Lurie: Reid And Roseman Will Return

Well of course they will. Glad to hear it.

It sounds like Andy is going to fire Juan.

Spags will be joining them right?? :D

Don’t know that I have ever seen a guy hold a 40 minute press conference to say that as of yet nothing has changed but that the season was unacceptable.

Seemed to me like Lurie felt like he had to justify it all to the media and the fans.

I thought he was going to be mentioned either by Lurie or by one of the reporters.

Appropriate for a CEO. Support the decision making of your coach or fire him. There is no room for micro-managing in an NFL lockerroom

He takes the entire team to task talking about how there are no excuses, how it was unacceptable and how it was the most disappointing year ever in his tenure as the owner of the Eagles and then he changes nothing. Nobody is held accountable, he just maintains the status quo.

But it really did sound like he was going to drop a bomb for a couple minutes there.

He said that if things work out financially he is optimistic DeSean will return next year and that he was impressed with him at the end of the year.

That’s why BGN has the best coverage around!

than the devil you don’t

While I am in no way surprised, I am disappointed (again). I think I’ll send Mr. Lurie an Oxford Dictionary so he can look up the definition of insanity.

N the more I hear about spats coming to philly the less likely I think it becomes true. It all has this gruden to become eagles hc vibe

If we made the playoffs last year, and fired our DC and defensive staff… what are we going to see happen in a year where we did even worse?

Is it really possible we go into next season with the same team? (Obviously there will be player changes, but I’m talking FO/coaching staff.)

But I have this growing part of me that is curious what a new coach can do with this team.

This season is unacceptable and yet Lurie has accepted it. No consequences or accountability make it acceptable. That press conference was just lip service. Nothing will ever change. Andy Reid is coach for life.

Regardless of any of this, I hope Andy isn’t allowed to draft anymore, especially defensive talent. When you have to go out and add NA, DRC, Babin and Jenkins to your defense it’s because you generally suck at finding the right guys through the draft.

At least Reid mastered the art of The Challenge this year, maybe next year it will be clock management.

Unfortunately, I knew that Reid would be back. As far as Juan goes, for the love of God please no.

Any mention? Obviously Andy’s decision.

If Jaun is fired. They don’t wait until the last minute to pick up another DC. Like they did last year.

Way to take so long to say nothing, you pasty little pussy. Reid OWNS your ass. Because he has you figured. He knows that as long as the team stays competitive, you’ll keep his fuckin’ fat ass around. Another year of the same old bullshit and the same fucking Reid SYCOPHANTS regurgitating his “track record” on the rest of us whenever we dare to criticize that gaping asshole of a fat, arrogant cocksucker. Fuck Reid and fuck Lurie.

Both with new defensive coordinators. @JonathanTamari For record, though, 06 Giants, 08 Saints went 8-8, won championships the next season.

True story…3 teams going to the playoffs had a – in the +/- turnover stat.

New Orleans – 4
Broncos – 11
Steeelers – 8

Lurie just called the entire team, the entire organization, out on the carpet. Lurie is a business man and he does things in a more subtle manner than one might appreciate. He is not going to stand up there and speak like Rex Ryan or Lou down the street operating a jackhammer. Plainly put, he is not going to call a coach that helped him increase his franchise value by some $750M fat and dump him on the street.

A man like that does not use phrases like “there’s no legitimate excuse” or “fools gold” lightly. He is a cool and calculating executive. The most telling quote:

Andy Reid has never been afraid to make change, something uncommon among head coaches.

That means he knows something went wrong and he is telling Andy to fix it. When a man like that tells you to fix it, you fix it or he takes a few hours to be cold and calculating about your place in his organization.

I couldn’t find time to get through and talk with Spuds on Eagles Live! and wanted to vent my opinions. Perhaps you guys can give me your own opinions — one of the major topics at the moment is bringing Spags to Philadelphia, right? If that happened, I certainly wouldn’t mind but I’m not that opposed to keeping Juan for another year. I feel that there were a number of reasons, just as Lurie mentioned in his PC, as to why this team has underachieved this year. We, as fans, are hungry for a superbowl and that’s understandably so. But the problem I run into every year with everyone is that people, fans in general, want to put a face to the reasons why we come up short. I think it’s unfair to isolate Juan in the sense that because he’s been an OL coach for so many years and had a horrendous 50-60% of the season as DC, we’re going to chase him out of Philadelphia with fire and pitchforks just to replace him with Spags (who’s really only proven himself as a great DC in NY for one year).

To be honest? The Eagles played great the last four weeks and I’ve heard excuses such as “Oh, well, it wasn’t like Juan was producing a scheme against Brady, Rodgers, or Brees.” That’s true, of course. But, if you don’t recall, we lost to teams such as the Cardinals and Seahawks (who are, IMO, on the same caliber if not a little worse than the teams we’ve played the last four weeks). So, it’s not as if it’s just been SUPERB teams that have been picking this defense apart for most of the season. As a fan, I think the pieces are starting to fall into place. I think when Washburn implemented his own DL scheme, new free agents were continuously signed, the offense committing a great amount of turnovers, and the lack of time Juan had to really evaluate his players strengths and weaknesses, it sort of put Juan behind the 8-ball and (call me crazy) I really do believe, with what has happened over the season, he did an okay job. I think consistency is a big component to winning championships and if you give Juan a full off season to improve his scheming and to work with his players on defense (not to mention upgrading the LB position), we may very well find ourselves with a decent product.

Overall, I say we should obviously see what’s out there and what potential defensive coordinators are willing to bring to this defense. But, I think our best shot is to continue to let Juan and this defense improve.

No mention of Banner?

Although I believe you would get a slight majority (just a slight one) of Eagles’ fans who would vote for Reid to be back next year. I would imagine you would find less support for Roseman even after just 2 years.

“Reid still has that fire in his belly”

LOL what doesn’t he have in there?