Just now, bitbased said:

I'm wondering if they're considering our 5 man fronts as "blitzes." The only actual blitz I recall was the stupid one he called near the goal line where they sent 6 or 7.

Yeah, they weren't legitimate blitzes. And even if they were, it's more proof of how outclassed Gannon is because they didn't work for ish.

Day after recaps on GMFB and ESPN...Hard to watch.

My takeaways...

I'm still pissed about a lot of the game but some statements are true.

Eagles D line stayed in their hotel rooms from 6-10pm.. True.

Jalen Hurts did all he could do to lead the Team to a W. True.

The Game changed on a punt return for the best return yardage in Super Bowl history. True.

In the Second half, Eagles Defensive Line was busy trying out the new menu at Olive Garden. True.

Eagles Offense scored enough points to Win the game.... True?

This one's gonna hurt for a while but I'm an Eagles guy, Start over, again, Go Howie.

 

That AJ Brown TD was one of the slickest I've seen. The way he stopped for a millisecond to make the DB think the ball was coming and then re-accelerate and still get under the ball to make the catch was insane. I don't think people realize how hard that is.

2 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

Yeah, they weren't legitimate blitzes. And even if they were, it's more proof of how outclassed Gannon is because they didn't work for ish.

I honestly would have preferred 8 man boxes. MAKE Mahomes hold the ball and hit 20 yard passes. Does he probably hit them? Sure. But he also definitely hits 5 yard passes. 

35 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

If Gannon doesn't get the Arizona job, it's going to be bad vibes to bring him back. I know they will, and it makes sense to, but JG better not be rolling down his window outside the Linc anymore. 

 

He deserves to be fired.  They just can't bring him back. 

Just now, RememberTheKoy said:

 

He deserves to be fired.  They just can't bring him back. 

He does but he still has potential. Eerily similar to the Sean McDermott situation in 2010. 

36 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

If Gannon doesn't get the Arizona job, it's going to be bad vibes to bring him back. I know they will, and it makes sense too, but JG better not be rolling down his window outside the Linc anymore. 

Add on with the bad vibe they are gonna be less talented defense next year and more inexperienced. the odds are the defense isn’t going to be nearly as good so it’s going to compound that bad vibe the fans feel towards him. 

Secondary thing, but Michael Clay can't be back next season. The STs plagued the Eagles all season. Sirianni needs to ditch the loyalty and let him go. And FFS find a real punter.

2 minutes ago, Thrive said:

He does but he still has potential. Eerily similar to the Sean McDermott situation in 2010. 

Notably, Sean McDermott’s defenses have been consistently horrific in the playoffs.

30 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

I was at the game and it was a strange sequence. During the break/replay, KC's defense started walking back to the original line of scrimmage making people think it was coming back. Then they started walking up to the new line of scrimmage after that making it look like it was going to stay and the crowd erupted. And then they reversed it to a no-catch. It was a weird, roller-coaster of a sequence. 

Yeah, we were totally confused. We thought when the KC defense came back to the ~20 that the call was being upheld and the whole section erupted. Then...they walked everyone back to midfield.

9 minutes ago, Doc S. said:

Day after recaps on GMFB and ESPN...Hard to watch.

My takeaways...

I'm still pissed about a lot of the game but some statements are true.

Eagles D line stayed in their hotel rooms from 6-10pm.. True.

Jalen Hurts did all he could do to lead the Team to a W. True.

The Game changed on a punt return for the best return yardage in Super Bowl history. True.

In the Second half, Eagles Defensive Line was busy trying out the new menu at Olive Garden. True.

Eagles Offense scored enough points to Win the game.... True?

This one's gonna hurt for a while but I'm an Eagles guy, Start over, again, Go Howie.

 

Nope, they needed another tree fiddy. Unfortunately the Chiefs recognized the eagles as a giant crustacean from the Paleolithic era and refused to pay up

2 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Secondary thing, but Michael Clay can't be back next season. The STs plagued the Eagles all season. Sirianni needs to ditch the loyalty and let him go. And FFS find a real punter.

Siposs line drive punt was a huge turning point.  Horrible

They should have just went for it instead of punting.  Doug went for it in a similar situation in the Super Bowl and that was a huge part of us win ing that game. 

A lot of thoughts I wasnt able to share the night of the game.

KC had 8 possessions. They scored 4 TDs, Kicked 2 FGs but missed one. And were stopped twice. Bad result for the D. But what are realistic expectations against the Reid/Mahomes offense? Any D in the modern NFL is going to give up points to them. We had 2 stops, and made them kick FGs twice. If we had 1 more stop, that would have been 3 TDs, 2 FGs with one missed, and 3 stops. 27 points. Suddenly, you feel pretty good about what they were able to do. You held them out of the end zone on 5 out of 8 possessions. Not bad against the Chiefs at all.

What it comes down to on defense to me is, individual performances more so than Gannon and his scheme. We needed 1 player on defense to make 1 big play. And it never happened. There was no sack to back them up. Only 1 TFL. No PDs, and no INTs. No FFs or recoveries. So many awesome players on this D with incredibly seasons. I was sure, at some point, we would make 1 big play. Just one guy had to do it just 1 time. No one ever did. 

Reddick drew a ton of attention all game long. Graham had a resurgent season. Philly legend. Where was he? Cox. Sweat had a breakout season. Where was he? Hargrave?  All of those guys had an easier job because of Reddick. They didnt help him out at all. Gardner-Johnson led the league in INTs even after missing like 6 games. He at least made a hard hit towards the end of the game. But no plays of real significance. Slay and Bradberry- where was their big play?

As we continue to zoom in on things Im honing in on Maddox. The WR in motion caused him to sprint to the other side of the formation. Never looked at the WR. Never realized the WR stopped and stayed on the other side. Maddox with a complete lack of awareness and focus just ran away from the play before the ball was even snapped. NOT just once either. TWICE! There are a bunch of points hung squarely on him individually in that game. Maddox should be public enemy #1 in Philly for the rest of his career here. I dont think many people really noticed. Too busy complaining about the macro level and blaming Gannon. A bunch of individuals failed to step up even just once, all game. And one individual was directly responsible for a whole bunch of those points. I was always a maddox supporter. I am now forever in the Maddox sucks camp.

 

On offense

I dont think it hurt us in the end because the run game wasnt really needed. The passing game was working so well. But Sanders got hurt on the 1st play and fumbled. Maybe the injury, or maybe the fumble- something caused them to lose confidence in him. He wasnt really utilized. The other guys failed to puck up the slack for him. Gainwell didnt have a ton of opportunity either, but he underwhelmed with weak runs last night when he earned playing time by being a hard nosed runner. He and Boston Scott failed on numerous short yardage attempts. Gainwell's mistake on the 2nd and 2 run lead to Seumalo's false start penalty on 3rd down, which led to the fumble on the 3rd down replay. Snowball effect, started with Gainwell not just picking up the 1st.

Our already amazing offense can take another big step forward next year with 2 things. One is a bigger back who is a hard runner. Charbonnet or Rodriguez later would be nice. 

The other thing that can lead to a massive spike in explosive plays is- right now we have got to be the worst team in the league on scramble drills. The reaction of our WRs to Hurts scrambling is absolutely horrid. WRs used to be coached to come back to the ball. We have a mobile QB who can get outside the pocket and extend plays. His WRs should be turning up field. Seattle had a ton of success with that with Wilson at QB. We should be doing the same thing. Sometimes they turn up, but its far too late. I think theyre often caught wondering if the should block for him to run, or if they should turn up field for him to throw over top. Lets save our QB the hits, and just teach them to always turn upfield quickly and get the explosive plays. Please.... Im so sick of him scrambling only to find no one open and either running out of bounds for no gain, or having to throw it away. Those should be big plays, and they pretty much never are.

Lane Johnson is amazing making it through the whole post-season. Dickerson played through something too with that elbow brace. Jones was pretty much a non-factor. Outstanding.

Hurts was incredible. KCs only path to victory was if Mahomes had another godly game. Obviously capable of doing that. Hurts had to be just as good in order to force Mahomes in to that role. Hurts did his job. He drastically outpreformed Mahomes in the 1st half even in passing along. But then you add in his 68 first half rushing yards with 2 TDs... Even in the 2nd half, Mahomes became unstoppable, but Hurts was still damn near perfect as well. Foles gave us the most incredible superbowl QB performance every. Hurts ended up being right there with him.

Great gameplan by Nick and the rest of the offensive staff. Great execution by the players.

Really a damn shame about the fumble. But even with the 7 points we are up 10 at half, and felt like we could pull away. Even if we couldnt pull away the offense was playing so well, it didnt feel like the Chiefs could overcome that deficit because we were still going to score more points. I cant believe we managed to blow that lead.

 

Refs- Aside from the Bradberry ticky tacky call, the long pass to Smith that got overturned (wrongly) was a game changing play. We were definitely going to score a TD there. Offense was humming, and there was plenty of time. Where was that, the 10 yard line? We had it. Instead, we had to prolong the drive, and ran out of time settling for a FG. 4 point swing. That was the game. Refs didnt just give away the game on the bradberry call. It took them getting both of those calls wrong to do us in.

Special teams- Elliott is a stud. Super bowl. No nerves. Butker missed one. And an XP was pretty close to the upright too. Elliot was perfect. Never in doubt. Punting.. man.. 1 bad punt. One horrible punt coverage... another play that could have cost us the game. 

 

Andy Reid- why did he or his team do something smart with clock management? He sold out and fixed everything that ailed him/us while he was here. Didnt care to root for him anymore prior to this game. Now, I kinda hate him. Hes a sellout. 

Mahomes-- League's biggest baby? Championship game he looked hurt hobbling around but played just fine. This game, the faces he was making on the sideline looked like he was losing his leg. Hes great. Cant take that away. But I dont think he is tough for playing through that injury. I thin hes a little whimp who acted like he was dying when he had minor pain. Theres no way it was that bad, the way he came out and played the rest of the game. Now, he will always annoy me. Because hes going to continue to be QB God. But hes a little whimpy baby. 

 

We will be back very soon.

I dont know if we just rip off the bandaid and let our defensive free agents go so we can get back ahead of the cap a little bit. Or if we actually retain most of them because the LBs have not earned larger contracts and should be easy to retain. Blankenship can replace Epps. Cheap, and you lose nothing. Dean can replace one LB (hopefully Edwards), and White should be very cheap to retain. Open the bank for Gardner-Johnson and Bradberry. The rest may take care of itself. Many of those guys wont find the big deals they want elsewhere and probably choose to stay here. In that case, we are right back in the thick of things next year.

In the event they all leave, Howie will work his magic. Howie, Hurts, Siri- you wont keep that combo down. Theyll be back real soon. 

4 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Secondary thing, but Michael Clay can't be back next season. The STs plagued the Eagles all season. Sirianni needs to ditch the loyalty and let him go. And FFS find a real punter.

Agreed. It's time to move in a different direction. And not bringing in competition for Siposs was a mistake. They just handed him the job.

22 minutes ago, E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles said:

They have to be looking Oline heavily with that first pick.  They could easily lose Seomalu, Kelce, and Dillard.  Backup OG may go to jail.  And who knows how much longer Lane goes.  Seems like a hole is right there and they prioritize the positions. 

And what about CB, DT, LB, S right now. I get it, I want an elite o-line at all times too. But we have immediate needs now. Bradberry is out so there's no #2 CB. The linebackers cost us, Epps was exposed, Cox should be done here and Hargrave faded and will want a major payday on top it. I can't use a top pick for guy that may play if our all world RT goes down. I'm not there yet. The Dillard pick was a very bad investment, we could've had Montez Sweat running around last night rather than Dillard being invisible. I'm not so hot on that Jurgens pick in round two last year either that paid zero dividends this year. 

10 minutes ago, Doc S. said:

Day after recaps on GMFB and ESPN...Hard to watch.

My takeaways...

I'm still pissed about a lot of the game but some statements are true.

Eagles D line stayed in their hotel rooms from 6-10pm.. True.

Jalen Hurts did all he could do to lead the Team to a W. True.

The Game changed on a punt return for the best return yardage in Super Bowl history. True.

In the Second half, Eagles Defensive Line was busy trying out the new menu at Olive Garden. True.

Eagles Offense scored enough points to Win the game.... True?

This one's gonna hurt for a while but I'm an Eagles guy, Start over, again, Go Howie.

 

I don't think I agree about the punt being all that important. It's obviously bad in isolation but my feeling was that since half time, the D wasn't even close to getting a stop. The Chiefs barely even needed 3rd down conversions to march down the field for TDs all second half. So my assessment was that it was basically going to be a TD either way - this was just much quicker. So the real impact it had was on the clock. If the long TD vs quick TD resulted in Hurts getting the final possession to win the game then sure, that's meaningful impact.

Just now, metal said:

Agreed. It's time to move in a different direction. And not bringing in competition for Siposs was a mistake. They just handed him the job.

Yeah I'd agree. Siposs stinks and Kern wasn't much better. Clay needs to go too. This ST unit was bad the first half of the year, then improved to be at least average and then stunk in the biggest game of the year. 

2 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

A lot of thoughts I wasnt able to share the night of the game.

KC had 8 possessions. They scored 4 TDs, Kicked 2 FGs but missed one. And were stopped twice. Bad result for the D. But what are realistic expectations against the Reid/Mahomes offense? Any D in the modern NFL is going to give up points to them. We had 2 stops, and made them kick FGs twice. If we had 1 more stop, that would have been 3 TDs, 2 FGs with one missed, and 3 stops. 27 points. Suddenly, you feel pretty good about what they were able to do. You held them out of the end zone on 5 out of 8 possessions. Not bad against the Chiefs at all.

What it comes down to on defense to me is, individual performances more so than Gannon and his scheme. We needed 1 player on defense to make 1 big play. And it never happened. There was no sack to back them up. Only 1 TFL. No PDs, and no INTs. No FFs or recoveries. So many awesome players on this D with incredibly seasons. I was sure, at some point, we would make 1 big play. Just one guy had to do it just 1 time. No one ever did. 

Reddick drew a ton of attention all game long. Graham had a resurgent season. Philly legend. Where was he? Cox. Sweat had a breakout season. Where was he? Hargrave?  All of those guys had an easier job because of Reddick. They didnt help him out at all. Gardner-Johnson led the league in INTs even after missing like 6 games. He at least made a hard hit towards the end of the game. But no plays of real significance. Slay and Bradberry- where was their big play?

As we continue to zoom in on things Im honing in on Maddox. The WR in motion caused him to sprint to the other side of the formation. Never looked at the WR. Never realized the WR stopped and stayed on the other side. Maddox with a complete lack of awareness and focus just ran away from the play before the ball was even snapped. NOT just once either. TWICE! There are a bunch of points hung squarely on him individually in that game. Maddox should be public enemy #1 in Philly for the rest of his career here. I dont think many people really noticed. Too busy complaining about the macro level and blaming Gannon. A bunch of individuals failed to step up even just once, all game. And one individual was directly responsible for a whole bunch of those points. I was always a maddox supporter. I am now forever in the Maddox sucks camp.

 

On offense

I dont think it hurt us in the end because the run game wasnt really needed. The passing game was working so well. But Sanders got hurt on the 1st play and fumbled. Maybe the injury, or maybe the fumble- something caused them to lose confidence in him. He wasnt really utilized. The other guys failed to puck up the slack for him. Gainwell didnt have a ton of opportunity either, but he underwhelmed with weak runs last night when he earned playing time by being a hard nosed runner. He and Boston Scott failed on numerous short yardage attempts. Gainwell's mistake on the 2nd and 2 run lead to Seumalo's false start penalty on 3rd down, which led to the fumble on the 3rd down replay. Snowball effect, started with Gainwell not just picking up the 1st.

Our already amazing offense can take another big step forward next year with 2 things. One is a bigger back who is a hard runner. Charbonnet or Rodriguez later would be nice. 

The other thing that can lead to a massive spike in explosive plays is- right now we have got to be the worst team in the league on scramble drills. The reaction of our WRs to Hurts scrambling is absolutely horrid. WRs used to be coached to come back to the ball. We have a mobile QB who can get outside the pocket and extend plays. His WRs should be turning up field. Seattle had a ton of success with that with Wilson at QB. We should be doing the same thing. Sometimes they turn up, but its far too late. I think theyre often caught wondering if the should block for him to run, or if they should turn up field for him to throw over top. Lets save our QB the hits, and just teach them to always turn upfield quickly and get the explosive plays. Please.... Im so sick of him scrambling only to find no one open and either running out of bounds for no gain, or having to throw it away. Those should be big plays, and they pretty much never are.

Lane Johnson is amazing making it through the whole post-season. Dickerson played through something too with that elbow brace. Jones was pretty much a non-factor. Outstanding.

Hurts was incredible. KCs only path to victory was if Mahomes had another godly game. Obviously capable of doing that. Hurts had to be just as good in order to force Mahomes in to that role. Hurts did his job. He drastically outpreformed Mahomes in the 1st half even in passing along. But then you add in his 68 first half rushing yards with 2 TDs... Even in the 2nd half, Mahomes became unstoppable, but Hurts was still damn near perfect as well. Foles gave us the most incredible superbowl QB performance every. Hurts ended up being right there with him.

Great gameplan by Nick and the rest of the offensive staff. Great execution by the players.

Really a damn shame about the fumble. But even with the 7 points we are up 10 at half, and felt like we could pull away. Even if we couldnt pull away the offense was playing so well, it didnt feel like the Chiefs could overcome that deficit because we were still going to score more points. I cant believe we managed to blow that lead.

 

Refs- Aside from the Bradberry ticky tacky call, the long pass to Smith that got overturned (wrongly) was a game changing play. We were definitely going to score a TD there. Offense was humming, and there was plenty of time. Where was that, the 10 yard line? We had it. Instead, we had to prolong the drive, and ran out of time settling for a FG. 4 point swing. That was the game. Refs didnt just give away the game on the bradberry call. It took them getting both of those calls wrong to do us in.

Special teams- Elliott is a stud. Super bowl. No nerves. Butker missed one. And an XP was pretty close to the upright too. Elliot was perfect. Never in doubt. Punting.. man.. 1 bad punt. One horrible punt coverage... another play that could have cost us the game. 

 

Andy Reid- why did he or his team do something smart with clock management? He sold out and fixed everything that ailed him/us while he was here. Didnt care to root for him anymore prior to this game. Now, I kinda hate him. Hes a sellout. 

Mahomes-- League's biggest baby? Championship game he looked hurt hobbling around but played just fine. This game, the faces he was making on the sideline looked like he was losing his leg. Hes great. Cant take that away. But I dont think he is tough for playing through that injury. I thin hes a little whimp who acted like he was dying when he had minor pain. Theres no way it was that bad, the way he came out and played the rest of the game. Now, he will always annoy me. Because hes going to continue to be QB God. But hes a little whimpy baby. 

 

We will be back very soon.

I dont know if we just rip off the bandaid and let our defensive free agents go so we can get back ahead of the cap a little bit. Or if we actually retain most of them because the LBs have not earned larger contracts and should be easy to retain. Blankenship can replace Epps. Cheap, and you lose nothing. Dean can replace one LB (hopefully Edwards), and White should be very cheap to retain. Open the bank for Gardner-Johnson and Bradberry. The rest may take care of itself. Many of those guys wont find the big deals they want elsewhere and probably choose to stay here. In that case, we are right back in the thick of things next year.

In the event they all leave, Howie will work his magic. Howie, Hurts, Siri- you wont keep that combo down. Theyll be back real soon. 

We didn’t really make them kick a second FG. They wanted the eat clock and kick it late. That was a huge loss by the defense. 

1 hour ago, eagle45 said:

He had zero interest as a FA this past year and signed a pity deal with the team.  He was eventually released and ended up on our PS.  Zero of 32 teams think he should be on a roster.

There’s a lot of pitiful 5-6 WRs in this league if you go look at rosters. I think ward fits into that category. Like Dezmon Paton and Montrell Washington are on the colts and broncos roster. Both aren’t very good either and special teams they aren’t aces. Frankly ward is better than both of those guys but all 3 are in the league. Basicallt cause that’s your 5-6 wr 

The only argument you can make for the defense/Gannon is the turf being complete garbage. Other than that, it was a horrible performance. If the offense had a bad game and had 3-4 three and outs, how many points would the Chiefs have scored? I don't think 56 is out of the question. They didn't defend anything. They were just out there and along for the ride.

8 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Yeah, we were totally confused. We thought when the KC defense came back to the ~20 that the call was being upheld and the whole section erupted. Then...they walked everyone back to midfield.

Honestly that call makes me more angry than the holding on bradberry. At least you can say bradberry did it even though it wasn’t much and sucked at the time in the game. There’s no evidence whatsoever that wasn’t a catch after you initially ruled it as a catch. Very well could’ve taken 4 points off the board for the eagles 

4 minutes ago, bbabraham said:

I don't think I agree about the punt being all that important. It's obviously bad in isolation but my feeling was that since half time, the D wasn't even close to getting a stop. The Chiefs barely even needed 3rd down conversions to march down the field for TDs all second half. So my assessment was that it was basically going to be a TD either way - this was just much quicker. So the real impact it had was on the clock. If the long TD vs quick TD resulted in Hurts getting the final possession to win the game then sure, that's meaningful impact.

Yeah, our "bend don't break" defense was continuously giving up TD drives in 5 minutes or less in the 2nd half. That's just breaking.

3 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

A lot of thoughts I wasnt able to share the night of the game.

KC had 8 possessions. They scored 4 TDs, Kicked 2 FGs but missed one. And were stopped twice. Bad result for the D. But what are realistic expectations against the Reid/Mahomes offense? Any D in the modern NFL is going to give up points to them. We had 2 stops, and made them kick FGs twice. If we had 1 more stop, that would have been 3 TDs, 2 FGs with one missed, and 3 stops. 27 points. Suddenly, you feel pretty good about what they were able to do. You held them out of the end zone on 5 out of 8 possessions. Not bad against the Chiefs at all.

What it comes down to on defense to me is, individual performances more so than Gannon and his scheme. We needed 1 player on defense to make 1 big play. And it never happened. There was no sack to back them up. Only 1 TFL. No PDs, and no INTs. No FFs or recoveries. So many awesome players on this D with incredibly seasons. I was sure, at some point, we would make 1 big play. Just one guy had to do it just 1 time. No one ever did. 

Reddick drew a ton of attention all game long. Graham had a resurgent season. Philly legend. Where was he? Cox. Sweat had a breakout season. Where was he? Hargrave?  All of those guys had an easier job because of Reddick. They didnt help him out at all. Gardner-Johnson led the league in INTs even after missing like 6 games. He at least made a hard hit towards the end of the game. But no plays of real significance. Slay and Bradberry- where was their big play?

As we continue to zoom in on things Im honing in on Maddox. The WR in motion caused him to sprint to the other side of the formation. Never looked at the WR. Never realized the WR stopped and stayed on the other side. Maddox with a complete lack of awareness and focus just ran away from the play before the ball was even snapped. NOT just once either. TWICE! There are a bunch of points hung squarely on him individually in that game. Maddox should be public enemy #1 in Philly for the rest of his career here. I dont think many people really noticed. Too busy complaining about the macro level and blaming Gannon. A bunch of individuals failed to step up even just once, all game. And one individual was directly responsible for a whole bunch of those points. I was always a maddox supporter. I am now forever in the Maddox sucks camp.

 

On offense

I dont think it hurt us in the end because the run game wasnt really needed. The passing game was working so well. But Sanders got hurt on the 1st play and fumbled. Maybe the injury, or maybe the fumble- something caused them to lose confidence in him. He wasnt really utilized. The other guys failed to puck up the slack for him. Gainwell didnt have a ton of opportunity either, but he underwhelmed with weak runs last night when he earned playing time by being a hard nosed runner. He and Boston Scott failed on numerous short yardage attempts. Gainwell's mistake on the 2nd and 2 run lead to Seumalo's false start penalty on 3rd down, which led to the fumble on the 3rd down replay. Snowball effect, started with Gainwell not just picking up the 1st.

Our already amazing offense can take another big step forward next year with 2 things. One is a bigger back who is a hard runner. Charbonnet or Rodriguez later would be nice. 

The other thing that can lead to a massive spike in explosive plays is- right now we have got to be the worst team in the league on scramble drills. The reaction of our WRs to Hurts scrambling is absolutely horrid. WRs used to be coached to come back to the ball. We have a mobile QB who can get outside the pocket and extend plays. His WRs should be turning up field. Seattle had a ton of success with that with Wilson at QB. We should be doing the same thing. Sometimes they turn up, but its far too late. I think theyre often caught wondering if the should block for him to run, or if they should turn up field for him to throw over top. Lets save our QB the hits, and just teach them to always turn upfield quickly and get the explosive plays. Please.... Im so sick of him scrambling only to find no one open and either running out of bounds for no gain, or having to throw it away. Those should be big plays, and they pretty much never are.

Lane Johnson is amazing making it through the whole post-season. Dickerson played through something too with that elbow brace. Jones was pretty much a non-factor. Outstanding.

Hurts was incredible. KCs only path to victory was if Mahomes had another godly game. Obviously capable of doing that. Hurts had to be just as good in order to force Mahomes in to that role. Hurts did his job. He drastically outpreformed Mahomes in the 1st half even in passing along. But then you add in his 68 first half rushing yards with 2 TDs... Even in the 2nd half, Mahomes became unstoppable, but Hurts was still damn near perfect as well. Foles gave us the most incredible superbowl QB performance every. Hurts ended up being right there with him.

Great gameplan by Nick and the rest of the offensive staff. Great execution by the players.

Really a damn shame about the fumble. But even with the 7 points we are up 10 at half, and felt like we could pull away. Even if we couldnt pull away the offense was playing so well, it didnt feel like the Chiefs could overcome that deficit because we were still going to score more points. I cant believe we managed to blow that lead.

 

Refs- Aside from the Bradberry ticky tacky call, the long pass to Smith that got overturned (wrongly) was a game changing play. We were definitely going to score a TD there. Offense was humming, and there was plenty of time. Where was that, the 10 yard line? We had it. Instead, we had to prolong the drive, and ran out of time settling for a FG. 4 point swing. That was the game. Refs didnt just give away the game on the bradberry call. It took them getting both of those calls wrong to do us in.

Special teams- Elliott is a stud. Super bowl. No nerves. Butker missed one. And an XP was pretty close to the upright too. Elliot was perfect. Never in doubt. Punting.. man.. 1 bad punt. One horrible punt coverage... another play that could have cost us the game. 

 

Andy Reid- why did he or his team do something smart with clock management? He sold out and fixed everything that ailed him/us while he was here. Didnt care to root for him anymore prior to this game. Now, I kinda hate him. Hes a sellout. 

Mahomes-- League's biggest baby? Championship game he looked hurt hobbling around but played just fine. This game, the faces he was making on the sideline looked like he was losing his leg. Hes great. Cant take that away. But I dont think he is tough for playing through that injury. I thin hes a little whimp who acted like he was dying when he had minor pain. Theres no way it was that bad, the way he came out and played the rest of the game. Now, he will always annoy me. Because hes going to continue to be QB God. But hes a little whimpy baby. 

 

We will be back very soon.

I dont know if we just rip off the bandaid and let our defensive free agents go so we can get back ahead of the cap a little bit. Or if we actually retain most of them because the LBs have not earned larger contracts and should be easy to retain. Blankenship can replace Epps. Cheap, and you lose nothing. Dean can replace one LB (hopefully Edwards), and White should be very cheap to retain. Open the bank for Gardner-Johnson and Bradberry. The rest may take care of itself. Many of those guys wont find the big deals they want elsewhere and probably choose to stay here. In that case, we are right back in the thick of things next year.

In the event they all leave, Howie will work his magic. Howie, Hurts, Siri- you wont keep that combo down. Theyll be back real soon. 

Will take the time to read this in a moment.

In the meantime, rumors of your death were greatly exaggerated...welcome back, Mr. Twain...

5 minutes ago, bbabraham said:

I don't think I agree about the punt being all that important. It's obviously bad in isolation but my feeling was that since half time, the D wasn't even close to getting a stop. The Chiefs barely even needed 3rd down conversions to march down the field for TDs all second half. So my assessment was that it was basically going to be a TD either way - this was just much quicker. So the real impact it had was on the clock. If the long TD vs quick TD resulted in Hurts getting the final possession to win the game then sure, that's meaningful impact.

Eagles shouldn't have punted there. We weren't going to stop the Chiefs. Good punt. Bad punt. Didn't matter. 4th and 3... go forit.