Posted: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 10:22 AM | 23 comments |
 

Grades through four games
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The Eagles have finished a quarter of their schedule with a 3-1 record, heading into Sunday's game at Oakland.

After each game, we provide our report card here on Eagletarian and in Monday's Birdwatch coverage of the Daily News.

Taking the grades in each area from the first four games and averaging them out, here is where the Eagles stand on our season report card to this point:

Rushing offense: B-

Passing offense: B+

Rushing defense: B+

Passing defense: C+

Special teams: C+

Overall: B-

So, where are we too high? Where are we too low? Fire away ...

 

 
Posted by Paul Domowitch @ 10:22 AM  Permalink | 23 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:40 AM, 10/17/2009
    Everything looks right to me, I would maybe drop special teams to C minus.
    — hillbillybirdsfan
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:58 AM, 10/17/2009
    2 C+ and 2 B+ equal out to a B. If you add in 1 B- how does the ave. become a B-? Should be a B...right?
    — bryky
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:02 AM, 10/17/2009
    Impossible to tell at this point. They've played a bunch of JV squads and against NO, they offered ludicrous starting field position to a great opposing offense. The grades should be incomplete at this point.... grade away on November 2nd
    — bizurk
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:36 AM, 10/17/2009
    Let me get this straight... the 4th rated Pass Defense in the NFL grades out as a C+ and the 14th ranked Run Defense is a B+???
    — Mugwumps88
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:18 PM, 10/17/2009
    THIS TEAM SHOULD NOT BE GRADED UNTIL WE BEAT THE MIDGETS ON NOVEMBER 1ST
    — nizzies
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:47 PM, 10/17/2009
    Special teams should be lower, too many penalties and less than average coverage units. Plus, Hobbs makes me nervous every time he touches it, whether it's going to be a fumble or a penalty for celebrating his 20 yard return. Defense gets lower grades because they've played nobodies, except N.O., and offense should be higher passing grades, lower running grades. We need to get some running in to start gaining time of possession, defense will be even better.
    — Bleue
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:24 PM, 10/17/2009
    It is way too early to grade any team.
    — kalina
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:34 PM, 10/17/2009
    rushing offense c passing offense a rushing defense b passing offense b special teams c wildcat offense priceless
    — teenwolf
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:59 PM, 10/17/2009
    How do I turn off the autoplay on the video clip? Everytime I go to a new page on the sports site a clip loads. Enough already, you redsigned the site. I get it. Very nice. Now stop it with the clips.
    — misterpet
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:01 PM, 10/17/2009
    Passing defense too low; special teams too high.
    — jmk1512
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:56 PM, 10/17/2009
    Grades now don't mean squat 'til we play a few more GOOD teams with Mc5 behind center.
    — TBear
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:45 PM, 10/17/2009
    You're too high on rushing offense. It has been pretty non-existent so far.
    — SteveS11
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:47 PM, 10/17/2009
    I agree with misterpet. The video clips are really annoying...and they keep playing over and over again. I have to turn off the sound so I don't keep hearing it.
    — SteveS11
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:26 PM, 10/17/2009
    The D hasn't done much this year. Won't give them higher than C in any catagory.
    — starbird
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:12 PM, 10/17/2009
    running offense is to high looks like last year
    — wcm65


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Les BowenLes Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News since 2002. Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey. E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com and follow him on Twitter.

Paul DomowitchPaul Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982. He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with the paper covering the Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo started his career in Texas, working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley, a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy, 25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team. E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow him on Twitter.

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