Everything having to be some enormous “open world.” A little bit of exploration is fun, but when I don’t even know where to go to continue the main story because I get 14 interwoven side quests just on my way to start the first main quest, it’s too fucking much.

My personal favorite game that strikes a good balance between open world and on-rails is the original Mass Effect trilogy. Enough exploration and side questing to make the game feel big, but not so much that I’m too overwhelmed to even bother playing it - I don’t play for 3 hours and feel like I accomplished nothing but making some stat numbers bigger. I don’t need every single NPC to give me their own stupid quest - sometimes I just want to interact with them to make the game feel more alive.

I see somebody else listens to the Eagle Eye podcast lol

And while I don’t inherently disagree with this take, ultimately the execution and design of the plays is on BJ and the players.

Nick is so much more to this team than just the first 15 plays of a game - so sure, he deserves some flack for them being so remarkably unsuccessful at times - but at the end of the day we shouldn’t be calling for his head over it.

On top of all of that, they’ve all said time and time again that this offense is cumulative. Nick has a hand in it, whoever the OC is has a hand in it, Stout has a hand in it, all of the consultants and personnel coaches have a hand in it, even Jalen has a hand in it because a lot of our plays are choice-based (RPOs, zone reads), sometimes he goes off-script, and I’m sure he tells the offensive staff what he does and doesn’t like which affects what we install - and of course all of the players on the field have a hand in the execution of it. There is no one person to blame for any particular part of the offense that we’re struggling with. I wish more people would realize this.

Yeah or they have a slightly different signal for the real one vs the fake one, and the different signal is attached to an already planned hurry-up play call.

lol no dude, you play until you have the #1 seed locked up. You can’t just assume you’ll win those last 3.

This is fucking hilarious, thank you for your service.

It also shows just how strong of a grip we have on the NFC in general right now if this is the kind of fuckery that has to happen for us to miss out.

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Dunno if your step-dad has a record player but even just having this as an Eagles fan would be awesome, and the puzzle is neat. It’s $10 more than you wanted to spend but I don’t think you can go wrong with it.

I wasn’t at the game so I can’t help with the clip, but I’m guessing it had to do with the Kelly Greens? At the Dolphins they bumped a bunch of 90s music, didn’t they?

By rule they have to be pulled down by the back of the jersey above the nameplate (he wasn’t, look at the front of his jersey after the play) and their knees have to be buckled by it (they weren’t, Haason just flung him across the field which was incredible).

Yeah I mean it’s Jalen, that’s the answer. The “important” long-term players on this team already have one - BG, Lane, Kelce, Cox, and Jake.

Honorable mention for Julio too though. He was robbed by a bad defense in SB51 and it would be cool to right that wrong.

As soon as we got the ball back in OT after holding the Bills to a FG with that much time left. I can’t explain it. I knew in that moment that Hurts wasn’t going to lose that game. I was justified when I listened to Eagle Eye after the game and Dave and Roob both said the same thing. I have never had this much confidence in an Eagles QB in my entire 30+ year fandom. It’s ridiculous and I love it so much.

Are you smoking crack? The whole game all I could think about was how far he’s fallen from when he first started in the booth. This was by far the worst game I’ve ever heard him call. He was basically wrong about everything and then just kept getting mad that he was wrong.

That’s so stupid. Actively trying to take money out of defenders pockets. What an ass.

Smitty with the game saving first down again

I LOVE THIS TEAM AGAIN

I don’t ever want to see another running play that isn’t in Swift’s hands

“And there’s the pass to a wide open [player]” is my new drinking game trigger

Slay is still good thankfully

Ah fuck, Christmas music commercials. End me.

Blankenship is so good man

Ew that’s annoying