Yeah yeah I know, don’t blame the refs and all of that. But from the department of more than one thing can be true, the Eagles choked AND the refs turned that game into a clown show in the fourth quarter:

It would have given the Birds a red zone shot with 3 seconds left. Not that they deserved to win, but the zebras turned in a farcical fourth quarter.

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The Eagles choked away a 17-3 lead in the fourth quarter. They lost 21 to 17 at home to the Broncos.

Too many penalties on the Birds, while the refs were also terrible. Crappy one overall.

This is the best I could do after working 15 days in a row and emptying the gas tank on that terrible Phillies game:

1) Courtland Sutton with a straight up drop to end the first Broncos series. We thank him for that.

2) We’re gonna have to live with the inevitability of one brutal Jalen Carter sequence each week. We had the...

The Philadelphia Eagles have one of the best wide receivers in the game, but it seems like they just haven’t gotten the memo yet.

Kevin Patullo’s predictable and run-heavy offense has them sitting on a 4-0 record, but that doesn’t mean everybody’s happy in the City of Brotherly Love.

A.J. Brown‘s head-scratching usage – or lack thereof – has been a talking point again this season, and it’s only normal to wonder whether he’s going to force his way off of the team.

For now, however, that’s not going to be the case.

According to a report by NFL insider...

A battle of conflicting identities is set for Week 5 as the undefeated Eagles host the Broncos in a compelling non-conference matchup. The Birds are keeping the main thing the main thing with Jalen Hurts, and have established themselves as the NFL’s most ruthlessly efficient team, scoring 27.0 points per game and converting a perfect 100.0% of their red-zone opportunities into touchdowns. They’re back inside Lincoln Financial Field, where they’ve won their last 13 consecutive games, and looking to maintain their perfect record.

Standing in their way is a Broncos team with a completely different formula for success. Piloted by...

Shout out to Eagles fan Andrew, who put together a site called tushpush.fyi, which contains every bit of data you will ever need about the Birds’ signature short-yardage play:

Similar to Crossing Broad, it is a simple website with a lot of green. It tracks each tush push effort and parses the data so that we have neatly-packaged statistics to use in our water cooler discussions and low-level blogging efforts. This is data we hope to weaponize against the likes of Joe Schad, Sean McDermott, and other nefarious push haters.

Notable in context is that the tush push is defined...

Welcome to another edition of the weekend bets column! I didn’t tally up last week’s results, but I know they were bad. The Union hammered D.C. but the Penn State/Oregon game going to overtime killed the under by a half point, so we take an L and move on to this week:

Eagles vs. Broncos

Jalen Hurts anytime touchdown scorer failed to hit for the first time in seven games. That means the running total is 16 hits over the last 23 games that Hurts has started and finished, which is a 69.5% rate. That’s good enough to...

A.J. Brown spoke on Wednesday, about three days after he posted a CRYPTIC bible verse following a two-catch day against the Bucs:

You know why this doesn’t mean anything? Because we’ve been doing it with A.J. Brown for two full years now. We had the early 2024 thing when he called up WIP to clear the air, then the Brandon Graham comments after the Panthers game, and what was the lasting negative impact of each incident? Nothing. The Eagles went on the greatest run in franchise history and won their second Super Bowl. This was many months after assorted talking...

Is there any actual crossover between diehard Philadelphia sports fandom and the performing arts?

That’s the question we asked ourselves in 2015 when respected veteran scribe Ray Didinger introduced his Eagles screenplay, titled Tommy and Me. It’s the story of a young Birds fan and his hero, Tommy McDonald, the Hall of Famer who helped deliver the 1960 NFL Championship while going to six Pro Bowls along the way.

Ten years later, the question is answered with a resounding “yes.” Yes there is real crossover between the 700 Level and the stage because Tommy and Me has been performed in...

Would it be a hot take to say that the Eagles’ run game is a bigger concern than the passing game? Speaking relatively, of course, since the Birds are 4-0 and have won 20 of their last 21 games going back to Week 1 of last season. There’s little to be truly concerned about, but if you’ve watched even ten minutes of these first four games, you know that the record-breaking ground attack of last season has looked mostly average.

The problem, more specifically, is that the holes just haven’t been there, supported by the following Saquon Barkley statistics:

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This was the first question and answer from Kevin Patullo’s Tuesday press conference:

Q. What went wrong in the second half against Tampa from your perspective? (Cayden Steele)

Kevin Patullo: I mean when you look at the game as a whole, we started off the game like we wanted to: we had good pace, good rhythm, we got it going. I think sometimes when you evaluate games after the fact, there’s obviously things we want to work on to get better, and we know we can be critical of as a staff that we know we can...

Sean Payton mentioned in an interview the moment he knew the Tush Push vote was a bunch of bullshit:

“…when all of a sudden health and safety was pulled into that, which might be the safest play in football, my bullshit nose kind of went up.”

I wish more coaches in the NFL were like Payton. He’s always been the gold standard for player safety. Instead, you have coaches like Sean McDermott fighting against it and he ran the play (unsuccessfully) in the playoffs last year. Why can’t other people see that Bart Starr ran it in the Ice Bowl...

George Pickens went full Donovan McNabb after the Sunday Night Football tie. You never go full McNabb:

I think it’s finally time to come to the conclusion that ties shouldn’t happen in the NFL. I gotta imagine before it was a player safety issue, but since the NFL has completely abandoned caring about that we might as well stop ties altogether. Just adopt the college football rules if you’re worried about player safety. Have a couple possessions start from a set yard line and then at a certain point move it to 2-point conversions. There, problem solved. Now we don’t...