Football (Kinda) is Back!!!
Posted: August 11th, 2016 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 181 Comments »Are you excited? We’re going to see the debut of Isaac Seumalo tonight!!! And the dude from South Dakota or wherever.
I have a love-hate relationship with preseason football. I love it because I’ve gone so long without football and there are so many new faces to watch. I hate it because deciphering what is real and what isn’t, what matters and what doesn’t is next to impossible. Also, there is going to be some incredibly sloppy football. That can be rough even for the bravest of souls.
Aside from the obvious (Wentz, etc.), who am I watching? Here are a few names.
Matt Tobin – Is he really reborn? Has the crappy RG really turned into a solid LT? He has looked good at LT in the past, but that was with backups. Tonight he will be a starter. We may not see a lot of him, but I’m curious to see how he does.
Trey Burton – The hype on Burton has been huge this summer. I’m excited to see what he can do. I hope the Eagles throw him the ball a time or two.
Stefen Wisniewski – Where’s Wiz? That’s the first question. Will he be the backup RG or LG? Or Center? Once I find him, I have to figure out how he’s doing. I had my doubts when the Eagles signed him, but by all accounts, he has played well this summer.
Myke Tavarres – WLB or SAM? I don’t expect him to look anything like a finished product. I’m watching to see if he flashes big potential or just looks in over his head.
Steven Means – Can he really be the #4 DE for the Eagles? Means has played in preseason games before so he should be ready to roll.
Jalen Mills – I guess the Eagles will play him in the slot and outside. I want to see if Mills will hit and tackle. I’m also curious to see if he’s over-aggressive and gets burned deep.
I don’t think the starters will be on the field much so I don’t expect to learn a lot about Brandon Brooks or Jordan Hicks or Sam Bradford. The next 2 weeks will be far more important for those guys.
The opener is all about backups, third-stringers and even fourth-stringers. These players can open eyes with how they play tonight or cost themselves a job. There is a lot on the line for the bottom half of the Eagles roster.
Here are the inactives from PE.com:
T Jason Peters (quad)
S Malcolm Jenkins (hamstring)
LB Mychal Kendricks (hamstring)
WR Jordan Matthews (knee)
RB Wendell Smallwood (quad)
DE Marcus Smith (concussion)
DT Mike Martin (knee)
CB JaCorey Shepherd (hamstring)
WR Marcus Johnson (quad)
WR Hunter Sharp (Hamstring)
Matt Tobin will start at LT. Josh Huff will start for Matthews. Najee Goode starts for Kendricks and Chris Maragos starts for Jenkins.
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) August 11, 2016
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Back to Wentz. I don’t need him to be polished or perfect. I do need to see legit ability. I want him to show me why he was the #2 overall pick. He can make mistakes, but make a big throw or two and then show me the mobility. I’m not greedy. He doesn’t have to look like Aaron Rodgers until next week.
And I will pay a lot of attention to the WRs. We really don’t know what the Eagles have there. Let’s hope the OLs block well so the QBs have time to get the ball out to their guys. It is tough to evaluate receivers if they don’t get good throws coming their way.
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And please, please stay healthy.
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will anyone be doing play by play
There has been so much hype for Trey Burton, he should now be called Cuatro Burton.
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Want to make pre-season more interesting? Put those helmet cameras on every player and broadcast the game from POV.
Maybe not broadcast the whole thing, got a little motion sickness there, but a wide view cam on the qb would be awesome. See the wr’s and also that pass rush.
Mike drop.
Slow mo replay.
Areial cam on metal wires.
360 ultra slow mo rotation matrix vid
..
All 22 helmet cam !!!!!!!!#
Winner. Huge idea
Mayock with the call, solid preseason broadcast team. Mayock has always been a bit of an Eagles homer though, oddly enough.
Mines will be
Agholor
Rowe
Mills
Greene
Tobin
Tavarres
Watkins
Randle
and a lot more
Alright, I’m starting to feel hyped. Throw away season or not I want to see some damn good Eagles football.
Pederson’s like pfffttt, this coaching thing is easy.
Nice push by the OL.
Yay power football! Hell, I’m just going to shelve the preseason rationalism and enjoy this
Slightly worried that Mathews would get injured while celebrating.
Saw his hammy twitch while he was thinking about what was for dinner, he’s fragile
Super bowlzzz
I don’t like it. Looking this good in the PS doesn’t bode well for the regular season.
Throw that shit out and enjoy for the moment, as you alluded to, this might be the most fun you have watching football for a long time
just don’t let the hype get to you.
Results don’t matter, scheme doesn’t matter – the past few seasons have proven that. The only thing that has any relevance in PS is individual performance and skill.
I love being back in a 4-3 Defense.
Pederson not making the dumb coaching decision to accept the penalty. Yay team!!
Good ole Clete
holy shit we held on 3rd down???????????????????????????
Mills with the rookie mistake on STs, let the gunner get past him due to hesitation
Surprised that 1st team O only got 3 snaps.
Brandon Brooks is out with bicep injury. dude is freaking massive
Ok. That’s enough Chase Daniels. He’s thrown twice as many passes as Bradford. Bring on Wentz.
Oh this is nostalgia at its best, that was a classic Reid drive
Pederson is just doing us a favor. I would rather watch the defense at this point.
The defense wants to get off the field apparently.
The D will be ballin this season !!!
awww yeah, Cox with the trifecta, sack, forced fumble, fumble recovery.
Wait so need to get caught up on what’s happened. How’d my boy Sammy Dollaz look? is the defense smashing fools? Did Jameis throw tds on us?
The Schwartz is ballin’
He threw a pass, it was good
Sammy Sleeves completed one of his traditional 2 yard passes, so everything is ok on that front.
Whew!
Cox just took Winstons lunch money and didn’t even realize it.
MM is gonna be so pissed if Barnes gets a TD
Who’s at center right now?
Josh Andrews.
Chase Daniel is one of those guys that you root for because he’s just not that good, but he shows big heart on the field lol.
the Chad Hall of QBs!
I was thinking Jeremy Bloom. He was an Olympian!
BUT has he completed a pass?
Parkey perfect
This might be an unpopular opinion but I think Parkey has to be the guy. Sturgis is an adequate fill in but Parkey has a pro bowl under his belt and was total money for us his rookie year. I think you gotta stick with him.
Agree, if he’s out of his funk, he can be great for years
I agree but only if he regains his form.
If they’re even more or less, I agree with you. But Parkey had a slump, confidence issue last year. Maybe it was the injury, but he hasn’t done so well in practice. Kicker confidence is key. He needs to get that back or he’s not going to make it.
At least we didn’t spend a 2nd rounder on a kicker who misses PATs!
Sturgis was good after he got his sea legs.
oh come on, this is garbage playcalling by the Bucs, totally just trying to get Winston’s confidence up after 2 shitty drives to start.
Well Mckelvin not impressing off the start.
lol Bucs 2nd round kicker misses his first extra point. Ominous.
I’ll forever be anti-bucs kickers every since they broke a damn record for a game winner against us
Hufflepuff
If he could just become a decent receiver he could become a huge asset for us
I am enjoying the fact that I have enough time to read/write a post between plays.
You look at Lavonte David and then you look at Kendricks..hope this is the year Kendricks gets it.
Oh god we’re so screwed if Daniels has to play at all this year.
Ruh roh. Not Donnie!
So next year will be about WR and CB right?
And OL. We still need OL.
OL/WR/CB
That was a nice play by Watkins
Jaylen Watkins sighting. Does that once in a while, if he can take care of those whole games of being bad he’s golden
Can’t rely on him tackling but he’s pretty solid at coverage
This passing game just isn’t working
Early hot takes: Mckelvin not so hot, Cox worth the money, Daniel is a horrifying backup, we need Jordan Mathews needs to come back soon.
We don’t know what’s going on downfield
Well we do know he airmailed a ball over a standing still open receiver. Not sure we can blame “we don’t know whats going on downfield” on that.
True. Forgot about that. That did not look good at all
Early hot takes though, he could get it together! He’s here to be a locker room guy anyhow. I just hate the idea of not having Wentz ready and having to go a stretch of games with Daniel out there, that could be ROUGH to watch.
I bet they’re going to run the ball on 3rd and long
They won’t see it coming!
Early overreaction: our WRs suck (thanks Chip), our OL depth is frightening, Chase Daniel looks more jittery in the pocket than Kolb did. DL is still beastly.
Cheerleaders are in mid-season form. Good to know.
True story, one of the cheerleaders is in some of my classes at college.
Ooooooh That was very Kevin Kolbesque.
In Chase Daniel I see a mixture of Kevin Kolb and bad season Dick Foles.
Daniels has a lot of bad passes.
Eagles WRs suck, running routes and blocking-wise
Eagles secondary is okay, and front four is good.
Vs. First team defense
Plus no scheming.
This is frustrating to watch, but not really fair to Chase. 1st team Bucs D vs. 2nd team Eagles O.
Yeah Bucs left the starters out a long time this game. We yanked our 1st O after 3 plays O.o.
So like 3rd team O on most teams?
Lol!
Maragos popped that dude
Taylor Hart sighting!!
who’s this Ghrymes guy. I have no recollection of us drafting him.
Signed over the offseason, has been in CFL
Thanks for the assist.
Wtf Hart I wrote you off months ago!
Chase Daniel was walking off shaking his head, wondering if he can line his pads with dollar bills to make all the hits hurt less.
I’ll gladly get creamed by huge dudes through a few PS games for 7 million dollars.
phrasing dude
Lol
Was that really a good job by Barner? Guess he didn’t expect the gunner to get there that fast, but he should have been blown up for a possible catastrophe there
What was that route? That can’t be right 2 guys so close.
Classic Josh Huff.
This isn’t acceptable. don’t care if it’s against first unit d.
Cmon Randle that was going out anyhow… Dumb.
Classic Huff
I can’t stand Huff.
I don’t have audio. What was the penalty?
Randle pushing the ball out of bounds.
Just cut Gardner now
Andrew Gardner is embarassing
Wentz needs to come in.
*fumes at wasting money on Daniels*
Daniels’ salary this year isn’t all that bad. It’s next year where it’s head scratching.
That said if the OL is a sieve… not many QBs will look good. Can’t see the game so no idea.
Big problem I see in all of the sacks is that Daniels has zero wiggle. He’s not fixing NOTHING if his line isn’t doing a good job.
Ergo, backup. Those guys generally either have escapability and can’t pass worth a damn, or can stand in the pocket and be an OK QB but can’t move. If you can do both, you aren’t backing up. The main question is how good is he behind the Eagles starting OL. (And maybe the starting OL less Johnson if he gets the full suspension.) Not sure we get the answer this game.
Joe Webb is a backup.
Chase Daniels can’t hold Webb, or even the craptacular Glennon’s jockstrap. Glennon just has a long release, no zip, and is immobile. But his passes generally get to where they’re supposed to go. Anything not dead simple, Daniels can’t make credible pass attempts in this game. His ability to extend plays is zero. Why is he even here?
I’ll have to wait until tomorrow when I can record/watch the game.
there it is
Is Joe Webb still playing football?
Serious question.
yup
Amazing.
Must be perfection for Shah8’s approval!!!!
Not behind that line he doesn’t, wouldn’t give him more than a quarter so I don’t want to see him this half lol
I submit the following: While Daniel and the WRs are lacking, the main issue we’re seeing is the 2nd string OL. We need to draft OL heavy next year.
If Pederson follows the Reid Way, it’ll be OL heavy next year and every year.
Good.
Rowe got away with one there. Disappointing to see him struggling so much.
Lol he juked himself off the route so hard the ref thought he was pushed!
Pointing fingers along the line of scrimmage is like honking your horn on the Schuylkill during rush hour. Pointless, but it makes you feel better.
Beau Allen looks better in this D than I thought he would.
Mike Glennon doesn’t have the zip to be anything but a placeholder in the NFL. That’s why he hasn’t gotten onto another team.
A coverge sack!?
Barner looks pretty solid, he might be a Chippah holdover who sticks.
Sorry, Chase really is reminding me of Kevin Kolb.
Pretty sure Kolb completed some passes
So has Chase, but he panics easy just like Kolb.
Some say Kolb is still backpedalling to this day
Some day, he’ll emerge from the ocean on the shores of Europe.
He has no blocking or receivers. I’m not saying he’s good.
Kolb was much better than Daniels in 2010.
The 2nd team offensive line is offensive.
That makes sense: OL is struggling, send in Wentz! Because evidently we want to get our future franchise guy killed.
A lead blocker has been sighted
Is that a new Pokemon creature?
Cory Undlin looks too much like Doug Pederson.
So maybe let’s just run the ball a bunch to see if we can be a power running team?
Yeah, not getting away with that.
Mills is way too grabby.
Lots of missed tackles there.
Seemed like everyone was a little too eager to get that TFL hit on an unsteady runner
yeah. I do wonder when you see something like that how much of that is guys just playing for their lives/jobs.
Man, it’s only going to be Jameis with a decent pass attempt or two…
Maragossssssssssss
ah hah hah hah…
Glennon actually extends a play, and then throws a horrible pass!
Bring on King Wentzaslas
Means nice rush but fell.
Ugholor…
Rughndle.
Josh Hurf
Dough Pederson
Chase Duhniel.
Our WRs are poop. All for trading for Josh Gordon right now.
Aye!
That was a horrible throw.
At least the defense is fun to watch.
Correction: the defensive line is fun to watch.
Wentz?
The Future has entered the game.
Was positive he would miss that tackle, being the preseason, wait you were talking about Joe Walker right?
…The Future just got backed up 5 yards.
Kid has some zip. Superbowlzz!!!!
Yeah, Chase has no business being the number 2.
Did our equipment manager misplace our receivers hands again this year? We should fire that guy.
Oomph on that throw for not being to step through that throw
Wentzzzzzzz.
hmmmmggghrrh…
looks sort of okay…
In shah8 speak, I believe you just anointed Carson Wentz as a true, franchise QB, possibly as good or better than Joe Webb.
In all seriousness, that throw to Ertz against the blitz was lovely considering situation. Knew where to go with it.
The guy is practically in Canton already, based on the Shah8 quarterback scale.
It’s called the Joe Webb Hall Of Fame now.
The Buccaneers with the “Please Dallas Trade Us Anything For Mike Glennon” play.
Wait what
New thread: http://igglesblitz.com/2016/08/halftime-update-phi/#disqus_thread
i am the senate