Nick Foles won a Super Bowl

pete026

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Foles won the SB but was handed an 11-3 team in the process from Wentz.
At 1-3 now 2-3 and a defense nowhere near the Eagles SB team Dalton task is well much higher.
Let's see what happens in the next few weeks you never know how life pans out sometimes.
Before yesterday, your requirements for the Cowboys QB position was simply being a bus driver. This team is loaded! Any QB could win with it.

What changed today?
 

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this team has to learn to play like a team right now its three different units if the dont learn to play like a team real quick they may not win but one or two more games
 

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Yeah, Philthy and Washington are bottom feeders who are better than the Gnats but I also think we’ll beat them and the train starts rolling. We have the easiest strength of schedule for the rest of the season out of 31 other teams.

I assume we’ll mop up most teams, homers will get excited, the media will hype us up and then we’ll be competitive but lose to the very few good teams left on our schedule. Go to the playoffs, maybe win our first game, McCarthy gets praise for doing more than Garrett and we suffer through this same crap next year.
Sounds about right.

I don't think the team needs to be fully blown up but some changes are badly needed in some places.

(Of course the culture will never change so it probably moot).

This weak division is what kept the Garrett mess going and Jerry out of being forced to bring in a real coach and/or GM.

Its probably going to keep rolling for a while longer.
 

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Man...if this defense was decent, we could be undefeated right now. The O is good enough to compete with anyone but the D stinks.
 

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I am sick as heck that Dak went down but I recall just a few years ago the Eagirls winning a SB with a backup QB. If our defense can grab a few takeaways we will win some games and the NFCE.
Have some faith!

Did you see the Eagles defense? They were very good. Foles leaned on him in that Falcons playoff win. His offense was terrible that game. He made only a few plays and that was enough. In the NFC title game, that defense completely shut down the Vikings. Brady and them scored a lot more on them but they made just enough plays.

I guarantee you Foles would have not won a Super Bowl had that Eagles team had our bottom feeder defense. He would have lost by 30 points in that Falcons playoff game.

He also played under a coaching staff who completely designed the offense to suit him. We don't do that here. Pederson sat down with him and studied every snap from Foles rookie year in 2013 when he played great. And they went with that offense. Literally changed it on the fly and parlayed that into a ring.
 

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The Eagles were also stacked at pretty much every other position that year.
 

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Man...if this defense was decent, we could be undefeated right now. The O is good enough to compete with anyone but the D stinks.

And yet the offense gets all the blame. Did anyone watch the game last night? Russell Wilson was god awful for a whole half. But guess what? Seattle's defense only gave up 13 the first half and kept Seattle within striking distance. Ended up with 26. So 13 each half. If our defense could do that, we would be 4-1 now with ease. Thing is, every single bad drive and mistake is magnified because our defense is so bad any mistake turns into points, usually a TD.

Offense has its faults for sure but it's criminal to have a losing record with how they are scoring. When Mahomes won 2 games scoring 23 and 26pts and looking pretty meh. Dak can never look meh to win. He needs to throw for over 500 and 4 TDs to even sniff a chance to win.
 

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I think the biggest issue with Dalton is the OL. I really liked the signing when Tyron and La’el were our tackles, but Knight and Steele scare me.
 

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And yet the offense gets all the blame. Did anyone watch the game last night? Russell Wilson was god awful for a whole half. But guess what? Seattle's defense only gave up 13 the first half and kept Seattle within striking distance. Ended up with 26. So 13 each half. If our defense could do that, we would be 4-1 now with ease. Thing is, every single bad drive and mistake is magnified because our defense is so bad any mistake turns into points, usually a TD.

Offense has its faults for sure but it's criminal to have a losing record with how they are scoring. When Mahomes won 2 games scoring 23 and 26pts and looking pretty meh. Dak can never look meh to win. He needs to throw for over 500 and 4 TDs to even sniff a chance to win.

:hammer:
 

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Nick Foles didn't have to carry the Cowboys defense. He also didn't have a career playoff passer rating of 57.8 with 1 TD and 6 INTs in four games, all losses.

past performance is not indicative future results
 

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I think Dalton can do the job but Dalton does not play defense and right now in my view that is what this season will hinge on, can this defense start producing?

As we get healthier and accustomed to the scheme we will get better. Still lacking stoutness up front though among other things.
 

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Before yesterday, your requirements for the Cowboys QB position was simply being a bus driver. This team is loaded! Any QB could win with it.

What changed today?
He realizes Dalton cannot cash the check he has been writing on how QBs should perform. No QB in the history of the league could so now he is trying to temper expectations for Dalton.
 
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