Fix the Eagles, without firing the Head Coach

Wingspan · October 30, 2006, 01:23:47 PM

The eagles need some fixing. Although I wont say they need a major overhaul...but the problems are coming to show themselves one by one. I am not basing any of these pointers on one game. But things I have noticed for a while now...

Some of these things can be done quickly, some need to wait, but I would say most should be addressed. And i quantify this by saying Andy Reid does not need to be fired(yet). But he needs to make these moves or adjustments himself.

Until the Jacksonville game...none of the losses were really due to lack of talent, there were dumbass mistakes made by dumbass players....

On the coaching front...

#1 New Defensive Coordinator
Giving Johnson his last extension was a mistake, see my other thread for more detail....

#2 Fire Ted Williams, the RB Coach
He's been here for 12 years now, and the running game has barely seen improvement (when they do decide to run) in any of that time.

#3 Fire David Cully, the WR Coach
for obvious reasons.

#4 Get rid of any assistant with quality control in their title

#5 Reid has to be a not so friendly guy with his players. They arent mature enough to play hard for a guy who is their friend.

#5 Reid needs to do 2 of the three of these himself:
a: delegate play calling, alltogether.
b: delegate time management. meaning when the guy in charge says "no time out" you do not take a time out.
c: delegate all in game adjustments to marty m. meaning Marty gives reid a new chart to call plays every quarter he focuses on what is or isnt working, and gives that to reid to call the plays on.

#6 Reid needs to do BOTH of these
a: Improve the running of this team. I don't care how
b: Start benching or deactivating any veteran who isnt living up to expectations, regardless of their age. This includes, but is not limited to...Trotter, McDougle, Any Lewis, Baskett, Jones, either Brown, Walker...

#7 Get McNabb some situational knowelege. I wont call McNabb stupid, but sometimes he isnt all that bright. 8 years now...and he takes a sack on 4th down after holding the ball for 10 seconds? He throws it away on another 4th down a few weeks ago to avoid a sack? he throws it to LJ on the 2 with no timeouts left in the half? These are unacceptable for a veteran QB.

#8 Start phasing out some of the old blood.
Yes, this means dawkins, runyun, w/t thomas, trotter. If reid has lost anyone, it's these guys. Combined with the completely rookie like play of trotter and w/t thomas, this season, their barks are much bigger than their bites. If Reid has lost parts of this team, it is led by the veterans who set the examples to the younger guys.

General_Failure · October 30, 2006, 01:26:29 PM

You know you'll be burned at the stake for saying Dawkins has to go, right?

Sgt PSN · October 30, 2006, 01:27:38 PM

QuoteFix the Eagles, without firing the Head Coach

Stab and Burn the Head Coach.

Wingspan · October 30, 2006, 01:28:42 PM

his replacement needs to be found. he just isnt as good as he once was. his slide in play has completely coincided with the slide of the entire defense, teams just are not afraid to go his way anymore.

Eaglez · October 30, 2006, 01:31:24 PM

If anything, we need to make SS and LB's a priority on the defensive side. SS is a recent development but the LB's have been neglected for such a long time and it shows year in and year out when we get gashed in the run game.

LB's are vital to any team for an effective run defense. Look at all the top teams in the league in run defense, and they all have a very great LB corps.

If JJ doesn't care for LB's, then maybe he has to go. You especially need good LB's if your focus is going to be on a pass rushing D-line, like the Eagles have because there are no real run stuffers along the front four for the Eagles. Darren Howard, maybe, but everyone else has a pass rushing mentality and it shows when they give up gigantic throwing and running lanes on 2nd and 3rd down.

ice grillin you · October 30, 2006, 02:03:11 PM

#5 Reid needs to do 2 of the three of these himself:
a: delegate play calling, alltogether.
b: delegate time management. meaning when the guy in charge says "no time out" you do not take a time out.
c: delegate all in game adjustments to marty m. meaning Marty gives reid a new chart to call plays every quarter he focuses on what is or isnt working, and gives that to reid to call the plays on.

#6 Reid needs to do BOTH of these
a: Improve the running of this team. I don't care how
b: Start benching or deactivating any veteran who isnt living up to expectations, regardless of their age. This includes, but is not limited to...Trotter, McDougle, Any Lewis, Baskett, Jones, either Brown, Walker...

whats the point of having a coach if he cant call plays...manage a game...adjust...and doesnt know how to treat players...to me your post is in direct contridiction with your thread title

as for the running game...if youre not gonna run the ball in 40 mph winds against a team who is missing their all pro DT and MLB then when are you?

the answer is NEVER

reid must go....in fact reid should have went two or three years ago

Diomedes · October 30, 2006, 02:06:36 PM

Quote from: Wingspan on October 30, 2006, 01:23:47 PMFix the Eagles, without firing the Head Coach

PoopyfaceMcGee · October 30, 2006, 02:09:26 PM

Inconceivable, yes. But are you also insinuating that we poison Andy?

Nice double-meaning on that photo.

Feva · October 30, 2006, 02:12:28 PM

No... I think he wants the Man in Black to coach the Eagles.

NGM · October 30, 2006, 02:16:59 PM

Get Johnny Cash?

Butchers Bill · October 30, 2006, 02:22:23 PM

Quote from: NGM on October 30, 2006, 02:16:59 PM
Get Johnny Cash?

His corpse knows you run the ball in 40 MPH winds.

Feva · October 30, 2006, 02:30:36 PM

Quote from: Butchers Bill on October 30, 2006, 02:22:23 PM
Quote from: NGM on October 30, 2006, 02:16:59 PM
Get Johnny Cash?

His corpse knows you run the ball in 40 MPH winds.

And he sure as hell won't lay down as easily as the Eagles did.

TexasEagle · October 30, 2006, 03:45:21 PM

Quote from: Wingspan on October 30, 2006, 01:23:47 PM
The eagles need some fixing. Although I wont say they need a major overhaul...but the problems are coming to show themselves one by one. I am not basing any of these pointers on one game. But things I have noticed for a while now...

Some of these things can be done quickly, some need to wait, but I would say most should be addressed. And i quantify this by saying Andy Reid does not need to be fired(yet). But he needs to make these moves or adjustments himself.

Until the Jacksonville game...none of the losses were really due to lack of talent, there were dumbass mistakes made by dumbass players....

On the coaching front...

#1 New Defensive Coordinator
Giving Johnson his last extension was a mistake, see my other thread for more detail....

#2 Fire Ted Williams, the RB Coach
He's been here for 12 years now, and the running game has barely seen improvement (when they do decide to run) in any of that time.

#3 Fire David Cully, the WR Coach
for obvious reasons.

#4 Get rid of any assistant with quality control in their title

#5 Reid has to be a not so friendly guy with his players. They arent mature enough to play hard for a guy who is their friend.

#5 Reid needs to do 2 of the three of these himself:
a: delegate play calling, alltogether.
b: delegate time management. meaning when the guy in charge says "no time out" you do not take a time out.
c: delegate all in game adjustments to marty m. meaning Marty gives reid a new chart to call plays every quarter he focuses on what is or isnt working, and gives that to reid to call the plays on.

#6 Reid needs to do BOTH of these
a: Improve the running of this team. I don't care how
b: Start benching or deactivating any veteran who isnt living up to expectations, regardless of their age. This includes, but is not limited to...Trotter, McDougle, Any Lewis, Baskett, Jones, either Brown, Walker...

Dude, if you're going to do all this shtein just get a new coach. Especially considering #'s 5 and 6. Reid hasn't done anything remotely like that in 8 freakin' years (no matter how many people screamed for him to do something like that), why on earth would he start now? For all the stuff in there (a lot of which is very good) you might as well get a new coach and start from scratch because it's the same thing.

Phanatic · October 30, 2006, 03:52:21 PM

Of course firing Reid means that he goes somewhere else gets a fresh start and wins a Super Bowl.

That's just the way it works.

phattymatty · October 30, 2006, 03:54:41 PM

I don't know if anyone reads craigslist, but there's a section called missed connections where people write shtein about someone they didn't have the balls to talk to in person, or someone they saw on the street, etc., in hopes that they read it and get in touch with them.

anyway, after last weeks game i wrote a missed connection to andy reid as time management. obviously, i was bored, and it's not that funny:

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/mis/225154648.html

anyway, now i have all of these douchebags in philly named andy emailing me thinking that i'm some girl and i'm looking for them. not sure how anyone could get that out of what i wrote.