its cliche but they just dont have any playmakers on defense outside of cox, who is limited in scope as an interior lineman. bradham and hicks are often invisible.

Cox is constantly double teamed and the sun dial paced Long & Graham can't do shtein, Ngata is 97 years old, Bennett has played well.  So true about Bradham and Hicks.  They looked lethargic on Sunday night.  Bradham has looked lost all season.  It's like he's one or two steps behind on every play, almost like "wow, where'd that come from?".  Ugly

Secondary is so beat up, even for how zesty they are they get a pass.

PS:  How would Jason Avant know anything?

Exactly.  Avant? 

That's the least offensive thing he's said in months.

https://twitter.com/PhillyDailyNews/status/1063479237691301889

I'll take two seasons and a SB over 14 and none.  Thanks.

https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1063503707155955713

uhhhhhhhh

the bigger thing for the defense is the lack of turnovers

the rules prevent dominating defenses from existing. the point total the defense has yielded has more or less been sufficient. the offense should score more. but offenses scoring on consistent long fields is not generally the best way to go about obtaining points.

its cliche but they just dont have any playmakers on defense outside of cox, who is limited in scope as an interior lineman. bradham and hicks are often invisible.

The rest of the league has taken notice of them.  Doesn’t help that they lost their entire defensive backfield other than Jenkins not to mention losing Sproles, Ajayi and both OT’s for stretches. 

Doug has farged up.  No doubt.  But Schwartz’s defense is shtein from a scheme perspective anyway.  Difference this year is the offense isn’t coming through to save their asses like they did last year.

It’s a fine line to be sure. 

PS:  How would Jason Avant know anything?

doug is not losing control....its a combo of a variety of factors but mainly they had injures at places with no depth, underperformance and the general malaise of the post SB year

or think of it like this. last year they started 3-1 before facing mostly bad teams. they did just enough to beat wash, ny and san diego. some luck involved there. but they were 3-1, had confidence, beat some bad teams and wallah theyre 13-3.

this year for whatever reason the 50/50 games mostly havent gone their way. loss at tampa on 2 big plays. horrible loss in tenny. pick 6 home vikings. panthers collapse. dallas. theres sort of a random fluctuation to these types of games in the nfl. maybe next year will be better.

Also, the 14,000 votes wouldn't put Nelson over the top, assuming the remaining 7,000 went to Scott.

if the lead goes down to below 5k then you go ballot by ballot to figure out intent and then something could happen

when its 12 its over

welcome to the 3rd world.