Gameday – Jets
Posted: September 27th, 2015 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 384 Comments »Big news item of the day – DeMarco Murray is inactive. That means Ryan Mathews, Darren Sproles and possibly even Kenjon Barner will be key players today. When you face a team that loves to blitz and has Darrelle Revis on the outside, one way to attack them is by getting the ball to RBs in space. Could be that Sproles ends up being the key to the offense.
The full list of the inactives:
RB DeMarco Murray
QB Thad Lewis
WR Josh Huff
DE Cedric Thornton
DE Taylor Hart
LB Mychal Kendricks
LB Kiko Alonso
This means Marcus Smith makes his 2015 debut. Quick quiz…do you know what number he wears?
I wrote a game preview for PE.com.
I don’t know your mentality, but I’m just hoping to see the offense come out and get a couple of early 1st downs. This group has struggled mightily in the 1st half so far this season. Players need to step up. Block your man. Break a tackle. Catch the ball. And so on.
A little early success can go a long way.
It sure felt like things snowballed in the first two games. Don’t let that happen this week.
_
A lot of $Dollars on the inactive list.
McCoy always played through injuries.now we got kiko and DEMARCO instead of McCoy and they aren’t playing. Great GM moves right there
Fantasy wise…who should be more productive? Sproles or Matthews? I have both and am starting Matthews currently.
It’s snow balling already. These guys are done.
Lot of negative thoughts on this team, but I knew it was going to take some time for this team to jell. It is disappointing though, that some of the expected strengths of this team have become weaknesses. We will see though, more important how you’re playing at the end of the year (if we are still in the hunt in this seemingly weak division).
He said jell
fox nfl sunday killing Chip Kelly…
They have some points, but the whole “getting rid of Maclin” argument is getting really old.
It doesn’t fit the narrative to just say KC paid him more
Just yelled at my tv over that (already yelling at tv…not good). Just lazy, uninformed commentating.
The Maclin storyline is frustrating, but it needs to be pointed out that many of us believed we need to franchise him and not even give him the option to sign elsewhere. The obvious goal there being to sign him to an extension later on. That clearly would have changed the offseason, but who knows, maybe that isn’t a bad thing.
Tommy LOL what nr is Marcus Smith….wait…
90
Mike Quick doesn’t put any merit in the 9-0 all-time record vs Jets. Good to know.
hoping Mathews/Sproles provides a spark…
Sadly I don’t think they are going to miss Murray much today.
I remember when Pam Oliver was part of Fox’s A team with Buck and Aikman.
Jeremiah Johnson under center for the Jets.
No comments today? I guess everyone on here gave up on the Eagles too or they are the most devout Catholics visiting the Pope.
I’m trying to pace myself.
I haven’t given up, but I can’t say that there’s a whole lot to be excited about yet.
how the hell is that a catch?
How is that possibly a completion
That is so not a catch.
Definitely not a catch, but also not worth a challenge to make a punt four yards longer.
Are we supposed to be able to hand the ball off and get yards?
Bradford might need glasses.
used to those all white uni’s
That’s what im talking about!!!!!!
Ryan Matthews just quadrupled our year total.
How does Antonio Cromartie need to grab a handful of Cooper’s jersey?
I’m shocked Matthews got his hands on the ball AND held onto it.
Hallelujah!
Go figure. When you have a guy who can get to the corner on the stretch play faster, it turns into a positive gain.
Watching Murray run that has been painful.
Nah, the blocking is better. Murray would be getting yards on this drive too.
fantastic blocking
Come on Celek
Just got blown off the ball that time.
Celek beat yet again and completely missed a block. He’s been horrendous in blocking so far this year.
Awful pass
Needed more loft on that pass. Bradford just kind of rocketed it in there.
C’mon Bradford. Give him a chance.
3 pts. Take it.
Ill take it, hopefully Parkey will too
We got a Lead!!!!!
how i’ve missed thee
I have heard of this “lead” thing, but I doubted its existence.
Missed by Miles.
All on Bradford right there
Right, but less punny.
Was that missed or overthrown? It hit the back pylon so it wasn’t out of the end zone but it sure looked like it was over Austin’s head.
How is Burton as a blocker? Runyan said on the pregame that he saw Celek simply miss 4 blocks last week and whiff on 1-on-1 situations.
For how much he catches the ball, we might as well use Tobin as a TE.
This is the popes doing
Annnnnd all good things come to an end lol.
More good special teams play. They have stunk so far this year too.
what the fuck parkey
What happened?
Kick was lame then it ROLLED out of bounds.
Thx no coverage here.
Whaaat in the Hell, Parkey?
He was confused by kicking off in the middle of a quarter.
Boys up 14-0 already on the Falcons.
Trap game for the Falcons maybe.
Good job Maxwell. Makes the tackle, no YAC, and no first down.
nice by Max
Thanks for the field position parkey
Why does everyone else’s special teams seem to be better than ours?
Ours have been pretty good outside the blocked punt last week and that last kickoff. But not last year good, so far.
And the missed fg in week 1, and the a short kickoff in week 1… Considering the small sample size, I would say we have had more than our fair share of bad STs plays so far this season.
for my own edification — is it correct to say Maxwell was a press zone corner last year for seattle?
Supposedly yes.
and we have him playing press man — hence his suckage?
Careful with that. A nun told me it will make you go blind.
Edification is code for that these days?
Still going to see yet more shotgun formations even on the 2?
Thank your higher power for the Jet’s offense.
Jets primed to score here.
What was that
a dumb and busted play call
nice looking play
Bradford looks jumpy and unsure of himself. No tempo right now and his footwork is shit.
Delay of freaking game?!
gardner has to punch kelce harder
shotgun pass from EZ… ugh
Its ridiculous.
That was all Sproles.
Darren Sproles is our MVP.
Again.
Im loving this outside sweep play, jesus.
Lol Peters with the whiff
and the line collapses again…
I’m not sure if that was Peters or Barbre blocking the wrong direction for that reach block.
For the love of God, please no more slow developing stretch runs!
Peters just thrown to the ground
OL still playing poorly and Bradford looking skittish.
Bradford is awful.
Certainly has come out early and picked up right where he left off last week.
I agree, but that that was on Agholor.
wasn’t really a good pass, I say split the blame.
Hell of a punt.
Yeah, that was great under pressure.
I’m amazed they didn’t call a penalty on the bump at the end…
refs showing common sense, who woulda thought?
This looks like a game where the team that commits one or two big turnovers will lose.
agree
Eagles do seem to be giving Marshall a ton of double coverage/safety over on his side of the field.
Coples stomped JP on that run play. 🙁 not used to seeing that
Nice play by the rookie Hicks
Jenkins is a man on a mission
Jenkins has been our defensive MVP I’d say…probably more clear cut choice if he’d stop dropping INTs.
Nice read and stick’em. Good tackling today so far by the Eagles and in particular the secondary.
Barwin and Curry had a ridiculous moment there where they were holding each other.
morale building.
I love our stunt where our two d linemen stunt into each other
lol seriously
It is designed to be so distracting that it will distract multiple players on the jets including the QB.
i think it worked, the tackle and guard were frozen
They practice against our offense every day.
Jets’ punter their MVP today hopefully.
bradford has absolutely got to play better, way too many passes off target
Hicks was a torpedo on that play… Read that screen real well and explodes thru… Smart LB for sure
Hicks is good
Need to keep this defense fresh. Take even 2 or 3 first downs this drive and keep the defense on the sideline a bit. Can’t afford 3 and outs today.
last drive chip slowed to tempo down. gave our d a rest. if were not getting positive yards no point in hiking the ball right away. gotta rest our d.
i noticed that too. chip adapting
Matthews doing that on his own there.
More first downs!! MOAR FIRST DOWNS!
Hicks looks like he is the real deal so far. Jenkins was good last year, but he just keeps getting better. The DL looks to be holding up just fine.
I’m high on Hicks, he looks really good.
He looks good with run recognition, but he’s a step slow in pass coverage.
I do think this is Ryans’ last year here though. With Hicks looking good and Kendricks on the books with an extension, I don’t see the point in keeping Ryans.
I thought he looked really good in coverage except on one play. The Wheel out last week.
Rookie ILB covering that is asking a whole lot.
except the exact situation we are in right now with 2 starters out lol
That’s why you keep a guy like Goode and we’ll still have Alonso.
Anyone know what Bradford’s longest completed pass is this year?
it probably came off a screen pass or checkdown
You counting all the 20+ passes from last week that were dropped?
A decent quarter… Wonders never cease
Yeah now let’s see if we can chain it together with another good quarter.
Chip hates TOP but this is the kind of game where it will really matter. ‘Offensively challenged’ would be a good way to summarize the first quarter by both teams.
Or ‘defensively dominated’
am i awake?
Still recovering field position from parkeys awesome kickoff
Jets don’t have their H-back,their No 1 and 3 WRs, and their No 1 RB. Pedestrian team that became even more so
yeah, make no mistake about it, the Jets are a defensive team.
come on bradford.
I was wont if ertz was still on the team
Wondering
He has been targeted 16 times the first 2 weeks. Just not making many gras.
please shy away from going at darelle revis
Poor throw there
another bad throw
Another shitty throw by Bradford.
Should have been more out front on that throw.
C’mon special teams.
Block in the back on cooper?
Five missed tackles?
ST isn’t playing well enough to win this game, if they don’t get it together it’s going to cost us at some point today..
..
Great coverage
nolan carroll nice.
textbook by carrol
Tried Smith once on a post route. I have to figure they’ll do that at least 3-4 more times.
WIDE OPEN, thank goodness for pressure
Whoa whoa whoa…. what the hell was that. First…. can a QB throw past 10 yards? Is that allowed? Second… DBs are allowed to defend that?
Barwin with the greeting.
I’ll see your punt and raise you.
Go little man!
Sproles! MVP!
YES YES YES
There’s your special teams
I just scared my whole family
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
The stuttering Gangsta Dwarf strikes again… Way to get your shit together ST!!
Your Philadelphia Eagles Offense everybody.
I’ll take it all day every day and twice on sundays
One more to go then
We may need it more than twice on Sunday the way our actual offense plays, but yes.
Look at Rowe get after that punter, no wonder we traded up for him!
I’m 6’4 tall, am I too big to get a Sproles jersey?
The real question is are you big enough
I’m gonna let ’em know that Sproles is back on
the scene! I’m gonna let ’em know that Sproles is my name, and returning punts for TDs is my game!
That may just be enough against this inept Jets offense.
Big guys beat little guys Kelly?
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/classes/6.837/F00/Lecture22/Roadrunner.jpg
What is wrong with parkey?
Anemic offense in the Vikings game, too. But I’m getting to see good defense, and a few good passes.
Sounds like the offenses of both Eagles and Jets are atrocious.
Thank goodness for Sproles, hey?
does that make up for our stupid kicker
What’s happening, I’m at work, thus sucks! Sprole kicking ass again?
WTF was that kick Parkey? To the 10 yard line? Seriously?
It’s like Alex Henery 2.0.
I wonder if that injury from preseason is still bothering him.
He has been pretty consistently in the end zone the last couple of weeks though. The Meadowlands winds can affect a lot of things though.
The wind being the issue would much better for our season
What the hell Parkey?
Why can’t parley kick it in EZ today?
Still hurt?
Seeing the replay of the Sproles return, Burton almost blew it with a late block in the back.
completely unneccesary too
Yeah I saw that. that’s a why? play.
First time i’ve seen Bennie Logan pushed off the line this year.
There’s that Run D i love so much!
First time I’ve had to flip out (in joy) all season
81 was wide open
sprolsey again!
Jets look out of funk early but the Eagles’ coverage has been decent enough, tackling has been great, and the pass rush has been adequate enough so far.
So glad Davis is blanketing Marshall. It is a no-brainer decision but i was worried about that a bit.
This is the 3rd Team Fitzpatrick took to a 2-0 start and he never reaches 3-0… fitzy ready to turn back into a pumpkin
hush child!
bIbity Bobity Boo Bitches!!! I don’t do Jynxs, that shit for scared life long losers
Mariota with a pick 6. Its Chip’s day today.
Yeah that wasn’t really Mariota’s fault though.
Could have easily been called a reception and a fumble.
Bridgewater was so great this drive.
I mean, it’s no skin off my nose, specifically, but if the Eagles had never pretended that Foles is a viable starting QB, the Eagles could have had him, and he would have fit better than Mariota, frankly.
Lack of a passing catching RB or TE threat is killing the Jets so far. There is space in the middle of the field.
Go deep here.
MATHEWS DROPS TOO FUCKING MANY
Lol
Ugh.
that right there is what’s killing this offense.
what a block by sproles
Saw that.
Game changing plays left on the field
And many 3 and outs can this game have today? 10 combined by both teams?
Mathews catches that he’s STILL running.
If Bradford led him, which he didn’t. But it should have been 20 yards easy.
Bradford didn’t throw a good ball for sure, but Mathews had it in his hands. Plenty of blame for both of them
Oh, no doubt that was mostly on Matthews. That was easily catchable and would have been a big play. Then we only quibble that it could have been bigger… rather than making a zero yard play.
If these were ancient times, governed by “eye for an eye”, Miles Austin would get his hands chopped off as punishment for being this worthless in every way imaginable
Its as if we don’t practice.
I don’t see Bradford’s accuracy. Every pass the guy has to twist or turn or go to the ground to try and catch the ball. He’s not hitting anyone in stride. Mathews shoulda caught that but Bradford also should have lead him up the field with it instead of making him stop and turn to catch it.
agree but thought that pass was on the money
didnt want to lead him out of bounds
The pass to Mathews was not a “bad” pass, but it could have been put in a slightly better spot without leading him out of bounds. Still clearly should have been caught and arguing that particularly pass may be nit picking, but the inaccuracy has been an issue throughout the first 2 and a half games.
What drives me nuts is that he seemed to be hitting guys in stride during the preseason. Now that it’s for real, he’s just off.
He’s been terrible today so far even with the 2 surefire drops.
mathews has brick hands all season
turns his head before catching it
He was running for a TD….in his mind.
only running for a td we’ve been doing this season
Positive visual reinforcement.
Boo Birds coming out in New York.
On 3rd down no less lol
Not a single positive thing has happened when the bal has gone Miles Austin’s direction all season. Its like Steve Smith all over again
Completely worthless.. I knew better then to sign a cowboy.. Demarco filled the one acceptable cowboy quota
only one foot
hoep they challenge it
good job listening to the crowd coach
Someone in a 3man rush almost threw an OL into Fitzy
Curry
Good catch by Kerley, but you need both feet down chief.
IDIOT
In this case, that’s a good thing!
Really bad challenge.
bowles spent too much time with andy
The Andy Reid School of Challenge and Time Out Management celebrates its alum: Todd Bowles
The old go with the Drunken crowd method
That would have been a catch if his knee hit before his elbow was out but it didn’t, waste of a challenge.
More points please.
knee touch?
2nd best non catch Ive seen lol
we know all about non catches
has that stretch play ever worked?
Was he tackled down on that play? I didn’t see anything land down on the ground.
On one quick replay… not sure I saw anything down either.
well done bradford
That was a great challenge. Shin or calf could have hit first, and big upside
Totally worth the risk, I wish Chip Kelly would take a hint in this area.
Offensive line does a good job picking up stunts on passing plays but are mystified by them on runs.
i think slowing hte pace down is helping the oline
more time for communication
TURF MONSTER
i like how the vary the pace — like the pats.
Whatever we’re paying Sproles, we should make it more.
FUCK YES!!!
Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YESSSS!!!!
Caught that one
finally
Whaaaaat
Best throw Bradford has had as an Eagle so far.
OK, We’ve been killing Bradford for accuracy today, but that was a perfect ball.
way to respond chip. bravo.
Can’t believe that wheel route was wide open again. Great throw and catch!
Hope that builds confidence for Bradford
thank god he held on
“You can’t throw it any better if you’re Sam Bradford. You could if you were another quarterback, but not if you were Sam.”
Offense touchdown in 1st half. Finally.
That was a beautiful pass. Might be the first hyper-accurate one… been a couple feet off on many other throws though most have been catchable.
Better coverage, trumped by a better throw and a much better catch.
Now that we have a lead, everyone should loosen up a bit, start having more fun out there which should make a difference in our play
YE SYE EYSESYEYSY
IDIOT
All we needed was 2 drives like that last week….:(
Okay. I’ll take it
Does that count as a PBU for Barwin? (I kid, I kid)
cant overturn
gonna tune into “Inside the NFL” this week and listen to this head case try and explain that one
I’m having Ronnie brown on the goal line flashbacks with that one
Think he is down
The old Ronnie Brown Special!
that one is can go either way.
Wow. What an incredibly dumb play. Regardless of if it gets overturned or not, that’s just idiotic.
Is it too soon to be thinking shutout?
Yes.
Aaaannnnd…jinxed.
Is the game over yet? no? then it’s too early.
I’ll take it.
Hicks has been really impressive.
What did Brandon Marshall smoke before the game? And where can I get some?
everything going our way…..Marshall doesn’t deserve to have that overturned….really stupid play
Another worm-burner
gotta make that throw
FLAG
Wow, I think Marshall got taxed for being a moron with that call.
I don’t know. Normally the moment is when the ball carrier loses control (even if still touching the ball). Technically it may have still been under control, but only fingertips were still touching when the elbow hit — no way he could have retained control of the ball at that point, was committed to the lateral. When is the “moment” on an intentional lateral where the runner is down first?
We need all the help we can get but they are stupid
Unnecessary Roughness: Suplexing.
total loss of composure/
They realized they need to take out our best player if they want a chance…
Replay official: he was down but that was so stupid we’ll call it a fumble.
Ill take it all
The stretch finally works!
OMG! The stretch play DOES work!
I hate that call, but we suffered for it too.
Celek blocked a linebacker!
Celek held on that. Lucky
Off by a half inch Matthews.
That’s what my wife always says
I hope your name is matthews.
sucks for my fantasy….but them scoring period is better for my life overall
My liver is certainly grateful.
YES YES YES EYS
Is this the same line as the first two weeks?
ugh we dont need any OL injuries… even if its gardner
he’s played well today.
Sproles definitely earned that goal line carry.
Can we just wear the damn green jerseys more? We suck in all white
I don’t think any color will help Bradford though
Your’e right, his sleeves look ridiculous in any color.
Good sign.
Sproles run behind Cooper (Best RBlock WRS) for a TD
lololololl 24-0
I’ll be honest, given the first 2 weeks, if our biggest problem is our idiot kicker can’t get the ball into the end zone on kick offs, I’ll be happy.
The Jets haven’t kicked off yet so no idea if it’s just the winds there or not.
good point
No but we’ve kicked off in both directions and he’s had problems today.
Yeah, Parkey’s not right. Got to be fighting some kind of nagging injury.
Punters don’t seem to mind
The real Pope has blessed us with the ability to be able to score. We needed that.
In the first two weeks, three points put us in 31st…who is 32nd?
The Jets?
Much better job this week of setting up the outside run by being willing to pound it inside even when it wasn’t getting big results. Keep it up!!!
The big result is wearing down the D line. That’s when the ball gets rolling.
what the f is going on in dallas, i thought brooks reed would help ATL D
dont allow easy points here!
Vinny sighting.
Get em V-dot!!!
ATTA BOY BIG BOY
Vinny Curry caused that sack.
haven’t been many flags so far?
No, it’s been a fairly clean game.
it’s nice compared to last 2 weeks
a sack would be huge
blitz!
WTF IS DAVIS DOING???? THREE MAN RUSH?!?!??! are you kidding!
c’mon Davis. 3 man rush? Seriously?
That’s on you, ATG.
Disgusting showing there.
That’s on Bill Davis.
That is a seriously dumb play call. you cant give someone 10 seconds to pass from teh 15 yard line. Even if its fitzpatrick
too conservative there on D
Nothing stupid. Take a knee.
Gardner not out there for last snap
That was an odd shot there with Maxwell and the Ref.
Per Eskin, Gardner is getting foot x-rayed.
Maragos has a knee contusion.
Thought Atlanta’s defense was better than they’ve been today. C’mon.
Guessing it’s a bit of a trap game. I’d probably sleep on them too with Brandon Weeden under center.
Plan foiled to burn down Rams stadium today. Only amounted to a 26 minute delay.
lol
I’m sure the owner is disappointed he has one less reason to move to LA.
We really can’t afford for any of our OL to go down. They’ve been mediocre on their good days and horrible on their bad ones. Depth is non-existent.
hope he’s ok, they really need the consistency
Don’t turn the ball over in the second half and we should get out of here with a win
New thread
http://igglesblitz.com/2015/09/phi-nyj-2nd-half/#disqus_thread
I like how aggressive Thurmond is at making tackles behind the line against RBs. Impressive how he attacks and flows to the correct hole. Good to see from a guy that just moved from CB to S.
Death Rowe baby!