Game Review – PHI 29, CHI 14 – Defense
Posted: September 24th, 2016 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 188 Comments »Another week, another good defensive showing. The Bears aren’t explosive, but Jay Cutler and Alshon Jeffrey have been to the Pro Bowl, as have OL Kyle Long and Josh Sitton. That offense isn’t completely without talent. The Eagles limited them to 284 yards and one offensive TD. To be fair, there was also a drive that resulted in a missed field goal. The Eagles came up with 3 takeaways and knocked Cutler out of the game.
Good defense.
This wasn’t some X’s and O’s showcase. The Eagles simply executed better. They won the line of scrimmage. They covered well. They tackled well. They made key plays.
The defense did get some help. The Eagles offense won the TOP battle, holding the ball 36:05. Field position also played a role in the game. Give credit to the offense and STs for not giving the Bears favorable position. Only one drive started outside the 35-yard line (and that was at midfield). There were a pair of drives that started inside the 15-yard line. That means even if the Bears strung together 5 or 6 good plays, they still weren’t necessarily in scoring position.
The Eagles only played 50 snaps on defense and 10 of those came in the 4th quarter when the Eagles had a commanding 29-7 lead and were rotating players and working the clock.
DE
Brandon Graham is playing at a high level right now. He had a sack, TFL and 4 overall tackles. He was good against the run and pass. He opened the game by chasing a run away from him and getting the RB down for no gain. Graham beat the RT for a sack. He showed great hustle on a 2nd half pass play when he rushed from one side and then chased the ball outside the far numbers. The QB had thrown the pass right at the LOS and Graham just kept running when he saw the ball released. He didn’t make the tackle, but did hit the receiver. Coaches love to see that kind of hustle. The TFL came when he got under the blockers pads, drove him back, shed him and then got the runner, who was headed to that side. Can’t run at BG….can’t run away from him.
Vinny Curry played well. Stat sheet only shows a couple of tackles, but he was disruptive. So fast on a screen pass that Cutler had to throw the ball away. Couldn’t wait for the RB to get clear. Curry drove the RT back into Cutler’s face on one pass play. Came off the edge and got a big hit on Cutler in the 1st half. Connor Barwin was a bit up and down. Beat the LT to get a hit on Cutler early. Got some pressure on late 4th down play. Got burned on a reverse that came his way. Went inside and let runner get wide. Has to contain that. Bears ran bootleg at him and threw to TE. Barwin could have made that tougher by staying wide as well.
Marcus Smith had some nice snaps. Set the edge on a GL run and helped bottle that play up. Used hard inside move to beat the LT and get pressure on Cutler. Unfortunately Jay slid away and got the pass off (deep ball to Jeffrey). Smith lined up at LDE and drove the RT right back to Cutler’s face on another series. Tried more power rushes after that and they weren’t as good. Needs to work on mixing his moves up. Steven Means played some DE and even DT. Was inside in the 4th Qtr when the Eagles wanted as many pass rushers out there as possible. Got pressure on a snap at DE. Great effort on the inside, but not much success.
Shot 2 – Great team run defense. Marcus Smith sets a hard edge. Great job by Tulloch & Kendricks defeating blocks downhill #Eagles pic.twitter.com/lTPTj8EqlY
— Fran Duffy (@fduffy3) September 21, 2016
DT
Fletcher Cox was a bit quiet for part of the game. Part of that is due to the Bears double-teaming him a lot. There was one pass play where they had 5 OL and 2 TEs blocking 4 rushers. Cox eventually got loose and made his impact on the game. Credited with 2 tackles. Disrupted run play where Graham got his TFL by driving the C backward. Lined up with a wide angle in the 3rd Qtr. Unfortunately for Bears, the blocking slide the other way. Cox came free and got in Cutler’s face, forcing a hurried throw that went right to Bradham. Cox just blew up the blocking on the 4th down play late in the game. I don’t know how he didn’t get Josh McCown on the ground.
Bennie Logan was good against the run. His highlight was when he fought through being blocked and hit the RB, knocking the ball out. Beau Allen was in on a couple of tackles. He had a chance to blow up a 3rd/1 play, but couldn’t get hold of the RB. Destiny Vaeao had a key moment in the game. He sacked Cutler and knocked the ball out. Vaeao was blocked initially, but hustled out wide and hit Cutler in space. Excellent effort from the rookie. That hit knocked Cutler out of the game.
LB
Nigel Bradham has been outstanding so far this year. He was only credited with one tackle, but was around the ball a lot and made a huge play when he picked off a pass and returned it inside the 5-yd line. Blitzed up the middle on one play. Got blocked, but got his arms extended. Was in the QB’s line of sight and affected the throw. Jordan Hicks had a quiet game. He was in on one tackle. He did recover the fumble after Vaeao’s strip-sack. Stephen Tulloch got some snaps at MLB. He had 3 solo tackles. Maybe the highlight moment was when he knocked the crap out of Jeffrey after a pass over the middle. Clean hit, but Tulloch laid the old man lumber on the WR. Jeffrey turned away from one defender and boom went the dynamite. I thought Tulloch could have done a better job on the TD run. He took on the lead blocker, but didn’t blow him up. Mychal Kendricks was up and down. Got burned by TE on pass play. Made terrific play at the GL. Blew up the lead blocker, got by him and tackled the RB. Looked like he might have been at fault on a run that got outside for a decent gain. Had 3 solo tackles.
S
Malcolm Jenkins had a pretty good game. Was in on 4 tackles. Had a sack on the second play of the game. Lined up at the LOS and flew off the edge. Cutler turned around and MJ was there to bury him and set the tone for the game. Looked like he could have done a better job on the deep ball to Jeffrey. Didn’t get deep on that. Missed a tackle out in space, but generally tackled well. Rodney McLeod had 4 solo tackles and played well. Chased down Royal on the screen pass that went for the long gain.
CB
Jalen Mills played second most snaps at CB. Solid game. Got burned by Murray for long play. Bit on double move and Jeffrey got behind him for gain of 49. Jim Schwartz was okay with that because it was an aggressive mistake. Mills came up quickly to tackle Royal, but failed to get him down. You would think a rookie would get down on himself, but Mills stayed focused. Tackled Jeffrey after a short catch and got him down cleanly. Had tight coverage of Royal from the slot and forced an incompletion. Covered Jeffrey well on some throws, even in the end zone. Really impressed by this young CB. Instinctive and confident.
Nolan Carroll gave up some short catches to Jeffrey. Carroll got called for PI in the end zone and that kept a TD drive alive. Ron Brooks tackled really well in the game. Had 5 solo tackles and recovered the fumble that Logan knocked out. Highlight moment came early on when he read a play perfectly and broke on the ball. Should have picked it off, but couldn’t hold onto the ball.
STs
Erratic game. Caleb Sturgis nailed a 53-yard FG, but also missed an extra point. Suffered from cramps in the game and it was hard to tell how much that affected him. Donnie Jones had a 55-yd punt and a 32-yd punt. His final punt got returned for a TD. No return yards for Darren Sproles, but Wendell Smallwood did have a 30-yd KOR. Brent Celek recovered the onside kick late. Very smooth. Josh Huff did an excellent job of covering punts for most of the game. You like to see a young guy who isn’t getting the ball much still finding a way to contribute.
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“The Eagles simply executed better. They won the line of scrimmage. They covered well. They tackled well. They made key plays.”
What a difference a year, and a real DC, makes.
I always like a defense which beats you on talent and execution rather than scheme. You can always tailor a game plan by changing scheme if necessary, but if you can beat a lot of team just by playing regular defense, that’s special.
And I think we’re trending that way. I don’t see this as a top 5 D by any stretch due to the periodic coverage breakdowns by the corners and Kendricks, but the talent and execution are quite solid.
Could of said the same thing about the D at this time last year. The only difference was the number of snaps.
Maybe you could have. I had nothing but contempt for Billy Davis immediately after the home playoff choke loss to the Saints in Chip’s first year.
Kendricks being slow as molasses to recognize the run play design and even slower fill the hole is why the TD was allowed. Kempski was all over it on Twitter when it happened. Several other writers as well.
If Smallwood is looking good returning kicks and running the football; we can start a countdown clock on Barner and Huff.
I may be drinking the Kool Aid, but I actually feel good about the game this week.
Pittsburgh is really a better team than we are, but they’re far from infallible. The predicted point totals for the Steelers are flat out disrespectful of our D. I’m not predicting an Eagles win, but seeing point totals of 27 and 31 for Pittsburgh with that overrated O-line of theirs is a bit much. We’re certainly not going to keep their pass catchers bottled up all day, but our D line will whip the Steeler’s O line’s ass at the point of attack.
I can see us losing 16-13, 20-17, etc for sure.
Our safeties need to play at an elite level to give us a chance.
They will. I think we lose due to lack of decent blocking.
and not Mills getting toasted?
Not really.
Ok Ertz put me in a hard place by being out. Do i drop Cole Beasly or Jordan Howard for a scrub temp TE?
What scrub temp TE did you use last week?
And if Kendricks plays, you should pick up Jesse James from the Steelers, James has a favorable matchup with Kendricks and an impeccable college background.
Kyle Rudolf who worked out decently i suppose. More worried about who I have to drop.
Is Jordan Howard going to start for the Bears anytime soon? If not, you can drop him.
Beasley has some value because Dak can’t seem to throw it far enough downfield to use Dez much.
The fantasy geek line of thinking is that he could very soon be in line for a starters work load. As soon as this weekend even.
Sounds like the reason I drafted Christine Michael.
I dropped rudolf for him. Now Im stuck with no players I dislike.
Are you in a ppr league? I still say drop Beasley and hold onto Howard. Langford could be losing his spot soon. May even be able to trade him to the Langford owner.
ALWAYS trade over cut.
Tried. Doesnt look like im getting bites. Interesting tidbit. The guy with Pitta languishing on his bench thinks that he is way better than “always hurt” Zach Ertz. Some people lol.
Yeah PPR… gonna drop Beasly. Just picked up Howard. Thinking his value only rises so im gonna hold on.
Its really matters on your depth. Beasley is playing at the top of his ceiling, Howard can take over as starting rb, which has more value.
You think JJ over Trey? Feel like he is a sneaky bet to go off this week.
Do I almost certainly hang an L and roll out no TE? I could actually still win…
I was in same spot, picked up Ebron, has been serviceable.
I tried to trade the guy who has him and he wouldnt budge. He is never going to start him either.
“Laid the old man lumber on the WR” made me picture this…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/46ed82f58ad57d9a01e3f07636e944ef891e394e67ab0e8e16fde7d8aea0975a.jpg
Looks like a typical Giants fan.
Do we roll the dice and try to get Seferian-Jenkins?
Who are you cutting to add him?
Turner
Ok, so you want him on the P-squad. Not sure if he takes that offer b/c somebody else might want him on their 53.
I’m fine with losing him too if they don’t add him to the PS.
I guess he’d be worth a look due to size / skill and age of Celek. I’m just not sure if he’s that into being a professional football player.
Yup but things can change when you have Dawkins motivating you though.
I’d like to avoid giving Dawk too many projects at one time.
Cant see us winning this one, but I hope wentz plays well, pitt is an elite team this year, we’re up and coming, maybe, wentz you better learn to slide tomorrow
If the best team won every game, the NFL would be boring
Okay, not to stir the pot, but this article featuring some comments from one of the most eloquent professional athletes I have ever heard, raises a BIG question for the billionaires. If they see fit to prepare their black players for plausible, undeserved consequences, solely based on the color of their skin, why hasn’t the whole friggin’ league gone on the record as supporting a national change in policing procedures? Are they afraid of the racists among their customer base? Or could it be that SOME of them are racists? http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/For-Malcolm-Jenkins-protest-is-a-security-issue.html
Most definitely both.
why is the NFL getting involved in police procedures?
stick to playing football
Because, Julescat, just as they don’t want their employees, many of whom are or will become big stars, getting on the wrong side of the law because it will hurt the return on their investment, they also don’t want those same investments to be killed because they happen to be stopped by the police. They want to protect their investments.
you do realize that “hands up don’t shoot” was a lie?
your premise that the police are attacking black people is incorrect and offensive. If the NFL truly wanted to protect their investment then pull out of Chicago. Over 3,600 blacks have been murdered by other blacks in that city in the last 8 years. Protest that.
Do you even watch the news? You think these phone videos are staged events? I don’t have a premise. The number of unarmed black males stopped for whatever reason (may be perfectly legitimate) who end up being shot by LE is a symptom of bad policing, thugs with badges, and constituencies that choose to ignore their own laws. This isn’t fabricated, it isn’t incorrect, and if you find it offensive then stop excusing it.
I believe Shaq and Johnny Cochran both admitted to having been stopped for DWB.
Rudy Giuliani said that blacks made up 30% of the NYC population but were involved in 70% of the homicides. NFL players are protesting the wrong thing. They should be asking why black people are still living in poverty and have no opportunities. This cop thing is a distraction put up by the politicians who don’t provide them jobs.
“Rudy Giuliani said . . . ”
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Julescat —
As soon as I saw “Rudy Guliani said . . . ,” I stopped reading.
No longer believe anything the guy says.
how did I know you would attack the name and not address the content?
How did I know you wouldn’t read what I wrote?!
I said, I believe nothing Guiliani says or is reported to have said.
Ergo, I did respond to your comment by telling you the information you’ve posted — by attribution to Guiliani — is not reliable enough to merit a response.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Guiliani has put out some extremely dumb statements over the year.
He’s the worst. I know a chick who works at his law firm. He’s completely unstable.
I’m not surprised
Can you please leave this board?
You’re a disgusting piece of shit trash racist human.
THERE’S FUCKING VIDEO OF A FATHER GETTING SHOT BY POLICE AFTER HIS CAR STALLED WHILE HIS HANDS ARE UP.
And you’re calling it a lie.
Please go crawl back in whatever alt-right hole you came from.
She will never realize this unfortunately. She will just open breitbart and read more propaganda and then continue spewing hate.
mksp, you are complete loser,
you are a* complete loser.
U R a compleate looser!
What even is this.
Sure, please tell me how not be complete loser,
May I suggest using the brand new ignore feature? I actually considered using it on her/him this morning.
That person isnt even an Eagles’ fan. Just here to stir up stuff
I’m not an Eagles fan either, I got here by googling “Funyuns Pr0n”.
Michael Brown robbed a store and tried to take a cop’s gun yet people proclaim he had his hands up
This isn’t even true, you’re just making shit up.
look mate get with the program; whatever the racist says must be true
If we can turn to the NFL as a beacon after 9 11 then we can also turn to the NFL when problems need addressing from within.
I personally think its a mistake to turn to the NFL for anything but I’m glad the players are being disruptive. It’s amazing how freaked out some people get about what someone else does or does not do during the national anthem.
the point is that the NFL should have no say in public policies.
So Jeff Lurie shouldn’t spend a dime on community service…after the tax payers gave him a stadium? The NFL has total control over all of the pictures of all of its games, and most of them are played in stadiums that tax payers built. The billionaires get a shitload of $$$ from the public. It damn well has an interest in promoting peace in those communities.
charity and proposing laws are 2 different things
but you knew that
The irony here is that the Republican Party has been saying for the past 100 years that private enterprise should take care of social services.
and your post has nothing to do with the topic at hand
I don’t think the NFL has any say in public policies, unless it became the 51st state and Roger Goodell was elected senator while I wasn’t looking.
From Ben Johnson…”Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
Similarly, from Thoreau, “Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.”
George Bernard Shaw has said…”You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the
human race.”
Oscar Wilde said “Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
Leo Tolstoy described patriotism as “the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers”.
from JR’s Free Thought Pages
And:
“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”
and:
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.”
David Hume
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/david_hume_2.html
And then there is Ambrose Bierce…
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.
After that you know what Killery did to Bierce!
SO THEIR PLAYERS DON’T GET SHOT WHEN THEIR CAR STALLS.
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT.
an NFL player was pulled over yesterday for DUI
he wasn’t shot.
please get a clue
MAYBE BECAUSE HE GOT TRAINED ON HOW NOT GET SHOT BY THE POLICE.
Why are you pretending like this problem doesn’t exist?
Are you so fragile that you can’t admit that black men shouldn’t be afraid of being shot by police?
“Are you so fragile…..”
That is 100% at the core of people who think these things aren’t real problems.
Agreed. White male fragility is responsible for so much of the division in this country right now it’s sickening.
Obviously Trump and his alt-right minions are the poster children, but it goes deeper than that as well.
So sad.
History will look back unfavorably upon people like you.
look at pictures of Martin Luther King rallies. American flags are everywhere. Seems he wanted to bring people together and not divide this great country.
that’s what history should be telling us
America has always been what it is. Its just harder to sweep issues under the rug now.
This isn’t anything a bunch of football players caused by taking knees.
no idea what you’re posting there
What are you talking about!? How is what they are doing unAmerican? Have they said that they are any less American? This is a false equivalency Julescat. Do not twist what they are doing into a Nationalist dialogue. This is a fight for social change and equality not who gets to be the most ‘Merica. He is actually trying to bring people together by talking about the social injustices that people of color feel day in day out. Unlike you who just turn their backs and say that these unjustices do not exist, hence why I said history will look poorly upon you.
LOL, using MLK jr when it suits your agenda, you’re probably the same people who wanted to put those ‘uppity so-and-sos’ in their place for riding in the front of the bus
BTW, this is the same flag that black men fought under and for in every war since the Revolution, yet they were still treated like sh*t
His intent nor those flags didn’t keep him from getting murdered did they?
Just out of curiosity which procedures should be changed in particular?
I don’t presume to know, but I believe that is where it has to begin. There seems to be a widely accepted view that the police have an inherent right to impose themselves on anybody for any reason. I am not suggesting that the wide majority of LE abuse their authority, but how many times have we all experienced an instruction by an LE officer turn into a command that is not to be questioned? Many, many bystanders to police shootings have been treated as if they were accomplices to the guy that was shot. If you get stopped by a cop and you ask why you’ve been stopped, you MAY get a response, and you might not. Where do cops learn that they can bully law-abiding citizens into stopping their phone recordings? It sure looks like all LE officers are taught to “establish absolute compliance” regardless of the issue. This is a green light to escalation of minor disturbances. If a citizen politely asks a cop on the beat why he is doing what he is doing, THAT guy is first and foremost a problem. It appears that standard police behavior is on the belligerent side to convince THAT guy to know his place and keep his mouth shut.
I know that LE has its hands full with violent and mentally-dranged, hard-core criminals, and I don’t think anybody blames them for “establishing total compliance” in such confrontations. But when those confrontations are not in evidence, the cops who take that approach alienate community supporters and isolate the PD from the people it is paid to serve. And when it becomes routine, we get what we have now.
They may have to do something like start police officers out with High powered Tasers at the beginning of their career, and pair them with gun carrying veterans, and as police officers gain experience, they can work their way up to carrying a gun.
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I think there are two different types of these bad shootings
1) Genuinly hateful Racist police officers that are much quicker to pull the trigger when facing people of races that they are hatefully racist against. unfortunately thís sick hateful Ignorant mentality still exists in our country
2) some of these bad shooting I think are cases of police officers being overly nervous, and they are quick to pull the trigger out of fear.. Now it could be a sort of racism that makes you fear confronting suspects of other races, or it could just be an overly nervous fearful police officer happening to patrol a neighborhood of different races of people… Im sure some of these bad shooting or just scared, overly nervous cops who would be just as nervous regardless of the race of suspect that they are confronting… For these types of cases, we may have to start cops off with Tasers, and wait TIL they are experienced enough to be able to better control their nerves and adrenaline and think clearly during police encounters before we trust them enough to put a gun in their hands
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The argument against this is are we certain that a rookie with a Taser and a veteran with a gun, is enough fire power to be able to reasonably defend themselves in typical police matters? It’s not an easy job, It’s a scary job, but we can’t put guns in the hands of police that can’t control their fear/adrenaline which leads to quick trigger finger and premature, unlawful shootings that should have easily been avoided like the killing we saw in Tulsa.
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This is a serious subject, and people should be aware of the current climate and also take it upon themselves to realize that it may not be a wise time to be defiant when confronted by a police officer aiming a gun at you…. Regardless of if you are doing anything wrong or not, or whether The cop is wrong to stop you in the first place, it may be wise to worry about that later, and for now concentrate on putting your hands up, doing anything you can to show that you are cooperating and make it clear to the cop that you are not a threat and you will fully comply, because your life is more important than whether he was right or wrong to search you.. Make sure you are safe first, and later you can worry about whether or not they were wrong to stop you,,. First and Formost worry about complying enough so that you can walk away without a bullet in your body, because whether you deserve it or not, Bullets hurt the same..
I really like that as a start. It does seem like the fear shootings could be avoided this way.
I think implementing higher qualifying standards for new officers would help. Of course they would have to increase pay rates to attract higher quality candidates.
All in all I didnt expect such good stuff from you GE. Bravo.
unreal
do you realize how tough it is to put your life on the line every night?
cops do
Maybe they do. They have rookie orientation camps, I think–perhaps this will become part of the deal. The thing is NFL fans skew fairly racist (present company excluded) so they have to tread carefully. Look how many white folks hate the NBA because the players have more power there.
Thing is, the very rich tend to be moderate conservatives. They don’t want much change in either way. The system right now is working for them (rich getting richer, etc). It was the ultra rich who set up a lot of charities during the Civil Rights unrest (for example, Ford Foundation), because they sensed real revolution was brewing. Of course, they’ll also fund detectives to put hits on labor union leaders if they get a chance (ancient history, but the principle stands).
Individuals vary, but on the whole, the rich are less racist than the people they make those truck commercials for.
But they’re a whole hell of a lot greedier.
Good questions, and good article.
People tweeting @ Malcolm have been disgusting.
Check your privilege for a moment, and allow a black athlete to use his platform to try to make this country a more open and free place for those that are objectively oppressed by the police.
Complaining that it detracts from “the game” makes it about you (in the royal sense). It’s not about you. It’s about something much bigger.
I was disappointed when Jimmy Kempski tweeted his reaction to this story as well. He can fuck off with the rest of the old white guy journalists whining about this.
https://twitter.com/JimmyKempski/status/776955882403803136
In the “it pains me to give him credit” department, Chip has handled this really well.
Psst, we can’t talk about that on this board because some commenters think there is no racism in America…. It’s just crazy that we want all athletes to be perfect role models for our children yet when they actually start leading and standing up for what they believe in then we say woahhhhh there lets not get crazy here. Let us watch you destroy your bodies and brains but not create social change and awareness.
My family from the carribbean. We can talk about race all the time and be very judgemental and say things that imost could never get awsy with. What a freedom we have.
The beauty of the first ammendment is that everyone has it. Even those who disagree with you. So perplexing how so many think it is ok to pick and choose who is allowed to freely express themselves.
In one breath (on many occasions in the last few weeks) I have heard a person hold up one person in the name of freedom of speech and spite another for exercising theirs.
Not meant to pick on you at all. Just felt like a appropriate place to put this. Having seen your posts over time I know you are aware enough not to make inferences of my feelings on matters I have not expressed opinion on though…cheers
Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and opinions, but they aren’t entitled to their own facts! Fox news is not carried in Canada because it doesn’t pass a BS meter. We have a huge swath of our culture raised on hate-promoting, fake news that panders to fears and prejudices, and simultaneously demonizes the government as some supreme evil. You can’t get away with sleeping on most doorsteps, but you can lie, distort, misinform, disinform all in the name of ideology, and you’ll get paid very well for doing it. It yields a pathetically ignorant portion of America that hates the very government that it depends on.
a liberal government that bans opinions they don’t like?
sad
No a government that does not want its cherished waves to be subjected to hate-monering profiteers. Roger Ailes was an advisor to Richard Nixon, who took his ideologically-driven ass to Rupert Murdoch and became a billionaire by peddling hateful lies to the likes of you. If you think that is what is meant by free speech, then you have a child’s understanding of democratic process.
is Al Sharpton a hate-mongering profiteer? What about Jesse Jackson?
Fill in another square on your “I’m a not a racist, but…” BINGO card.
oh wait, when liberals are in a logic corner they yell “racist”
When ignorant doofuses continue their nonsense spiral they drool out “Sharpton!” “Jesse Jackson!”
still can’t answer?
sad
Are you one of those Russian prisoners forced to post reactionary garbage on US blogs?
Moscow Don’s best friends.
No they ARE exercising free speech. See how that works?
I agree that the bias of national news outlets is shaping a culture of ignorance and hate. Very sad that 99% of people are nestled firmly in the blanket of one or the other.
My suggestion is to get off national news all together or watch all of them, take everything with a grain of salt and form unique opinions.
All that said, my original post really had nothing to do with news.
There was a lot of quick twitch commentary going on, and I may well have clicked reply under your comment, when I was in fact responding to another’s comment.
I think you’re misinterpretting what he’s saying. Yes, 1st Amendment. Sure. That’s basically a legal litmus test and doesn’t really apply. What he’s saying is that people should take the time to hear out what these protesters are talking about, and that many people, including Kempski, are not doing so. He did not say Kempski wasn’t allowed to say it, just that he’d rather that he not be a dick about it.
I hear that and wasnt trying to single him out. He didnt do it overtly. Just sparked the thought to hit paper.
Seems like it is showing up on a ton of issues anymore. Not just isolated here.
I don’t think I’m following the insinuation 100% – feel free to expound, my feelings wont’ be hurt.
People can’t express whatever they want on this board, no government agency has or should have the right to stop them.
Similarly, when someone holds racist, bigoted, moronic, harmful, and flawed opinions I have the right to call them out on it.
I meant to insuate nothing friend. Just sparked the verbalization of a thought I have had a lot lately. I posted that before 90% of what you said today. Meant only what I said.
I’m in the “I have no problem that they’re doing it, but not how I’d approach it” group. Why people have to pillory players over this is beyond me. The “stick to football” people seem to be doing an excellent job not sticking to football themselves.
Honestly I think Jimmy tweeted that more as an oh jesus my mentions are about to get blown up by shitheads
Here’re NFL players thoughtfully expressing themselves about an issue with which the young men living in communities of color live every day.
Some fans have reacted with vile racial slurs and lightly veiled racially disparaging comments.
Compare the reaction to what Jenkins et al. are doing to . . . Riley Cooper’s appalling act at the Chesney concert.
Lots of “nothing to see here, move along, Riley was just drunk.”
No, actually Cooper gave us a window into his (very small) mind — and it’s pretty damn ugly in there.
The folks who poo-pooed Cooper’s racial taunts seem like the same type who call out Jenkins et al. for trying to get a productive dialogue going.
Yes.
ummm Colon Kaepernick spit on a player and called him the N word.
what were you saying about Cooper’s small mind?
The evidence against you is as follows:
*egregiously bad comparisons, showing poor judgment and intelligence
*apparently limited experience of the world
*stirring up contention with people who’ve contributed far more than you here
*non-ironic use of 1st amendment while attempting to deny players theirs
*complete absence of evidence, information, or logical thought
Verdict:
on ignore
In his defense I think im the only one who mentioned the 1st today.
Just so we’re clear . . . you’re saying that a white guy screaming the n-word at a black guy is exactly the same as a black guy screaming it at another black guy?
so one guy using it shows a sick mind
but the other player spitting and using it shows what????
Exactly.
You cant reason with people like that. He/She doesnt get it or they dont want to get it.
in other words, you have no point but want to be noticed
Funny you say that? Are you even an Eagles’ fan?
Great question!
I wonder if Jules realizes it might be possible for Kaep to be out of line for using that word AND be correct for calling attention to racism.
Same point should be made about Kaep being a privileged athlete who’s made millions and still be the victim and witness of racism. He has every right to protest. I don’t love the way he’s chosen to go about this protest, but he’s right that there is an issue here.
Is it like me calling my dad a “motherF—-r”? Cuz he is, right?
Unless you’re the mailman’s kid………
More like, your buddy calling you a motherfucker is _exactly the same thing_ as some dude on the street calling you a motherfucker and expecting you to get out of his way.
And this is a part of the problem that makes me crazy. I don’t approve of the use of the n-word, but we’ve turned it into the equivalent of walking into a church and screaming blasphemies, but only when done by a white person. When done by a black rapper who makes millions while doing so, we’re told “nothing to see here.”
Seriously???
Its a word that was created by white folk to disparage black folk all the while enslaving, raping, beating, lynching, whipping and humiliating them in everyway possible.
A perfect example of white fragility
Get a grip!
I’m not pure white. I’m half-puerto rican and my extended family has white, hispanic, black, you name it. As I noted, I do not approve of the word. As to the ‘it means something completely different’ argument? That is complete bullshit. I’ve heard it used by a few black members of my family in jest, but rarely and even by them it falls flat. Insisting it has a different meaning depending on the color of the skin of who said it is racism pure and simple.
How is that racism? There are certain boundaries that apply certain people in certain contexts. Non-blacks do not have a right to use the word, especially one that is so heavily charged. Do I agree with elements of the black community using the n-word so blaize? no, especially considering the normalisation of a word that the black community fought so hard to overcome but its not my perogative, its an internal issue.
For me or any other non-black to think they have a right to a say on the issue or to feel victimised as they can’t use it is shockingly out of touch with reality and reeks of self-importance
That boundary is set by race. That is the definition of racism. Racism is whenever you decide that certain rules apply to one race but not to another. I’m aware that a significant percentage of the world falsely believes that minorities cannot be guilty of racism, but it is a joke. I have been the victim of racism by both whites who believe I’m not white enough as well as blacks for whom I am not dark enough. I do not have a right to say the n-word. Neither should any black person if they are going to become offended the second a white person uses it.
You need to get over that. Black people are allowed to call each other n’s, whites aren’t. It’s just how it is. The meaning is _completely_ different depending on who is saying it.
Thank you for stirring the pot. You seemed to have knocked one rather stupid turd on here loose in doing so.
I will note that the instructions that were described are good advice for ANYONE regardless of color getting pulled over. Showing your willingness to cooperate with the police. Letting them know what you are going to do, before reaching down to the floor or rooting through your glove box helps make them feel safer. A cop who feels safe is much less likely to do something asinine or tragic. I read about acting that way in a book written by a police officer about avoiding getting ticketed AFTER you’d been pulled over.
Yes, it is kind of ridiculous, and clearly racism is real. I will note it’s not just black people who are the victims. Mexicans are hated and feared by a large part of the population. Japanese were kept in internment camps during World War II. Meanwhile, we excuse any racist actions by black people as ‘they have the right.’ If a white person said, “I don’t trust black people,” that person is painted as a bigot and either in need reeducation or irredeemable. But, if a black person says “I don’t trust white people,” the public says “we understand, you’re right, and that’s ok.”
Racism may never be completely eliminated and as long as we insist on special treatment of certain people based on race it will remain a problem. Even if that special treatment is for people who have been the victim of discrimination.
Reposted, RE “Carson Wentz throws everything behind the line of scrimmage.” Is it true?
Here’s one possible answer. Air yards is the % of a QB’s total yards that were, well, in the air.
According to the fairly shaky stats at this site, he’s 22nd in the league.
Sam Bradford is 32nd! Big surprise there…
http://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/quarterback-air-yards/2016/
Wonder how much the holding penalites on two deep throws would change his ranking.
Wouldnt put a ton of stock in this after two weeks anyway. The short pass game supplimented the failing run game last week.
The coaches have also planned for these short throws. They’re not checkdowns, they’re by design.
It’s not like he’s missing a lot of downfield reads and throwing it to outlets.
Yeah I’ve noticed this too. A lot of the times all of the pass catchers are all running routes at the same level, normally around 10 yards from the LOS
It’s smart design for a guy with limited experience. It’s “putting the player in the position to succeed”. On top of this, they’re not completely limiting the playbook like Dallas is. He’s throwing sideline to sideline and taking shots downfield in the seams and corners.
I think it’s been smart coaching by Reich and Pederson. Very encouraging.
I wonder if part of this is defensive playcalling. If you have a rookie QB, maybe you try to take away the run game and make the QB throw.
Could be. The Eagles oline also appears to be doing a good job at taking away the running game.
Vinny Curry and Brandon Graham are really playing well right now. If we had one more stud to line up next to Cox our line would be ridiculous.
Logan..
There were times during the Chicago game where they had double both of them.
Yeah I saw some of that. Seriously this line can be special. Graham is benefitting from Logan and cox eating up defenders.
Edit: that’s not to take away anything from BG either. He’s killin it
Logan is a nice player but he’s not a stud.
Sheil Kapadia tweeted something about compared to last years defensive snap count, at the rate of the defensive snap count so far this season, we are on pace to play 5 entire games worth of snaps less than what last years defense was on the field for.. We are playing like 20 snaps less per game so far than last year. That Big for positions that rotate like the DL, and it really makes a world of a difference for positions that never come Off the field like starting DB’s..
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Factor in that our defense ISNT taking as many reps in practice as last years defense, because Pederson does his correction on the field and practice ISNT designed to get every snap possible in like chip was obsessed with.
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So when you combine the fewer game snaps and practice reps our defenders are taking over the course of a full season compared to last years work load, it probably makes a staggering difference in how much more fresh our defenders should feel this year.
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And with Injuries being such a big part of the game, the less snaps we play, the less chance of a freak injury occurring.
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Slowing it down in Practice seems to have had a good effect on our players attention to detail. We look like a Discaplined group that has excecuted well for the most part even tho we are in the early stages of mastering new schemes. We aren’t beating ourselves with penalties, we aren’t beating ourselves turning the ball over…
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If we can find a way to pull off an upset against a Bonafide contender like the Steelers it could be huge for us from a growth and confidence standpoint. confidence in each other, confident in the new coaches, confident in the new schemes.,
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The Steelers haven’t won in Philly in over half a century.. Throughout that stretch of time, im sure many of our wins came against Steelers teams that were considered favorites who were supperior to us at the time. I like our defense enough, and the rookie QB may have enough Moxy and “It Factor” to pull it off.. We have a lot of young still developing talented kids. Never know which one will use such a great opponent like this steelers team as an opportunity to elevate his game and make a name for himself… DGB? hicks? agholar? Burton? jordan? mills? Smallwood? barner? smallwood? Destiny? Who wants to step up in a big way and use this great steelers team as a stepping stone to stardom?
Agholor gets free deep again.
Whatever. FU dude. Why are you liberals trying to give Agholor deep for free. He needs to go work for it.
Im feeling charitable and tomorrow is Sunday; so I’ll throw DGB getting his first TD too.
Because ah uh ummm affirmative action! *what I imagine the garbage humans on this page think*
I bet you wouldn’t be crying about liberals if someone suggested making the Birds Barner-free!
He had no trouble getting free against Joe Haden, beating him deep at least twice (the ball only came his way on one of those times)
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And he beat the Bears corners deep like what 3 times? Two drops/PBU’s and the no Call defensive pass interference
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The Steelers corners arent scaring anyone. They have some young talent, but nothing close to Joe Haden caliber of player that Nelson did just fine against.. And the steelers Corners DONT get anything close to the caliber of safety support we get from McLeod and Malcolm.
Nothing is free, someone pays for it…
The snap count is a big thing. The numbers bear out that the defense was top-10 for the first half last season. They just got worn down and lost their punch down the stretch.
No, they didn’t get worn down. They had an epic collapse against two bad teams half-way through. I’m dubious about the “too many snaps” narrative being the main cause of our defensive problems. They played six extra snaps per game (over league average). That doesn’t explain what happened against Tampa and Detroit…
The D was very good early on the last couple years, it only started to suck after midseason. That’s when we should be able to start seeing if the extra reps really made a difference.
Up vote!
Think we are going to need to put Sproles on the field as a decoy to keep Ryan Shazier away from being able to match up against our Tight Ends… Trey Burton can do some real damage against Safety MIKE Mitchell, but to make sure we get that much we need a threat like SPROLES to occupy Shazier and take him out of the picture…
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And any time they dare match up someone besides Shazier against Sproles, we need to throw his way every time.
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Basically put our Pass catching Tight Ends and pass catching Runningbacks on the field, and throw to whoever Shazier ISNT matched up against. Most of the other Steeler LB’s and Safeties are stronger against the run, than in coverage.
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Of course the Steelers are probably going to play a ton of zone coverage. They do that anyway, but they will also see that most of the shots Wentz has taken down field came when the defense was in single high, playing man on the outside. It’s only been two games, but Wentz has already shown opponents scouting him that not only is he not afraid to take shots down field, but he is a dangerously accurate deep ball thrower.. play us in Zone, and we can go to Jordan Mathews who has done a lot of damage in this league running his crossing routes, DGB is also dangerous coming across the zone,,, zone is also a good time to go to the veteran Celek who has made a nice career out of being crafty, knowing where to sit down in the zone coverage.
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We should get plenty of opportunities in the passing game. But you don’t beat a team like the steelers if drops keep your WRs from taking advantage of every accurate throw the kid delivers. penalties and drops kill drives and lead to Field Goals, and FGs probably won’t be enough against Big Ben taking shots down field all game to Antonio. Can’t shoot ourselves in the foot, need to capitalize on every opportunity we get this week
we are going to need to put Sproles on the field as a decoy to keep Ryan Shazier away from being able to match up against our Tight Ends
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Sproles isn’t nearly the threat he was 5 years ago.
That seemed apparent in the Bears game.
Particularly, his lateral quickness. (On punt returns, still a threat — but punt returns aren’t like plays from scrimmage.)
In any case, the Steelers — under DC Keith Butler — are playing lots of 8-man zone, rushing only 3.
Even on blitzes . . .
Pittsburgh doesn’t play much man-to-man pass defense (as noted in your comment). And they haven’t since (disastrous) 2014 season.
So we need to put Smallwood on the field more.
That’s something Belichick (aka, D3FB) has advocated.
He’s clearly the best change of pace from Mathews available at this point.
You hate Barner so much 🙂
No, I just like talent.
Ughhh.
How dumb am I?
I was looking forward to observing the development of our rookie QB, watching the growth of a truly stout defense under a knowledgable, experienced DC, learning about our new head coach’s approach, determining what key draft/FA holes needed to be filled and which are surprisingly solid, and, in other words just relaxing and enjoying a mediocre season of a rebuild year as the Eagles go somewhere between 6-10 and 8-8. Doing all that while sitting calmly in my living room, sipping lemonade, taking care of things about the house. No pressure, just enjoy the ride this year.
F#$@. Two wins against crappy teams plus a six pack of Koolaid down and I’m now all hyped that this team might possibly be something more than decent and beat the Steelers tomorrow. Screw cautiously optimistic. I can’t wait for 4 PM tomorrow. I’m gonna don my fading Westbrook jersey, let the blood pressure skyrocket, the brain freeze, the lungs explode, scare the hell out of the dog, and flirt with having divorce papers served on the grounds of transforming, Jekyll & Hyde-like, into an unrecognizable midnight green creature on Sundays. I may even have a beer during the game.
I will never learn.
Long may you run.
Ill tell you what. I think we are getting smashed tomorrow but I still like us to win the division.
Well…If Eagles get smashed I will too. It’s a tough job but I’m just the guy to do it.
I believe in you.
I will never learn either.im w you. All of you in fact. Even the mean ones, the trolls, the funny ones and even the racsists.. ill be kneeling with both fists up and one hand ovrr my heart. m my Montgomery westbrook cunningham dawkins owens, and jackson jersies on .. one day maybe a ‘white’ jeresy to wear ….
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Haha REGGIE WHITE THE GREATEST
嗨，你好吗？伟大的博主！
http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/steelers-2016-preview-regular-season-news-updates-roster-depth-chart-salary-cap-tickets-philadelphia-eagles-how-to-watch/2016/9/24/13026046/steelers-film-room-controlling-the-eagles-pass-rush-is-paramount-for
Steelers blog breaks down our defense and does an unusually good job of it.
That is one of the least homerific articles I’ve read on an sbnation site. A few things to quibble about, but it was a fair and interesting breakdown from an opposing perspective.
Im no WA fan but MAN, I hope the ginas lose tomorrow…
Wow Cody Parkey was a disaster today, blew an easy game winning kick, his 3rd miss of the day #SameOldBrowns
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Miami is a joke… Perfect lesson to people why having quality WRs doesn’t matter if you have too many other weaknesses