PFF On The Eagles Awful Tackling

Are you kidding me? I was parading around when Stewart Bradley got hurt because I thought Joe Mays was the next London Fletcher (less athletic). Are you forgetting how masterful he was in the pre-season? Dude was a machine.

Bradley is sort of a “just a guy” type but “just a guy” is better than Jamar Chaney and Casey Matthews in the middle. And yeah, Studebacker isn’t a starter anymore (apparently I need to check in on the Chiefs more often) but still, that guy couldn’t make our roster?

We let go of Babin and Clemons because we wanted to improve our pass rush. That was a failed move. I don’t like Babin because he doesn’t defend the run but you can’t tell me he wouldn’t have been an effective situational DE and Clemons too.

So we’re just handing out talented players? Bunk should have stayed. End of story.

Are you telling me this defense wouldn’t be better if Bradley was here starting over Chaney?

Dawkins wanted money, when your back-up plan is Demps and Harris, you pay him.

Half of those guys were old and washed up when we let them go, completely different situation. And most of those guys were under Jim Johnson too, the one guy who could find defensive talent and use it effectively. Now that JJ is gone things have change.

Because he struggled badly last year, Dixon emerged, and they thought they had enough DTs with Jenkins, Patterson, and Laws.

With Landri’s play and Jenkins and Patterson, DT hasn’t been an issue this year really.

Chris Gocong was a good starter here and he is in Cleveland too. Look it up.

Oh wow, thanks for telling me Joe Haden is the best corner on the Browns, I had no idea. Oh and Sheldon Brown has been pretty friggin’ good this year (and last year for that matter). Sheldon Brown is allowing a 53.2% completion rate when targeted, 338 yards on the year (that’s 30 yards a game), 1 TD and he has a QB rating of 74.6 when targeted. Sure, he doesn’t have the deep speed he once did but it’s not like it’s hampering his play greatly. And lets pretend for a second that Brown wasn’t a boundary corner anymore, are you really don’t think that Sheldon Brown could’ve played nickel back or been a free safety for this team? You’re fooling yourself if you think that.

Stewart Bradley can’t top Daryl Washington and Paris Lenon, two established starters who know the scheme. OMG HE MUST SUCK! Because the guy who started for our defense last year and did an above average job of it suddenly lost all of his talent, right?! I’ll say it again, if you don’t think Stewart Bradley would at least make this defense marginally better, you’re lying.

Same situation with Mikell, he’s struggled to adjust to a new team on a short offseason. But he most assuredly lost all his talent, RIGHT? Wrong. He’s the same guy who was a probowl safety for this team last year.

The problem with the Eagles’ defense has been that the players were once the stalwarts of the defense got old and were released/traded/departed and the players the Eagles have replaced them with the past few years especially via the draft really haven’t done much.

So we’ve had a problem identifying and developing young defensive talent which is EXACTLY WHAT I’M SAYING.

You make it sound like the Eagles front 7 is the only front 7 in the NFL that has gotten lit up by that play. Not true, Ware specifically was routinely gaped on that play, as were the rest of the Cowboys.

But you didn’t see any of the Cowboys safeties running up the field. They retreated, because they knew they were the last line of defense.

I don’t even know what ‘stoned’ means and no every d-line didn’t play poorly overall vs Seahawks. Landry didn’t play poorly. Ditto Tapp.

Babin had a decent day rushing Jackson but he also missed a tackle and most of Lynch’s yards were to this side with on 12 rushes Babin had a single tackle on Lynch.

The reason the Eagles struggled so much because Lynch ran the ball down their throats all game and they went time and time against Babin. Yes his teammates didn’t help him out much with generally poor play from the LBs and terrible play from the S position but you act as if Babin didn’t have anything to do with Lynch’s success or that is isn’t his responsbility to play the run on running plays on his side.

By this same warped logic, I guess it doesn’t matter how many Eagles’ DE plays the run then. Cole/Parker/Tapp only need to rush the passer.

You say I ’don’t have a clue’ but you don’t offer a single substantial point accept to say the entire DL was stoned (which is not accurate) and that is job every single play is to only rush the QB (only an idiot would argue on running plays).

Jon Miller summed it up nicely:

“Babin was victimized time and time again by the Seahawks (12 times total they ran outside or right at him), who brought the tight end down the line repeatedly and blocked him into oblivion. Babin, who likely thinks he should be headed to the Pro Bowl, never figured it out.

Jason Babin is the poster child for these Eagles. He’s going to do what he wants to do, the team be damned. He’s already told us that he wants to get a lot of sacks, so he can make a lot of money. Winning football games is a secondary concern.

Go back and look at Marshawn Lynch’s 40-yard touchdown run, a cutback right through the gaping hole that Babin had created by racing up field at the snap of the ball. That’s part of the Wide-9 technique – getting up field – but Babin was laughably out of position. The defensive end in professional football must – must! – set the edge to contain running backs from getting wide. The next time Babin does this will be the first.

Babin gives the opposing offense just about the greatest gift it can have – a way to gain a big chunk of yardage whenever it wants.

Babin’s career was a complete bust until he met Jim Washburn last year in Tennessee. Washburn told him not to worry about those pesky details like stopping the run; freed up to reach his potential as half a football player, Babin became the best half-a-football-player he could be, ringing up a bunch of sacks and doing pretty much nothing else."

But I guess on running plays it (or the 40-50% a game against the Eagles’ defense) it doesn’t matter what Babin does because he only has to get to the QB.

This example is tired, not everyone is Jerry Rice so can we just realize that Jerry Rice is the exception and not the rule? And Jerry Rice was plenty fast and explosive, he just didn’t run a good 40 yard dash because you know there is a difference between being slow and running a bad 40 yard dash.