Bowles: No Change Amongst The Defensive Starters
BREAKING NEWS, Eagles, General News, News Friday, November 30th, 2012
Eagles defensive coordinator Todd Bowles said the Birds will not be making any changes with their defensive personnel for Sunday night’s game against the Dallas Cowboys. He says his best football players are on the field. They’re surely not playing like it.
Regardless of whether they are his best players, he should sit somebody down because they aren’t playing well enough right now. You can’t continue to tolerate blown assignments. If you blow assignments, you don’t even give yourself a chance to succeed.
The coaches want the team play better, but they’re not willing to shake things up. Nothing gets a players attention more than being benched. Getting rid of Jason Babin in order to play younger players isn’t going to get the attention of this group. Somebody out of the remaining group should have been benched. It’s that simple.
They’re telling the players that they won’t tolerate poor play and blown assignments, but their actions tell everybody that they are willing to tolerate poor play because they’re tolerated it all season long. Many of the Eagles defensive players have been tackling poorly all season long, yet none of them have been benched.
Enough said.
Another sign of a lack respect by this ball club for their coaches was seen yesterday with backup linebacker Casey Matthews. Right now, Andy Reid is still the Eagles head coach, yet Matthews is talking about how great his college coach Chip Kelly would be as the head coach of the Eagles here in Philadelphia.
“I think the fans here would love him,” Matthews said on Thursday during the media session. “They would love his attitude, his go-get-it mentality.”
Are you kidding?
“The way he carries himself, the way his mind-set is, I think they’ll really like him here,” the second-year linebacker Matthews said. “He would crack jokes. When he would talk to reporters at halftime he would give the most sarcastic answers.”
Reid has been too forgiving and easy on these guys. There’s no way in the world Matthews should be talking about somebody else being the head coach.
Short URL: http://gcobb.com/?p=34910
Posted by GarryCobb
on Nov 30 2012. Filed under BREAKING NEWS, Eagles, General News, News.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
Both comments and pings are currently closed.
WHy no talk about Collin Klein? I would take him if he is there with our mid round round picks…I’m just saying I never hear people talk about this kids NFL future…He has the size and athletic ability. This guy also seems to be smart and as mentally tough as they come…I would totally use a pick on him later on in the draft around the 4th round. Just give me Teo and Elam with the first 2 picks
Collin doesn’t pass the 26-27-60 rule.
He doesn’t have 27 college starts, and barely makes 60% average. Never thrown for more than 15 tds??
He runs as much as he throws.
Why do you guys love the running QBs so much?
This stupid Kapernic experiment is going to end very badly for SF.
The last thing I want is another QB who relies on his legs more than his arm and brain going forward. I was just saying I would take a chance on the kid in the 4th or 5th round since you pretty much don’t have anything to lose at that point. I haven’t seen Kansas St play that much. But the few chances I did I thought I saw the kid throw a bunch of TDs.
I just don’t know what to expect out of any of these QBs coming out this year…When you look back 10 years from now the best one could be a guy picked from the 3rd round.
Cleveland leads SD. Who would have thought that it would be possible the Browns would have a better record than the Eagles at this time of the year. What a year.
I have to agree with you Vinnie, I think the Kaepernic experiment might be overblown. What I find interesting is Saint Louis playing SF tough twice this year. Maybe another two years with Fisher at the helm and STL might turn into something.
I am starting to get impressed with Andrew Luck. That final drive was reminiscent of another QB they had in INDY. Despite his INT’s today he did what a good QB needs to do.Lead his team in the final moments
He is great! He is a rookie and the anti Foles people have to watch lick and his 3 interceptions and realize that rooks screw up
Agreed. Luck has what? three 3 int games this year.
4 games with more picks than tds.
6 games with equal or more ints.
7 games in the 50% comp or lower.
Not saying Foles is Luck….obviously not….but rookies must be given a full season to evaluate.
Fans are going to be tough out and contend for the Playoffs next year in what is shaping up to be a very competitive NFC West Division
All Teams play physical Defense and tackle we and fly to the ball
The Rams need a WR, RT. TE and a Safety and athey will be in the thick of the race come 2013. They have a great front 7, a future Pro-Bowler in CB Janoris Jenkins and a smart, headsy QB in Bradford
I would be shocked to see this team put up 20 points tonight…With so many pieces missing on offense against a good defense on the road..I highly doubt it will be possible.
I wonder how this D reacts to Babin’s release. They might be the biggest disappointment of the year due to be pretty healthy
I wonder if the Birds would have picked Janoris Jenkins if he lasted a few spots later when they picked in the second round…
Will this secondary ever be able to cover anyone down the field.
Do you think the D can get a stop or a turnover now?
Well they put up more than 20…if they lose this game it wont be because of Foles and the rest of the offense…D has to step it up and knock somebody out…I could never chose better draft position over a win against the cowboys…
Phillyfan I doubt it…When is the last time we had a big play out of our safeties…Geez they are fucking horrible. They are suppose to be a major intimidator on the field. They are no where near anything like that
Pheags, Me too. If they win one more game this year let it be against the stinking Cowboys. I hate that bleeping team.
Through 3 quarters Rob Ryan’s defense has ZERO sacks hmmmm……
This defense couldn’t cover anyone if they had 22 guys playing on that side of the ball. Man, they stink.
Terrible angle by Nate Allen on Austin TD. Seriously we have the worst safety tandem in the league
Hold on to your hats folks. The D is about to give this game up. Man, I hate this defense. Collinsworth talking about how you have to move against them on first and second down. I think he is wrong. IT DOESN”T MATTER WHAT DOWN! Man this D is sucks!
Drc mister softy
This eagles defense the worst I can ver remember, let’s hope for the rook to pull it out of his arz
Jake my man, they are ALL soft..Truly a sad group of professionals, oops! Did I say that out loud?
Reid is talking about great effort. Was he in the bathroom when the defense was on the field? Hold on I have to stop laughing.