I’m sure I’m not the first Phillies fan off the bandwagon, but this team looks done-diddily-un-for.

They are a top-heavy batting order, to say the least.  Their #2 and 3 hitters are corpses now — so lost at the plate they can barely make contact.  That won’t get better with a day off.  Stott at the plate is a useless proposition; haven’t followed the team closely this year but I can’t imagine what the organization sees in him.  Might as well kept an aging Gregorious; at least he’d offer something offensively.

Marsh is only there because Harper can’t play the field.  He offers little.  He and Stott are decent defenders at least.  Castellanos used to be able to hit, but he needs to get moved down to the #8 spot with Stott #9.  
 

The batting lineup according to me with two games left — which will never happen:

1.  Marsh

2.  Segura

3.  Harper

4.  Schwarber

5.  Realmuto

6.  Bohm

7.  Hoskins

8.  Castellanos

9.  Stott (or an inflatable tube man to at least get HBP)

 

Hey, at least their season rests in the hands of their ace for Game 6, who says his arm is tired.  Hopefully he gives Jack Morris a call and asks if he can borrow his balls for one night.

If Sosa plays Saturday, Topper is a moron. Sosa might be the worst hitter in baseball. He's a zero against righty or lefty. At least Stott takes some pitches, can make a pitcher sweat even if he's not driving the ball right now.

2 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Don't disrespect the 2001 Eagles.  They owned that season. Earned the #1 seed and faced at home an opponent that they had owned.  This Phillies team as talented as it is just hit a good stretch at the right time but that fairy dust might have worn off.  If Koy Detmer would have never got injured in that 49ers game then he would have started the rest of the year and likely taken this team to a Super Bowl win if not more.  He showed it too in the NFC Championship game against the Panthers when McNabb was chucking it up all night to Manning Jr or whatever his Fing name was.  McNabb completely lost without Westbrook.  Koy comes in and immediately moves that offense down the field.  Duce Staley, in his arrogance, ran the wrong route.  Decided to change it up on the fly thinking he was playing with a QB that he had established that with.  An interception results.  The rest is history.  But it is still an unfortunate history because if Koy never got carted off in San Francisco we might have been looking at multiple rings with Andy.   

Koy's game against SF was in 2002.

Other than that, you make great points.

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Koy's game against SF was in 2002.

Other than that, you make great points.

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

I’m doubting stott is playing on Saturday. Valdez being a lefty you likely are getting sosa. 

Who BLOWS so play Stott

Just now, jamiller said:

Who BLOWS so play Stott

Technically sosa is supposed to be a better fielder and he was hitting lefties since coming to the Phillies at a .400 clip. That said against Valdez i don’t think sosa is capable of hitting him. Stott right now is struggling but from June 1 to the end of the season he was hitting lefties at a .317 clip. The kid is still a rookie. I’m not sure he’s ready for the bright lights of a World Series. Bohm looks much more confident and comfortable. He however played last year and this year. He’s figured things out at the mlb level. 

7 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

 

 

He's going to have a huge game against the Redskins on MNF.  He had his biggest game of the season against them in week 2 after being shutout in the week 1 against the Lions.  

20 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I’m sure I’m not the first Phillies fan off the bandwagon, but this team looks done-diddily-un-for.

They are a top-heavy batting order, to say the least.  Their #2 and 3 hitters are corpses now — so lost at the plate they can barely make contact.  That won’t get better with a day off.  Stott at the plate is a useless proposition; haven’t followed the team closely this year but I can’t imagine what the organization sees in him.  Might as well kept an aging Gregorious; at least he’d offer something offensively.

 

The fact that you haven't followed the team closely is the answer here. Stott is actually one of the most promising players the Phillies have brought up in years. I like him a lot. He's going to be a legit good player for a long time. He got off to a really bad start but was one of the team's better hitters the last half of the year.

Oh, and Gregorious was horrible.

Dammit, I'm talking about the Phillies now, and tonight was supposed to be for the Eagles for me. Hell, I didn't even switch over to the Phillies during commercial breaks and I didn't watch them during halftime either. 

1 minute ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

The fact that you haven't followed the team closely is the answer here. Stott is actually one of the most promising players the Phillies have brought up in years. I like him a lot. He's going to be a legit good player for a long time. He got off to a really bad start but was one of the team's better hitters the last half of the year.

Oh, and Gregorious was horrible.

Dammit, I'm talking about the Phillies now, and tonight was supposed to be for the Eagles for me. Hell, I didn't even switch over to the Phillies during commercial breaks and I didn't watch them during halftime either. 

Stott is the least of their problems tbh. He was awesome from June onward. He has some things he needs to improve on but he is going to be a really good leadoff type hitter in the future. The Phillies biggest issues are defensively they are bad on the corners outfield regardless of how castellanos is doing it in the postseason season and hoskins is actually one of the worst fielding first basemen in the league. They also lack starting pitching depth. After nola, Suarez and wheeler it’s really not good. Eflin even when healthy was so-so. Gibson was awful the second half of the year. Syndergaard just isn’t the same pitcher he once was. Fine if you have him as a 5th starter for the regular season. But postseason should only be a long reliever.

They need another front end of the rotation guy. Suarez is awesome if you get him as your 4th starter in a postseason. sets up really well. Said before rodon makes a ton of sense as a lefty starter. Also the Phillies could also preserve nola and wheeler if they didn’t have to throw them as much down the stretch trying to secure the last wildcard which goes back to the slow 22-29 start. If they are 26-25 they clinch earlier and could’ve given nola time off. Wheeler got some with the elbow and it nearly caught up to them. 

to the Phillies credit the bullpen for much of the playoffs has been phenomenal. Brogdon looks like he’s turned the corner cause he’s pitching lights out for the most part. This series I’d argue the phillies bullpen has been as good if not better than the Astros. Pitched 24.2 innings and given up 3 ER and one of those is attributed to Rhys bad fiddling. Astros pen has gone 18.2 innings and given up 2 ERs

Y'know what was a cool play tonight? That two point conversion from the one yard line. They bring in Cam Jurgens as an extra tight end, something they haven't shown at all this year. So the defense has to wonder what's up with that, will he somehow be a pass receiving target? Then he splits out wide, forcing the defense to come with him. Surely they're up to something. But no, it's just window dressing for a quarterback sneak. They just weakened the defensive box. That's what the deception was all about. Cool.

I've liked all the things they've done off the QB sneak the last 2 games, too. Teams are overplaying it so much that it's opening up the outside. They're doing a nice job with those.

Bit of an ugly win, credit to the texans who made it a game. Peirce is a great runner.

Hurts continues to impress. He's still making mistakes but you forget he's only 24! His calm persona is definitely rubbing on onto the whole team. The Kelce-Hurts love is REAL.

If you didn't see, this interview is beautiful.(won't let me embed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aENbmQdZMQ

 

Malata with a less than impressive game out there last night

4 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

 

He's going to have a huge game against the Redskins on MNF.  He had his biggest game of the season against them in week 2 after being shutout in the week 1 against the Lions.  

We played them in week 3. 

Eagles had a great run D in 17. That’s definitely the biggest difference between this team and that team. Come playoff time that could really be a problem. 

38 minutes ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Eagles had a great run D in 17. That’s definitely the biggest difference between this team and that team. Come playoff time that could really be a problem. 

Davis will be back by then...thank god!

4 hours ago, schuy7 said:

I've liked all the things they've done off the QB sneak the last 2 games, too. Teams are overplaying it so much that it's opening up the outside. They're doing a nice job with those.

HOU made a big deal about Kelce dragging Kenny G towards the end zone and how it should’ve been a penalty. Is that illegal, but two guys pushing Hurts forward on the sneak OK (as I haven’t seen us do that regularly for a game or 2)?

8 minutes ago, NYEagle said:

Davis will be back by then...thank god!

It wasn’t good with him

So the run D is the big topic now…

First question, is there a viable stop gap available until Davis gets back?

Second question, long term, is it worth carrying 2 NTs if our run D is so reliant on the NT?

7 hours ago, schuy7 said:

Gannon's run fits are bad too though, it's not just poor execution. Way too much 2-high, especially in this matchup. Gannon just rolls out his scheme regardless of the opponent. I can't stand that style of coaching.

IMO, it's more coaching than personnel. It's not like Williams, Cox, Hargrave can't anchor. They'll put Kyzir on the field over Dean in 13 personnel snaps.

1 hour ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Eagles had a great run D in 17. That’s definitely the biggest difference between this team and that team. Come playoff time that could really be a problem. 

but everyone on here says that its the passing that wins games right?

 

 

Me listening to Media and other Teams fans continue to speculate about "Who's going to beat the Eagles first". Meanwhile the Birds keep winning and are roaring to the #1 Seed, Home field Advantage and Bye Week.  

35 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

HOU made a big deal about Kelce dragging Kenny G towards the end zone and how it should’ve been a penalty. Is that illegal, but two guys pushing Hurts forward on the sneak OK (as I haven’t seen us do that regularly for a game or 2)?

It is, but I didn't see it as Kelce pulling him forward, from the reverse angle, as much as he sort of kept him from falling down.  Gainwell still had a leg drive, and Kelce never really grabbed his jersey to pull him forward.

 

But, it is illegal to 'pull' a runner.  It is not illegal to 'push a pile'.  The pushing of the pile is the classic scrum and can be seen as 'blocking' the guys in the way of the runner.

35 minutes ago, TEW said:

So the run D is the big topic now…

First question, is there a viable stop gap available until Davis gets back?

Second question, long term, is it worth carrying 2 NTs if our run D is so reliant on the NT?

Trade deadline passed.  So, no.

Long term... yes.