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2024 Philadelphia Eagles - Happy 7th birthday to our most precious baby. (15 Viewers)

Since the bye week and getting cooper into the mix they’ve given up 16, 3, 17, 23, 6, 18, 20, 19 & 16 points. That’s pretty elite level stuff. The thing is, I don’t even feel like they are getting a ton of sacks, interceptions or forced fumbles. They are just getting stops. If the turnovers start to hit a little more regularly, they’re gonna be scary.
Yeah dude! The coverage has been INCREDIBLE this year! Need a little more pass pressure and those turnovers start coming, like the INT Carter forced to CJ yesterday.
DeJean got taken to school yesterday, but hoping he learns and grows from it. He's been phenomenal so far.
Yeah definitely was his "welcome to the NFL" moment. Thielen is such a savvy route runner and technician. It was a good thing for him.

I still can't believe we drafted both of these guys.
 
These no holding calls on Carter are just getting laughable now. I’m rarely that guy but this year feels different.
I heard something the other day that went like, and pardon me, not entirely accurate/verbatim, but sorta went like

"Eagles are the 5th least penalized team, yet when you look at games, they have been penalized more than their opponent in all but 4 games"

Its getting dumb at this point, its really easy to see

We keep marching though!
 
You all are so passionate about your Eagles. On to the next!

Battle of Pennsylvania for the Eagles to win against the Steelers what are some of your key takeaways?
 
If the title of the thread is referencing the murderer of an innocent man, I would ask that you change it. I knew Brian personally and this would be in very bad taste to make light of it.
Classy, ain’t it?
Chiefs late game go ahead FG Bounces off an upright(guessing).
This. Noid doesn't do political or real world drama. Only if it's a funny reference.
Then I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Rough last few days and I have lost all faith in humanity.
 
If the title of the thread is referencing the murderer of an innocent man, I would ask that you change it. I knew Brian personally and this would be in very bad taste to make light of it.
Classy, ain’t it?

Imagine being a troll in 2024 and sucking at it lol
No matter how many times you guys use that term. Noone’s ‘trolling’ you.
What time was the thread title updated? Because I’m pretty sure I saw it last night, and I fell asleep before halftime
 
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Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:

“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
Listening to the audio, it sounded like he was saying that they were friends before being on the same team, but now working together has naturally changed their friendship. The “I don’t know the whole story” might have been like “I’m not close enough to know what they have been through” maybe?

Either way, not a good look to even say anything at all about it! He just fed the beast and if they lose Sunday it’s going to hang over the rest of the season.
 
I'm still trying to figure out what Hurts was doing on that last drive when he slid for a 9 yard loss instead of just throwing it away.

Also, Jake Elliot, you're on notice, this might be your last season here if you can't make a 50 yard FG.

Hurts made a bunch of strange decisions today. There were several times he could have thrown it away and many times he looked very hesitant to even throw the ball. He wasnt seeing the field well. Some people were saying our wrs were covered up well by caolinas scheme/secondary but i dont know for sure

Him leaving the press conference after being asked “What can be done to improve the passing game?” by Tim McManus isn’t gonna go over well this week either.

The processing was SO poor today.

Jalen Hurts - per @NextGenStats:

4 sacks on 9 pressures - 3.29 average time to pressure was slowest in league this week so far

3.47 Average Time to Throw - slowest of season for him
5.1 yards/attempt - lowest of season
5.6 air yards/attempt - lowest of season
Tim mentioned pockets of the locker room seemed very frustrated.

And yeah leaving the podium on a simple question doesn’t go over well with anyone including teammates. You sucked yesterday just be a man and own up to it. Even if it’s the ******** PR comment
 
We won but wouldn’t have been shocked by a loss today. Offense looked bad most of the day.
Not entirely sure I agree. How many drives did they even get in that second half? 3? 4 maybe?
Carolina came with an aggressive plan and had a few lucky bounces. Eagles offense had an unusually low number of drives to work with. Defense was generally good....how many times did Young escape heavy pressure to convert on 3rd or 4th down? Sometimes you just have to give the other team some credit. Panthers came out with upset on their mind.

This was a trap game, we all knew it. Eagles survived/escaped. Take the W and move on
The way they played yesterday said in the game thread if they lost they deserved it with the way they played. They seem to always play down to their opponent then show up for the good teams
 
I'm not going to read much into the Panther game. We seemed to be either tight or conservative on offense. The Panthers played as a team that had nothing to lose and we survived.

The one thing that surprises me is we get into 2nd and short a lot but we'll go spread pass instead of pound the ball. Plus I do think the QB keepers we see are audibles unless it's a designed RPO. I personally would take those audibles out and let Hurts audible to something else. I think defenses are tricking Hurts into audibles. This is part of the evolution and growth.

Wishful thinking. Get Hurts under center more even for passing plays. Rotate these backs more often not only for series. I think Shipley would be a much better change of pace runner than Gainwell. Gainwell runs similar to Barkley, he's just not as elusive.

All in all this team is on schedule and still has room for improvement. Many other teams I think have hit their ceiling.
Agreed on the 2nd and shorts. I'm fine with taking shots in those situations, but do it off play action, don't tip your hand and show pass from jump.

Every time I see a QB draw I groan. Seems to fail most the time and be a wasted down plus increase an injury chance for Hurts. He can get those yards on passing plays that break down without intentionally adding to it. I'm kinda over RPO's and would rather a more traditional play action offense, but maybe I'm just getting old.
Starting to think Hurts is calling those draws
 
The one thing that surprises me is we get into 2nd and short a lot but we'll go spread pass instead of pound the ball. Plus I do think the QB keepers we see are audibles unless it's a designed RPO. I personally would take those audibles out and let Hurts audible to something else. I think defenses are tricking Hurts into audibles. This is part of the evolution and growth.

Wishful thinking. Get Hurts under center more even for passing plays. Rotate these backs more often not only for series. I think Shipley would be a much better change of pace runner than Gainwell. Gainwell runs similar to Barkley, he's just not as elusive.

All in all this team is on schedule and still has room for improvement. Many other teams I think have hit their ceiling.
The bolded 100%. Maybe the Lions will go for it on 4th down 5 times in a game if we eventually play them. For as much "Eagles got lucky" takes there are, it seems no one is remembering how lucky the Panthers got to get this close. 4th down conversion from his own end zone, bodies flying all around and then the one where Jalen Carter deflects it, only into Thielen's breadbasket.

Every game has a personality. I'll take the W. Let the rest argue over style...
It’s the sum of many parts IMO. The Panthers just aren’t as bad as their record shows. KC had to beat them with a FG as time expired. When you combine the poor QB play and missed tackles it was bound to be close.

At the end of the day it’s a win and hopefully one with no major injuries.
Yessir a W is a W is a W!

Panthers last 4 weeks have 1 win, took 2 teams to OT and barely lost to the Chiefs.

Onto the Steelers!

7th overall defense, 4th against the run, 18th against the pass
16 overall offense, 23rd passing, 9th rushing
PPG: 10th O, 5th PPG

Game is not going to be "easy" as some people think.

Somethings gotta give: Eagles have never beat Russell Wilson, ever. Steelers haven't won in Philly in the Super Bowl era.

I feel the bolder was said a lot last year and look what our end result was. Not saying it’ll happen but there’s definitely things for cause of concern including our poor starts that hasn’t been fixed all year.
 
These no holding calls on Carter are just getting laughable now. I’m rarely that guy but this year feels different.
Nick needs to take a fine a say something. This reminds me when we had Vick and he was being hit late especially going out of bounds. Reid and Lurie sent the league tape of missed calls. Following week I believe he got a roughing the passer and late hit out of bounds early in the game.
 
Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:

“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
Yep it’s not good. I heard something over the summer about this. AJ I think was mad at Hurts for changing plays that the coaches called in last year plus some other stuff. However from when I heard it sounded like things had been hashed out. I guess not and Smith said something about guys not being on the same page.

Also remember that whole AJ/Hurts thing on the sideline I think last year or year before. I mentioned it being worth something to keep in mind and maybe there are real issues
 
If the title of the thread is referencing the murderer of an innocent man, I would ask that you change it. I knew Brian personally and this would be in very bad taste to make light of it.
Classy, ain’t it?
Chiefs late game go ahead FG Bounces off an upright(guessing).
This. Noid doesn't do political or real world drama. Only if it's a funny reference.
Then I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Rough last few days and I have lost all faith in humanity.
Sorry for your loss but you should understand why many are apathetic to this. The dude and his company screwed so many people from life saving care. So they aren’t going to apologize for not feeling sorry for your friend, his family and friends.

I won’t say anything more then that as to not make the thread polluted but The Noid like someone else said doesn’t use politics etc for his titles.
 
Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:

“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
Listening to the audio, it sounded like he was saying that they were friends before being on the same team, but now working together has naturally changed their friendship. The “I don’t know the whole story” might have been like “I’m not close enough to know what they have been through” maybe?

Either way, not a good look to even say anything at all about it! He just fed the beast and if they lose Sunday it’s going to hang over the rest of the season.
It seems both haven’t been on the same page half the year. And who knows it sounds from what BG said Hurts is trying while AJ is throwing a temper tantrum. He’s also giving up on routes and not blocking on the WR screens to others btw. His work ethic at times this year has been questionable
 
If the title of the thread is referencing the murderer of an innocent man, I would ask that you change it. I knew Brian personally and this would be in very bad taste to make light of it.
Classy, ain’t it?
Chiefs late game go ahead FG Bounces off an upright(guessing).
This. Noid doesn't do political or real world drama. Only if it's a funny reference.
Then I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Rough last few days and I have lost all faith in humanity.
Sorry for your loss but you should understand why many are apathetic to this. The dude and his company screwed so many people from life saving care. So they aren’t going to apologize for not feeling sorry for your friend, his family and friends.

I won’t say anything more then that as to not make the thread polluted but The Noid like someone else said doesn’t use politics etc for his titles.
Whatever, dude.
 
If the title of the thread is referencing the murderer of an innocent man, I would ask that you change it. I knew Brian personally and this would be in very bad taste to make light of it.
Classy, ain’t it?
Chiefs late game go ahead FG Bounces off an upright(guessing).
This. Noid doesn't do political or real world drama. Only if it's a funny reference.
Then I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Rough last few days and I have lost all faith in humanity.
Sorry for your loss but you should understand why many are apathetic to this. The dude and his company screwed so many people from life saving care. So they aren’t going to apologize for not feeling sorry for your friend, his family and friends.

I won’t say anything more then that as to not make the thread polluted but The Noid like someone else said doesn’t use politics etc for his titles.
Whatever, dude.


hey bro no one cares about your feelings or what you want posted in the eagles thread.
 
If the title of the thread is referencing the murderer of an innocent man, I would ask that you change it. I knew Brian personally and this would be in very bad taste to make light of it.
Classy, ain’t it?
Chiefs late game go ahead FG Bounces off an upright(guessing).
This. Noid doesn't do political or real world drama. Only if it's a funny reference.
Then I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Rough last few days and I have lost all faith in humanity.
Sorry for your loss but you should understand why many are apathetic to this. The dude and his company screwed so many people from life saving care. So they aren’t going to apologize for not feeling sorry for your friend, his family and friends.

I won’t say anything more then that as to not make the thread polluted but The Noid like someone else said doesn’t use politics etc for his titles.
Whatever, dude.


hey bro no one cares about your feelings or what you want posted in the eagles thread.
You are truly an awful human being.
 
If the title of the thread is referencing the murderer of an innocent man, I would ask that you change it. I knew Brian personally and this would be in very bad taste to make light of it.
Classy, ain’t it?
Chiefs late game go ahead FG Bounces off an upright(guessing).
This. Noid doesn't do political or real world drama. Only if it's a funny reference.
Then I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Rough last few days and I have lost all faith in humanity.
Sorry for your loss but you should understand why many are apathetic to this. The dude and his company screwed so many people from life saving care. So they aren’t going to apologize for not feeling sorry for your friend, his family and friends.

I won’t say anything more then that as to not make the thread polluted but The Noid like someone else said doesn’t use politics etc for his titles.
Whatever, dude.


hey bro no one cares about your feelings or what you want posted in the eagles thread.
You are truly an awful human being.

yeah go back to your hole
 
Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:

“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
LOL this is gonna be a circus all week

why say that
Have any of you guys turned on local Philly radio? Don't blame me for spotting the big tents!
When I saw the tweets of what BG said I knew I wasn't turning on the radio this week.
 
Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:

“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
LOL this is gonna be a circus all week

why say that
Have any of you guys turned on local Philly radio? Don't blame me for spotting the big tents!
When I saw the tweets of what BG said I knew I wasn't turning on the radio this week.
Yeah man! Right after the game I decided to walk the dog and flipped on 97.5 on my phone and immediately I was like "Man. This is gonna be a long week. Then BG goes on WIP of all places, he should have just said they hate each other, would have been easier.
 
So now Jalen will throw 35+ times, AJ will get 125+ yards and a TD and we’ll lose 35-31 cause Saquan only got 12 touches. Then we can all go back to blaming the HC lol

they better not change a thing
Seriously for selfish reasons. My playoff game is this week and I have Barkley while my opponent has AJB. Let's keep it exactly the same right now.
 

I didn’t want any apology, I just wanted to point out that you were wrong when you accused me of trolling (with a post that would’ve gotten you banned in an hour if you had written it to one of your gb eagles fans here). As usual.

Hope you have a great rest of your day!
 
If the title of the thread is referencing the murderer of an innocent man, I would ask that you change it. I knew Brian personally and this would be in very bad taste to make light of it.
Classy, ain’t it?
Chiefs late game go ahead FG Bounces off an upright(guessing).
This. Noid doesn't do political or real world drama. Only if it's a funny reference.
Then I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Rough last few days and I have lost all faith in humanity.
Sorry for your loss but you should understand why many are apathetic to this. The dude and his company screwed so many people from life saving care. So they aren’t going to apologize for not feeling sorry for your friend, his family and friends.

I won’t say anything more then that as to not make the thread polluted but The Noid like someone else said doesn’t use politics etc for his titles.
Whatever, dude.


hey bro no one cares about your feelings or what you want posted in the eagles thread.
You are truly an awful human being.
Pot meet kettle much. Your buddy wasn’t a stand up citizen. Now really please just leave our thread so we can talk about our team.
 
Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:

“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
Gotta love it. Leave it to a veteran leader out for the season to stir the pot. 😂
Maybe he did it intentionally. Unintentional/intentional leak so they hash things out. I’ve seen this before in club soccer and most of the time it works. Or maybe BG us just fed up with the BS from certain players
 
Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:

“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
Gotta love it. Leave it to a veteran leader out for the season to stir the pot. 😂
Maybe he did it intentionally. Unintentional/intentional leak so they hash things out. I’ve seen this before in club soccer and most of the time it works. Or maybe BG us just fed up with the BS from certain players
This was my first thought. BG doesn't have to worry about how leaking this affects his future, so get it out in the open so it has to be addressed.
 
Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:

“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
Gotta love it. Leave it to a veteran leader out for the season to stir the pot. 😂
Maybe he did it intentionally. Unintentional/intentional leak so they hash things out. I’ve seen this before in club soccer and most of the time it works. Or maybe BG us just fed up with the BS from certain players
This was my first thought. BG doesn't have to worry about how leaking this affects his future, so get it out in the open so it has to be addressed.

Didnt think about this. Smart
 
Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:

“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
Gotta love it. Leave it to a veteran leader out for the season to stir the pot. 😂
Maybe he did it intentionally. Unintentional/intentional leak so they hash things out. I’ve seen this before in club soccer and most of the time it works. Or maybe BG us just fed up with the BS from certain players
This was my first thought. BG doesn't have to worry about how leaking this affects his future, so get it out in the open so it has to be addressed.
100% he knew what he was doing. I listened to it live. He wasn't asked about Jalen or AJ. They opened up with the typical, "hey, you got a win and Saquon just broke the Eagles all time rushing record, yada yada." And BG was just like, "something's ****ed up between AJ and Jalen and they need to fix it NOW." He absolutely had an agenda-he saw whatever bs was happening behind the scenes last year and wasn't gonna let it fester like it did then.

Its obvious that he didn't have the go ahead from the brass because he immediately started walking it back afterward and was on the morning show today talking about how he is going to apologize to both Jalen and AJ before practice tomorrow. I am glad that its out there, but I'm kind of worried that this is going to blow up into something more than it needs to.

If we handle Pittsburgh on Sunday and Aj has a 9/125/1TD stat line, then maybe we all can breathe a little easier. But if we lose a close one and AJ has like, 4 catches on 4 targets for 55 yards and no TD's, we're in for some shirtless-sit ups-in-the-driveway-action and the season could implode from there very, very quickly.

This is supposed to be why Nick is the best-his relationships with his players. He is the guy that is supposed to be able to figure this stuff out. Andy couldn't do it with TO and Donovan. To this point, Nick apparently hasn't done it either and that makes me think whatever it is, its too big to fix.
 
Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:

“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
Gotta love it. Leave it to a veteran leader out for the season to stir the pot. 😂
Maybe he did it intentionally. Unintentional/intentional leak so they hash things out. I’ve seen this before in club soccer and most of the time it works. Or maybe BG us just fed up with the BS from certain players
This was my first thought. BG doesn't have to worry about how leaking this affects his future, so get it out in the open so it has to be addressed.
100% he knew what he was doing. I listened to it live. He wasn't asked about Jalen or AJ. They opened up with the typical, "hey, you got a win and Saquon just broke the Eagles all time rushing record, yada yada." And BG was just like, "something's ****ed up between AJ and Jalen and they need to fix it NOW." He absolutely had an agenda-he saw whatever bs was happening behind the scenes last year and wasn't gonna let it fester like it did then.

Its obvious that he didn't have the go ahead from the brass because he immediately started walking it back afterward and was on the morning show today talking about how he is going to apologize to both Jalen and AJ before practice tomorrow. I am glad that its out there, but I'm kind of worried that this is going to blow up into something more than it needs to.

If we handle Pittsburgh on Sunday and Aj has a 9/125/1TD stat line, then maybe we all can breathe a little easier. But if we lose a close one and AJ has like, 4 catches on 4 targets for 55 yards and no TD's, we're in for some shirtless-sit ups-in-the-driveway-action and the season could implode from there very, very quickly.

This is supposed to be why Nick is the best-his relationships with his players. He is the guy that is supposed to be able to figure this stuff out. Andy couldn't do it with TO and Donovan. To this point, Nick apparently hasn't done it either and that makes me think whatever it is, its too big to fix.
It sucks that we are here, but honestly - they only real solution I see is to dial up a bunch of volume and deep stuff early, get him going, let Saquon run crazy in the 2nd half en route to stomping the Steelers.

Now, do I think that is what will happen? I'm not so sure. I think they will go to AJ a lot but this is a very volatile situation.


Best case scenario: Huge win, AJ has big game, blow away the Steelers "oh wow these guys look galvanized, watch out NFL!
Ok Case: We win, AJ has an OK/decent game
Bad case, We go away from the run, try to force it to AJ, Steelers know this, we lose, but AJ has a good game.
Chernobyl: Pittsburgh destroys us, the passing game has a bunch of turnovers, AJ has a bad game, cameras on AJ and Hurts yelling/pushing/getting separated on the sideline
 
Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:

“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
Gotta love it. Leave it to a veteran leader out for the season to stir the pot. 😂
Maybe he did it intentionally. Unintentional/intentional leak so they hash things out. I’ve seen this before in club soccer and most of the time it works. Or maybe BG us just fed up with the BS from certain players

I don’t see the upside to bringing it up to be hashed out. There’s a lot of guys on an NFL team and I’m sure many don’t get along. This is starting to move towards a “Jalen isn’t throwing to an open AJ cause they don’t like each other” and that’s not it. Hurts is just gonna miss reads or be late on them. It’s what he’s done before and after AJ got here. AJ being a competitor is gonna want the ball. It’s as simple as that.
 
I see a bunch of analysts destroying Hurts for poor decisions and displaying an inability to pull the trigger on open guys. It’s like he has the yips
 
100% he knew what he was doing. I listened to it live. He wasn't asked about Jalen or AJ. They opened up with the typical, "hey, you got a win and Saquon just broke the Eagles all time rushing record, yada yada." And BG was just like, "something's ****ed up between AJ and Jalen and they need to fix it NOW." He absolutely had an agenda-he saw whatever bs was happening behind the scenes last year and wasn't gonna let it fester like it did then.
If this is true, we have to believe Graham is an idiot. Good player, but a moron.
 

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