Philly Area Banter

[Ralph Wiggum]

3 hours ago, JTA66 said:

I turned off the Eagles game and am watching A Boy Named Charlie Brown on MeTV. I’m enjoying my evening much better now.

I very rarely bet against the Birds, but if the odds are screaming against them, I will. Let's just say, I too am enjoying my evening much better now. 

[PhiEaglesfan712]

I hate to say it, but I feel the Eagles are on the verge of a 2023-type collapse. This team is way too soft to even hold on to a 21-0 lead. The offense is broken, and the defense can only hold up for so long. (In fact, I can see the defense starting to crack.)

The Eagles are going to lose on Friday, and will probably end with a 9-8 or 10-7 record. That may still be good enough to win the NFC East, but we will likely lose to a team like Seattle in the Wild Card round.

[JTA66]

19 hours ago, PhiEaglesfan712 said:

I hate to say it, but I feel the Eagles are on the verge of a 2023-type collapse. This team is way too soft to even hold on to a 21-0 lead. The offense is broken, and the defense can only hold up for so long. (In fact, I can see the defense starting to crack.)

The Eagles are going to lose on Friday, and will probably end with a 9-8 or 10-7 record. That may still be good enough to win the NFC East, but we will likely lose to a team like Seattle in the Wild Card round.

Can’t argue with you. This is the time of year you want to hit your stride and start to peak. That ain’t the Eagles. Do they do anything well? You could say defense but now the injuries are piling up.

The thing about the NFL this year is I don’t see any elite team, everyone looks beatable. 

[The Iceman]

On 11/24/2025 at 1:58 PM, PhiEaglesfan712 said:

I hate to say it, but I feel the Eagles are on the verge of a 2023-type collapse. This team is way too soft to even hold on to a 21-0 lead. The offense is broken, and the defense can only hold up for so long. (In fact, I can see the defense starting to crack.)

The Eagles are going to lose on Friday, and will probably end with a 9-8 or 10-7 record. That may still be good enough to win the NFC East, but we will likely lose to a team like Seattle in the Wild Card round.

I’m guessing you thought Sirianni needed to go after 2-2 last year too? It was seriously a comedy of errors and typically nfl refball on Sunday. Holy overreaction. The Bears suck, they get killed by every good team they face and it’ll be the same here. They’ll be lucky to score 14 unless the refs literally give it to them with bullshit penalties like they did for Dallas on two of their drives Sunday. Eagles still should have won that game if the league wasn’t beholden to the books even with that comedy of errors that’s the funniest thing. League gets worse and worse every year with “coincidental awful officiating that just so happens to severely benefit the team being blown out”. 

[PhiEaglesfan712]

40 minutes ago, The Iceman said:

I’m guessing you thought Sirianni needed to go after 2-2 last year too? It was seriously a comedy of errors and typically nfl refball on Sunday. Holy overreaction. The Bears suck, they get killed by every good team they face and it’ll be the same here. They’ll be lucky to score 14 unless the refs literally give it to them with bullshit penalties like they did for Dallas on two of their drives Sunday. Eagles still should have won that game if the league wasn’t beholden to the books even with that comedy of errors that’s the funniest thing. League gets worse and worse every year with “coincidental awful officiating that just so happens to severely benefit the team being blown out”. 

No, I wasn't one who thought Sirianni needed to go after 2-2 last year. Heck, I didn't even lose faith after the Giants game earlier this year. I'd much rather have the losses to Bucs last year and the Giants game earlier this year. At least I can understand that we didn't have it that day. Crap like that happens sometimes.

But after this loss to the Cowboys, I've completely lost faith in this team. (The last time I lost total faith in the Eagles was the loss to the Seahawks on that Monday Night in 2023, and I couldn't have been more correct.) You can't lose a game up 21-0, especially when you have a running back as great as Saquon Barkley. The Eagles never blew a 21-0 lead before, not even during the great collapse of 2023.

I thought holding onto a 21-0 lead was not asking too much, but if they can't do that, then I need to lower my expectations for this team. The Eagles might beat the Raiders and split with the Commanders to get to 10 wins (and that may still be enough to win the NFC East), but this team isn't going anywhere in the playoffs.

In short, this Eagles team is soft and undisciplined. Don't expect that to magically change on Friday. The Bears are a tougher team, and will beat us.