Juan Castillo, new DC of your Philadelphia Eagles

[Don Ho]

"We" knew that.

[MDS]

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eagles/20121016_If_you_are_keeping_score__Andy_Reid_is_0-for-Castillo.html

bob ford on point as usual

vaya con dios mi amigo juanny

[ice grillin you]

Help me understand why he would be killed so bad for this?

in philly because andy reid is despised beyond belief plus juan comes off as a simpletonand cried in the vai interview today so people feel sorry for him

at espn because they are totally clueless and have no idea about the eagles

also espn is trying to make this into a much bigger deal than it is...i think the headline of the piece was "eagles in disarray"

A buddy of mine texted me non-stop this afternoon about the Eagles in disarray because "holy shtein man, they fired their DC and that shows they don't know what they're doing"

hiring an offensive line coach to be DC is not knowing what they are doing...the juanny and howie hirings show infintely more disarray than firing a horrible DC

[Don Ho]

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eagles/20121016_If_you_are_keeping_score__Andy_Reid_is_0-for-Castillo.html

bob ford on point as usual

vaya con dios mi amigo juanny

On point is right!

[quoteSo, yeah, Castillo was probably over his head, but firing him is just ornamental pruning on a tree that is about to fall over. The roster isn't good enough, the front office is still convinced - on very little evidence - of its own genius, the offensive line is a danger to itself and others (see, above: quality of reserves), and the quarterback position, where a multi-tooled weapon is foolishly miscast as a pocket passer, might be the biggest problem of all.
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[phillycrew]

So with Banner in Cleveland, is there any chance Andy goes there too?  You would think not since Andy would want control, but you never know.  The real problem is Vick.  He better be gone after the end of this year.  I'm not saying Foles is necessarily the answer but we know what we have in Vick.  Maybe get a QB that is actually suited for the west coast offense and that forces Morningweg to be more balanced.

[ice grillin you]

if andy coaches next year i cant imagine it being anywhere but san diego

[BobbyT]

Right now however I would rather watch a rookie make rookie mistakes.

[General_Failure]

Well too bad, Andy and Norv are swapping jobs.

[Hawk]

I heard snippets of his interview following his dismissal.  He kept talking about failing his family, as well as the team.

Kind of depressing. 

[Eagaholic]

He could have succeeded if he just worked harder. Twenty six hours a day just isn't going to cut it.

[Don Ho]

What was Juan making? 18 years in the NFL, he must have had a descent salary.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Are you saying his salary was falling into a hole?

[Munson]

I'm happy for him

[BigEd76]

Graham connected the dots and indicated that Castillo's inability to make late-game adjustments was directly responsible for the Eagles' repeated fourth-quarter collapses.

Graham also said the Eagles tended to practice a lot of different things under Castillo, then stick to the same thing on gameday – even when it wasn't working.

Graham said Bowles has spoken to the team about exactly that.

"That's what he talked about, not being predictable in the fourth quarter, because by the fourth quarter everybody knows what we're going to do, and that's how we get beat," Graham said.

"I think coach Bowles, it's going to be fun to see what he's going to be doing, because I think everything we run in practice we're going to actually really run in the game."

From 2000 through 2010, under defensive coordinators Jim Johnson and Sean McDermott, the Eagles were 88-11 when leading going into the fourth quarter. They were 10-6 under Castillo.

The stats certainly bear out what Graham is saying. Under Castillo, the Eagles allowed a total of 450 points in 22 games, and 36 percent of them (160) came in the fourth quarter, as opposed to 89 in the first quarter, 127 in the second and 74 in the third.

"I think we started running the same stuff over and over and not switching it up as much," Graham said. "A lot of time we ran the same coverage, stuff like that. I listen to the calls every play – 'Coach, what do we have this play? What do we have this play,' and it was always pretty much the same stuff."

Predictable and doesn't adjust in-game.  Looks like he learned from the best...

Graham also thinks he'll get to play more with Bowles in charge.  Hey, maybe he'll reach 3 sacks this year

[ice grillin you]

the irony is that in the detroit loss which got him fired he was blamed for making fourth quarter changes

either way the moral of this story is that brandon graham should shut his farging mouth