Eagles 2024-2025 Season

[MichaelJackSchmidt]

Surely the officiating hadn't been good, but the Eagles offense and defense stinks so far. Barkley had a couple of good runs but has been shutdown since. From the passing side, apparently nobody is open.

[zambonir]

This game always struck me as a tough one, and no less so for the run of success the Eagles had. But, they are already toughening up.

And does a Sunday ever go buy without complaints about the refs in this thread?

[MichaelJackSchmidt]

And just like that, both the offense and defense improve and now the Eagles are up 14-9.

[bkeich]

Officials further help Baltimore by not running the clock after Lamar was sacked. Allows them to kick a FG that they could not possibly have gotten if they called the sack correctly.

[LegoDoom]

It was 2nd down with like 22s running. They clock it and kick it.

[bkeich]

Officials made sure they didn’t need to.

You’re assuming that they could organize that quickly. It was a sack, was going to take 8–12 seconds to get everyone lined up IF they made the right decision as you stated. What if they lined up and tried to run a play (aka Bears).

[LegoDoom]

I like to assume most coaches and players aren't idiots.

[MichaelJackSchmidt]

So the Ravens have made adjustments during the halftime the Eagles have not. If it wasn't for two missed field goals, the score would be a little different right now.

[bkeich]

I like to assume most coaches and players aren't idiots.

Yea, maybe it is restricted to the Bears. Did you see that on Thursday? Memories of my guy, Andy Reid’s young clock management skills. (I say that with respect, Reid is my favorite coach of all time)

[zambonir]

The football thread at Oriolesfans.com must be fun

[Patchmk88]

Big win for the Eagles. It was a hard game for me to watch because I’m a huge Lamar fan since he went to Louisville, but was obviously rooting for the Eagles the whole way.

[zambonir]

Are they the #2 team in the NFC yet?

[BostonRoss]

Looks like the Ravens have the Jake Elliott that was playing against the Commanders a couple of weeks ago.

[allentown]

A big win for the Eagles and an exceptional day for the D. Still worry how the O consistently starts so very slow and goes cold for a period. Need to fix that, because I don't think they can survive the playoffs with such inconsistent O.

[phillychuck]

The O isn't exactly inconsistent, it's that the passing game is almost entirely missing. If you're playing the Eagles you commit everyone to stopping Baarkley and make Hurts beat you from the pocket. He doesn't see anyone except his big 3--you could cover them with high school guys and he wouldn't throw to them.

I don't get how Barkley being such a threat hasn't opened up everything else they do...

[zambonir]

Of course the offense and Hurts are better when all of the Big 3 actually get to play.

[bkeich]

Odd NFL day. 8 of the first 10 games won by the road team.

[bkeich]

The Passing game has been great of late. Averaging 8-10 yards/attempt in all the games except today (6.2). It is just we are barely getting to 20 attempts because no one can stop the running attack. Perfect scenario for bad weather coming.

Hurts has been excelling, literally going entire games without a bad / risky throw and mostly making great decisions.

Going 30/50 for 300 yards might look good on some stat sheets, but 18/24 for 220 is much, much better.

[MichaelJackSchmidt]

It took a few possessions for the Eagles to realize they can't just have Hurts drop back and look for an open receiver. They have to use RPOs more often. Faking a Barkley handoff, then Hurts running or passing seems to be a better option.

[LegoDoom]

It took a few possessions for the Eagles to realize they can't just have Hurts drop back and look for an open receiver. They have to use RPOs more often. Faking a Barkley handoff, then Hurts running or passing seems to be a better option.

Except the first scoring drive was all no huddle and Hurts calling everything.