Offense

REPLACING LESEAN MCCOY

Posted by The BEAST on 2015/01/09
Posted in: Front Office (F.O.), NFL, Offense, Players. Tagged: , . 4 Comments

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THE idea of trading away RB LeSean McCoy is just speculation at this point. In all truth, there’s been more talk of cutting him (because of his salary) than there’s been of trading him. For his part, McCoy has said he’d like to be back but “I can’t control it”. Whether he’s traded or simply released, it’s important to have a plan to replace him.

Keep in mind, the idea of replacing McCoy is just about getting a guy who can create problems for a defense. It not about getting a clone of the guy we lost. We didn’t replace Brian Westbrook with a Westbrook, or Duce Staley with a Staley. Yet both times we were in good hands, as players already on the roster stepped up. So let’s see what we already have on the shelves!

RB Darren Sproles is a nifty player, but he’s 190 pounds and will be 32 when next season rolls around. Last season McCoy carried 312 times, and in 2013 he carried 314 times. Sproles’ career high is 93 carries. In 2009. And his game logs from that year show that he was less effective when given more carries.

RB Chris Polk is intriguing. While he’s played 29 of 32 games in the last two years, and has looked good when he touches the ball, he carries the knock of being fragile due to a mysterious shoulder condition. I say mysterious because running down clear information about Polk’s shoulder was annoying and repetitive. But I DID IT. It’s DONE.

Let me nutshell it for you: (In 2011 while in college, Polk had labrum surgery. NFL teams were concerned about his shoulder having a degenerative or chronic problem, so Polk had it looked at by renowned sports surgeon, James Andrews. The good doctor said that there was some scarring (meaning tissue not skin) from the surgery, but that there was nothing chronic or degenerative. Many teams said “Yeah. Right.”  and Polk went undrafted and signed here.)

Polk had major shoulder surgery in January 2014, and while nowhere can I confirm if it’s the same shoulder, it would be somehow worse to find out that it isn’t. In the event that it is the same shoulder he had labrum surgery on in 2011, it would lend credence to teams worrying about his durability, and would raise questions about whether or not he could be the guy to replace McCoy.

Recently the team re-signed RB’s Matt Tucker and Kenjon Barner (I shit you not)  to the reserve list, but it’s a long way from off-the-street, to 300 carry a year starter.

Then of course there are various RB prospects in the Draft, but I’m going to save that until after Free Agency (March 10th). Right now I’m mostly going to pay attention to what we already have in the cupboard and Unrestricted Free Agents.

EAGLES/GIANTS PREVIEW

Posted by The BEAST on 2014/12/26
Posted in: Coaching, Defense, Offense, Preview. Tagged: , , , , . 5 Comments

12.28.14-Wk17

SUNDAY 1:00 Metlife Stadium – East Rutherford, New Jersey

 

STUPID. STUPID. STUPID.

SO we’re gonna play our starters, because Our coach wants to put our best guys out there and WIN. Despite the fact that this will likely push our draft position (reportedly at 20th right now) even farther back. And before you say dropping a spot or two is no big deal, let me just say 4 word in dispute of that: Ha Ha Clinton Dix.

Because we missed Dix by one pick, GM Howie Roseman and Head Coach Chip Kelly decided to traded back 4 spots. We drafted Marcus Smith #26 overall. We’re about to deliberately jack-knife our own Draft.

 

EAGLES

Defense

Many fans want to pretend that our pass defense JUST became an issue this year. But last year when everyone (except me) was cheering about playoffs and what a genius Chip Kelly was, we were ranked DEAD LAST against the pass. DEAD LAST. The 253 passing yards per game we’re giving up this year, is down from the 289 per game we were giving up last year. If you’re just now upset over our spotty coverage, shame on you for not paying better attention this whole time.

Since we don’t commit much to playing pass defense, it allows us to play more guys up front so we get decent pressure and shut down the run pretty good. Which is a shame, since the NFL is a passing league now.

Offense

Our pace is slower and we’ve stopped doing certain things like calling for deep routes and calling Bubble-screens to spread out the opposing secondary. We also don’t involve RB Darren Sproles anywhere near as much as we should. None of these can be laid at the feet of execution. What you stop calling and who you stop playing are coaching decisions. These are deliberate moves spanning weeks.

 

GIANTS

Defense

They bleed points and cough up as much rushing yardage as any team in the league. We’re talking total bottom feeders here. But the giants won’t be playing to win, since THEIR coach isn’t an idiot.

Offense

The giants will be playing their starters too, BUT the difference is, Tom Coughlin’s team will be giving work to young guys that they’ll depend on for at least another year. We on the other hand will be allowing guys we don’t want to keep to audtion while guys we need to learn about will sit.

 

BOTTOM LINE

I’m so fucking disgusted, that I’m almost numb. Unless Chip Kelly has a trick up his sleeve (the likes of which no one has ever heard), we’re about to add insult to injury. No! Scratch that! We’re about to add long-term injury to short-term injury. Because Tom Coughlin can recognize the faux value in winning what’s basically the first preseason game of 2015.

PREDICTION

EAGLES 21 – Giants 14

 

 

START MATT BARKLEY

Posted by The BEAST on 2014/12/22
Posted in: Coaching, Defense, Offense, Players, Roster. Tagged: , , , . 3 Comments

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THE 2014 EAGLES season is over. This next game is a preseason game with stakes. Or it should be. If Chip Kelly has any sense at all, he should start Matt Barkley. It’d be smart to know if our second year QB can serve as a viable second stringer in his third year, or if we should free up the cap and roster space for someone who has a chance to be of use to the team.

Now is the time to get a look at our roster and see who can deliver when the lights come on. All indications are that we’re going to lose some key players this offseason, so it’s better to know before Free Agency and the Draft, who is and who is not for real.

Not only should Barkley get to start, but so should:

  • CB Jaylen Watkins. This kid may have been a college CB, but he’s an NFL FS. Regardless, until he gets some playing time, he’s just a wasted pick. Be nice to see Malcolm Jenkins take this kid under his wing.
  • OLB Marcus Smith. He’s made 1.4M$ to do nothing this year, and next year is on tap to pull down 1.7, on a 4 year deal worth a fully guaranteed 7.99M. Even if we cut him today, he counts against our cap for at least one more year in dead money. And that’s space we can’t afford to waste. Not to mention the roster spot. Time to see if this guy has anything to contribute.
  • WR Josh Huff. Give the guy a whole game. Let him be the guy who has to erase his mistakes. Let him learn the progression of why things in this game happen, not just what things happen. He plays like he doesn’t recognize moments, or situations. This throw-away game is a perfect laboratory for him. He’d have a number of plays that he can get wrong and also get right, so then he can compare him vs him in both instances. Let him mature himself this offseason, and maybe he’ll make fewer boneheaded mistakes in 2015.
  • SAK Trey Burton. He’s the anti-Josh Huff. He just makes heads-up plays when called upon. Undrafted, unheralded, nobody’s darling, a total dark horse to make the team. I was rooting for him in the preseason even though I didn’t think the guy stood a snowball’s chance in Hell of sticking. Kelly surprised and impressed me by keeping him. Burton’s a (SAK) Swiss Army Knife who plays QB, TE, WR, and RB. He’s already logged 5 carries for 10 yards this season, and I’d like to see him get a few more of those.

Week 17 finds us standing knee-deep in the debris of what was (not that long ago), a successful 2014 season. However, despite the wreckage that surrounds us now, this season could have one more gift to give down the line. When the dust of 2014 finally settles, things heading into 2015 could be clearer than they ever were heading into 2014.

EAGLES/REDSKINS PREVIEW

Posted by The BEAST on 2014/12/18
Posted in: Coaching, Defense, Offense, Preview. Tagged: , , , , , . 5 Comments

12.21.14-Wk16

SATURDAY 4:30 FedEx Field – Landover, Maryland

 

PUMP THE BRAKES

SEATTLE should have been competitive, but it should have been a win. Dallas should have been a breeze. I mean seriously, we even came back from being down 21-0. But in both games the Offense just stalled out, and the defense had a single problem that it couldn’t solve all game long (Russell Wilson’s running vs SEA; and covering Dez Bryant vs DAL.) At this point I have no idea who is showing up in our uniforms on game day.

 

EAGLES

Defense

Due to an under-comittment to defending the pass, we’re pretty solid at defending the run. And when we aren’t being ripped for easy completions, we get good pressure on QB’s. So there’s that.

Let me say this: While CB Bradley Fletcher did look bad out there, stranding him out there like that was total bullshit and horrible coaching. I was glad to see Brian Dawkins weigh in and say the same thing. Before I had this website, (some of you may recall) I wrote when we first signed him, that Fletcher was a kitted-up Safety. WHAT A SURPRISE, I WAS RIGHT AGAIN!

That said, our Secondary is an open fucking wound. Everyone knows that we can be had on shallow crossing routes and now they know that our Defensive Coordinator Bill Davis will strand our CB’s even when they are over-matched. This week I hope to see us play some Cover Two. The last time we played this team we didn’t and it was a shootout. Be nice to see if Davis is capable of learning.

Offense

Remember throwing the ball deep? Remember Jordan Matthews catching multiple Bubble-screens in game? Remember Jordan Matthews? Where the hell did all that go? Mark Sanchez was never really as in synch with Jeremy Maclin as Nick Foles was; but jeez, I’d rather see Sanchez forcing the ball to Maclin than to Riley Cooper.

I’m not even going to harp on our run game. It’s been up and down all year, and right now it’s down again. We all know why that is, but this week especially is not the time to get on that again.

Even without Foles there’s enough firepower here to shell our opponent. But it all depends on which EAGLES Offense decides to show up.

 

REDSKINS

Defense

What can you say about this unit? It has a talented pass rusher in OLB Ryan Kerrigan, and it doesn’t give up a ton of yardage. On the other hand, they have just 4 picks all year long and they allow more points than all but 6 teams. It’s a perfectly “meh” level unit. They should be an ideal “get our confidence back” type of opponent as we work some shit out. 

Offense

Hey look! RB Alfred Morris is about to rush for 1,000 yards again. In that plodding, one dimensional style of his. Despite the QB’s drawing straws every week to see who starts, WR DeSean Jackson has put up nearly 1,000 yards on just 50 grabs this year, and some of you may recall that he is one hell of deep threat. Maybe some Cover Two would be nice?

 

BOTTOM LINE

If we don’t win this game, we should start Matt Barkley next week. This is an absurdly winnable game for us and it pains me that even though I still think we’ll win, I don’t feel confident that we’ll show up looking to handle business.

PREDICTION

EAGLES 24 – 20

 

EAGLES/COWBOYS PREVIEW

Posted by The BEAST on 2014/12/11
Posted in: Defense, NFL, Offense, Players, Preview. Tagged: , , , , . 12 Comments

12.14.14-Wk15

SUNDAY 8:30 Lincoln Financial Field – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

SHOWDOWN

THIS is the biggest game of the regular season. Not because it’s against the Cowboys, but because it’s one of three division games at the end of the season. As long as two teams in this division were still alive in the race to win it, there was ALWAYS going to be a fight somewhere during these last three weeks.

Personally, I’m glad it’s the Cowpies. If we can string this and the va-giants game into wins, we can rest our starters in Week 17. If it were us and the Foreskins, we’d have to run hot the whole time, which might burn us out for the playoffs.

 

EAGLES

Defense

Except for the inability to contain Russell Wilson last week, our Defense was what I expected it to be against the Seahawks offense. Dallas plays with a similar mindset (pound the ball, draw teams into the box, hit’em up top vs 1-on-1 coverage), but Dallas’s QB can’t run around anymore. Somewhere out there DE Vinny Curry and OLB’s Brandon Graham, Trent Cole and Connor Barwin are licking their chops.

Then of course there’s the fact that this Defense took away all of Dallas’s weapons last time we met. It’s not like the Cowboys had anyone out on injury or suspension when we did that. They weren’t playing on a slick field that hampered their running. Conditions will be similar this time around. Except colder. Windier. And the crowd won’t be neutral this time. It’ll be downright unfriendly. Expect the Defense to repeat what it did two weeks ago.

Offense

QB Mark Sanchez cut Dallas’s defense up like a fork-tender steak the last time he saw it. And RB LeSean McCoy ran through their defenders like he was coated in Ex-lax. The excuse from Cowpies fans last time around was that they only had 4 days rest. Translation:

 cowboys ready

Fuck outta here, you whiny bitches. It was the same 4 days of rest we had, plus WE had to travel.

If you take Dallas now having to travel east to play outside in cold air (making breath harder to recover, trust me, I know), and add it to the fast paced Offense we tired them out with two weeks ago;  it might have these guys on the sidelines wearing oxygen masks like they’re playing in Denver.

 

COWBOYS

Defense

Really? They have one?

Offense

My instincts say that with the colder, windier weather that will make the ball as hard as a brick, Dallas won’t want to throw the ball around too much. Especially if fans are loud enough to make it hard to hear in the huddle. (And just so you know: Run plays usually have short names like “23 Trap” or “31 Dive”; whereas pass plays have names like “Spider 2 Y Banana” or “Spread RT X Left Zoom Post 269”. So the louder fans are, the harder it is for an opponent’s passing game to be in synch.)

Basically this next game will be them attempting to get RB DeMarco Murray on track early. As long as we realize that and focus more on limiting him and don’t over-commit to stopping him altogether, we can throw a wet blanket over their whole offense again.

 

BOTTOM LINE

Dallas plays a style of ball that currently can’t beat us on offense and can’t keep up with us on defense. The only way we lose this game is if we’re careless with the ball and maybe not even then.

PREDICTION

EAGLES 40 – Cowboys 6

HITTING THE HOLES

Posted by The BEAST on 2014/12/10
Posted in: Defense, Draft, Front Office (F.O.), Offense, Players, Roster. Tagged: , , , . 16 Comments

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WITH all the talk going on about which QB we want to win with or whether or not Chip Kelly (actually Howie Roseman) will draft a QB in 2015; what we haven’t really discussed is what we actually need. There’s been no real discussion on how to fill the holes on this team. Or even what those holes might be.

Let me get started by picking up where I left off:

GUARD: Last year I said the EAGLES needed to draft a young Guard. A real inside mauler. Just a big ol’, Popeye’s chicken eatin’ sumbitch. I know, I know. Our scheme is predicated on getting linemen in space, and running around in tutus and shit. That however is exactly why we do so much east west running. That’s cute in college, but in the pros, you need to be able to move the line of scrimmage. For that as you’ve seen this year, you need a mauler. So no more Tackles converted to Guard!

STRONG SAFTEY: We could also use a Strong Safety with some real speed. Even if employed in a Cover-Two, SS Nate Allen has been easy to run by for YEARS now. With a Safety being your last line of defense, he’s got to be able to run someone down. Since we won’t be able to pry UFA Rahim Moore away from Denver, I’m thinking the Draft is where I’d head for this spot too.

CORNERBACK: This is a weird one, because I think soon to be FA Bradley Fletcher is fine at CB, but I don’t think he’s pay raise worthy out there. Before yelling about drafting someone or adding another expensive FA, it makes sense to see what we have on the roster. But things are going too well (as far as wins and losses) right now to go sitting starters down just so we can say “let me see something”.

LINEBACKER: What every defense needs at its heart is a guy or two who will not be pushed around, and who will grab teammates by their short and curlies if they get caught being pushed around. If we do cut ILB DeMeco Ryans (as my friend Chris suggested could happen) to make cap space, a sneaky good addition could be current Bronco and soon UFA, Nate Irving. He’d be both the playmaker and the vocal leader you expect from a MLB.

Oops! Did I say MLB? This is assuming that DC Bill Davis gets canned after we get shelled in the playoffs. I love my EAGLES, but come on; we aren’t exactly holding our own vs playoff caliber teams this year. Part of that is the Defense. Actually a large part of it is the Defense. What do you think of Rex Ryan? I think it’d be nice to have another Ryan coaching our Defense. But not Rob.

 

EAGLES FUTURE: SANCHEZ vs FOLES

Posted by The BEAST on 2014/12/09
Posted in: Conspiracy Corner, Fans, Front Office (F.O.), NFL, Offense, Players, Roster, trade. Tagged: , . 2 Comments

players-nickfoles.marksanchez.4712EAGLES fans are at each other’s throats in regards to whether Nick Foles or Mark Sanchez is the QB of the future for this team. Fans of one QB are outright attacking the guy who isn’t their QB of choice. It’s to the point now where fans are showing more respect for Dallas QB Tony Romo than whichever guy they aren’t backing. Let me hip you to a few things that too many fans keep missing:

  1. Both of our QB’s have won more games than they’ve lost this year.
  2. You shouldn’t be rooting against either one of them.
  3. Sanchez is here on a one year deal. While he could resign with the EAGLES next year, it is far more likely that he’ll want to go somewhere and start. Dallas, Washington, Tampa Bay and Tennessee are all far more likely to give him that opportunity.
  4. If you’ve been looking at it as “Foles OR Sanchez” as our future options, you’ve missed the point entirely.

Here’s the point: We’re drafting a QB in the Spring of 2015.

Why now and not before? 

  1. Most NFL head coaches hired out of college with no (even positional) pro coaching experience, do poorly. So when Jeff Lurie hired Chip Kelly on a 3-year deal, it was a gamble.
  2. You don’t compound that gamble by risking a high draft pick to run an experimental Offense.
  3. Every QB Kelly has had except 4th rounder Matt Barkley has been a re-tread.
  4. With Kelly doing this well in his first two years, you can bank on him getting an extension next season.
  5. That extension will NOW give him the carte blanche and more importantly the time to groom his flagship QB. And what offensive minded head coach doesn’t want that? Make a list. You’ll find way more do’s than don’ts.

I’m on record here as saying that Foles isn’t a franchise QB, and I said that because he isn’t. True franchise QB’s put in work during the offseason. Foles didn’t. The results were evident. Blame his turnovers on the line or the run game if you like, but know these three facts:

  1. Sources (that’s multiple) inside the EAGLES say that GM Howie Roseman and others soured on Foles  even before his injury.
  2. Kelly may control the roster, but Roseman controls the purse strings. If Roseman isn’t sold on Foles, he will not give him a huge deal. Roseman has made too many mistakes already with throwing money around and with the coming cap crunch, he will have to be much more cautious with every dollar he spends.
  3. With the new CBA and rookie salary cap, even an expensive rookie QB taken in the 1st round would still be much cheaper (from 2015 through 2018) than Foles would be starting in 2016. (e.g. Blake Bortles was #3 overall in 2014 and has a 4 year 20.6M$ deal.) That alone makes drafting a QB a no-brainer for us.

It’s my thinking that Kelly would want Oregon QB [Marcus Mariota] as his guy. There’s a school of thought that says Mariota would be out of our reach pick-wise. I find that hilarious.

  1. Since Kelly’s system was instituted at Oregon in 2007, every QB that started in it has put up gaudy numbers. Thing is, with the NFL long being leery of System QB’s, not one of Oregon’s was drafted high. And that’s if they were drafted at all (Dennis Dixon 5th round, Jeremiah Masoli UFA, Darron Thomas UFA).
  2. Mariota has yet to have a pro day, an interview, or a Combine showing. But I won’t bet against him. In fact, what the hell, I’m generous. Let give him the benefit of the doubt: Let’s say he does go in the top 10.
  3. Considering the teams who’ll have a high pick that could use a star player to help put asses in the seats and who also don’t need QB help (Oakland, Jacksonville, Carolina), a trade could help the EAGLES both move up significantly and save some serious cap space in one master stroke.

You have to keep in mind that the EAGLES are first and foremost a business; and that what they’re doing is investing huge amounts of money, time, and even their own jobs in human capital. There are drivers to this QB situation that go way beyond who you may or may not like.

It’s high time that was recognized.

I DIDN’T RECOGNIZE THE EAGLES

Posted by The BEAST on 2014/12/08
Posted in: Coaching, Defense, Offense, Players. Tagged: , , , , , . 5 Comments

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Seattle 24 – EAGLES 14

 

NOTHING I saw yesterday was familiar. Beyond the score and the results and the yards, I didn’t see the EAGLES out there yesterday. Particularly on Offense. Defensively, however I definitely saw my team. But let me talk about the Offense first.

It would be one thing to see us failing at what we’re good at, but we didn’t even seem to be trying. The biggest thing was the pace. When have you seen us look that slow under Chip Kelly? Not even the Green Bay game featured that snail’s pace. Don’t get me wrong, by normal NFL standards it was fine, but this Offense isn’t run by normal NFL standards; and last night it seemed like it took forever between plays. Worse still, there seemed to be no move to correct it after the half.

There didn’t seem to be a concerted effort to push the ball down the field either. QB Mark Sanchez (10/20 – 50% – 96 – 2 – 1) averaged fewer than 10 yards per completion, with his longest completion being a 35 yard catch and run touchdown by TE Zach Ertz (2 – 39 – 19.5 – 1). Unstack that and aside from that one completion, Sanchez was 9 for 19 (47%), while only throwing for 64 yards, with a completion average of 7.1 yards per. Not yards per pass mind you, but yards per completion.

Add to that all the east-west run plays we ran. RB LeSean McCoy (17 – 50 – 2.9 – 0) saw a decent number of carries as he quietly became the EAGLES all-time leading rusher. But even without his costly third quarter fumble, it was hardly an effective day by he or the Offensive Line.

Defensively we were who we are. We did a pretty decent job of handling RB Marshawn Lynch, but as is always the case, when we face a playoff caliber QB, everything wrong with our basic defensive concept gets lit up like Times Square. Seattle did nothing jaw dropping out there yesterday, but by playing common sense offense and not getting flustered when they made a mistake, they were able to shoulder past us.

I’ve said before that our problem on Defense is the guy who runs it. Until we replace him, we’ll be stuck with concepts that don’t work against playoff caliber teams. I said in the first article on this website, that as long as we stick with Bill Davis at Defensive Coordinator, we won’t be able to win a Super Bowl. Granted, maybe we’ll hit the playoffs, get hot and he’ll prove me wrong. However at the rate we’ve been going versus playoff caliber teams, both this season and last, it seems so far that I’m right on the money.

But again, I’m really kind of stunned by what I saw out there from our Offense yesterday.

TRADE NICK FOLES TO THE…

Posted by The BEAST on 2014/12/03
Posted in: Draft, Front Office (F.O.), Offense, Players, Roster, trade. Tagged: , , . 8 Comments

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IT’S time to trade Nick Foles.

This offseason I had hopes that Foles would show some traits of a franchise QB. That he’d rent a house for more space (since he lives in a condo not far from me), and call a few guys down to work on some concepts and get into each other’s heads a bit more. To learn to see what each other sees, like Peyton Manning and Demaryius Thomas; Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski; Aaron Rodgers and Jordy Nelson. Like Donovan McNabb used to do at his home in Arizona.

I was hoping Foles would put in that kind of work, but he wasn’t interested. This season showed the results of that lack of commitment. The league caught up to him, because he was fine with standing still. And it’s that lack of inner fire that makes him expendable.

QB Mark Sanchez is 3-1 as an EAGLES starter. He also came to our rescue in relief against the Texans, after Foles had thrown the pick six that tied the game and was injured. Considering that Sanchez played ¾ of that game, and since it was essentially 0-0 when he came in, he’s basically a 4-1 starter.

Foles on the other hand has regressed badly this season. This was of course after Head Coach Chip Kelly declared him his QB for the next 1,000 years. That statement made Foles the franchise QB in name, but there was never the faintest hint of him living up to it prior to OTA’s.

He’s under contract for another year, so we could keep him in case of emergency.  However, to get value for him, it makes more sense to trade him. You won’t get much for him as he’s a 3rd round pick, with just one good year, which wasn’t enough to convince 50% of his own team’s fan base before he regressed. But if you can package him with a pick to a QB needy team, then it improves the value of whatever pick you put him with (Foles and a 4th is good for a 3rd. Foles and a 3rd is good for a 2nd …).

With teams like Dallas, Washington, Jacksonville, and Tampa Bay all looking for along-term answer at QB, Nick Foles is a better option than virtually any QB likely to be on those rosters in 2015. Or we could just sit pat and watch him got to one of them anyway after his contract expires after 2015. (If Foles is going to be a Cowboy or Redskin, I want something for him!)

JEREMY MACLIN: THE BEST WR IN THE NFC EAST.

Posted by The BEAST on 2014/11/20
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NFL: Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles

IS Jeremy Maclin better than Dez Bryant?

For years Maclin took a backseat as the #2 to DeSean Jackson. Now that Jackson has moved on, we’re getting a taste of why Maclin didn’t want to sign a smaller deal this offseason. In a head to head comparison with Bryant, Maclin owns him every single category that they aren’t tied in. Someone in a Facebook group (NFC BEAST) that I’m currently a member of,  posted this question:

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It makes you wonder if those who respond will compare Bryant and Maclin’s careers, or if they’ll go by this season. My answer was Maclin. Not because I’m an EAGLES fan but because MACLIN

Right now this is no contest. It’s not even fair. I mean look at this:

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And that’s with BOTH men having played 10 games, as both teams are 7-3. Again, Maclin owns Bryant in any category they aren’t tied in.

OWNS him. Like a dog. Or a pair of socks. 

Now that Maclin is no longer the second option, he’s making it known that HE is the best WR in the NFC East. But what do you think? Comment here on the website.