Coordinators And Winning

Philadelphia won a Super Bowl in 2017 and experienced an exodus of coaches from the team and the 2022 team is experencing the same thing as an organization. The difference between that team and this team going forward is the organization remembers what happened as the splintering began starting with the Quarterback. Carson Wentz never recovered from "not" winning the Super Bowl and that was compounded by the loss of Frank Reich as an Offensive Coordinator and John Defillipo as a Quarterback coach. Fast forward to today and after a Super Bowl runner up finish in 2022 fans will be introduced to new coordinators in the 2023 season and we will see if the organization has learned from the 2017 splintering. Fans should be encouraged by Jalen Hurts, who from all appearances appears to be a disciple of the Micheal Jordan/Kobe Bryant mindset. That mindset led him to make outstanding improvements to his game and from all accounts made the biggest one year leap ever seen by a Quarterback in the modern NFL era. The leap was recognized by the 101 group who named Jalen it's Offensive Player of the year!

Congrats to @JalenHurts on winning NFC Offensive Player of the Year at the 101 Awards 👏 #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/5O9eR0aJAs

— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) February 26, 2023

The team will need Jalen's Breed of One mindset which is similiar to Kobe's Mamba mindset as they replace both coordinators and free-agent players. I have confidence in that Breed of One mentality and saw that the head coach is even influenced by him. Here's a clip of how I hope Jalen's mindset is after this Super Bowl runner up finish.

Kobe’s mindset after being eliminated was to get right back in the gym to WORK

“I’ll push myself to exhaustion.”

Mamba Mentality 🎯pic.twitter.com/r2mRXnU8H0

— Jaycob Ammerman (@Jammer2233) October 20, 2020

I'm confident in the organization to get the right coordinators and coaches to keep winning and have steeled myself not to get impatient with the time it is taking to name the new coordinators.

Draft Season Is Upon Us

Ok no Lombardi, no parade and while it's hard we gotta move on to next year and the first task is player acquisition. Free Agency is up first in March and my top priorities would be CGJ and Javon Hargrave.  Both are key players if this organization is going to make another run at the Lombardi. I trust Howie to make competitive offers to keep these players in the Novacare Center.  They'll add in veterans as their pro personnel staff is competent and have unearthed some gems e.g. Boston Scott and Marcus Epps.

The Annual Draft is where the excitement really is and count me in as a goofy mock drafter who does too many mocks and here's my mock with 2 trade backs.  Howie always goes with blue chip trench players and I didnt stray from his formula with talented lineman.  I didnt forget about skill position players though and that's why I traded back to get more day 2 players.