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Front 4, we’ll see… We have Von, Rousseau, Jonathan and Oliver under contract next year. Id expect them to bring back Lawson and Phillips for cheap again. Epenesa is pretty close to where I’d offer a long term contract. Outside of them, we’ll see what they do with Floyd and Jones. Id love to bring back Floyd but I think cap-wise we have to bank that fully recovered Von is next years Floyd. Jones is another question mark. Love him, but might make more sense to draft a 1T on Day 2 to pair with Oliver. At some point, our cap doesn’t allow us to bring back guys like Floyd and Jones on one, maybe two year deals. Epenesa could be backloaded in to a 3 or 4 year deal.

Im one of them. Hate this team against the Bengals, and specifically Joe Burrow with those WR’s & Lou Anarumo. Jalen Hurts is not Joe Burrow and they don’t have Anarumo, who’s proven he can confuse us and out-coach (Dorsey). The reason, imo, that Burrow has success against Allen & Mahomes is that he has the best DC to go up against elite QB’s in the NFL and he’s willing to do, all game, what Allen & Mahomes have to forced, against their will, to do… take what’s there. Philly is not Cinci and I have reason for optimism based on how we looked against the Jets with Brady .. along with Joseph/Douglas looking like they “may” make a difference in getting our defense back to a level that we can somewhat count on.

Stuff like this doesn’t do much to dissuade the notion that Jews hold outsized influence in certain areas. We saw this with Kyrie and Kanye last year.

The “Eagles so scary” crowd are simply going off their record and how they looked last year.

If he wants to play for cheap and earn a new contract elsewhere after the season, beat Philly this week and sell him on a bye week to get up to speed and start next to Bernard on a Super Bowl contender.

I took Allen out of the equation because Beane basically earns 10 mulligans by drafting an elite QB. Outside Allen, I went “average” heading into this season. Now I view his drafts as “good”. Still have some frustrations with how long some guys take to develop and we could really have used more investment at WR, but to have a young core now of Bernard, Benford, Kincaid, Shakir, Cook, Brown and Torrence on rookie contracts for next year is where we need to be year in/year out to stay a contender. My other criticism was his lack of drafting elite players .. lots of very good players .. but Kincaid & Oliver look to be alleviating that concern.

Im starting to agree. I was on board with him getting snaps just so we can hopefully get 80% Von by the playoffs … but now we actually have to focus on making the playoffs. And, at the very minimum, Von cannot take any snaps away from Floyd, Epenesa or Rousseau. I can see the hope that one of these games it clicks and the snaps he takes from Shaq prove to be worthwhile, but we cannot have the Von rush that dips completely out of the screen allowing Hurts/Mahomes to simply scamper for 10-15 yards on 3rd and 6+ over these next two games.

Seeing a lot of tweets with data backing up that this defense of ours, (with Joseph/Douglas) is much better than we give them credit for. Linval Joseph should be big for us this game as we need to slow down the Philly run game. Our pass rush needs to show up, but also need to be disciplined. We can’t have ends just rushing 20 yards out of the play leaving massive holes for Hurts to take off through. (Same will go for the Chiefs game). I like Douglas/Benford against their WR’s. Both are big/physical corners that can body up AJ Brown. The loss of Goedert is big for them. Devonta Smith’s speed and their screen game are what I’d say we need to be aware of on defense. On Offense, keep Allen upright. I believe him when he cathartically yells “I’m ****ing back!” during the Jets game. If he has time, Philly’s back seven can’t hang with Diggs, Kincaid, Shakir and Davis. I’d also leverage Cook & Johnson in the receiving game out of the backfield on their linebackers quite a bit. The Eagles are good and their home field advantage is strong, but they’re not as dominant as their 9-1 record indicates … and the Bills are way better than their 6-5 record. We have the better QB. It’s time for that to make a difference.

WR’s with drops tend to stay dropping passes. Gabe Davis right here as our own. Chiefs signed, traded for and drafted some guys with historical drop patterns.

I’ll take my chances with Allen, a good OL, Diggs, Kincaid & Cook etc against Hurts with his group and Mahomes/Kelce and co. Our DL needs to bring the heat and have a plan for the QB scrambles.

If Kelce isn’t prime Kelce, we do have better weapons than them given the emergence of Kincaid. Kelce has just been so good that it didn’t really matter until now, when it seems age is catching up to him a bit.

Everytime I watch KC play, this is when refs get involved. every. time.

I honestly wouldn’t even play Von if he’s just going to run 25 yards behind the QB every snap he plays.

For Philly in a clock burn situation, that’s actually elite time management

I’m not advocating for it.. but I think the only thing that stops the “brotherly shove” is when a defender launched themselves just right, helmet to helmet, and knocks Hurts out. It’s unstoppable the way they do it .. and they won’t stop unless something like that happens or the NFL stops it (and I’m torn on the NFL stopping it - teams need to figure it out).

This is apparently the NFL now. Bengals/Ravens hyped primetime game. Burrow injured for the year. Andrews injured for the year. Ok, let’s try Chiefs/Eagles.. Good lord…

Hurts looks like a zombie and their playcalling is college level right now.

KC legitimately seems like they know what Philly is trying to do on every offensive play.

They’re a weird 8-1. Haven’t looked great doing it. Beat two good teams that traditionally struggle beating other good teams (Dallas, Miami), a bunch of meh and now they look like absolute trash against KC. Won’t be easy to go into Philly and win, but I think you’re giving them far too much credit.

Hurts looks shellshocked out there.

I am starting to come around on the whole refs deliberately influence games conspiracy theory …. In which case I’m hopeful we get some good officiating down the back stretch because with Burrow done for the year, I can’t imagine the league is excited for Lamar, Lawrence & Tua leading the pack for matchups in the Mahomes invitational.

Seems some people are just finding out that Hurts isn’t elite? Hes the NFC’s Tua. A decent QB surrounded by alot of talent, just swap out Tua‘s accuracy for Hurts power and mobility.

Translation: Refs just arbitrarily decide when to throw the pick flag. There’s no rhyme or reason other than their whims.

The one he does when power walking like a suburban mom getting exercise in an 80’s movie?