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The 'D' Stands For ...
... Doesn'tmakeadifference.
As much maligned as Jeff Lurie's "Things were terrible; I'm not changing anything" remarks were a couple weeks ago, this is one time where he's in close alignment with at least a sizable minority of the paying customers.
Ask any Eagles fan if promoting Juan Castillo to DC was the right move last year and it's unlikely you...
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21 days ago
Discuss
Two Blitzes
A reader, to whom I may or may not be related, asked a question earlier about our blitzing. Here are two representative plays.
This first one starts with a bad guess. Castillo calls Brian Rolle's number on an outside blitz on a play where the 49ers decided to run up the middle.
Things to notice (after you get through the previous play that I also accidentally recorded...
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October 05, 2011
It's Not the Wide Nine, But How Good Is the Wide Nine?
Buried within those tables I posted last night is an incredible stat. Despite being cataclysmically bad in almost all defensive phases, the Eagles are on pace to rack up 60 sacks, easily the best mark since 2001 (as far back as I copy/pasted).
The Eagles are set to achieve this feat despite switching away from a blitzing, pressure-oriented style to one that relies almost...
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October 03, 2011
The True Measure of the Defense's Awfulness
In tables:
By era:
Most damning: The Eagles have so far played the 14th, 21st, 27th and 28th best offenses.
The league's best quarterback is Aaron Rodgers. Tom Brady is #2.
Samyan Manith is #3.
If you want to be comprehensive in your approach to assign blame for each loss, it's fine to talk about the offense's red zone struggles, their collapses...
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October 03, 2011
Strike Three
The irony is that what we're witnessing is a total organizational breakdown. Andy Reid can blame the offensive coaches as much as he wants; the losses over the past three weeks have uncovered serious problems throughout the organization.
The players and coaches have been wildly inconsistent.
The personnel team consicously assembled that group of linebackers, but they...
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October 02, 2011
One Final Post
First of all, thanks for all the emails, comments and tweets. I especially want to call out the people who compared it to a breakup. I woke up the next day feeling guilty and remembering all the good times ... so yeah, pretty much nailed that one.
Anyway, I missed a couple housekeeping things in that last post. First of all, for the folks wondering about Tommy's next gig...
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January 17, 2011
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
PRESIDENT SHEPHERD The environment got screwed. Nothing happened to you today, Sydney. Governing is choosing. Governing is prioritizing. I've made no secret of the fact that the crime bill was my top priority.
SYDNEY Well then, congratulations. It's only taken you three years to put together crime prevention legislation that has no hope of preventing crime.
I haven't watched...
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January 14, 2011
Farewell, My Concubines
I was e-mailing with some of my many, many adoring fans earlier this week when I let slip that I was abruptly retiring from my lucrative career as a high-profile Philadelphia Eagles blogger at IgglesBlog. Oops! As you might expect, this revelation was met with a somewhat predictable mix of shock, horror and disappointment:
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO," they said. "How can you walk away...
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January 14, 2011
Gratitude
Before I started contributing to this site, I was a fan. To me, IgglesBlog was a source of intelligent analysis, unlike anything else I had seen. And at that point, IgglesBlog was Derek. Bounty and Tommy came later, and I was a fan of theirs individually long before they started writing under the IgglesBlog banner. But to me, this site has always been about Derek, first and foremost...
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January 14, 2011
Reflections of the Newbie
I was the last person to join IgglesBlog and only got to spend about 6 months here. If I had to describe my experience in one word it would be...IgglesBlogtastic!!! What does that mean? Hell if I know. The guys told me to say something positive or there'd be no fruit-cup for me tonight. Derek, Gabe, and Sam invited me into their cyberhome with open arms back in the summer...
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January 14, 2011
Eagles Winning Strategy: Keep Vick In The Pocket
The actual pocket. The one that's centered about five yards behind the line of scrimmage, nestled inside all those big guys whose paycheck depends on keeping Vick safe.
"But we can't pass protect," you say. True. We can't. But that hardly matters if, when the rushers get to Vick, he no longer has the ball, either because it's zipping on a line to...
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January 07, 2011
Thursday Packers Thoughts
I'll post a Game Preview on Friday that will deal with specific strategies. This is more random and mostly about the Packers.
Last night the NFL Network replayed the Packers win over Chicago from Sunday and then the season opener between us and Green Bay. After watching those games I came away feeling better about our chances. Green Bay is a good team. I'm certainly...
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January 06, 2011
MTC on Juqua and Snaps
Sheil Kapadia has a good article up on Juqua Parker, snaps, and effectiveness. The week off may have been as important to him as to any other player.
LDE has been an issue since Brandon Graham got hurt. I'm hoping that we play Darryl Tapp more at that spot and have Bobby McCray as the backup at RDE. I thought McCray showed some burst in the Dallas game. If he can give...
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January 06, 2011
Great Packers Reading
I've blown off PFF all season once they went behind the paywall, but the weekly Packer game summaries make profitable reading. Definitely learned some things.
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January 06, 2011
Thoughts On Vick
Let's talk about Michael Vick for a minute. Recently he's taken a lot of criticism. Some of that is absolutely warranted. Some is silly hyperbole. Let's stick with what we actually know.
Vick exploded on the scene earlier in the year. Teams were caught off guard by his ability as a runner and passer. This was a version of Vick that had never been seen...
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January 05, 2011
Wrapping Up the Regular Season
I wrote a short review of the Dallas game. Just wanted to post some thoughts on the young guys and how they played. It is more for future reference than anything else. For those looking for some punishment, you can scroll up from that review to find my limited notes on the Vikings game. Again, more for future reference than anything else.
From here on out, I'm all playoffs.
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January 04, 2011
Fool Me Twice ...
I have made many, many bad predictions since starting this blog five seasons ago. There was this early one. The Asante thing. Then just the garden variety "never saw that coming" ones.
They've all been defensible in their own ways, I would argue. Which is more than one can say for the truly dumbest predictions I've made ...
All starting something like ...
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January 04, 2011
Monday Eagles Hangover: I've Seen This Movie Before
A Week 17 home game that would have absolutely no impact on the Eagles' playoff seeding? Yeah, I'd seen this movie before.
It was actually six years to the day (January 2, 2005) that I attended the 2004 Eagles' Week 17 game against the Cincinnati Bengals. That year, the Eagles had locked up homefield advantage throughout the playoffs in Week 15, so the team had been on cruise...
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January 03, 2011
The Play That Changed A Season
Such a weird play. The Packers only rushed three. We had that many guys on the right side of the formation assigned to Clay Matthews. Celek gives him a push, LeSean looks him over and Sir Winston was supposed to stay with him.
The ultimate irony, though, might be that the guy we criticized as Captain Checkdown refused to dump the ball off on this play. He had guys short...
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January 03, 2011
Like The Vikings Game In Reverse -- Until The End
And so it ends. Another regular season, as well as a game that will have Eagles fans adding the words "... in that game where we sat all the starters" to all Eagles/Cowboys stats for the next few years.
It may just be me, but I don't think the Vick/Kolb discussion -- such as it is -- was advanced much by what we saw today. It probably makes more sense to judge Kolb in game...
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January 02, 2011
Cowboys at Eagles - Open Thread
Couple of things to mention. Here are the inactives: McCoy, Vick, DeSean, Laws, Samuel, Justice, T. Cole, Bradley. Jeremy Maclin really wants 1,000 yards. Expect him to get targeted a few times on the opening drive. I think he'll get a small window to work with before he's pulled.
With no Shady it will be interesting to see what they do at RB. Is Harrison the...
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January 02, 2011
Pre-Post-Season Early Games Open Thread
Weird week. Feels like a bye.
Still, there's a lot of good, meaningful football on today. And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued every single time Kevin Kolb steps on the field.
Also, I pulled the second TV into the living room yesterday for the first time in 2010, so let's watch some football. I'm starting all NFC South. We'll see how long...
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January 02, 2011
Stopping Mike Vick
That's the subject of my new column for SB Nation Philly.
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January 01, 2011
Vikings Game, Vick, and Draft Talk
Here is my new column for PE.com. I wrote about the importance of teamwork, based on our poor showing vs the Vikings.
There will be no Detailed Game Review this week. I'm re-watching the game and will post something, but with the game coming on a Tuesday and bowl games every night, I don't have time to do my normal thing. I'll post a link to whatever I do finish...
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December 31, 2010
So, Do We Still Have To Keep Vick?
I've had a thought tumbling around my head the past couple weeks, and it goes something like this:
Most every Eagles fan, even the ones who've been on the Vick bandwagon pretty much from the first time he exploded on the field this season, still aren't really in love with the idea of giving Kevin Kolb away. Maybe he's not Mike Vick, sure, but he's shown an awful lot of ability...
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December 30, 2010
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