2025 NFL Season Thread: Can Uncle Rico save the Broncos or will they be Nixed?
Greetings friends.
Those of you who know me know me as a Niners fan full of fantastical levels of vitriol and rage. I hav
Fun one - McVay will coach his 15th playoff game next week, they've somehow all been against different teams.
Also, playoff Lamar >>>>>> playoff Herbie
you can't spell DUVAL without an L.
Herbie got soul sucked trying to rizz those chess girls and got his mind off ball.
unless my QB is Peyton Manning, the only type of audible calling I want my QB to do is via Amazon Prime.
I'm sure screaming at a superstar to get off the field after dropping a ball does wonders to get them in form.
I think I already know this from your comments about Sirianni. I'm not sure I agree, but I will give it a shot.
Do the players like Hurts? He is kind of being blamed for Patullo, but has also been calling a lot of audibles this year.
Sirianni knows the game of football and has his hands in all aspects of the team. He is someone that I wouldn't just say has a read on just his players but everyone in the facility. I've known of him for quite a long time. He coached at a rival college of mine when I was playing. Of course there was a ton of teachers in his career that you can still see in the offense today. I think after watching Rivers this year it shows how much those Charger teams style is in the Eagles offense today.
As fans I completely understand frustration with coordinators and "playcalling" in general. I'll never get mad at fans for it. But I ask this wholeheartedly, what should Patullo have done differently this year? I have fielded playcalling questions a bunch over the past month or so from some neighbors. Even had one sit down with me and timestamp moments against the Bears.
I would say at this point in the NFL 25 of 32 teams are walking up to the line of scrimmage with a play called, a checked play and a hot play. For example,
If we walk up to the line 3rd and 3 right hash on the negative 35 in 11 personnel with Trips(X is off, Y is on, Z is off) to the field and our TE to the boundary. Shotgun, RB offset weak to the QB. We have inside zone call with a check to 3 bubble(quick pass to the Z). Walk up to the line and defense is showing press the point man(DB attacking the Y on the snap) with a backside hanging backer. Both play calls are technically negative but both could have huge success. The right play is to call the hot play, which is crossing route with the TE coming at 3 yards and the 3 slot coming across at 5 yards, Post Corner from the 2 slot and our outside player running a gotta get it curl.
That call can't come until we do a dummy motion or switch the up player from the 2 slot to the 3 slot to see if that backs off the punch player. If we recognize that it is true man rather than matchup zone then we call the hot. If its matchup zone, try and move the hang player, maybe bring over a WR to stretch it out and then move the TE to wing for leverage.
All this is happening with 10-15 seconds of time. The OC and QB have gone over this situations over and over and over and over. And does the OC or the QB sometimes make the wrong call in that split second? Yeah, every team goes through it. But it's still execution. And where the team was a year ago to today is different for sure. But I don't see coaching as the #1 issue. I can't honestly say that the team came out unprepared for any game this year. It's happened for teams in the past. You get wrinkled to death. Dolphins have done that to teams for seemingly decades now.
Not sure if that answered your question but when a play is executed incorrectly it's not because there wasn't a lot of work put in to that one play. It's because the DL stunt on that play worked to perfection and got under the double team on the inside zone, or the matchup zone switched to smoke man and youre expecting the hang player to settle at hook to curl but instead he's crossing the field and the backside CB settles at boundary zone. It happens. Sometimes the defense runs a basic cover 3 and the LB doesn't carry a WR down the sideline and the corner is now stuck between the corner route and the short wheel.
Needle, I understand about the calls (at least I think I kind of do being as the more I read about football the less I know about it and know that Reid did not give McNabb the same freedom). Can you at least say that if you think Hurts is making incorrect reads or if they aren't executing.
Hurts changing the play is not something that has happened a lot in Philly for a while. I'm a Hurts fan and am just curious where you think the fault lies.
And as always, I appreciate any information/insight that you give us.
One last question. As someone that you respect, do you think Sirianni failed this year given the talent he had?
Jawsh needed to be carried into the endzone to win a playoff game.
As someone who thinks firing Patullo tomorrow and replacing him with Ruxin makes the iggles the runaway SB favorites, I’ll concede they were certainly unlucky on that final drive. Not just the AJB drop but the shoestring tackle on Hurts that dropped him for a 1 yard loss woulda been first and goal of not for a Herculean effort
Jawsh performed better than I expected. Nonetheless I'm loading up on Broncos +1.5
I realize that I have asked some questions and didn't give many answers. Saquon went from 5.8 to 4.1 YPC this year. You can say that was because of Lane, but it was an issue well before that. The fans might have had a say in rushing more, which I don't agree with.
IMO, the Eagles should have passed more this year. Maybe that is not correct.
Saquon up the middle every time you choose to run is not how you utilize saquon especially when you all world tackle is out
Patullo demonstrated zero ability to think on his feet and called plays accordingly
