17 minutes ago, Saltpeter said:

Yeah yeah yeah but what are the cap implications of this?

They are coaches.  So... none.  Odd question.

21 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Bc you need a qb to process fast and throw

not pull the ball down

That’s exactly what I’m getting at. Why aren’t there more hot routes? I’d love to know the real answer, but my guess would be it’s more of a QB issue, not a scheme issue. Regardless, hopefully that improves this offseason. 

18 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

If only...

Needs more Ty's

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

That’s exactly what I’m getting at. Why aren’t there more hot routes? I’d love to o ow the real answer, but my guess would be it’s more of a QB issue, not a scheme issue. Regardless, hopefully that improves this offseason. 

Seems unlikely. Its who he is

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Needs more Ty's

And I would prefer Steven Strange to Brenton personally

 

1 minute ago, ToastJenkins said:

Seems unlikely. Its who he is

He did improve to a magnitude not many of us thought he could this season. It’s possible he works hard enough at it to improve next season, but it’s certainly an issue to watch out for 

17 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

But Carr has a market, so the price tag for him will be at least $35-40M on a long term deal.  Is Carr a $40M per year upgrade over what they had with Purdy?  That's 3-4 really good players they won't be able to afford, either extending their own guys or signing free agents.  They have Nick Bosa they need to extend this year; he's playing on his 5th year option in 2023 and will break the bank at DE.  Deebo's big-money extension will kick in for 2024.

I hear you.  Carr would definitely have to take less money.  But it would probably be his best shot at winning a SB.  

3 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Seems unlikely. Its who he is

I bet you had a similar post last year or the year before about other areas of his game. Let’s see if he can improve in this area like he has in others. 

1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

The elephant in the room is whether Hurts has something to do with a lack of hot reads…

The only place I can find the stats you mention is an archived thread on a Giant's message board, it was just below an article from Reuben Frank about how much the Eagles have improved against the blitz this year against 2021.

Ultimately you're worrying about 31st in EPA on blitzes, a stat which can be massively skewed by the odd bad play in the wrong spot,  when the Offense had the second most TD's in the NFL in the regular season and put up over 30 in 3 consecutive playoffs, including against the most blitz happy defense in the league (Giants) that had already played us twice.

Defensive coordinators aren't suddenly going to slap their foreheads and shout 'HOLY CRAP I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT BLITZING' in the off season.

5 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

 

In 2009, he was charged with aggravated burglary after climbing into a window and getting into a woman's bed.^[10] The charges were later dropped.

 

How do you get a charge like that dropped??

9 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

So much fun to watch. 

To be honest, this is a tendency you should know with the Chiefs that they were going to run a similar play that worked earlier or in a game they used against you earlier. They did the same thing to the Chargers this year. in 2021 the chiefs ran a play at the end of the game that scored a touchdown to win. Go a year later in 2022. They ran the same exact play to win the game. It’s a tendency of theirs that they will use plays in the same game or even from a previous season that have worked. 

2 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

 

In 2009, he was charged with aggravated burglary after climbing into a window and getting into a woman's bed.^[10] The charges were later dropped.

 

How do you get a charge like that dropped??

He’s Jim Bob Cooter. That’s enough 

3 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

 

In 2009, he was charged with aggravated burglary after climbing into a window and getting into a woman's bed.^[10] The charges were later dropped.

 

How do you get a charge like that dropped??

2 minutes ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

The only place I can find the stats you mention is an archived thread on a Giant's message board, it was just below an article from Reuben Frank about how much the Eagles have improved against the blitz this year against 2021.

Ultimately you're worrying about 31st in EPA on blitzes, a stat which can be massively skewed by the odd bad play in the wrong spot,  when the Offense had the second most TD's in the NFL in the regular season and put up over 30 in 3 consecutive playoffs, including against the most blitz happy defense in the league (Giants) that had already played us twice.

Defensive coordinators aren't suddenly going to slap their foreheads and shout 'HOLY CRAP I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT BLITZING' in the off season.

The stat came from The Athletic Football podcast. Yes, the offense was great this year, but there are areas to improve. Over the course of the year, we simply weren’t good against the blitz. In the biggest game of the year, we had a drive end in a three and out in large part because our answer to that blitz sucked. 

It’s OK to acknowledge the offense still has areas of improvement to make. 

It's much easier to beat offensive motion if your LBs are actually good. 

Edwards/Kyzir got put into a blender.

13 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

That’s exactly what I’m getting at. Why aren’t there more hot routes? I’d love to o ow the real answer, but my guess would be it’s more of a QB issue, not a scheme issue. Regardless, hopefully that improves this offseason. 

I’m pretty sure solak and sheil talked about it in depth sometime around the steelers to Washington game on their podcast and they rehashed it leading up to either the giants or niners playoff game. 

I'll never eat another corndog for the rest of my life. 😡

 

1 minute ago, Westbrook#36 said:

I'll never eat another corndog for the rest of my life. 😡

Me neither, but I’m a grown man. 

Talking to Vance Joseph means they're open to blitzing schemes. *Thankful*

36 minutes ago, mattwill said:

TEW you really need to stop confusing TorontoEagle. 

mattwill you really need to stop confusing TorontoEagle.

2 minutes ago, mattwill said:

mattwill you really need to stop confusing TorontoEagle.

Way to avoid my question 

On 2/15/2023 at 9:41 AM, Iggles_Phan said:

I would also argue against this defense being more talented than 1991.  Again... sorry.

Reggie White was the greatest DL of all-time.  Clyde Simmons was a stud and multiple year Pro Bowler.  Jerome Brown was a guy on pace for a Hall of Fame career before he died tragically.  Mike Pitts was as solid a DT as the Eagles have had.. and Golic was a solid backup rotational guy.  

At LB, I'd take that year's trio of Joyner, Evans and rookie William Thomas over any combination of LBs you want to compile from this team.

And in the secondary, people forget just how talented Ben Smith was before his knee injury.  I'd take Allen and Smith over Slay and Bradberry.  And at safety, Hopkins and Waters again over Epps and CJGJ.

 

Maybe its nostalgia speaking, but then again... that defense literally carried dead weight for an offense to a 10 win season, back when the NFC East was the NFC Beast.  They had worse than the 49ers garbage situation at QB that year.  The likes of Brad Goebel, Pat Ryan, Jeff Kemp... just a litany of horrible QB play, playing behind one of the worst OLs ever assembled... with the starting OTs that year being Antone Davis and Cecil Gray, with the un-steroid swolled Ron Solt at RG.  

 

I just don't see this defense as more talented, especially at the AGES of the 'talent' that we had, specifically along the DL.  They had to have that depth because those guys couldn't be that effective playing more snaps.

You're preaching to the choir. I'm was just suggesting that (lol can't remember who) was making that assertion. 

11 hours ago, Saltpeter said:

I'm not watching the tape to know for sure, but I fail to see much of a difference between Epps and Blankenship.

Epps made a bunch more plays in the 1st half of the season than he did in the 2nd half.  

He went from pleasantly surprising playmaker, to maybe just serviceable starter.

I think Blankenship, given the same opportunity can make the same plays Epps did. And hopefully carry it through the course of the entire season. 

If we didn't have to make tough decisions this year,  I'd be fine with Epps having another full year as starter. He may still improve. 

But since we have some business decisions to make,  Blankenship has made it easy to move on from Epps.