Tag: Mike Silver

Could the Eagles decide to ‘blow things’ up, Move on from Carson Wentz and Doug Pederson?

NFL insider Mike Silver says the Eagles and Jeffrey Lurie could choose to blow things up if the team continues to struggle

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The NFL is a what have you done for me lately league and after having visions of another NFC East title, the Eagles could be forced back to the drawing board after a disappointing 27-17 road loss to the New York Giants.

The Eagles are still in first place, but one NFL insider believes big changes could be coming if a bad “downward” spiral occurs with the franchise. Mike Silver of NFL.com is reporting that Lurie could choose to “blow things up” if the horrific play continues.

Philadelphia dropped to 3-5-1 on the season and the loss came on the heels of a bye week and two weeks for a Giants team that they’d previously beaten at home. The team failed to convert a third down and were besieged by penalties, dropped passes, and poor game management all the way around.

The Eagles are financially committed to Wentz, and Pederson has won a Super Bowl on top of making it to the playoffs the last three seasons, so owner Jeffrey Lurie could choose to wait and see, but changes have to be made with regards to play-calling and the lack of creativity within the Eagles offense.

The Eagles’ offense has failed to reach 20 points in five-of-their-nine games this season, and it’s a hard product to watch with so many other teams scoring at will.

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Pete Carroll reflects on the emotional toll from Super Bowl XLIX

Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll recently reflected on the emotional impact the outcome of Super Bowl XLIX had on the team.

Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll recently reflected on the team’s crushing Super Bowl XLIX loss to the New England Patriots.

Carroll said that staying strong in the wake of that loss was a tremendous challenge, but that he had to keep the team competitive somehow.

“It was such an emotional way to lose for everybody, and we had to rebuild everybody’s brain,” Carroll told NFL.com’s Mike Silver in April. “We just bludgeoned our way through that. I tried to just make sure that I was unwavering. So, that was the challenge: to allow for the grieving and all of that, and then see what the issues were, and then put it back together.”

Carroll admitted that some former and current Seahawks players may never put that devastating loss past them.

“Yeah, that was hard,” Carroll continued. “It was a hard challenge. It was really hard on some players. And some of us will never get over it.”

Nearly every player who played for Seattle in that Super Bowl is elsewhere now, so the Seahawks must look ahead to the 2020 season.

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NFL Network’s Mike Silver praises what the Khans are building

Some have been critical of the Khans during their time in the Jags’ from office, however, NFL Network’s Mike Silver likes what they’re done.

If there is one thing fans already know about the Jacksonville Jaguars it’s the fact that the team has more than enough critics. However, NFL Network’s Mike Silver is one of the few who believes in what the Khans are building — at least in the distant future.

The veteran writer joined Jags senior writer John Oehser for his latest episode of the “O-Zone Podcast” to discuss the Jags’ outlook. Unlike many of his other comrades in the field, Silver praised the Jags’ leaders in Shad and Tony Khan as the two have made some drastic personnel changes since 2019.

“I’m a big fan of what the Khans have done,” Silver told Oehser, later adding that the Khans are committed to winning.

“I know the Khans want to win and want to do it the right way, and I know their instincts are good,” Silver said. “I know they’ve made a lot of decisions for the right reasons. I think like any new owners in the NFL, sometimes they make decisions they think are right and say, ‘OK, maybe they’re not.'”

The Jags will look drastically different than the one fans watched in 2019 (on and off the field). They got rid of executive Tom Coughlin before the season could end after the NFLPA singled them out for the treatment of certain players. Afterward in the offseason, they released nose tackle Marcell Dareus, then traded veterans Calais Campbell, Nick Foles and A.J Bouye. Each move had its critics, but losing the aforementioned players made fans especially concerned about the teams management.

While many will disagree with Silver, he is one of the journalists who has followed the Jags closely over time and has covered the league for three decades. That being said, he’s seen more than enough football to form such an opinion of the Khans.

When going into details about some of the positives to take from 2019, Silver pointed out the Jags comeback victory against the Oakland Raiders, another team he watches closely.

“People looking at it from afar may not have appreciated how important those last few games were,” Silver said […] “Beating the Raiders in Oakland was not a small thing. That was a huge, huge, huge game thing for the Oakland Raiders. They really, really wanted that for the fans they were abandoning. It meant a lot to the coach and to the players.

“That was a pretty impressive thing for them [the Jaguars] to do, and then to win again at the end and to have Minshew look good […] They came out of that saying, ‘You know what? Maybe we have something to build around here.'”

Even dating back to general manager Dave Caldwell’s and coach Doug Marrone’s first offseason presser, it felt like the Jags thought there was something in Minshew as Silver stated. They stuck to the plan to build around him throughout the offseason, and in a matter of months, they will get to see if he’s the franchise’s guy (if there is football). If so, the Jags can get trending in the right direction and the Khans will be well off to proving their doubters wrong.

WATCH: Jarvis Landry refutes report that he asked Cardinals to ‘come get (him)’

First Odell Beckham Jr. dismissed the validity of this report, now Jarvis Landry is doing the same.

First Odell Beckham Jr. dismissed the validity of this report, now Jarvis Landry is doing the same.

The Browns (6-8) have a better record than the Cardinals (4-7-1) this season, but following Cleveland’s loss in Arizona Sunday, NFL Network reported that Landry was among a group of Browns players to yell, “Come get me,” at the Cards sideline.

According to Cleveland.com‘s report Thursday, Landry said that was bad information.

“Yea, I would never say nothing like that. And I don’t even want to talk about it,” Landry said. “I didn’t feel like I had to address it. I think that the passion and the team that I play for, they trust and know my heart and know that I’m in this and know that I would never look to another team during a game and say ‘Come get me,’ with a worse record than we have. (…) if you didn’t hear me say it directly, you shouldn’t have to be able to report about it.”

Mike Silver initially reported the news, saying two sources confirmed the information.

Whether Landry requested the Cardinals come to get him or not, the 27-year-old is having a career year with the Browns.

With two games left in the regular season, Landry averages 72.7 yards per game and 13.8 yards per catch, which are both career-highs. He has 1,018 receiving yards this season which is 139 yards shy of his best season. Landry has scored five touchdowns and hasn’t fumbled yet this year.

Browns host the Ravens Sunday, then finish the regular season with a visit to the Bengals.

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Jarvis Landry refutes report that he asked Cardinals to ‘come get (him)’ during Browns’ latest loss

First Odell Beckham Jr. dismissed the validity of this report, now Jarvis Landry is doing the same.

First Odell Beckham Jr. dismissed the validity of this report, now Jarvis Landry is doing the same.