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Defense:

Release/cut Kearse and Howard. Not impressed...overpaid and not delivering.

FD could expand on the feasibility of such an action...I just think they are taking up cap space.

Get a true, quality MLB. I would have loved Vilma or Hawk. Merriman was a pipe dream.

Find a hard hitting safety to replace Dawk.

Come to think of it that is a lot of early round picks.

Offense:

Fire Reid. Replacements? Cowher is an option. Parcells needs to coach yet another NFC East team. I'm not sure and haven't given a replacement enough thought.

Cut McNabb after this season. Sadly, his career might have been different had Reid not taken 6 years to implement the shot gun and waste 7 years without brining in excellent WRs if he wanted to 70/30 pass/run.

Bring in a quality free agent WR. The draft is too hit or miss.

If Hunt is it.....great...but test him and if he isn't find a punishing power RB to complement WB.

Ambivalent about LJ/Celek/Schoboat..make due with them for now.

Special teams:

Resign Dirk for consistency.

Find a new return man.

Hire Ike Reese as the coordinator to explain how things get done on this unit.

Finally, fire Heckert. He really does suck.

this team, from the owner on down doesnt go out and get proven coaches, GM's or players.


they always want to find the diamond in the rough, that way they can show the rest of the football world just how smart they (think they) are. thats how heckert and reid got hired. then they shop for FA's in the thrift store, that way they can extend the mike pattersons til the year infinity.


from heckert, to reid, to the draft, to FA, to the way they handle contracts, this team from the top down thinks they invented smart football, and everyone else is stupid.


lets see how quickly that season ticket waiting list shrinks after going 5-11 this yr, and no sniff of playoff money coming-in in december.

something tells me things will change when jeff and joe cant go to the owners meeting in february next year with their noses in the air as usual. money wont be lynchpin, embarrasment will.

Nice list Jules. I would add:

Maybe a couple of CB's who are more than 3 apples high.

(I don't think that Dirk is an improvement over Rocca though)

I would keep Dawk around as a coach to teach the defense how to effing tackle. Then if one of them misses a tackle, Dawkins blows him up and knocks him senseless when he hits the sidelines. One or two of those and the defensive tackling will get MUCH better.

I would replace one of the tackling dummies on the sled with Andy Reid. FB still has his uses.

The Eagles MUST develop a second back if they are going to limit Westbrook's "touches" to what they were last night. I'm an effing retard, but I can still see that.

I want to see Spadaro get the "Spadaro treatment" and publicly flogged before being shown the door. Put a real fan in there that isn't afraid to call it how it is.

If the Eagles are to retain McNabb's services, I want to see his mouth taped shut. I also want to see him spend an offseason throwing an effing football to real live, moving receivers as opposed to tires on the ground or whatever.

Bah, I'm in a horrible effing state of mind over the Eagles "play" so far this season. IF the Eagles are 0-4 heading into the bye, I'm all for starting another "Just lose, baby!" watch for someone that can help Kolb.

Oh, and lest I forget...RUN THE F*CKING BALL!!! RUN THE F*CKING BALL SOME MORE!!! AND THEN WHEN THE PERCENTAGE IS NEARING 50%...RUN THE F*CKING BALL AGAIN!

How much better are the teams with close 50/50 ratio? I couldn't say for sure, but it certainly makes the opposing defenses have to work MUCH harder.

When you're down 20-9, you cant run the ball. Thats goin to skew your run/pass ratio a tad.

Same thought here, Seth. They were running a two-minute drill for the entire fourth quarter.

If the Eagles would have run even once to kill around 30 seconds on their last drive of the first half, the Redskins don't have time for the miracle TD. (this ignores the glaring deficiencies on defense in the Redskins last drive of course)

Down 10-6 after the half, every drive started out with one run for around 5 yards, 2 incomplete passes, and a punt. A good number of the passes came off "PA", which is an utter waste of time when you don't run the ball.

4th quarter: trying to get a "hurried" play off before the two minute warning. The clock stops after the play anyway, and the Redskins are playing pass all the way. Even a run of a few yards here is beneficial IMO. It makes the Redskins at least think about the running game, and the Eagles could get a first down w/o a touchdown.

Those are just some of the missed opportunities.

I pose that the Eagles were down the score they were in the 4th quarter BECAUSE they wouldn't establish a running game, and could have still used the run to help them out at the end of the game. Just sayin.

"once" should have been "one more time", but whatever.

- trade dmac and try to get a 1st day precious (Falcons?)

- obviously, unload reid (with a forklift if need be).

- i honestly think a little "Marty-Ball" would get this team going in the right direction. hire schottenheimer. at least he'll run the ball.

- find a special teams guru and hire him NOW. B-mitch?

- hire neckbeard to teach holding skills

- bring in players with heart and an attitude. no more mormons!!

How about a suggestion list and a collection to have it printed in the paper? The more donations, the bigger the ad.

slapshot, we're all livid with reid, but schottenhiemer and morninggay? pretty sure they aint the answer.

Seth....this is not specific to the Monday night game...but rather the theme of this team over the last 9 years.

I'd honestly contribute 50-100 bucks to get the list printed.

Incidentally, in our training program we have three mormons. Two are as bland as individuals come. Not hard workers but not the worst. The last one is the laziest slug I've ever met. Having said this, I realize that it is hardly a statistically significant or scientific study.

Anyway, you do need fiery people to get people riled up and ready to go out and destroy peeps.

I'd love to stick it to Lurie and Banner. I wouldn't mind starting a campaign to impeach the FatMan.

Wow. There's a whole lot of hate here. Truthfully, I don’t know if I concur, as I haven’t had the misfortune to watch either of the games so far this year (AFN can be a bit selective, and besides, waking up at 5:30 in the morning to watch football just isn’t the same). However, from what I can tell, the QB play thus far is spotty, and the defense, while not giving up oodles of points, is hardly rising to the occasion. Special teams, quite obviously, is not much better.

My guess is that QB play will remain spotty until McNabb is comfortably mobile again. He may have issues with his lean or release stemming from the ACL injury, but McNabb, as always, has been streaky. When he’s on, he’s on fire, but when he’s off, watch out. Such characteristics likely led to the selection of Kolb, who was likely the best quarterback available in the past two drafts. About that last comment, I do not drink kool aid, thank you very much. However, some of the greatest indicators of NFL success for college QBs, completion percentage and starting time, suggest that Kolb is going to be a simply amazing quarterback, and I remain convinced that he was a steal from the get go.

I have always disagreed with the armchair coaches who insist that the Eagles must run more to take pressure off McNabb. While the 06 Eagles’ early offensive performance seemed abnormally skewed, good teams have more ‘balanced’ offenses because they pass effectively and consistently, which enables them to run efficiently. Once the game is hand, they run, run, and run some more, which still only leads to something approaching a 1:1 ratio for even the most conservative teams. However, if a team cannot pass consistently and effectively, it cannot win in the NFL today. The NFL is a passing league.

As for the defense, I have never been in favor of Johnson’s blitzing scheme. Blitzing, on average, yields more points than it prevents. Although the Eagles have historically performed much better than the average within their blitzing scheme, I have watched too many ineffective (and sometimes catastrophically ineffective) blitzes from the Eagles over the past several years to believe that they can defeat the law of averages over time. Personally, I favor a 3-4 to a 4-3, because rushing 5 from a 3-4 creates nearly as much havoc as rushing 6 from a 4-3. Regardless, the Eagles, in my opinion, still have yet to find an adequate replacement for Hugh Douglas, the lynchpin of their successful blitzing days. While pass rushing DEs that can play the run remain rare, it seems to me that the Eagles have not invested enough priority in finding one. Jevon Kearse is not that man.

Keep:
Harbaugh
Banner
Westbrook
Vera Wang Cheerleader costumes
Castillo

Dump:
5
all WRs
Crazy Ol' Man (Jim Johnson)
Heckert

Shoot:
Reid

Bring in a HC that has done it before (with some success). Let him help choose a GM. Suffer through 3-4 years until the taint of Mormon leaves the NovaCare Complex.

Wow. I think I'm in the minority in saying that Reid is alright by me.

BTW, relooking at my post, I realized that I inadvertently reduced anyone and everyone calling for more running to 'armchair coaches.' That's not fair, and I apologize. I still disaree with such an assessment (which I find a tad overly simplistic), but people should be free to disagree without the name-calling.

I know I harp about 50/50, but even a reduction to 60% passing makes the other team guess more about the upcoming play. It leads to more 3rd and shorts, and Gawd forbid the Eagles run the ball for 6 straight times or something. There's no DC in the world that would guess that one at this point.

And "trickery" (for the lack of a better word) is the only thing that will make this receiving corps be able to get open or make plays. With the passing game beyond stagnant on Monday night, there was NO motion at all before the snap. No running game...fine. Sell me on the screen being the same as the run in this offense...but where the eff were the screens then? And when was the last time that PA ever fooled anyone playing the Eagles? Why waste the time?

With this receiving corps, the lack of a running game, and the HC's refusal to address either, I would say that even Peyton Manning couldn't do squat with this team the way things are right now.

Something needs to change. What happened to the Reid that came in and made even the crappy team he inherited somewhat fun to watch?

AZIF, Reid is the proto-typical middle management supervisor. We've all dealt with the type.

- He only likes his ideas (taking playcalling back, not keeping Stallworth)
- He will fail, just to prove a point about how right he was (bargain basement WRs, Jerome McDougal)
- He will then blame others for the failure (Spuds attacking 5)
- He won't to see the need for change despite repeated failures (70/30 pass/run, bad drafting)
- He is secretive, to the point of paranoia (press conferences, players can't discuss their own injuries)
- He is petty and vindictive toward those who challenge his ideas(George Hegamin, Hollis Thomas, Raheem Brock)

I can't see this type of personality winning a Championship.

OK, I think I get the idea. Personally, I'm a bit up in the air about Reid's performance as a coach.

I have not seen the games, and statistics can be misleading, but it appears that the Eagles are well within a 60/40 pass/run ratio, despite trailing late last week. As far as the wide receivers and the play selection goes, I cannot comment, as I have not seen the plays.

Therefore, I will yield to askdude’s contention that the plays demonstrate some philosophical or design flaw which dooms them from the start. I’ve seen this happen before. If the game plans are awry, then the coach and coordinators must prepare better for their opponents. However, I have seen Reid and his staff prepare brilliant gameplans before, so I expect that if they brought poor plans to bear these past two weeks that they will remedy the situation. If the players cannot, for some reason, execute the game plan, then the fault lies at their feet (rather than at those of the coach), unless the game plan assumes that the players possess skills beyond their reach (unusual).

Furthermore, I disagree with fagelpoke's assertion that Reid attempts strategies doomed to failure in order to prove a point. The notion, as I type it, seems like a unfounded judgementant that I would find in one of Easterbrook's articles. Must we agree with Reid's gameplans? No. But the idea that he doesn't at heart and simply keeps picking the same plays like a stubborn mule to prove his evil genius to the world is somewhat unbelievable.

I also have difficulty accepting the notion that the receivers make passing unpalatable from the get go. As I have said, this is a passing league, so the team must pass, at some point. The Eagles played well for stretches last season with only Baskett and Brown. There is no reason that they should not be able to perform with Curtis and Brown.

As a gameday coach, Reid demonstrates some traits that are purely maddening to the casual fan (i.e. me). His team blows timeouts like they are going out of style. His play calls come in late far too often, and his halftime adjustments seem to lack zest. However, I see few NFL coaches that consistently do better. Bellicheck and Martz come to mind, but Bellicheck’s propensity for halftime adjustments now has a black cloud cast over it. Also, I doubt that anyone wants Martz to be Philadelphia’s next head coach, for other reasons.

As a team leader, I think Reid does a decent job. One may view, after a fashion, many of his supposed faults as assets. While in some cases this may be a stretch, in others, it seems to make sense.

For example, Reid often receives criticism for his bland and repetitive press conferences, especially for his tendency to accept responsibility for failure without detailing it. However, good leaders accept responsibility for failures in their organizations and remain effusive with praise for their personnel. Any in-depth discussion of failures by the the coach and the media is likely to prompt finger pointing, either by reporters or by players. He wisely avoids this possibility.

As for his penchant for discipline, I applaud leaders who establish a standard of behavior within their organization and uphold it. The successful franchises of this decade (i.e. Super Bowl winners) appear to be teams that wholeheartedly buy into the team concept from top to bottom. Discipline is a big part of that.

I guess that I sound a lot like the Johnny Cochran to Andy’s OJ, which is not my intent. The personnel staff’s decision to make Greg Lewis field punts is directly responsible for one of the two losses, and I believe that the personnel department falls under Reid. However, he does put the team in a good position to succeed nearly every week, and I find it hard to simply discredit that.

"However, good leaders accept responsibility for failures in their organizations and remain effusive with praise for their personnel. "

But great leaders don't fail the same way over and over again.

"However, I see few NFL coaches that consistently do better."

Jeff Fisher
Sean Payton
John Fox
Mike Shanahan

I would lump Holmgren, Dungy & Gibbs in there, but that's mostly on past performances, not with their present teams.

Nix on Sean Payton - he hasn't been around long enough to be considered in the same class as the others. Dungy's teams have always made the playoffs, and he gets a nod certainly not just because of past performances.

What I don't want is people getting into a trap of thinking that just because there are no big name coaches out there available, then they're automatically worse than Reid, when Reid was a no-name before he came in here.

Holmgren went to the SB not many moons ago and has been in the playoffs for sometime. I don't think he's necessarily better than Reid. They look similar...

Dick Lebeau? His first stint wasn't particularly successful, maybe he's learned some. He'd also instill a 3-4.

When you're down 20-9, you cant run the ball. Thats goin to skew your run/pass ratio a tad.

Seth, do not let FB trick you on this one.

The first drive was 5 passes, 1 run(the opening play) and a punt. There was a 6th pass called that was negated on a penalty.

The second drive was pass, run, pass, punt.

The third drive was pass, pass, pass, run, run, run, pass, pass.

So after the first 3 drives alone, Reid was at 71% pass.

After the first 5 drives (basically half time) he was at 71% pass.

They came out in the third quarter and threw 66% of the time in that period.

Hell, even being down 11 points with an entire quarter to play doesn't mean you can't run the ball. You have to be pass heavy in those situations, but you still mix th run in to keep them honest. This gameplan stinks from start to finish and was in no way called by Morningwood.

AZ,

What stands out is the basic shortcomings of a Reid team have been the same for most of his 9 years here. THAT is what makes everyone critical of his stubborness to prove his invisible-to-all-but-himself evil genius.

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