Finally somebody speaking truth about Jalen instead of blaming it all on him the scheme is dumb with four verticals every play

Even getting past the Hurts/Sirianni/Stiechen thing, there was not a single player on this team who was better in the last game than in the first game. Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis faded; Sydney Brown was still an unknown quantity (even before the injury), Ringo stayed on the bench despite Bradberry playing terribly Nobody developed, played up, maximized their potential, or played smarter. Nobody learned anything they can take into next year. That's an extraordinary coaching failure.

People really need to understand this. Nick Sirianni made no changes at all in the last 7 weeks of this season. The players were never going to play hard while the coaches kept running back the same gameplan. If your coach cannot adjust he cant be the coach.

I can’t blame Hurts since he consistently gotten better every year but this year when he doesn’t have a true offensive play caller/ coach who aren’t in the same page…it’s 1000% coaching

I agree with chris that Jalen is not the problem and it is the scheme

Love Chris in philly.. always shows us love

Mr Long you are 100% correct 💯 Jalen Hurts is not the problem at all, the schemes, and coaches are inept. With a real competent coach Jalen and this offense would have excelled beyond last year. Egotistical coaching wil always get your butt handed to you every time as in life. Hurts and other experienced players would offer ideas on how to improve offensive opportunities and Nick Serrini would shut him down. Truly Atrocious, Atrocious........ Defense playing soft 8 - 10 yds off the ball our corners etc. In Short....... Get competent Coaching ASAP

There has been a lot of takes on the Eagles this season but i had to come listen to our Superbowl champ on his take. Thank you Chris for that 2017 year we will never forget and sadly we miss right now.

hate to say it, guys. IT'S JALEN HURTS.

this is just a solid, good podcast.

THIS WAS SUCH A BADASS PODCAST, THIS WAS REALLY FUN TO LISTEN TO & WATCH!!! THANK YOU GENTLEMAN!!!

Best sport show on KZfaq. No BS just the real deal. Chris I am a New England fan but I always liked the Raiders. Your dad’s jersey is the only sport shirt I have ever purchased or wear. Your dad was a complete bad ass. The Apple did not fall far from the tree. Take care

I miss this duo 2019 pods were amazing

Strong GM with a penchant for player procurement/evaluation is so incredibly important no matter how good the coach/coaching staff and QB are.

1:14:34 Without question my favorite moment in a podcast in 2024. You have the bar high Sir.

It’s not Jalen Hurts talent or his play . I believe that Hurts and AJ Brown and DeVonte Smith and Siriani had an issue and it became a big problem towards the end of the year. This team has ALL the looks and signs of a team divided. The locker room is (was) divided and it cost them and that’s what happened in my opinion. It’ll all come out.

You guys should do this way more. It's right up there with PMT

This is going to be a critical season for Hurts. We saw him develop a ton and play great the two years Steichen was here. But this year where he needed to take another step forward, he fell back into some bad habits, a major part of that being the scheme forcing him to. This upcoming season he needs to get away from those habits and take the next step as a passer and decision maker. I think hes totally capable of doing it, but i dont think Sirianni has shown that he'll be the guy to put Hurts in a position to do it. He had like half a season to adjust and he did nothing. So as much as it might be nice to give Sirianni another chance, the future of Hurts as the franchise QB i think requires Sirianni to go. We cant afford another Sirianni trial year in what will probably make or break Jalen's future.

I love the Chernow bio on Grant, but "American Ulysses" by Ron White has gotta be #1 for me.

Chris, love you man and thanks for all you did for Philly. Can you please use your connections and platform to advocate for a new head coach in Philly? We can’t afford to be trying out Sirianni again

Philly is a good example of what happens when you don't have an offensive minded head coach who calls plays. If your team is great, some other team is going to poach your coordinator. So the second your offense is great, you've got that 1 year with it before it's gone. If you don't have generational talent at QB that change is going to F your offense going forward until you find another one and can permanently damage your QB going forward. And even then, it looks like losing a coordinator has even effected the Chiefs this year.

Sirianni is an offensive advisor at best.

You’ve completely misread the situation, Ryen. As an Eagles fan I don’t want a pound of flesh. I don’t want to fire someone because I’m “disappointed“. Nick does not need to be fired because of his résumé or because of his win loss record per se, the reason that he has to be fired is because his team rolled over and died on him midway through the season. Once the coach loses the room, he has to go. it’s no longer a question of “deserve” or being rash, or any of that nonsense

in every thumbnail Chris looks like his dog just started taking a dump on his mother in law's favorite rug and he's the first one to notice 😆

Can you 2 just start a pod together? This has been the best episode yet!

P.A.S.S Persistence, Attitude, Strength, Solidarity

I must say when you look back at alabama and Oklahoma jalen needs a coach

Great podcast. Just so you guys know, the question on the revolution was the exact same question, word for word, that was asked during the Academic Decathalon at the end of Billy Madison--Billy chose the example "The Puppy Who Lost His Way". "I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." A better example would be "A Christmas Carol"

Why should sirianni be fired? For never adjusting scheme. For not putting Jalen in situations to succeed. For never adjusting his offense. For playing his starters in a meaningless week 17 game, which injured both A.J and Jalen.

Didn't know Chris Long still live around the Philly area. Makes sense tho since his dad played in Villanova.

Even when they were 10-1 I didn't have faith in them. The way they kept winning games was unsustainable. My fantasy team was eerily similar too. I won 5 games by less than one point and several games, the only reason I won was because my defense scored over 40 points. I started 9-2, lost a ton of games in the back end, and got yeeted in the first round of the playoffs.

Go Bills!!!! 🏈

This season showed that the precious OC and DC for the Eagles showed they carried all the weight for the coaching staff. Once they left and it was all on Siriani, he couldn't put together anything and the team crumbled under his poor coaching. He's a front runner HC and was carried this season by the talent on the team alone. Without last seasons OC and DC he's just a hype up the team coach that lost the locker room this year.

Birds should probably approach Matt Campbell-Iowa State, who has a strong connection to Sirriani. Lincoln Riley goes without saying, however expensive to lift from USC. Certainly Harbaugh. But Ryan Day was our QB coach! But then there's also Brian Kelly, LSU, Luke Fickell, Wisconsin and Chris Klieman, Kansas State. Hungry dogs run faster.

SMOOTH Zyn is the worrrrst lol. Chill… every time

Double Pumping in the end zone and getting a safety and not stepping up in the pocket and he runs out of the pocket in a few seconds thinking he’s as quick as Lamar. Yeah, it’s partially him and partially the Vanilla schemes. We shall see next season when he can’t blame the new OC. Trends don’t lie.

Love Stafford but I think we as a group (NFL fans) have completely memory holed the years of development it took him to get to this point, which included a lot of turnovers and being too aggressive. There were plenty of games Detroit lost because of him throwing a pick or losing a fumble. Look at the Thanksgiving game against Chase Daniel for instance, where he throws two picks (one a pick six) and loses Detroit the game. Not trying to take anything away from him, because he is great, but let's not pretend like he has always been the guy he was on Sunday.

People in the comments constantly bringing up Josh Allen anytime Hurts is receives criticism is ridiculous. I like Hurts, good leader, clearly has talent. Remains to be seen how good he will be. Yes Josh Allen gets stupid with the ball at times trying to do too much but say what you want he can put the Bills on his back when it's needed. Hurts has not done that yet and this was his chance to do it over these last 7 games and was completely ass. Its not all his fault but he is the QB man how the hell does he just get off the hook. He does not look like he is commanding the offense or adjusting at the line at all. He is just kinda there.

Are all the people dropping Herbert from their Top 5-6 recently just gonna put him right back in a year if Harbaugh gets them turned around quickly?

Todd Bowles has done great this year! A lot of head coaches would be on the hot seat without a good QB.

Hurts is the problem. People need to stop blaming the defense. He led a very talented offense to a net 7 points in a Playoff Game. All the defense had to do was give up 6 points or less, and they win the game. That’s impossible. But somehow Hurts gets a pass. It’s disgusting.

So, Chris, the billionaire thing in New Zealand is not because it’s THE place or anything like that. It’s just Thiel is a huge Lord of the Rings nerd, all his companies are named based on LOTR, and that was set in New Zealand.

EAGLES SHOULD HIRE ERIC BIENIEMY

To Chris' point, Allen had a shoulder injury that occurred against the Giants that I think he was working through for a lot of the season.

If Sirianni had answers, we would have seen them. Jalen is a super talented QB, he had an absolutely monstrous oline for the run game, and his defense is old and injured. It never occurred to him that TOP matters? Good grief.

Shout out Chris’s hair he magically grew back

There just aren't enough Charlie Whitehursts anymore

Lurie didn’t really fire Doug even though he did. He asked Doug to do something, and Doug said “nah.”

Better start coaching and developing him to be more active at the line of scrimmage, pass protection adjustments, route concept changes, blitz beaters. If not, he’s going to continue to struggle.

Wow! Joe Staley, have not heard that name in awhile, he was part of my HS graduation class, ha😂

We heard all year about how they weren't playing to their standard. When we see defense playing 2 hand touch and the offense lose all of it's identity it makes us demand change.

Let’s blame the scheme for Jalen Hurts and the Philly offensive issues this season, and then just completely blame Tua for the fact that Miamis offense struggled. It had nothing to do with how they were having to scheme the offense around an offensive line that couldn’t pass protect or run block.

Earl Morral Deberg Them were backups Hell lol Don Strock

What scheme? Nick get his plays from buddhist monks

I can't wrap my head around how a HC KNOWS 2 teams in 2 weeks (in a row) will blitz and your game plan against both has NO plan for it!! 1 week can be considered an accident, 2 weeks (1 in the playoffs) and your just not fit for the job.

its ironic all of jalens haters never played football but everyone that speaks highly of him are always former players just something i’ve noticed in the media

Wow! After the Eagles lost the other night and people were calling for his head, I looked up how many head coaches were offensive or defensive minded heading into the season. Out of the offensive minded ones who actually call plays for the offense, all but 2 of the 17 offensive minded head coaches called plays, Sirianni and Daboll. So hearing that analysis by Chris as well is great to hear! Also, at least Daboll had a track record of actually calling plays as an OC. Sirianni never did under Reich in Indy as Reich's OC.

59:32 AGAIN?! 💀 that took me out

I agree...the problem isnt Hurts. Frankly im sick of all the so called experts that are looking for clicks because they are bashing Hurts. Play calling is an art and they lost the guy Hurts was thriving with. BJ and SD were bad hires and the players couldnt overcome their inadequacies down the stretch. Hopefully they can find some better coordinators for next season. Go Birds!

Brandon Walker is right.

Eagles should bring in Eric Bieniemy as OC

If Nick goes which I want him to, I would want the Eagles to grab Frank Smith for sure

For the algo

It's looks like Chris's screen freezes when he's not talking, dudes so still

I'mma keep this real short, my number one reason for moving on besides the unforgivable mistakes that he made, is the amount of talent depth in unemployed head coaches. It makes too much sense.

Steichen’s don’t just fall off trees, Nick is a liability and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. For six weeks he provided no answers to Jalen. He has to have great coordinators to have success and the second we do we’re getting plucked from and back to a guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing. It’s impossible to have sustained success under that structure and we’re going to continue to have rollercoaster seasons. Then you’ll have a QB who will probably have 10 different coordinators in his career and that’s never good. Blow it up 💣

Hey they didn't adjust too the blitzing all effing year! A high school coach could have figured that out. Where are the hot reads for the blitz!!!!

Jalen is not the problem, they can’t stop the blitz, what does the blitz target?! Jalen! He gets blamed for TERRIBLE, MEDIOCRE play calling, they want him to perform miracles but his receivers run straight routes and can barely beat coverage, there is so much more to blame then Jalen. If we lose Jalen instead of develop him we are regressing. We need an OC and DC that are innovative and understand that their AMAZING roster already understands fundamentals and can further their technique. While other teams are running beautiful routes with a scheme that takes advantage of any situation we are coming up short trying to bomb the ball. It’s dumb, it’s high school.

Wassup GOAT!? Wassup GOAT!?

Nakobe Dean wasnt going to fix the middle of the field for the Eagles. Jordan Davis takes up 2 lineman, but guys on the outside arent getting to the QB. Jalen Carter hit a rookie wall early affer everyone crowning him DROY after week 6. And the outside corner players are too old. They were so bad, they made Kelee Ringo and Eli Ricks look like formidable options. Lastly, the o line, although ranked high by PFF, was not the same offensive line. Maybe its the distractions from the Christmas album, it definitely felt like Kelce was distracted by the podcast and the documentary and his mother and Taylor Swift. Also, the coaching change on defense was terrible by Siranni. At least Desai had some decent games, under Patricia it was all worse. Brian Johnson lacks creativity. As Kelce once said "its the whole team!"

Where the RPO go

Everyone complains Sirianni stubbornly kept doing the same failing plays game after game, bad coaching. Did it ever occur to anyone the owner and GM would have put a stop to this weeks ago? They couldnt stop it becuase this was all them panicking after the San Francisco game. They stepped in when Desia was fired, Nick is innocent.

You can have regression virtually across the board in personnel but still be largely victimized by poor scheme. Those are the ingredients for the collapse we saw. Jalen is not a completely different player than he was as a Super Bowl QB last year. The major difference was the OC change. Get him someone competent.

With ya brother,haven't been able to watch pinky blinders,too hard to follow

I’m glad people are showing their true colours on Jalen. This was a disgusting behaviour by fans since Monday night!

That’s some audio book… lmao

Jalen is avg

The eagles run a high school harry spread offense with a single wing playmaker.

The whole way the season turned out was honestly depressing as fuck . When we were 10-1 I never in my wildest dreams would of imagined the team imploding to this extent . We were ranked as the best team in the league the first 10 games of the season and looked like arguably one of the worst In the league the back half of the season . Fuuuuuuuuuck

Word to the wise, remember pearl harbor

The scheme for Jalen was fine until the Niners exposed him for the rest of the league.. pressure him and send him to his left and he has no clue.

1:08:50 NHL = Knowing Hockey Legitimately How bout knowing how to spell first Russ?

Yo you know how people say the average guy can't run a yard in the nfl. Bro I put money on it. I can put my shoulder down and blow passed the eagles WHOLE defense and not just get a yard but get 300 plus yards in one game. I'm not afraid of any of them. Not Riddick not carter. NONE OF THEM.

Ryan Russilo. Sirianni actively refused to change the offence. Complete stubbornness. Didn’t even try. Just stood his ground. That’s fucking stupid frankly.

His game is like Hurts Think it's gonna be good but ........

If you check the stats by the numbers, during the season Jalen threw between the hashes at 5.3 percent, that's bad that means everything else was screens or go routes, seriously only 5.3 in the middle of the field, the scheme was horrible can't blame the qb when he isn't given the keys the change these pathetic plays, then we get to the blitzing, how do expect Jalen to be successful if you don't design plays to protect him.from the blitz, soooo that 5.3 percent to the middle of the field is what killed him.

Running QB’s is always the problem….they don’t last and only have 1 good season.

Dallas always narrates "this is our year" and all that BS. Anyone that watched the Eagles back half of the season and all the all-22 footage analysis could see this game coming from a mile away. I consumed so much philly media last week and no one was willing to put money down on the team winning. Philly Media were actively betting against them because they knew it was easy money.

58:40 surprised a “history guy” don’t remember why USA entered WWIII

We're gonna find out that Jalen was a much bigger problem than we think. This gameplan makes zero sense. The only way it makes sense is if Jalen wants it this way because he's uncomfortable with another gameplan.

I like Chris a lot, but his take on Tennessee is completely wrong. They didn't look like they were prepared to play every single week. That's on Vrabel.

Has anyone told this Chris Long guy that they finally found his dad and its Willem Dafoe?

People who insist that Jalen Hurts isn't the problem are as delusional as Cowboys fans are about Dak Prescott.

Sirianni needs to be gone! He is not smart if he can't figure out the blitzing hot reads! Good riddance

Jalen is part of the problem. This season he's proven that he's not in the top tier of QB's. He can't carry the team when things go bad like a Mahomes, Allen, and Lamar can.

There was a reason Hurts bounced around in college. Those coaches all seen something they didn’t like. He would be a perfect back up QB. His passes are ok and he can scramble around.

Hire Todd Monken

If Jalen isn’t the problem, every Philly pundit and fan across the NFL needs to acknowledge Wentz wasn’t the problem in 2020. Because it’s the exact same situation, only Jalen has the benefit of a top 5 WR corps.

He was the problem this year, he was injured for half the season

So they put up one touchdown against a mid tier defense in perfect weather conditions, the best o-line and Jalen is not the problem. Dolphins put up one touchdown against a top 3 defense in -30 weather and he’s holding them back. Jalen has excellent mobility and a great go ball to excellent weapons that they rely on all the time. It’s been that way for the past couple of years. I agree Jalen is not the problem but he has gotten a pass all season for his mid tier play. Tua gets roasted every loss for leading the league in passing and being top 5 in most categories with 3 hurt o-line starters, hurt receivers and backs all season and multiple different centers this year. I do believe he should’ve played better but I also believe Jalen should have too. They both deserve criticism but talking like one is trash for winning the passing title and the other is just in a bad situation is crazy. And I know tyreek is a cheat code but let’s not act like people weren’t talking about AJ brown might be the best receiver in the league mid way through the season, not to mention D. smith being a dawg too. But love the pod, keep em coming!! 🔥