The story of this season has been change. This team is not the Super Bowl champs from last year and they haven't been since they lost Diflippo and Riech. Below is my reasoning why we are we are (not in any order).
1. Carson Wentz injury of last year. I am not blaming the injury here what I am blaming is the uncertainty coming into this year of when he would return. Everything seemed to circle around not only Carson coming back but being the player he was before the injury. That to me was very shortsighted. While Carson has not been nearly as bad as folks make him out to be, he is not the Houdini of last year. Yes he has lost a step but speed is the last thing to come back after the surgery. The real issue I am seeing is his internal clock is all messed up. On some plays, he is rushing the throw (especially the deep ball) and on others, he is holding it too long. That can be corrected with an offseason of work (something he didn't have) and a good QB coach. Press Taylor to me is firmly in my sights as a guy who they may need to move on from. Overall he hasn't been terrible, he has actually been good but this team was setup for him to be great all the time and that is shortsighted. The future is very bright for Carson, those who can't see that just simply don't know the game. We love to eat our own here but the kid is going to be fine.
2. Howie Roseman he and Joe Douglas just haven't pulled the right strings player personnel wise this offseason. Aside from Michael Bennett no one they brought in is performing at any level near what they should be. The draft was not going to be a bountiful one based on where they were drafting and the number of picks they had Maddox and Goedert seemed to be good picks but other than that we haven't got much. Because of the salary cap they had to let go of some good players the replacements were not talent for talent replacements they were downgrades.
3. Injuries, not blaming the season on injuries but we sure might have played better if we had better luck here.
4. Coaching, the staff as a whole has taken a major step back and its more than just losing Dipflippio and Riech. I really have not seen any player take a step forward this year. The rookies Adams, Goedert, and Maddox have been Ok, but other than that most of the team has regressed. That is coaching, Then there are the scheme issues. You really can't come back with the same scheme every year. You have to continue to tweak it and we have not. Schwartz is mostly the blame for this as he is a stubborn man. He has tried over the last few weeks to change some things but honestly you can't become a press man team over night. You have to practice it, especially in the offseason. There should and will be coaching changes on this team. If there are not I question their dedication to winning.
5. The medical staff, I know its a new staff this year but its obvious there are issues there. Way to many soft tissue injuries. Torn ACL nothing you can do about them, broken bones the same, but soft tissue injuries can be for the most part avoided with proper work out routines etc.
As you can see there is blame throughout the organization. The overall plan for this year was flawed from the beginning.
Overall this team can be fixed. They have lost 7 games, 6 of them by less than a TD. Some of the time its the offense, some of the time its the defense etc that is causing it. They need the offseason to regroup, make some changes especially in the coaching area (and of course there needs to be some player changes).
1. Carson Wentz injury of last year. I am not blaming the injury here what I am blaming is the uncertainty coming into this year of when he would return. Everything seemed to circle around not only Carson coming back but being the player he was before the injury. That to me was very shortsighted. While Carson has not been nearly as bad as folks make him out to be, he is not the Houdini of last year. Yes he has lost a step but speed is the last thing to come back after the surgery. The real issue I am seeing is his internal clock is all messed up. On some plays, he is rushing the throw (especially the deep ball) and on others, he is holding it too long. That can be corrected with an offseason of work (something he didn't have) and a good QB coach. Press Taylor to me is firmly in my sights as a guy who they may need to move on from. Overall he hasn't been terrible, he has actually been good but this team was setup for him to be great all the time and that is shortsighted. The future is very bright for Carson, those who can't see that just simply don't know the game. We love to eat our own here but the kid is going to be fine.
2. Howie Roseman he and Joe Douglas just haven't pulled the right strings player personnel wise this offseason. Aside from Michael Bennett no one they brought in is performing at any level near what they should be. The draft was not going to be a bountiful one based on where they were drafting and the number of picks they had Maddox and Goedert seemed to be good picks but other than that we haven't got much. Because of the salary cap they had to let go of some good players the replacements were not talent for talent replacements they were downgrades.
3. Injuries, not blaming the season on injuries but we sure might have played better if we had better luck here.
4. Coaching, the staff as a whole has taken a major step back and its more than just losing Dipflippio and Riech. I really have not seen any player take a step forward this year. The rookies Adams, Goedert, and Maddox have been Ok, but other than that most of the team has regressed. That is coaching, Then there are the scheme issues. You really can't come back with the same scheme every year. You have to continue to tweak it and we have not. Schwartz is mostly the blame for this as he is a stubborn man. He has tried over the last few weeks to change some things but honestly you can't become a press man team over night. You have to practice it, especially in the offseason. There should and will be coaching changes on this team. If there are not I question their dedication to winning.
5. The medical staff, I know its a new staff this year but its obvious there are issues there. Way to many soft tissue injuries. Torn ACL nothing you can do about them, broken bones the same, but soft tissue injuries can be for the most part avoided with proper work out routines etc.
As you can see there is blame throughout the organization. The overall plan for this year was flawed from the beginning.
Overall this team can be fixed. They have lost 7 games, 6 of them by less than a TD. Some of the time its the offense, some of the time its the defense etc that is causing it. They need the offseason to regroup, make some changes especially in the coaching area (and of course there needs to be some player changes).
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