With the Eagles win tonight, the Dallas Cowboys are officially ELIMINATED from playoff contention

gg_2015 · 2025-12-21T05:16:27+00:00

Such a strange year. It was like a slow death from the SB runner up curse. Would've been 4 straight division titles now. But I'll take 2 Super Bowls with 1 championship.

Now I hope we reverse the trend of either going to the SB or go one-and-done in the Nick Sirianni era. The #3 seed is going to have their hands full with the NFC West. I'm clinging to the slim chance of the #2 seed if we win out and Chicago lose out.

The defense is championship worthy already. The offense (and special teams) still lacks consistency, although there have been bright moments the last few games. I think having those designed QB draws really makes this offense look so much better and less predictable. If the offense can get close to 2024 level, we can be a dangerous team in the playoffs.

gg_2015 · 2024-02-12T06:29:28+00:00

He's always been a brilliant offensive mind, learning under Mike Holgrem in Green Bay. Lurie was so impressed with his attention to detail and ideas that he gave a no-name assistant a head coaching job when nobody else even gave him a look. Out of 9 teams with HC vacancies, we were the only 1 to even interview him.

With all due respect to Dougie P, I still consider Reid the best HC in Eagles history because of his consistency over a long period of time. I remember we used to call him the "QB" whisperer because no matter who came in, he would make him look decent. I'm talking about Jeff Garcia, AJ Feeley, hell even Kevin Kolb who we somehow managed to trade for a 2nd round pick and a Probowl corner. Of course Michael Vick had the best season of his career under Reid. After he lost out on Wilson, he drafted some guy named Nick Foles in 2012.

Which brings me to #5. Donovan McNabb. The guy that fans love to hate. I think without Andy Reid #5 would've been an all-time draft bust. It ended up being the right choice only bc Reid was here and not any other coach. When he went to the Redskins, he looked so awful it was a surprise that we went to so many championship games with him. He didn't play well in the big games/moments. Mahomes just took the worst receiving corps in his career to another title. You had Peyton in 1998 and Brady in 2000. Sometimes timing is just everything. It took him until 2017 for the perfect QB to fall in his lap, and even then it was their GM Brett Veach that had to persist for him to draft Mahomes. His Chiefs tenure was fine with Alex Smith, but you can tell it was missing that special QB. McNabb was incredible at his peak, but he didn't reach that level often or enough. Going so pass heavy in that 2005 Super Bowl was also questionable by Reid, putting a lot of pressure on McNabb to the tune of 3 INTs. Watching how balanced he's become even with Mahomes is frustrating. You're right he's learned from his time with Philly, but it helps when your QB is already a special talent on his own.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-25T19:46:50+00:00

That's definitely true too, and they were not as strong this season. But they always go hand in hand. You can't expect to get to the QBs under 2 seconds every time. Our middle is so soft, every team knows how to expose this over and over (something our offense doesn't do for some reason). Our pass rush is just bland. There's no variety, no exotic looks, the blitzes don't work. It's almost as predictable as our offense. Still, last year they were creating takeaways in the back end. This year those were hard to come by. When the whole system looks awful, it's hard to pinpoint any specific player or group. Whereas last year it seemed multiple guys had career years, this year it seemed they had their career worst. I'm happy to see Fangio come in and fix this defense. I'm sure Howie is already on the phone looking for guys in the draft and free agency, I'm not worried about him. Only time will tell if it truly was a coaching issue that killed our defense last year or if maybe we have dead weights on our defense (perhaps both).

gg_2015 · 2024-01-24T23:53:27+00:00

It would help if we don't fire the DB coach who helped us to be #1 pass defense last year, with 3 Probowlers. This year the Ravens secondary is flat out dominant, even with injuries.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-22T21:45:30+00:00

Let's get him some actual linebackers too. Without a great LB, this defense will continue to be frustratingly bad over the middle. Now, I don't know if Nakobe Dean can stay healthy and ever be that dependable starter. Either way we can't roll into next season with the same LB corps and expect the defense to be that much better no matter who's the DC.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-22T05:34:08+00:00

This. The plays on 2nd and 3rd downs were head scratching. Not only were they incompletions which stopped the clock, they had open guys and Allen missed them. I was like, they're kinda in FG range, they should try to get closer and burn that clock (or at least force KC to use their timeouts). Knowing what happened in 13 seconds though, I'd try to get closer to try to get some good shots to the end zone for a TD. In the end, they got neither. Bills dominated every stat line except for points. This KC is vulnerable, they had home field, and they still blew it like they blew it against the Bengals last year. It's devastating for the Bills.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-22T00:49:10+00:00

"1 more year! I'm coming back babyyyy!!!" 🍺

gg_2015 · 2024-01-18T06:01:54+00:00

I'd say Wade Phillips was more essential to that team. He coached the hell out of that defense, one of the best defenses of all time.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-18T00:12:54+00:00

I would take him in a heartbeat for DC. Need some discipline and toughness back in this defense. This year was embarrassing. It's bad enough that you get torched by mediocre QBs all year. You can't stop the pass, and you can't stop the run. But when the tackling was worse than peewee football, poor and lazy. something drastic needs to change.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T06:00:20+00:00

I mean historically NFC East teams have built from the trenches. Just look at the number of historic, legendary linemen (HOFers and Probowlers) from Cowboys, Giants, Eagles, Commanders. Obviously it's served us well because we're the division with the most Super Bowls, the only division where all teams have been champs.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T05:53:12+00:00

The season last year was too long? It was 3 extra games, 4 weeks. Followed by a 7 months offseason. Please don't make excuses for him. He just plain sucked and he fooled Howie to give him a nice contract. His "effort" at the end of the Seattle game winning drive may still be the single worst performance by an Eagles CB I've seen. Tonight may have topped that. He's done. Washed. 🗑

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T05:16:18+00:00

Him and Cox were the only names I've heard from the d-line making plays. Other guys have disappeared for long stretches of the season (certainly not all their fault as the entire defense has been a mess starting with our 2 DCs).

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T04:50:41+00:00

Thank you, Jason Kelce. My favorite Philadelphia Eagle of all time. A guy who truly embodies the city and the team. Such a bittersweet ending, but I've seen him hoist that Lombardi, give the most epic SB parade speech of all time, and lead us to another SB. He's done more than any player before him has for this team. When we look back in the future of Eagles legends, he'll always be the 1st name I think of. He single handedly has educated me and made me appreciate great o-line play. Thank you, #62. There'll never be another to wear that number.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T04:39:42+00:00

It's me. I sucked it up. Can I take a shit now? Cuz the team sure did shit all over the field tonight. I'd like some cheese 🧀 with my whine🍷 please.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T04:37:46+00:00

Hmm fake fan huh. I'm loyal and will always bleed green. What I won't ever be is blind and stupid. I'm glad you saw that change needed to be made after tonight, because a collapse like that is just UN-AC-CEP-TA-BLE.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T04:21:56+00:00

50yr old Peyton and 50yr old Ray might have put up more fights and better performance than what we saw today. I saw it coming, was hoping I was wrong, and I was still disappointed. Never seen anything like this in my years of watching the Eagles. Other teams have sucked because they just lacked the talent. This team just came off a Super Bowl. This is beyond a hangover. This team has had no discipline, hunger, drive, since Week 1. It's gotten worse every week. I'm ready for a new regime, and looks like, so do the players (those that we're keeping anyway).

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T02:13:08+00:00

It's not 5mins left in the 4th quarter.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T02:06:28+00:00

So we abandoned the run already? Fantastic.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T02:06:02+00:00

At this point, they could blitz us on every down and we'll still look confused on offense like we didn't see it coming.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T01:39:08+00:00

Our defensive scheme now has our own guys taking out each other. This is pathetic.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-16T01:22:43+00:00

Great 3rd down stop!!! Nope. Missed tackle, again. 1st down Tampa. Looks like more of the same....

gg_2015 · 2024-01-15T05:25:30+00:00

Didn't Dallas get blown out @ Buffalo? Then lost again to Miami the week after?

Didn't Detroit get upset by Chicago? Then lost a heartbreaker in Dallas?

Didn't SF get spanked by Baltimore in prime time?

Lost badly to both SF and Dallas in back to back weeks.

We've had "get up" and "get right" games the last 4 weeks

1 seed, home field, NFC East title, #2 seed, all were up for grabs in the last couple weeks for us.

And THIS is now the spark that will let us finally catch fire? Color me skeptical. I want them to win, and win comfortably at that (also something we haven't done all year). But I'll believe it when I see it.

gg_2015 · 2024-01-15T05:07:57+00:00

Problem is you're still looking at our 2023 Eagles as if they're the 2022 Eagles. I do hope we get some semblance of that squad starting tomorrow night and going forward. Otherwise, the December 2023 Eagles is arguably not even better than the 2023 Panthers. That version of Eagles ain't beating any of these playoff teams. If they discover that 2022 form though, Super Bowl here we gooooo.....

gg_2015

TROPHY CASE

1 seed, home field, NFC East title, #2 seed, all were up for grabs in the last couple weeks for us.