Eagles 2023-2024 Season

[bkeich]

Maybe we should make Sydney Brown the Kickoff Returner

[Patchmk88]

This team is just so bad.

[Docs]

2023 Eagles are the best terrible team of all time, they cannot fire multiple coaches soon enough for me. I don't know who needs to be fired but this is a terribly coached team.

[BaseballCat]

That was a sad game. Not much else to say

[phillychuck]

Defense stinks, offensive play calling isn't much better.

[xogfog]

Welcome to the 5th seed and a quick playoff exit.

[phillychuck]

I wanted more free Sundays in January and February anyway.

[allentown]

So true. Pathetic how poor they are against the run. And the Hurts runs killed any momentum. They are an awful screen pass team on O and can't control the edge on D.

[BostonRoss]

I think the Cardinals' coach is a defensive genius

[zambonir]

It's probably his coordinator

So: is Nick in trouble? Because it seems like just running it back with the coaching staff of Howie and Lurie's choice isn't really a great option. And of course Howie will be allowed to fix his own roster mistakes.

And were they to hire Reich to be OC, doesn't he just end up becoming HC? (Is he even a good head coach?)

Also, has anyone else picked up on the fact that Slay might not play again, and chose to have the surgery to remove himself, rather than to get healthier and back for the playoffs? Some of that is probably related to Patricia even if all public comment has been that they are good.

[phillychuck]

Patricia is a doofus. He has no clue how to coach an NFL defense--half of the posters here could do better. Maybe more than half.

Siriani may also be a doofus. Big challenge of him the next two weeks, getting this team ready for a road playoff game. Let's see how he handles it.

Doofus central. Love that word in this circumstance.

[zambonir]

Well, the East race isn't over yet. The Cowboys have not shown themselves to be anything more special and could easily lost to Washington (and could have lost last night). Of course the Eagles could also just get blown out in the Meadowlands.

Arguably at Tampa may be easier than playing Seattle again, though they'd also likely have to play at SF in the second game right?

Inarguably, none of it really matters.

[VoteForKalas]

Just another reminder that you need to take advantage of opportunities because they do not come along very often.

In the Eagles case, win the SB last year and all this most can live with, but, since they lost it due mostly to the defense, this season shows us the lesson was not learned by Roseman & Sirianni and so it becomes doubly frustrating as a fan.

I feel the same way about the Phillies the last two years.

[phillychuck]

The goings-on in the Eagles locker room show what a load of horse manure that "winning culture" explanation is for success. As Bill James often wrote, it's confusing cause and effect. Winning leads to good culture, not vice-versa. And sirianni is the number one adherent to the winning culture explanations.

[zambonir]

Yeah, I'm a big believer in that particular chicken/egg theory. But culture is not entirely a figment. It's organizational, and clearly whatever alignment everyone was in last year (from Lurie and Howie to Sirrianni and the coordinators) and the structure the two coordinators provided, went away this year, and then once the losing started the dissension began. History repeating, really, in terms of the coach and the GM and owner not agreeing on who and how should get those jobs, and also in terms of the star QB's favorite position coach not being ready for the bigger job.

I don't think it was just the defense last year though. And it's much harder for Howie to make big roster changes than it is for the Phillies (if they're willing, all they have to do is write the check).

[allentown]

And the QB apparently not being as ready as was thought to make more decisions at the line of scrimmage. He runs well to escape pressure and often to avoid sacks but his design runs and RPO choices haven't been as positive. The play calls, on both O and D are not a surprise to the other team and on both the repertoire is limited: not blitzing and generally overly loose coverage on D and very uninventive motion and screens in playbook. The opposition has figured out our version of the RPO.

This was a team supposedly built to win through the lines. Both the O and D lines have been less than advertised. The O line run blocks fine but hasn't had a good pass blocking game is weeks. It would be a big help to have an almost-average group of LBs, but the D line was awful against both the run and hitting the passer today.

The team has looked poorly coached a lot this season.

I am tired of the almost constant prevent defense. They need to play the receivers tight and blitz on some 3rd downs. They might give up a quick TD or two, but the defense wouldn't get as tired out as it does with multiple sustained drives and they might force more punts and turnovers. Too many games in which the opposition has had a string of scoring drives. I think the Cardinals punted once today.

The O coordinator and both D coordinators haven't impressed this season.

[HopeSpringsEternal]

I think the Cardinals punted once today.

Close; 0 punts for Arizona today.

[LegoDoom]

Just another reminder that you need to take advantage of opportunities because they do not come along very often.

In the Eagles case, win the SB last year and all this most can live with, but, since they lost it due mostly to the defense, this season shows us the lesson was not learned by Roseman & Sirianni and so it becomes doubly frustrating as a fan.

I feel the same way about the Phillies the last two years.

Roseman has drafted half of the Georgia defense in the last 2 years. He made a good offer to CJGJ ( or whatever he's called now) and then traded for a safety.

I guess you can pin the coaching staff on Roseman, but no one wanted to hear that when they were winning.

[zambonir]

"The Georgia defense" doesn't mean anything in and of itself. Great college players don't always become great NFL players, and they also didn't come with Kirby Smart as the Eagles DC.

I would say everyone still complained about the coaching staff when they were winning. Last year Lanning, this year Johnson. Desai wasn't getting it nearly as badly in public but we know what happened there. Regardless of whether it is talent not living up to its potential or coaches failing to tap that potential or just what used to be a strength getting old more quickly than expected (without enough/ready youth to step in) the result speaks for itself. The question is if it's the roster how much can be fixed (granted, Howie is usually pretty good at this) and if it's the coaching will a staff overhaul be sufficient or will they really cut loose Nick.

They also won a lot of "last score wins" games earlier that probably shouldn't have to come to that in the first place if they were truly a top team, and now they're losing them.

[gmwannabe]

the curse of a repeating team winning the East division is still alive. at 10-1 I thought for sure it would be over. at least their draft position is getting better. and one more small item.Take that Wide receiver screen and shove it up someone's hiney. it goes no where and it broke Devanta Smith's ankle. plain lousy
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