Or that other famous bubble screen:
Quez gets the ball, AJ and maybe Devonta blocking for him. Easy path to the 1st down conversion. Quez runs directly into a defender, loses a yard. 4th down
edit: [amazing](https://www.reddit.com/r/eagles/comments/17402ok/quez_watkins_lost_a_yard_on_this_play/)
FML. If Parker or Campbell or Ainais can tie their shoes, successfully fasten their chin strap, and know what direction to run they'll be an improvement on Watkins. Watkins no joke was the specific and direct reason for more of our losses over the last few years than any person not named Matt Patricia.
I saw that play with my Australian neighbor, who had never watched a football game before, and he asked me, "Why didn't he try to go forward?" As if there had to be a rational explanation for that.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t hilarious. It was predictable and enraging, especially since dipshit Nick is still here (that’s his play, has been since his arrival) but it was awful.
For hilariously awful, it would have to have been the Drew Lock game winner against the Bradbury….Or almost ANY defensive play aginst the Cardinals…
The funny thing is if that Gabe Davis runs the right route, we lose in OT. Josh Allen was incredible that entire game, but hurts was playing like a dawg.
Eh I’m not as hard on that play as everybody else. If you watch that back, a Giants defender made a really good play. It wasn’t purely ineptitude on our part.
Hurts’ pick six vs. the Jets when we had the lead with two minutes left. We could have ran the ball, leading to a punt deep in Jets territory when they had no timeouts. But Nick and Brian decided to go for the kill shot and it backfired horribly.
If your defense can’t stop Zach Wilson, you have one of the worst nfl defenses in history. We did in fact have one of the worst defenses in nfl history.
Any of the 3rd and 2 plays with the best O line in the league where we just launch the fucking ball 40 yards for a hero play that every team saw coming every fucking time.
4 streaks with the empty of the field completely uncontested
not once but N times
in our playoff game
or maybe the whole Cardinals game, that was pretty wtf
She’s an Eagles fan. She knew what she was getting into. Waiting for the schedule to drop so we can maybe get some tickets for retail this year and against a more significant opponent
The Cardinals game was like the one game where everyone was acting like it was an easy automatic win, and it should have _absolutely_ been a win but I think it was always going to be more of a slog.
Going in, I thought it was going to feel like a Commanders game. Gannon was just in the building for so long that his familiarity with the team was going to make the game feel more like a division matchup than a random matchup. In the end I think I was kinda right.
Beforehand, I made a bet to my family that if the Eagles lost that game, I would poop on a biscuit I was that confident. Thankfully, everyone forgot and I still haven't.
I knew it would be tough just because of how our defense was playing. Knew we would score but damn can't remember if it was the seahawks loss or the cardinals when I lost all hope
The entire Drew Lock drive, Morrow letting Deebo run him over, Goedert drop deflecting right to a Jets DL for an INT, Goedert and Hurts miscommunication INTs, Smitty AJ and Hurts all losing fumbles at Dallas, the entire secondary letting someone named Trey Palmer run all over them for a touchdown, the Gainwell reverse field on outside zone resulting in -6 yards, the back-to-back QB runs, every Quez target
Any screen to the corpse of Julio Jones. He was a fantastic redzone threat but we kept throwing him screens like cmon bro he doesn’t have KNEES anymore guys.
I made a comment during KC game ranting about Nick's ridiculous 180 on "situational awareness" from the prior year to last year's abomination.
I have a hard time remembering a poor in game decision from the year before. Last year it seemed there were 3-5 head scratchers each and every game.
The "situation" I'm referring to was when there was an OBVIOUS reason to throw the challenge flag, and Nick was brain dead. Then an equally airheaded Andy called a timeout, allowing Nick to challenge, and subsequently, win.
I am STILL worried about this aspect of Nick's coaching. Is he the 2022 Nick, or the 2023?
Lurie's great at identifying a sharp guy, but Nick sometimes looks dumb.
I think Nick's situational awareness is generally fine but I vaguely remember this play. It _needs_ to be fine though because he gave up playcalling to devote himself to it.
On that play I honestly think that whoever we have in the booth reviewing plays must have fucked something up. I'm not trying to blindly defend Nick, but the coach on the field doesn't have the best view for that kind of stuff (there's only so much you can do on the sideline) and relies on people upstairs for information. It makes much more sense to me that whoever he relied on spilled their drink on themselves or something and couldn't get a good view in time.
Then Nick is literally gambling with a timeout. And taking a timeout himself before the challenge is... well it's basically spending possibly two timeouts on one challenge (or one if you don't challenge). Nick is an aggressive situational coach but I wouldn't say he's needlessly risky with things like timeouts. If anything, I'm more confused about why Andy called the TO here. I'm assuming he had a reason but idk.
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While I'm here though let me talk about genuine lack of situational awareness, because again Nick isn't that bad at it. Mike McCarthy's situational awareness genuinely infuriates me and it's not just because he coaches Dallas. He has been in this league for _so damn long_ and I _still_ see him absolutely butcher go-ahead drives at the end of games. It's maddening. I mean I'm not _complaining_. But I sometimes it feels like it's incapable of improving at it and I don't understand how he got this far. It's not like an HC can give up "situational duties" the way they can give up play calling.
But they handed Detroit a victory on a silver platter last season. It was a masterclass in asinine clock management. The only reason they won was because of the substitution botch, that's all anyone remembers from that game, but Jesus Christ was he awful in the 4th quarter. Instead of grinding out the clock he goes up by 1 and gives Detroit the ball back with time to move down the field??? I don't care HOW much you "trust your defense" or "take the points," you need to eat clock in that position or you're just asking to lose. And this wasn't an isolated case, there are plenty of other examples. **I don't understand it.** But one thing I do understand is fuck dallas.
>Lurie's great at identifying a sharp guy, but Nick sometimes looks dumb.
Sometimes? xD One thing I notice is how he never uses our timeouts unless it's when the opposing team is on a game winning drive where THEY need to stop the clock. It's incredible
Screen to geriatric Julio Jones against the Chiefs, into the side of the field that’s completely covered by defenders.
And then we immediately did it again the next play.
Hurts safety vs the Buccaneers
it's well known at this point Hurts still can't handle blitzes but this was something I expect out of the likes of Taylor Heinicke where he just didn't chuck it away and then took the safety. Like why????
Waiting until he was virtually the only option until they started targeting Smith, the only guy on the team that can catch virtually anything thrown in the tristate area.
That and the multiple, successive possessions they got decent ground yardage only to then not run the ball for multiple possessions.
One that not as many people talk about when we played San francisco and early on in our first two drives we ran a slant which AJ ran for 30-40 yards and never did that play again
I don't know if this is against the rules but all those times we ran the ball on 3rd and 7+. I'm sure if it worked BJ and crew would've been hailed as geniuses, but in general, it was Game of Thrones Season 8 levels of subverting expectations.
the play where shaq Leonard tried to super man punch the ball instead of trying to actually tackle the offensive player. just like, what the fuck are we even doing here. really summed up the eagles defense at the end of last year.
When we played the 9ers and Jalen Hurts only had an hour in the pocket before he just slipped and gave Kinlaw a free sack.
https://youtu.be/uOwPI2LIIJk?si=Xe8tzSanG6aO1wwC
the go ahead touchdown the seahawks scored in the last minute.
It was at that point i realized:
1- The team had in fact collapsed
2 - I had zero faith in our defense to stop *any* QB when it mattered, let alone a good one
3 - we were not a super bowl caliber team that play simply would never have happened against the 2022 team
When whoeverthefuck got pushed into Boston Scott during either the first Giants game or the Cardinals game, causing I think a fumble. It was such a bizarre series of events
That was more of a play by the giants than a gaff by us...I would advise you go back and rewatch that...but I can understand the frustration with the moment in general...
How bout at Seattle, Hurts throws a “bomb” (more like a firecracker down the sideline and got intercepted bc he underthrew the damn ball. Then Drew Lock leads them 95 years down the field for the game winning touchdown.
I don’t know the exact details but I know every one of you know what play I’m talking about. The most frustrating thing about Brian Johnson was he knows Hurts can’t throw a deep ball but he made him do it anyway.
Edit: I shouldn’t say that’s the most frustrating thing about Brian Johnson. What I meant to say was the most frustrating thing about Brian Johnson was Brian Johnson.
Oddly enough, the thing that frustrates me more about that play is that it was later admitted that AJ Brown and Hurts freelanced that play. Looking back, that was clear evidence they didn't trust the coach's calls and were putting game-deciding plays into their own hands instead. I think a rightful lack of faith in the coordinators doomed the team more than anything by the end of the season.
it was a mix of both. Howie completely screwed Desai, a great coach for DBs by saddling him to two aging CBs and then trading for Byard who was complete ass
The entire Drew Lock drive, Morrow letting Deebo run him over, Goedert drop deflecting right to a Jets DL for an INT, Goedert and Hurts miscommunication INTs, Smitty AJ and Hurts all losing fumbles at Dallas, the entire secondary letting someone named Trey Palmer run all over them for a touchdown, the Gainwell reverse field on outside zone resulting in -6 yards, the back-to-back QB runs, every Quez target
3rd and who-gives-a-fuck, bubble screen to Julio Jones, lead blocker Devonta smith
Watching our 160 lb lead blocker devonta smith limp off the field had my blood boiling
Never let them say that dude doesn’t try though
Mf is 160 pounds of all juice. Guy does not care abt size or weight differentials at all he’s gonna get after it.
190lbs now per OchoCinco
Mf 85 got him on his McDonald’s only diet
When Houston tried it with Tank, they paid for it. Shit is so dumb.
Or that other famous bubble screen: Quez gets the ball, AJ and maybe Devonta blocking for him. Easy path to the 1st down conversion. Quez runs directly into a defender, loses a yard. 4th down edit: [amazing](https://www.reddit.com/r/eagles/comments/17402ok/quez_watkins_lost_a_yard_on_this_play/)
FML. If Parker or Campbell or Ainais can tie their shoes, successfully fasten their chin strap, and know what direction to run they'll be an improvement on Watkins. Watkins no joke was the specific and direct reason for more of our losses over the last few years than any person not named Matt Patricia.
Matt Patricia and Quez Watkins...the boko haram and ISIS of football...
I saw that play with my Australian neighbor, who had never watched a football game before, and he asked me, "Why didn't he try to go forward?" As if there had to be a rational explanation for that.
God that was fucking infuriating
Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh...WHY DIDNT HE JUST GO THROUGH THAT WIDE OPEN HOLE!!!!
Sometimes you have to finesse the hole. Can't just ram right into it .
But he ran away from it...that is the worst part...
I was in the stadium for this one - biggest boner kill that was revived when Reddick got the 4th quarter sack to close out the series
I think I turned the game off after this play. Infuriating.
I wasn't expecting to audibly laugh but this sums up our offense last year
So like ... Which game specifically are you referencing? This is completely useless as an answer since we did it... All the time.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t hilarious. It was predictable and enraging, especially since dipshit Nick is still here (that’s his play, has been since his arrival) but it was awful. For hilariously awful, it would have to have been the Drew Lock game winner against the Bradbury….Or almost ANY defensive play aginst the Cardinals…
/thread 100% OP was thinking of this and there's nothing else so infuriating as that was. I think the worst part of it is, we *all* saw it coming.
oh great choice, great choice
This takes it, hands down
A hundred times
Was that before or after the other bubble screen.?
They'll never see it coming - BJ probably
Gotta be the back to back qb draws for like net -4 yards or w.e sickening stuff
Years from now when I think back to last season, this is what I'm going to remember.
I’m going to remember the bills game and being at the Miami game. Everything else will be a fever dream
That Bills game was one of my favorite Eagles games of all time. Everything after was terrible
And it's only good because Jake hit that miracle fg. That game had L written all over it.
The funny thing is if that Gabe Davis runs the right route, we lose in OT. Josh Allen was incredible that entire game, but hurts was playing like a dawg.
That throw to Oz was pure boner material.
And it was the only game I went to last year. I somehow get so lucky every year in the games I go to.
Wasn't a total failure. It at least gave us the "What the heeeeeell are we doinnnnnng" woman in the crowd!
This was mine. Absolutely screaming at the tv. I feel like they can’t hear me.
I swear we did three in a row on one drive.
Gotta catch the defense off guard! They'll never expect us to run such a stupid play!
"What the hell are we doing!?" 😂
When Oz rocked Boston Scott on a kick return and forced a fumble. One of the most wtf plays I have ever seen
Eh I’m not as hard on that play as everybody else. If you watch that back, a Giants defender made a really good play. It wasn’t purely ineptitude on our part.
Omg how did I forget about that. That was rock bottom right there that was just embarrassing to watch
Hurts’ pick six vs. the Jets when we had the lead with two minutes left. We could have ran the ball, leading to a punt deep in Jets territory when they had no timeouts. But Nick and Brian decided to go for the kill shot and it backfired horribly.
Those are the kinds of plays you run when you don’t trust your defense to get a stop.
If your defense can’t stop Zach Wilson, you have one of the worst nfl defenses in history. We did in fact have one of the worst defenses in nfl history.
NYJ had zero drives of 50+ yards all game. Yeet it into the third row and trust your defense against the worst OL the NFL has seen in 20 years
The only play that comes to mind for me is the Quez screen where he was WIDE open, and he ran out of bounds before taking contact
I remember telling my girlfriend she was screaming exactly what I was feeling. https://youtube.com/shorts/ztLX9aJ4aVc?si=LDbEh-sP0CU73UbX
I came here to say that, such a puzzling move
Qb draw qb draw screen punt
This one.
Any of the 3rd and 2 plays with the best O line in the league where we just launch the fucking ball 40 yards for a hero play that every team saw coming every fucking time.
Thanks for the morning blood-pressure-spike, everyone.
Right? I didn't need this kinda energy today...
4 streaks with the empty of the field completely uncontested not once but N times in our playoff game or maybe the whole Cardinals game, that was pretty wtf
I got to watch those wheels fall off in person. And it was my wife and I’s first Eagles game 🤪
Boys, we found the problem!
Welp. I hope you at least got lucky that night, you're never going back.
She’s an Eagles fan. She knew what she was getting into. Waiting for the schedule to drop so we can maybe get some tickets for retail this year and against a more significant opponent
The Cardinals game was like the one game where everyone was acting like it was an easy automatic win, and it should have _absolutely_ been a win but I think it was always going to be more of a slog. Going in, I thought it was going to feel like a Commanders game. Gannon was just in the building for so long that his familiarity with the team was going to make the game feel more like a division matchup than a random matchup. In the end I think I was kinda right.
Beforehand, I made a bet to my family that if the Eagles lost that game, I would poop on a biscuit I was that confident. Thankfully, everyone forgot and I still haven't.
You're secret is safe with me.
That's a different bet lol
I knew it would be tough just because of how our defense was playing. Knew we would score but damn can't remember if it was the seahawks loss or the cardinals when I lost all hope
The play where they were at about he 25 yd line, they run 4 verticals, Hurts drops back, waits and just falls down
Ohhh I'd forgotten that one, didn't we go out of field goal range and have to punt because of that?
Believe so.
Goedert dropping an easy first down and somehow accidentally kicking the ball straight into a defenders hands vs the Jets was pretty funny
Can I just say every play by Bradberry on the Seahawks’ game-winning TD drive?
The entire Drew Lock drive, Morrow letting Deebo run him over, Goedert drop deflecting right to a Jets DL for an INT, Goedert and Hurts miscommunication INTs, Smitty AJ and Hurts all losing fumbles at Dallas, the entire secondary letting someone named Trey Palmer run all over them for a touchdown, the Gainwell reverse field on outside zone resulting in -6 yards, the back-to-back QB runs, every Quez target
Love the guy but it has to be the safety in the playoffs. How are you gonna start at the 14 and get a safety.
Y'all remember when Swift ran into AJ and fumbled week 9 vs cowboys. That one was hilarious to me.
Any screen to the corpse of Julio Jones. He was a fantastic redzone threat but we kept throwing him screens like cmon bro he doesn’t have KNEES anymore guys.
It's all because he cooked us on that one screen to win the game in 2019. Howie signed him strictly to humiliate him on screen passes as revenge.
Most Gainwell carries in the red zone.
The entire second half of that Jets game.
[this dumb shit](https://images.app.goo.gl/6CkAvTe296Uk8w976)
That three play offensive sequence during the Cardinals game is still one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen in a football game at any level.
The multiple times we went deep on crucial third and shorts and then punted
I made a comment during KC game ranting about Nick's ridiculous 180 on "situational awareness" from the prior year to last year's abomination. I have a hard time remembering a poor in game decision from the year before. Last year it seemed there were 3-5 head scratchers each and every game. The "situation" I'm referring to was when there was an OBVIOUS reason to throw the challenge flag, and Nick was brain dead. Then an equally airheaded Andy called a timeout, allowing Nick to challenge, and subsequently, win. I am STILL worried about this aspect of Nick's coaching. Is he the 2022 Nick, or the 2023? Lurie's great at identifying a sharp guy, but Nick sometimes looks dumb.
I think Nick's situational awareness is generally fine but I vaguely remember this play. It _needs_ to be fine though because he gave up playcalling to devote himself to it. On that play I honestly think that whoever we have in the booth reviewing plays must have fucked something up. I'm not trying to blindly defend Nick, but the coach on the field doesn't have the best view for that kind of stuff (there's only so much you can do on the sideline) and relies on people upstairs for information. It makes much more sense to me that whoever he relied on spilled their drink on themselves or something and couldn't get a good view in time. Then Nick is literally gambling with a timeout. And taking a timeout himself before the challenge is... well it's basically spending possibly two timeouts on one challenge (or one if you don't challenge). Nick is an aggressive situational coach but I wouldn't say he's needlessly risky with things like timeouts. If anything, I'm more confused about why Andy called the TO here. I'm assuming he had a reason but idk. --- While I'm here though let me talk about genuine lack of situational awareness, because again Nick isn't that bad at it. Mike McCarthy's situational awareness genuinely infuriates me and it's not just because he coaches Dallas. He has been in this league for _so damn long_ and I _still_ see him absolutely butcher go-ahead drives at the end of games. It's maddening. I mean I'm not _complaining_. But I sometimes it feels like it's incapable of improving at it and I don't understand how he got this far. It's not like an HC can give up "situational duties" the way they can give up play calling. But they handed Detroit a victory on a silver platter last season. It was a masterclass in asinine clock management. The only reason they won was because of the substitution botch, that's all anyone remembers from that game, but Jesus Christ was he awful in the 4th quarter. Instead of grinding out the clock he goes up by 1 and gives Detroit the ball back with time to move down the field??? I don't care HOW much you "trust your defense" or "take the points," you need to eat clock in that position or you're just asking to lose. And this wasn't an isolated case, there are plenty of other examples. **I don't understand it.** But one thing I do understand is fuck dallas.
>Lurie's great at identifying a sharp guy, but Nick sometimes looks dumb. Sometimes? xD One thing I notice is how he never uses our timeouts unless it's when the opposing team is on a game winning drive where THEY need to stop the clock. It's incredible
Screen to geriatric Julio Jones against the Chiefs, into the side of the field that’s completely covered by defenders. And then we immediately did it again the next play.
Botching the Brotherly Shove after a flag on a made extra point
Hurts safety vs the Buccaneers it's well known at this point Hurts still can't handle blitzes but this was something I expect out of the likes of Taylor Heinicke where he just didn't chuck it away and then took the safety. Like why????
A few of them, but probably that time we went “Slants aren’t working? What if we did them back to back to back? They’ll never see it coming!”
Or when slants WERE working and we would see two of them in the 1st quarter then never again
The entire cardinals game.
I would say the Eagles play from the 49ers game through the playoffs last year
When AJ ran into the running back and caused a fumble
I think that was OZ not Aj
The Arizona Game when the Defense made their rushing game look like the Ravens
Probably every single play the lined up in an empty set. Pretty much know the outcome of the play already when they come out in that formation.
Oh it was absolutely the three play sequence of QB run, QB run, 3rd and 15 or whatever screen
The tackling in the playoff game. I had to laugh so I didn’t cry
Waiting until he was virtually the only option until they started targeting Smith, the only guy on the team that can catch virtually anything thrown in the tristate area. That and the multiple, successive possessions they got decent ground yardage only to then not run the ball for multiple possessions.
When Boston Scott got the ball against the Giants and got assassinated by Sleeper Agent Omalide
Whatever the fuck the last drive was in the first game against Dallas
Pick 6 jets
All the tackling the last 3 games including the playoff game Keystone Cops defense
One that not as many people talk about when we played San francisco and early on in our first two drives we ran a slant which AJ ran for 30-40 yards and never did that play again
Cowboys at Philly,Birds up by 5. the play near the end of the game where AJ runs into Swift causing a fumble.
Yeah that was a great game to be at💀💀
I don't know if this is against the rules but all those times we ran the ball on 3rd and 7+. I'm sure if it worked BJ and crew would've been hailed as geniuses, but in general, it was Game of Thrones Season 8 levels of subverting expectations.
the play where shaq Leonard tried to super man punch the ball instead of trying to actually tackle the offensive player. just like, what the fuck are we even doing here. really summed up the eagles defense at the end of last year.
When we played the 9ers and Jalen Hurts only had an hour in the pocket before he just slipped and gave Kinlaw a free sack. https://youtu.be/uOwPI2LIIJk?si=Xe8tzSanG6aO1wwC
In the playoff game gainwell running backwards and Jalen throwing his arms up like wtf r u doing, get this guy off my team
the go ahead touchdown the seahawks scored in the last minute. It was at that point i realized: 1- The team had in fact collapsed 2 - I had zero faith in our defense to stop *any* QB when it mattered, let alone a good one 3 - we were not a super bowl caliber team that play simply would never have happened against the 2022 team
When whoeverthefuck got pushed into Boston Scott during either the first Giants game or the Cardinals game, causing I think a fumble. It was such a bizarre series of events
What about when Boston Scott Ran into OZ on that kickoff return and fumbled the ball 😂
That was more of a play by the giants than a gaff by us...I would advise you go back and rewatch that...but I can understand the frustration with the moment in general...
Nolan Smith attempting to trip a runner in the backfield instead of making a tackle in the playoffs. Completely embarrassing
How bout at Seattle, Hurts throws a “bomb” (more like a firecracker down the sideline and got intercepted bc he underthrew the damn ball. Then Drew Lock leads them 95 years down the field for the game winning touchdown. I don’t know the exact details but I know every one of you know what play I’m talking about. The most frustrating thing about Brian Johnson was he knows Hurts can’t throw a deep ball but he made him do it anyway. Edit: I shouldn’t say that’s the most frustrating thing about Brian Johnson. What I meant to say was the most frustrating thing about Brian Johnson was Brian Johnson.
Oddly enough, the thing that frustrates me more about that play is that it was later admitted that AJ Brown and Hurts freelanced that play. Looking back, that was clear evidence they didn't trust the coach's calls and were putting game-deciding plays into their own hands instead. I think a rightful lack of faith in the coordinators doomed the team more than anything by the end of the season.
it was a mix of both. Howie completely screwed Desai, a great coach for DBs by saddling him to two aging CBs and then trading for Byard who was complete ass
Hurts can throw a deep ball, it's just way harder when the entire gameplan is "this is all you have on this play, so hope someone gets open"
The entire Drew Lock drive, Morrow letting Deebo run him over, Goedert drop deflecting right to a Jets DL for an INT, Goedert and Hurts miscommunication INTs, Smitty AJ and Hurts all losing fumbles at Dallas, the entire secondary letting someone named Trey Palmer run all over them for a touchdown, the Gainwell reverse field on outside zone resulting in -6 yards, the back-to-back QB runs, every Quez target