6 minutes ago, Thrive said:

You’re probably right. I’m downright petrified.

I thought 2017 was therapy enough but clearly not.

I have felt calm and just had a feeling they would win, but all the videos of commentators picking the 49ers got me rattled last night. It comes down to coaching and they may have the edge across the board. 

44 minutes ago, Swoop said:

It'll be awesome to have him back for the first three drives before he's hobbled again.

Don’t think he’ll make it three drives, unless he’s gonna be afraid to stick his head in there and make tackles, I just don’t see much from him, liability 

Just now, Diehardfan said:

I have felt calm and just had a feeling they would win, but all the videos of commentators picking the 49ers got me rattled last night. It comes down to coaching and they may have the edge at HC and DC

 

2 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

This could be the game to loft a couple deep rainbows to Watkins.

What, are you being funny, he shouldn’t get a ball anywhere near him

10 hours ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

No, he was a white man. It's been so long ago that I don't remember many of the details. 

I checked all of the hometowns listed on both the 1967 and 1970 Chiefs rosters and Lanier was the only Virginian, so your player must have moved their from another part of the country.

The one thing that concerns me is Sirianni/this coaching staff in big games. A lot of this is due to just not seeing them in big games and how they perform, but like I have said before, Sirianni seems like he can get rattled and do weird things. In games like these, coaching decisions have huge affects. You can be a great regular season coach, even coach of the year, but fall apart when it matters. On the plus side, see Kyle Shanahan. 

This is one of the few games where I'll 100% understand if we start the game with an 80% pass-run ratio.

6 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

I have felt calm and just had a feeling they would win, but all the videos of commentators picking the 49ers got me rattled last night. It comes down to coaching and they may have the edge across the board. 

I’m the opposite when it comes to commentators picking the Eagles.  Yesterday they had the first 4 pick the Eagles and I’m like "don’t jinx it #5, please pick the 49ers”. And she did.   For whatever reason, I don’t like it when everyone picks us.  I’d rather have no one pick us than everyone pick us. But 4 out of 5 is still ok. lol 
 

Just now, RLC said:

This is one of the few games where I'll 100% understand if we start the game with an 80% pass-run ratio.

I agree with the sentiment that you should run at this D, rather than around it - but yeah, the mismatch is our WRs versus their secondary.  Stretch them out passing, get Hufanga out of the box and then run.

20 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

I have felt calm and just had a feeling they would win, but all the videos of commentators picking the 49ers got me rattled last night. It comes down to coaching and they may have the edge across the board. 

I think that Shanahan is a better coach in total than Sirianni. However, I believe Sirianni is a much better in game coach than Shanahan is.

20 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

I have felt calm and just had a feeling they would win, but all the videos of commentators picking the 49ers got me rattled last night. It comes down to coaching and they may have the edge across the board. 

Not sure why people are just stating this as fact. 

The Eagles staff are getting interviews all over the place.  And Shanahan is a historic choke artist. 

22 minutes ago, olsilverhair said:

What, are you being funny, he shouldn’t get a ball anywhere near him

He’ll get some ideal matchups 

Two things the national pundits are getting wrong are the Eagles schedule and the Eagles rush D.  The Eagles don't have a great rush D but the damage came pre Suh/Joseph and even more so in those couple games where Davis was also out.  As for the schedule, the Eagles schedule was pretty mediocre but the 49ers was far easier.

39 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Yup. I was watching Mufanga highlights from the year and the timing he had was incredible. One play he tackled the RB as he got the handoff. 

Watching the SF game from last year - they brought 5 a lot and tried to play man behind it.  Hurts escaped/scrambled very effectively -or- took his shots deep (which we are much better equipped to do now).  I'm not even sure if this is a viable strategy anymore.

If you remember the issue with this game offensively was cute RZ playcalling, and Jalen Reagor posing as a starter.

 

 

 

Old school Eagles hype, always nice to pull this out once in awhile

Just now, Ace Nova said:

 

"Philly Takeover Invasion", good luck with that.

50 minutes ago, mattwill said:

This is a good assessment.  For me, the biggest key to the game is the part I bolded … Kelce vs. Warner

No, it’s not.  You don’t let a dangerous team hang around while you set them up for the second half.  You jump on them early and often, take away their running game and force Purdy to throw.   You also negate their pass rush by having a lead and dictating to their defense, instead of being one dimensional having to pass yourself.

I think we can win both by going out with a dagger or two early OR grinding them down over the game and dominating the last 20 minutes.  To me the key will be to take care of the ball, protect Hurts, and not make silly mistakes with penalties.  I think a couple shots will be taken early and if we hit those then we get the early dominance and if not we simply grind it out.

38 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

I’m the opposite when it comes to commentators picking the Eagles.  Yesterday they had the first 4 pick the Eagles and I’m like "don’t jinx it #5, please pick the 49ers”. And she did.   For whatever reason, I don’t like it when everyone picks us.  I’d rather have no one pick us than everyone pick us. But 4 out of 5 is still ok. lol 
 

Was listening to Dan Patrick yesterday.  Pretty much him and all his co-hosts picked the 49ers.  Think maybe one guy picked the Eagles.  

I prefer them not being expected to win.

The national media seems to think that we can't run on the 49ers. I'm very skeptical at that. It won't be a Giants-like performance, but we have dominated against #1 run defenses before (Saints game). Keep in mind that the Saints LBs as a duo are as good as the 49ers LBs.

21 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

Two things the national pundits are getting wrong are the Eagles schedule and the Eagles rush D.  The Eagles don't have a great rush D but the damage came pre Suh/Joseph and even more so in those couple games where Davis was also out.  As for the schedule, the Eagles schedule was pretty mediocre but the 49ers was far easier.

The 49ers get credit on their schedule for losing to KC by 21.

Wow, I am so impressed.

 

They lost road games to Denver, Atlanta, and Chicago but no worries, they have Mr Irrelevant now in his first NFL road challenge.

Eagles better wrap up tomorrow. Missed tackles have been a problem at times for the Eagles this season, it would kill them tomorrow.

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Eagles 24

49ers 20

defense stops 49ers on 4th down to seal the win

This game makes me nervous and the Eagles have to play well to win. They can’t give the ball away or play their C game. 
 

That said, the Eagles are better team, and by a decent margin. I’ll say they show out and win by double digits. 31-20 

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