The Eagles Thread

blazza18 · Post #241 » by **blazza18** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 4:43 am

davidwho76er wrote:Best ? They were like 18th in team Sacks and gave up over 110 rushing yards per game. I would hardly call that all world.

We were second in the league in sacks and tied 4th in the league in rush yards per attempt. Yea, they were pretty damn good.

davidwho76er · Post #242 » by **davidwho76er** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 4:46 am

blazza18 wrote:
davidwho76er wrote:Best ? They were like 18th in team Sacks and gave up over 110 rushing yards per game. I would hardly call that all world.

We were second in the league in sacks and tied 4th in the league in rush yards per attempt. Yea, they were pretty damn good.

YPA is a skewed stat when you give up a lot of total rushing yards cause a lot of the times when games are winding down, the opponets take a knee, and that reduces the YPC stat. And as for being 4th in the league in sacks....what are you looking at ? The Eagles had like 32 team sacks...not even close to the top-15, let alone 4th.

blazza18 · Post #243 » by **blazza18** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:03 am

davidwho76er wrote:
blazza18 wrote:
davidwho76er wrote:Best ? They were like 18th in team Sacks and gave up over 110 rushing yards per game. I would hardly call that all world.

We were second in the league in sacks and tied 4th in the league in rush yards per attempt. Yea, they were pretty damn good.

YPA is a skewed stat when you give up a lot of total rushing yards cause a lot of the times when games are winding down, the opponets take a knee, and that reduces the YPC stat. And as for being 4th in the league in sacks....what are you looking at ? The Eagles had like 32 team sacks...not even close to the top-15, let alone 4th.

Every NFL stat site. Not hard to find.

Not many of our games involved opposing teams running out the clock though. A lot of the total yard numbers are skewed because of how much the Eagles defence is on the field. I'm pretty sure they played the most again this season.

FlyerzFan12 · Post #244 » by **FlyerzFan12** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:32 pm

blazza18 wrote:
davidwho76er wrote:
blazza18 wrote:
We were second in the league in sacks and tied 4th in the league in rush yards per attempt. Yea, they were pretty damn good.

YPA is a skewed stat when you give up a lot of total rushing yards cause a lot of the times when games are winding down, the opponets take a knee, and that reduces the YPC stat. And as for being 4th in the league in sacks....what are you looking at ? The Eagles had like 32 team sacks...not even close to the top-15, let alone 4th.

Every NFL stat site. Not hard to find.

Not many of our games involved opposing teams running out the clock though. A lot of the total yard numbers are skewed because of how much the Eagles defence is on the field. I'm pretty sure they played the most again this season.

This. YPC is not a skewed stat when the sample size is large enough. How many knees does an opponent take per year? Not nearly enough to skew YPC.

Post #245 » by **CoreyGallagher** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:06 pm

I'm loving following Philly sports these days, it so entertaining.

SparksFly87 · Post #246 » by **SparksFly87** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:52 pm

Our wide reciever depth is putrid . What should we do? Are we keeping all these running backs like Polk too?

PhilasFinest · Post #247 » by **PhilasFinest** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 3:22 pm

Jordan Matthews is gonna blow up this year.

Draft him for your fantasy teams.

davidwho76er · Post #248 » by **davidwho76er** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 4:51 pm

I am hearing that the Saints are trading WR Kenny Stills to Miami. For what...I don't know. But that is a good player for the Dolphins to get. I wish he would have been dealt to the Eagles. He would have made a nice piece for Chip to add to their WR Core.

dorkestra · Post #249 » by **dorkestra** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 7:37 pm

Just put Sproles in the slot haha

blazza18 · Post #250 » by **blazza18** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:20 pm

dorkestra wrote:Just put Sproles in the slot haha

We underused both Sproles and Shady in the passing game last season.

Remember how much Sproles killed it against the Colts ? We hardly saw that the rest of the season. I can't remember Shady having any big plays in the passing game.

cksdayoff · Post #251 » by **cksdayoff** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:24 pm

the WR crop seems deep in this year's draft. I want a guy like Philip Dorsett

davidwho76er · Post #252 » by **davidwho76er** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 12:19 am

Miami just traded their WR Mike Wallace and a 7th rounder to Minnesota for......a single 5th round pick!

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... o-vikings/

If I were the Eagles I would have definitely offered that for Wallace. You can say he under performed all you want in Miami. But he still has 4.2 speed. And he still caught 10 + TD's. Teddy Bridgewater has a nice deep throw....getting Wallace will help Minnesota out a lot. Eagles could have definitely used Wallace deep speed to keep opponents from crowding the LOS, Thereby helping out new RB's Murray & Matthews.

davidwho76er · Post #253 » by **davidwho76er** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:19 pm

And the plot thickens! :nod:

NFLTradeRumors.co @nfltrade_rumors · 1h 1 hour ago
ICYMI: Sam Bradford Could Be Trade Bait For #Eagles To Move Up To No. 2 Overall? http://bit.ly/18OwvsZ

cksdayoff · Post #254 » by **cksdayoff** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:41 pm

davidwho76er wrote:And the plot thickens!

NFLTradeRumors.co @nfltrade_rumors · 1h 1 hour ago
ICYMI: Sam Bradford Could Be Trade Bait For #Eagles To Move Up To No. 2 Overall? http://bit.ly/18OwvsZ

i assumed this could've been a possibility. if it happens then Chip is ruthless, getting Bradford to recruit Murray, and then trading him to get Mariota lol

davidwho76er · Post #255 » by **davidwho76er** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:47 pm

cksdayoff wrote:
davidwho76er wrote:And the plot thickens!

NFLTradeRumors.co @nfltrade_rumors · 1h 1 hour ago
ICYMI: Sam Bradford Could Be Trade Bait For #Eagles To Move Up To No. 2 Overall? http://bit.ly/18OwvsZ

i assumed this could've been a possibility. if it happens then Chip is ruthless, getting Bradford to recruit Murray, and then trading him to get Mariota lol

Murray was going to come to the Eagles regardless. Remember, he called the Eagles, not the other way around. And that call, and visit was set-up well before the Bradford trade. I will believe this story when I see it. No way does Tennessee deal # 2 for Bradford. The Titans have had major QB problems, and their fans won't be happy dealing away a potential franchise QB for a failed one with major Injury Issues.

wickedwrister · Post #256 » by **wickedwrister** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:36 pm

davidwho76er wrote:Miami just traded their WR Mike Wallace and a 7th rounder to Minnesota for......a single 5th round pick!

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... o-vikings/

If I were the Eagles I would have definitely offered that for Wallace. You can say he under performed all you want in Miami. But he still has 4.2 speed. And he still caught 10 + TD's. Teddy Bridgewater has a nice deep throw....getting Wallace will help Minnesota out a lot. Eagles could have definitely used Wallace deep speed to keep opponents from crowding the LOS, Thereby helping out new RB's Murray & Matthews.

Chip got rid of Desean because of his knucklehead factor, he's not going to bring in a similar knucklehead in Wallace.

Post #257 » by **Sixerscan** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:44 am

wickedwrister wrote:
davidwho76er wrote:Miami just traded their WR Mike Wallace and a 7th rounder to Minnesota for......a single 5th round pick!

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... o-vikings/

If I were the Eagles I would have definitely offered that for Wallace. You can say he under performed all you want in Miami. But he still has 4.2 speed. And he still caught 10 + TD's. Teddy Bridgewater has a nice deep throw....getting Wallace will help Minnesota out a lot. Eagles could have definitely used Wallace deep speed to keep opponents from crowding the LOS, Thereby helping out new RB's Murray & Matthews.

Chip got rid of Desean because of his knucklehead factor, he's not going to bring in a similar knucklehead in Wallace.

I think money would have been an issue there too, limited cap space left. Feel like they want to address WR in the draft.

youngcrev · Post #258 » by **youngcrev** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:25 am

davidwho76er wrote:Miami just traded their WR Mike Wallace and a 7th rounder to Minnesota for......a single 5th round pick!

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... o-vikings/

If I were the Eagles I would have definitely offered that for Wallace. You can say he under performed all you want in Miami. But he still has 4.2 speed. And he still caught 10 + TD's. Teddy Bridgewater has a nice deep throw....getting Wallace will help Minnesota out a lot. Eagles could have definitely used Wallace deep speed to keep opponents from crowding the LOS, Thereby helping out new RB's Murray & Matthews.

I like him, but he's too expensive. They'd have to make cuts to fit him under the cap, and they still have some other holes that need to be filled.

Supposed to be a strong WR draft, I assume they address it there. Maybe they run some more 2 TE sets this year as well and also try to get Sproles more involved in the passing game.

youngcrev · Post #259 » by **youngcrev** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:37 am

davidwho76er wrote:
blazza18 wrote:
davidwho76er wrote:Best ? They were like 18th in team Sacks and gave up over 110 rushing yards per game. I would hardly call that all world.

We were second in the league in sacks and tied 4th in the league in rush yards per attempt. Yea, they were pretty damn good.

YPA is a skewed stat when you give up a lot of total rushing yards cause a lot of the times when games are winding down, the opponets take a knee, and that reduces the YPC stat. And as for being 4th in the league in sacks....what are you looking at ? The Eagles had like 32 team sacks...not even close to the top-15, let alone 4th.

They were tied for 2nd in the league in sacks with 49. You are looking at opponents stats (Eagles gave up 32).

davidwho76er · Post #260 » by **davidwho76er** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:42 am

youngcrev wrote:
davidwho76er wrote:
blazza18 wrote:
We were second in the league in sacks and tied 4th in the league in rush yards per attempt. Yea, they were pretty damn good.

YPA is a skewed stat when you give up a lot of total rushing yards cause a lot of the times when games are winding down, the opponets take a knee, and that reduces the YPC stat. And as for being 4th in the league in sacks....what are you looking at ? The Eagles had like 32 team sacks...not even close to the top-15, let alone 4th.

They were tied for 2nd in the league in sacks with 49. You are looking at opponents stats (Eagles gave up 32).

Was I ? Oops, my bad. Sorry about that. But even still, it seemed the games I watched last season that the Eagles had trouble defending the TE. And Dupree was maybe the best at that last season in college. I mean at 6ft,4 270...his athletic skills and covering skills are outstanding.