DAL at PHI – 1st Half
Posted: September 20th, 2015 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 861 Comments »The game is almost upon us.
Nervous? I sure am. Can’t wait for this game to kickoff.
Inactives
QB Stephen Morris
WR Seyi Ajirotutu
OL Dennis Kelly
OL Julian Vandervelde
DL Brandon Bair
LB Marcus Smith
CB Denzel Rice
RB Kenjon Barner takes the place of Ajirotutu. This is all about STs. Tutu was one of the gunners. Barner is likely to help with that rotation today.
Tempo could be a big factor today. Dallas really stresses effort by there defensive players when pursuing the ball. Sustained drives could wear them down.
We need Fletcher Cox to make his presence known. Be disruptive, big fella.
Beat Dallas!!!
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We need this win.
We need every win!!! I’m hoping to win 3 of every 4 games, so an 0-2 start wouldn’t sit too well with me
Manziel benjamin connection is real.
Titans defense is not tho
So much for Ray Horton and Dick Lebaue.,
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If fans held every DC to the standards that they hold Billy Davis to, there wouldn’t be enough DC coordinators to go around to each team lol
I think every coach has a thing
Not running ball enough- Andy R
Not covering All Star WR- Billy D
Poor time management- Tommy C
Cheating in all possible ways, especially against inferior competition- Billy B
I worry that Billy takes the Blame, even tho Chip has a big say in what the defense is running., if Billy had full freedoms to run whatever he wants on defense, we would be a 4-3Under team, instead we basically play the Oregon defense.. chip was able to hire Billy to run his Oregon defense because of his experience in the steelers 3-4…big corner, multi front defense, two gap 3-4, former corners for safeties, these are all chips defensive requirmemts
Giants doing everything they can to lose
just loss
It ain’t over just yet
Just less time for them to drive down the field for a FG
This Matt Ryan guy is pretty good
Kaepernick sucks
Really Want The Eagles to STOMP the cowboys today. A pretty win is what we need to get rid of last weeks embarrassing 1st half.
Marcus Smith is inactive AGAIN???
Would u put him on the field before Curry??? I wouldn’t. Let him sit and earn his way back from his injury
Think his lack of ST ability is the bigger reason why he isn’t dressing as the #4 OLB… BG had to play his ass off on ST last year while he was the #3 OLB
Yes that too but mostly just want to see Curry on field as much as possible this year.
Side note Boykin played mostly well today for the steelers… maybe they learned from last week
Absolutely,,, at No Point will anyone leap frog Curry as the #3… Vinny is the starting DT next to Cox when we go to our 4 Man Nickel lines… Which is why Atlanta came out in a heavy set, 2 TE, FB, making it look like they were going to run, but started firing off short passes, basically they are starting to respect Currys pass rush and finding ways to pass against us while our nickel pass rush was off the field… Something I expect dAllas to try and copy today, lining up in 2TE showing run, but passing so they can have Cedrck on the field instead of Curry getting after them
You really just swagger jacked my nickname? Lol smh…
Stop acting like a bitch dude.
Completely uncalled for
Hmmm. You mean, completely uncalled for like this?
GEAGLE 25 minutes ago
Dick sucker alert, Dick sucker alert, Dick sucker alert..,
GEAGLE 27 minutes ago
Dick sucker alert, Dick sucker alert, Dick sucker alert
GEAGLE 28 minutes ago
Dick sucker alert, Dick sucker alert, Dick sucker alert..
..
Sorry you groupie bitch, I don’t deal with such obsessive pussy behavior on game day.., so go brush your teeth, get that cock off your breath and settle down bitch boy
I get GEAGLE’s your homie, but at least show some objectivity when defending him.
I didn’t see that, him saying those things were also uncalled for I only saw your reply to the comment above sorry
I wonder if matt Ryan told his guys not to score on 1st or 2nd before
Gotta say, interesting to me that Skins OL get so dominated by Lions in pre-season that RGIII gets hurt in the first game bsically, but then they manhandle the best DL in the league and their RB goes 123 for 2tds, something doesn’t smell right.
Redskins are for real!!! lol
I think the Rams were still riding high on last weeks W and overlooked the lolskins
Starting to get a bit peaved with Marcus Smith….
Starting to? Honestly, the only reason he is still on the team is because we have poor depth at OLB and he was a 1st round pick. The saying is that you have to wait three years before you judge a draft pick, but that far to often gets translated into “Ignore anything negative that you see.” Unfortunately, that just isn’t reality. Marcus Smith was healthy all of last season and managed to do literally nothing. He has had one semi noticeable drive in preseason and that’s the highlight of his career. Now he is a semi-healthy scratch. That really should tell you all you need to know about him.
No.
Interesting that josh Andrews is active as the backup center, replacing Molk instead of the much more experienced vamdervelde..
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I was wondering if we were confident enough to go with him over Vamdervelde now, or if Josh was a case of liking his growth but needing to bring him along more as the season went on before he could be the back up center… Of course this could also mean that Vandervelde isn’t in shape as we would like.
..
With Molk out for the season, I hope Josh keeps growing enough to where he will be the #2 C all season long, even after Vandervelde has a few weeks go get comfortable… I have no idea what his level of play is compared to what we were getting out of Molk, but I do like The size and strength boost we get from having Andrews instead of Molk. We lose athleticism by replacing MOlk with Andrews, but I thought Molk sacrifices way too much size and strength in order to be so athletic.. What good is a centers athleticism if he isn’t strong enough to hold the point of attack,, I care more that our center is strong enough not to get tossed into Bradford’s Lap by the NT, more then I care about the center being athletic enough to block down field
Are we really going to miss the start of the game because of this giants game?
Doesn’t start till 1:25 right?
oh ok good, thought it was 4
are we going to play all games in monochromatic getups. i haven’t seen green pants all year?
apparently, the Eagles no longer have green jerseys.
waiting to unveil the Kelly greens.
green pants and white shirt . . . makes everyone look short.
how ’bout going back to silver pants?
polk putting in work for the texans
Fletcher burned twice today
TT bringing it back aginast patriots, fat lady hasnt sung there.
We rooting for Giants or Skins on Thursday?
Godzilla?
im rooting for as many laughs as possible
Romo feeling pain? Hit em hard all day.
Romo apparently had a shot to deal with pain from a big hit he took against the Giants.
So much for ROmo feeling great, they said he need pain killer injections for this game… Can’t wait to BRING THE pain!!
Where was this lol
They talked about it during the pre-game show.
I’m so nervous
i have butterflies in the stomach like i am actually playing
Lol Murray was on the field staring down the Cowboys lol
DeMeco Ryans is starting again.
Doesn’t matter. We will see more then plenty of Kiko
Take PFF stats with a grain of salt, but they really knocked Kiko on his run defense.
Kendricks is in the building… Torpedoed that fool.
.,
Hate wearing white at home
LOUDER!!!!
Collins is startin for cowboys right?
Bernedeau
SACK BITCHES
Barwinning.
LOUDERRRRR
Beautiful start . . . now, please, no 3rd and wrong 🙂
Watch the screen
Brama Bull Barwin!!! defense!! defense! defense!
safety time?!
Nah, but it’s time to take a punt to the house!!
-1 yard rushing, false start, sack… this Dallas offensive line is AMAZING!
LOUDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well the good news is that the Defense is awake to start the game. Let’s see if the Offense can put up some points.
has to wait for buff game to end…
same. sucks.
Really? Isn’t that on CBS
Run the damn ball Andy!!!!
Pound the ROCK!!! let’s go!!!!!
Much better start!
Nice protection
Good protection.
get the first
UGH
Wth?
WTF
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE UP PLAYCALLING CHIP
Are you telling me Reid isn’t the one calling these plays?!?
If Chip turns up to a press conference wearing a hawaiian shirt, we need to get the Pope back to bless some holy water.
We need an I formation or some shit
3rd and 1 and you go with a deep pass? C’mon!
going for it?
Go for it you pussies
We need a timeout to punt from the 50?
Maybe we going for it
nope
I think that’s the 1st time I’ve ever seen the Eagles waste a timeout under Kelly.
Just after trying a deep pass on 3rd and 1.. ‘s getting spooky.
Oh shit. Bite your tongue.
We were one short on the punt team
Would have been better off just taking the delay of game as well, even with the miscommunication.
that was not good, needed to get going early
(obviously)
agreed had momentum from our defense, came to a screeching halt….still in good field position
yeah seriously dissapointing, don’t want to have it wait for next sunday to get thing going
on a good note, protection seemed decent.
No worries.
GEAGLE says Tyler Patmon — despite the nice coverage on 3rd down — is this week’s “pigeon.”
who was last week’s pigeon?
Maxwell
Ouch.
Atlanta’s ROT . . . against Barwin.
Excuse you? Keep my name out your mouth please. Thanks pal
EARN YOUR MONEY MAXWELL
Beautiful tackle.
Good play by Maxwell there.
Nice Max
DL looks a little soft so far
disagree, think they showed up today
Yep,, their game.
not making plays like last year. they seem like they’re over-committing
ok mulligan for the offense
Eric Rowe is the gunner in place of Tutu I think.
He can tackle. Just hasn’t been able to cover so far 🙂
Atleast maxwell can tackle
maxwell w/ the get back
O-LINE needs to move some bodies
Where is Chip’s offense?
Our running game sucks today, better abandon it.
Bite your tongue.
Ouch
Better tell them not to score TDs too
No beer for you.
Too late
Wait, Dallas has a left-footed punter named Jones???
OL is terrible
Barbre was horrible last week.
Late flag…
20 minutes after
Um, yeah you can’t hold onto the receiver to prevent him from catch a pass.
it was catchable if they werent holding him
Joe Buck: “Crowd looking for a flag and they get it about twenty minutes after the play.” Captain Hyperbole…
shut up joe buck
Lol Claiborne is such a pigeon
good play by lee
Aren’t we about a week overdue for the season-ending Sean Lee injury? Doesn’t that mean we’ll have a long winter or something?
Please invite the offense to the game.
They may not show up…
Send out a search party.
DeMarco holding the ball a la Cunningham…
Wth Jordan
f f f
It didn’t look catchable. No shit genius, the guy who could catch it couldn’t get there for some reason
that was right on you Matthews.
Jordan with butterfingers again. Not good.
Matthews is having the dropsies in bad moments.
Also Ran that route too short
He falls backwards for the 1st. More concerned about his confidence. Struggled w/drops early last season.
He was never a natural pass catcher in the first place. Concentration lapses and lets the ball get into his body were all knocks against him.
To be fair, that was the knock on him when he was drafted. His hands were not great.
Back to the jugs machine
Mr Jordan Mathews? Please get your shit together
well….going to be a long game. not good since half cowboys team is injured.
What a shit game we’re watching
Really dude? Youse are fuckim nuts… I’m ghost
well got a first down that time…
thats progress…
Our offense starts so slow
Ok, where’s the Xanax? Better yet, where’s the damn whisky?
i drank it all
Gimme your glass, kid.
Take em together. May need them.
Oh yeah it’s such a terrible start to the game, we been plying 5 Minutes and we aren’t up 47-3… Burn the linc down, this team sucks!! lol
Not overreacting yet, Geagle, but if we go o-2 with a loss to the Cowgirls at home, I may need both the whiskey and xanax to get through the week.
And theres Maxwell…
Inside release on Maxwell seems to be open every time.
can’t cover those crossers
GEAGLE:
Excuse you? Keep my name out your mouth please. Thanks pal
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Why’s my old friend GEAGLE upset with me?
Switching from the Evil Eye PA to a Snake Dog IPA. See if it helps.
Kendricks with the blown coverage?
randle walking through or o-line, murray not looking good
Damn
Demeco Ryans please get off the field
this eagles defense doesn’t look good.
Ryans looks old
players don’t seem to have closing speed today.
I long for Bradley Fletcher
No you don’t
Byron is garbage
Pick up blitz, easy pitch and catch. Not good, Eagles.
“Flame on”
yep we gave money and a roster spot to ryans, gave money to maxwell, didn’t give any money for guards, hmmmm
No reason for Ryans to be on the field when Kiko/Kendricks are healthy. It’s obvious.
demarco must want to bust one soo bad
TAKE DEMECO RYANS OUT OF THE FUCKING GAME!!
ryans toasted again god damn it
I hate everything
Get Demeco off the field
Just ran away from him. Ridiculous.
Dang demeco why he on the field?
Demeco in coverage . . .never a good thing. I need whiskey.
I don’t care who you have to trade for a good CB but trade for one.
no the cb its the scheme, they aren’t going to pay for revis, but want to give corners no help.
Even if you double someone, getting beat one on one is still giving up some yards. Maxwell is getting beat like 99.7777121973% of the time
That’s a TD
What is wrong with having Alonso and Kendricks? Take DEMECO the hell out. Jesus Christ.
No, we bring him in for Red Zone D. That way its more fair to the other team. Kiko is unfair.
Like Old Yeller, it is time to take Ryans out back and put him down.
Take comfort in the fact that Chip wouldn’t have challenged this…
Well its a wasted challenge they would have gotten the TD anyway
Haha, thanks for the silver lining.
He’s in.
it’s going to be along season
.. isn’t that what we hope for?
The feed went out on my tv, is that a good thing?
Same here
Just throw your tv out.
probably
Who decides what players are in on defense?
The three stooges?
has the Xanax kicked in?
Yes, I am swearing less and the dog is no longer hiding under the table.
LOL!!!
back to back!
A magic 8 ball
Duce staley
Ryans start yet you have Alonso, Kendricks, and a really high draft pick. Ugh.
So, not thrilled with Byron, but how much do we blame Billy? We’ve seen the same personnel play on other teams and be successful, they get here and are got garbage. Think Chip will give in and fire Billy if we get boat raced by a Dallas team missing it’s top WR and top RB from last season?
80% scheme
We playing for next years #1 pick or what?
New DC.
Pretty zebras
Terribly Stupid by Weird Al would be the appropriate call for giving Ryans so much PT early again. He didn’t even play in a 1/3 of the snaps after half last week and the defense improved.
Or “Living with a Hernia”…
Much better.
I believe the following is a lyric: “Can’t play tennis… Hard to bowl.”
Looks like TD but OK
got lucky, that was a td
at least we get to use take a to from them
Surf’s up!
GET THE FUCK OUT
He left some meat on the bone there…
left some meat on the bone
it tastes so good
Boys should go here even on 4th down.
Murray calling out the plays from the sideline.
YES YES YES
MECO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DEFENSE STAND UP!!!!
we were lucky as fuck.
I’ll take it.
that’s old schoo knowledge
Ryans just got back.
luck as fuck, he should not be on the field
Demarco knew
Ryans! We never doubted you!
Demeco actually makes a play in coverage. Holy !#$!#$!@#
I’ll take it but Meco was beat.
Tactical blown coverage
As compared to blow job?
Baiting Romo?
There’s your Sundance film…
this was a great line
eyes in the back of hi head
WOOOOOO Just in time for my TV to come back
SO MEATYYYY
Stop sucking ass offense.
Is it to late to trade Bradford?
Nice play DeMeco…of course Kiko would still be running with the pick…
DeMeco on Kiko’s shoulders? DeKiko?
Just don’t put him on Sean Lee’s shoulders. We want nothing to do with DeSean.
might injure Lee though..
And definitely no standing on the shoulders of Giants…
Somewhere, Jim Johnson is smiling.
Trotter too
I wish it was on the sideline
I don’t get that there. you settle for 3 pts vs a very high likelihood of 6 pts instead. At worst, you pin the Eagles on the 1 and they have looked shaky.
Coaches are just way too conservative and ignore expected benefit vs loss way too often.
you shut your mouth and your common sense can go back to where it came from!!!
strange event of the week, Carr has a great Y/A against the Ravens…
Better get going now, I don’t have a fucking half to wait.
I do but I dont want to.
ok, have a full minute, quick score
This team is not inspiring confidence right now. Chip needs to get this team to play better.
This OL isn’t inspiring confidence in the run game.
O line getting destroyed
murray missing that old o-line
Aren’t we supposed to block some guys when we run?
Not good, just really, not good.
the middle of this line is just caving in
Ugh…. this running game is looking so ugly.
two play in a row and gardner is just fucking standing in the backfield doing nothing
RG got blown up there.
If Murray left meat on the bone last year, he seems to have become a vegetarian this year.
vegan
Bounced off his teeth…
Holy geez with these drops.
fuck you austin
Hold onto the ball Austin!
austin’s 2nd big drop in consecutive weeks.
And Miles Austin lets us down, again. Especially when Bradford actually throws deep.
It’s really important to make plays like those.
Catch the f’n ball. Holy smokes what crap.
gave money to fucking miles austin as well
Beautiful punt coverage.
So 2/3rds of the team showed up to play. We’re still missing the offense.
Whyyyyyyy is Miles Austin playing? This rotation approach is so stupid
Great play by the DB. Not gonna knock Austin on that one. Really good pass by Bradford too.
True on 2nd look.
He’ll rip off his Eagles jersey after the game, have a Boys t-shirt underneath, and steel chair Kelly.
I love our ST. Thank you Donnie J’owns.
Bradford has had a few shaky throws but 2 easy drops.
That was knocked out of Austin’s hands, though he didn’t have a great grip on it. We need a play like that though.
That should have been a first down by miles.
Our defense spending the whole game on the field.
We are winning the penalty game… so there’s that.
allright, you got 30 seconds to rest, get back out there D
Are we supposed to be good on offense?
Media thought we were SB bound. Been ugly these 1st two games so far.
turns out you have to have actual nfl caliber guards to be a good offense
shit well now we know
you know who doesnt know, chip kelly
This is what Chip sees
3/5 OL are good
2/5 OL well who cares 3 > 2!!
Anyone else miss Evan??
bet Drew Brees really really misses that good interior play that’s not there anymore.
Same as missing Jackson last year. Eagles never made up for his production on YAC on deep routes and big plays
The idea is to get off the field quickly so we can get back to intimidating them with our defense.
Kelly’s plan is finally coming to fruition.
Only in preseason.
I think Dallas’ offensive line and Murray need each other.
Jenkins playing good!
If Chip’s offense turns stagnant in the league he might be packing up and going back to Oregon.
Deju vu all over again….
Bradford’s throwing downfield.
That’s a good sign.
Unfortunately, no one is catching.
It’ll happen.
Agreed. Now, can he complete anything deep?
I know it was an unfortunate situation but imagine how much better Wed be if we had Mathis
Ahoy . . . Baloophi.
Glad to see you back in business here.
And a pleasure to see you!
A bunch of commercials with a little bit of football.
I think we’re gonna need to swing a trade for an upgrade at guard
Who has one that’s good enough to start?
denver
Evan Mathizzz!!
With the holes that Murray has had so far, he’ll need one of those stars from Super Mario Brothers to have a few guys bounce off him.
Getting hit at the line of scrimage on almost every play
So if Gardner continues to suck, can we try Tobin again?
said nobody, never
The guy who couldn’t beat out Gardner?
Barbre’s been worse.
Nolan Carrol X play
What the hell do you call this Defense we’re playing
shit
bend a lot till you break
Shitty
Billy ball
Predictable
Let them run around and hope they tire themselves out?
Nolan didn’t want to let Maxwell have all the fun I guess.
we have no guards and no corners, this is going to be a fun season
embarassing
Almost no pressure again and Boys arne’t even max protecting.
how is anyone so freaking wide open
Bill Davis’ idea of a good defense is leaving at least one guy wide open i guess.
Taylor Hart getting a lot of burn over Ced Thornton so far
Hart burn?
pass rush really sucks.
maybe I should say that more.
FWIW . . .
Garrett’s in the shade.
Why’s here wearing sunglasses?
he doesnt want them to read his eyes
Probably wearing google glasses and looking at fishduck.com
Because when you’re as cool as him, the sun shines on you 24 hours a day.
Or he forgot his contacts…
the gentlest sack ever
Respect for his elders.
GREAT children’s book…
Can’t blame him since Ced doesn’t get to the QB often
He was shocked that he was actually by the QB.
Nice changeup on personnel but that was all Thorton
i think it was all Doug Free
Geez strip the ball don’t shove him
Hit him harder
please freaking stop this
2 sacks early and our board’s comments are all . . “Our pass rush sucks”
only 3 pressure/hurry/sck so far. it was a good play by thortnon
True, but at this rate we end the game with 4 – 6 sacks. Knock on the pass rush is the lack of consistency. Combine that with the horrible scheme/wide open receivers and we’re in for a typical Eagles D game.
third and oh fuck coming up
Whistles don’t apply to Fletcher Cox. I like it.
Nice stop, that’s big time
Sproles o’clock…
ok ANOTHER chance
WOOOOOHOOOOOO! Third and forever and we stop them!
Progress!
i was fully confident there…. …
3rd and 18, not so much. 3rd and 23 though…
Again, stop sucking ass offense.
Has the offense entered the stadium yet?
yes, they’re wearing cowboy uniforms
Okay, so how long is it going to take for our Gs to get it together?
expecting a lot for two backups. I think chip has a bit of an ego that he’s got to deal w/ when it comes to players. Think it works poorly for chip as GM.
Bad fair catch there
Our defense is actually playing a great game. 4-5 possessions for Dallas. Only 1 long drive for a FG with a great goal line stand.
Our offense however is embarrassing themselves.
Happens more than we think.
Its been a pattern, agreed.
gunna be looking at the Miami game. Philbin is dead man walking if the offense doesn’t pick up and that expensive defense lets Bortles look like an NFL All Star…
box score, wise, of course.
just saw a clip of Bortle’s second TD throw. Awful defense by Miami.
I benched Kendall Wright last week for Allen Robinson. I bench Robinson for Wright this week. I don’t like fantasy football anymore.
Are we saving the tempo for the second half again?
Need a first down
So, if Bradford doesn’t get a single 1st down this half, will I still hear “He was so great in the 2nd half in Atlanta!”
Now is when Kelly should call the long pass.
Who do the Eagles have?
no one
sproles on a wheel
Any cheerleader.
red hot OD
agholor
CK’s gotta give him the chance to make a play
Cooper.
Gotta save him for run blocking… maybe he plays a little guard too lol
i think im going to throw up if we go 3 n out again
10 plays for 15 yards. Yuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Sam Checkdown again.
under center
Do we have a first down yet?
1 on a penalty I think.
booo birds coming
Deservedly so.
FLAG??
You guys suck.
We’re trash
Great running game.
Donnie MVP
ok defense, hope youre not tired.
back to this game? Eagles sucks.
Nice play by huff there as gunner
Huff was out there as a gunner. Probably because he was well rested since the offense is doing nothing.
I love how Troy just complimented Romo for his patience not throwing 20+ all of last week, but Bradford has him worried for the same reason.
Romo is actually winning games
No, their opponents and the refs gave them a game.
Giant’s did it again today.
3rd down not forcing it.
Lol. I missed that. Guess it has to do with rep. Sam has been “Checkdown Charlie” his entire career. Romo was a gambler early in his career.
the up tempo is tiring out one defense this game.
We’re not in an Atlanta size whole yet but the Eagles have to do something
If we don’t get something going this next possession, can pretty much guarantee it’s coming.
Guess a turnover will help.
Dallas sucks
Reminiscent of last years early games, only our STs ain’t scoring this year
yup
Tons of people in the media all wanted to blame Foles.
Chip has an Oline problem, and it’ll be interesting to see how the interior looks on film. I’d like to see some runs off tackle (LJ) and see if that gets us anything.
Really frustrated on this utter lack of anything on offense….. Why cant ww generate a push up the middle?
At least they’re shit too
If we manage to win, the zebras get the game MVP.
Shoddy tackling
This. Not understanding that.
No one wanted to touch his meat.
All those white jerseys and no one could get him down behind the line?
Get a sack.
third and f me in the goat ass coming up
Is maragos really the 5th best defensive back on team?
yup, played him last week. Boykin trade
If so, so much for the huge improvement in DB depth.
thank you refs.
We are getting lucky now
Kiss the zebras.
let mathis walk for no reason at all, let djax go for no reason at all. mathis was the pro bowl guard that made the running game work inside, djax stretched the to allow scrubs like riley cooper to have career years.
chip’s bullshit inflexibility costs this team on field talent that you need to win.
Djax isn’t making a difference. He can’t even make a difference in DC.
how’d we lose that game in WAS last year?
How many games did WAS win last year?
sanchez threw a pick late
our offense has not been the same since he left
Could also be scheme and predictability.
no it’s talent on the field, kelly thinks he can win with anybody. but without djax to spread the defense guys like cooper have sucked out loud
Yeah he did. He still had a good year and was a leader in the league in big plays even with the considerable issues the Skins had at QB last year.
That offense wasn’t that good. They were better today without him.
Nah. They won for several reasons but Cousins had a good day.
He isn’t a bad QB as long as he avoids the dumb decisions & INTs that come with them.
Willing to bet the fact that the Rams D is really just the DL–Cousin quick passes took advantage of a weak secondary. Against a more well rounded d, Cousins will be his usual self.
More upset about letting Mathis go. Djax was and still is a punk. Mathis was lunch-pail guy who just wanted to get paid. He was already overpaid, but he was very, very good.
This might not be the most productive time for this conversation.
for sure, im just tired and angry, wise word atg
If the helmet breaks the belt-buckle of the center, something weird is going on…
Is this Oakland Tampa Bay? Oh wait, they’re not that bad.
OMG, I was I was JUST thinking that this looked like Olsen called, Derek Carr QBing the Raiders of last year!
refs keeping us in the game
The D showed up guys. Maybe they should play offense?
lots of cowboys flags making 3rd downs impossible and missing dez bryant. They’re missing so many guys on D that i don’t know if i want to play them when hardy, gregory etc. are back.
Ah fuck, we have the ball.
Fox is making a killing on these commercials
Seriously, the waiting is a bitch.
I’d rather commercials than the “analysis” provided on the UK coverage
When else do you expect our defense to get a rest?
All set for the tempo !!!
Good news defense, you have about 35 seconds to get a rest and then get back out there.
30 SEC max.
The defense must love these commercials
Need more oxygen!
Game commentary should be ‘1, 2, 3, kick! 1, 2, 3, kick!’
Well at least chip knows how to make halftime adjustments. Some halfway through 2nd half adjustments would be good too
Parade on Broad Street for a 1st down.
OK . . . now Bradford throws long.
this is disgusting
Lee is just knifing around against whoever is being assigned to him. F@cking up basic assignments again.
coming back
might as well punt it
“Cardinal” sin?
Could have just punted for that play
Yeah, good idea.
Merrill doesn’t pulll any punches
‘Quick – This offense is almost as bad as last week. Merrill – No, it is.
He’s a homer but he will still not try to polish a turd.
How does the line go? “What did you think of your offense’s execution?” “I’m in favour of it.”
Offense knows how to perform for the fans.
This captain checkdown shit has got to stop.
Well, that was predictable. Cowboys rush 3 and Sam throws a checkdown in under 2 seconds. Way to work the pocket, Sam.
No Gatorade for you?
Desperate need of a turnover. Jenkins atones for the drops? Thurmond strikes again?
Cox forces his way into the gap and rips at the ball?
Wait…
Unless they score, no confidence our offense can score.
maybe time for sanchez.
to go eat a hotdog?
No.
Only if he plays Guard
I’ll quit watching at that point, cause our season is over.
Rams laughing all the way to the bank.
offenisve struggles have nothing to do with bradford
The struggles go way deeper than Bradford, but to not include him as part of the struggles is wrong IMHO. With what we gave up for him, he has to do a better job at at least trying to make a play. Dallas isn’t feeling pressured at all on defense right now.
Austin dropped a big play, Matthews dropped a first down, there is zero run game, we had a first down on the screen but a penalty negated it
No but a quick checkdown on 3rd and 20?
wasn’t quick, he looked downfield there was nothing there, did you see the cowboys secondary lined up at the first down marker and beyond? better than taking a sack or throwin a pick deep in your own territory
Throwing for a first down isn’t enough to put pressure on a defense. It’s not like if those 3 plays happen all of a sudden Bradford is playing great. The Austin drop was a decent throw, but the others are throws most if not all starting QBs are going to make. After giving up a 2nd and a starting QB, I expect Bradford to at least be able to do a bit more than dink and dunk.
this offense relies on getting that first down, then rolling from there with their pace and tempo
Bradford isn’t dropping the balls. Austin and Matthews both had costly drops.
Looks like the worst O in the league so far.
maybe because it is
This offense is garbage. No seasoned receivers. No run game.
no seasoned recievers — no guards
And Checkdown Charlie under center.
yeah i wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt but i mean damn. Going to be a long week of CK dodging questions from the media.
No guards
Watching offense like watching Phillies
Cowboys ST truly suck.
Damn it ertz
Assemble the firing squad.
i think they’re assembled.
Luckily, we are firing blanks.
Hi-ho!
It is the OL. No push and screwing up even the most basic assignments again on stunts and blitz pickup. Sprinkle in a few penalties and you get crap souffle.
I’ll write this out more fully later.
The problem is not personnel.
The problem is not execution.
The Coaching and the scheme are the problems. We are predictable and incapable of making adjustments without a halftime break.
sure looks like youre right.
Clearly . . . viewers need a commercial.
At least 2:30 minutes worth.
and i only want to see Draftkings / fantasy commercials.
i refuse to do draftkings/fanduel purely because of the commercials
it’s the only way our D can get a break
My wife says I only need a minute or two.
Great Alonso out for the game with a left knee injury and done for the gmae.
seriously?
Yup just reported by Eskin and Merrill. Being evaluaed in the locker room
OD . . .
You’re in Baloophi territory today.
I realize this team is limited but loom at all the players missing on cowboys and we put this up …
Big Hold from Doug Free there
One of the most obvious holds I’ve seen in awhile
kiko done w/ a knee
No Kiko!!!
Kiko out for game w knee
Oh no.
Which knee has Kiko had problems with before
Both
God
I think both.
both
Both
Does it matter? Kelly’s faith in guys coming off knee injuries was bound to bite him in the ass.
Also drafting “NFL ready players” but they really aren’t.
MS2 is supposedly helathy enough to play. Didn’t even see if he dressed today or not.
Inactive because we needed someone to play ST.
inactive
Not watching the game but Bradford and the oline is what I feared for this team from watching the game last week and it hasn’t gotten better. Chip Kelly personnel moves looking worse and worse
Bradford hasn’t been the problem.
Oh yes. He’s the answer to our prayers . . . . wait?? what????
yeah howie might get his job back
talent is talent is talent. Just look at Randle, and see what they’re missing from the Murray of last year. Double goes for CHIP KELLY.
Kendricks was also holding his ankle after the last play…
No Kiko that midfied is going to look ehhhhhh down the stretch.
Great a full game of Ryans on the field now too?
So tired of hearing about the offense in preseason. It MEANS NOTHING and it has been documented/studied.
Jordan Hicks is out there.
kendrick and hicks at ILB
This D needs a cookie
I bet they would rather Romo give them a lollipop.
Need a fumble.
Illegaly down field.
We suck
They have given up on the run
Thankfully Draftkings have given our defense time to rest off the field
imagine if dez were playing, we’d be down 3 tds
34 – -6
Witten limping
no witten on this 3rd down
Not so fast. 2 min warning strikes
Gonna need to cover witten
the gatorade table is doing that
Witten walking off the field like he had an underpants accident…
Probly saw he was going to be covered by Ryans
And peed his pants in excitement…
yeah, I think he needed a moment there..
Know the feeling thanks to this team.
Any TE vs. any LB but Kendricks now that Kiko’s out of the game? Bad, bad thing.
missed it did Kinko walk off?
Announcers said he’s out for the game with a knee injury
Witten banged up. Rare sight.
Boys had a lto of confidnece their D would play well going into this game. They have gone really conservative this half and been content to dink & dunk all half so far.
If the season keeps going like this, would validate my estimation of a bad season. Not only are we technically missing outstanding play at enough spots to matter overall, I can promise that the locker room will get ever more deflated and toxic and make things worse and the team might collapse the latter third of the season.
Things really have to be turned around. We gunna need a blowout soon to boost long term confidence…
please be Anything but an ACL for Kiko
Theory: Chip Kelly is a degenerate gambler and makes his money on the first half under. Discuss!
I’d be thrilled to learn it was a conspiracy theory that explained it.
I fear the truth is just that Chip is a bad coach and needs to go back to College.
He just doesn’t bet on the Eagles.
He’s betting on Bradford since Bradford bet on himself. His ego can’t take a guy not wanting to play cheaply for him when he took a big gamble on him. Ruins his team, calls crap plays and ruins his worth. Re-signs for cheap.
(This is a joke BTW)
We get the ball after half. Oh wait…
pathetic.
Sure, why not jump offsides. I mean the offense is shitting the bed, why doesn’t the defense do the same?
This team is just fucking fuckity fuck fuck
This is pathetic. I don’t even know what to say. Sign a receiver asap. Do something. Get some talent in here. Reggie Wayne, someone! One thing I noticed is Bradford is very jumpy in the pocket and it leads to early throws or too much air on his throws. Our oline looks like trash, no blocking at all. Our team looks pathetic. Like we took a step back. Murray has zero chance to get downhill or get any positive yardage.
come on get the fcuk out
This is not what I waited all offseason for. This is awful.
i agree, really sad.
falling apart here
Weak call.
Thought it was pretty legit.
It wasn’t blatant. personnel foul calls seem like they are random
How can he come in late to the pile and be on the bottom of it?
Tunneling.
The “pile” was getting driven way backward and forward progress was long stopped, and Curry led with his helmet coming from behind. Needless.
Curry needs to get his head out of his ass. 2 poor penalties on him.
ST play isn’t bailing out your offense this year Chip. Better adjust or you’re out of a job.
what kind of coverage is maxwell doing out there
kendricks hurt
Kendricks grabbing his hamstring I think
yup. kept him out several weeks last year.
We suck
Kendricks out on this one, Ryans in.
and makes his impact
That was ticky-tack. Awful call.
Yeah thought that call sucked.
If we were down more than 3 points I’d be a lot more mad. We still look like shit though.
crowd is completely flat now.
This is the beginning of the end of the chip kelly era
Kendricks walking off.
We are so !@#$ed. No Kiko, now no Kendricks.
PCIK IT UP~~~
big break if it stands
Yay!
thank god
wait for the replay
i’m ok w/ the incomplete. I don’t think we’re getting the ball back before the half. might as well turn on redzone.
what the hell are you doing standing aroundht eball! pick it up!
It’s forward
Well what do you think?
any one think it was actually backwards without the replay?
1:30 left, plenty of time to go 3 and out and kick it back to Dallas.
No need that’s getting overturned
hopefully CK just kneels it out — he was what happened last week and to andy on thursday
I thought it looked like it went forward, but I’ll take it. Super lucky break if it stands.
Looks backwards live but knowing our luck it wasn’t
Hey, remember when ILB was a strength?
It’s forward
Just put my dog’s Eagles’ jersey on to turn the tide, Eagles’ ball.
gonna get overturned.
It went forward, the issue we’ll be whether Cox knocked it out… I’d guess “no turnover.”
Oh yea of little faith….
right call.
unfortunately
what a waste of 1.5 hours.
gonna be a long season
Heath Evans was right…..Billy Davis is the MVP of the Eagles
You lost me at “Heath Evans was right.”
just so we are clear it’s just a poor attempt at trolling
this approach is going to wear out the eagles defense in the 2nd half especially if Kendricks/Alonso out.
By and large, defense has shown up despite some awful coverage. Can’t believe we’re still in this game.
Dallas is doing a lot to help us.
Ref’s are having a field day. Must be getting paid by the flag.
It is by design. It is a huge FU to Kelly’s offense say we can do this and will just wear out your defense in the 2nd half with bigger holes and space.
anyone else still holding out hope that something will happen in the 2nd half….?
Yeah U_U
yea me, i thought this would be a close game, kinda like this, but def not 3-0
ABSOLUTELY!! That’s all we got!!
Considering Dallas is only leading by three, I absolutely could see something happening in the second half. We could certainly come out on top in this game. The problem is, the struggles with the offense are legitimate and win or lose, even with a solid second half, we have to understand why we seem to come out so flat.
pull lt hamstring on kendricks; unlikely to return
alonso injury liley serious
;_;
at least htat stadium is still loud
It’s amazing how all this Super Bowl talk happened and then you see this crappy product on the field
what was the call
HAnds to the face. automatic first down.
Hands to the face on Meco
My goodness these penalties are getting out of hand now
hold to a FG and regroup. 6-0 will be a gift
i hate this team
Eff this, if Kiko is out for the year just….damn
so are they going to let witten do the same shallow cross over and over gain
so 10-0 at half, not so bad.
But insurmountable for our offense.
nah. need to hold a fg though here.
Against as banged up team on the road without their best players? If you’re the Browns, not so bad.
I am…personally offended by the Romo scramble…
Contain anyone buellar
This team is going to cause me to stop watching football all together.
fire billy at halftime. let chip call a no huddle up tempo defense.
Then fire Chip and give Howie play calling.
ten second runoff?
They can use a timeout to avoid that.
shouldnt that runo ut the clock?
10 second runoff?
used a TO
They can call timeout
Dallas has 10 penalties already. Crazy.
we’ve got more penalties than offensive yards.
Only way we’re still in this.
Might be the first half where both teams have more penalties than points?
Yeah. I think if you were to look at the gamebook you’d assume it’s a blizzard or something…
eagles d has been bailed out by a lot of dallas off penatlies
Dallas O has also been bailed out by a lot of eagles defensive penalties.
How’s Bradford feeling about that contact negotiation now?
Most overrated team since the infamous Dream Team. F this team right now!
why the fuck does bradford have his helmet on?
sack him!
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!
one more play for the boys
um no?
eagles had 6 freaking penalties this drive already.
bad call
That was not a penalty he didn’t initiate contact.
PRESS!!
Looking at this stat, our offense has 21 yards total. The entire half. Its absurd, really. I can’t even take it seriously. And how the hell are we still in the game at all?
reminds me of the foles game vs dallas maybe it wasn’t his fault
good stop
this halftime score is amazing.
Lucky as hell to only be down 6
Troy actually defending Byron. Look for out for the apocalypse.
.. we’re watching it.
I don’t think the Eagles want to win either refs so go easy on us
Wow, they are only down 6, amazing.
Makes you yearn for the days of Andy Reid!
https://intotheneighborhood.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/stripped.jpg
Eagles offense in the 1st half
Couldn’t find a blank picture?
I think this is more descriptive.
Which missing tire is for the OG?
That is too surreal. This was just stripped down and disfucntional. Nothing worked.
IMO it’s more like this
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=47413&d=1302190335
too much horsepower on that thing.
This implies there was a spark, though…
Something needs to happen on offense.
Sports Radio hosts are salivating right now
Head count: Who is having deja vu?
San Francisco.
im having flashbacks to 2013 home games vs cowboys&giants
Is it possible to have multiple deja vus at once?
face in hands….
You know, none of this no-scoring would have happened if we had JOE WEBB on this team!
I mean, why not? If the OL is so piss poor that you can’t do proper run games…why the bleeping effity eff not?
yeah if no OL you need someone more mobile, you also probably need to call a different running play.
Anyone brave enough to log on to TATE and see what hilarity is going on there?
Probably scenarios in which we trade for Urlakkerrz and play him at QB…
This team is ass
Have the home fans booed the Eagles like that since Kelly arrived?
dont think so.
they deserved every boo
unless they were saying boo-urns. they did not deserve boo-urns
I upvoted this then down voted it just so I could upvote it again
Deserved today.
no
kiko hurt the same knee that had the ACL
this game is still wide open. stunned how conservative the boys have been all half.
Chip better start utilizing Shurmur and get some west coast going. Then again, he already isn’t throwing it far as is.
Considering the circumstances, the D is playing okay. 6-0 is a win for the 1st half IMO.
All things considered I think the D is pretty awesome. Was the Ray Rhodes offense this bad? I don’t think so.
Yeah, even missing Kiko/Kendricks they are holding up pretty well.
Can you say “Bobby Hoying?”
This 60 million dollar backfield sure is looking like a waste of resources thus far.
The 3 headed offensive backfield is the shit backfield right now.
That got criticized a lot this offseason especially compared to hwo much any other team invests in RB as % of payroll. Eagles are clear outliers.
they thought RBs were more important that OL
Couldn’t afford a pro-bowl guard already signed on the team.
Offense is so bad, straight up garbage no guards, running game isn’t good , wrs can’t catch
This first second half drive we take the lead then score 21 more and it’s all a distant memory. We HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
They need to go for 40+ to wash that taste out of my mouth.
One thing CHip has been able to do is adjust. It’s not lost.
most valuable player for the eagles in the 1st half was either Jenkins or the cowboys lack of execution (penalties) and very conservative play calling
I am going the later.
Jenkins is balling. Lets hope Joran Hicks is ready. ILB Sooo deep:(
Getting ready to order my pitchfork & torch off eBay as promised.
lets get a groupon going
I already used mines on D3FB when he was hyping up Tobin.
Xanax, Beer, Whisky all gone. Vodka is going fast. Wake me when we get a first down.
Time to hunt around the garage for some old paint…
I don’t think this is the time to be painting…..
lol
I’ve got herb somewhere, time to tear up the closet.
The old emergency stash. Smart.
Heee, heeee – Oregon baby.
see you next week
cya next week
Who the F is this Chip Kelly & what did he do with the real one?
Fear the body snatchers. He’s no more.
I have some rum left, and a bottle of wine. I was going to be alcohol free, but my nerves can’t take this.
I cannot remember a half that bad since 5 was benched against Baltimore.
If Bradford would just throw long . . . .
need to nut up and win this game even if ugly. season on the line here because 0-2 is a real steep climb to dig out of.
OK. That other IPA didn’t work either. Switching to a Rebel Rouser Double IPA.
Better switch to barley wine. Weyerbacher and Heavy Seas make some pretty nice ones.
30mgs percocet seems to be helping a bit.
For all of Andy’s shortcomings, he did understand that football is won on the lines and invested as such. not sure what chip was thinking this year.
this is really one of the first times this team has been tested under kelly. nut up or possibly let their season slip away already here.
Lesson well learned for him. I expect a couple OL in next draft tbh.
Have they picked one since Lane?
No
**woof**
No
I expect ALL OL in next draft
we gotta go get apass rusher.
We’re constantly rushing 4 most of the half against a very good OL.
Thats a little dramatic…
that said they have not inspired any confidence today
teams that start 0-2 have a 9% chance of making the playoffs since ’02.
plus have to go to dallas yet. need to win this game here. it is easily there for the taking
There is already less than a 30% chance of making it because only 12 twams do im the first place.
Down 6, Chip does well at halftime adjustments, we’re not going to repeat the 1st half performance. If so, they may as well go for the 1st pick in the draft.
do think the eagles are going to pull this out even if they won’t win style points doing it.
me too, it’ll continue to be ugly though
I hope!!!
this is why i watch football alone.
Same reason I have sex alone, too upsetting afterwards, not in the mood to talk to anyone.
This made me laugh out loud. Me too man. Me too.
Expect the unexpected with Chip. I’ve seen such a situation rarely, but his adjustments are usually right on.
Chip needs to dial up some plays the get the ball down the field. Until we can make teams pay we will continue to face a loaded box and struggle to run the ball
If only we had a speedy or veteran top level WR.
If we are going to pull this out we need a big turnover somewhere along the line.
Turnover does us no good if we are not moving the ball at all. We have done NOTHING on offense. We need the offense to wake up and make some plays…. then we can worry about turnovers.
How many DBs have we taken in the draft? how many on the team?
It does not matter with Billy calling the shots. Still our D has kept us in this. So belated kudos to Billy.
Dallas penalties and conservative playing calling have. tons of 2 TEs sets that half. it was like throwback football.
Refuse to give him any credit. Players are balling, but they’ve been put in ugly positions over and over.
two
I can’t remember the last time things went so different than expected after a preseason. Every other year, I’ve had a pretty decent idea of what kind of team we were going to have. #FOOLSGOLD
Is tommy too disgusted to put up a second half thread ?
def need a new thread, worked last week
Did it tho?
Maybe he finished the case of PBR already
Only if the Eagles actually show up in second half themselves
He trashed his computer and TV.
and coffe table
Maybe he passed out?
Suiting up for OG
we did start slow in the first two games last year too…
Turned out we kinda sucked last year too.
i mean in the first half in both games
Really loving Julio for my fantasy team
merrill ‘that’s the worst offensive performance I can remember in a half.’
Kill me now. I can’t take any more!
I hate life right now.
Beat Dallas for the love of god
kendricks done officially. needs hicks to step up.
OD:
This game reminds me of Boise State v. Oregon – 2009.
2nd half thread http://igglesblitz.com/2015/09/dal-6-phi-0-2nd-half/#disqus_thread
NEW THREAD
THANK FUCK
ironic cheers
wtf. are they playing touch on the line?
OMFG
Chip, Marinelli has your scheme down.
donnie jones out, kiko out, kendricks out
So, are the Jets favored next week? they should be.
You know what the remarkable thing was? Even in 2012, this offensive line wasn’t quite this disastrous!
I just dont get it. What is going on with the offensive line? They seem to let dallas players run straight through by design or something..
new thread.
I’m starting to think we will be drafting high this year
We will be top 5 pick next year
Romo down!
Seriosus talk though. Bradford needs to be a on real tight leash. If this continues the Chip Kelly era is over.
Sanchez would have given us a chance. Real talk.