For September Trea Turner has hit 65 24 .369 with 7 Home Runs and 4 Stolen Bases in 15 games

For August he hit 108 36 .333 in 27 games

In the 12 games left (7 against the Mets, 3 against the Pirates and 2 against the Braves) he is likely to get 50 at bats.  19 hits in those at bats will get him over .280. 50 19 computes to .380, just over what he has been hitting so far in September.

With 4 Home Runs and 3 Stolen Bases in the 12 remaining games, he will have a 30-30 season as well.

12 minutes ago, mattwill said:

For September Trea Turner has hit 65 24 .369 with 7 Home Runs and 4 Stolen Bases in 15 games

For August he hit 108 36 .333 in 27 games

In the 12 games left (7 against the Mets, 3 against the Pirates and 2 against the Braves) he is likely to get 50 at bats.  19 hits in those at bats will get him over .280. 50 19 computes to .380, just over what he has been hitting so far in September.

With 4 Home Runs and 3 Stolen Bases in the 12 remaining games, he will have a 30-30 season as well.

This is one of the best non-championship related individual stories in recent Philly sports memory.  

21 minutes ago, metal said:

Eagles working out a CB

 

Ew

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Ew

He was decent at one point.  Back issues were an issue but if the stars align could be an option.  Wouldn't bet on it but it's possible

Just a little rambling on perspective...and I don't mean this in either a positive or negative light.

I see the Eagles as championship contenders, an elite top 5 (maybe top 3, top 2, top 1) team with SB aspirations.  I see Jalen Hurts as one of the best QBs in the NFL.  That is based on what they demonstrated last year (SB run, Hurts with near MVP season) and the fact that they are 2-0 this year despite "not hitting on all cylinders."

But let's pretend, for a second, that they went 9-8 last year and lost in the wild card round.  That Hurts was improved from 2021 but still unspectacular.  If they were the same 2-0 they are now, looking the same way...we'd be saying that this team, considering the schedule ahead, is probably looking at another 9-8 or 10-7 season with a wild card or divisional playoff  expiration date.  A few too many holes, not quite ready to compete, not sure Hurts is the answer.

No one thinks that or is saying that about this team...because of last year.  And that's fine.  We are 2 weeks into the season.  Last year DID happen.  But it also was one year and last year.  If things look the same after 3 weeks....eeeeeeh, that's OK, but we'll worry.  4 weeks?  The font of *last* in last year keeps getting bigger.  Keep grabbing W's and start looking better in the process...then last year becomes the enduring reality.

12 hours ago, bpac55 said:

 

I'd say crooked

 

That's gruesome!  

Wow.  It was like his leg almost fell off.  I hope it wasn't as bad as it looked, but it looks like that knee got shredded.

 

31 minutes ago, metal said:

Eagles working out a CB

 

Why? Have we not got enough below par CBs? 

If the Eagles workout one guy they'll probably be working out more.  I'm still in the Logan Ryan camp but admittedly didn't watch him play last year much

Tampa Bay opened on BetMGM as 6.5-point underdogs on Monday, a relatively tight margin given how bad most bettors thought the team was going to be in the offseason. 

11 minutes ago, rrfierce said:

Why? Have we not got enough below par CBs? 

Who else is out in FA that's above par?

Looking forward to some regression to the mean…

 

I don’t think this movie would look half as interesting if Nicholas Cage wasn’t in it. But as it stands, can’t wait til this comes out

 

42 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Just a little rambling on perspective...and I don't mean this in either a positive or negative light.

No one thinks that or is saying that about this team...because of last year.  And that's fine.  We are 2 weeks into the season.  Last year DID happen.  But it also was one year and last year.  If things look the same after 3 weeks....eeeeeeh, that's OK, but we'll worry.  4 weeks?  The font of *last* in last year keeps getting bigger.  Keep grabbing W's and start looking better in the process...then last year becomes the enduring reality.

We still have the best rushing offense in the NFL. What we did in the run game is sustainable and gives us a solid floor every week.

1 hour ago, metal said:

Eagles working out a CB

 

I checked his RAS score... not a freakbeast.

52 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

This is one of the best non-championship related individual stories in recent Philly sports memory.  

Hey now... the ending to this story has yet to be written.

46 minutes ago, pgcd3 said:

He was decent at one point.  Back issues were an issue but if the stars align could be an option.  Wouldn't bet on it but it's possible

He's also an outside guy who hasn't really played slot. I'm not interested in moving Bradberry to slot full time so I don't see where he would fit anywhere besides maybe the PS

34 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Just a little rambling on perspective...and I don't mean this in either a positive or negative light.

I see the Eagles as championship contenders, an elite top 5 (maybe top 3, top 2, top 1) team with SB aspirations.  I see Jalen Hurts as one of the best QBs in the NFL.  That is based on what they demonstrated last year (SB run, Hurts with near MVP season) and the fact that they are 2-0 this year despite "not hitting on all cylinders."

But let's pretend, for a second, that they went 9-8 last year and lost in the wild card round.  That Hurts was improved from 2021 but still unspectacular.  If they were the same 2-0 they are now, looking the same way...we'd be saying that this team, considering the schedule ahead, is probably looking at another 9-8 or 10-7 season with a wild card or divisional playoff  expiration date.  A few too many holes, not quite ready to compete, not sure Hurts is the answer.

No one thinks that or is saying that about this team...because of last year.  And that's fine.  We are 2 weeks into the season.  Last year DID happen.  But it also was one year and last year.  If things look the same after 3 weeks....eeeeeeh, that's OK, but we'll worry.  4 weeks?  The font of *last* in last year keeps getting bigger.  Keep grabbing W's and start looking better in the process...then last year becomes the enduring reality.

Good assessment.  I particularly like what you said in your third paragraph.  We ndid not have a good sense of what quality of foundation Siri was building the 2022 season on.  It proved to be a whole lot better than we thought it was.  But it wasn't just Hurts.  The addition of Brown was a major step forward.  The Offensive Line was what we expected, but the Defensive Line came together as a unit in a way we certainly did not expect. 

Regarding your final paragraph, one year is always going to "only be one year."  That perspective is always also going to feed pessimism more than optimism.  I prefer not to look at the team as a whole, but rather to slice and dice down to its seven component units, which for me are QB, the RBs, the Receivers, the O-Line, the D-Line, the LBs and Safeties. and the CBs ... plus the Kickers.  All of those component units are vulnerable to the injury toll.   That can't be avoided, nor should it be overplayed.  For most of the component units it is a wild card.  But barring a catastrophic injury (like the Browns had last night and the Jets had last week), six of the seven component units are very solid ... solid in a way that is consistent with your second paragraph.  The last unit ... the "up the center" unit ... is a work in progress.  I personally believe that we need to be patient and let that unit mature.  I know that is not the opinion of many of the posters here, and I respect that, but I'm optimistic that we have enough quality in that unit that it will mature well.   

2 minutes ago, RLC said:

We still have the best rushing offense in the NFL. What we did in the run game is sustainable and gives us a solid floor every week.

The run game against the Vikings is not sustainable if the Eagles continue to struggle in the air. Hurts needs to start seeing the field better, and I think he will start to do that. While I don't like forcing the ball to certain players, they need to get AJ involved more and early. Goederts targets will come, but they really need to get AJ going and I'd like to see him play more in the slot to create mismatches.

The Eagles have polar opposite stats on both sides of the ball. On offense they are top 5 rushing but bottom 5 in passing, defense is top 10 against the run but bottom 10 against the pass.

I think the Eagles lose Monday night. Not confident at all. 

54 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Just a little rambling on perspective...and I don't mean this in either a positive or negative light.

I see the Eagles as championship contenders, an elite top 5 (maybe top 3, top 2, top 1) team with SB aspirations.  I see Jalen Hurts as one of the best QBs in the NFL.  That is based on what they demonstrated last year (SB run, Hurts with near MVP season) and the fact that they are 2-0 this year despite "not hitting on all cylinders."

But let's pretend, for a second, that they went 9-8 last year and lost in the wild card round.  That Hurts was improved from 2021 but still unspectacular.  If they were the same 2-0 they are now, looking the same way...we'd be saying that this team, considering the schedule ahead, is probably looking at another 9-8 or 10-7 season with a wild card or divisional playoff  expiration date.  A few too many holes, not quite ready to compete, not sure Hurts is the answer.

No one thinks that or is saying that about this team...because of last year.  And that's fine.  We are 2 weeks into the season.  Last year DID happen.  But it also was one year and last year.  If things look the same after 3 weeks....eeeeeeh, that's OK, but we'll worry.  4 weeks?  The font of *last* in last year keeps getting bigger.  Keep grabbing W's and start looking better in the process...then last year becomes the enduring reality.

That's the thing right?  I think we all remember 2017... and it was magical.  Wentz looked like the real deal and was going to be the guy here for the next decade.  But, 2018, he didn't look like that guy.  That year, we blamed the injury and that he was still coming back, figuring he'd be better in 2019.  And to a certain level, he was... but never approached 2017.  The WR corps at the end of 2019 was horrifically bad, but somehow they managed to sneak into the playoffs, and then the hit to the back of the head happened on Wentz, and the rest... is history.  

For 2023... the fear is that we won't see that same level of play from Hurts that we saw last year.  There's no reason to explain why, other than new OC/playcaller, and the lack of work in the PS.  So, hopefully we see the rust come off and we see this team go back to what it was last year.  If we don't see it soon though, I think that that means that this is just who this team is... and more than 10 wins might be overly optimistic.  But, since we do sit at 2-0, we can still hope for the rust to come off, and believe that 12 or more wins are still possible.

Hurts definitely needs to start making the 10-20 yard passes in the middle of the field to AJ and goedert. We seems to have loads of those last season but not much this year. Could be the play calling I guess 

Just now, rrfierce said:

Hurts definitely needs to start making the 10-20 yard passes in the middle of the field to AJ and goedert. We seems to have loads of those last season but not much this year. Could be the play calling I guess 

Well, for that to happen, we'll need Goedert to actually run a route 10-20 yards downfield.  So far I've only seen him on screen passes and some 5 yard hitch routes.  Hopefully the scheme opens up soon.

13 hours ago, bpac55 said:

 

I'd say crooked

 

You can talk about football being a mans game and modern football being too soft,  but what Fitzpatrick has done there is some cowardly career ending crap, he can see Chubb coming the whole way and he lowers his shoulder and barrels into his standing leg at knee height?  At very best it's careless of another players career. 

There'll be the usual platitudes in the presser about how Minkah feels just terrible and isn't that type of player, but he's done Chubb there and the more you watch it the worse it gets.

 

8 minutes ago, rrfierce said:

Hurts definitely needs to start making the 10-20 yard passes in the middle of the field to AJ and goedert. We seems to have loads of those last season but not much this year. Could be the play calling I guess 

Minnesota dropped eight into coverage on passing downs. Tough to call pass plays against that. The answer is to stay ahead of the sticks on early downs. And run the ball.

Marshall - No

Nelson - No

Charles - No

Gates - Yes, but not first ballot

Lang - No

Sitton - No

Unger - No

Ngata - No, but maybe eventually gets in

Peppers - Yes. First ballot.