1 hour ago, Original Sin said:

Yikes

 

God, Philly fans are the worst. Oh wait…

5 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

Is it wrong I'd agree with you lol? 

Epps, meh

Quez is now option 7 or 8 in this offense

I think 98% of know what Hurts is... 

And Miltion Williams, well he had like a dozen tackles and 2 sacks, so outside of being cut(which he wont be) the only direction is up. So ? I guess thats a win.... 

Yeah Watkins and Milton are buried on the depth chart. 
 

Watkins could ball out and end the season with 550 yards….

 

Even if our offense is explosive, Hirts won’t have more than 3 700+ yard receivers

7 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

I dont see how Watkins  gets 550 when I think one of the 3(you pick) Geodert, Smith, brown only gets 600.  Option 1. 950. Option 2. 800. Option 3. 600 ish. Thats 2400 yards in passing. 

In my mind our offensive options are..

Run game, Brown, Smith, Run with Hurts, Passing to the running backs , Goedert... THEN Quez/Reagor 

I may have the order of distribution wrong, or opinions may differ, but I think we'd all agree those 6 "attack options" are ahead of quez. 

Hurts put up 3144 yards last year, and Minshew put up 439, for a total of 3,583. 

I think 3500 yards passing is the floor (or at least, should be). I don't think the RBs will accumulate 1100 yards between them, so there is room for Quez to get around 500 or so. If our passing game can improve to 4000 yards total, well, you do the math. 

43 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

I dont see how Watkins  gets 550 when I think one of the 3(you pick) Geodert, Smith, brown only gets 600.  Option 1. 950. Option 2. 800. Option 3. 600 ish. Thats 2400 yards in passing. 

In my mind our offensive options are..

Run game, Brown, Smith, Run with Hurts, Passing to the running backs , Goedert... THEN Quez/Reagor 

I may have the order of distribution wrong, or opinions may differ, but I think we'd all agree those 6 "attack options" are ahead of quez. 

Even if Hurts doesn’t progress, Brown’s presence should open up the passing game quite a bit. 
 

The top 4 receivers last year combined for 2700 yards. Its not unfathomable those 4 players end up with over 3000 combined. Then also consider Ertz was siphoning yards from Goedert for awhile last year, he had 200 that’ll be redistributed.

 

1150

900

725

550

 

Thats 3325. Then add the RBs and reserve players… If Hurts plays 17 games, he could end up around 3700 total, which isn’t some dramatic leap from the 3100 he had last year in 15 games.

Did the guy who got punched really die?

2 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

Did the guy who got punched really die?

no

Ok blog, if you were to buy a new jersey for the upcoming season, what’s the jersey you’re buying?

My last buy was a BG so I’m looking for something I can wear for years to come. 

Whats your pick? Serious and sarcastic answers are welcome. 

2 minutes ago, QuinnWR4 said:

Ok blog, if you were to buy a new jersey for the upcoming season, what’s the jersey you’re buying?

My last buy was a BG so I’m looking for something I can wear for years to come. 

Whats your pick?

Reggie

Dawk

Bednarik

 

All in Kelly Green.   Reggie's would be the 80's jersey.  Dawk's and Bednarik's would be the '60 championship version jersey.

4 minutes ago, QuinnWR4 said:

Ok blog, if you were to buy a new jersey for the upcoming season, what’s the jersey you’re buying?

My last buy was a BG so I’m looking for something I can wear for years to come. 

Whats your pick? Serious and sarcastic answers are welcome. 

The only jerseys I have from recent players were guys who departed very quickly.  My wife bought me a McCoy jersey right before Chip got rid of him, then I bought a Wentz jersey (his play declined right afterwards), I also bought a Foles Super Bowl jersey which I can still wear without inviting any snide comments from others.

I'm out of the jersey buying business.

12 minutes ago, QuinnWR4 said:

Ok blog, if you were to buy a new jersey for the upcoming season, what’s the jersey you’re buying?

My last buy was a BG so I’m looking for something I can wear for years to come. 

Whats your pick? Serious and sarcastic answers are welcome. 

Hurts

Or

Julian Lurie

3 hours ago, Original Sin said:

Yikes

 

He apparently tried to punch another person who tried to stop him afterward 

Ranger fans getting salty  , up  2-0 on Tampa now down 3-2 .

32 minutes ago, QuinnWR4 said:

Ok blog, if you were to buy a new jersey for the upcoming season, what’s the jersey you’re buying?

My last buy was a BG so I’m looking for something I can wear for years to come. 

Whats your pick? Serious and sarcastic answers are welcome. 

Dickerson. Good name, good number, good player. 

Sarcastic: Matt Leo with a C patch 

36 minutes ago, QuinnWR4 said:

Ok blog, if you were to buy a new jersey for the upcoming season, what’s the jersey you’re buying?

My last buy was a BG so I’m looking for something I can wear for years to come. 

Whats your pick? Serious and sarcastic answers are welcome. 

My opinion on jerseys is the cheap versions are a "why even bother?”

And so if you’re getting one of the expensive ones, you should get one that doesn’t has the possibility of regret. Devonta Smith could bomb and be out of the league in 5 years, we have no idea. Or he could be a Dallas Cowboy. 

 But like your Brandon Graham one, Kelce/Cox/Johnson IMO are immortal Eagles. Those Jerseys will be great your whole life, while also being team relevant today. I would also make an exception for Mailata in that department, as his story is so nuts that I wouldnt mind if he played somewhere else later on (from the Jersey rule perspective; hopefully he’s our LT for 10 years).
 

36 minutes ago, QuinnWR4 said:

Ok blog, if you were to buy a new jersey for the upcoming season, what’s the jersey you’re buying?

My last buy was a BG so I’m looking for something I can wear for years to come. 

Whats your pick? Serious and sarcastic answers are welcome. 

Devonta Smith, no question. I cannot wait to see the WR he becomes whether it's Jalen throwing him the ball or not. 

39 minutes ago, QuinnWR4 said:

Ok blog, if you were to buy a new jersey for the upcoming season, what’s the jersey you’re buying?

My last buy was a BG so I’m looking for something I can wear for years to come. 

Whats your pick? Serious and sarcastic answers are welcome. 

If you are going current eagle player, I’d say kelce, Cox or Lane. Long enough tenure with the team it’ll always have value. Add on once kelce retires the only way you could get a kelce is finding an older one on eBay or secondary market or you are gonna have to buy mitchell and ness because the nfl as soon as player leaves or retires doesn’t allow you to get the jersey customized in that number/name. Mitchell and ness gets the right to use it. Their stuff is overpriced and not very good quality 

16 hours ago, justrelax said:

Fundamentals are critical and far too many teams and coaches ignore them on the assumption that players at this level already have them.

They don’t.

Why is Stoutland the best OL coach - and probably best position coach in the league? Because he teaches fundamentals. Every. Damn. Day.

Andrew Thomas on the Giants was a great college tackle but was horrible his first two plus years in the NFL. Why? He got by in college on sheer talent but his technique sucked. It was only in his third year that he started figuring it out and now he’s on his way to being good. Sorry to say, but with Evan Neal the Giants could have two high quality OTs.

Getting back to coaching fundamentals, remember how bad Vaitai was when he first had to play? Absolutely no technique. Stoutland turned him into a pretty good player by teaching fundamentals over and over and over. Conversely, Jack Driscoll lacks high end talent but has excellent technique. He’ll never be all-pro but he can play pretty much anywhere on the OL and do it well, an incredibly high value when you have to cut down to your game day activations. I expect the Eagles to activate eight on game days - Mailata, Dickerson. Kelce, Seumalo, Johnson, Dillard, Driscoll, and a player to be named later. Sua, maybe, if his get-off is quicker. Otherwise probably Jurgens.

Returning again to fundamentals, when training camp rolls around they’re putting in plays, schemes, working out audibles, blitzes, blitz packages, blitz blocking responsibilities. At this point, hopefully, the players are strong on their fundamentals. But that hope had better be because at some point (like now) the players have gotten good coaching on fundamentals.

It is NEVER wrong to teach fundamentals.

With the limits on summer activities, focusing on fundamentals makes sense. You're not going to get enough practice reps to carry over to TC, but focusing on fundamentals in the spring is not just about teaching, but also evaluating who is going to need extra attention in training camp (staying after practices to work on, you guessed it, fundamentals!). The fact that players who started on big time college programs need work just exposes how bad college coaching is in many cases.

Even in training camp, the first couple weeks you've got a lot of players out there who won't be on the roster, or will be on the PS. But you need to look at them to get the information needed to make the roster decisions on cut down days. But that cuts down on the time available for your first and second units.

So it's only the last few weeks when the starters and backups get to practice together on a regular basis, and the reason Sirianni stresses scrimmages over exhibition games is the ability to control the reps, so he can focus on situational reps rather than the random reps you'd get in an exhibition game with players going in and out. In controlled scrimmages, you can have you 1st team and 2nd team going against another team on different fields, with scripted situations (red zone defense, etc).

19 hours ago, TorontoEagle said:

Ah yes, the first symptoms of Monkey Pox are uncontrolled outbursts of anger.

Also....are you admitting you let a monkey in your anus? 

Is a monkey on your ass better than a monkey on your back?

Just now, Bacarty2 said:

Black Jordan Davis Georgia jersey

Did you have to call him black Jordan Davis? His name is just Jordan Davis. 

That's racist. 

4 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Did you have to call him black Jordan Davis? His name is just Jordan Davis. 

That's racist. 

Sorry, for clarity I vote "black" be mandatory for all posts on black Jordan Davis:

19 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

You do know we haven had a 1000 yard receiver in god knows how long and you not only expect someone to do it, but blow it out of the water with arguable one of the worst "passing" QB's in the league?  Then you suggest we're gonna have a 2nd WR flirt with 1000 yards too. 

But lets go with your numbers...   Brown 1150 / smith 900 / Goedert 725 /  backfield gets 550.  Then you have 200-300 divided up between Quez/Reagor/Stoll/JJ/

yes, 300 yards divided up with 3-4 other guys really sounds like a break out year for quez

Quez with 550. And my argument was 550 isn’t breakout for Quez and that he won’t be a breakout candidate this year due to Brown’s presence.

The backfield likely won’t combine to match Watkins’ production this year, Heath withstanding. Sanders’ participation in the passing game has dropping significantly since his rookie year, and it’s not due to injury. He had 800 rushing and 500 receiving his rookie year, then a 800/200 ratio his second year. Then last year, even with injury issues, it was again a 750/150 ratio. It does not appear to be the direction the offensive play calling is heading, changing even before Sirianni.

 

As for Brown, Rookie DeVonta Smith had 900+ yards last year. I believe Brown is the best WR we’ve had since TO, not to mention on another level than rookie Smith (though Smith will evolve from that as well). Couple that with the fact that we play an additional game now, and 1150 yards for a pro bowl caliber WR in a 17 game season even with this QB is absolutely plausible.

Nice ride 

12 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Quez with 550. And my argument was 550 isn’t breakout for Quez and that he won’t be a breakout candidate this year due to Brown’s presence.

The backfield likely won’t combine to match Watkins’ production this year, Heath withstanding. Sanders’ participation in the passing game has dropping significantly since his rookie year, and it’s not due to injury. He had 800 rushing and 500 receiving his rookie year, then a 800/200 ratio his second year. Then last year, even with injury issues, it was again a 750/150 ratio. It does not appear to be the direction the offensive play calling is heading, changing even before Sirianni.

 

As for Brown, Rookie DeVonta Smith had 900+ yards last year. I believe Brown is the best WR we’ve had since TO, not to mention on another level than rookie Smith (though Smith will evolve from that as well). Couple that with the fact that we play an additional game now, and 1150 yards for a pro bowl caliber WR in a 17 game season even with this QB is absolutely plausible.

Health will be a factor for sure.  Brown is somewhat likely to miss a couple of games based on his history and style of play.  He averages right around 1,000 yards per season and the Eagles will (should?) be a more pass-based offense than TEN has been.

I think there's a chance Brown and Smith combine for just over 2,000 yards.  Goedert around 750.  The RBs were just over 500 yards receiving last season; I think Gainwell gets more usage this year so that number will go up, just over 600 yards is my guess.  Watkins about 550-600.  Reagor/Pascal 300 or so.

Adding those up would be about 4,200 yards passing.  That will require Hurts keeping his eyes downfield as he leaves the pocket.  Throw more, run less.  I have limited confidence we will see that this season.  I think Hurts' habits will remain his habits.    

Who cares? I mean it's a team game, it's not how many yards this or that receiver gains (it matters to them for ego and contract negotiations, but for fans?), it's how many yards and points the offense gains. Individual numbers will vary due to injury, game to game match-ups as well as individual skill. There's no dominant receiver on this team who has to get the ball, so it's likely yards will vary widely game to game depending on how defenses play them - match up Watkins against 4th CB scrubs and he may have a string of 100 yard games.

And how much they should pass is not just a judgement on Hurts, but on opposing defenses - if you're gaining 5+ yards per rush then why pass?

First, let a team show they can slow down the run game given the Eagles OL might be the best in the NFL. Then if they cheat up against the run, burn 'em.

8 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

Health will be a factor for sure.  Brown is somewhat likely to miss a couple of games based on his history and style of play.  He averages right around 1,000 yards per season and the Eagles will (should?) be a more pass-based offense than TEN has been.

I think there's a chance Brown and Smith combine for just over 2,000 yards.  Goedert around 750.  The RBs were just over 500 yards receiving last season; I think Gainwell gets more usage this year so that number will go up, just over 600 yards is my guess.  Watkins about 550-600.  Reagor/Pascal 300 or so.

Adding those up would be about 4,200 yards passing.  That will require Hurts keeping his eyes downfield as he leaves the pocket.  Throw more, run less.  I have limited confidence we will see that this season.  I think Hurts' habits will remain his habits.    

Yeah that’s pretty close to my expectation as well… shave maybe 100 off the RB prediction, a little of that Quez number, and I thInk Reagor will do zilch; may even be a healthy scratch toward the end of the year. Bring Hurts in a shade under 4k… This is of course barring Hurts making some kind of big leap this year which I don’t expect, but stranger things have happened.