Bowen: Spagnuolo Is In No Hurry
by JasonB on Jan 16, 2012 4:17 PM EST
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PrintThe Daily News' Les Bowen spoke to a source close to Steve Spagnuolo yesterday who said that the ex Rams coach is in no hurry to choose his next job.
Talked to someone close to Steve Spagnuolo yesterday. This person said Spagnuolo is going to take his time with his decision on what comes next, that he wants to "see what develops."
The inference Bowen makes, which is a pretty clear one to make here, is that Philadelphia is not necessarily a dream job for Spags. That's not to say he wouldn't come here, but if he wanted Philly above all other non head coaching jobs, he'd probably be flying in to sign the papers tomorrow. At least according to this report, he's not.
And if he's seeing what develops, that obviously refers to what jobs/offers are available to him. The Saints, Eagles & Falcons have all been reported to have interest and they're probably in that order of attractiveness. But who knows what will motivate Spagnuolo? Is he looking to start a bidding war for his services? Is it all about the best place to revive his head coaching career? Is it where he's most comfortable?
These are going to be the questions that ultimately decide where he ends up.
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Who's ready for Juan more year?
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by PhiladelphiaEagles on Jan 16, 2012 4:20 PM EST reply actions
Juan More Year
probably means Andy’s last year. I like Juan, I’m sure he’s a great guy, but the start of the season was unacceptable.
by BKing in the AZ on Jan 16, 2012 4:28 PM EST up reply actions
Exactly
Andy loves Juan, but Andy loves his job more.
Firing him and bringing in someone still doesn’t erase the start of the season. People need to stop whining about it. It’s over and done with. Let’s move on. The defense looked pretty good at the end of the season and I believe that is the defense we will see the start of next season.
Really Good
Against below average teams. The defense looked really not good against the playoff teams we played minus the Giants the second time.
by BKing in the AZ on Jan 16, 2012 5:41 PM EST up reply actions
I'm tired of this argument
I couldn’t care less what the Eagles did Week 2 against the falcons. The last 4 games the defense started to gel. The coaches, players, and scheme clearly came together and started to play as the unit everyone envisioned. That is the real defense we should expect to see Week 1 of next year. That is the defense people should be evaluating. If you think that defense is better with Spags as the DC instead of Juan, fine. But stop telling us about shit that happened in October. It’s about as relevant as used toilet paper
Wrong.
Your asshole hero Juan got used and embarrassed by good teams—and mediocre teams—he can’t beat good competition. He sucks and needs to be fucking fired.
God Damn you, Andy Reid.
The fat queen has failed us again. Reid must go.
There's no more evidence
That he hasn’t improved than that he has, bad team or no. In fact, there’s more evidence that he has.
by EagleinDC on Jan 16, 2012 7:57 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Narrow minded a bit?
Yeah the Eagles did get embarrassed by some really bad teams, but mainly that was early on. Yes, they did win against some very average, at best, teams. But weren’t those the EXACT same teams the Eagles would lose against early in the season?
So that right there shows improvement moron. How can you not see that. Everyone is so narrow minded about Juan being terrible. I agree, it was a terrible start to the season, but there were a lot of factors going into that. Juan isn’t the one missing the tackles, that isn’t his fault. You can’t miss a tackle if he doesn’t have the players in the right spot, right? There was a stat that said the Eagles were the second worse in missed tackles. So Juan has the guys in the right spot a lot of the time, they just aren’t making the tackles. That’s not on Juan it’s on the players.
So asshole, Juan has shown that he has improved as the year went on. The numbers support that. You just being pissed because the Eagles lost early and often just shows that you’re a moron and can’t see the bigger picture.
Unacceptable
Even after no offseason and new rules to practice. I don’t think they can have more then one practice a week with live hitting, or something like that.
Give Juan a break a bit here. Sure it was rough and starting Matthews right away wasn’t the best idea. But as the season went on you can’t argue that he got better, both making in game adjustments and game planning. Overall we ended up as #10 defense in yards. That is pretty good if you consider all the new players he had to plug into his new defensive scheme, no offseason at all.
He overall didn’t do terrible. It was just a slow start. I’m fine with adding Spags here, but everyone is talking about how Juan was just terrible. He made HUGE strides as the season went on, doesn’t that mean anything?
It’s going to feel like a kick in the nuts when they announce that Castillo is coming back again. If the Redskins can grab RGIII or another capable QB and we have another poor draft we could easily be last place in the division next year. I’m ready for free agency to start so I can stop stewing.
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We're not going to be THAT bad.
Castillo wasn’t awful last year. Our defense did do a lot of good things. BUT it still isn’t as good enough as bringing in another better coordinator to take over for the defense. I’m just saying we’re probably not going to be last in the division or anything, but I don’t trust Juan to win the division or even make it into the playoffs.
Bad draft?
The Eagles draft decent. In the past few years they’ve drafted Jackson, Maclin, McCoy, Celek, Watkins, Kelce, Cole, Herremans and Allen. All pretty good players in their own right. Some still young and can improve on some pretty good early seasons. Watkins and Kelce played pretty good for rookies. Allen started out strong, then got injured. We all know it really takes 2 years to return from an ACL surgery. So this year really could mean a lot for him.
Also Graham got injured, but before that he was having an alright rookie season. This year will mean a lot for him as well.
The Eagles aren’t that bad in the draft. They make some odd picks now and then, but they also have a lot of hits too. If you get 2 or 3 good contributors in the draft that is a pretty good draft.
Shit.
AR should have to wear a Flava Flav necklace until he learns how to manage a clock.
I am the proud target of temper tantrums.
This.
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by jeffthenry on Jan 16, 2012 4:41 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
You know who does find this a dream job?
You know who feels privileged to sit in Jim Johnson’s seat? Who has green in his veins and wouldn’t leave here even if another team offered twice as much pay?
I’ll tell you who: Juan Castillo.
I’m not into this whole cock teasing business. If the Eagles say they want him, put a sweet offer on the table and he says he needs to “see what’s out there” then fuck Spags. He can take a hike and I’ll take Juan, Wash and a reinforced linebacker corps for 2012. Spags ain’t all that.
Keep Andy!
by mvict on Jan 16, 2012 5:52 PM EST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
Holy shit
I hope you didn’t type that with a straight face.
I’d feel privileged as fuck to sit in Jim Johnson’s seat. In that same vein, I know I am not worthy of sitting there, nor do I belong there; same thing goes for Juan. Your argument is pretty weak. Passion will not make you good at your job.
El Donkerino (if you're not into the whole brevity thing).
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by El Donkerino on Jan 16, 2012 6:10 PM EST up reply actions
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by PhiladelphiaEagles on Jan 16, 2012 6:37 PM EST up reply actions
The NFL is not a "Best Friends Club"
I don’t give a shit how much loyalty you have to an organization if you do your job poorly. Juan is a great guy that loves the Eagles but the Eagles are in the business of winning games.
Why is anyone surprised by this? It’s what he should do.
Ed Snider is a crotchety old fuck.
That is all.
Seriously
He’s trying to get the biggest paycheck as possible, just like anyone else.
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by philiafan14364 on Jan 16, 2012 7:50 PM EST up reply actions
Spags said this last week himself
In an interview. The fact that everyone keeps thinking the “good news” is coming tomorrow is partly the fault of fans waiting for news that isn’t coming anytime soon, and partly the fault of the Philly sports press, which has no problem generating news and rumors in order to run articles on a topic they know everyone is interested in.
Look I'm for Spags but if he don't want to come to us than eff him!
I hate the fact that I can’t tell how bad Juan’s play calling really is. For example I seen so many poor tackles in the back field. It’s sad when the smallest LB( Rolle) is our best LB. Our LB’s had alot of plays that put them in a great position to stop the run and they still played horrible. We can cry about Nnamdi playing zone is not his “m.o” but we seen him get burned in man coverage (miami). Everbody hates on Samuel because he can’t tackle but DRC and Nnamdi also suck at tackling, actually DRC tackles the worst of the three.
With Asante gone Eli is going to be very happy. Eli rather throw in Nnamdi’s direction than Samuels direction. Samuel got into his head.
Btw Samuels poor tackles don’t come from “WR’s” It comes from RB’s & TE’s most twice his size. RB’s that should have never got up field to even be in a situation were we need Samuel to tackle.
BTW if Nnamdi’s best days were with the Raiders than were screwed. Curtis Marsh looks like a bust and yea yea I know he’s a rookie but still.
DRC is “too fragile”. And when Samuel’s gone, were in a bad position.
^^u sir should leave and never comment again
How could u call marsh a but when we haven’t even got a small sample size of him? pure stupidity. i also think our d looked fine without asante and his me first attitude.
by flyeaglesfly10 on Jan 17, 2012 1:11 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Well we still will have Hanson as our nickle/slot CB.
And the coaching staff is high on Hughes/Marsh. The main thing that has to be addressed is our LB core. There will be huge battles going on during the offseason and training camp to determine the starting 3.
We should go get Tulloch in FA and draft Luke Kuechly at #15. Here could be the possible depth chart.
WILL: Rolle, Matthews
MLB: Tulloch, Kuechly, Chaney, Jordan
SAM: Kuechly, Chaney, Jordan, Clayton
Who knows what will happen with Greg Lloyd Jr and Moises Fokou?
If SPAGS does not want the Philly job then forget him. We have to believe that in fact the defense did start to finally gel together at the end of the season under Castillo dispite the teams we played.
by Almightypudster on Jan 17, 2012 12:20 PM EST reply actions
Clayton is a good nickle package LB. But the SS battle will be between Coleman and Jarrett.
We could draft a safety in the 2nd rd again or go after a safety in free agency. I think Nate Allen has the FS position locked down. But hopefully he raises his game even higher this season.
by Almightypudster on Jan 17, 2012 12:56 PM EST reply actions
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