10 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I love Doug, but it was probably best for both sides to move on. It does underscore some of the front office’s stupidity in how they treated Doug. 

Yeah I suppose, it did seem like both sides wanted out at the end. He was kinda scapegoated that year after some awful talent decisions and injuries.

1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

That experiment the Eagles had with 12 personnel and the 5 yard passing offense regardless of down and distance…they needed a reset from that.

Doug is a great coach and was a great coach here..but he ran a full life cycle very quickly.  Rebuild, top of the mountain, bottom of the valley.  

Siri is a Doug clone in many ways.

I’m sure both sides feel vindicated, but I’m thrilled Doug landed in his feet. 

I think new blueprints are emerging here.

With all due respect to Hurts, who is presently still better than some of the qbs I will mention…

The AFC is going to feature prolific, prototypical passing offenses with QB centric rosters for the next several years with Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, Herbert, Lawrence.

That has been the consensus model to win in the nfl for the last 20 years.  If you try to beat them at that game, you are just going to be lagging in pursuit.

The way to take those teams down is the Eagles/SF model.  Build a superior team with superior talent and a much better defense with your extra resources that aren’t sunk into QB.  That’s how you compete with those guys.  If you dip your toes in that pool with a $50m/year contract, it’s going to be hard to keep up.

11 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

That experiment the Eagles had with 12 personnel and the 5 yard passing offense regardless of down and distance…they needed a reset from that.

Doug is a great coach and was a great coach here..but he ran a full life cycle very quickly.  Rebuild, top of the mountain, bottom of the valley.  

Siri is a Doug clone in many ways.

There was a report before the start of the 2020 season that he would’ve been OK being fired. I think Doug came back cause he loved his players but he was ok if they would’ve moved on from him after 2019. There were multiple issues when Doug left. The roster was not very good because we did a crap job with the WR corps, oline had injuries all over, wentz had completely regressed from where he was at the end of 2019 and the defense had older players which the younger players just didn’t help all that much

Before the 2020 season, I said two of the three of Doug, Howie and Carson wouldn’t be back by the end of 2021. It happened way sooner than I thought because I thought it would least take until the end of 2021. I think Doug wanted out and the Eagles weren’t going to keep him when his heart wasn’t in being there because they didn’t let him do what he wanted to do.

I think doug went to a perfect place, because I think the Jaguars will let him do whatever the hell he wants with his staff and gameplan. Add on people might not like Trevor Lawrence, but he has all the talent in the world to be a really good quarterback. It’s why people talked about him when he was a freshman at Clemson and he beat Alabama.
 

 

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Everyone in the media is praising Doug now, but I remember there being outrage a year ago when everyone wanted them to hire Leftwich and it was rumored he was going to be the coach and then they didn't hire him and people were freaking out that they "blew it" by not hiring Byron freaking Leftwich.

I think people who know Philly have respect for Doug, but I don't think Doug's ever had the national media respect. He better now.

I’m a Doug fan…but he did just beat a not that good playoff team and is about to lose by 3 scores next week.  Let’s not get carried away.

I woud jump off a bridge.

 

1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

I’m a Doug fan…but he did just beat a not that good playoff team and is about to lose by 3 scores next week.  Let’s not get carried away.

Probably, but they did have the No. 1 overall pick the previous two years. Winning a playoff game is a helluva accomplishment. 

1 minute ago, schuy7 said:

I woud jump off a bridge.

 

Someone live betting that much to win such little money is either rich enough that it doesn’t matter to them or, yeah, they just jumped off a bridge. 

3 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

I woud jump off a bridge.

 

Good to see bacarty his new free time wisely

Herbert needs to do a better job in that game. No reason he couldn’t have put the jags away. He had opportunities. Like missing Allen who was open for a td.

However, I think the loss of Mike Williams in this game showed up at the end of the game. That is the security blanket for Herbert late in games. If you go back to the Titans game when the Titans tied it up because the Chargers couldn’t run the ball then either, the guy he kept looking for was Mike Williams. He comes up with big plays for them at critical time. Also williams being out there helps Allen and ekeler. To me still staley deserves to get fired for blowing this, but his stupidity in week 18 is what is going to get him likely fired.

 

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Woof. 

I know it is a regular season award and they are not supposed to take playoff games into account, but, Doug won coach of the year tonight.

26 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I think new blueprints are emerging here.

With all due respect to Hurts, who is presently still better than some of the qbs I will mention…

The AFC is going to feature prolific, prototypical passing offenses with QB centric rosters for the next several years with Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, Herbert, Lawrence.

That has been the consensus model to win in the nfl for the last 20 years.  If you try to beat them at that game, you are just going to be lagging in pursuit.

The way to take those teams down is the Eagles/SF model.  Build a superior team with superior talent and a much better defense with your extra resources that aren’t sunk into QB.  That’s how you compete with those guys.  If you dip your toes in that pool with a $50m/year contract, it’s going to be hard to keep up.

Yeah, well buckle up because that's coming to a team near you, which I think is a mistake. When you raise his salary from $1.5 to 47+ million that is a ton of talent they will have to take off the field around him. Mix in many vets getting close to retirement or FA and it's trouble. A few firsts this year won't fix that.

I’ve always hated people associating/blaming Matt Ryan on those crazy comeback games, and I don’t like that this is might become a thing for Herbert now either. 

6 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Woof. 

Dude was always a fraud. Mostly everyone hyping him up had a similar profile.

1 minute ago, downundermike said:

I know it is a regular season award and they are not supposed to take playoff games into account, but, Doug won coach of the year tonight.

Yeah, I felt like it was a tight race between him/Shanahan/Daboll/Campbell/Sirianni/Tomlin and was perfectly fine with any of these guys winning it, but Doug or Daboll have been my favorites for the award so far. 

 

Chargers and Seahawks were out scored in the 2nd half a combined 49-3
 

edit: oops never mind forgot the garbage Seahawks TD. 49-9

Not sure what direction Chargers go this off-season in terms of draft/free agency, but I like the idea of them taking Jalin Hyatt in 1st rd (WR from Tennessee) to pair with Herbert quite a bit. Those 2 plus Linsley/Johnson/Slater on the OL forms a great offensive core going forward 

25 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

I woud jump off a bridge.

 

If that’s true it’s just complete idiot gambling