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That point about how often the Eagles only blocked with 5 when the defense was bringing 6 or more: does anyone rate when o-lines(men) *don't even block?* I don't mean "fail to" block. I mean what we see at 22:45 of czcams.com/video/FiiK21VzI_o/video.html (& several plays before this) where the o-linesman is lined up, but literally runs away from all blocks.
& also tries to run his teammate off _his_ block. I wanna know how tf PFF or anyone rates those. Because I have No Idea How the Bears have gotten away with these for two years & are somehow not rated as THE bottom team in this.
Desean Jackson has the craziest football stat I’ve ever heard.
For his career. He averaged 46 yards per touchdown. For HIS CAREER!!!!
No one else is even close.
Yall should mention that sometime in the future
It’s not a Bootleg Football episode without an unhinged title & one of the guys (mainly Brett) tells us to grab a drink
You know it’s a bears episode when they both tell you to grab a drink (maybe not this year though)
As a Pennsylvanian the whole east PA - west PA rivalry is overblown but mistaking Pittsburgh for Philly is unthinkable
Everyone asks why did the Eagles collapse, but never why did they start off with so many wins. My personal opinion was that the majority of their early games were rain games and hid a lot of their weakness on defense. Once the Cowboys and 49ers built the blueprint to expose the scheme everyone saw it and the Eagles coaches had no response. Conspiracy theory was that Matt Patricia was hired because they knew early on that Desai was a mistake and wanted a back up plan, that also was a disaster.
The cowboys didnt expose anything lol
As a Lions fan, not sure how Matt Patricia keeps getting jobs in the league. Was “DC” in New England but we all know Bill was calling the defense, gutted the Lions, went back to NE as a OC and ruined Mac Jones, then ruined the Eagles defense
Sean Desai and Brian Johnson, as well as Matt Patricia, all turning out to be terrible coordinators.
I’m a Commanders fan, that game early in the season was when I realized the Eagles wouldn’t be serious this year. They won when Ron threw the game by opting to kick the extra point but they won so ugly
I think Johnson and Desai would be good coordinators on a rebuilding team. Not for a team that just went to a Super Bowl, we thought talent would win out, but I feel we overrated their defense@@vincentbernal635
Can't wait for that cowboy one tomorrow. Hopefully I can clear 5 mins of my day to watch all that they did in the offseason.
ALL IN BABY 😂
JT OSullivan was screaming all year about the Eagles not having any hot reads for blitz....it was frustrating as hell.... and when the defense falls apart the offense couldn't save them anymore because the hot reads started getting home late and Hurts couldn't escape the pocket... 49ers gave the league the blueprint....now we have to adjust
I’m an eagles fan so I may be biased but last year just felt so frustrating because it felt like there was no identity on offense or defense or even a sense that the coordinators were trying to establish an identity especially on defense it felt like they kept throwing stuff at the wall to see if it stuck and it didn’t I’m hopeful that the new coordinators younger secondary and a rb that can block will make it a lot easier to watch
I think the offense had an identity. Problem was the coaching staff kept defaulting to the philosophy of 'our guys are better than your defense' even in situations where a well designed play could get them easy yards. Defense I feel had no real identity outside of the strength in the D-line/Reddick and big weaknesses with the personnel in the 'middle' area (safety/LBs) and questions with secondary play. Very questionable decisions when their answer to Desai's inconsistency was the 'wild card' in Patricia.
Loved how Brett broke down the Hurts contract... you did it better than anybody else who've attempted to explain it....its designed to be extended....plus he has a no trade clause in there....some extra info for the Hurrs haters throwing out false info (Howard Eskin)
On The Road to Victory with Jimmy Smith, he breaks down the cap like no other.
The way he talks about Eagles fans needing group therapy would make you think they won 4 games last year instead of 11
wow what a superbowl for the eagles!
@@AintNoWaye Most teams don't go to the Super Bowl, do they need someone to hold their hands too?
@@sarcasticfury5478I mean you have to think about their expectations too; Eagles fans were probably expecting at least a consistently good regular season and a couple of playoff wins. If the Broncos or Jets got 11 ugly wins and made the playoffs, their fans would be over the moon, but Philly was supposed to be better.
Its not that they got 11 wins, its how they looked while doing it. They frauded their way into at least half of those wins, then got completely exposed in the back half of the season
Nah....he is saying we won 11 games and fell apart... I get it....its frustrating as fuck
Really looking forward to seeing the Eagles live here in Brazil, I think we are in for a treat
Not an Eagles fan, but Nick Sirianni keeping his job was crazy.
Should still have Peterson
Firing a HC after one bad season after having made it to the Super Bowl the previous season is too hasty. Also, good HC candidates won’t want to go to a team that axed two HCs to at made it to the Super Bowl. Shows very little job security.
A lot went wrong for PHI last year but nothings going wrong with y’all’s video title choices. Just straight hot 🔥 every time. Don’t you ever change. Guessing the next videos name is big part of the fun.
Coaching was horrendous from the start of the year but what people forget this team won EVEN WITH the lack of adjustments and bad scheme(won in KC btw)…making a Super Bowl run is harder than most think and it’s even harder to get back the following year… the poor coaching combined with injuries eventually caught up to the team.. with an easier schedule in 2024-25 guarantee this team will look a lot different
The difficulty getting back the following year needs to be factored in….the team had confidence in the coaches and coordinators that got them to the big dance. Once those coordinators and coaches were gone and two novices (really three since Patricia is terrible) were in charge the teams confidence that they would make it back died after the ass whippings by Niners and Cowboys. The team 100% knew they weren’t going to make it back. And I think at that point the games became about individual stats, contract bonuses etc over team cohesiveness. Defense was a joke that became more laughable and the offense was a predictable bore. I’m glad I watched this to process that awful season. Time to turn the page 🎯
As an Eagles fan, last season was so bonkers! I hope we don't flame out like last season. 🤞🏼
The Eagles Linebacker play HAS to be better. It was absolutely bottom-of-the-barrel stuff last year and sold the secondary (which was overly picked on by national media). I mean, half of the 2023 Eagles LBs wouldn't have made the roster on 31 teams in the league. They costed Sean Desai his job and were the reason the Niners and Cowboys cracked the code. Nakobe, Baun and Devin White NEED to be better than our group last year for the defense to have any success.
We sorely missed TJ Edwards, one of the most underrated parts of the 2022 squad
I think they will be but the secondary improving means even if they are just average it’ll be an overall improvement. I do think we upgraded and the projected starters balance each other out well. Not saying we’ll have the best rankings but hovering around the middle shouldn’t be out of question
Thoroughly Enjoyed this. Very well thought out and very entertaining!
Where the cowboys episode 😢
New riff! Great stuff
Good stuff
You all forgot how unbelievably lethally awesome Jake Elliot is. That kick to win the Buffalo game needs to be in a perpetual loop on a screen in Canton. That man looks and lives the part of a GANGSTER...On an unrelated note--has anyone seen Trea Turner and Jake Elliot in the same room? Asking for a friend...
Love the center placement of that new riff bottle. GREAT bottle of bourbon
Nick had nothing to do with changing things up this year. That was Jeffrey’s call because he realized his coach wasn’t as good offensively as he thought without Shane Steichen. And the title aggravates me like we are the jets or something 😂
Eagles are an interesting case study of a team not having that added gear in key moments. With their offense lacking finesse trying to live in shotgun (along with Hurt's legs not being at 100%) to their defense not being able to stop teams from putting up points. By the numbers overall they look 'good' if one didn't watch their games from the first half of the season to the 2nd half where they truly underperformed. Not only did the offense looked like they were out of ideas but going from Desai to Patricia on defense should have been very telling how conflicted that coaching staff was with their results.
Rip getting the Cowboys on Friday 😢
Brian johnson scapegoating was always so funny to me man
As far as I’m concerned, we still suck. We still suck until we start winning again, which obviously can’t happen until September. Although I am optimistic that we quickly corrected the coordinator situation and brought in vets on both sides.
We still suck but “I’m optimistic “… talk about an oxymoron 😂😂😂
I follow the birds very closely and i cant find anywhere where you went wrong, so well done.
In 22 the Eagles won many of their games before halftime. Largely because of how the Eagles could sustain drives. Last year's defence had a lot of problems. But, what is often overlooked is how quickly they often had to return to the field late in games. From a strategic perspective, aside from scoring points, you win games by keeping your defense fresh and making your opponents tired.
The fact that Deandre Swift had a career yr with some games low amount of run attempts should have eagles fan pumped for Saquon.
Ive been watching the Eagles since 1980, I can't remember a year where their defense was worse, it was hard to watch, they couldnt stop anything
Ill believe it when i see it
There is so much I can talk about in this video and being an Eagles fan I really wanted to talk about the more underrated free agent picks like Julien Okwara and others but I HAVE to mention the amazing graphics that were in this video and the series as a whole.
Really interesting to hear you both, speaking in May, on the subject of Zach Baun since we now know in OTA's and minicamp he was getting a *ton* of first team reps. It really seemed to surprise the two beat writers in Philly who do a twice-weekly podcast.
You guys probably should have talked with local media a bit more before doing this pod. Quinyon Mitchell is probably 4th on the CB depth chart, they’re rotating Isaiah Rodgers and Kelee Ringo opposite Slay. And Vic Fangio has Zach Baun playing ILB not edge
Nice
Can't tell if that is the New Riff Single Barrel or just the bottled in bond or even another offering, but I must say that the New Riff Single barrels are some of the best values in bourbon and SO DAMNED TASTY!
DJax was a damn beast!!!
“That’s the too long didn’t listen version” at 19 minutes into an hour+ long show 😂
As an eagles fan I’m gonna need a bottle of Hennessy and some hypnotic to chase it to get through this
please do a mini doc on the eagles dream team 🙏
The end of last szn almost made me give up football all together
I hope Saquon turns out to be a bargain at RB5. I think he has a legitimate shot at being the most productive back in the league this year. He catches really well, his outside running is incredible, he can run inside, he's got speed, and the Eagles have a great line. Saquon's had a bit of a snakebit career and he seems like a great dude, so I'm always rooting for him.
Love hearing ab my Bengals even though it's an eagles episode 😂
I'd watch a Dream Team doc. I'd watch it through my fingers, but I'd watch it.
Especially the section on the Galaxy Brain coaching moves. The big difference between Chiefs Andy Reid and Eagles Andy Reid: Chiefs Andy Reid is smarter than 90% of the league; Eagles Andy Reid thought he was smarter than 90% of the league
Can you do afc west next I don’t wanna wait for the chargers video 🥺
My worst nightmare💔💔
Going to sound weird, but Jake Elliott saved the Eagles a ton last year.
Bears Prince Amukamara mentioned
the defence sucked beacuse they lost johnathan gannon and nick rallis, those guys are good coaches
Y’all should check out Kellen Moore’s blitz pick up track record for the chargers……. lol
They get all that $ because how they structured hurts contract. It gives them leeway to sign good players. Howie is a genius not gonna lie. He’s killed the draft and FA. He’s super aggressive
If you’re an Eagles fan, do you really want Sirianni as your coach? He clearly can’t call plays offensively or defensively and struggled to keep the team together down the stretch. Like he’s supposed to be an offensive guy but Steichen literally made that offense what it was. IMO it’s time to get a better coach.
They felt just like the 10-1 steelers from about 5years ago
That Steelers team couldn’t beat good teams. They had a really easy schedule.
The eagles beat good teams with overwhelming roster talent and no coaching. None. Absolutely no coaching.
@@doctorbashir3497thank you…coaching jobs matter
how much do you guys think the loss of Kelce will effect the tush push? (apologies if you brought it up in the episode I'm only like 2/3s of the way through
feel like they are underselling impact of kelce/ cox retirement. add on to that fixing corner with pair of rookies even though I like those players seems a little rich. see them as 8 to 11 wins still though
Johnny Wilson is discount Funches
Gotta keep an eye on the new Australian kid
You guys did a good job covering the eagles, only two things I feel like deserve more time focusing on is Isaiah Rodgers coming back from suspension and signing back cjgj. I just feel like it’s ironic that the eagles were so bad at secondary last year and had such a good draft with the Db’s and we’re not even gonna start any rookies
Dont hate me, but did Kelce have a large blame in switching to/calling insufficient pass pro? It just doesn’t make sense how undermanned they were over and over, like was almost comical.
Go Birds 🦅
Cooper DeJean, the 2nd best athlete to come out of Iowa last year.
Question when is the raiders one coming out
One guy you guys overlooked in terms of roster additions. Another Aussie rugby player we signed at a young age Laekin Vakalahi, 6'5" 320.
Brett try to not say distillation challenge: impossible
Please please pleaseee release the cowboys episode
All year I kept saying they looked like the Vikings from the previous year just frauds, watching there offense was so frustrating it was junior high like. I’m shocked Brian Johnson got another job. Overall I’m hopeful for this season, losing reddick hurts alot more than most realize, really hope huff emerges to the guy they paid for
The D was terrible last season but the Offense wasnt very good either unfortunately. The games we won, we won them because of the insane talent of our skill players and Hurts and the tush push. But the playcalling (runplay call %, playdesign, variety, etc) was truly horrible most of the season. Unimaginitive. And the blitzes killed us BAD. I have faith in Moore because 1. he cant really do it worse then last year. 2. he has experience. Im sure he can be criticized for some stuff too, but the experience alone makes me hopeful.
Naw, seriously, where are they getting the money?!?! How?!?
I honestly don't think Nick had anything to do with getting Fangio or Kellen Moore in, Tbh if things don't go right, Nick is gone and Kellen most likely becomes head coach, I even think if things go right he still might be gone.
I think the birds go 13 wins, corner now is one of the strongest positions in the team which was probably the worst last year and LB has been addressed as long as Dean, Trotter Jr or Baun steps up with Devin White
That's a very real possibility... Hurrs wants stability....if Moore gives him success and if teams come calling for Moore... the Eagles will have a very hard decision to make..... but...let's play out the season first
Kellen Moore? _This_ czcams.com/video/9IjgyFHdVVsK/video.htmlellen Moore whose favorite play was also responsible for Dak leading the league in INTs in '22 despite missing 5 games? Yeah, it's possible. the Eagles saw all this yet hired him.
@@ChewsCarefully bro anything is an improvement over BJ, we also got a better o line and running game so it won't have to be forced
@@Scyon13 No, don;'t do that. Don't lower your standards to that level then say "this is better" as if it's the best you can get. Matt Canada _was chanted_ to the unemployment lines. You The Fans *can hold* your professional teams accountable.
Don't waste this roster on utter failures & say "well he's less bad than the last one."
@@ChewsCarefully we couldnt get Ben Johnson or Bobby Slowik, so to me Kellen Moore was the next best choice, I think you're really hating on Kellen from what I saw of his time in Dallas they had a great passing attack despite the picks, you can't blame him for Daks bad decision making, to compare him to Canada is laughable, Not sure if you saw the Eagles play calling last year but I'd say it was as bad if not worse than the steelers.
The only reason we put up so much points is simply because we were out talenting teams, I know at least we won't be throwing bubble screens on first down and QB draw on third and long 🤣 literally anyone bar Matt Canada and Nathaniel Hackett would be an improvement over BJ, but I think Moore has potential and is still young enough to learn new things and adjust his philosophy, also Jalen is a very different QB to Dak so he will have to make adjustments, it's win/win either way, we either make a deep playoff run or we get Bobby Slowik next year so it's all good to me 🤣
E A G L E S EAGLESSSSSS🦅🦅🦅
COOPER DEJEAN IS A CORNER
Go birbs
Feels like Sirianni is in a no-win situation. If the offense disappoints he's getting canned, if the offense is really good, he might still get canned to be replaced by Kellen Moore.
There is damn no way Howie thinks Kellen is the HC answer even if he jump starts that offense in 2024.
@@t4d0W Big Dom as HC it is then
@@t4d0Wbut do you risk losing tremendous offensive success for coach CEO if we are a juggernaut this year?
Howie drafts like if an armchair gm was actually a gm
bird
It's hard to be excited when our new DC asked to leave Miami and they just let him go, and our new OC couldn't hold a job with Dak or Herbert. I guess I like them better than the disaster we had last year, but Fangio and Moore aren't moving the needle so much for me.
TBF Moore has gotten results as OC with both Dak and Herbert. Even with variance situations messing things up (Chargers with injuries on offense). I think Fangio and the Fins defense just didn't fit overall. Talent wise Fangio probably likes the Eagles defense situation better than the Fins in the long run as well given he has short experience with both. At this point you can hope both those guys bring something stable in a full season than what Sirianni had for last season.
@@t4d0W Really?
Doesn't look czcams.com/video/9IjgyFHdVVs/video.html like he did.
You can tell Brett vaguely understands the cap but just takes Over the Cap at face value.
No Jalen Hurts does not have "7 void years," mostly because that is NOT ALLOWED by the CBA. He has 4 void years that stretch from 2029-2032, which will become irrelevant because the Eagles will extend him otherwise they will be on the hook for nearly $100M in 2029.
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At the 15:43 mark of this unscripted video you can hear Nick tell Lane that he wasn't going to give him any help. The worst part about this is that it came out before the season began. That part of the video should never have seen the light of day, yet the Eagles saw fit to basically announce to the world through their youtube page that blitzing Lane's side was going to be a recipe for success. I like Nick, but it was a monumental blunder on his part to even go into the season with this type of mindset no matter how good Lane is. You can tell this was on Lane's mind when he made the remarks he did at the end of the season. "It’s embarrassing when you start 10-1 and lose six of seven," he told reporters on Tuesday. "We had six weeks to tell you how we were going to fix it, we didn’t do s---. It’s the first time I’ve ever been in this kind of position. I never wanna be in this position again."
To go through the last 6 weeks of the season and not have a single answer against the blitz is completely inexcusable. This also falls on Hurts though, as it's his responsibility to read those blitzes and set the protection on the field. Hopefully Hurts will hit the ground running when it comes to using motion, diagnosing coverage/blitzes and creating mismatches...but I have my doubts. He has thus far not used motion to do either of those things throughout his career. Under every single coach he has ever played under the offense has always looked the same. Stagnant, no misdirection...and easily blown up by blitz heavy defensive schemes. If Jalen develops that part of his game...he will be dangerous. Until then he's a huge target that will continue to see the highest blitzing percentage in the league.
So it was Johnson and Patricia’s fault?
basically yeah lol
FINALLY
Did he just say that Brock Bowers, the 13th overall pick and one of the best tight end prospects in recent memory, is gonna be TE2 on the Raiders? 🤔🤔🤔😭😭
Lol ur adorable
You should probably ask Kyle Pitts how well high draft pedigree and being "one of the best tight end prospects in recent memory" worked out for him.
Trashtalk aside, the Raiders are not going to be a pass-heavy offense, and Bowers is pretty indifferent as an inline blocker (and I'm being generous here) so, like many receiving-oriented tight-ends coming out of college, Bowers has a real chance of starting as TE2 on the depth chart or at the very least losing a lot of snaps to vets who can block more effectively, at least early on.
Also they're talking about where he's practicing right now on the depth chart. The Raiders may well be forcing Bowers to earn the starting job and not letting him get it on draft pedigree.
@@Captainkebbles1392 stop flirting with me bro
@@fanboy50 Kyle Pitts had one of the best rookie tight end seasons of all time.
@@brett4948 and then he fucking vanished
also his rookie year he got deployed mostly as a wideout.
Which is what the Raiders *should* do with Bowers. But at that point he's a tight-end in name only.
wtf does siriani do? seems the coordinators are doing everything
I say all of this as a 9ers fan.
You could say the same thing for a bunch of coaches. Most head coaches put the majority of their work in during the week, overseeing everything, so that the game is largely delegated to their coordinators on gameday. Fletcher Cox's reaction to this question should tell you everything you need to know about Sirriani.
The Eagles, mainly “Hurts”, got exposed but because of bad evaluation he gets an excuse.
They went away from the run n he struggled…PERIOD!! Also, the fact that he couldn’t run as usual also exposed his inability to throw from the pocket.
Am I saying he “can’t” throw from the pocket? Of course not, but that isn’t his strength and if he were graded purely on his ability to throw from the pocket he wouldn’t be graded as highly.
They hope that with Saquon they’ll get back to and stick with the run but that will cause problems with AJ Brown again as it did last year n why they got away from the run in the 1st place……
He has one of the highest Qbr’s from the pocket…
Im afraid you dont know what your talking about at all😭😭
So basically they howie did what the saints have been doing and get killed for but they are called genius for it.
The reason their Defense sucked last year was because they let Marcus Epps go to the Raiders ;)
and gardener johnson
You called Bowers TE2? stop. he’s WR2 yes…. but stop that wtf? that’s just being bold to be bold i’m at a loss
Are they though? Last time weve seen them play they were one of the worst teams in the league for a significant stretch. Yes, they made a lot of changes and added some talent but they've yet to put anything on the field to convince me that they're better. Rookies are typically bad at football.
Eagles still have the same HC, will do the same Eagles stuff, and it seems like Hurts hates the new offense.
There is absolutely nothing to be excited regarding Clint Hurtt. He's truly awful. The Seahawks defense, specifically the run defense has been absolutely atrocious the previous two years. He was unable to get stops on third down and is awful at scheming up pressure. I'm sorry Philly fans, this guy is a dud.
Well the only good player you had on that D line was Boye Mafe. And Leonard Williams has been atrocious against the run no matter who's coaching him. Clint has a good d line to work with now. Also, it's not the D line coach's job to scheme pressure, that's the defensive coordinator's job. The D line coach just gets them prepped.
@@TedTeddy-ej3dp Jarran Reed was the best player on the D line. Mafe is specifically an edge rusher. But for your guys sake I hope you're right. I definitely haven't watched every Seahawks game for years and have seen first hand how basic, unimpressive and mediocre his schemes have been over the years. We are talking bottom five in run defense and and bottom three in getting third down stops.
@@TedTeddy-ej3dp You do realize he was the defensive coordinator here, right?
@@thguz13 He won't be a DC in Philly.
@@TedTeddy-ej3dp I know. But you specifically said it wasn't his job to scheme pass rush, which it was and he sucked at it. So what makes you think he's going to be successful at being a DL coach when his defenses have been bottom feeders in run defense and third down conversations?
Why did the Eagles collapse? Matt Patricia got promoted. Everyone is overthinking this LOL. Matt Patricia knows where all the bodies are buried: That's the only explanation why he keeps getting work. He's football cancer.
Ngl, I’m a hater. Hope Sirriani gets fired. Can’t stand the guy.
You’ve been conditioned to hate him. Don’t be a sheep. Hate him bec he’s a dumb coach, not because he’s annoying.
@@pacificbanana6179 why not both?
@@mr.dolphin8345because that’s objectively stupid.
Eagles had the 10th ranked rushing defense
I don’t know what ranking you’re using but bootleg uses EPA. I double checked it and on PFR they are 30th like they said.
they are gonna lose in the wildcard round to the falcons
Devonta Smith being Mr Consistent? fr? let's look at that volatility game by game
Good again until they play a good team
The Jets gave that eagles team their first lost, Zach Wilson owns them
Tiffany Maxwell is so hot even though I dislike this team.
Fuggen boring shit.
Cry Eagles Cry. Whos ready to watch the Crygles finish 4th in the division. You were only good cuz of jason
found the cowboys fan