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FOUR THINGS REVIEWED: RAVENS

Posted by The BEAST on 2016/12/22
Posted in: Coaching, Defense, Draft, Four Things, Front Office (F.O.), NFL, Offense, Players, Reviews, Roster. Tagged: , , , , , , . Leave a comment

WE needed to lose and we did. No complaints there.

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A 26 – 27 final at first seems like a hard fought outcome. However, given that most of who played were the same guys who played through the year, it comes across more like a regular season loss, and less like the teaching/evaluation tool the game could have been.

So, of the Four Things we were looking for in this last game, what exactly did we see?

1) WR Bryce Treggs: Got to carry the ball for a 4 yard run. Didn’t see any significant time. NOT DONE

2) WR Paul Turner: Was inactive. NOT DONE

3) G Dillon Gordon: Got a to play a snap as an extra blocker, but also didn’t see significant time. NOT DONE

4) DT Destiny Vaeao: Also hardly saw the field. NOT DONE

That brings this weeks score to 0 for 4. I’m not sure what the Eagles are trying to establish at this point, but it certainly doesn’t seem to have an eye towards the future. Next week we’ll be repeating this weeks list, because it’s important and needs doing.

WK15: RAVENS

Posted by The BEAST on 2016/12/19
Posted in: Coaching, Defense, Draft, Front Office (F.O.), NFL, Offense, Players, Reviews, Roster. Tagged: , , , , , , , . 2 Comments

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EAGLES 26 – Ravens 27

COMING into the game, our playoff chances had all but evaporated already, so the best thing would have been to use the game as a teaching tool. Instead, it looked pretty much like any other regular season game. Few young players saw extended minutes over what they normally receive. This left us looking at a number of players that you have to think won’t be here next season.

In a back and forth contest, the Eagles (at one point down 17 – 27), managed to storm back to 26 – 27 and endanger their increasingly favorable Draft position. If not for that missed conversion, fans would be cheering a meaningless win today, but lamenting it come April.

For the fifth time in fourteen starts, QB Carson Wentz (22/42 – 52% – 170 – 0 – 1) failed to throw a single touchdown. Averaging 4.04 yards per pass attempt is pretty pathetic when you consider that the run game, led by RB Ryan Mathews (20 – 128 – 6.4 – 1 – 1), was killing it all day long. Either the plays we ran are poorly designed, the QB we have lacked guts, or we need to totally overhaul the skill positions on this team for next season.

I was very happy with what I saw out of CB Jalen Mills yesterday (2 – 0 – 0 – 0). It’s true that he gave up a touchdown to WR Steve Smith, but we’re talking about a 7th round rookie covering a possible future Hall of Famer. All things considered, Mills did an extremely good job when he was out there. DE Vinny Curry (2 – 0 – 0 – 0) also did nice job of making his presence felt out there.

Did you notice?

Announcer Daryl Johnston said during the game, that the Eagles were still mathematically alive, but that in all reality they had no shot.

WK15: RAVENS

Posted by The BEAST on 2016/12/17
Posted in: Coaching, Conversations, Defense, Draft, Fans, NFL, Offense, Players, Preview, Roster. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , . 3 Comments

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Baltimore Ravens

Sunday 1:00        M&T Bank Stadium        Baltimore, MD

NEEDS TO STEP UP:

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DE Vinny Curry

I said that DE Connor Barwin should have been traded last year. Instead he’s started each of our 13 games this year, gotten 4 sacks, and is part of an almost invisible pass rush now. Despite signing a big contract in the offseason, Curry has still never started a game in his NFL career. This is bullshit. As a member of the the second unit Defensive Line, Curry needs to make it clear that the coaching staff picked the wrong guy to start this year.

WE MUST CONTAIN:

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OLB Terrell Suggs

The best player on that team this year is K Justin Tucker, but since you can’t exactly “contain” Kickers, I’ll go with Suggs. “T-Sizzle” isn’t exactly having his best year with only 27 tackles in 12 games played. Then again, his solo tackle numbers did hit a wall in sayyyyy, oh about 2012. (I wonder who could have retired- OOPS! -I meant, what could have happened, that would have affected Suggs so greatly. Hmmmm…)

EAGLES STORY LINE:

An Eagles fan got on his knees and asked “Please Lord, I just want my team to make the playoffs this year.” The Lord responded. “Sure. I’ll make sure the Phillies get in.” The Fan said, “No Lord, I meant my other team. The Eagles.” To which the Lord replied “Sorry dude, I deal in miracles, not fantasies.”

If you are still harboring Eagles playoff hopes for 2016, sit down, I have some sad news to break to you: YOU stand more of a chance than the Eagles do, of making the playoffs this year. What we can do however, is use the remaining games to evaluate the roster and get a huge jump on our division rivals for 2017.

Discretion is the better part of valor, here. If we’re smart now, we won’t be back here, like this, next year.

BOTTOM LINE:

If we can win this game with a bunch of young guys, great. Any other win is a waste of a teaching tool.

PREDICTION:

Eagles 17 – Ravens 20