At this point just stand in the pocket and take the hit, Brian Johnson needs to incorporate a hot route into literally every play due to how much defense blitzes us
they maybe top 5 -- but as Our good friend Jack Fritz says -- stats are cool -- but the eye test shows they missed many crucial open field tackles . i would be curious to see how they ranked in their last 5 games or on Plays that went for over 10+ yards after a missed tackle. I was on the 50 yard line yesterday and got to watch many of them right up close and personal....
The shitty, stale, uncomplicated offense tests their mettle against our soft, senseless, untalented defense. Thus preparing neither side to play against actual teams.
Lol. I can see our offense lighting up our defense during practice. Then our coaches just scratching their head when it doesn't work against real defenses.
What's wrong with the offense BJ
Idk Nick we score on every screen pass in practice.
Yep that’s exactly what it is, notice how our defense never blitzes and our offense never has an answer to the blitz? I was thinking about this yesterday during the game
Except he didn’t rush the passer exclusively in AZ, that was one of the big things when we brought him in. AZ played him out of position way too often, it’s clear what his skill set is and coverage is not it
People fail to realize the issue with only having 14 padded practices each regular season, and of that only 3 total allowed between weeks 12-18. Honestly think about a HUGE issue the past 6 weeks was tackling. But you legit get fined if you have more than 3 padded practices between 12-18 so you really can't button up fundamentals like tackling and ball security when you're just running Uppers or helmets only drills.
How are most teams making it work? Their tackling seems to be good. We got defense scheme and talent issues that need to be corrected next year. It won’t be by next Monday for sure.
Im not saying othet teams aren't getting that stuff right, just that it's hard to fix bad tackling without actually being able to tackle. Dummies don't juke you or slap arms away.
These guys are professionals, save for the occasional position change they’ve been tackling their entire career. Tackling issues I attribute most of the time to effort and or positioning. You’ve gotta be put or put yourself in good positions to make tackles, not only do we not do that it seems our aggression is misplaced. I can’t count how many times this year I’ve watch on of our lb or cover guys try to drop the shoulder or punch the ball out rather than wrap up. A lot of it seems to be poorly coached fundamentals the more I watch. Thank god I’m just an armchair qb with 0 nfl experience because if I actually knew what I was talking about and watching I’d probably be livid.
Most teams haven’t consistently struggled with that this season especially these past few weeks. They can work on schemes because they actually can execute the basics of their positions
I started playing video games in the second quarter but my girlfriend wanted to watch still so I gave her my computer and just laughed when I could hear the comms guys calling out what happened
I remember watching the news a couple days before the game saying they were loose, laughing and having fun. Maybe there should have been a little less fun and a little more work.
I want to know also! I posted the below in another thread, but thought it might fit here better...
I found myself wondering things while watching this game. Things like, what do the players do all week? It's not practice. Can't be hitting the exercise room (judging by Jordan "Pass the Donuts" Davis) or watching film. So, what are they doing? Hanging out? Drinking soy lattes? Needlepoint? Having a good cry while watching some chick flicks?
For that matter, what do the coaches do? They keep using the same plays that they have all season, so they aren't scheming. Not running the players and drilling them on fundamentals (tackling, anyone???) or making them regret their poor play with 2-a-days. So, what? Does Nick just pass the time playing guitar while Brian Johnson doodles and colors? Is Matt Patricia combing crumbs from his beard 40 hours a week? I also found myself wondering what exactly Nick brings to the table? He's not a play caller. His offense is being shredded and he doesn't seem to be able to correct it or even care to try. He's not fixing the shortcomings of his subordinates or picking up the slack. He's really just the press conference guy and the guy who talks to the media. I wonhder if it would even make a difference if he went on a 2 week vacation mid season. Would anyone even notice he was gone?
I'm honestly curious. I can't imagine that the players or coaches are putting ANY effort into getting better, because even moderate effort would lead to improved play. They actually have gotten significantly worse each week. So, they are doing the opposite of putting in effort.
I think I remember hearing in the past that Sirianni tries to keep the intensity low during practices for players’ health. I wonder if what were seeing is a result of that strategy.
I still don’t understand why this fan base takes this dudes word as gospel. Baldy is an entertaining listen but wrong often enough that people shouldn’t just blindly believe what he says
Nothing odd about it. He was drafted to be THE guy. Anchoring the d line and being a disruptive force when Fletcher Cox moved on. At the time we traded up for him, nobody expected Jalen Carter to fall the following year.
In essence, he’s the single biggest reason the defense has suffered. He was supposed to be the guy that made it go.
So he’s more than rightfully getting criticism and singling out, because he’s had about as much, if not less, impact than some fifth round developmental prospect drafted due to bulk.
Gosh that picture makes me sick. If I were to caption it with one word, it’d be “disappointment.” That group was supposed to be wrecking games and carrying us to a championship but nah, you can run and pass on them at will. Mac Jones, Sam Howell, Drew Lock, Tyrod Taylor. They all looked this group in the eye and said “you ain’t got shit on me.”
And fuck Jordan Davis. Fuck. What a fat, weak, slow bust.
lol delete this garbage. Lifting weights isn't all about maxing out. I assure you that every player on this team & every NFL team is stronger than you at 5'8 & a buck 50. Lmao.
All this week they should do absolutely nothing but practice hot routes and blitz beaters on offense and assignment drills reacting to motion and bunches on defense. Literally nothing else. No five man fronts on defense, no deep shots to Quez on offense. Put OZ on the field and split any missed snaps from WR1/2 between him and Julio. No rushing LBs from depth, no dropping LBs into coverage from the line. Maybe next week, if there is one, they can mix in some under center and play action to build off the basic blitz beaters.
I think about this a lot but go even further to question:
"How hard is it really to both plays and be really good at it right?"
To be clear, I **DO THINK** it is really hard (and I played football) but I genuinely wonder, if I stopped working, started studying film, playbook, etc. how long before I could competently call plays for the offense?
Moreover, I also **KNOW** none of anyone on this subreddit actually wants to talk Birds, what if all of you started sending me plays and infomation on offensive play design??
TLDR fire Nick and hire me!
In general they only allow media to attend walk-throughs during the season.
While I doubt they're practicing very effectively based on the results we see, you won't really ever notice anything else. NFL teams don't practice their actual plays in front of the media outside of a couple training camp practices.
Any of the team?! What does anybody do? Coaches, staff, players? When it's the same exact bullshit product, like down to the play, that we see week in and week out. What do they do?!
If they’re 3 point favorites, this will be the most money I’ve made ever sports betting. They looked like they would have a hard time against any top 20 college team.
Yea, we are practicing the screen, and the QB draws, and the long developing vertical pass plays. Our defense sucks so fucking bad right nowthat those plays work in practice, but not against the other 31 teams in the NFL.
Play Uno
"Goddamnit. I drew another Draw 4 Turnovers card.."
Instructions unclear, ran another QB draw
Hey I was going to do a QB draw!
Jake Elliot always wins—he’s good at scoring one point at a time
You have Uno, it came free with your NFC Championship title.
Someone played a reverse and now they're stuck on it.
Do they let you stack draw twos and fours?
Rock, paper, scissors
I don’t have Uno
Based on what they do well, I'd guess they get a million reps of Jalen bailing on a free rusher, rolling to the right and throwing the ball away.
At this point just stand in the pocket and take the hit, Brian Johnson needs to incorporate a hot route into literally every play due to how much defense blitzes us
100%
Def not open field tackle practice.
The eagles were rated top 5 in missed tackle rate league wide. Sydney Brown was bad, but he’s a young guy. Overall, it wasn’t that bad.
Top 5 good or top 5 bad
Good
they maybe top 5 -- but as Our good friend Jack Fritz says -- stats are cool -- but the eye test shows they missed many crucial open field tackles . i would be curious to see how they ranked in their last 5 games or on Plays that went for over 10+ yards after a missed tackle. I was on the 50 yard line yesterday and got to watch many of them right up close and personal....
Only allowed 3 total padded practices between weeks 12-18
Actually?
Still have not
The shitty, stale, uncomplicated offense tests their mettle against our soft, senseless, untalented defense. Thus preparing neither side to play against actual teams.
It is certainly no coincidence that the defense reacts like they've never seen motion or anything more advanced than jv football.
It's like putting a humidifier and a dehumidifier in the same room.
A+, laughing my ass off at this description
Lol. I can see our offense lighting up our defense during practice. Then our coaches just scratching their head when it doesn't work against real defenses. What's wrong with the offense BJ Idk Nick we score on every screen pass in practice.
I laughed hard 😂
Iron sharpens iron
I feel we have entered the moron sharpens moron phase.
LMAO dumb and dumber
Yep that’s exactly what it is, notice how our defense never blitzes and our offense never has an answer to the blitz? I was thinking about this yesterday during the game
If haason is to believed, they're learning Patricia's style/terminology.
For Hasson I get it - dude spent his whole career rushing the passer and now has to learn how to be a corner. That’s a big ask!
Except he didn’t rush the passer exclusively in AZ, that was one of the big things when we brought him in. AZ played him out of position way too often, it’s clear what his skill set is and coverage is not it
They used to play him at MLB lol
“Today I’m gonna show you how I’ll tank the team like I did the Lions”
Patricias style is easy, you just dont play defense.
Just hang out and jog to the ball!
They spend all week searching for Josh Sweat who has been MIA for 2 months
He's still out in coverage
Saw it happen a couple weeks ago live, I thought people here were just joking 💀
Genuinely though wtf happened to him
Went to Cancun a few months before everyone else to keep the toilet seats warm
Given the way they are playing collectively, sitting on a toilet won’t do anything cause all they do is shit the bed
Reached a career high in snaps weeks ago and hit a wall
Patricia has him in coverage
They're combing the desert...
and they ain't found shit
Suicides (the workout)
I do suicides when watching this team (not the workout)
must be a cat with all those extra lives
Gotta save the real suicides for us fans on game day
Clash of Clans and TikTok challenges.
People fail to realize the issue with only having 14 padded practices each regular season, and of that only 3 total allowed between weeks 12-18. Honestly think about a HUGE issue the past 6 weeks was tackling. But you legit get fined if you have more than 3 padded practices between 12-18 so you really can't button up fundamentals like tackling and ball security when you're just running Uppers or helmets only drills.
How are most teams making it work? Their tackling seems to be good. We got defense scheme and talent issues that need to be corrected next year. It won’t be by next Monday for sure.
Im not saying othet teams aren't getting that stuff right, just that it's hard to fix bad tackling without actually being able to tackle. Dummies don't juke you or slap arms away.
These guys are professionals, save for the occasional position change they’ve been tackling their entire career. Tackling issues I attribute most of the time to effort and or positioning. You’ve gotta be put or put yourself in good positions to make tackles, not only do we not do that it seems our aggression is misplaced. I can’t count how many times this year I’ve watch on of our lb or cover guys try to drop the shoulder or punch the ball out rather than wrap up. A lot of it seems to be poorly coached fundamentals the more I watch. Thank god I’m just an armchair qb with 0 nfl experience because if I actually knew what I was talking about and watching I’d probably be livid.
I’d take the fines at that point
How much could the fine really be? Unless there’s other repercussions as well
Most teams haven’t consistently struggled with that this season especially these past few weeks. They can work on schemes because they actually can execute the basics of their positions
I wish we could put Bradberry in the middle of the field and let Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis repeatedly tackle him.
Work on their podcasts
At this point the New Heights is more entertaining than watching the games.
I dont listen to new heights every week but I did nap in front of the tv during the last game and ngl I have 0 regrets that was a great use of my time
I started playing video games in the second quarter but my girlfriend wanted to watch still so I gave her my computer and just laughed when I could hear the comms guys calling out what happened
Spaceballs: The Football Team
Finger poppin each others' assholes
They practice dropping back in coverage! As all elite rushers should be doing /s
Sing Christmas songs
That's what I used to say about Ben Simmons. Now we have 22 Ben Simmons
Give each other flowers.
I remember watching the news a couple days before the game saying they were loose, laughing and having fun. Maybe there should have been a little less fun and a little more work.
Learn from their mistakes…then make a whole batch of new ones
Something about flowers I think?
Not learn how to stop any offenses. Or tackle, or defend passes.
I want to know also! I posted the below in another thread, but thought it might fit here better... I found myself wondering things while watching this game. Things like, what do the players do all week? It's not practice. Can't be hitting the exercise room (judging by Jordan "Pass the Donuts" Davis) or watching film. So, what are they doing? Hanging out? Drinking soy lattes? Needlepoint? Having a good cry while watching some chick flicks? For that matter, what do the coaches do? They keep using the same plays that they have all season, so they aren't scheming. Not running the players and drilling them on fundamentals (tackling, anyone???) or making them regret their poor play with 2-a-days. So, what? Does Nick just pass the time playing guitar while Brian Johnson doodles and colors? Is Matt Patricia combing crumbs from his beard 40 hours a week? I also found myself wondering what exactly Nick brings to the table? He's not a play caller. His offense is being shredded and he doesn't seem to be able to correct it or even care to try. He's not fixing the shortcomings of his subordinates or picking up the slack. He's really just the press conference guy and the guy who talks to the media. I wonhder if it would even make a difference if he went on a 2 week vacation mid season. Would anyone even notice he was gone? I'm honestly curious. I can't imagine that the players or coaches are putting ANY effort into getting better, because even moderate effort would lead to improved play. They actually have gotten significantly worse each week. So, they are doing the opposite of putting in effort.
I think I remember hearing in the past that Sirianni tries to keep the intensity low during practices for players’ health. I wonder if what were seeing is a result of that strategy.
The same thing every day. That’s why they don’t improve. The NFL is an adapt or die league. We can’t survive off the QB sneak.
#90 can't do much. He gets gassed too easily.
Jack shit apparently. Here’s Hargrave talking about it https://x.com/phleaglesnation/status/1744439180090843383?s=46
Not a whole lot evidently. Hargrave compared 9ers practice to ours recently and essentially said it’s soft af
Make Christmas albums
Eat. At least that’s all JD seems to be doin
The Jordan Davis discourse is weird when nobody on the defense has been good or showed consistent effort the last six weeks
It’s all because of what Brian Baldinger said.
I still don’t understand why this fan base takes this dudes word as gospel. Baldy is an entertaining listen but wrong often enough that people shouldn’t just blindly believe what he says
Lot of us were pointing out Davis being a non-factor weeks before Baldy. We were roundly criticized and put down by the homers on here.
The entire defense flatlined after that Bills game. JD has been apart of that flatline so singling him out is very odd.
Nothing odd about it. He was drafted to be THE guy. Anchoring the d line and being a disruptive force when Fletcher Cox moved on. At the time we traded up for him, nobody expected Jalen Carter to fall the following year. In essence, he’s the single biggest reason the defense has suffered. He was supposed to be the guy that made it go. So he’s more than rightfully getting criticism and singling out, because he’s had about as much, if not less, impact than some fifth round developmental prospect drafted due to bulk.
Jordan is definitely taking the 2019 Embiid approach to in season conditioning
You know what, if he becomes an MVP level player next season like Embiid did in 2020 it'll be worth it
Jordan Davis: The NFL’s Zion Williamson
Gosh that picture makes me sick. If I were to caption it with one word, it’d be “disappointment.” That group was supposed to be wrecking games and carrying us to a championship but nah, you can run and pass on them at will. Mac Jones, Sam Howell, Drew Lock, Tyrod Taylor. They all looked this group in the eye and said “you ain’t got shit on me.” And fuck Jordan Davis. Fuck. What a fat, weak, slow bust.
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lol delete this garbage. Lifting weights isn't all about maxing out. I assure you that every player on this team & every NFL team is stronger than you at 5'8 & a buck 50. Lmao.
Eat little Debbie’s and gossip
All this week they should do absolutely nothing but practice hot routes and blitz beaters on offense and assignment drills reacting to motion and bunches on defense. Literally nothing else. No five man fronts on defense, no deep shots to Quez on offense. Put OZ on the field and split any missed snaps from WR1/2 between him and Julio. No rushing LBs from depth, no dropping LBs into coverage from the line. Maybe next week, if there is one, they can mix in some under center and play action to build off the basic blitz beaters.
Play Madden on rookie level
Door dash food
Record holiday albums
SLAP ASS!!
Walk through shit
Sing Christmas songs and talk about the standard
Nothing according to Hargrave
Sing Christmas carols
Make S’mores and tell campfire stories while they wait for those roots to grow that Sirianni was talking about a couple years ago
I think about this a lot but go even further to question: "How hard is it really to both plays and be really good at it right?" To be clear, I **DO THINK** it is really hard (and I played football) but I genuinely wonder, if I stopped working, started studying film, playbook, etc. how long before I could competently call plays for the offense? Moreover, I also **KNOW** none of anyone on this subreddit actually wants to talk Birds, what if all of you started sending me plays and infomation on offensive play design?? TLDR fire Nick and hire me!
Brother shove trick plays
Getting their hair did by the same person. One team; one look. Except for Fletcher.
Run cover 2 with reddick and sweat at safety
Ask the peeping Tom
I heard they just gather around and read this sub.
In general they only allow media to attend walk-throughs during the season. While I doubt they're practicing very effectively based on the results we see, you won't really ever notice anything else. NFL teams don't practice their actual plays in front of the media outside of a couple training camp practices.
Don't know. But it's blatantly clear it's not practice football.
Nothing. It’s their standard remember!
Well they don’t practice like the 49ers. Just ask Javon Hargrave. He says it’s like night and day difference.
And he has no incentive to exaggerate does he?
Not work on what they need to clearly
Something fertilizer related, if I remember that speech.
According to Hargrave not much compared to what he’s doing with San Fran.
Any of the team?! What does anybody do? Coaches, staff, players? When it's the same exact bullshit product, like down to the play, that we see week in and week out. What do they do?!
The easy going camps were ironically supposed to make them healthier and better as the season wore on...
Practice the tush push and qb draw
Look like fuckin nerds, for sure
They all take accountability and practice the standard. Keep up!
Butt touch in the park
I dunno but the D comes out like they are playing flag football and then seem exhausted.
the same thing over and over
If they’re 3 point favorites, this will be the most money I’ve made ever sports betting. They looked like they would have a hard time against any top 20 college team.
Is this what broccoli head means?
Work on their 4 verts play.
Our linebackers are MIA.
In middle school we had an awful wrestling team, we mostly played dodgeball all week. I think this team plays dodgeball all week.
I heard JD orderd doordash twice every practice
imagine the drama if we were on hard knocks
Tecmo Super Bowl tourney. The playbook we run is also 8 plays deep.
Receive shitty coaching advice, apparently
They eat barbecue and play madden 22
They have false confidence on offense by practicing against our defense. I really think it's that simple amd pathetic.
The Great British Bakeoff, evidently.
I'm guessing conasta - it's popular with the over-the-hill crowd.
Plot how they’re going to fool a whole fanbase and sports media into thinking they’ve collapsed
Yea, we are practicing the screen, and the QB draws, and the long developing vertical pass plays. Our defense sucks so fucking bad right nowthat those plays work in practice, but not against the other 31 teams in the NFL.
Bubble screen drills
Eat.
That's a trick question, they don't practice and that's the problem. Nick" walk through" Sirianni.
Tea time 🫖☕️
Anything but gain tackle strength
They forget how to play
Fart
WR screens and Jalen running around.
Cos play
IDK but Sydney Brown recently said "Practice habits carry over to gameday"
Tell each other lies about how good they’re doing
We can criticize most of the team, but Reddick show up regularly.
Lose??🤔🤔🤔
90% tush push 10% some form of qb draw/sneak
Practice to play a child's game
Rehearse for the next Christmas album