Let’s get it back to the Phillies, who reportedly interviewed Buck Showalter, Dusty Baker, and Joe Girardi this week.
What’s next?
Apparently another round of interviews, according to the Inquirer’s Matt Breen, who writes the following in his Thursday newsletter:
In the moment, it looked bad.
Here were the Flyers, wrapping up their fifth game of the season by getting their doors blown off by the Edmonton Oilers.
Carter Hart, the supposed savior at just 21 years old, had a bad night in net in front of tons of friends and family in his hometown.
Brian Elliott relieved him and promptly gave up one goal, and then another. The Flyers trailed by five goals until two late tallies in garbage time made the final score a more respectable 6-3 loss to the red hot Oilers.
Here were the Flyers, coming off two really dominant wins to start the season, losing their third straight game, and finally coming home from their whirlwind adventure that, if you include the end of the preseason, took them from Philly to Boston, to New York, to Lausanne, Switzerland, to Prague, back to Philly, to Vancouver, to Calgary and finally to Edmonton in a span of 24 days.
An optimist looks at their 2-2-1 record and says, “Hey, not bad considering the crazy travel.” A pessimist says, “Inconsistency on the Flyers? Why am I not surprised.”
I was more in the pessimist camp watching the game against Edmonton. I mean, Connor McDavid is the best player in the league and all, but did they really need to allow him to have a five-point night?
And how do you get behind by five goals one night after sleepwalking through an entire game in Calgary?
It was typical Flyers frustration for sure.
But then I woke up at the crack of dawn, sucked down a cup of joe, and after reviewing my notes, came to the realization that this wasn’t all that bad after all.
Donald Brashear served up knuckle sandwiches during an NHL career that began in 1993 and ended 2010, a stint that included four years with the Philadelphia Flyers.
Now he’s serving up coffee and other goodies at a Quebec City Tim Hortons, which is like a Canadian Dunkin Donuts.
The story is written up in Le Journal De Quebec, so it’s in French, which means I’m giving you le crappy Google translations here:
I wrote a column Tuesday titled “Do Younger Eagles Fans Share Our Distaste for the Dallas Cowboys?”
The gist was that teenage and 20-something year old Birds supporters grew up during an era when Dallas wasn’t very good, hence what I feel is a bit of indifference towards the divisional rivalry.
Is that accurate? And what defines sports fandom in the digital age? We talked about it on 97.3 ESPN’s Sports Bash with Mike Gill and Ryan Rothstein:
Somebody is talking again:
#Eagles player to me on Jalen Ramsey going to the #Rams: "We dropped the ball. I don't even want to talk about that (!@#^). Everybody knew what it was going to take to get him. I could've told you that."
— ig: josinaanderson (@JosinaAnderson) October 17, 2019
It’s not the first time the snitch has gone to Anderson.
Last November, she appeared on NFL Live with information from a source describing why the Eagles had been struggling. That source told Anderson that the team did not have a Super Bowl hangover, but a chemistry issue instead, and suggested that Zach Ertz was receiving too many targets while the coaches weren’t running the ball enough.
Ben Simmons didn’t play last night, so he didn’t shoot a jump shot.
But he was still asked about the shot today, for the 500th time, during practice over in Camden.
Difference this time is that he gave a rather thoughtful response instead of just brushing the question off and calling it dumb:
Welcome to the weekly All-22 Film article.
Today we’re gonna take a few quotes from defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz and match them with ugly clips from Sunday’s loss.
I was going to start with the first first Stefon Diggs’ touchdown, but then decided to axe it, since we went over that on Monday. Let’s actually begin with a couple of quotes about the second TD, when the Eagles were playing single high safety and got beat deep on both sides of the field anyway.
Schwartz touched on that play briefly when answering this question:
They had a bunch of guys missing today:
#Cowboys injuries: Amari Cooper, Randall Cobb, Tyron Smith, La'el Collins, Byron Jones and Anthony Brown will all miss practice today.
— 105.3 The FAN (@1053thefan) October 16, 2019
Cooper played three snaps in the Jets loss before leaving with a quad injury. He was coming off an 11-catch, 226 yard game against the Packers and cooked the Eagles last year for 292 yards and three touchdowns.
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