22 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

Dallas is an entirely different team away from the fast track in Dallas.  Statistics reflect a drastic change when it comes to natural grass vs. artificial surfaces.

They know that.  Theyre going to come after Hurts because they know they cant stop our running game.  They dont want to get bludgeoned to death for 60 minutes.

We absolutely have to have a few tricky blitz beaters, and I hope that includes some Max Protect flavor deep balls to AJ.  We wont get away with throwing a bunch of quick passes outside the numbers.  

On defense, if Carter and Davis are active Im very optimistic.  We actually match up well with them this year because they don't have a power running game. Theyre one dimensional

Good summary…hard to disagree with any of it

The team is 7-1 and McLane basically gives them a B.  Which, I believe, would be higher then many of the posters in this Blog.

15 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

since I had some free time this morning, the Eagles have a negative turnover differential right now. I went and looked at the last 23 Super Bowl winners since 2000. Of the 23 that have won a Super Bowl only 3 had a negative turnover differential. So 13% of the last 23 champions had a negative turnover differential. The three teams to do it were last year‘s Kansas City Chiefs, the Denver Broncos with Peyton Manning, and the 2007 Giants. 

Jalen obviously needs to take much better care of the football but our defense hasn't seemed to turn teams over all too often through the first 8 games. I'd have to look it up but I would guess we're in the bottom half of the league in turnovers forced.

8 minutes ago, Utebird said:

He wasn't all right, he was abused in coverage all game, and most his tackles were 5-10 yards down field.

He didn't make any plays in coverage or the run game.

Cunningham is better in run support awful in coverage and Morrow is better in coverage but not as good in run support as Dean, though Dean hasn't been anything special there either 

Honestly I would have stuck with Morrow who was playing well and Cunningham, but there's pressure to play Dean because he was draft pick so it is what it is 

Hopefully he makes a play one of these days, I won't hold my breath.

I’ll disagree. Dean has ability, he’s played only a few games in his career. The other two weren’t on a team a week before the season for a reason. Not quite ready to give up on him yet. 

2 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Jalen obviously needs to take much better care of the football but our defense hasn't seemed to turn teams over all too often through the first 8 games. I'd have to look it up but I would guess we're in the bottom half of the league in turnovers caused.

We're in the middle of the pack with 10 takeaways.  It seems that we are getting some bad luck with that, though.

3 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

The team is 7-1 and McLane basically gives them a B.  Which, I believe, would be higher then many of the posters in this Blog.

Well- for starters,

I give the D line a C-

and the Secondary a D

 we had one sack and one gift INT  Howell put 30 on us.  

You couple that with the Offense and the overall win and I would say we got a C game yesterday

8 minutes ago, pgcd3 said:

 

Thoughts?

It's a bit distressing that Cunningham seemed to make more plays in pass coverage than Dean did yesterday.  Dean looked "a day late and a dollar short" on a few completions.  

I'm still not sold on Blankenship as a starter; he still looks stiff more than fluid to me.  Some of the completions he gave up he was at least right there, though.

7 minutes ago, pgcd3 said:

 

Thoughts?

Agree on Dean, he was abused all game in pass coverage and even though he led the team in tackles most those tackles were 5-10 yards down field, he made Zero plays against the run zero plays in coverage and most the game looked lost.

As for Blankenship, was the 7th different starting secondary for eagles this year.

Blankenship had two practices with byard, 2.

It's going to take some time for the back end to Gel if they can stay healthy and even though Reed got beat up a few times in the game unlike Dean he actually made a play and it was a huge play.

Reed has been solid all year, Dean has not.

Reed Blankenship has been playing well all year, is playing hurt with the ribs AND had a game-changing INT. That's why people are reacting to Nakobe Dean.

Nakobe Dean was not fast in college, but was smart. He looks small AND slow out there. A LB that is both slow/small has to be mentally perfect to have any chance. He hasn't been, so he's getting killed.

We should assume Dean is going to max out as a backup LB moving forward.

9 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Jalen obviously needs to take much better care of the football but our defense hasn't seemed to turn teams over all too often through the first 8 games. I'd have to look it up but I would guess we're in the bottom half of the league in turnovers forced.

Surprisingly they are tied for 16th with 10. But really the last 5 weeks they’ve had 2. 

22 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

When did she have that?  

The day of. Before the draft. 

5 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

It's a bit distressing that Cunningham seemed to make more plays in pass coverage than Dean did yesterday.  Dean looked "a day late and a dollar short" on a few completions.  

I'm still not sold on Blankenship as a starter; he still looks stiff more than fluid to me.  Some of the completions he gave up he was at least right there, though.

Dean looks terrible to me. Lost out there. 

You know what? I’m Fing calling it. I’m already tired of the bs. I’m sick of hearing about how "oh! This is the toughest stretch of teams that the eagles will face!” We’re the best team in the nfl. We don’t have to face them. They have to face US! 
 

eagles 42

cowboys 7 or 9 or 10

 

book it!!

 

p.s. 

and the eagles will turn the ball over once this game too. 

Fournette to the Bills.

2 minutes ago, RLC said:

Reed Blankenship has been playing well all year, is playing hurt with the ribs AND had a game-changing INT. That's why people are reacting to Nakobe Dean.

Nakobe Dean was not fast in college, but was smart. He looks small AND slow out there. A LB that is both slow/small has to be mentally perfect to have any chance. He hasn't been, so he's getting killed.

We should assume Dean is going to max out as a backup LB moving forward.

If Davis can have a career similar to Fletcher Cox's, I will take Dean as a back up LB.

3 minutes ago, RLC said:

Reed Blankenship has been playing well all year, is playing hurt with the ribs AND had a game-changing INT. That's why people are reacting to Nakobe Dean.

Nakobe Dean was not fast in college, but was smart. He looks small AND slow out there. A LB that is both slow/small has to be mentally perfect to have any chance. He hasn't been, so he's getting killed.

We should assume Dean is going to max out as a backup LB moving forward.

That's fair.  Reed has played well. Nakobe really never has.  That's not to say that Nakobe cannot. I don't think the book is closed there but there's not a strong reason to count on it either

34 minutes ago, DawkinsOwnage03 said:

Any realistic trade rumors or are we done?

Howie did free up cap space for this year.  

👀

36 minutes ago, NOTW said:

 

 

 

14 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

The team is 7-1 and McLane basically gives them a B.  Which, I believe, would be higher then many of the posters in this Blog.

Would you disagree with any of his grades? I'd have to split the coaching and give Johnson a C-.

7 minutes ago, The Holy Vagabond said:

You know what? I’m Fing calling it. I’m already tired of the bs. I’m sick of hearing about how "oh! This is the toughest stretch of teams that the eagles will face!” We’re the best team in the nfl. We don’t have to face them. They have to face US! 
 

eagles 42

cowboys 7 or 9 or 10

 

book it!!

 

p.s. 

and the eagles will turn the ball over once this game too. 

I don't know if I'd go that far, but this is a correct mentality to have in a way. This team hasn't been perfect this season, but no team out there has. San Francisco is reeling, KC just lost to Denver, Dallas has lost to Arizona although I still think they're a good team, and the Eagles obviously have the stain against the Jets. But when this team, especially the offense, is clicking, they are a force. AJ is playing on a different level right now and Hurts is coming off a great game. There is no reason why they should fear any of the teams coming up in this stretch. I'm more so concerned about the self-inflicted errors. Because I think when this team is at their best, there isn't another team in the league who is better than them from a talent and ability level. 

Overrated.

 

 

 

4 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

It's a bit distressing that Cunningham seemed to make more plays in pass coverage than Dean did yesterday.  Dean looked "a day late and a dollar short" on a few completions.  

I'm still not sold on Blankenship as a starter; he still looks stiff more than fluid to me.  Some of the completions he gave up he was at least right there, though.

Shouldn't be surprising though.

At Georgia when in coverage Dean allowed something like 40 of 41 passes when targeted.

He was just awful in coverage, Georgia actually blitzed him a lot in known passing downs to keep him out of coverage and he was pretty good at it, but theres no where to hide in the NFL.

There's a reason Dean dropped and it's because teams didn't want to spend a high pick on a LB who can't cover in a passing league 

 

9 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Agree on Dean, he was abused all game in pass coverage and even though he led the team in tackles most those tackles were 5-10 yards down field, he made Zero plays against the run zero plays in coverage and most the game looked 

Dean led the team in TFLs with 2. The other players with a tfl were ricks (1) and brown (1)
 

 

7 minutes ago, shlo said:

Dean looks terrible to me. Lost out there. 

Glad I'm not the only one, while watching the game I thought maybe I was being too harsh towards Dean but I think he was really bad yesterday in both phases, he was just running around like a chicken with his head cut off.

8 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Fournette to the Bills.

Makes sense because Harris got hurt and murray is just bad, but they continue to just keep using him inside the red zone. They really to start using James Cook more. His analytics over the last two seasons have been really good. For ever reason they just don’t get him the looks in the passing game anymore. And that is one of things he does really well  

1 minute ago, Utebird said:

Glad I'm not the only one, while watching the game I thought maybe I was being too harsh towards Dean but I think he was really bad yesterday in both phases, he was just running around like a chicken with his head cut off.

As you said, I think they should’ve given him a more active role - as in the last WAS match up Morrow got to play like UGA Nakobe with a lot of blitzing (and got 3 sacks if memory serves). In zone he seems like he can cover his shadow only, looking at the QB but having little sense of receivers being handed off to his responsibility.