Didn't Sirianni call him out publically for his **** coaching last year? I don't think Nick would hesitate to cut him loose if he thought he wasn't getting the job done.

2 hours ago, SwingOnThis said:

Didn't Sirianni call him out publically for his **** coaching last year? I don't think Nick would hesitate to cut him loose if he thought he wasn't getting the job done.

Find his replacement now. Add them to the staff.

19 hours ago, CouchKing said:

Find his replacement now. Add them to the staff.

If his replacement is a guy like Fangio, can't do that while Gannon is still with the team.

After last week's extremely poor defensive performance do you think it's time to put Gannon in the unemployment line?  I think he has to go sooner than later before his so-called schemes lose us an opportunity for the playoffs and beyond.

29 minutes ago, eagles1st said:

After last week's extremely poor defensive performance do you think it's time to put Gannon in the unemployment line?  I think he has to go sooner than later before his so-called schemes lose us an opportunity for the playoffs and beyond.

I wouldn't be upset if he were to go... But it's probably too early in the year to be calling for it. 

Watching the chargers to get now, they have a totally new D a bunch of new players in D and they are controlling the chiefs and mahomes.

Where as Gannon let's goff and the lions go off in him, and I hear well he has new Ayers and they don't know the scheme blah blah.

If the D comes out and gets hammered again by the Vikings Gannons seat should be awful hot.

He has a lot better talent than he did last year so there really isn't any excuse.

Time to put up or shut up for Gannon.

12 hours ago, Utebird said:

Watching the chargers to get now, they have a totally new D a bunch of new players in D and they are controlling the chiefs and mahomes.

Where as Gannon let's goff and the lions go off in him, and I hear well he has new Ayers and they don't know the scheme blah blah.

If the D comes out and gets hammered again by the Vikings Gannons seat should be awful hot.

He has a lot better talent than he did last year so there really isn't any excuse.

Time to put up or shut up for Gannon.

I think Gannon was hired for his youth and because he gives a good interview.  Seems to me that he wasn't hired for his prowess as a DC.

43 minutes ago, Procus said:

I think Gannon was hired for his youth and because he gives a good interview.  Seems to me that he wasn't hired for his prowess as a DC.

Yup.

Haven't been impressed with anything he's done so far.

I was excited when he was hired as Schwartz defense was so boring unimaginative and vanilla.

Gannon came in talking about multiple fronts and keeping offenses guessing yet he's been probably more conservative than Schwartz.

Last year was understandable as he didn't have the pieces to run the D he wanted to.

This year he has the pieces and after one game doesn't look like he knows what the heck to do with those pieces 

I'll give him a few more games to see if he can get the d to gel but after the lions game I'm not hopeful, we'll see.

On 9/15/2022 at 10:01 AM, Procus said:

If his replacement is a guy like Fangio, can't do that while Gannon is still with the team.

Sure you can.  You hire him as a defensive consultant...

12 minutes ago, Vee said:

Sure you can.  You hire him as a defensive consultant...

For all we know, the Eagles have quietly done that.  Remember when they hired John Dorsey  and it wasn't discovered until months later?

On 9/12/2022 at 8:33 PM, Random Reglar said:

stay the course.

PFF had Jordan Davis as tops on defense.

I'm thinking they haven't notice how often he stands upright when trying to penetrate the OL, when you see a DLman standing upright, he's out of gas, aka, out of shape.

Funny thing is, after he was drafted they showed footage of him doing just that while at Georgia.  The worst part of it is, he has Cox to show him what being out of gas means, I guess Davis figures if Cox can get away. with it so can I.......Cox's lazy arse sets a horrible for rookies regardless of position. 

On 9/14/2022 at 11:57 AM, SwingOnThis said:

Didn't Sirianni call him out publically for his **** coaching last year? I don't think Nick would hesitate to cut him loose if he thought he wasn't getting the job done.

You don't understand, Sirianni doesn't call the shots, Howie does.

1 minute ago, EagleVA said:

I'm thinking they haven't notice how often he stands upright when trying to penetrate the

 

2 minutes ago, Vee said:

 

You Virginia people.

I still think Gannon's 2021 performance is underrated here.

The Eagles were 13th best in the league in net yards per pass (at 6.1), and 6th best in net yards per rush (at 4.0).  That's darn good given the talent level of the defense last year.

It is certainly true they did not get a lot of sacks, or pressure in general (and hence, few turnovers), and that is frustrating as heck to watch as a fan.  Could Gannon have been more creative with blitz schemes?  Maybe, but he was dealing with a real lack of talent in the back end.   Last year at this time, Genard Avery, Alex Singleton, Eric Wilson were the starting LBs, and Anthony Harris, Rodney McLeod and Steve Nelson were three of the four starters in the secondary.  Blitzing would put those guys on an island, and they are very likely to have been exposed for big plays.

You just can't beat good QBs playing this way.  They'll just keep taking that stuff all the way down the field.

58 minutes ago, pgcd3 said:

You just can't beat good QBs playing this way.  They'll just keep taking that stuff all the way down the field.

This is the thing... When you give WRs that much of a cushion the QB is going to take the easy completion every time. We saw that QBs get rid of the ball quickly against us but that's because we give them so much opportunity to. We have Slay and Bradberry on the outside... Be positive and be aggressive. 

On 9/14/2022 at 11:57 AM, SwingOnThis said:

Didn't Sirianni call him out publically for his **** coaching last year? I don't think Nick would hesitate to cut him loose if he thought he wasn't getting the job done.

 

It isn't Nick's call.  

On 9/14/2022 at 11:57 AM, SwingOnThis said:

Didn't Sirianni call him out publically for his **** coaching last year? I don't think Nick would hesitate to cut him loose if he thought he wasn't getting the job done.

Sorry but I just doubt Sirianni has this kind of power. Doug won a Super Bowl and didn’t have control over his coaching staff. Heck his DC was hired before he was.

Coaches are supposed to make players demonstratively better. I don't see any marked improvement across the board. DC's are also supposed to design and call defensive plays to showcase players' strengths, hide weaknesses, and exploit matchups. Gannon does none of those things as far as I can tell.

Yeah, it's put up or shut up time. He's got the talent for the defense to be above average and even win a game or two when the offense struggles some. Make it happen or pack your bags is where I think the F.O. should be with regard to him.

I'll give him another week now.

BUMP, cuz I'm mean.

On 9/15/2022 at 10:01 AM, Procus said:

If his replacement is a guy like Fangio, can't do that while Gannon is still with the team.

Isn’t Gannon basically a Fangio clone anyway? 

1 minute ago, EazyEaglez said:

Isn’t Gannon basically a Fangio clone anyway? 

that would be A-Okay, wouldn't it?

1 minute ago, Next_Up said:

that would be A-Okay, wouldn't it?

Everyone would be begging to fire him too after one game. 😂