E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!! Birds - Niners '26 Playoff game thread
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Living in western PA and not being a Steelers fan, the Bills have always been the AFC team I keep an eye on. It'd be nice to see them finally win the big one.
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Disagreed on type of halftime scones.
It appeared the coach thought Brown should have caught a key 3rd down pass. Brown had a bad day at the wrong time. Two long passes off his hands.
After watching him screw the pooch down the stretch of last night’s game, I actually kinda felt Tomlin is a game management genius in comparison. What’s up with modern football coaches lacking fundamentals?
As a Steelers fan, I’m expecting us to be joining Eagles fans on the proverbial golf course tomorrow evening. No faith whatsoever in the (lack of) direction the organization finds itself in the past decade or so. Also, I agree with a lot of the posts on here complaining about the lack of holding calls on the 49er OL…yet another poorly officiated game in all levels of the sport.
We could do a lot worse than Jake
Jeffrey will have many changes made by Wednesday
As soon as he starts going right, you know he’s throwing it away.
We saw how that worked out for Tennessee. Is Treyvon Burks in Washington now?
AJ is a generational type of talent. You don’t just trade and replace them. The Eagles need to think long and hard about that.
I was surprised the Stillers beat the Ravens but they were lucky with the guy missing a 43 yard FG. Although the Ravens were lucky the Stillers missed the Xtra Point.
I think the Texans win and no changes are made regarding Tomlin. I would gladly swap a loss to the Texans if you said that would guarantee Tomlin getting fired. I would hire John Harbaugh or some up and comer coordinator like what the Bears got with Ben Johnson.
Since I am very confident Tomlin is not getting fired then I want us to win. I'm just dumb for hoping for a different result as in actually winning a playoff game but I can't help myself.
Generational talent? Really ? The game literally went right thru his fingers
But what if he’s also a generational type of locker room cancer? I’m not an Eagles fan so I don’t know how much trouble his sulking actually causes. But to me I don’t think you’re allowed to have a bad day when you act the way he does.
Puka had a bad one too and I only saw bits of that game. They need these Indiana kids to show them how it’s done.
JH taking the heat for the poor in over his head offensive coordinator. The play calling has sucked all season and this was inevitable because we saw this over and over this season. Sirianni too stubborn to make changes during the season and hoping for the best will be his downfall. Time to make a change.
Oh come on. Eagles were the defending Super Bowl champs playing at home against a team with so many injuries they literally signed guys off the street including Kendricks who knocked down the pass on the Eagles’ last offensive play. They also lost a Pro Bowl caliber TE, Kittle, early in the game to a torn Achilles. Please stop with the complaints about the officiating.
Spot on. All you need to do is compare the play calling from Niners yesterday. Half of calling plays is the right play at the right time. The Eagles struggled with that all year and never improved. It was their downfall and we all knew this was coming by halfway through the year when they simply were not improving. The other half btw, is designing plays that play in to the strength of your personnel and away from their weaknesses. Some of the analysis on PostGame Live last night (especially from Jason Avant) really opened my eyes to the problems with Patullo. My takeaway was that Hurts has some pretty serious flaws with certain reads, things that top QB’s should easily handle. Kellen Moore was able to scheme, and play call around which allowed JH to play elite. They were brutal on Patullo.
Who’s this Jason Avant? When did he become such an expert? Weren’t the Eagles going to fire Kellen Moore last season especially early? I mean look at Lions. They fired their OC early and how did that work out for them? Maybe if Mike Shanahan has another son or grandson we could look at him
Lots to look at on the offense this off season for Howie. Starting with the coaches. Personally I wouldn't mind McDaniels as OC coming in if he was willing and doesn't get a HC position. The oline needs to be addressed. Tight end needs the next person to start getting ready for Goedert. Decide what to do with A.J. If he continues to whine and be a problem Howie will get rid of him. Lurie and Howie don't put up with whiners. Do they need another CB since Adoree Jackson was meh most of the season. Is Nakob Dean gone? Will depend on money at least they have his replacement if they do. Jake Elliott needs to go. Thankfully they have a lot of draft picks over the next 2 years to address a lot of this.
The entire offense stunk this year. AJ is a game changer who dramatically improves the offense. One tough game - and it was really just the one drop that Goedert later bailed them out on - doesn’t change that.
Nick is a rah-rah, CEO type of coach. That’s perfectly fine as long as he has a great offensive playcaller and schemer on the staff.
The problem is that Nick doesn’t know play calling so he’s made a couple of awful internal promotions in the past 3 years. The lone home run was an external hire. Maybe it’s time to see the light and look outside the organization?!
Sometimes, the rah-rah, CEO-type of coach interferes with the offense, so I’ve been told.
Here goes…
A cancer deliberately tries to undermine the locker room and team dynamic. It’s about attention vs winning.
A sulker keeps things internally and takes losing or performing poorly especially hard. It’s about winning and playing well.
I believe AJ is the latter. I’m not saying he’s handled it well, but his intent is pure. He wants to win and play well. Players like that are championship building blocks.
The first three were tough, contested catches. The deep balls over the middle were in double coverage where AJ was screened from seeing the ball. The sideline pass was catchable but tough in cold, windy weather.
AJ could have had the third pass. He should have had the fourth but it didn’t cost the team.
I assume you know who he is, but he's now host for Eagles Post Game Live and he certainly knows a lot more than I did, which was obvious when detailed a few of the difficulties JH was having trying to execute this offense.
The Eagles were not going to fire Kellen Moore early last year, the fans were. The offense improved tremendously as the year went on.
Firing a coordinator midseason is a losing proposition. I'm sure there are example of it working out ok, I just can't recall anything but the failures off the top of my head.
Few would argue Kyle Shanahan and his staff beat a team with superior talent.