5 hours ago, vaff said:

I honestly don’t spend much time thinking about play calling. I don’t know what the thought process was for Steichen and Sirianni to start with a pass. It just unfortunately didn’t work out.

They ran 9 offensive plays after three drives. What is the play calling at that point? People used to wine about Jalen running the offense after one three and out. Minshew led three consecutive ones. Some people aren’t harming enough on how bad he truly was. Time for Uncle Rico to get back on the van and go. All in all there was a reason why the Eagles got this guy for an afterthought late round pick and why he was drafted late to begin with. 

18 hours ago, Talonblood said:

AJ publicly threw Minshew under the bus. You think he would do that to Hurts? Hell no. AJ didn't fight for that ball, either. Finger pointing isn't a good look. The WHOLE TEAM and all the coaches sucked Sunday. For AJ to throw Minshew under the bus publicly? Dude- YOU didn't even fight for the ball. You would have for Hurts. What's that tell us? It tells me you don't play for the TEAM, you play for your little circle and your best friend, screw everyone else. Get that sheeeeet outta here. AJ has some loser in his blood. He isn't all hero. That was a trash thing to do publicly. 

Go watch the play, how is Brown supposed to fight for the ball?  Minshew's pass more or less hit Matthieu in the numbers in stride, there isn't a receiver on Earth that is getting that ball from that position, even Minshew agreed that he'd seen Matthieu but thought they were playing the same coverage as an earlier play, it was a bad throw too far in front and in keeping with his whole day of missing people high, wide and every which way. 

I'll criticise calling a pass play on your own 11 when your QB was having the sort of day Minshew was having all day every day, but that throw at that moment gets picked off 10 times out of 10, and 9.9 times out of 10 a pick inside your own 15 goes back to the house, no receiver can fight a defender who already has the ball and is past him.

Should he say what he said about it to the press, probably not, but I'd be pissed if I was getting any of the blame for that play, I know for damn sure if Hurts had thrown a pick 6 like that last year. the way the WR played the route would never have been questioned, it was an awful throw on an iffy play call.

11 hours ago, vaff said:

I honestly don’t spend much time thinking about play calling. I don’t know what the thought process was for Steichen and Sirianni to start with a pass. It just unfortunately didn’t work out.

That's fair, but playcalling is obviously really important.  They needed to do a better job adjusting their playcalling to Minshew, when it appears they just thought they could plug any QB in there and run the same plays as they do with Hurts. 

Starting with a pass in and of itself wasn't necessarily the issue (although a run would have been best).  But if you're going to do that with a backup QB at least have the routes be quick developing short passes that have a higher percentage of success. 

14 hours ago, vaff said:

I honestly don’t spend much time thinking about play calling. I don’t know what the thought process was for Steichen and Sirianni to start with a pass. It just unfortunately didn’t work out.

Play calling looks great when players execute, when they don't play calling looks bad

22 hours ago, GoEagles614 said:

They beat the dogsh** out of the Giants lol. Shouldn’t say "when they lose” if they lost is fair. 

I have little to no faith right now that they’ll win.

14 hours ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

Go watch the play, how is Brown supposed to fight for the ball?  Minshew's pass more or less hit Matthieu in the numbers in stride, there isn't a receiver on Earth that is getting that ball from that position, even Minshew agreed that he'd seen Matthieu but thought they were playing the same coverage as an earlier play, it was a bad throw too far in front and in keeping with his whole day of missing people high, wide and every which way. 

I'll criticise calling a pass play on your own 11 when your QB was having the sort of day Minshew was having all day every day, but that throw at that moment gets picked off 10 times out of 10, and 9.9 times out of 10 a pick inside your own 15 goes back to the house, no receiver can fight a defender who already has the ball and is past him.

Should he say what he said about it to the press, probably not, but I'd be pissed if I was getting any of the blame for that play, I know for damn sure if Hurts had thrown a pick 6 like that last year. the way the WR played the route would never have been questioned, it was an awful throw on an iffy play call.

Who cares. He threw a team mate under the bus publicly- and he would NEVER do that to Hurts. Double standard from AJ. 

23 minutes ago, Talonblood said:

Who cares. He threw a team mate under the bus publicly- and he would NEVER do that to Hurts. Double standard from AJ. 

That is true, he clearly has little to no respect for Minshew.

1 minute ago, D-Shiznit said:

That is true, he clearly has little to no respect for Minshew.

Does not seem to be the team culture we keep hearing about.

That is why the Eagles won in 2017, the team stepped up around the back up QB, comments like that show this team is not wired the same way.

18 minutes ago, downundermike said:

Does not seem to be the team culture we keep hearing about.

That is why the Eagles won in 2017, the team stepped up around the back up QB, comments like that show this team is not wired the same way.

Yup, but 2017 seems like an anomaly. Starting relatively soon after, we had Alshon throwing Carson under the bus, then Ertz and Howie drama, then we had Cox's issues with Gannon that he made public, and now this.

It's been constant lockeroom drama for a while now.

17 hours ago, D-Shiznit said:

Yup, but 2017 seems like an anomaly. Starting relatively soon after, we had Alshon throwing Carson under the bus, then Ertz and Howie drama, then we had Cox's issues with Gannon that he made public, and now this.

It's been constant lockeroom drama for a while now.

Probably because in 2017 that guy believed all the press clippings and big times most of the players. They went about proving that guy was wrong and why in 2018 they made a statue about Foles. This guy is about the team and because of that the team is falling off without him. Of course it doesn’t help that his replacement has all of these turnovers and terrible mistakes at the wrong time. At least Foles showed he can win games in the NFL especially here. Mishew hasn’t really shown he can consistently win anywhere yet.