20 minutes ago, garingovt2000 said:

Cougars

Dammit. 

I can’t tell the personnel for the Cowboys, but I assume a RB lined up outside creating the mismatch. At least that’s my hope. 

Also, he got beat, but that’s about as good as can be expected for a LB. 

35 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I would agree.  LBs aren't going to hang with pass catching TE's for long.  Our pass defense woes fall on the DBs, IMO.  

I think the secondary is that bad and the rest of the team is that good.  If they were remotely close to being able to do even a sub-par but viable job, things would be better.  It's a handicap that leaves every single deviation from perfection from the rest of the team as a risk to lose a game.  Fortunately, the rest of the team is pretty close to perfect.

As is often the case you cup is defined by emptiness terms rather than fullness … and hyperbole is also in evidence.  In nine games we have started eight different DB combinations.  That doesn’t leave much room for chemistry to build, or even simple cohesion. 

29 minutes ago, RLC said:

LET'S GO

It makes no sense that it took this long to sign. About 10 teams should have been begging him to sign.

 

2 hours ago, Utebird said:

Meh, not shocking at all he's always sucked in coverage, he's been one of the better LBs against the run but his coverage has never been good 

Problem is Dean sucks in coverage too, Morrow is better in coverage but he's brutal against the run and it's not like he's all pro in coverage just better than Dean and Cunningham which isn't saying much.

It would be nice if the eagles had just one LN who could cover in a passing league, I thought maybe Ellis could be that guy but he has t dine anything so ...

I don't think Dean has looked that bad when it's man coverage. I think he has a harder time being in zone.  I don't really think he's been bad when he's played.  

If Wentz has to play and plays halfway decently, he should get a contract that qualified for a comp pick too. 

3 minutes ago, rrfierce said:

He’s great if you’re a god lovin, animal murdering, superiority complex,  don’t listen to the coaches kind of guy. 

I'm not the hunting type, but I don't dislike him because of his hobby, even if I may not understand it. But apparently he was not well liked by his teammates if a lot of the reports are to be believed and the fact that he's been a free agent for as long as he has been must mean the coaches didn't think too highly of him either. Stubborn, lacked accountability, self-absorbed, etc. We know for a fact he's a better football player than a lot of the backup QBs on rosters right now, so it's gotta be something about his character / personality that is a deal-breaker for these GMs and coaches.

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

If Wentz has to play and plays halfway decently, he should get a contract that qualified for a comp pick too. 

I think, for some reason, a lot of philly fans are forgetting just how washed he is. No one should have called, and he has no chance at playing even at a mediocre level. He is a complete disaster at this point. 

55 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

That’s awesome. 

Is it just me, or is everyone just waiting for Devonta Smith to take that big leap and become the best receiver on this team?  I keep waiting for it, and it just isn't happening.  AJ is just a machine.

48 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Think of all those times that the runner’s knee is down but he falls forward into an area of a TD or first down. Or is Simms proposing this only for pass catches?  Simms is borderline stupid.  Failed in the NFL and fails as an analyst.

I would love to understand why the media dissects all of our wins and tries to find some way to change the NFL rules to affect the outcome of our games.  Just stop.  Beyond dumb.

 

1 minute ago, HazletonEagle said:

I think, for some reason, a lot of philly fans are forgetting just how washed he is. No one should have called, and he has no chance at playing even at a mediocre level. He is a complete disaster at this point. 

Have you seen some of these backup QBs play around the league? 

4 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I can’t tell the personnel for the Cowboys, but I assume a RB lined up outside creating the mismatch. At least that’s my hope. 

Also, he got beat, but that’s about as good as can be expected for a LB. 

I am guessing it was nickel becuase Morrow is over the TE.  Slay and Bradberry are out and Slay is lined up over Lamb.  It looks Jobe is the other CB on the field instead of Ricks.  Jobe is outside.  Byard and Blankenship are the safeties.  I honestly don't think Cunningham is in that bad of a position.  I would think the hope is that if the ball is thrown to Turpin, Blankenship has time to get to him.  

3 minutes ago, EricAllenPick6 said:

Is it just me, or is everyone just waiting for Devonta Smith to take that big leap and become the best receiver on this team?  I keep waiting for it, and it just isn't happening.  AJ is just a machine.

Aside from AJ just being unstoppable, it sounds like Smith has been battling through some injuries all year that may be affecting his performance. 

DeVonta Smith is one of the five best wide receivers the Eagles have had over the past fifty years. The fact that he's not the team's "number one" receiver is due solely to the fact that A.J. Brown is also one of those five and he's just better right now.

Harold, Quick, and T.O are the others, by the way. DeSean is in the mix, I guess, but a cut below.

10 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

It makes no sense that it took this long to sign. About 10 teams should have been begging him to sign.

I'm sure teams looked into it. I doubt they just flat out forgot about him. But part of doing your due diligence is asking former teammates how they feel about him, and I'm willing to bet the feedback was mixed at best, and down right ugly at worst. If Darren Sproles, one of the most reserved, restrained players in the league had this to say about him, I have to wonder how some of the stronger personalities in the locker room felt. Makes me think the Alshon commens and stuff like this from Sproles were just the tip of the iceberg.

 

5 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

I am guessing it was nickel becuase Morrow is over the TE.  Slay and Bradberry are out and Slay is lined up over Lamb.  It looks Jobe is the other CB on the field instead of Ricks.  Jobe is outside.  Byard and Blankenship are the safeties.  I honestly don't think Cunningham is in that bad of a position.  I would think the hope is that if the ball is thrown to Turpin, Blankenship has time to get to him.  

If the offense comes out in 01 personnel, there's no reason whatsoever we should have 2 LBs on the field. We should be in dime, or heavy nickel. This type of thing kills me to see. If they scored there because of that, I'd have lost my damn mind.

4 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

I'm sure teams looked into it. I doubt they just flat out forgot about him. But part of doing your due diligence is asking former teammates how they feel about him, and I'm willing to bet the feedback was mixed at best, and down right ugly at worst. If Darren Sproles, one of the most reserved, restrained players in the league had this to say about him, I have to wonder how some of the stronger personalities in the locker room felt. Makes me think the Alshon commens and stuff like this from Sproles were just the tip of the iceberg.

 

Obviously he has issues. A team would be signing him as a clear backup, and he’s better than a ton of other backups.   Jameis Winston and Baker Mayfield are collecting nice contracts. We gave Mariota $5M after playing like crap and leaving the team once he was benched. 

I just don’t see much downside to him as a pure backup. 

3 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

I'm sure teams looked into it. I doubt they just flat out forgot about him. But part of doing your due diligence is asking former teammates how they feel about him, and I'm willing to bet the feedback was mixed at best, and down right ugly at worst. If Darren Sproles, one of the most reserved, restrained players in the league had this to say about him, I have to wonder how some of the stronger personalities in the locker room felt. Makes me think the Alshon commens and stuff like this from Sproles were just the tip of the iceberg.

 

They should have traded Wentz instead of Foles.  

19 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I can’t tell the personnel for the Cowboys, but I assume a RB lined up outside creating the mismatch. At least that’s my hope. 

Also, he got beat, but that’s about as good as can be expected for a LB. 

I don't see Pollard anywhere. Turpin is 9 and Cooks in 3. Top of screen looks like 18.

1 minute ago, NCiggles said:

They should have traded Wentz instead of Foles.  

I would've thought it was crazy at the time, but in hindsight, it actually would've been the better move.

14 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

I don't think Dean has looked that bad when it's man coverage. I think he has a harder time being in zone.  I don't really think he's been bad when he's played.  

Thing with Dean to me is he seems to be in the right place most the time but he never makes a play on the ball or affects the pass in any way 

His lack of length really limits his ability in coverage, he can be right in a guys hip but if that guy is 6'4" with long arms there's not much Dean can do.

His pass coverage stats in college were alarmingly bad, something like 40-41 passes completed when he was the defender, which is probably why Georgia started just blitzing him, to get him out of coverage 

He's great against the run, a good Blitzer but anytime he's in coverage he's rough...

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

@e-a-g-l-e-s eagles!

I've got a Mitchell & Ness (the OG, not new M&N) Randall Cunningham jersey that's never been worn. This is the jersey with the actual thick screen printed numbers, not the new ones they are making. Any idea what the value would be or what to ask for it? Every jersey on Ebay is the newer M&N version. I'd think this being a true to era authentic should be worth more than the newer ones.

I’m less of an expert on MN but there’s a lot of people in this Facebook group for eagles jersey collectors that would know. Send me a DM and pics and i can ask. Or i can give you the group on there. 

2 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

I'm sure teams looked into it. I doubt they just flat out forgot about him. But part of doing your due diligence is asking former teammates how they feel about him, and I'm willing to bet the feedback was mixed at best, and down right ugly at worst. If Darren Sproles, one of the most reserved, restrained players in the league had this to say about him, I have to wonder how some of the stronger personalities in the locker room felt. Makes me think the Alshon commens and stuff like this from Sproles were just the tip of the iceberg.

 

Just my opinion, but I feel like the locker room stuff is overblown. When things were going good there were stories about bible study groups or receivers spending time with him during the offseason. Even when he was benched and Hurts was the starter in 2020, the leaders of the team like Cox were liking tweets about Carson over Hurts. Kelce also said something at the time that Carson was his QB. When he was dumped by Irsay, Jonathan Taylor, Quentin Nelson and Darius Leonard all publicly supported him on twitter. I'm sure there were groups of players that may have felt differently about him which franchise QB's need to navigate to be successful, and Carson likely failed in doing so, but I don't think he was hated by the majority of his teammates. 

50 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

What the hell is he going to hunt in LA?

Cougars

 

bother figuratively and very literally, they have big problems in residential areas due to the fires the last few years. 
 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/la-mountain-lions-were-driven-to-extremes-by-wildfire-180980975/

 

Coyotes as well to a lesser extent. If you own a dog smaller than 50 lbs and live on the outskirts of the city, it’s life expectancy will directly correlate to how often you leave it outside unattended.

4 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Obviously he has issues. A team would be signing him as a clear backup, and he’s better than a ton of other backups.   Jameis Winston and Baker Mayfield are collecting nice contracts. We gave Mariota $5M after playing like crap and leaving the team once he was benched. 

I just don’t see much downside to him as a pure backup. 

He has been to 3 places now and he is probably a C with a crap personality. Not worth it to have him around as a back up