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Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesBleeding Green Nation homepageHorizontal - WhiteBleeding Green Nationa Philadelphia Eagles communityFollow Bleeding Green Nation online:Follow Bleeding Green Nation on TwitterFollow Bleeding Green Nation on FacebookLog in or sign upLog InSign UpSite searchSearchSearchBleeding Green Nation main menuFanpostsFanshotsEaglesOddsAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 321 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Eagles StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Eagles NewsYahoo Eagles Team PageYahoo Eagles ReportYahoo Eagles Depth ChartYahoo Eagles TransactionsYahoo Eagles PhotosOdds About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub ✕Eagles News: Josh McCown says signing with Philadelphia “was an easy sell”New Black Avonte Maddox Jerseys ,58commentsPhiladelphia Eagles news and links for 8/18/19.EDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:Eagles News: Josh McCown says signing with Philadelphia “was an easy sell”TwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailPhoto by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty ImagesLet’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links ...QB Josh McCown: ‘It was an easy sell, to be quite honest’ - PE.com“More than anything, it was the comfort level I had talking with Doug, where they’re trying to take this thing and where they’re trying to get back to and understanding the expectations that they have here. I’ve been in a lot of situations throughout my career – where I was helping a young guy or serving as a stopgap kind of guy or being part of a rebuilding situation -- so to come to a situation where it was more established, where they’ve got the quarterback (Carson Wentz) and a veteran defense and a lot of good players on the offense, that to me was enticing. To see how it’s done at a high level and done right, that was the dialogue with Howie and Doug. It was an easy sell, to be quite honest.”Josh McCown, Eagles agree to contract - BGNBut now it looks like Josh McCown will be Carson Wentz’s short-term backup, which has interesting implications for the Eagles’ quarterback position. Are they going to keep four quarterbacks with Wentz, McCown, Sudfeld, and Thorson on the 53-man roster? Do they risk trying to get Thorson on the practice squad? Does McCown definitely go to being the third string quarterback once Sudfeld is healthy? Is Sudfeld going to take longer to heal than expected?Special: BLG on the Josh McCown Signing - BGN RadioBrandon Lee Gowton breaks down the Philadelphia Eagles’ signing of veteran quarterback Josh McCown! Brought to you by SB Nation & Bleeding Green Nation.Eagles Add a McQB - Iggles BlitzThere is added value with McCown. He can help young QBs like Wentz and Sudfeld. McCown has seen just about every defense possible. He has played in just about every scheme possible. McCown has been coached by Mike Martz in multiple stops. He’s worked with veteran offensive coordinators like Rich Olson and Aaron Kromer. He played for former college coaches Jeff Tedford and Lane Kiffin when they were in the NFL. He also played for some guy named John DeFilippo a couple of years ago. There is real value in having a veteran in the QB room. The coaches have plenty of knowledge and experience, but a veteran player brings something they can’t. He can be a bridge between the young players and the coaches. He speaks both languages. Chase Daniel was good for Wentz in 2016. Nick Foles was good the past two years. McCown takes that role for 2019.Projecting first-year roles for each of the Eagles’ rookies - PhillyVoiceAndre Dillard will be the backup left tackle in 2019, nothing more, nothing less, barring an emergency situation in which he is needed to play somewhere else. The Eagles have rightfully decided not to try to cross-train Dillard at other positions, instead opting to get him as many reps as possible at left tackle, which the Eagles hope will be his home for the next decade. Dillard’s athleticism was immediately obvious from the first day of rookie minicamp back in May Josh Sweat Jerseys 2019 , and he has gotten better along the way in some of the more physical parts of the position throughout training camp. Should Jason Peters go down, it appears that Dillard should be able to step in without necessitating the Eagles to change what they do offensively, as in, they won’t need to overcompensate in giving Dillard significantly added help. The belief here is that Dillard would start at LT on plenty of teams throughout the league, in Year 1, and it’s pretty easy to see why the Eagles traded up for him.Grading the move: Eagles sign Josh McCown as QB insurance - The AthleticFor a team with Super Bowl aspirations, it makes sense to add McCown for peace of mind, even if it may be an overreaction to the injuries of the last two weeks. He’s competent and causes no fuss in the locker room. The Eagles will be his ninth team. He will now have played for a team in seven of the eight divisions. Carson Wentz’s injury history and Nick Foles’ last two seasons have emphasized the importance of the backup quarterback to the Eagles, who have always placed value on the role. That’s sort of why it’s surprising it took them so long to make this kind of move. Maybe they had McCown on retainer all along. If the initial reaction is, “If they were going to pay for a backup quarterback, why not bring in Colin Kaepernick instead of a 40-year-old?” it’s not wrong. We don’t really know what Kaepernick’s asking price is or whether he’s willing to join a team in which he has no chance of earning a starting job. We do know he and Malcolm Jenkins disagreed in the past. McCown, meanwhile, was a member of the Players Coalition with Jenkins.Is Eagles’ Josh McCown the best backup quarterback in the NFL? Ranking all 32, including Daniel Jones, Jacoby Brissett, more - NJ.com4. Josh McCown (Eagles): This might say something about the state of backup quarterbacks, but yes, a 40-year-old is one of the four best backup quarterbacks in the NFL. He’d bump down to No. 5 if Fitzpatrick was here. The reason: He’s smart, accurate and still has a little scrambling ability Black Josh Sweat Jerseys , even at 40. Just two years ago, he had the best season of his career (67.6% completions, 2,926 yards, 18 TD, 9 INT). The Eagles have arguably the best collection of weapons in the NFL, too, and probably better than any he’s played with before.10 Josh McCown stats you won’t believe - NBCSPIf McCown throws a pass, he’ll be the oldest player in Eagles history to ever throw a pass in a regular-season game. Currently the oldest is Sam Baker, who was a kicker but was 39 years old when he threw one pass in the 1968 season — a 58-yard touchdown to safety John Mallory against Dallas at the Cotton Bowl in 1968. The oldest Eagles QB to throw a pass was Roman Gabriel, who was 37 when he threw three passes in 1977 — his final NFL season.Josh McCown Could Really Ball - DeadspinIn a new-to-us-but-actually-old BREAKING NEWS STORY similar to Nate McLouth speaking perfect Spanish, here’s current Jets quarterback Josh McCown, then with the Bucs in 2014, showing off his hoops skills when he played in Anquan Boldin’s charity basketball game. McCown, who was 33 years old at the time, got in a couple of dunks—he flubs the first one in the highlight reel—and showed his range with a three. He could probably get a few minutes off the Nets’ bench, if he’s sick of getting tackled.Re-visiting the Steelers’ projected 2020 compensatory draft pick - Behind The Steel CurtainIn order to get a better grasp on L.J. Fort’s status, Brandon Gowton of Bleeding Green Nation had this to offer in regards to Fort’s status with the Eagles. “L.J. Fort is having a solid camp/preseason with the Eagles. He’s actually getting some first team reps since projected starters Nigel Bradham and Kamu Grugier-Hill are both dealing with injuries. Bradham is expected to be ready by Week 1 but Grugier-Hill could be out until late September or early October. Fort’s presence as a veteran defender who can also contribute on special teams should allow him to stick on the 53-man roster. Not to mention the fact that Eagles general manager Howie Roseman previously called Fort a “target free agent” and backed up those words by signing Fort to a deal worth $1.9 million guaranteed.”Could Dallas Cowboys cornerback names. That’s where we come in, with 50 team names free for you to use. I’ve taken the liberty of splitting these team names into groups Derek Barnett Jerseys 2019 , just in case there is a particular genre that might interest you. If more than one team name tickles your fancy, then join more fantasy leagues. The more, the merrier! Without further ado, here are the top 50 fantasy football team names for 2019....Social Media Information:BGN Facebook Page: Click here to like our pageBGN Twitter: Follow @BleedingGreenBGN Manager: Brandon Lee Gowton: Follow @BrandonGowtonBGN Radio Twitter: Follow @BGN_Radio How do you plan to deploy a pass rush against a mobile quarterback? Do you contain on both sides? Do you add a spy to keep tabs for the entire game or in key situations? What if your data presents a different picture? What if it says you don’t need to do any of that?For Super Bowl Philadelphia Eagles’ defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, devising his rush plan starts with the quarterback, not the offensive line. He detailed this philosophy in a 2015 C.O.O.L. (Coaches of Offensive Linemen) Clinic.How do you quantify where a quarterback typically throws from and how he likes to escape the pocket? Schwartz helped develop a process for this during his 2001-2008 stint as defensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans. They started with graph paper, marking an “X” for every throw at the correlating space on the graph. Later the process would be computerized.What did they find with this charting data?This allowed Schwartz to sell the idea of moving away from a non-traditional pass rush plan. If they knew where a quarterback liked to escape and where they, in turn, wanted to flush him, then they could present that quarterback with options that played into the defenses hands. Ideally, one option is a quarterback could step into pressure or get rid of the ball with haste and the other option would be taking a path that the quarterback was uncomfortable throwing from.Additionally, if you knew where a quarterback liked to escape, you didn’t have to cover up every gap in your pass rush plan. This is something we’ve talked about constantly on The Kist & Solak Show regarding the Eagles’ defensive line freelancing and not concerning themselves with gap discipline on passing downs. Schwartz confirmed our suspicions and gave the why:Finally, Schwartz would go on to note the differences between down and distance situations and how that played a role in how it limited or expanded the options available to an individual pass rusher.This also impacts his philosophy in the red zone, where the ball gets out quicker. He advised against moves like the speed rush in those situations, stressing the quickness in which the ball comes out of the quarterback’s hand when the field condenses.Knowing what we now know about Schwartz’s process, it was time to put it into practice. I charted every throw from Carolina Panthers’ quarterback Cam Newton in Week 6. I marked each throw with a yellow circle and then connected it with a thin yellow line to it’s throw location. Shout out to Next Gen Stats for the initial data and the graph.What does this tell us about Newton? First, it tells us he’s an extremely stationary thrower more in the mold of a pocket quarterback than what you may have imagined. Newton would much rather hitch up in the pocket and get rid of the ball before pressure arrives than dart out of it and throw on the move. Whether this attitude was always there or developed over years of taking a beating from designed runs (of which there are still plenty) and taking shows trying to deliver on the move, I’m not sure.What I am sure of is that the Eagles’ game-plan doesn’t need to involve a heavy emphasis on contain or spying. To further illustrate that point Black Derek Barnett Jerseys , I charted every single scramble from Newton in 2018. This confirmed what I saw in the Week 6 data.In fives games only 4 throws come from outside of the pocket on a scramble and only one went for a completion. This does not include designed play-action roll-outs where he moved along his natural track, but there weren’t many of those either. He opted to run from a scramble on only 11 occasions. 11 of 15 of these scrambles move toward his ball-hand.I noticed on his film that on third down teams would overload or shift their line to the right of the offensive line. This tells you teams are certainly cognizant of the obvious fact that Newton is right-handed, not only as a thrower but as a scrambler. That may be the only change that the Eagles make in their plan against the Panthers from this data.Make no mistake though, Newton is not exactly Peyton Manning, he’s still a viable run threat. But the restrictions placed on rushers against perpetually scrambling quarterbacks like Russell Wilson will likely not be installed to such a high degree in this instance. Those restraints include eliminating the “two-way go” from a pass rushers repertoire and putting him strictly in a contain role.Simply, the spot the Eagles are rushing is the the most frequent launch point. For Newton, that launch point is in the pocket.If they alter their tactics for other factors, like how the Panthers often pull a lineman or tight end across the formation to block the backside EMLOS (end man on line of scrimmage), that’s an entirely different beast. This will take discipline from our defensive ends and also present them with some non-conventional rush angles. There’s also the matter of accounting for Newton in the Panthers’ option game, which is likely a stronger focus for Schwartz this week.Ultimately, this knowledge in invaluable. Knowing how and why Schwartz develops his rush plans allows us to go beyond conjecture and decipher why certain schemes were deployed or not deployed. In this case, the Eagles’ plan involves trying to flush a stationary quarterback out of the pocket and to his left, away from his ball-hand. Also, sacking him would be ideal. If they don’t, Schwartz will have a report with every throw and how quickly the ball was released on his desk on Monday morning.