What's Wrong with the Defense?

[stillupfront]

You hit the nail on the head w/the 3 & outs. This begs the same point everyone talks about the running game. Our D is good and not our weakness. Look what they did vs L.T. Teams will score, but you have to give the D a breather sometimes, not to mention capitalize on turn-overs. AR needs to get the playcalling better early in games. We need early points for confidence, that's probably the bottom line.

Bull shtein!!

They need to get themselves off the goddamn field. There are nowhere near enough 3 and outs by our opposition.

[Diomedes]

Corey was the right decision at the time, so was Burgess.  Since then, Burgess has proven that the Eagles made a mistake, and Corey has proven that they didn't.

Neither player has much to do with why the D is playing poorly.  The LBs suck, except for Trotter, who is generally good against the run, but sucks against the pass.  Dawk is slowing down with age.  Lewis has peaked.  Lito let his fame get into his head, and played below his skills.  The line sucks.  The offense has offered no support, often placing the whole game on the D.  And teams have figured out JJ's D.  His blitzes aren't surprising people, and they are the only tool he has in his shed.  The D needs a big shake up.

[DH]

Bring in a guy like Will Witherspoon, and we'll see what a difference he can make. Last I checked, LB's are supposed to be able to run sideline to sideline. Adams and Jones do not. I believe it all starts with the LB's and it's time to buck this farging trend that AR has put into place that he won't pay for a good one.

Grab Witherspoon, draft a BIG DE, add one more solid DT, and this D will look a lot more like 04's and a lot less like 99's.

Or don't. Whatever.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I cannot believe some of yall are still bellyaching over Corey Simon's departure.

1. Even if he was signed this year he was leaving after the season. Heckert alluded to that during his interview the other day.

2. Simon's absence is not the difference in 5-8 to 9-4. If he was here the record would be no different. The problems are bigger than Simon not being here.

3. Simon no longer is worth a shtein. He's a younger version of Hollis Thomas now.

But hey...don't let me stop the pity party over Burgess and Simon. Carry on....

[iowaigglefan]

You are on the mark Die Hard - 3 great DEs in this draft - Witherspoon would be great fit and at DT Larry Triplett be just fine.

Things we can do on O to to keep the chain moving and D rested

Add Davenport a big back with some skills and west coast knowledge - and get if lucky and move up in 2nd the TE Pope - for our 2 te sets  he is going to be a monster 6/7 265 runs 40 in 4.55

This team can turn around very very fast - I think it will - Well hope the front office does what it can for their fans.

[rjs246]

Can we talk about Corey Simon some more? I hear he's fat. I hear we should have kept him. But I also hear that we shouldn't have kept him. It's all very riveting.

[General_Failure]

Did you hear about when the number fell off his jersey? Someone said he ate it. That was funny.

[SunMo]

if anyone questions what impact a good, fast OLB can have, just check out Sean Merriman yesterday versus the Colts, he was awesome.  the Eagles need more like him, and less like the bow-tie queer.

[DH]

if anyone questions what impact a good, fast OLB can have, just check out Sean Merriman yesterday versus the Colts, he was awesome.  the Eagles need more like him, and less like the bow-tie queer.

Just think...He could have been a Giant.

[PhillyPhreak54]

He should've been a Lion...if Matt Millen wasn't such a dumbass.

And Dallas had a shot at him at #11 too, I thought he had a shot to go there. It was between him and Ware and they chose Ware obviously. He was pissed at Dallas for "lying" to him.

[DH]

He was pissed at Dallas for "lying" to him.

That seems to be a reccurring thing with Dallas....Sheldon, Ray Rhodes, Merriman, etc...

[ice grillin you]

he really should have been a titan...pac man jones?

[MadMarchHare]

Come on, that's revisionist history.  Merriman had HUGE attitude problems, and on top of that he had the Postons as his agent.  Look how long it took SD to get him under contract.  Sure he's playing well now, but there were risks.

[ice grillin you]

merriman did not have attitude problems...he just took a stance that he wanted more money than was slotted to him as he believed he was worth top 5 money...and guess what...he was right

[MadMarchHare]

No, he had attitude problems at Maryland, IIRC.