Rich Eisen on the Eagles’ 2024 Expectations after Last Season’s Collapse | The Rich Eisen Show

Rich Eisen reacts to Jalen Hurts’ first comments at the start of the Philadelphia Eagles’ training camp.
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[@KingVirmire]

Playcalling was horrendous on both sides of the ball. Injuries didn't help either.

[@bourbontrail565]

The Refs definitely did their part to Help.

[@mintcarrier]

@@bourbontrail565😂

[@jordannevarez6669]

@@bourbontrail565ya how so? 💀

[@slicks1175]

Best part of about last season is it doesn’t matter anymore. New coaches, new players, new season.

[@matthewcorcoran16]

they played like 18diff db combos

[@skycole707]

Ya it was bad

[@ByGriPhone]

Sirianni just refused to make any adjustments after the Niners game

[@Phillygoat1983]

Bingo

[@katyas-mom]

During too.

[@alexandermaldonado7467]

As a eagles fan I seen this coming since the Vikings game which was game 2. And our fans had to chant RUN THE BALL B4 the half came

[@mbrum3230]

Serianni a buffoon since week 1

[@Richard-gw2lr]

Everybody knows with the Eagles all you have to do is make Jalen throw. He's mediocre at QB. Make them throw. Stuff the runs. Game over. That's exactly what everybody did after the 49ers gave everyone else the blueprint.

[@k_hack9441]

Is national media this dense? We were awful from the jump and snuck out wins on talent before teams caught on. The OC and DC were disasters. They’re gone and this top 5 roster is back.

[@Uhopbands1]

Thank you !!

[@B.hornmusic]

This is an accurate take. Love Rich Eisen but…. AJ Brown was hurt at the end of last year, missing the playoff loss to the buccs he didn’t just DO nothing. We shoulda lost to the pats week one if it weren’t for a lucky pick six early from slay.

[@brettdiantonio5477]

As a Philly fan I a lot of rumors of the offensive coaches were ignoring Jalen hurts when he said attack the middle, some defensive guys didn’t get along with sean desi then that fell apart when the demoted him, then their are rumors that defensive players were ignoring assignments to stat chase, which I believe reddick was one so they traded him

[@Ceesky00]

It’s pretty simple, they were winning off of straight talent and the scheme wasn’t winning them a game and that caught up to the team in the end

[@jimmytwotimez]

Yep, Jalen was being politically savvy with his response, but it's clear that the schemes from the coaches just didn't make sense and the players started to tune out the coaching.

[@dylanlagraves1266]

Even with the offense feeling a bit stagnant or out of sync it was still the 7th best scoring offense. It was the defense that sunk the team

[@Richard-gw2lr]

Not after the 49er game. They gave everyone the blueprint to win. Stuff the run. Make mediocre Jalen throw. He sucks.

[@BlueLeprechaun15]

They'll get right this year. Last year was alot of negatives. But they can get it right

[@HubbaBubba768]

No adjustments especially on offense, teams would blitz and we'd chuck it deep no screens no flats no quick outs. The defense was ok to a point but not good enough to sustain with the defensive backfield revolving door. I have high hopes now with Fangio and Moore being established, proven coordinators.

[@eyaffe1]

“You lost your center.” So did you, my man. Thanks for Biadasz, from a Washington fan.

[@joelapp]

On the Defense, they blew up the chemistry by that clumsy move to demote the DC and then bring in Patricia. On the Offense, the over simplistic offense came back to bite them. The new OC put in a basic offense and the league could easily stop it in those last several games.

[@janaybandy911]

I never miss a eagles game whenever they can play and even though they were 10-1 I kept saying it doesn’t look right . Every win was hard fought and damn near a loss whereas the year before we were winning in dominating fashion. I think it’s a credit to the talent that we have that they were able to get 11 wins with the terrible play calling we had .

[@rockyiv2279]

The media is so obsessed & stuck on what happen last season 🤦🏾‍♂️🤣 move on

[@neetrab]

Exactly

[@baylithe]

Media needs a reason when things fall apart. Sometimes it just happens and its a domino effect. They are moving on and looking forward, but learning from the mistakes of the past.

[@k_hack9441]

If they watched the games they’d know. The terrible OC made us into a high school offense. We snuck out wins purely on talent before teams caught on and injuries on defense piled up.

[@justonjenkins1589]

​@@k_hack9441Thank you. I was calling out the plays before they were happening.That's how predictable it got

[@tuckchesta2537]

I think the Hurts and Sirianni disconnect relates specifically to how they wanted Hurts to handle obvious blitz situations. Hurts got smacked from behind time and time again because they wanted him to turn away from the blitzing defender instead of doing what almost every other team in the league does and have an answer underneath. The hiring of Kellen Moore is - I think - Sirianni's confession that he / Brian Johnson had the wrong idea. I think the Eagles make the NFCCG this year if they stay healthy. I think they'll need another year with the same coordinators and experience for their young defense before they make it back to the big game.

[@karimahmed7850]

I like your Observation. but I think eagles will win super bowl 59.

[@TheChosen1inc]

How is the buzzing still not fixed 😤

[@andrewkruzienski770]

Swift can't pass block. He was a major tip off to opposing defenses about what the play call was.

[@Jimmy_Walsh]

They should have fired the OC last year; Not the DC. The play calling was predictable and you can’t have the defense thinking mid-year.

[@neetrab]

The DC had to go. The players stopped talking to him.

[@Icien1]

Everyone wants to know why teams win or lose. The reality is we'll never truly know. Theres way too many variables that go into a win or loss.

[@ChiefGore429]

Collapses are very different from a loss. There should be an obvious reason.

[@Icien1]

@BoondockGore They were barely winning games. It gave the impression they were better than they were. Everyone saw it comming.

[@somestuffandwhatnot]

Not that they don’t have a point overall here, but bringing up Dom to start this is wild haha

[@neetrab]

Lol

[@georgeriginos7497]

“It literawy was after the big dom incident”

[@yunghendrix8985]

😂😂😂😂😂😂like stfu

[@alwayzchillin0714]

To quote the great Shane Falco, "Quicksand, you think you're playing fine then one thing goes wrong, then another, and another, and before too long you can't think, you can't breath, like quicksand." That's what I think happened to Philly last year, Super Bowl hangover quicksand. But I think that's all in the rear-view now, Fly Eagles Fly!🦅

[@TheChosen1inc]

Nick was stubborn and doesnt trust hurts enough. The organization sided with Hurts but dont wanna fire nick because of optics. Kellen and hurts are gonna cook this year

[@justonjenkins1589]

Our secondary defense is a big reason. Why we collapsed for the most part? The offense was doing their job, but then the defense would cut the lead to a couple of points in the offense was constantly under pressure to keep scoring

[@Jaeger2498]

It was Big Dom, the horrendous play calling on both sides & injuries played a major part after that bills game in OT. It’s not hard to understand at this point lmao. Talent got them 10 wins. High school play calling for an offense doesn’t win championships

[@bourbontrail565]

Kingston Ave was alerted about the clean up coming and the Team was distracted….

[@bradbengel917]

Will be interesting to see how that offensive line works without Kelce at Center. Tush push may basically be off limits considering he was the nucleus of that play.

[@TNKAMARA]

Every real eagles fan knows exactly what happened last year our defense was horrendous and our offensive coordinator relied completely on deep balls and screens. ALL SEASON LONG… I will never forgive Brian Johnson for what he did to my team and I think I can speak for a lot of Philly fans if we don’t start strong Sirianni Gotta Go as far as I’m concerned I don’t really know why he still around

[@bradolson3510]

Cam Jurgens was hand picked by Kelce. We will be fine

[@SPACEKNOCKERZ76]

It’s Philly media. Just happened to come up before camp cuz nothing else really goin on

[@mikegretta6804]

lack of good linebacker play Inability to stop the run from relying on rookies carter and davis Sirianni immaturity and lack of adjustments such as picking up simple blitz schemes James Bradberry targeted to a high extent and forced to be physical by tackling in space Brian Johnson not knowing when to call plays at the right time Changing defensive coordinators mid season was the dagger

[@Scyon13]

We already know, the playcalling was horrible and the defense fell off big because of guys leaving or falling off due to age, idk why people saw this as a sudden collapse, they didn't look great even in wins, they just out talented teams, when they met the strong teams, they finally got exposed. I'm an Eagles fan, last years play calling on both sides was painful to watch idk why we are allergic to blitzing, I'm so tired of these passive heavy zone based passing defenses, idk why aggression is looked at as a bad thing, as for offense who the f calls a QB run on 3rd and long? Nick Sirianni that's who.

[@billburtis8616]

The problem was coaching. The coaches could not scheme against opposing defenses and offenses. The coaches were unable to make in game adjustments. The play calling and schemes were terribly inadequate for the NFL. Eagles made huge upgrades in coaching so expectations should be a ten to twelve win season. Low numbers considering the offensive talent, because of the implementation of many new plays and schemes, and the defense has been mediocre for a very long time.

[@brandonwoodward3733]

They will be alright this season and back on track competing for the bowl. That collapse will not happen again.

[@ogaaron2216]

Will they go over 10.5 on wins ?

[@MrStateoftheCity]

Here come the Birds!

[@MrNylenRules]

It’s not vibes. It’s certainly not that meatball on the sidelines who got a bunch of play during that prime time game. Every single film oriented channel on KZbin was beating the drum the entire second half of the year about how ridiculously simple their offensive scheme was, even as they were winning a bunch of close games to get to 10-1. The results were much shakier than the record you’d tell you, then the record reverted to the mean.

[@stephenstaedtler6902]

It was the offensive and defensive coordinators. Even when Eagles were winning, they weren't played that well and getting lucky at the end.

[@redbeardsworkshop]

Honeslty, theyre sick of talking about last year, fans are sick of talking about last year, the media needs to move on. Its a new season, and it honeslty shows a lack of ability on the part of media outlets that they cant find anything to talk about of interest so they keep rehashing last years breakdown. The players and coaches owned up to and theyre moving on, lets all do the same

[@DonBrownII]

newsflash t you non-local ppl; the Eagles imploded last yr because the coordinators were horrible and the players knew it and got increasingly frustrated with them until it got to the point where the whole team imploded from the inside out.

[@scruffd0g193]

Huge rebound is a must for the eagles. 1-6 in their last 7 games.

[@PSUIVERSON]

The offense had some bad moments with the blitz but the defense personnel and defensive coaching was an abomination. Not that hard.

[@cwisthbulpabont7749]

Locker room was split after the DC was fired

[@JasonwithaJay]

They don't have an answer. The offense was awful. They promoted Matt f'n Patricia. The pressure of that 5-6 week gauntlet definitely got to them, on top of the pressure of trying to get back to the SB. There's reports players didn't respect Desai, so there's no chance they respected Patricia

[@RyanSheffer-nt5rh]

Funny thing is 90% of teams if they won 11 games ( no matter how they did it / finished) their fans would be ecstatic- but this Eagles team has high expectations. I feel like we’re the Bills though. Great but won’t get it done in this current window. If we get 1 or 2 seed with a strong finish / ill start believing we can get back to SB tho. Prob only to be disappointed 😂

[@johnfarr2738]

Everyone keeps talking about Dallas, Philly and NY while Washington is just flying under the radar like “Watch this”.

[@wolfszn]

washington is trash. & nobody is talkn about the giants 😂redskins might get a wild card tho

[@marquisstarks9003]

Lollllll

[@jacobball8422]

They'll have a good 6 weeks of saquon throughout the year here and there. Players and rbs especially dont get more durable. Does anyone think hes gonna look like he did in 2018?

[@CeeGeez23]

As a fan since 99, all I care about is winning championships as a fan, which this franchise desperately needs . Lets see if they can get that done ✔️im sick of all the off-season Howie did this Howie did that hype. If it doesn't win a championship or championships Idgaf and F Howie period

[@rppuffnstuff]

Can The way hurts carries himself during his press conferences how he talks to the media and the things he says really makes me like him that much more as a player and a person and not just as some athlete who’s feeding lines because what he says seems more genuine than 90% of all the other quarterbacks out there

[@pdfahie]

I think confidence was lost in the entire coaching staff. The change in d coordinator completely ruined an already lacking defense

[@Stephenwhite013]

People overreact. SB loser don’t do well so it’s not crazy that they ran out of gas at the end. They played a really hard schedule. The defense sucked after they changed to Patricia and they couldn’t make adjustments.

[@shep68]

The dreaded "great week of practice" comment. ooh boy. Vance Joseph will have that engraved on his tombstone. 🙄

[@Magic_Conch13]

Happened to the cardinals when they first got d hop. They started out 9-1 and everyone thought wow maybe this team is legit then they completely fell off and didn’t make playoffs I’m pretty sure. Team may not have been as talented as the eagles but just goes to show collapses can happen and more then you think

[@Eddo-s8s]

eagles getting g blown out by the 49ers was the reason they broke. the season was summed up by that game. they knew it was over and they couldn’t compete

[@PhillyAfrica]

Kelce has been big "Poppa" in Philly since Mudd and Stoutland chiseled the sexy Batman out of him. He was not ready to retire, hence the non stop speculation about his return which will happen after the Eagles celebrate their Super Bowl win... Now the problem arizes when a young bull who is now a clear leader of Vets at year 3 can't change a play at the line of scrimmage because big Poppa/Kelce says no, and no one on the coaching staff is going to side with Jalen over Kelce and as QB1 that does something to you. I dont know, but if I were to take a swing at it. I'd speculate that things changed on that fateful day when Jalen tried to change the QB keep from left to right and kelce flat out defied him and said no... I can just imagine Jalen being told to just suck it up and keep playing cause I mean: its Kelce!... The 🐐, so yea I wouldn't have wanted to be in that locker room after that incindent was caught in 8k. S/O to Kelce for stepping down to allow Jalen the space to take a lead role that will not be opposed from within cause that always tears families apart.

[@factszy489]

It’s pretty simple, nick sirianni was a bad play caller, & we had terrible DC’s both of them, & injuries didn’t help. Sirianni as a tomlin role will do just fine we just can’t miss on coordinators again. There is a reason Nick has no control over the offense this year & suddenly we’re not running a HS offense. Nick first year we started terrible, & suddenly Shane took over play calling & we made the playoffs. I don’t think chemistry is off it’s just a matter of they knew they weren’t being put in the right spot was the frustrating part.

[@mattburg7720]

It comes down to kellen moore and vic fangio, also jalen hurts and jalen carter. If hurts and carter play at an all pro level. They're going to the nfc championship game

[@slicks1175]

Our chances of reaching the NFCCG is definitely not on the shoulders of 2 players lol

[@davidstraw3026]

The 49ers put out the blueprint on how to beat the eagles. You simply just blitz them. Brian Johnson’s offense was not creative enough to work around the blitz. That combined with Sean Desai and Matt Patricia’s incompetence, the eagles collapse was inevitable.

[@GorillaCheeks]

Takes glasses off* Shits pants

[@jimough2441]

Had nothing to do with "BIG DOM"! The 49ers showed the rest of the league how to dismantle the Eagles and that's what happened.

[@morganmiskell2334]

No. It had everything to do with changing d coordinator and nick taking over plays call. They went from keeping up and pulling through to not even being close against bad teams.

[@marvinshenk]

The heat wave must be ending. Rich has a t-shirt under his short sleeve shirt.

[@bradolson3510]

The Eagles were lucky they won 10 games they lucked out on all of them. They were all close games and the other teams just made mistakes that cost them. We ran the same offensive plays every game every one knew it but the talent was enough to make it until the Niners stomped them and it woke everyone up.

[@SPACEKNOCKERZ76]

Go birds! 🦅 they had the 2nd worse defense also.

[@rickvice2313]

The eagles sucking had nothing to do with Big Dom. The niners kept telling the eagles that the nfc championship victory was a fluke and that with Purdy in the game they have no chance. And when the niners came to Philly and proved that true it obviously psychologically messed with them the rest of the season. They began to feel like they were frauds.

[@youngcasperjett7584]

Bro that’s a massive oversight. They were down when Purdy got hurt. No way possible to know if the 49ers would’ve won that game. Secondly, in the rematch, the Eagles were missing 6 starters on defense, Hurts had a bad knee, and the coordinators weren’t even close to competent enough to adjust.

[@rickvice2313]

@@youngcasperjett7584 that has nothing to do with what I’m talking about out. I’m not trying to debate whether or not the niners should have won that game. Like you said there is no way to tell. What I’m saying is from the actual players point of view. The niners think they were cheated and were the better team and the Eagles believed they are a legit team. The talking back and forth from that point on up until the end of the game the eagles lost only made doubt how they felt psychologically. It was the circled game on the schedule for both teams. The eagles wanted to prove they were not frauds and the niners wanted to prove that playoff game was a fluke. It’s no coincidence that the eagles who were 10-1 lost the last 6 out of 7 games of the year. Like I said I’m not talking about the playoff games legitimacy I’m talking about how each team felt about it and what effect the rematch had on them.

[@youngcasperjett7584]

@@rickvice2313 first off, that’s not true at all. The Eagles didn’t have that game circled or even talked about them at all. They were obsessed with the Eagles all offseason. That was literally their Super Bowl. The Eagles didn’t say anything even when Deebo dissed Bradberry. Only thing was ever said was when Reddick said THE WEEK OF THE GAME “They did a lot of whining, now they can line it up”. The Eagles circled the Chiefs game more than anything. That’s why Sirianni was yelling at the crowd when the Eagles beat them. Not the 49ers. And again, it’s no way to tell who win either or those games both teams full healthy and fully locked in.

[@meech6848]

Didn't the cowboys lose their center too? Didn't the cowboys lose their defensive coordinator too? Let's be fair now

[@pjcpiano]

The problem is we had one of the most pathetic defenses I’ve ever seen.

[@jasonr_2017]

We’re done talking and thinking about last year! Whatever happened that went wrong stays in-house, and people can’t seem to accept that lol now on to this year, you can’t name 3 teams with a better roster than Philly’s. If preparation & coaching are on point, and players stay relatively healthy, Eagles to the moon.. go birds 🦅

[@wyzeindeed7234]

Big Dom is the Eagles Fixer….. nuff said

[@ThatmanShowtime]

The expectations is back to the Superbowl for me we have enough to beat the 49ers or the lions in the NFC Championship game.

[@jacobball8422]

They are going to miss Kelce more than i think they even know. If theyre so weak they cant lose their head if security idk what to say. I hate the eagles but id say can Sirrianni and keep Hurtz

[@jaimepatena7372]

The Niners destroyed the Eagles mojo last year.

[@Y2K2PointO]

The Eagles had one cheat-code play. They’ve never been great. Once the NFL properly calls low blocks on the shove, they’re a .500 team.

[@alexanderali5947]

Bro ask an eagle fan. This is not a mystery

[@Tmindful182]

Last years over you can see it in the building… hungry dogs…Anyone betting against the eagles making a deep run this year isnt paying attention.

[@GarroStudio]

The Jaguars collapsed, the Eagles disintegrated.

[@doctorbashir3497]

No coaching

[@joshwhelan8421]

That was 5 minutes. I will never get back. I mean seriously. Everyone knows what the problems were. The schemes run by those coordinators were God awful.Especially Brian Johnson running some high school level crap. It was simply talent that got them to 11 wins last year. If Moore and Vic are just half decent, this team will be contending for a super bowl. It was a wasted season.

[@CeeGeez23]

Coordinators again 😂😂😂😂

[@luisuranga3125]

How come Tua is awsome speaking to the press and is always forthcoming and this QB is so elevated when he hands of the football more than in the old days, some crédito to tua

[@katyas-mom]

Maybe the coaching sucked?

[@ByAnyMeans1020]

Most teams that make the Superbowl and lose fall off the next yr.... Its almost a fact but yall can keep acting like eagles have internal issues

[@jacksizzle8937]

PEOPLE act like it's rocket science, this man is making millions talking sports and can't figure it out as I'm broke, here it is, you have immature players, young males, not men, making millions who had a problem about coaching, about his "life long coordinator" being fired and being salty about it and by the way dragging that nonsense into a new year with his comments, and a HC he doesn't respect, that's all good, but here's the problem, so what was their resolution? to throw games, to pout, to give up, on their teammates, fans, bosses etc, for god sakes the org. had to remind this slush brain, yes he is a slush brain Jalen Hurts, supposed leader of the team to lead his team, to be more vocal, to COMMUNICATE WITH HIS TEAM, that is a horrible indictment if you need to be reminded, him and his buddy Aj Brown caused dissension in the team and destroyed it, i don't care how bad the coaching was, a great football player like Hurts and the Eagles would never collapse that hard and get their doors blown off by Baker Mayfield in the playoffs even with bad play calling, that's called quitters, this man would go 3 and out run to the sideline with that same dumb look on his face and sit by himself, and people are so stupid they think because he says wise witty remarks at pressers that he's somehow mature or a man or a leader, he's not, guy is comatose, wearing eye black for night games, i think jalen hurts convinced fans that he's somehow stoic and mature, he's not, and here's the kicker, I'M AN EAGLES FAN, lifelong, generational Philly fan, this man lead his team down the drain because he didn't or doesn't have the mental clarity and wisdom to adapt and to seize the wins, that's what happened and nobody has the balls to say it

[@MDeezy42069]

Jalen needs to throw the ball better

[@wolfszn]

you can say that for every qb tho

[@Elsa_chin]

Why worry when you can pray? Stop living the pass it’s a new season and Jalen and the eagles will eat.

[@Gridironwarplans]

They didn’t look great since week 1

[@TheWingus]

Brian. Johnson. There was no creativity, no threat, telegraphed qb runs, horrible play calling

[@phongdang9846]

Bosa wasn't kidding when he said the 9ers laid out the blue print on how to beat the Eagles.

[@Det.johnkimble]

Thats giving them too much credit. The collapse really had all the makings of a burnout. That game came towards the end of a brutal and frankly unfair schedule

[@unspokenwords5284]

Kelce is done...

[@guitarminioriginals4840]

Just ask a knowledgeable eagles fan, we will tell you what hapoened

[@mbrum3230]

No one wants to say it. Hurts not good unless running the ball.

[@awskater5899]

Why does Jalen hurts sound like a middle aged white guy

[@fysean]

Yall need something else to talk about this is beneath yall.

[@teresamc521]

They fell apart,

[@offwhite_2137]

When nerds talk about football for clicks 😂

[@guitarminioriginals4840]

Just ask a knowledgeable eagles fan, we will tell you what happened

[@BigBoss69420]

Listening to Jalen Hurts speak felt like having a stroke

[@davidsine1222]

Hurts said alot of nothing...this team will collapse again

[@itsoutahere]

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