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.

NFL Draft Season, Oh You Thought The Football Season Was Over?!

The NFL Silly season as some would call it or evidence that Football is a twelve month league, the NFL Draft season is in full swing! A quick look at my twitter feed favorites would show favorited tweets of Matt Miller, Charles Davis, Daniel Jeremiah, Jimmy Kempski, Tommy Lawlor, Bucky Brooks and Fran Duffy.  These guys are the go to analysts for prospect analysis, prospect visits, and things happening with teams during the NFL Draft Season and please know there are a lot of things happening!  My wife asked me the other day "is the season over because that looks like the football dudes you watch during the season", my reply was it's Draft Season and it's probably just as busy now as it is during the season.  She said you must really love football and I said YES I do and I follow the Silly season just as passionately. I need to know that Dan Quinn is planning to use referees in all of the Atlanta Falcons practices so they can cut down on infractions. I surely must know that Tony Romo re-did his contract in hopes of the Dallas Cowboys trying to trade for Adrian "All Day" Peterson.  I definitely have to know that Chip Kelly is hosting wide receivers in hopes of bringing in top wide receivers to the team to offset the loss of Jeremy Maclin.  YES this is the Silly season but guess who's silly? I will fall on the silly sword but I will bet large sums of money that I'm not alone!  It's ok to step out with me silly season lovers, we must get our own shirts and be proud of it!

 

The silly season will be over starting the weekend of April 30th ending May3rd and then everyone will be redoing all of their silly season work again but with knowledge of the new players on their teams. Something funny happens after silly season though and you can probably guess it's just as passionate as the silly season and that is the Offseason Training activities and Mini Camps.  It surely does appear that the NFL season is 12 months long!!

Chip Kelly and Jeff Lurie Dominate The News At The Annual NFL League Meeting

 

I took a few minutes to talk about Chip Kelly and Jeff Lurie dominating the news at the Annual NFL League Meeting.