Eagles Win Preseason Opener 13-6 Over Ravens

The text after the jump is only one sentence? Really? Haha, wtf mate.

Liked what I saw out of the D, no doubt.

Oh, and Riley Cooper is the man.

How did the O line look?

The one area of our team where ALL players were more productive than their counterparts…

I wasn’t able to watch the game cause I’m on my way to daytona beach and this shitty iPad won’t work with flash player…but from the looks of it, it was a good game and is going to be a good season

Hey, did anybody notice Jimmy Smith? Like did he do anything at all? Remember wanting to jump off a cliff when we didn’t draft him? Good times.

Tapp went HAM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRjm5nxiDtI&feature=feedu

I can’t remember if it was wild eagle or d-jackfan10 but one of them did a blog post on Tapp having a breakout year. So far so good.

riley cooper going over a smaller safety.
yeah that was ed reed.

By the way,

Cooper slipped past the corner against a zone defense, signaled to Vick when he saw he was one on one with a smaller safety and simply jumped right over top of the guy for a 42 yard catch. Brent Celek would haul in a three yard Vick pass for the TD a few plays later.

If it was any QB other than Tyrod Taylor the d-line would have had ten more sacks. They seemed all over the place tonight.

Can someone explain why we have a fourth string quarterback?

Brady Quinn looked like Tom Brady out there.

still demonstrated bad jump ball skills. I don’t understand why guys that are 6’4" jump up and catch the ball with their body…completely defeats the purpose. It’s like a 7 footer in basketball bringing rebounds down below his waist. If the ball tonight was under thrown like the one against GB, it would have been picked. He has got to start attacking the ball with his hands and using his natural advantage. Having said that, I was overall really impressed with the 1st team offense….then again, how could you not be? Aside from the LB miscue where it looked as though Chaney missed his assignment picking up Rice out of the back field on a 22 yd gain, the 1st team defense was also impressive….and everyone came away healthy.

Castillo looks like he can coach the D. I am truly suprised. It looked like he made some adjustments on the fly.
Bad: Matthews looked lost. We need a real MIKE.

How exactly did you come to these conclusions?

Just working my way through the NFL Network viewing of the game. I’m mostly pleased so far, but Clay Harbor’s run blocking has me ticked off, as he’s already flat-out blown two assignments and it’s still the first drive for the 2’s.

The first was a draw that really fooled the defensive line, but Harbor followed the DE as he went out wide instead of getting upfield to block the LB, so what looked like a big gain turned out to be only about three when the LB made the open-field tackle.

The second was a run wide on Harbor’s side where the LDE took a hard inside line that took him into other blockers and out of the play, and instead of getting to the next level, Harbor danced along the line, facing back towards the QB, looking to double-team one of the already-blocked guys. Again, this left a LB and a safety free to turn a wide-open space into a short gain.

Harbor’s not a high schooler; I’m sure he knows that he’s supposed to get to the second level when he can. I just wish he’d be a little more aggressive about it — it seems like he’s more concerned about looking bad because his man made the play than he is about looking good by springing a big run.

All of that comes with the should-be-obvious caveat that I don’t actually know the assignments; I’m just guessing. And that I haven’t even seen Harbor play a whole drive yet. But still.

What a great game…btw anyone out there without cable feed…nfl has the four preseason games for 19.99. AND you get pic in picture…lol
 Defense was all over the field. #51 had a solid game, I noticed #59 Teo DE was getting lots of coaching…must be teachers pet. Babin played well. JJ had only one pick but few thrown his way. O line was solid, my rookie of the year and fellow ex firefighter Watkins is a beast. RB was good to see at the 2nd level, both Young and Brown will be great to spell the 1st team. I cannot wait to see Vince with the 1st team O-Line…there is a big drop off till Justice comes back. I didnt understand why this site’s fan hate so much on Riley…boy is gonna have a good season if he hangs on to the ones down the middle of the field. The D is gonna carry us to the promised land folks…Fly Eagles Fly

I missed the defense’s first series

was sinorice moss? I couldn’t care less about him anyways as of now, I’d be much more stoked to have DJ, Maclin, Avant, Cooper, Smith and Hall (who impressed the hell out of me tonight). Just curious though, because I don’t think I saw him once but only watched the first 3 quarters.

Am I the only one who flashed back to the end of the Green Bay game when Riley made the catch tonight?

I was pleased with the tenacity of the front 7, Tapp/Landri/Hunt especially. I’m happy to see that and intrigued at what the final rotation will be like.

Kafka looked solid but unspectacular but he’s still developing. He’s got good awareness of when to throw and when to run, and his throws showed better touch than last year. Young looked less crisp but he’s definitely someone Reid could work with.

Cooper, Hall, Lee looked great on the receiving side of things. Brown was unspectacular but even if he’s a functional “three yards and a cloud of dust” guy I could live with that.

Tips of the cap to the Kickers Hen(e)ry as well. Both performed well. They weren’t exceptional but did what they needed to do.

My only complaints are that none of the OTs looked that great (especially the backups), the first-team LBs should have gotten more reps, and ETN is aggravating to listen to. Other than that I’m fine with this game.

Good start to the season.

And I feel like I should tell you all that Casey Matthews is not an all-pro. Jesus. Why are you defending him so relentlessly? You’re all acting like homers. Casey Matthews didn’t look good, you don’t have to argue to the contrary just because you like him, think he’ll be good and because he is an Eagle.

I said it afterwards and I’ll say it again, Casey Matthews looked like he was thinking out there, he was slow reacting to things and late on the scene. He let blockers into his frame on run plays. He wasn’t tested in coverage. The Ray Rice screen may or may not have been on Casey too, he was moving hesitantly as Ray Rice was running free out of the backfield. Is his game a representation of how well he is going to play or how good he is going to become? No. He will get better as he adjusts to the pace of the game.

Casey Matthews didn’t have a good game but it’s only a pre-season game. There really isn’t any need to blindly defend him.

Asking: What bothered you more? Djax punt return or Eagles signing Steve Smith?

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Only thing that knda worried me is the empty backfield the defense allowed on couple plays in the first series…

• everything came together nicely, Starters and depth showed true.
• Nobody got hurt.
• Even if it’s a preseason game that win builds chemistry especially since they played so well.

Rewatching the game and seeing that Marlon Favorite had a nice night. Plus he has a great sack celebration, he just stood up and very enthusiastically rubbed his belly.

unless they serve some other purpose on your team like 4th/5th WR/CB.

I don’t know why some of you are freaking about Matthews? He only played like 9 plays & it was his first NFL action give him more time. He should of been in the game longer though since he’s a rookie

Anyone else notice when they accidentally zoomed in on Vince Young’s crotch?

Matthews play 8 snaps, everybody quit saying he sucked, it was 8 snaps. 8… Not 9, not a full game, not 2 snaps… It was 8… What can 8 snaps legitimately tell you? He looks good in Green? His hair is sexy?

8 snaps tells you nothing at all about Matthews. He looked tentative as most rookies do, he looked as if he was still learning and figuring things out. That’s what happens when you insert a rookie into the starting MLB job and only give him 2 weeks you can’t expect much out of him in the 1st preseason game.

Now, I’m not happy with what I saw for the most part, he did call out a few runs and where they were going and he actually did good in the 3-4 coverage plays he had.. So the fact he’s recognizing plays and did ok in coverage is encouraging.. We just have to give him time.

Andy should have let him play more, I think next game he’ll give Matthews more than 8 plays, because the first few games are more for the guys who are on the bubble.

Since there wasnt a story started for the upcoming game, I figured I’d add to the last one. I’m hoping that we use our tight ends and our running backs in hybrid roles. Watching McCoy catch a pass out of a bootleg play with 8-10 yards of space…imagine!
I also think Good Ole #87 needs to have a pro bowl year…the field will be stretched for 30 yards, the plays will all be inside 8 yards. MV against any LB out there…Mike is smarter, faster, quicker.