(01-19-2024, 09:48 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(01-19-2024, 09:19 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: When you say, "This is beginning to pick up more traction now," what do you mean by "this?"

That there's been a leak of growing concerns in the front office linked to Baalke not happy with Pederson's decisions to turn over play calling duties offensively to Press Taylor. Between Dilla's tweet, Albert Breer's report last night or the night prior, a Jaguarwire's or Big Cat Country article highlighting this, there's something to it. 

We all know of Pederson's willingness to lose his job for his coaching staff. Especially on offense with Press Taylor. Laurie ran him out of town for this willingness, because, much like the concerns here, there's a tendency to pin the blame on the offenses' failures on the new guy calling the plays. 

I don't have a dog in this fight really. Well, I say that, but, if I had to list the primary issues on offense that I saw last year? It would be:

1. Offensive line strength
2. Lack of running game
3. Dropped passes on offense
4. Turnovers
5. 4th down gambling decisions
6. Some play call choices

The fact that I can pinpoint 5 issues before I even begin to complain or get nit picky about the play calling, especially for a first time play caller, it makes me think he's not the issue, nor is Lawrence. I think the issue is personnel and weaknesses and that's a combination of Baalke's decision making and scouting department along with Pederson and his staff signing off on some of these subtractions and additions to the offense personnel wise. 

So, it'll be interesting to see if anything comes out of it. There was even another odd rumor going around last night, that, apparently, we're interviewing Keenan McCardell for the OC job. Which would mean Baalke may have won this fight or perceived issue. Not REALLY buying that completely, again, the source was Dilla via tweeting. So, we'll see.

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https://twitter.com/E_Dilla/status/17481...I3SdA&s=19

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https://twitter.com/_John_Shipley/status...BwBfQ&s=19

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I've read the bolded part alot around here and I guess now is a good time to tell the story; I'm going to quote some stuff that was happening behind the scenes:

Quote:Four weeks into the 2019 season, Doug Pederson sat down for his scheduled inquisition.

The Tuesday tribunals with team owner Jeffrey Lurie and general manager Howie Roseman were a weekly occurrence during Pederson’s five-year tenure as Eagles head coach. In the meetings, Lurie and Roseman questioned Pederson about all aspects of his game management the week prior. Fourth-down decision-making, play calling, personnel choices — everything was on the table.

Days earlier, the team overcame a 10-0 second-quarter deficit to beat Aaron Rodgers and the Packers 34-27 and even its record at 2-2. The offensive key to the win was a steady dose of the running game that took advantage of Green Bay’s defensive game plan.

Apparently, that wasn’t good enough. Lurie, who has long advocated the use of analytics, wanted to know why Pederson hadn’t called more passing plays. The interrogation was the same after another win that season — this time in Buffalo on a day with 23 mph winds.

“(Pederson) was ridiculed and criticized for every decision,” one source told The Athletic. “If you won by three, it wasn’t enough. If you lost on a last-second field goal, you’re the worst coach in history.”

Quote:Following the season, Lurie wanted Pederson to get rid of offensive coordinator Mike Groh and wide receivers coach Carson Walch. It wasn’t the first time Pederson found himself on the opposite end of a disagreement with his bosses over his assistant coaches.
After Pederson’s first year as head coach in 2016, he fought to keep then-offensive coordinator Frank Reich, pushing back against doubts from above. Pederson put his foot down again with Groh and Walch, saying he wanted both coaches to return.

That’s when Lurie reminded the coach who makes the final calls at the NovaCare Complex.

Pederson was given 24 hours to make the moves, according to multiple sources. If he didn’t, he’d be fired,
the next day the Eagles announced Groh and Walch had been let go.

 

Quote:Tension simmered behind the scenes among different factions of football operations. Over the ensuing few years, the animosity festered to the point that certain departments were separated inside the building.

 During the 2017 season, Halaby’s(who runs the team’s four-person analytics department) and Pederson’s relationship soured to the point where Pederson berated Halaby within earshot of the rest of the office, according to sources. In the opinion of some members of the coaching staff, Halaby was not to be trusted.

Frustration mounted on the scouting side as well. Rather than being presented with reasons for where certain draft-eligible players were rated by Halaby’s department, the scouting staff would simply be given a list of players the analytics department liked. According to one source, a top personnel official was upset to find out Halaby was grading players on his own despite never having been trained in the scouting department’s. The blurriness of Halaby’s influence on the final decision-makers created rifts throughout the organization and contributed to the iciness between departments. One source described the analytics team as a “clandestine, Black Ops department that doesn’t answer to anybody except the owner,” even though Halaby officially reports to Roseman.

“The fact that Doug had the success he did with all the [BLEEP] going on in the building, sometimes I look at our Super Bowl rings, and I’m like, ‘Holy cow, I don’t know how we did it,'” one source said.

Quote:Over time, the Tuesday meetings wore on Pederson. Lurie has long considered the organization at the forefront of innovation, and the impression among Pederson’s supporters in the building was that Lurie’s weekly questions were largely based on postgame reports produced by the team’s analytics staff.

Sources say Pederson was beaten down by the constant second-guessing. “They treated him like a baby,” one said.

There is way more to this than what I put here, I will provide the link to the Full report, TLDR; is Pederson was also tired of everything happening ( as was Jeffrey Lurie) and they both saw on Press a easy way out.

https://archive.ph/OWPUq
 This link is open for anyone to read

https://theathletic.com/2506187/2021/04/12/paranoia-mismanagement-and-office-politics-inside-the-eagles-downfall-under-jeffrey-lurie-howie-roseman/

This is the original link( behind a paywall)

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