And So It Begins
Posted: September 14th, 2015 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 921 Comments »Kickoff is just a few minutes away.
The inactives are:
QB Stephen Morris
RB Kenjon Barner
OL Dennis Kelly
OL Josh Andrews
DL Brandon Bair
LB Marcus Smith
DB Denzel Rice
The big news is that TE Zach Ertz will play. He got hurt about 4 weeks ago so this is a quick return. I’m sure the team will be judicious with how they use him.
I wrote a game preview for PE.com, also with some insights on the season.
The Eagles are the better team, but dealing with the Falcons WRs is going to be a challenge. Will the Eagles mix in E.J Biggers or Eric Rowe in the Nickel look?
It will be interesting to see if Bill Davis focused more on coverage or pressure. If the front 4 can bring the heat, that will make a huge difference.
I’m feeling good, but that has me nervous.
Go Eagles!!!
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I’m excited and nervous. New coaching staff in Atlanta, I fully expect some surprises on both sides of the ball.
I’m also happy that Tyler Hart will get on the field, and disappointed that Marcus Smith is out tonight.
I think we won the super bowl with our active player lineup
I’m so excited! I’m even starting to dig Bradford’s sleeves! I might be losing my mind. Start the game already.
Front 7.
Being nervous just means you’re an Eagles fan.
Eagles 34-24.
45-24 with Falcons getting 2 Td’s late to make it respectable as we try to not give up big plays and proceed to let them move down the field with ease for the first time all game.
Double digit win, I think!
I know!
Eagles win 36-26…think the game stays relatively close
Blitz the heck out of Matty. Attack the bootleg and shadow Julio. Destroy the Falcons’ will to play. 42-17 Go Eagles!
Oh thank God, the ESPN analysts aren’t ALL picking the Eagles tonight.
Might as well… Does Keyshawn even count?
Not usually, but you know it’s bad luck when they all pick the same team.
Keyshawn hates anything philly, lol
Eagles 84 Falcons -3
Palms are sweating! It must mean Eagles are starting a new season! Let GO BOYS!
35-27
I love watching the eagles play. Hopefully suffering through a whole weekend w/out it will make the win even better.
More nervous for an opener in a while. I’m usually pretty down on this team but I really think they have a shot this year. Not used to optimism.
I always have a knot in my stomach before a game – it doesn’t matter how good the Eagles are or the quality of the opponent.
I like it when I’m nervous about a game because when I’m confident we’ll win, we lose.
But what if you’re nervous about being too confident lol.
Kick it off already. Eagles 41-23
CC seems to think we will have 2-TE sets more often. Just so the first TE has a fallguy……. Hi Oh!!!!!!
Dave Weinberg
@PressACWeinberg
2m2 minutes ago
This might be the biggest #Eagles crowd I’ve ever seen at a road game in my 23 years as the Press Eagles writer.
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41-24. One defensive touchdown.
Serious prediction – Eagles 38 Falcons 13
at the half? i think we have 30 by half time. Falcons get some garbage time points.
I wanted to vote that down lol
38-24 Eagles Go to work!
OT: do you stop what youre doing/eating/drinking for the national anthem at home?
Always. #Respect
Yes. Though I do often wonder who it is singing the national anthem. (Who the hell is Tori Kelly?)
No
No
i do, but i haven’t realized that’s what i did until you posed the question….i just realized it. I don’t stand at attention and cover my heart though lol
I predict 42+ on the Falcons. Seriously bullish on our O against their D.
Stoked and ready to roll, lets put the league on notice!
Normally I’m nervous in an opener but I’m super confident tonight. I think the Eagles are ready, and we are far superior on both lines.
Let’s go Eagles!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eliot Shorr-Parks
@EliotShorrParks
20s20 seconds ago
#Eagles will get the ball first. Sammy B time.
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Nervous as hell, but confident. Sure to be crazy by the end.
Philly took over this stadium
No injuries!
Huff back to return kicks.
Taking it to the house
Or a touchback.
If they are smart they won’t kick to any of our return men
Or not
WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN!
GO EAGLES!!! THIS IS OUR YEAR!!!
EAGLES!!!!!!!!
GAHHHHH
Nuts
darn
not good, expected at td already
Damn, 3 and out.
Well, we havent missed a step…
ertz rusty
no-preseason rust for ertz
Ertz run wrong route?
Hope that was the reason. He was sure open.
That’s ertz missing preseason for you
Now for the real test.
Crap. We’re not perfect.
Tutu shows his st value early
bennie gashing
man, Jacob Tamme is still playing?
Still cant stop the slant.
Ryans and Kendricks start.
Damnit.
gashing us
looking like same team as last year.
look terrible.
2 x play s already
WTF D.
Just like last year so far.
jenkins got blown up…
Welp, Bill Davis and his defense is good for at least one long drive a game…
Believing our own hype. Get your damn act together.
BIG COX PENETRATION
Lol at everyone’s pregame predictions.
lol judging a game after 5 minutes
Fletch
Coooox…. first good play of the year.
CEDRIC!
Graham with the suplex
F CATCH THAT
Cmon Jenkins
Hm, same as last year there too 😉
Goddamnit, Jenkins still can’t catch interceptions lol.
This time last year he would have caught that. Unfortunately he picked up right where he left off…
Another drop by Jenkins, good grief.
damn damn damn!!!!!! at least we finally stopped the slant
OK a little better.
Should have been a pick 6.
Way to stop that drive
Jenkins still a little woozy lol
Probably, I’m surprised he didn’t need to sub for a play or two, he got destroyed
Yep, he at the very least stopped the 1st down.
yeah, that looked rough. he had his eyes on Ryan. I’ve never seen a more obvious example of not paying attention.
10 point drop
Jenkin REALLY needs to improve his hands. So many dropped INTs.
That’s why those guys aren’t receivers.
Lol, right. But the best corners have better hands.
That’s why he’s a safety!
haha. Right.
thurmond would have got that.
Jenkins might be the 4th or 5th best safety in the league if he could hold onto interceptions.
Good evening ulcer!
so… the Falcons don’t look soft at this point. Hopefully we’ll start with a run this series.
gotta see how game expresses itself. we’ll break the game once we understand tendencies.
Jenkins tried to catch with his body not hands. Darn.
Maragos is coming in on nickel D with Thurmond shifting to nickel CB. Maragos is good against the run and moving forward, worry about him covering deep.
Thanks for the info.
Should have opened the season In 3 back pistol, No WRs, extra tackle in the game and ran the ball down their throat for the first 10 plays
absolutely!!!!
I hope they whip it out 1 week, no defense will have practiced it in the lead up to playing us
should have been a pick
Need to see more 2-back alignments with Sproles in game.
Wow
was not expecting that from Lane
Demarco doing his shady impression?
Had no where to run on that stretch play.
Could have done better than -12….
absolutely. bad play call.
woof, what the fuck is going on out there.
gardner..
are we playing the seahawks?
wow
jesus, what are we doing out there my god.
Well…. this is ugly offense.
OL is a mess. We are in big trouble.
I like Durrant, happy the Cowboys lost him
I think all the eagles hype gave the Falcons some bulletin board material. The are up for this one.
Seeing your stadium covered in midnight green should give you some early game adrenaline if you are a falcon
They have always been very tough at home, and this is the season opener. I was sort of hoping the crowd noise thing might take away some of that advantage, but they do have some talent.
Worst winning percentage in Monday night history, tho Ryan is 6-0 in openers.. One of the trends has to give
Where’s the blocking
WTH. Push the ball downfield.
OL getting kilt out there.
joining in, but doesn’t look good so far…
so far, no good
long game guys
hester would have broke that — not good
Flag, they’ll be backed up
This is the worse than we looked against Jacksonville last year, just on style points not results.
Shit, by this point the Jags already battered fOles. I’ll take this over last years opener so far
Take a deep breath, stop them here.
exactly. no need to panic.
Ok… another chance for this D to show what it’s made of.
Should have kept Foles!
He just would have fumbled by now
safety from running backward into the end zone.
Falcons are playing good defense and anticipating Eagles offense. Chip needs to adjust before this gets out of hand and we’re doing last year’s come from 17 points behind at half again. Ugh.
eagles o is pretty simplistic. they’re really just klling our o-line.
This is the problem with playing a whole new coaching staff. You don’t truly know what to expect. You can study tapes from their previous stop, but it’s going to be a bit different in their new place.
Need to stop babying Bradford. Throw the ball down field to loosen up the run game
We suck, let’s look to the draft
Well that didn’t work. Fire chip.
How come the Falcons can do short quick passes but we cant?
Giant WR.
I was talking to a friend before the game. I am not completely surprised we are coming out sloppy. Our starters didn’t exactly play a ton this preseason. We looked great while they were out there, but in a real game, it’s not completely surprising that they are not firing on all cylinders right away. The question is how quickly do they work it out of their system. I would expect it should happen soon, but that’s the trade off of being cautious with Bradford.
Bullshit! Okay, not really.
maxwell was playing by seattle rules.
Maybe a hold. Not PI
If it was after the pass was thrown, it’s PI.
That was a spot foul?
getting burned
oh man
Barwin looked like a monster on that one though. one more second
We need to keep them to a FG. If they score a TD it puts a ton of pressure on this offense
Another X play. Yuck.
That’s only 3 in fourminutes
Attaboy Hart
Why is CoX not on the field
Rotating D-line.
Kiko on the field.
Why’d we pay Maxwell so much again?
Geez man relax… WTF is wrong Eagles fans
You really shouldn’t take my comments seriously. Sometimes I’m just venting.
15.75 games left.
they are marching
too much pre-season hype gets you smacked in the mouth.
run d looks great, pass D looks bad. Issue is pass rush.
yeah knew pass rush was going to be an issue in pre-season
Well, at least we won the preseason…
No pressure on Ryan
false start… thank goodness
Sweet! False start is our best defensive player.
next to upside down trash can
Sure feels like the dream team year
KIIIIIKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WHAAT A FUCKIGN PLAY!
Wow
KIKO!!!!!!!!
Kiko!
KIIIIIIIIIIIIKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
KIKO!
SWEET!
KIKKOOOO
Lets go
Hey hey, trade working out?!!
take that obj
Big people intercept passes
KIKO!!!
THAT WAS FUCKING SICK
Shady trade has already paid off.
KIKO ALONSO IS THE MAN
I just yelled so loud the dog peed.
I yelled so loud I peed
I had to throw my boys outside, they where crying while Atlanta was driving and it pissed me off lol
What a catch!
THE LEGEND!
That was an ODB catch, that better be on sportscenter
They’ll just CGI Tebow over him.
LOLLLLLLL
better be on madden next year
WOOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! First great play of the year!!!!!!!!
FUCK YEA! Awesome pick! Now… teach Jenkins to do that.
It would be 7-0 Iggles!
Thank heavens! I was emotionally cratering there.
So we still get the negative run plays that Shady gave us but at least we get some ints from our new linebacker.
KIKOOOOOOOOOO
Gruden said he got him. Guess what? DENIED!!!
Kiko the legend!! I was waiting for it!!
and the legend grows . Kiko!
Let’s get a first down
Okay, D made a play. Now go downhill and let Murray/Mathews attack these fools.
I can’t take much more. Neither can my liver.
dont underestimate your liver
Ah yes. I need a beer. Good call.
Is Jenkins hurt? Maragos was out there.
No maragos is coming in nickel
tried to take on a block half heartedly got DESTROYED
that may have swayed momentum a bit
Wow
OK, we need points now.
I hate watching the Eagles, so stressful lol
each game takes years off my life lol
Where was Graham on that last drive? He wasn’t in
Bradford needed to throw a lazer to get thru that window
Josh Huff with a good Brent Celek impression there requiring 13 Atlanta Falcons to tackle him.
huff needed the preseason
that little pass from Bradford is why he’s a real QB. Before the almost INT, of course.
A 1st down at least.
Huff giveth and Huff taketh away.
Is Kiko left handed? Cause if not… jeez.
Austin. Cmon
Austin should have had that.
That’s an understatement
just small overthrows, but plays there
Nerves and/or rust.
This! Remember last year with Jacksonville. We’ll settle down.
Austin…. echoes of the sabotage of Steve Smith
The good huff/bad huff narrative continues.
He’s a living Directv commercial.
He better get his shit together with Nelson breathing down his neck
Told you this morning we would go 4 verticals tonight
sigh
team just looks rusty. they’ll knock it off
Of course… Not to mention people have to understand that when you change so much personell your team will need to grow as the season unfolds.. We should be 5 times better in Novembder then we are today. With that said, we will still kick falcon ass tonight.
Definitely the trade off with playing the preseason cautiously. Given that we should be the better team to Atlanta, I think it was the right move, but the rust needs to get knocked off before Atlanta can build a lead.
Gotta get that motor running…
Concussion
Tutu got his bell rung
Good call, Tutu taken to the locker room.
That is one way to deal with a special teams gunner… put a nasty block on him when he is tracking the ball.
yeah.. it looks like it.
The old Sanche special: throws short of the sticks on third down.
donnie jones putting in work. offense gettng beat. defense getting beat.
Jimmy Kempski is in heaven with the all Donnie Show.
it looks like we are losing every physical confrontation out there.
Get the run game going. Go downhill.
o-line getting creamed right now.
Yeah man, we pay Demarco Murray and Ryan Mathews a billion dollars and can’t stop throwing
They are selling out to stop the run. We need to throw to create oppurtunities in the run game
odd play-calling so far, not a lot of n-s runs
Agreed
Typical Chip though. There were a ton of first halves last year I swear AR was still calling the plays.
You aren’t allowed to block after calling for a fair catch. That is a penalty.
yup another blown call by the refs in a piss poor weekend
To be fair they missed PI against huff too.
I’m not sure he called for a fair catch. Rewound and the returner put his hands up to his face but that’s about it.
Okay, thanks for checking.
Daniel Jeremiah
@MoveTheSticks
1m1 minute ago
Still waiting for Philly to run behind their all pro LT at the Falcons undersized rookie edge defender.
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Hope we get a sack this time.
I know I’m late, but…KIKOOOOOOOO!!! I had no idea we traded McCoy for Odell Beckham Jr at MLB?!?
He’s a keeper. The other 52 can be cut tomorrow.
big boy ben
Big Bennie!
Bennie!
Well…that’s why you don’t talk shit to Bennie Logan, Rook.
Bennie the beast is in the building falcon bitches
Game is turning. Thank god.
Ryan is having tea and crumpets back there.
they only rushed 3
and after dinner mints.
3rd and long
was that barwin who stuck w/ the receiver?
Running back, but still pretty impressive.
No pass rush at all.
Yea that’s concerning me a bit against this oline. But, we’re not doing anything creative, just rushing 4 a lot. The pressure will come as we start to figure out what they’re doing.
Bennie really made bad tape for that poor C.
need the stop here
Please get this back.
3rd and long…oh god
Yes!!!
flashbacks to last year
No one told Max about our 3rd and long woes. Good.
theres that big money
Close to PI (little hold while going back to ball) but he was playing the ball at least.
there we go
Julio Jones doing his best Maclin. “Where’s my flag for that obviously clean play ref?!”
hahahahahah!!!!
OK offense, get your head out of your rectum now.
Atlanta has a punter?
We could be down 14 now, considering everything.
That’s what I’m talking about.
Watch this defense lead the league in turnovers.. Just watch, we getting 3 tonight
sure would help my fantasy team
They are definitely putting themselves in position, that’s for sure.
Maxwell on the punt coverage team….huh….
demoted for giving up plays first two series
Tutu is concussed
prob replacing tutu
Oh right. Good call.
earning that $22mil
tutu down
Yea dude…he was like a weeble wobble walking off the field after that hit. Definitely concussed.
We should call Mostert up from the practice squad now…
How was there no holding penalty on the gunner on that punt? Eagles lucky.
Ok, we stopped the bleeding, lets get the fucking offense rolling for fucks sake. Holy shit the Falcons have jack shit on defense, we should be killing them out there.
Well coached defense.
He’s Dan Quinn not Bud Carson, FFS.
shows what good coaching and some bulliten board material can do.
Well we have the field position here, let’s get some points
Yep.
pound murray
Run the damn ball Andy!!!
How can I give more upvotes?!!?!?!?!?!?
Chip is trying to help my fantasy team.
Ok, Bradford has knocked the rust off. Time to get Murray going…
phew… that shouldn’t have been thrown.
Bradford is going in tight spots.
That’s what she said.
FIRST
o-line issues.
Go for it
Generous spot…
Generous first down
Very, hurry up pays off there.
Hurry up tempo!!!
If they don’t start running the ball, I”m going to have an aneurysm.
Where’s Demarco?
Remember how we were going to run all overr the Falcons?
Where is the OL?
Has Mathews seen the field yet?
Barbre blocked no one there.
no blocking
Barbre let him go right by.
ugly
We should, um, guard against that.
That’s a face mask there ref.
dann quinn might be coach of the year
hands to the face on Trufant. that absolutely affects the play.
Exactly he couldn’t turn his head around to pick up the ball
Eagles mistakes, don’t give Falcons’ defense that much credit.
Why not? The Falcons are dominating.
Ok, well at least 1 mistake cost 7 points.
Force a fumble on this punt return
OL needs to get their act together.
The play calling does too
Guard aren’t very good, we all knew that. Better at pass pro than run.
Barbre didn’t even attempt to block that blitzing LB
Yeah what a mess
we suck
Very frustrating first quarter…was hoping we would look a bit sharper on offense…hope to see better play in q2
it feels like its been longer than a quarter already
wheres teh pass rush
pass rush is horrible
Pass rush is unacceptable. Atlanta’s line is not very good.
we don’t have a stud rusher, pr will be a problem, wonder if vinny curry has played snaps.
DL and OLB are not getting home…Ryan is very comfy back there…
I thought the atl Oline was supposed to stink??
apparently we’re the ones with the crappy Oline
too late to call mathis?
he seems to have found someone else… 🙁
That was a crappy quarter.
Two plays and ATL is at midfield,…
Told you they’ll suck. The defense looks like shut. Demarco looks like shit. The offense looks like shit. The OL looks like shit. Fuck chip kelly andFUCK you!!!
Go do your homework.
LOL – okay nice try. They’ll be fine.
Really…this flaming is getting old and sad…cmon man
Honestly, I blame you 3 more for taking such blatant childish bait from an irrelevant chump. He got his 15 seconds of fame, enough please
I didn’t take any bait…if i did I would of engaged in discussion as to why his comments were wrong…I am just calling it what is…flaming on any board is just a waste of time…
Wow. Chided by GEagle…
I’m curious who’s alt LongDong is… I’m guessing Blindchow but I could be wrong. Maybe this is who Tommy logs on as to blow off some steam?
soooo lucky to only be down a FG
Jesus, if not for a spectacular Kiko Int we’d be in even rougher shape than we are.
1st Quarter = D+
I’d prefer c- did have a beautiful pick and a good 3 and out.
Grading on a curve with +???
Dropped TD, two dropped int’s.
Thats true but this is very painful.
Yep
Remember I TOLD you this team is a disaster. They are fucking horrible. BYE BYE Chip. Now if we could only get all of the awesome players he cut back…
Whelp we look terrible and outcoached on both sides of the ball so far.
Halftime cant come soon enough… need a reset
The Eagles offense is playing uninspired.
Re: Play calling
Seems like lots of passes . . .
But isn’t every play a package of options?
Falcons taking away the run? Inviting the pass?
They’re putting a S in box.
should have drafted julio
BYRON MAXWELL SUCKS!!
Dude go away
Kebdricks just got run the fuck over.
bootleg has Matty ice looking like RW
kendricks looked like he was in slow motion there.
An hour ago I would have laughed if you told me we would be 2 games back 2 games into the season. Now it feels like a very real possibility.
Kendricks is still a step slow.
Is Brandon Graham playing tonight?
He had a TFL that Gruden attributed to Cox.
THanks.
I’m listing to the game at work.
Well, everything looks like they haven’t played together much.
Cox did get the penetration and made the initial hit. Graham finished him off
Yeah, had a really nice TFL earlier.
No he decided to visit an Atlanta strip club instead
OMG.
I’m rolling on the ground laughing.
You break me up!!!
The whole team looks terribly lost.
Curry lost contain.
Wasn’t sure if it was Curry or Kendricks. They both came inside the tackle.
Curry and kendricks
this personnel really hasnt played together in a game situation yet
3rd and short. Come on D.
For a team that looks so shitty, 3-0 looks great so far.
Falcons are driving. We also look like a team that won’t score tonight.
Exactly. Keep that put of the endzone here and we’re fine
Bend but don’t break, should have 3 INTs, not pretty, but I don’t have any quarles with the defense.. They can bend all they won’t for all I care
looked like a first
BYRON MAXWELL looks like fucking dog shit. Nice 22M for nothing. Bring shady back.
Why is Davis still single covering Jones?
jones is all over the place if he was just playing outside i’m sure he’d see brackets.
am i asleep?
Maybe its just rust or nerves or whatever, but we have looked bad on both sides of the ball. Atlanta is totally outplaying us right now. The blame lies entirely with the coaching staff.
Pass rush has not looked great so far
What’s a pass rush?
yeah, that is a bit worrysome
So guys what top 10 prospects are you guys most interested in, any coaches too while we are at it
0 pass rush, it’s going to be a long day.
I’m curious, why are we still rotating ILB’s? Shouldn’t it just be Kendricks and Kiko out there?
Time of possession is so unbalanced. The defense will tire out and will be even worse. This team fucking sucks
Need to start pressing, I doubt they do though
I thought that’s why they brought in Undlin to do that.
BYRON MAXWELL fucking sucks!!!
maxwell getting killed
wehres the jam
We dont play press. Thats a myth.
I cringe when I see play action. I just hope that they run it everytime
Play action, wtf
second time maxwell got beat on that crosser
Just murdering.
DBs biting on that cheese.
Starting to feel like Kelly is a one trick pony and everybody knows his trick.
I always confuse Roddy white for a TE, dude is huge
Watch the bootleg
I may have to turn off the TV. Not kidding. This is disgusting.
Thurmond missed tackle.
This is bullshit…
o goodness.
Dont cover Julio makes sense
Pass D is looking nearly as bad as last year’s pass D so far. I expect a turn around, but I didn’t expect it to look this bad early.
They got rid of shady to improve the defense and the fucking defense is worse!! Bring back Boykin!!!
They need to make some awesome halftime adjustments.
Sad panda
Wow what a debacle. Nah nah nah nah nah nah hey hey heu good bye chip kelly!!!
I believe a STFU is in order…
So when they win tonight, will you go away forever?
Win?
At least Julio is on my fantasy team.
bOOOOOOOOO
He’s on mine too, loved the matchup
Yeah, I thought our offense would be able to outscore a big fantasy day from Julio. Thanks Chip.
Fire Davis NOW!
Then chip should be on the electric chair for this offensive showing. Down 10 points relax. People act like they never seen a football game before. 1 play, changes everything
I don’t care what people say, Billy D is not making good calls tonight.
I’m watching offensive slop and holding them to 10 points on 5
Drives and your beef is Billy?
We keep playing single coverage on Julio. I don’t understand that. It also doesn’t seem like we’re playing much press.
I should say, I feel confident the offense will get on track. The defense has got to get better both upfront and in coverages.
def see Kyle Shanahan from RGIII time with Ryan being RGIII, passing…
Something has to be done with pass rush.
Thurmond with a stellar debut at safety.
im done guys I’ll come back to the game in a half hour I can’t watch this utter disgusting vile garbage on display
Billy Davis doesn’t make adjustments.
I hope he figures out the other team employs Julio Jones soon.
Weakest link on this team.
COME ON!! In the infamous words of the poet Al Bundy…”Let’s Rock”
Bill Avis.
You know, it was our death knell when I said earlier that I was extremely confident and thought we’d easily put up a 40 burger tonight.
Me too. Jinx is real.
Yep. OD we have shamed our team.
Matt Ryan’s almost on pace for that.
eagles getting kilt on play action
You have to get pass rush. No pass rush and it doesn’t matter what the secondary does, a good QB and WR will beat them.
agreed the pass rush is incredibly disappointing
Agree. It is a little ridiculous to expect Maxwell or Carroll to be able to cover Jones with no pass rush.
Maxwell looks slow as shit. He can’t keep up with a geriatric like Roddy White.
Sirloin steak at filet minion price.
This is the drive where find happiness.
Great…now there is going to be a lot of pressure on us to score points on this drive…which means a pick is coming since we can’t run the damn ball….
BYRON MAXWELL is horrible. Exposed. Chip kelly exposed
The rush defense isn’t a problem the play action though, it’s killing us. WTF
they run play action on every pass basically. So pretty much the passing game along is killing us.
offense has got to step up. They are hanging the defense out to dry. Can’t keep Ryan and Julio out of the end zone forever
How dare you make sense? Don’t you know the cool thing is to blame billy?
Score fucking points!! What’s your plan?
Apparently to throw on every play.
I’m gonna ask again, why are we rotating ILB’s? Just put Kiko and Kendricks out there all the time.
Agree
Julio Jones on pace for 24 catches
Julio Jones (11) and Josh Huff (13) both have a yards per catch matching their number. Huff just needs to work on the number of catches and touchdowns.
They really need to put the kickoff back to where it was before. Every kickoff is a touchback. Give the KRs a chance to make plays.
Deep breath everyone. R-E-L-A-X.
I’m cool as a fan. No worries
Exactly. It’s 10-0.
Thanks Rodgers. Few weeks early though.
Nice catch
Nice catch there by Matthews.
Ryan Mathews in.
Wow, that’s something Foles couldn’t do.
Foles would not have made that catch. Matthews is a way better receiver.
Ryan mathews in and being ignored just like Murray.
Cut him. bring back mostert
its that kind of night
How did he miss that?
Way too open. Started looking downfield.
dropped that TD
sigh
OOOPH! Bad drop
Are you kidding me?
Jesus Christ what a bunch of clowns
Wow. Just Wow. Wide freakin open and into his chest… just drops it.
this could be a killer
Here we go!
finally some movement in the pocket!
Nice patience by sam
Show them balls!!!
Ok let’s score so the crying can stop here.
Watch the spot, but I think he got it.
Look, on the bright side Bradford has been money on his passes. Our receivers have had a bad case of butterfingers.
jinx
I actually think that was on purpose…if Ertz turns around, he doesn’t get drilled as hard by the safety.
yeah bradford and ertz are not on the same page
why the stretch?
This is red zone, gotta get this.
Receivers are not used to bullets from a real QB.
What about the last #7? They aren’t all new. But a good point.
You must have been crying into your Joe Webb pillow after the Seattle game.
Hopefully the safety just knocked the
Rust off Ertz
Ertz and Bradford not on the same page yet
hopefully they get it together today.
I’d love to see us be able to forget the bad redzone offense days…
looks like Matthews stopped running.
ok 3 points…
please… thank you!
Pass to ertz was a TD…Bradford was off…..
I’m not sure that he was. Safety was on the inside of Ertz. put it on the outside shoulder, Safety has no shot to get it, only Ertz does.
yeah… i don’t see where else he could have put that.
Entire drive. One running play.
I guess if you put 8 in the box against the Eagles that is what you are going to get. We need to start catching some of these open downfield throws I guess.
Sometimes you have to run against 8 in the box and enforce your will
We tried. Our asses got kicked.
Try again. This time, be the ass-kicker.
Put in Ryan Matthews.
It worked last year. We have to make the throws and catch.
But have our WRs looked open downfield?
Austin sure was.
I don’t have so much of a problem with it. If they had executed, it would have been a TD
That was simple, now we have to finish that shit. Along with some defense adjustments.
Attaboy Cody, hold your follow thru like you just hit a jump shot!! I expect this kid to be money in the dome!
Bring back the preseason eagles. We won the championship then.
Shit, we have 18 new guys or something, let them get it together. Stop them here, score, tie at half. See how easy?
Sounds like a plan to me. start with this kickoff
Toast maxwell probably has to cover Julio first.
There are very very few CB who can cover Jones 1 on 1, especially if the QB has time. Maxwell is not one of them.
Parkey had the right idea. You play the opposite of the real season in the preseason. Everyone else played too well.
To be fair, he clearly isn’t a great offseason performer considering he effectively got cut last season (yes, he was traded, but that’s because he was not going to win the job)
This comment thread is hilarious. It starts out all “Da Bears” style boasting, “42-13”, “Iggles win big 38-17”, etc. then quickly morphs into “oh crap”, “we suck”, “who we gonna take in the draft next year?”, etc.
Everyone needs to chill out on both ends of the stick. You should have expected a slow start with all the changes the team made, you should have expected the mediocre players we have starting on the OL to struggle when they went up against a real defense, and you should have expected Bradford to look much less effective when under pressure.
Still time to turn it around, in this game and in the season. They’ll be 9-7 or 10-6 and a playoff team. Relax.
No doubt we win this game
Stop talking sensibly.
If I see that slant play one more freaking time…
What about the hold?
we’re learning not to fall for the fake.
holding holding holding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Concur
Okay. Looks like the offense is finally coming together. Defense needs to get a better push up front.
They gave Julio ten yards on that play too
another hold!!!!
Holding??? That yellow flag aint for wiping your snotty honker ref.
Holding on the edge
Send Kiko and Curry to stick their helmet on Ryan’s sternum
Good shit Nolan
Whew.
Oh, a stop, we’ve got, eh?
I’m sorry, the D has been fine.
lol
Nolan Carroll!
On the bright side I can see the game from my office. On the other hand we suck. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0U42G_4yqQNZmxkUGlNenNMTms/view?usp=docslist_api
Told ya guys. No more bitching for now.
Block in back…….get em Fipp
that was key them getting nothing on first down
obvious block in the back. idiot.
He probably wanted to see if the refs had flags.
only against the Eagles lol
true. they missed a bunch of obvious holds on the last falcons possession
Sooooooo bad there
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Oh, double stupid.
All those holding calls they missed and they get a touch to the back?
That was one of the most obvious blocks in the back I’ve seen.
I know, along with the obvious 2 holding calls missed before that, I thought they could even it out and maybe not call it.
Desperation already.
Oh shit, two penalties.
Another good drive please…want points before the half….
i think we’re figuring things out — have to see how game expresses itself.
Long drive here.
About 6:15 would be nice.
This game is costing me way too much money in pot. I literally have been smoking non stop since kickoff.. Can we turn this around so I can take a little break PLEASE!
All day that play is open
Wow….
wow
3rd and 1 and it’s an empty backfield. That hurts my soul.
Chip Kelly can be an awful play caller. There, I said it.
Stop throwing quick passes. Run, deep stuff.
Nah son, .bradford hasn’t been touched. That’s more important then anything,tonight
he’s gotten hit a couple of times they showed a montage – probably 3-4 qb hits.
and right back to ass on offense.
Wow Donnie with a terrible punt…that is rare….
Hit him in the gut Peters.
Even STs is lettting us down
Hidden yardage there
Even Donnie is sucking.
The ghost of Andy Reid has appeared
Andy would run more.
Missed tackles, missed tackles, missed tackles.
Ugly
do these refs have flags?
MK!
Thornton jawing with Logan
yeah, what’s that about?
Not doing their job
Vinny as base DE.
Cox should have had that. So sloppy tonight
C”mon ref, they’re blocking before the pass! dude just tried to wipe out Jenkins!
Demoralized.
I’m only watching Julio for the rest of this possession.
Great fucking defensive scheming billy
Thurmond, missed tackle, again.
prob roughing
Tough to blitz when Julio Jones is the hot read (and is open).
Davis has Julio Jones on his fantasy team.
Turnover…who’s turn it is to ballhawk? Step up boys
That No. 11 sure is something, he must not have shown up on the scouting video.
Wow a flag against them? What’s going on here?
lots of holding
Either that, or Falcons have the best OL I ever seen
The clock shouldn’t start there…oh yeah we’re not in dallas
The rules are different the last five minutes of the game.
Gruden didn’t mind when our guys were getting held. Oh wait, he didn’t notice.
Gruden hates pretty much any penalty ever called.
False Start and Pass interference are our two best defenders this half. Gotta get them on the field more.
Might as well bring in Trash Can while we are at it.
buying those jerseys too
Money time boys.. Who’s turn is it to GET SOME!!!
Julio!!!
yep
Billy Davis must have started him on his fantasy team too
why else leave him 1-1 so much
Mine? Let me ask my wife!
We need a game turner like last year’s opener when Sproles took that 4th and 1 to the house and we rolled from there.
Falcons get ball to begin 2nd half too.
Maybe we need meco out there calling the D.
why is demeco even playing. we need kiko in there
He shouldn’t be playing
Def shouldn’t be in coverage
Watching Demeco is sad.
nice job on that timeout Chip.
Well maybe it was.
WHAT
This is just pathetic.
why did we spend all this money on RBs when we dont run the ball
forgot to spend it on guards
pretty much. Sproles the leading rusher with zero.
Can’t run effectively when you’re behind
HEY! THURMOND MADE A TACKLE AND DIDN’T SLIDE OFF! YAY YOU!
Hey, defense! Look at that.
Ok…. that was impressive.
indeed. 3 is much better than 7.
finally
We need to blitz Kendricks more
TFL….thankyou
I can’t believe we are not losing by more.
If not for Kiko we’d be down 20-3 right now. That seems about right.
Still a minute left in the half, so our offense will give it back to the Falcons with about 45 seconds.
For real!
Our ILB rotation is just bizarre, I don’t know why we’re putting ‘Meco out there at all. Just strange stuff.
he doesn’t seem ready.
3rd and short, I could see. Otherwise….
Game and comments say we’re getting killed, score doesn’t.
Jobu has been happy with my offerings.
You’ve got a busy halftime coming up
I shouldn’t have to listen to this chucky prick Gruden call our games when the fucker spent all offseason tutoring the starting QB of our rival (kurt cousin) skins to circumvent the rules of his brother the HEADCoach not being allowed to train the players at certain points of the offseason.. Conflict of interests get this prick off the broadcast
True.
the fact that i just noticed thurman is probably a good thing right
he’s been missing tackles all night.
Well he whiffed on Julio’s TD. You probably missed him because he was the blur flailing onto the ground as Julio ran by.
made it right I think now right?
get demeco out of there
We need points here. Make it a one score game
I h8 what’s happening so much I sound like high pitched Peyton manning when I scream.
Big drive here, we need to show something.
Yea keep kiko in the WHOLE gsme
Ryan Matthews please.
Not with a minute left and no timeouts. But… can’t make that throw.
goodness.
smh
Our OL has to step it up…they have just been standing around all game
Now, I’m pissed.
I say “forget” you Bradford.
Haha, we are so bad.
Eff
So much for “Sam Bradford doesn’t throw bad interceptions”.
Well Bradfiord is still in one piece,.. Bright side… Grrrrr
Who needs OL?
So…. as awesome as the Kiko Alonso INT was, is anyone going to admit that had Matt Ryan thrown even a slightly better ball, that would have been an easy TD?
What. The. Fuck.
Good thing all the pundits had high hopes for us we look awesome!!
Will Mariota be available in the next draft too?
Wow, Fletcher Cox bails us out.
right on cue… flag
THANK GOODNESSS
Let’s goooooooo
YEAH BITCH!!!!
Pay that man. Pay that man now.
way to fucking show up cox
Jesus yes
Oh come on
OH c’mon!
F U REFS
wow
tease…
Pitiful
Omg I hate rhis
Wow, thought Cox had a game changer there. That kind of night for us.
Ref is a prick….
Unbelievable.
they called that?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
straight BS
Maxwell torched again
You have to be kidding me, refs.
So far the new chip Kelly eagles blow!!!
You can’t make that call you miserable cunt
Wow. Maxwell looked EXACTLY like Fletcher.
Curse of Blandino.
Maxwell getting schooled out there.
going to be a long year for maxwell.
Good feeling gone…
Why are we not doubling Julio….
Why is Maragos out there? Sigh
So… Can we score before the end of the half?
Pathetic.
What was remarkably Fletcheresque coverage right there.
I am so happy!! TOLD YOU SO
Get the frick out of here, moron.
You look like a moron and an ass
Embarrassing
2-4 wins is what it looks like right now. Worst half this team has played in a long time.
Kiko giveth, Kiko taketh.
Was a pretty ticky-tack call.
It was a legit call just a shitty situation for it to happen in.
Yep, but it is what it is. So was the call against them when they held downfield.
that was all refs.
well it’s just one game, we’ll regroup for the cowboys
This game ain’t over… Cox just woke up hopefully
Or be 2 games back just 2 games into the seaon. They looked bad but still moved the ball. We look a poorly coached mess.
I have to hide my head ostrich style
I long for the faceguarding of Fletcher.
Bill Avis.
Bill put a 60mil corner on the #1’WR.. At some point playërs gotta play. If you can’t put Maxwell on him you are a fool for paying him
Correction: Bill put a corner who’s getting paid $60 million on the #1 WR. Quality-wise, Maxwell is not a $60 million corner.
Well, first half, there’s only a small handful of players I can think of who showed up.
When the whole team looks bad, its not the players.
jones 100yds 2td in a half
Billy Davis keeps messing up. How many times we going to single cover Julio who is abusing our secondary?
He’s abusing Maxwell. We let shady go for him and he sucks major fucking dick
Nobody on the eagles showed up. And if you think Demarco is better than shady God fuck you
Tommy ban this turd, holy cow.
that atlanta kicker has got to be tired.
As long as billy D is our d coordinator the end zone will have open arms to opposing teams.
need sanchez
We look like the Bradford Rams.
Great job getting rid of the starting guards Chip.
Where is the protection
peters not looking great
JP, your better body slam that fuckin kid
They look as good as I do in madden
Scary thought: what if Jason Peters is losing it?
I kind of worried about the OL during the offseason… like what happens if this is the year JP starts falling off…
ummm i guess they call holding penalties on us
Our OL is playing horrible
Bradford is probably like WTF – I thought i left the Rams.
Holy geez.
Julio is saving my fantasy team
These refs laid money on the Falcons.
Chip laid money on the Falcons.
ANOTHER penalty
Demarco is probably missing that star right about now
good thing we extended him
Why do we have all the penalty calls?
Well we’re committing most of the penalties. I haven’t seen anything egregiously missed, in fact I think they let Maxwell get away with a PI on one play.
Falcons have gotten away with a few holds. But by and large we are out played and under prepared.
Pelase give us halftime.
Twilight zone
Not actually watching the game, was getting too ugly I’ll wait for good stuff
See you next season. This team is a giant mess.
Peace
I’m watching, you are the one waiting for good stuff. I’m telling you its going to be a while.
Anybody who spent all offseason telling me how they’d be fine with Andrew Gardner and Allen Barbre as their starting guards want to reconsider yet?
Peter kelce and Johnson look just as bad
Half time. Thank the football gods.
Why are we even running it now? Just kneel and end this half…
That was worse than last years opening halftime
Watching this game…frankly, Chip Kelly’s offense is not truly viable without a serious rushing threat at QB.
Period.
Not to mention Kelly’s allergy to prima donnas.
Chip played fast and loose w/ the OL, biting him in the ass
This is stupid.
Kelly’s offense was one of the best in the league two years ago and middle of the pack last year without a serious rushing threat at QB. And that was with QBs who are not as good as pure passers as Bradford.
Or, as other coaches get tape on it, the offense is easily defendable.
Without an OL there aren’t many offenses that will work. At the moment, the Mathis decision might be the bad one, but maybe it can get better over the season.
This.
The counter edge *has* to be kept in the play by the QB to make the spread effect neater. Without it, you keep having more clutter in the short passing parts of the offense. You also make it a little harder on the RB.
This team is woefully unprepared. What a deflating feeling. We made the Falcons D look like the 85 Bears. Ugh.
The halftime should do wonders for our running game…we won’t loss anymore yards…..
Waited all summer for this.
Every single thing is going wrong except for the Kiko INT. Odds are in our favor for a good 2nd half!
Gamblers fallacy!
Shut up we’re do!
I hope you’re right
JP is a hall of Famer who just got embarressed. I would expect the proud man to get his shit togethet at halftime and demand to run the ball behind him and put the offense on his back
We would prob lose to the Cleveland browns right now
we would prob lose to the dream team eagles right now
No major injuries I guess…
Tommy write something to soothe my pain!
remember that uninspired 1st half opener against the Jags? this is worse I think
So… Crazy thought here, but maybe we shouldn’t form opinions about the entire season based on one half of football?
You are certifiable.
You’re right. But we’re in the moment!!!!!
Did you see that half of football if you can call it that!
It was hot garbage. Though not as hot or garbage-y as last year’s champs looked against the Chiefs. Might be an aberration. Might be the first of many bad halves. Who knows?
It’s a very sane thought. Not time to panic
What about a first half in preseason?
You’re right. Everyone who got excited by the first half against the Packers needs to simmer down.
Sure. That was an overreaction too.
Well, as much as the preseason validated every one of Chip Kelly’s moves, the first half of this game has directly emphasized the concerns fans had with the offseason moves.
Running backs have done nothing. Offensive line playing like crap, particularly at guard. Bradford looks rusty. Maxwell getting beat…often. Thurman not looking good. Kiko had a great INT, but also negated a fumble with a penalty and would have been badly beaten had the pass rush not gotten there. Also, on the iNT, he was actually beaten and Ryan under threw what should have been an easy TD.
Lol 1 game doesn’t NOT validate them.,, 1 half at that… GTFO here, sound just as silly as those pumping up the preseason
I think you are misreading my comment. I am certainly not saying the verdict is out. I’m just pointing out that the concerns fans had with some of the moves have appeared in this game. Yes, this is an extremely small sample and things will change as the season progresses, but all the hype from the preseason was based on Chip’s moves looking like they worked out wonderfully. In approximately the same amount of game time for the starters, we have seen the exact opposite outcome so far. Emphasis on SO FAR.
offense needs to get its shit together and help the Defense out… And ST needs to get its head out its ass and make a play, especially since their punter keeps out kicking his coverage… Get it together
You still not worried about this offensive line? It was so obvious that you can’t just replace probowlers with your 2nd and 3rd string guards, add no one else and be just fine. This offensive line sucks.
No,…one half will NEVER worry me.. I don’t view footbakl games as these imaginary picnics.. Shit gets ugly, and this team has 38 new players, aka a work in progress. 1 half, 1 game will NEVER concern me,.. I don’t plan on losing this game. Dead serious
me neither…just asking. Because even though I think we’ll get it together and quickly, I am so against the handling of the guard position this year that I can barely see through my rage.
our guards fucking suck
chip again refusing to give help to overmatched corners
What are u talking about Revis is shutting Julio down out there
Would Foles Maclin and McCoy been able to overcome this woeful offensive line play?
no
They didn’t last year, no.
Nope. Nor would they rush the passer.
Like Bradford, Maclin, and Agholor, they’d had a better chance if they weren’t trying to do so behind a patchwork offensive line.
These stupid moves chump kelly made are inducing vomit
I hate everything and everyone
You forgot everywhere.
and everywhen
VINNY Curry better steo up
or B. Grizzle
1 of those two need to force a fumble since the ref stole Cox’s fumble
I want a super bowl so badly, this just isn’t the year chances are neither will next year be nor the year after maybe 2035
Our offensive line is getting pounded, thought that wasn’t going to be a concern. Yikes.
we’re paying our guards $1m combined.
exactly…like I said, this olines performance should have been an obvious outcome of our offseason handling of the position.
it should have been obvious to everyone that replacing a probowler and a solid veteran (i know he was on broken at this point and needed to be replaced…just not with Gardner), with your 2nd string guard and some scrub and just have a great offensive line.
Right now every chip offseason move looks like a huge bust.
xept kiko
given recent developments, I’ll give him Thurmond as well : )
Bradford looks fine when he gets time. Mathis situation was stupid, trading Boykin was stupid, not addressing the imminent departure of Herremans was stupid, McCoy for Kiko was a steal though. Maxwell is just being misused. He can’t run all over the field, that’s clear as day every time old man Roddy runs away from him on a deep crossing pattern.
Thurmond was ok I guess, haha
We’re playing terribly and I’m frustrated, so I’m going to complain about all the NFL media people who are now going all “that’s why preseason doesn’t mean anything yada yada, I’m so smart” when they’re the same fucking people who’s been circle jerking and talking about Eagles and the Super Bowl
Also, get your shit together Eagles, especially the o-line and secondary
it’s the oline and billy d – maxwell is not a cb that roams the field
great in cover 3, not fast enough to run across the field with a 34 year old with knees that crick and creek worse than the tin man.
Stupid should have gave Evan Mathis his $$ he needs to stop watching Jonah hill play money ball #powerback2howie
Not surprised Maxwell getting beat, i’m sure DQ knows all of Maxwells limitations, speed seems to be one of them.
Easy. Even Revis in his prime would struggle to cover Julio one-on-one all game. Failing to give him safety help is on Billy D.
Good point.
The OL looked like shit in Week 1 last year even before the injuries.
peters looking 10yrs older.
maxwell can’t match up with jones and white, this isn’t good
no one can match up with jones. So that I get. Roddy should not be easily out running a CB getting paid $12mil per year.
the antidote is pass rush and we don’t have one. at all
very true. We don’t have a Demarcus Ware like stud edge rusher though, we always depended on confusion from Billy D to get a rush, seems like our plan coming in was to dominate a crappy oline with a 4 man rush and that didnt work. I guess they collect pay checks too. First play was a CB blitz, which let’s me know Davis learned something at half time.
Wait, I heard someone say 38-20 Eagles. So you’re saying there’s a chance?
I don’t drink anymore, does anyone know any household products that will ease my pain?
Draino… but there’s actually a lot of pain with that one before the easing part comes in.
That’s funny, that’s the first thing that came to my mind.
Well I’m about to pour the first one and log for a bit.
Is Vicodin a household product?
I could break my foot and go to the ER and make it one.
Just take a lot of Nyquill. You’ll be out fast and won’t remember the game tomorrow.
That’s should be their slogan.
Brownies
Shots of mouthwash. Tell yourself and loved ones that you have a breath problem.
LOL I have some kind of problem right now.
Dan Quinn aka Dairy Queen because his D is so sweet
Demarco Murray 4 carries for -4 yards, Ryan Mathews 0 carries. Bradford 27 passes.
ANDY REID IS CONTROLLING CHIPS MIND!!
Seems like ATL D is playing its runstuffers and daring chip to throw. He is acquiescing.
pass rush is crushing Sammy B, he’s a statute in the pocket. sanchez moves MUCH better opening up throwing lanes, etc.
glad i took sproles out of all those guys.
New thread is up
http://igglesblitz.com/2015/09/dirty-bird-domination/#disqus_thread
Umm my tv is on espn I thought the eagles were supposed to play tonight?
were being badly out coached
Not me.