Juan Castillo, new DC of your Philadelphia Eagles

[Sgt PSN]

Wow, I actually agree with the little guy. 

About the only thing Juan is guilty of is being over ambitious.  Can't fault him for wanting to be a DC and def can't fault him for not turning down the opportunity.  I think most of us have been over ambitious at work at one time or another and tried to take on responsibilities we weren't ready for.  I know I have. 

So yeah, he still needs to go but I'm not hating on the guy at all.  I actually feel sorry for him. 

[ice grillin you]

Seriously, anyone who hates Castillo is an idiot. I am reading all over the place "farg Castillo, this is all his fault". Um, no. In a perfect world, he turns down the job because he's not qualified, but in the real world, of course he takes it...knowing full well that he's not qualified. This is Andy's fault. 100%.

thats a crock...its ultimately andy decision to hire him and he should shoulder most of the blame but juanny continually went to andy and begged for the job...so i dont have one single ounce of sympathy for that incompetant dope

[Rome]

I don't blame Castillo for farging up.  He's completely blameless in this because he had no business being given the job.  He accepted it just like anyone would have.  shtein, if Reid called me and said, yo, dude... wanna run my offense?... I'd say goddamn right, big fella.  It would be a shteinstorm of all time, but I wouldn't be upset about taking the job or the money that came with it and neither should Castillo.

This is eventually going to be Reid's Waterloo moment, so in reality, I'm fine with what's happened. 

[ice grillin you]

he didnt accept it...he went after it one million percent...again ultimately its on andy for giving in to a friend but juanny pressured him just as he drove to green bay and pressured him to keep him on staff after ray rhodes as fired

if juanny had just slowed his roll knew his place and went about trying to climb the offensive coaching ladder or something (anything) other than go for a DC job this would have never happened

[MDS]

i blame jim johnson for getting cancer

[QB Eagles]

When a player sucks dick, is it the team's fault for obtaining a zesty player, or for putting him in a zesty position? Yes.

But ultimately, it is also the player's fault for sucking dick in the first place. Castillo sucks at what he does. He definitely bears responsibility for that, and ought to be criticized and blamed along with everyone else.

[Sgt PSN]

Castillo sucks at what he does. He definitely bears responsibility for that, and ought to be criticized and blamed along with everyone else.

There's no arguing this.  But I think this is just a microcosm of what the Eagles have become under Reid.  The Eagles have reached for players in the draft who he thought "fit their system" and signed or traded for guys who didn't fit.  Now he's trying that crap with coaches too and it's just sickening. 

It's gotten to the point where I'm not mad at Castillo because if Reid didn't hire him then he would have just hired Mike Tice or Duce Staley or his pill popping kids or anyone else who was not even remotely qualified to coach the defense. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

They have the DBs to run a man defense. Even if they did not excel in that scheme there are times when they HAVE to run man to disrupt what the other team is doing - yesterday was one of those days. He failed to adjust. he failed to put his players in position to succeed by running the same farging soft zone against a QB and WRs who eat that shtein up.

He failed to allow his top $60M lockdown CB to shadow the best farging WR in the game against the Cardinals. Take away that top weapon for a BUM like Skelton and force him to go away from the safety blanket. But he let farging safeties and lesser talented guys try to match up and they lost.

You see Revis and guys like that who are allowed to handle their business. Not in Philadelphia!

[Diomedes]

yeah, it's Andy's fault for putting him in this position, but he asked for it, so he needs to farging perform.

btw, not only did Andy farg this season by trying this experiment, but he probably farged Castillo's career.  how does he get a job after this?

by the reasoning of your first sentence, I expected you to point out that Castillo has f'ed his own career, rather than that Andy had victimized him

[SunMo]

yeah, i can see that.  i somewhat contradicted myself.

[TexasEagle]

Don't blame Juan.... Are you farging serious?   He's borderline retarded.   How you watch film for twenty hours a day and coming up with a soft zone against Brady is inexcusable.   I guess in those twenty hour work days he didn't come across the steelers pats game type.   Is pg related to juany?

Weren't you advocating for being better fans and saying how the Eagles were going to the playoffs or some such nonsense like a month ago?

I'd look it up but I don't really care enough at the moment. Maybe later.

[ice grillin you]

yeah his schtick is to be super homer

[Eagaholic]

I've assumed Castillo will be replaced at the end of the season, but I realized I wasn't trying to look at that from the FO point of view. What if the D finishes with a couple of good games - anyone care to predict what they will do? Could they actually keep him another year?

[Munson]

At the risk of sounding like a complete homer...Juan seems to have at least figured "it" out, whatever "it" is, at least a little bit. he's still calling zone at idiotic times...but he's bringing extra pressure at the right time and such.

[Rome]

Miami & NYJ aren't exactly high-powered offenses, Munson.    They're playing better than they did but when good to great offenses are the opposition they get shredded.