Injury Update
Posted: September 28th, 2015 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 230 Comments »Football can be a cruel game. Andrew Gardner won the competition to be the starting RG this summer. He played well in the preseason and despite perception that he was struggling in regular season games, Gardner had been solid. He was taking advantage of the opportunity afforded him.
Unfortunately there is some bad news.
Source says badly sprained foot for Andrew Gardner, will have to mull surgery.
— Les Bowen (@LesBowen) September 28, 2015
More bad injury news for #Eagles. I'm told OG Andrew Gardner foot injury is Lis Franc. Could be out for season. @FOX29philly
— Howard Eskin (@howardeskin) September 28, 2015
Yikes. For the Eagles and Gardner. The O-line just played its best game of the year on Sunday. The last thing that group needed was change. And bad news for Gardner. This won’t cost him a new deal or money, but it takes away the thing players treasure the most…playing time.
Gardner isn’t a spring chicken. He is 29 and this is his first chance to be a regular starter. Jon Runyan never wanted to come off the field because he feared getting Wally Pipp’d (see here to understand that reference). You never know how Gardner’s replacement will do. Matt Tobin will most likely get the call. He’s younger than Gardner and could steal the job long term.
Tobin can be an effective starting RG. He has the right combination of size, physicality and athleticism. Tobin just hasn’t been consistent. Maybe losing the RG battle this summer will serve as a wake-up call and bring out the best in Tobin.
Dennis Kelly and Josh Andrews are other candidates for the RG spot. Kelly might struggle in pass pro from the RG spot. He has pretty good feet, but doesn’t use his arms well. That could make him vulnerable to interior rushers where you can’t just play the angle and use your length. Andrews is interesting. He’s never played an offensive snap in an NFL game that I know of. He certainly hasn’t started. Still, Andrews had a good summer and earned his spot on the team. It would be fun to see if he could take advantage of the chance to play or if he would remind us why he’s been on the bench to this point in his career.
Is an outside move possible? Maybe. There aren’t a bunch of good O-linemen available though. Todd Herremans did get benched in Indy the other day. The Eagles could inquire about him, but if he was benched there, is he worth bringing back?
The other big news is that the Eagles are reportedly putting PK Cody Parkey on IR and signing Caleb Sturgis.
Eagles reportedly signing a guy who got hurt in a kickball game to replace the injured Cody Parkey: http://t.co/ZxqoSsZhXA
— Jimmy Kempski (@JimmyKempski) September 28, 2015
What could possibly go wrong?
Sturgis is fine inside of 40 yards, but his kicks are erratic beyond that. At this point, there aren’t great choices available. I’m sure Dave Fipp had a reason for wanting Sturgis.
Remember that Parkey was going to be cut by the Colts when the Eagles dealt for him. He wasn’t anything special at the time. Fipp liked something about him and the results were spectacular.
I doubt the Eagles will get the same kind of production from Sturgis. At this point, they’ll hope he can solidify the position and help the team to win some games.
One final injury update.
Eagles LB Kiko Alonso in Florida today to get 2nd opinion on knee from Dr. James Andrews; diagnosis will help determine if surgery needed.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 28, 2015
The development of Jordan Hicks makes this less critical, but Alonso is still the kind of talented player you want on the field. As we saw in the opener, he is a playmaker. Even in a limited role, he could be a big help.
I’m hearing mixed things. Keep your fingers crossed for good news.
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Now we just need Bradford to get injured so we can at least get the 4th back in the trade that should have chip fired.
If this was the NBA, Bradford would be valuable as an expiring contract.
Chip is not getting fired.
GMs that make terrible decisions at QB get fired. Why should chip be any different?
Don’t worry Tommy, the Bears are on the verge of a fire sale. Long is the next victim and he’s got “Eagles” written all over him.
We wish!
He would be too pricey.
Other news, Maclin is stealing money in KC.
I hope no one expected a repeat of last year…
In fairness he is playing with a QB who can’t use WR’s if his life depended on it… iF you have a QB that can throw to WRs, probably doesn’t make much sense to spend so much on one, but I guess they thought Mac would fill Alex smiths allergy to WRs..
Is that why we went cheap with our WRs this year? 😉
I wouldn’t call spending a 1st, 2nd and 3rd round pick on WRs in the past two drafts “going cheap”… We just decided that we will go with homegrown young WRs and now it’s up to us to Develope them to reach their full potential….
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I know. I was just making a joke (see the winky face) poking a little fun at Bradford because you said it doesn’t make sense to spend so much on a WR if you have a QB than can’t throw to WRs.
The Dix hit that got flagged on Maclin represented the player I wanted to get hitting the player I wanted to keep. Ah, the circle of disappointment.
With Thurmond and Jenkins playing so well, you don’t need to be coveting anyone else’s safeties . That tandem is playing as well as any
It would make for one hell of a nickel package.
What’s wrong with our Nickel now?
You guys are right, Clinton Dix would be riding the bench on our defense.
I think he would be an up grade over Maragos playing safety… but as Maragos hasn’t made a mistake yet I cant really fault him.
I think the biggest problem in our defense is paying a press corner not to press
Don’t give in so easy…lol…I’d rather have Dix on this team…
I don’t get it. Maclin has over 100 yards, what is he stealing? I came on here to mention that I would rather overpay him than get extra running backs and go cheap or WR.
to be fair, when he wrote that he had zero catches
Ah… I was at work and it just seemed every time I looked up, Maclin was catching something. Then on the radio… over and over. Then come here and see that he’s stealing money!
Garbage time stats
He did break the TD to a Wr. drought. That has to be worth something.
What a completely worthless stat line,.. Mac had two modest catches in the first half when the game was still competitive, then the Packers got a big lead and Maclin put up those numbers against an loose prevent defense..
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With as bad as Bahktari (however the hell you spell his name)’has been blocking, I was annoyed that Tamba Ali and Justin Houston didn’t beat up Rogers more…when a QB is on fire the way Rogers was, your only hope is To knock him out of the game..
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Evan Mathis gave us a few years of great service, but the best Guard in the League talk was not true… packers LG Josh Sitton is the best Guard in the NFL the past few years, and Id even Take Kyle Long over Mathis..
You’re only stealing when the holder of the money isn’t giving it away.
I’m really interested in seeing what Josh Andrews can do, he’s a wide guy who moves really well and really impressed me in preseason although he played against 2nd/3rd strings
The Bears seem to be trying to trade players for picks… It’s a long shot that they would part with them, but Marynowitz should do his due dillgence and ask if they have any interest in taking a draft pick for Alshon Jeffries, Kyle Long or Grasu…
Jeffries maybe. I don’t see them giving up young guys if they are going to do a rebuild. I’d love them, but don’t see it happening.
i don’t expect them to part with Jeffries or Long, but we should still do our due diligence and see if we can’t put together an enticing package a quality young player on a favorable contact in return..
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For example I love Ced Thornton, but we probably can’t pay him, Bennie and Cox, we are really deep at DL, it’s not easy for me to trade him, but if we could give up Thornton and like a 3rd round pick for a young pro bowl guard chip knows well(Kyle long), I’d do it..,, heck even swap our 1st for their 2nd to sweeten the pot, they will pick top 3 in round 2 so not that big of a difference
Heck our NO.1 may still end up being a high pick…. not sure Id trade that
Doubt it will be a top 19 pick ,I see good things in our immediate future.. but who knows…
If we end picking top 10 or late 20s I wont be surprised
That is not a half bad trade proposal.. They could make it a conditional 1st. If the Eagles pick falls below X spot, then the Eagles give next years 1st. I don’t know, get Howie out of the Janitors closet and run it by him.
yea it seems to me they are trading away defensive players who don’t fit their 3-4 defense….Willie young is supposedly next
Jeffery’s contract is up, it’s not a great use of resources but it’s tempting. Then you stunt Matthews and Agholor’s development. Hell we don’t even use Ertz and Celek in addition to Agholor. We have Jordan who is somewhat similar and Agholor. Jeffery has talent, he’s smart and he’ll get a huge contract but he isn’t in prime shape and has work ethic questions.
Matthews is not even close to the same type of player Jeffery is.
Matthews is a big slot WR in the mold of Colston, Jeffery is a true deep threat on the outside
I don’t know why I don’t bet $1000 on a money line against Andy Reid everytime he faces up against a top team…
https://twitter.com/Dantej21/status/648694499745636352
Jordan hicks played ever snap, like 20 snaps more then Meco..
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Surprised to see Cox play more then 20 plays more then Bennie and all out other Dlineman…
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Surprised Agholar played more snaps than Jordan and all the WRs, put the damn ball in his hands on a reverse, screen, Anything. Get him going ASAP!
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Surprised that Rowe only played 15 snaps and still had a Impressive game. Basically they tried to pick on him as soon as he came in the game and he made them pay in a big way for thinking he was sweet.. Loved seeing him shut down fellow rookie, the deep ball threat Devin smith
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Pleased with our defense considering we had BIGs on the field for half the game..
Really impressed with Hicks. He’s not missing tackles, over pursuing or blowing coverage like you see rookies do.
Also impressed with Rowe’s growth at CB. He turned his hips and was able to stay with speedy WR in Smith. He is an outside CB and should not be place in the slot
Really ESPN? Biggest clean hit of the weekend and you show a another two replays of the play before that one? I should have gone to bed.
They’re the worst.
there could be a fire sale in chi town, anyone worth getting. feel like forte would beast in thisscheme. long and bennett would be the biggest prizes though.
Kyle Long would be absolutely amazing.
Long isn’t going to get moved.
Ka’Deem Carey and Brock Vereen would be worth a phone call.
Let’s get Urlacher!
Hoping Forte,doesn’t end up in Dallas assuming they can even afford him
Wonder if we bring Moffitt back just based on familiarity with scheme. Herremans would be interesting — I’d be all for that. Wonder if Chip would do that, although since it would be a much lower salary than he was scheduled to get, that could be the rationale. But I’m not sure you bring Herremans back just to be a backup.
They are both bad at football right now…so…
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Don’t want to be a downer but in each of Rowe’s play on the ball (PBU/INT) he was a step behind the WR, and he could make a play because of an underthrown ball. He did make the plays then, and showed good awareness, but if Fitzpatrick led D.Smith a bit more, in each case it would have been a long reception/TD, and we would not have the same discussion.
And no, I don’t think he was trailing the WR as there was no (or limited) help over the top.
The int was perfect coverage, he sat in his hip pocket, turned his head and got the interception
Yea…this seems like someone reaching to find something to be upset about. He played tight coverage, watched the WRs eyes and turned at the last second and made a play on the ball. Really exactly what you want to see on both plays.
Don’t you know you’re supposed to be 15 yards in front of the receiver in press man
If you have even a shred of talent, you can just look into a QB’s eyes and line up where he’s going to throw the ball, pre-snap. Though he should be able to use the force to compel the QB just to throw it to him if he’s worth his salt.
Just remember the force choke to sack the QB is now conserved unsportsmanlike conduct and results in 15 yard penalty and invite to join the dark side.
Force blasts must occur below the neck and above the knees, always
It is however allowed in baseball.
I like the overall sarcasm and dismissal of my remark: I’ll make screen caps when back home. I’m fairly sure that at the very least on the first PBU, D.Smith had one or two steps on him, and had to slow down for the ball, which allowed Rowe to be in a position to actually play the ball. A pass 2/3 yards further, and I think Rowe not only does not defend the pass, but it might be a TD.
I am just trying to tone down the enthusiasm for those plays, as to me the lack of recovery speed that Rowe showed in the pre-season was still shown in both plays (once again, INT I’m less confident, but I am for the PBU) and underthrows allowed him to make plays he was maybe not in a position to make had the ball been thrown well (and no: not “perfectly”. Just in stride.). Long story short: positioning, not great, playing the ball: great. But let’s not forget the first part because of the latter, especially given he’s shown this as being an area for concern in the past.
Exactly. They’ll still be showing tape of that to youngsters in 20 years.
Stop it
Stop it…
There is no defense for the great pass, ever. There’s always a window if you have the skill and the balls to throw it. The best you can do is be in a position to be in a position to minimize that window and make the tackle in the even the perfect pass does occur.
HUH. I thought his coverage looked pretty good on the INT personally. Can’t fault Rowe for anything that the QB does at any rate though. Just ask the Rook to make the plays that are presented. That’s all you can ask of anybody. As much as I love Malcolm Jenkins, I like him a bunch more if he snagged the picks that came HIS way.
“At this point, there aren’t great choices available. I’m sure Dave Fipp had a reason for wanting Sturgis.”
https://twitter.com/AlbertBreer/status/648519492268527616
The Eagles brought in six kickers for tryouts as replacement for Parkey. While I agree that Fipp had reasons to pick Sturgis among the 6 who tried out, I think this seems to look a lot more like picking the best of a bad group than Fipp being excited about Sturgis.
Tobins gonna be fine.
This is a stud block on Wilkerson
http://www.gfycat.com/SecretCheerfulArrowworm
nice, haven’t gotten to see too much of that this year.
Do you think he’s fine in both areas or that he’ll struggle with pass pro or run blocking?
He’s a good run blocker. That area will be fine.
The play where williams just used his legnth to overwhelm in him pass pro pretty much sumarizes his struggles in pass pro. He’s fine against most guys, but players with great length or quickness will overwhelm him. He has poor lateral agility and I’m pretty sure he has short arms, so these will always be a problem, but he’s taken great strides as it now takes an Aaron Donald or Calais Campbell to beat him, and not a 270lbs rSO from Purdue.
So, is Julian Vandervelde the player to sign the most Eagles contracts ever?
As for Kiko, no one EVER went to get a second opinion when they like what they heard from the first oppinion…. Don’t expect it to be good news
exactly. and nobody goes to Andrews unless it’s serious…
The fruit smoothies ain’t working for shit this year.
http://blacksportsonline.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/chip-kelly-personalized-smoothies-Eagles-Players.jpg
Chip Kelly trades to obtain Todd Herremans’ wife for a 4th rounder. Picks up Herreman’s after being cut.
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I love that Harbaugh and his Ravens scum are playing so poorly..
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Sounds like Drew Brees is pretty serious about playing against the Cowboys this week,,. hopefully 0-3 saints are desperate enough to play well and beat the Cowboys this week
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Shady McCoy won’t play Sunday against the Giants, but hopefully Bills defense beats up Eli and and gives the Giants a loss..
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Sure would be great to see us win Sunday, while all 3 of our Rivals lose.. That wouldn’t officially wipe away our putrid start
Eagles have 5 players on IR – just sent Parkey and Gardner, NEED OL help.
They re-signed Julian “the yo-yo” Vandervelde.
ESPN’s Josina Anderson reported the Giants are working out Wes Welker and Hakeem Nicks on Tuesday.
The D is putting up some great numbers and some of the players are passing the “eye test”. There are some bad QBs on the slate as well. Do you guys think Maxwell is going to start looking better here? Six games in, where will the D rank?
Maxwell’s a finished product, even if he wasn’t he just got PAID. He is healthy by all accounts. Seems like a happy go lucky guy. Don’t see a fire in him to be pissed off about looking bad. He’ll have better days, and bad days I think. But I don’t see many reasons to believe he’ll improve.
hopefully the unit gets used to playing better — safeties will know he’s bound to get beat and ballhawk.
Hopefully we stop thinking of him as a shut down corner. The coaches need to do their part to maximize his strengths and compensate for his weaknesses. The money has been paid, whether he’s worth it or not, we have to make sure we get the most out of him.
Have the coaches changed anything in terms of scheme, or just added new players?
I’m not sure yet. Seems more the same, leave the CB’s in a tough spot (infuriating when we knew they didn’t have the personnel to do that last year), Safeties aren’t in a position to help typically, usually a safety will show up to help make the tackle, but not cover. I dunno, secondary play is especially hard to look at when
A. you have to wait for coaches’ film to even see and
B. you can only guess at the coverage called.
The seemed to mix it up more against Marshall last week. For example, Barwin was going out wide to bump Marshall off the line with the CB covering over top. I don’t remember seeing us do that before.
That was our Fitzgerald plan. I always thought it was a neat wrinkle. Big powerful receivers we sometimes do that. Haven’t seen us do it to Dez, which is…upsetting if it turns out we haven’t figured out he’s one of the most physical and powerful receivers in the league
Watching him from the upper deck all afternoon in Sunday, it’s apparent that he is going to play about 10 yards off the line of scrimmage on every play. Dallas and especially Atlanta (Dan Quinn factor, anyone?) exploited this by running crossers and sharp in routes on him. Even when you think back to the preseason, his big interception against Baltimore essentially came on a play where he been beaten to the inside, but Flacco overthrew the ball right to Maxwell.
I don’t agree with the others that say that Maxwell is a “finished product”, though I will agree that he’s closer to his ceiling than his floor at this point. I think the issue is that the coaches are using him in a way that he’s uncomfortable with–he’s shown the ability to be a good zone coverage guy with great over the top help, and he’s being used in press man on an island. Some of it may be fixed as he gets more comfortable in the scheme and can learn to trust the safeties *shudders*. Most of it would be fixed, though, by adjusting the schemes more to his strengths.
He played a mixture of press man and cover 3 in Seattle.
We play a mixture of press man and cover 3.
Thank you. This new narrative that Maxwell is strictly a “zone CB” is driving me crazy.
I think it all started with Asomugha. That was painful.
[…] broke down the latest injuries and what they mean for the team moving […]
Maybe we can put Cooper on the IR too.
https://twitter.com/Jeff_McLane/status/648895285163356160
Can you imagine how much this year is going to change the sports science narrative–justly or not?
I know.
As injured as we are, I wonder where we compare to other teams.
None of this stuff is statistically significant, football is such a random sport. I was just about to say at least we didn’t lose our starting QB like Dallas or NO, but then… it is possible it would be a good thing if we did!
A soccer-style kicker is moving his lower body completely contrary to nature so I’m not sure any amount of science or weight-training would help, especially if one muscle in the area was already weak. ACLs or Achilles are not smooth muscle either, so they are probably exempt as well. Sports science is largely concerned with cardio, muscle maintenance and membrane elasticity, I believe. Also brain training. ;~)
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call me crazy, but i’d rather have Coop out there than Miles Austin. i mean, its like we already know neither of them will catch anything thrown their way, but Coop has to be the better blocker…
Nothing crazy about that.. Austin has been worthless in every way… At least Coop made a key block on Sproles goal line TD run, which was a bigger contribution then Austn has made since arriving in philly .
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We all know Coops Limitatipns, but while he is here, we should still give him a jump ball opportunity every once n a while
No wonder Cooper can’t get on the same page with Bradford. He thinks sleeves go on your leg?!
Maybe he has something up his sleeve.
There is no “good news” on Kiko.
Door A is you should definitely have surgery for your long term health.
Door B is you can rest and come back this year, but risk long term damage to the ligament.
Uggh. It’s a shame. Is there a possibility the first surgery wasn’t done properly?
So you are saying theres a chance?
Get the surgery
Just a quick camp note in Philly – the trade of the century that landed us Sauce Castillo and the right to take the Kings pick in the top-10 for the next two years. Highway robbery at its best.
https://twitter.com/PompeyOnSixers/status/648911158930485248
You think he is going to be good?
Hell to the naw, he’ll be lucky to end up an even decent player.
We disagree. He was improving at the end of last year, and I think he’s in a better situation here.
i agree with you regarding Sauce, his production went up when his minutes went up last year, but i think you are going overboard with thinking playoffs this year. I think about 25 wins is this teams range. Next years draft is huge and will complete the foundation for this team but they will still be very young, don’t think we should be thinking playoffs that year either…most underrated pickup for this offseason will be Kendall Marshall…very efficient PG
I think the East is so weak, they should make a run. We basically got two 1st rounders starting this new this year. I think they’ll surprise some people this year.
That is if Hinkie doesn’t trade away too many pieces. Aldemir, Sampson, Thompson, Grant, and McRae might be nice rotational players off the bench. I like the talent and Brown and his staff are going to earn their money this year. But we should instantly be better in the paint with Okafor, and better shooting from Sauce.
Just my hope, but Brown seems to know what he’s doing.
Also, with the Kings picking top-3, we get their pick. If the Lakers end up 4 and below, we get theirs. Still have a decent amount of talent to flow through here.
i think overall the team will perform better, less blowouts, but they are still really young though, but im really excited about the future
Absolutely. I think he fits better here and he’s with a bunch of other young guys. With him and Roco sniping from the outside, and Okafor and Noel in the middle – they are going to coach this into a nice team come the end of the year.
They are making the playoffs this year. I’m figuring around the 7th or 8th seed. The only piece we are missing is a stellar PG.
Wow thats bold man. I think if Embiid was healthy you have a point but thats an uphill battle. My guess is they start making the 8th seed by the end of next season when they get a couple more 1st rounder talent in the draft.
stop teasing me
Holy hanna!! He made two foul shots in a row!!!
I agree that he will be a solid shooter and decent athletic presence at the 2-guard this season.
Sauce is gonna be a sharp shooter this year. Defense is gonna worry about the two big men. In and out, out and in, all day.
As to playoffs, only Hinkie knows. Without contract dumps and other team killing moves they could make 8th seed.
I’m thinking this way because the East is weak. If they were in the West, no shot.
Sixers are starting to look loaded, and it’s absurd that they have so many future picks still in the holster as well. If Embiid can finally come back… Could really be something.
#Grit
That gives me chills just thinking about it. It took me 6 months to recover from a simple strain that didn’t even hurt when it happened.
Les Bowen tweeted that Parkey said he tore “all 3 muscles in his groin”. Which is both impressive and eye-watering.
Poor kid. We’re gonna miss him.
Dude tore all 3 muscles in his groin and played thru it,.. Much much respect, that may be the toughest thing I ever heard a kicker do….young kid, look forward to getting cody back next year
Bradford was very inaccurate against what might be the best secondary in the NFL, but he threw no interceptions. This actually got me wondering, why? Might be because he is too scared of throwing interceptions.
All coaches hate interceptions, but Kelly seems to take his hate of interceptions further. Bradfords lack of long throws and when he does throw long, his overthrowing could be because of fear of getting the ball anywhere close to being intercepted.
When Kelly is in your ear saying, “dont throw an interception, be careful with the ball, dont get sacked (sacks are the greatest QB sin), get the ball out quick” it might get in the way of letting natural ability take over. This might be getting into Bradfords head, playing scared of his knee and of interceptions.
Might explain why Bradford was so good in preseason and practice – no fear of interceptions. “Practice in preseason is when you want to throw interceptions, to test what you can do” you hear top QBs say.
A QB who plays scared, who plays to not throw interceptions is not a QB to lead a team to a superbowl. If Kelly wants a superbowl caliber QB then maybe he should just tell Bradford to “let it rip” – isnt that the advice that helped Foles get over that awful Dallas game? Go with instincts, trust his arm, if intercepted, get over it and try again.
grip it and rip it!
Anyone know where to find the clip that Billy Davis was talking about where Barwin looked backwards the guard looked too and Barwin ran around the guard?
Yes. Hang on.
https://twitter.com/BenFennell_NFL/status/648553630786813952
If you don’t see the tweet above, refresh
Thanks. That is an awesome trick.
Like faking throwing a ball to my dog.
This is awesome. Reminds me of the interview last week where Brandon Graham said he only really needed two pass rushs – a primary and a counter. Barwin here shows us a better approach I think..
One thing ‘Ol St. Nick was not afraid to do was let it rip deep. and he was pretty dang good at it…. Bradford has the arm, but like Jaws80 says he is scared to get picked. I think that’s true.
The one thing I don’t like I see from Sam is he is always throwing up his hands like what? its not my fault… he doesn’t have that leader mentality on his face at all… yet?
he did the same thing when the ball was snapped off his chest, no it wasn’t his fault we all know that, so why are you looking around like a deer in headlights throwing your hands up like what the heck?
he needs to get mean, he needs to lead out there moving forward.
this next game will show a lot about Sam in the NFC East.
go get em Johnny Utah.
Think the Bradford won’t go deep talk is a load of crap, and The shots down field will come once,we really get the run game going and face Favorable matchups.. Going into the Jets game, I think it was pretty obvious that we wouldn’t see our WRs have a good day, and that the game plan would be tailored around attacking the LBs with Sproles and Jordan ..
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The shots down field will come… For example. To no surprise to anypne other then that Fool Elliot Parks, Landon Collins is getting roasted in coverage. No need to force shots down field, but I’ll be upset if we don’t take shots downfield when the matchuo actually favors us, for Example, Attack the Seam down field all day when we play the Giants…. And the skins defense is also a secondary we should see Bradford Attack down field..
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I don’t think it’s wise to make judgements of Bradford after 3 games… If we are still having these bradford conversations after the bye week, then I will be concerned
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Jets Needed 5 turnovers per game to go 0-2, think Not turning the ball over against them was much more,important then completing a few,extra passes to WRs…
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It’s not like Bradford is holding this offense back. He isn’t the only player on offense that NEEDS to be better
yeah I hear ya, but my main thing is he doesn’t act like a leader at all yet…
he has that, “it is my fault” thing going…
which is never good
Great point. I think one of the most unbecoming qualities in a QB is the Jay Cutler blame game theatrics. I liked how Foles and Vick didn’t blame. Even during the Packers playoff loss, when cooper once again came up small, Vick owned the int. Now that I think about it, bradford is very quick to point out the drops at the recent press conferences.
https://twitter.com/fduffy3/status/648941676703182848
WTF is James Carpenter (Jets RG) doing on that screen?
lol seriously
he’s running around like he shit his pants
So when Tommy writes that a prospect has the requisite athleticism, this would be an example of the opposite of that.
I think he executed a textbook backdoor seal on the Jets’ RT. Other than that, he looked really lost.
The Jets guards really seem cartoonishly dim in the limited context of some of these tweets.
Omg that’s hysterical, I didn’t even see it. He’s like a man who wandered onto a football field and isn’t sure how he got there.
He’s playing “rat-sniffer”. It’s designed to pick off any DL that sniff out the screen. He just moves super awkward.
That is such a promising play from a rookie, and one that doesn’t show anywhere on the stat sheet. He made three (?) correct decisions almost instantly and had the athleticism to execute.
Bennie Logan also had to really shed a block to get over there and help
Whole DL have amazing hustle. Almost any play within ten yards of scrimmage they are in on tackle.
Unfortunately MS2 might never have that kind of recognition. That’s what eight years of playing LB brings you.
Noticing the quick spin of the qb to know ‘screen’ and race to the other side of the field.
There is no thinking just acting immediately and being right on the money.
Then instead if facing up the RB he took outside leverage and force RB inside to the DL.
Smart people think faster than dumb people.
Yes, but sometimes thinking sideways, or backwards, can be a good thing.
http://www.csnphilly.com/sites/csnphilly/files/styles/scale_282px_wide/public/kiko-interception.jpg?itok=bSMyyfqc
What we were missing last year.
https://twitter.com/fduffy3/status/648942864873996288
When we play a good QB, he’ll see Maxwell getting toasted on the other side and throw the ball over there instead.
wow, all-22 not kind to Maxwell
From your comment, naturally I assumed the tweet was going to announce the return of Marlon Favorite.
Chipwagon has a new article up. Really good stuff about Cox.
http://chipwagon.typepad.com/eagles/2015/09/manufacturing-the-pass-rush.html
Porn hub might have had the same thing posted.
https://www.prometheusbooks.com/images/headslap.jpg
I like hearing Bennie rave and Laugh about how Cox slaps OLineman across the head with his club for a hand.. Allegedly Cox hands are a major weapon
Just going from memory, a fair share of Bradford’s inaccurate throws seemed to be intended for Agholor. Is it possible that Agholor might be seeing thing differently than Bradford, or just plain out not running precise routes? I know there was one bad overthrow against Dallas where Bradford led Agholor, but Agholor sat down. Could there be other, subtler instances of this as well?
Interesting to think about. Baldy said he beat Revis a couple times downfield but either didn’t finish the route right or Bradford threw a bad ball.
I would prefer a QB playing his 3rd game in two years to not Even look Revis’s way
Is t his reply in the right place? What does not challenging Revis have to do with the location of the balls Bradford did throw to Agholor?
If Agholor was unable to get open, that would be relevant. Or, if Bradford didn’t throw to him, then too. I don’t think it really factors in to whether the throw or the route were the cause of the inaccuracy, though.
I did think there was one pass Sam underthrew which a veteran WR might have helped out by coming back toward the ball. A rookie is more likely to wait for the ball to come to him. Newbie mistake. He’s probably already heard about it in film study.
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maybe hes too fast but 2 of the throws were low. I thought he should have caught one of them, other one was a tougher play although both werent easy esp when running full speed
Skins lost one of their starting G’s for the season as well this week.
Thankfully, they can’t get Julian Vandervelde.
Our secret weapon!
Vandervelde must be feeling like a yoyo by now.
And they have lost their #3 CB as well…
And their starting QB. Or wait was he benched, uh, er, not good enough. Can’t really even tell, what happened to their pro bowl qb?
He retired about 15 years ago
You mean the one of the greatest ex Eagles of all time, besides Mariota and Frank Gore?!
Don’t sleep on those Redskins man. I would consider every opponent deadly at this point.
We are a terrible matchup for the skins… The only way they cann be,successful is to have a monster game in the run, which just doesn’t happen against Billy Davis front 7… If we keep them to under 3.5 yards per carry like we have been doing. kurt Cousin is going to have a very rough game…
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Write this down, Eagles force impressive Rookie RB Matt Jones to fumble the ball away at least once on Sunday. ,, Rookie ain’t ready to run the ball in a gritty Rivalry game aganst the best Run defense in the NFL…
Be interesting to see how they handle djax if he plays .The way our offense has looked he only needs to go off a couple times for the game to be out of reach .
You mean the third string safety?
I’m just happy they lost junior Gallette because they didn’t deserve to steal him because the saints did the right thing and cut the crumb… After losing Gallette, the skins could be 100% healthy for all I care and I still feel confident that we smash them,, hopefully desean plays Sunday, makes the win more satisfying
so PFF gave Aaron Rodgers a negative grade for last nights performance?
lol
Only on PFF could 333 yards & 5 TD passes get you a negative grade.
they say they gave him a negative grade because he threw one ball that should have been intercepted and had a fumble, which didn’t count due to penalty…..whatever their “system” is..it’s ridiculous.
I think he also got demerits for two times when he wanted to throw the ball in a way that would have demonstrated a poor decision, except he didn’t because he was on the sidelines and the defense was on the field.
They probably docked him for that absurd back shoulder throw to James Jones, because it almost literally broke reality that it was a completed pass.
It was kinda irresponsible to risk the fabric of space-time over a football game, I agree.
yeah but you don’t understand, he made like 2 bad throws or something. That totally offsets all his stats and passing the eyeball test.
I gave him a negative grade because of how disgusting he is to watch. At certain points I just can’t stomach how unfair it is that only one team has a player like him. Absurd talent level that is hard to comprehend.
not really sure why pff is pushing click bait now. guess the realized no one takes those ratings seriously anymore and are just screwing around
Woah, thats a tough start to your rookie year having to go against those Cb’s. He has gotten separation in every game too if Sam could have just hit him a few times that would be helpful as well.
Trufant and Revis is a very tough draw for a rook…don’t get much tought then that
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Good News, after battling against REVIS and Trufant all game, running routes against the skins corners should seem Easy for Nelson
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This is a great matchuo opportunity to get Agholar, Ertz and demarco going… Be nice to see Josh Huff show a fuckin pulse..
huff is dead to me.
Just because a kid isn’t balling At the beginning of year 2, doesn’t mean he won’t grow to realize his full potential.. I’m not happy with Huff either, but some players need longer then others to get comfortable in this league… Hopefully he stops dicking around with injuries and gets some continuity this season so we can see some growth as the year unfolds…
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bg was hurt one year, and was a bust for like 3-4 years til he got it together and grew enough to earn a extension from a city that had been calling him a bust for years… Knucklehead huff annoys me too, but too soon to write him off
he is starting to remind me of Wolff
i have been Pro-Huff for awhile, i was hoping for a Hines Ward type of mold, tough runner, good hands, great blocker… he was inactive last week. Plus Bradford isn’t going to be what we were hoping…. we will be lucky if Bradford is a step above Alex Smith, he is starting to look like Captain Checkdown.
Huff was injured and was inactive vs the Jets.
Where did I say that he played against the jets?
Most dropped passes so far this year: Eagles 10, Texans 10, Jags 9, Rams 9, Cards 8, Giants 8
Catch the ball? *shrugs* anyone can do that!
The fact that he still had balls thrown his way is pretty promising, considering.
It seems that real players in real games are showing a lot more respect for Lord Admiral Nelson than many people on these boards.
Outside corners cover outside receivers
Ags probably got a false sense of security going against our CBs in practice every day.
I’d say he has performed about as well as the rest of the offense so far – no better or worse than Bradford, OL, TEs, etc.
LOL “Dr Hicks is going to make Liinebackers get healthy real quick with how well he is playing”- Seth Joyner…
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LOL KEndricks is back on the field already..
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I find myself bsing so anxious to see what Hicks does next..
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Kid came in cold in the Dallas game, got a turnover, and single handedly destroyed the Cowboys season, givng us a major boost by knccking out Romo…. Fluke? Maybe…. Then he goes on to have a 10 tackle game, INT, fumble, diagnosing screens and torpedoing thru blockers to make the tackle… In his first start the kid played all 79 snaps, more then 20 snaps more then Meco….. I can’t wait to see what this kid does next. Scary to think of what he will look like after the bye week.
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This physical, gritty Division game is going to be a great test for Hicks, because our Front 7 has the ability to win us this skins game…… The skins success is ALL Based on if their physical power run game can move the chains?
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If we shut the skins run down, Force Kurt Cousin into 3rd and Long all game, Cousins and the skins passing game isn’t going to be able to put the team on their backs and carry them to a win..
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Think Maxwell is going to have an impressive game shutting down Pierre Garcon…if Desean plays, I like Nolan matched up against him with Walter Thurmond looking to ball hawk in over the top coverage helping out Nolan… If You don’t let Desean get behind the defense, you take him out of the game.
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Nothing makes me happier then seeing our two safeties BALLING! Hicks and Jenkins will have an important task of shutting down Jordan Reed, and Kendricks ineeds to lock down the RBs since you Know kurt Cpusin will look to his check downs all day..
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If the Defense keeps improving From one week to the next, we should see them make a big statement against the skins…. Must suck to have an offense so reliant on running the ball and having to face this Eagle front 7, so deep with BEASTS
Hicks, the rookie, also had the coach in his ear. The dot on the helmet. Lining up the defense 3 games into his pro career. Pretty impressive for a player who was derided by so many folks here and on other sites.
2 out of 3 years with a bunch of key injuries……. year one was great, but other than that football is still football, hope we are done with the injury riddled players… se la vie. being an Eagles fan is like being terminally ill…. no cure, and no end in sight until its OVER.
from 24/7, re Parkey:
“An MRI following Sunday’s win showed that he had torn all three muscles in the groin.”
On his first kick. Still finished the game.
Knock him for the misses all you want but can’t doubt his #grit.
From my in-depth research of looking at which color my fantasy players’ next opponent is written, I discovered that Washington is 10th best in points allowed to QBs, but 23rd best in points allowed to WRs. Does that mean they are particularly good at defending passes to TEs and RBs? That could make things tough if the WRs don’t pick it up.
Would imagine so.
tough to tell, they have not had an interception from their secondary yet, doesn’t necessarily mean they have played poor though. Deangelo hall is out for this game which mean Breeland should take his place opposite Chris Culliver….I’m not a huge fan of the players in their secondary although they have decent size. I’m unsure who they will bring in to cover Matthews, they have a decent nickel in Will Blackmon but they may opt to stick Breeland/Culliver on him. It should be interesting but i believe if Sam Bradford ever had a chance to have a successful game, it would be this week.
Washington hasn’t gone up against the greatest of passing atttacks either. Giants, Rams and Dolphins haven’t exactly set the world on fire through the air although neither have the Eagles
From a matchup standpoint, Kerrigan, Preston Smith, and Trent Murphy are all cooked if we get them on wheel routes. Their Safeties are pretty blah. Keenan Robinson is a long athletic ILB and is good in coverage. He can hang with TE’s. Perry Riley is more of a thumper and you can exploit him on mismatches.
As to why those numbers are the way they are I would guess it’s mainly a product of who they have played thus far. Miami, Giants, Rams don’t have great TE RB recieving options.
LisFranc dislocation. Mid-foot.
http://www.learningradiology.com/caseofweek/caseoftheweekpix2006/cow217.jpg
Ouch, that looks painful
D3FB, Brock Vereen has been cut by the bears.
With the fire sale going on over there, they should at least inquire about someone that might help this team.
I’m very interested. I’m surprised they wouldn’t have offered a 7. He’s our type of safety.
Skins signed ILB Mason Foster
Sam Bradford ranked 24th this week at Football Outsiders, Rodgers #1 of course. Kaepernick # 32, scroll down to see him shrink up right after he throws the ball. Foles #18. Sproles ranked as Least Valuable Running back… ouch! Punt return not included, obviously. FO actually grades each play by whether it succeeded, so it’s got a lot more data than just the box score. “Bradford threw seven passes with 5 yards or less to go for a first down. He completed three of them for 13 total yards and only one conversion.”
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/quick-reads/2015/week-3-quick-reads
Bradford a significant part of the problem with the Eagles O…
Chip needs a Brady-like QB to reveal his inner genius
This is the first game in along time Im more excited about the defense than the offense.
DeSean playing Sunday?
don’t think he has returned to practice yet this week….Eagles are preparing like he is playing
They are practicing their foam tackling dummy impressions?
Tackling dummy? Didn’t we let Jason Babin go?
Listed as doubtful by john clayton, did not practice today..
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