him or throw him screen plays where he has to take a step back.  By forcing him to take a step back you're making him have to make more decisions which he just isn't good at right now.  

Reagor has 67% of the snaps, Watkins 69%.

 

Watkins actually does get opportunities with Hurts. 

62 targets, 43 rec. 647 yards, 1 TD - long of 91, 25 first downs, YPC = 15.0 yards.     And lastly, the per target stats... 10.4 yards per target (double Reagor), 0.40 first downs per target (almost double Reagor).  And the YPC... 15.0 versus 9.1.   

 

Reagor should be benched.  Let Watkins play and get the targets going to Reagor... let Ward play and get the targets for Reagor.  Both are much more productive.  The Reagor mistake can't be allowed to compound into greater mistakes.

So I looked at the seven seeds from last season.  The Bears were 8-8.  Pretty similar to us, an average team in a big market.

This season, the Bears were on Sunday and Monday night twice each.  Other than the obligatory Cowboy game on SNF, there are some nice matchups to choose from.

Home: Cowboys, Giants, Washington, Packers, Vikings, Jaguars, Titans, Saints, Steelers.

Road: Cowboys, Giants, Washington, Bears, Lions, Texans, Colts, Cardinals.

20 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

the late great JJ would say hold them to 17 or under, and thats your target. 

Times have changed a bit so I will say 20 Points. But realistically our defense is NOT that talented - so on a curved scale based on what talent we have and going against Brady- I will say 25.

 

I dont think holding them to 25 will mean we win the game, but thats about as good as you can expect from o9ur current Defense. For the record, I think they will score 35+ 

Yep.  20 is the target.  And believe it or not, Gannon has achieved that with this defense 10 times, at 17 or lower 8 times.  

And just like that...

 

 

JJAW to IR. Must have hurt himself on that missed td. Probably the last we see of him in an Eagles uniform. Buh Byeeee