I enjoyed the first half. Stafford was connecting with Puka and Coop and it was so fun. But the Iggles were too strong and physical. Staff got hit hard a couple times and his passes wer not on point as they had been, for whatever reason. I knew when started punting, the odds were not great that we would win. I think we just got beat by a better team and I can live with that.Good game. Sucks to lose.
Witherspoon has been a pleasant surprise.When Witherspoon left the game we got pretty weak at that point.
Could have made the difference.
Right?Confused asf why Morris consistently has Hoecht, a 300+ lb DL, chasing WR’s down the field
It’s not a total waste.Couldn’t watch live today and am not excited about watching
A few observations to take from this game:
That is what a dominant Oline looks like. The Oline and the assortment of pass rushers are why the Eagles were the NFC champs. The eagles success has nothing to do with coaching or Hurts. It's really the Oline and the pass rushers they have assorted. I will give them credit for drafting Jalen Carter. The fact that the Lions chickened out on drafting him is going to haunt them for years.
The fact that we had a chance to go ahead late means we are no pushovers.
Stafford had to be great today and he was not. Overthrows to Puka and Tutu and Kupp were not good enough. Stafford tends to have several games during the season like this. On the bright side, he has shown the ability to play his best ball in the playoffs, so can't hate the guy.
Kupp and Stafford also need time to get in synch.
Mcvay called way too many deep shots. He should have adjusted to the pressure and called shorter slants and such.
Our run defense from the front 3 is really solid. Swift couldn't get much going today, till some cheap stuff late.
Brown is turning into an excellent run stopper. If he is out that will be rough.
The end of the half defense with what 32 seconds left? WTF man. We still have no solution to this problem.
Common denominator is Kendrick.
We are not going to get to the next level until we address the Kendrick, Hoecht and Durant problems.
Tackling was atrocious. Could have won the game if we simply tackled with correct form.
LT probably is going to be our biggest need, along with Pass rusher. I have to review the tape but looked like jackson was struggling out there. Until we get a dominant LT and edge guy we are not going to be in the heavy weight class.
Hard to be overly mad since we lost to a better team. But there are a ton of things we need to get corrected as evidenced from this game.
We still look like a 9-10 win team right now.
Need to dump the Durant and Kendrick projects and let Shelly and Tomlinson show what they have.