The Linc - Last Night Was Not Just A Bad Dream (Team)

The Dion Lewis run up the left sidelines, I can’t wait to see him get more touches during the season. He might be something special.

i know we all want to close our eyes and make believe he’s clay, but we can’t do that anymore. i would really like to see the eagles bring in someone… either a trade (see hanson) or a roster cut victim.

STEWART BRADLEY

At least they got their worst game of the season out of the way early. Better now than in division play. However Nate Allen, Vick, our run D… oh boy…

ever.

The poor performance of the defense worried me less, as the Steelers converted several 3rd and longs, which should improve as the preseason/season goes on. But still and all, just a horrible, horrible game to watch.

The steelers’ first drive was bs since we had them at 3rd and 20 and got a damn facemask penalty giving them an automatic first. After that it was all down hill.

I bet that we see a new linebacker within a week via a trade or a FA.

I recorded the first half of the game so I might go back through and do a little analysis.

I actually didn’t feel too bad about Vick’s performance. His natural instinct is to run, and he was clearly trying to sit back or scramble around within the pocket looking for someone to throw to. I think his timing was off with his receivers…throw Jackson in that mix who’s been here for a week and that exacerbates timing issues, regardless of his talent and tenure with the team.

I’m also not that worried about the run defense. It goes without saying that missing Patterson and Dixon really hurts our ability to stuff the run. You can’t field a d-line with nothing but pass rushers.

I don’t see how it could hurt to bring in a veteran LB, even a reserve type. We don’t need the guy to be good in coverage…just make tackles and help stop whatever escapes our d-line. I’m not going to bash Casey for being a rookie. While he was certainly all over the place, he did make a few solid tackles and finished off plays.

Furthermore, he and free safety Kurt Coleman are adjusting to new defensive coordinator Luis Castillo asking the safeties to provide more run support than predecessor Sean McDermott.

This is going to be a thing, isn’t it?

That thing was shamefull. I hated the Pam Oliver interview with Asomugha. She says “Watch out for those Philly fans, they have a reputation”.

A reputation of what? Of supporting their teams in other cities, or of having 65,000 fan waitling list for season tickets. Or of having 25,000 fans in Bethlehem for practice?

Asomugha is new, no need for Fox to paint Philly as the villain.

It also bothered my how they kept banging away at that dream team thing. Ok you brought it up, but you don’t have to keep at it all broadcast. They obviously wanted to paint Philly as the villains all game. But they are supposed to have a non bias broadcast.

If they wanted to report on stories, how come they didn’t speak about Harrisons off-season verbal rampage? How come no one brought up Big Bens past rape accusations? Why was everything Anti Philly. I’m soooo sick of it.

OLine played respectable, on some pass plays where Vick was sack, it was more Vick not dumping the ball. But overall, they did OK.

DLine did a nice job of pressuring Big Ben all game, Remember, we did not blitz that much. But Ben did get hit a few times and was under pressure.

McCoy, Lewis, Brown all ran the ball good. Lewis was exceptionally good, while McCoy did a very nice job as well.

As bad as our defense played, they only gave up 3.2 yards per run, and as bad as third down defense was, it gave up 58% of 3rd downs. Granted thats not great, but it actually seemed worst that it actually was. Truth is, Pit was just consitantly running, but it really wasn’t as effective as most think.

What killed is was 3rd down on passing, The cover 2 Man always has a weekness on the slot between CB and Safeties, maybe we go dime or Cover 1 in those spots while Safeties goes to man on the 4th reciever. We will fix that, but if a team goes 4 spread on you, 1 guy will have 10 yards to run since Safeties are in 2 deep zone. Give Ben credit, he read the defense and delivered the ball. But in the future, we may need to adjust, especially if the QB is reading it all day.

Truth be told, that is a scheme thing, and adjustments can be made easily.

Bad game, but definately fixable.

Bad thing bout football.. you typically have to wait a week before sports networks will stop talking bout how bad our sloppy preseason game was… unless another team stinks it up worse this weekend.

seriously

if we cut him will that stop the Dream team shit? god i hate this

next.

-Matthews isn’t ready. Which might not be a problem because as far as preparation for a season goes it’s still early. Maybe he can turn it around by Week 1. If not, I would be comfortable with Fokou, Chaney, Clayton instead of starting Matthews. But clearly Casey’s inexperience is a factor right now.

-Allen I’m not sure what to make of. I trust him because he looked pretty good at times last season, but last night was not good. I still have faith in him as a starter and I’m not ready to toss him aside just yet. For now I’ll chalk last night up to a bad game/still shaking off the rust.

-Kafka should be our #2 going into the season. I had a feeling that would be the case all along because asking Young to know this offense well enough to run it after just a few weeks is a really tall order. Kafka’s been in the offense for a year and clearly knows how to run the offense, even if it was against scrubs last night. Besides, since the 3rd QB can now play without deactivating the other two QB’s on the gameday roster there is no harm in putting VY as the 3rd. He can still be brought in for wildcat formations or whatever.

-Vick will be fine. He readily admitted he started forcing the issue because he knew he only had until halftime to get the team back into the game. That was the type of performance a good QB uses to discipline himself and I trust Vick will do just that.

Anyone have a clip of the Lewis screen?

it was a rude awakening for all of us. we gotta learn from this and improve.

Why did we downgrade from Sean to Juan?
If I recall corectly we almost beat Green Bay last year and we were the NFC East Champs.
The problem we had was that Dimitri,Hanson & Harris just flat out sucked. If we had our defence from last year plus our CB’s from this year our defence would be perfect. Last year we stopped the run it was our garbage CB’s that sucked (Hanson,Dimitri and Harris) to be exact. The combination of Bunkly&Patterson worked great against the run.
If Sean McDermott had the luxury of Nnamdi & DRC helping Asaunte it would of been a SB Victory. Another thing when Bradley got hurt last year Chaney filled that gap even better than Bradley IMO so why put Casey Matthews at MLB? I looked at his college footage and came to the conclusion that he is just average nothing more and nothing less. That’s what happens when we play the name game. Casey is not Clay just like Eli is not Peyton, FACT!!! Now as far as Allen he needs to be put back at his natural position of FS and let our new guy Jarret play his natural position at S. I like this Jarret dude more then Allen and Coleman combined! Jarret is fast, smart and a big hitter. As far as Juan Castillo I would rather have Sean back with our new weapons. Sean understood defence.Why was Juan Blitzing on 3rd and long? Please answer that one somebody! Nnamdi Asaunte and DRC under the coaching of Juan Castillo is like a race car without a driver! As far as recievers it has to be Jackson,Maclin,Avant and Smith because that right their is a nightmare to any defensive coach. I hate to say it but Cooper and Vick don’t have a good chemistry don’t let the B-More game fool you. And Chad hall just sucks those passes were intercepted because he’s just a poor target. I seen Freshman HS recievers play better then him. I like McCoy but I like Lewis even more. Give this guy more carries and see for yourself he’s a monster at 5’8. Btw he picks up the blitz better then McCoy. Think Jones-Drew when you see Lewis but faster. C’mon Eagles lets get it together!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With all these big name players and we looked worst then last years defense!

Just because he played mlb when he was young does not automaticaly qualify him as the defensive coach of choice . The way he handeled the O-Line last year is the way he will handle defence this year. As far as the Lewis statement maybe not faster then MJD but just better imo.

Let’s not forget we took Castillo because we had no choice. Other coaches we interviewed wanted the kind of money that the Eagles did not want to spend. So we kept it cheap with Castillo. Cheap now but expensive later.

Different but worst then before, Steelers knew that they can run that ball down our throat with this new garbage defence. And now our S & FS are playing like crap thanks to this new interchangable philosophy that Juan believes in. A S should perfect his position at S and a FS should perfect his position as a FS but Juan thinks different. As far as MLB Chaney is the man if Juan keeps drinking the Matthews bath water were screwed.