NFC East Preview.
“The Work Comes First.”
Jalen Hurts, Weathered But Undeterred Nevertheless, Addressing The Media During Training Camp With The Philadelphia Eagles. I Can Listen To Him Speak And Motivate him Every Day. Matter Of Fact, I’ll Refrains To My Daily Devotions.
The Second Year Projected Starter Has The Weight the Eagles Division Hopes And His Career On His Shoulders. Few Quarterback In This Day In Age Gets A Second Chance At Starting In The NFL. If So, Only As A GAP man. His Division Rival Carson Wentz May Defeat That Narrative, And We Still Have To See What Comes Of Baker Mayfield.
For Now, it Hurts to Hold His Future In His Hand. “ We Are To Get the Most Open and Objective Evaluation Of Jalen Hurts.” With In Every Snap, In Every Rep, Every Tim He Holds The Thread Of The Ball He Weaves His Future. “it's Rep By Rep.” those words Are Hurts Unspoken Revelations The Beads of Summer And Atmospheric Pressure In The Organization Bleed Down His Forehead. The Layers of The Mystery Are Peeling Back And The Picture Beneath The Man, The Talent, The Think Creamy Filling Nougat Must Rise. But For Now, He’s A Joy To Hear and Talk. A Motivational speaker Just Waiting Under The Soaring Expectations Of Philly Football.
Each Droplet Of Sweat Marks Of his Growth, The Price Of A DREAM. Eagles’ Coach Nick Siriani Bankrolled The Idea Of Making Deposits And Watching Those Deposit Grow Your Way To A DREAM. He, Nick(Siriani), and Jalen More Reflect Each Other As The Two Kind Coalesce In Their Vision For The Team.
Compete With Philly For The Rights To The East, A TEAM With No Shortage of Motivation, The Cowboys.
Down In Oxnard, California, Temperatures Are Breezy, The Sun is Out, But The Expectations Are Sky High. The Cowboys Haven’t Allowed The Visage Of Their Playoff Lost To The Niners to Slip Their Memory. The Cowboys Are Not Short On Playoff Diffusers. Look, Even As Recently As The Tony Romo Era But the Niner's Lost Had A Special Tinge To It, and Now The Team is Entering A Season With Some Uncertainty.
They’re All Wild cards after Coming Off Of A season Playing With “No Name,” Literally and Figuratively. The Team Has Yet To Sketch Out An Identity under Head Coach Ron Rivera, And The Brought In Another Variable To Solve For In Carson Wentz. Carson Cant Shoulder All The Blame for Indianapolis “Let Down,” But He Did Little To Steer The Ship wreckage. Speaking Of Wreckage, What should Anyone Make Of The New York Football Giants? It's Been Some Time Since Football Relevance Flew Over New York(Tri-State) Airways and the Giants Are Sporting Their Blue Unis Are ATONAL parchment. Nothing Says We Are Not Good Right Now Than Saying, “Remember The days.”. The Giants Have Two New Top Ten Picks To Intergrade, and Two Former Top Ten Picks Most Likely Out the door Now That Head Coach Brian Daboll Has The Keys. The Question Giants Fans Should Have On The Mind: Does Bryce Young Look Good In Blue?
The Jalen Hurts And The Eagles Have Had The Rustic “Dynamic” Their Relationship Discussed Breathlessly This Summer. If You Haven't Heard, He’s One Of The Few Football Entities With a Lot To Prove, And Most Of What He Proves Won't Have A Value To His Current Employer.
Hurts Carry The Weight Of The Eagles Expectation And The Challenge To Prove Himself. Since the Day Nick Saban Replaced Him As Alabama’s Starter, Demonstrating That He Can Throw The Ball Consistently Proved A Reoccurring Hurdle In His Football Like. Overcome His “Limitations.” and Process Pro Style Reads. When He Transferred To Oklahoma, Where He Had To Prove He Could More Than Throw But Satisfy Lincoln Riley’s Air Raid Explosive Plays Downfield All The Time. He Hasn’t Had To Prove He’s A Winner but Can He Win In The BIG Moments? Can He Win From The Pocket? He’s This Eras Tim Tebow. An Enchanting Intangibly Sturdy athlete With Maddening Magnetic Appeal But Can He Play The Quarterback Position At A High Level? After More Than Six Years Under Scrutiny, Several OFFENSIVE innovators Who Have Sparked Embers From Other Talents Nobody’s Sure With Hurts. What Understood His Time In Philly Could At An End. The Stats Aren't Relevant Here. The Truth Remains Fertile In “The Language.” The Offensive Moves The Eagles Have Made. The Acquisition Of AJ BROWN, Keeping The Offensive Line Intact And Retaining Prominent Members Of The Coaching Staff. All Moves Consider Apart Of The Strategy to “Accommodate” Hurts In The Eagles Passing Offense. But Franchise Quarterbacks Aren't Accommodated. They Certainly Aren't “Fettered” Or Even Challenged. Franchise Guys are If Anything “Pampered.” Team’s Bracket and Compliment Their Franchise Guy Even The detriment Of Both Parties At Times(check Carson Wentz). Of Course, I'm Not an Apart Of The Eagles Organization. I Don’t See Hurts Throw every day; I’m Not Around The Guy. I never Heard A Number One Guy Spoke Of In Such Unconvincing Terms. The Eagles Intended To Suffer A Rebuild When They Reluctantly Let Go Off Carson Wentz, Hurts Provided A Spark. The Eagles Had No Qualms About Catering To Wentz. Perhaps They are Laying Out A New Approach To Quarterback Myth-building.
The 2022 Eagles Aren't All About Jalen Hurts.
The Offensive Line IT’S THE best UNIT In Football. Nobody else In The League Has Each Position Cover From Left Tackle Forward Like The Eagles. The Eagle ranks 10th Last Year in Explosive Play Rate. Some of Which Were Thank To Hurts Legs, But Passing Downfield Played An Instrumental Part In Philly’s Success On Offense.
If You're A Team With a Heavy Dose Of Rushing Concepts and The Eagles Are On Your Schedule, You’d Do Well to Restructure Your Gameplan. Eagles edge Brandon Graham Said This Line Ranks Amongst The Best He’s Played With In His Twelve. Jordan Davis Continues To Wow Skeptics And Supporters Alike. He’s A Wrecking Ball Between The Tackles. Veteran Fletcher Cox Can Still Have Power In The Tank. Free Agents Signing Hasson Riddick And Javon Sweat Are Edge Controllers.
The Forces that Kept The Best Offense By Any Relative Statistic Measure Out Of Deep Playoff Push(again), the Simpler Stuff, Or Overlook Attributes, Like Execution, Health And Disciples Won't Show Up Again This Season. At least Thats The Feeling. That's Why Any Cowboys Discussion begins with Head Coach Mike McCartney. Never mind Winning The NFC; if The Boys Dont Make A Run At A NFC Championship, McCartney, Who We Now Know, didn't Propagate All The Problems In Green Bay, Will Be Out Of A JOB again in A SEASON. What's Worse, He Won't Have The Level of Talent We're Accustomly Associating With The Cowboys In The Past. The Offensive Line, Once Enviable, Now Stands In flux.
The Receiving Core Also Feels Less Intimidating CeeDee Lambs Steps Into Number One Spot With Amari Cooper Traded. Lamb Just Finish His First Thousand Yard season, And Projections Favor Him Taking Another Leap In His Career; according To Bet MGM, Lamb Has The Fifth Best Odds To Lead The League In Receiving Yardage. Two Factors are At Play With Lamb Potential Break Out Year. One he’Ll Most Out The First Look Targets With Amari Cooper Gone and Micheal Gallop Still Recovering From Knee Surgery. But He’s The Number One Target, Meaning He’ll Face The Defenses Best Cornerbacks On Sundays and The Lion's Share Of The Defenses Bracket Coverages. He’s More Than Capable Sure Enough, But That’s Another Level He’ll Have To Prove He’s Ready To Master.
The Cowboys Aldo Runs At a High Pace(that’s Why Teams That Counter With Slower Paces Get The Better Of Them). Also, Bill Barnell Of ESPN Explained, “Dallas' playmakers basically [Get] a handful of extra games to rack up stats.”
The Receiver Room Thins In Experience and depth Behind Him. The Rookie Jalen Tolbert Slides In At Number 2, With Former Steeler James Washington(Injured) Next In Line For Targets Until Micheal Gallop Returns.
Elsewhere Team Representatives Are Still In The Honey Moon Stage with Ezekiel Elliot Like it’s 2016 Or 2018. He Doesn’t Have The “Juice” Anymore; I’m Sorry. The corner Top 5 Pick Recorded Another Thousand Yard Season, But He Far Removed From The Days Of Stalk-piling 100 Yard Rushing Games. His yard Per Rush Fell To The Second Lowest Mark of His Career. Yards After Contact We're Down, And His presence Felt Absent. He’s Had Two Games Of 20 Carries Or More In His Last 23 Starts. Sure He’s Splitting Those Carries With A starting Caliber Running Back, Tony Pollard, Who Average Over A Yard More In Yards Per Rush. Regardless, Zeke Needs To Break Out the Eating “Gesture” a lot More Than 10 Times Next Season.
This Cowboys Defense Allowed The Seventh Fewest Point In The League Last Year, But Defenses Are More Difficult To Project Year To Year. Very Few Team Make The Leap From the Bottom Ten In defensive DVOA To Top 10 DVOA. The Following Year--A Feat Cowboys Archived Last Year From 22 To Number Two Over, Rarely Replicate That Feat The Following. The Boy Exceeded Expectations Last Year In Achievement. Football Outsiders Projected The Cowboys To Finish “firmly in the middle.” In Finishing Second In Defensive DVOA (15.2%), The Cowboys Flipped the Projections On Their Head Like A Covid Economics Recovery Chart. The Defense Scheme Hinge On Whether DAN Quinn Can Continue To Play All-Pro Linebacker Micah Parson “Everywhere” And Say Losing Randy Gregory Punches a Hole In THEIR Formidable Front Four.
On offense, No One Watches The Big D. For Actual Defense; the Offense Remains Their True Calling Card. Dak Prescott Will Have to Prove All Of Cents The Cowboy's 16.2% Cap Investment In Earnest. An Anonymous Coach Had This To Say About Prescott In The Latest Quarterback Ranking By The Athletic. Dak Landed Outside Of The Top Ten Where Relevant Minds On The matter Believe He’ll Rest. The Quote: “He’s a solid player. Solid. He’s not going to change and suddenly become something more special.” I Never Read A Earnest Evaluation Of Cope Prescott’s Abilities. He’s Good For An Incredible Run, Like His Record setting To The 2020 Season, But If The Elements Aren’t All Aligned, His Contribution. He’s Like a High Maintenance Artist Who Can’t Work Without the Correct Lighting and Ambient, In A sense. The Boys Will Still Win The Division On A Count That every Other Team In the East Has Greater Question Marks. But The Rest Of The NFC Isn’t The Pushovers The Cowboys Will face In The East Six Times This Season.
These Two High Profile Teams are the Headliners Of the Division. Both are Coming Off Od Wild Card Losses. The Washington Commanders are Also Coming Off Of A Wild Card Lost Two Years.
These Off-season “Tabloid” Makers Have Made Point A Fuss Even, To Highlight The Colts High-wire Mary Go Round Of Quarterback Starters. Since Andrew Luck Retired, The “House That Peyton Build” Has Employed Five Starters To Replace Him And Will Welcome Their Fifth Opening Day Starter for Five Straight Years. The Washington Commanders Aren’t Far Off The Colt’s Trail. In Some Way Surpassing. The Commanders Will Welcome Their Fifth New Starter On Opening For a Grand Total Of Eleven Quarterback to start a game for the Team in 2018(Washington Post). Barring Any Issues In Training Camp–In None Other Than Colts Castaway Carson Wentz. For All Intents, The Washington Commanders Took A Step Back Last Season, and Noy Only Did They Missed The Playoffs The Offense Carter Unable To Sustain A High Level Of Play. At Certain Stretches Of The Season, Like The Four Game Winning Streak Between Week 10-13 To Steal a Wild Card Spot. Alas, The Season Ended With Four Straight Loses, and The Neely Dubbed Commanders Were Back On The Quarterback Market.
Even In THIS day Of Franchise Quarterback Shuffling, Teams Dint Dispense With One, Especially In The Almost Distasteful Manner The Colt Uncorked Carson Wentz. He’s Setting A New Standard. The Colts Brain Trust Apologetically Cast Wentz Out Of The Organization, After What Most Expected A MATCH Made In Heaven Ended in The Most Woeful Chapter In The Book, “How The Quarterback Trail Turns.” After Campaigning For Frank Reich, Push And Lobbied To Bring Wentz Abroad. Indy’s Failure To Make The Playoffs Dont all Rest In The Lap Of Wentz. You Can Split The Outcome 50-50. Regardless Wentz got Shopped and D THE commanders Who Were A CAPABLE quarterback Away From Playoff Contention.
Yes, I KNOW it's Impossible To Run An NFL offense Without a Quarterback Who Can Run A Modern Offense--Even If He Can Only Run It Into The Ground.
Rivera Will Enter His fifth Season At The helm in Washington. The Longest Tenured Coach, In The Division. He's a Defense First Guy who Tended Over Several Top Ten Defenses Between His Time in Carolina and Last Year's Commanders Team That Finished Second In Defensive DVOA A Year Ago But Fell Into The Middle Of The Pack In 2021. Rivera Will Have To Resuscitate A Unit Low On Health. With Former Number, Two Pick Chase Young Expected To Miss Early Game Recovering From ACL Surgery The Fiercest Front Unit In Football A Year Walks Into The Season Half. Another Ledger In The annals Of The NFL Discourse Of Flipping On Dime.
Terry Mclaurin, The Newly Extended Commanders Number 1 Wide receiver, Has Earned The Celebrated Badge Of Quarterback Proofing. Despite the Commander Mudslide Of A Quarterback Situation, The Former Ohio State Standout Maclaurin Has Churned Out Two Yard Receiving Seasons. But Almost Everyone Has At least One Of These Days. What Makes Mclaurin indeed Elite. He’s Top Five Against Man Defense And zone. He’s A Bracket Buster No Matter The Concept Or Coverage. His Quarterback Proofing Status May Face The Challenge In His Three-Year Career. Carson Wentz Hasn’t Proven Himself A Capable Force At The Quarterback Position Since The Days He Looked Like an MVP Candidate For The Eagles In his Rookie Season. By A Reasonable Projection, he’s An Accident Waiting To Unfold. Report Have Stated The Union Is Still Working On Fine Tuning The Connection, But McClaurin should Come Out just As Good as Ever, if Not Better, Next To Jahan Dotson. According to Various Reports, Dotson’s Looked Exceptional In Camp, Analysts have gone As Fast To Suggest The Penn State Product Has Looked Better Than Mclaurin. M
No Matter Which Big Ten Product Look’s Better, Neither Are Imposing Figures In Jump Ball Game, Both Standing Six Feet (Dotson Stands A Notch Under At 5-11. Carson Wentz won't Have That Big Micheal Pittman Size Receiver To Cover His Blemishes Or Bring Down His “Lobbing” In the Passing Game Until Tight End Logan Thomas Returns.
Along With Antonio Gibson at Running back, The commanders Have A Skill Unit that Could Compete With Any In The NFC East.
Regardless They Are a Long Shot To Push the Cowboys Or Eagles Off The Perch in the East.
From What I Understand — And I Say Understand Because I Don’t Follow The The Giants Ardently—the Giants Have Two Principles For Optimism: the First, New Head Brian Daboll. Nearly Everybody With A Tongue, pen, Or Keyboard Invested in a “ Copy pounding” Machine has Praised The Bills for Their Execution in Developing Quarterback Josh Allen. They Took Amorphous Wyoming Product Into A MVP Candidate, In Four Years. The Bills Model Now Serves As The Paragon For Quarterback Development A Daboll served as A key, The Offensive Coordinator-- Of The Hive-mind That Put the Structure In Place For Allen’s Progress. Now Daboll Faces Another Challenge; One Most Expect Him To Breakdown And Rehabilitate Or At Least Generally Dont Him lesser Daniel Jones.
The Giants Are Still Skeptics In the Skeptical Truth That Lies Before Daniel Jones.
Since taking over The Giant's Starting Job For Eli Manning, Daniel Jones’ Development Resembles Something Like A How A CRAB walks. Anyone STEP can Take Him In ANY direction.
Moreover, The Owner Has Expressed Skepticism In The Organization Itself. Whiles No One Would Confident Place The A Top A List Of Well Operated Organizations WHO’s To Blame for Jones 22 interceptions and 17 lost fumbles In The First Two Years Of His Career.
Two of the Core Proponent Of Daboll’s Strategy For Team Development, Patience and Continuity. Brandon Beane, Inspired By What He Witnessed In New England, Developed “Group Think” and Stressed the Value of holding The Structure In New England Under Bill Belichick. Together, Beane, Daboll, And Sean McDermott Turned The Bills into one Of the Most modifying Team In a Super Bowl Contender. Through Fours Together, They Made All The Right Moves. They Avoided The Degrading Churn Of Coaching Staff Turnover.
How can Continuity Matter When Evaluating Daniel Jones This Year and The Quarterback Position Beyond?
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The Final Year Of His Rookie Contract After The Giants Decline His Fifth Option. Don’t Let The Season Worth Of Touchdown Passes, The Hovering above Average Quarterback rating And The Immoderate Use Of Check Downs and Struggles Holding Onto The Ball He can Still Inspire “Belief.” He’s One Of The Few Quarterback Critics who Give Excuses and Caveats. The Coaching Should Carry the Blame For the Giant's Struggling Offense Averaging Just Over Fifteen Point Per Game. The Giants Shouldn’t Have Drafted Jones That High From The Onset. The Offensive Line Needs Improving. The Weapons are Less Than Deserving. He’s Struggled With Injuries, Or He’s A significant Rushing Threat. He Doesn’t Yet Have Chemistry With His Receivers, and So On And So On.
So far, Jones Has Shown a High-End Ability To Navigate the Pocket. He’s Had His fair Share Of Struggles In Camp. Coach Daboll Acknowledging That His New 25-Year old Quarterback Still Has Much To Learn About Playing Quarterback. I Acknowledge That Camp Reports Hold Little Weight In The Grand Scheme Of Things. I Never Get Tom Brady Or Josh Allen Reports. As Far as Anyone Knows, Two Of The Best Suck Right Now. The Giants Should Have Their Focus On What’s Happening Around Jones. Running back, Saquon Barkley Has Put His Talents To Use In The Receiving Game. Dazzling Viewer With One Snag. While That’s Fine And Dandy, He’s A Running back. He Doesn’t Need To Return To Rookie Saquon Simply Better Than 3.7 Yards Per Carry. Jones Registered a Respectable Value On Play Action Last Season In Limited Number. A Healthy Run Game Open The Margins For Jones Long Way.
The Giants Also Have a lot of Talent To Rehabilitate At Wide Receiver. Kenny Golladay The Giants 18 Million A Year has to Look Far From The Part. He Struggled with Injuries Most Of The Year After Coming Over From Detroit(Where He Also Struggle With Injury), and When Healthy, He certainly didn’t Live Up To His “Baby Megatron” Nick Name. At 6’4 213Lbs, Golladay just Disappeared Behind In New York. The Giants Will Need His Down Field Catch Radius to Add Another element Of Contested Catches To Daboll’s Offense. Elsewhere Darius Slayton has Unravel From A gem Of a Fight Round Pick To An IRRELEVANT name On The Depth Chart. After Climbing To The Top Of New Yorks's Target List, He’s Spent Most Of His Training Camp Practicing With The Third Stringers And May Not Make The Roster. The Giants Have New Weapons Joining The Rosters in Wan’Dale Robinson. Last Year's First Round Pick Kadavius Tooney Should Benefit From Daboll’s Presence Over The Offense. He Had, But He’ll Need To Evolve Beyond the Mostly Gadget(Screen, End/Around) Role. He’s Received Comparison to Tyreek Hill, But By Reputation, You Don’t Think Of Tooney as A wide Receiver; More Like A Weapon. The Wan’Dale Robinson’s Addition Seemed To Suggest an Impending Exit For Tooney. They’re Both “Elusive” Fluid Transitional Offensive Position Players Playing Full Receiver Time, Electric In The Open Field. They're Both Difficult To Evaluate and Worse Even, For Defenders To Get a Hand, Much Less Tackle, Once The Put A Foot In The Ground. How Will Daboll Scheme These Two Into Position To Produce Big?
I Know The Giants Drafted Two High-Level Players In The Top 10 Of This Draft In Defensive End Kayvon Thibodeaux and Tackle Evan Neal; Players Rank Number One At Their Position At Some Point In The Draft Process, And The Giants Grabbed Each Pick In Between. Shouldn’t They Factor As a Reason For Optimism? Suppose the Recent History Of Giants Top Pick Tell Us Anything About Their Future. Don't Hold Your Breathe.
When The Giants Signed Golladay To His Big Deal, Team Owner John Mara declared, “ It's Time For Us To Start Winning.”. Taking A PAGE from The Yankees, George Steinbrenner, Brian Cashman, The Giants Put The Bank Book To Work and Commit Over $100 Milion Dollars To Three Players.
“let's Win Some More Games.” After Winning Five, The Threshold Seemed Set At six, The Ammount aid Game The Team Won two seasons Ago. The Giants Regressed To Four Wins.
