Week 1 - Falcons: New Season, New Coach, Same Crap

[Geowhizzer]

https://twitter.com/LesBowen/status/1437151834817323009

According to my math, 146.  So 114 yards the rest of the way.

Atlanta is a bad, bad team... but I'll take it.

[NC_Eagle]

Not a bad game, nice to start season with a W. 

Probably gonna get rough down the road though.

[Rome]

Mailata's hit was just an obliteration.  My buddy is a Raider fan and couldn't give two shteins about the Eagles. He texted me after he saw the hit and said, he's the next Jason Peters.  I hope so but damned if he isn't he sure looks like it right now. 

[SD]

Aside from Jarrett Atlanta's d line is mediocre but god damn it was great seeing the Birds o line annihilate them. Haven't seen an o line beat down a team like that in a long time.

Hurts...who knows. Said Id give him a full season before making a judgement. Great start. Great pocket awareness.

Slim reaper is going to be a special player. Offensively I feel like they have a ton of weapons.

Slay played the role of shutdown today. Hargraves finally earned his paycheck. Sweat is on the cusp of being a pro bowler.  I missed the first drive because I was at my daughters softball game but I'm not sure why Atlanta stopped running Patterson.

Kyle Pitts will turn into a great TE but time and time again no matter how high they're drafted TE's never play up to their potential year one.

Give Sirriani credit where it's due. Aside from going for it with a god awful off tackle run with Gainwell on 4th and 2 he called a solid game.

Not sure why they keep taking it out of the end zone. Just take the 25.

[General_Failure]

Sounded like a great game from what I heard at work. Really looking forward to watching the abridged version later.

[Diomedes]

snap count

[SD]

I forgot Kerrigan was on the team. Listened to Merrill and he never mentioned his name...did Kerrigan do anything

[ice grillin you]

Hargraves finally earned his paycheck.

he was an absolute monster....him and cox pushed the line in on almost every play

[Diomedes]

...did Kerrigan do anything

nope

[NC_Eagle]

Saw this today:

Next Gen stat of the game: Eagles QB Jalen Hurts was especially effective against the blitz, completing 9 of 11 passes for 108 yards and two TDs versus Atlanta. During his rookie season in 2020, Hurts had four TDs and one INT versus the blitz.

Nice!

[PhillyPhreak54]

I forgot Kerrigan was on the team. Listened to Merrill and he never mentioned his name...did Kerrigan do anything

Same. I don't recall even seeing him close to a play.

[Diomedes]

[Don Ho]

Damn!

And 12 days after getting released, Ridgeway played terrific football.

He had one of three Eagles sacks, he had three hurries, he had a tackle for loss, he had two tackles and he although he didn't get credit for a sack for it, his pressure in the second quarter forced Matt Ryan to spike the football and draw a 14-yard intentional grounding penalty that effectively killed a drive.

[Zanshin]

I forgot Kerrigan was on the team. Listened to Merrill and he never mentioned his name...did Kerrigan do anything

Yes. The thing I noticed most was that his choreographed celebration "kick" was out of sync with the rest of the line and had to figure out who it was. That was the one time I said, "oh, right...forgot Kerrigan was on the team." Then again, I think he'll be along the lines of what we saw with Long at the end, where it'll be hit and miss with visible production. I don't think he got a crazy amount of snaps, at least it didn't seem it.

[Diomedes]

If only we could look up how many snaps each player had....