{"id":3410,"date":"2012-10-16T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2012-10-16T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T14:17:31","slug":"breaking-eagles-fire-d-coordinator-juan-castillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3410","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Eagles Fire D-Coordinator Juan Castillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More on the state of the Eagles later this week, but the news just broke that the Eagles have fired Juan Castillo in the wake of that devastating fourth-quarter collapse against the Lions on Sunday.\u00a0 Secondary coach Todd Bowles was promoted to take his spot.\u00a0 A couple random knee-jerk reactions to this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This smells of\u00a0a move of (warranted) desperation on the part of a head coach who sees his job in serious peril.<\/li>\n<li>Todd Bowles &#8211; who was the interim head coach for the Dolphins last year and who received several head coaching interviews this offseason &#8211; might be the next Eagles head coach.<\/li>\n<li>I have some very, very cautious optimism that this will mean a total readjustment to the defensive scheme vis a vis Nnamdi.\u00a0 Can we FINALLY use this SUPREME talent the RIGHT WAY?!?!?!?!?\u00a0 PLEASE&#8230;\u00a0 For three quarters yesterday, we saw just how INCREDIBLY good this guy is when you put him on one receiver man-to-man.\u00a0 He eliminated the best receiver on the planet.\u00a0 Then, they took him off Megatron in the fourth quarter and he had over 100 yards&#8230;IN A QUARTER.<\/li>\n<li>Wasn&#8217;t this plan doomed to fail from the beginning?\u00a0 How can you promote your offensive line coach to defensive coordinator, then hire the best and most respected D-Line coach in Jim Washburn one year and then the hot, up-and-coming, head-coach-in-waiting Secondary coach in Todd Bowles the next year?\u00a0 How can you have these strong personalities under a guy who has never coached on that side of the ball and not expect dissent?\u00a0 Just a really poorly conceived idea from the jump.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe the loss Sunday has a silver lining, because going into a bye is the best time to make a major change, so this may have been the only time they would have done this.\u00a0 Needless to say, this defense is WAY, WAY, WAY too talented to blow consecutive fourth-quarter leads and be pushing the franchise record for most consecutive plays without registering a sack.<\/li>\n<li>One more thing:\u00a0 Fight, fight, fight for the Cherry and the White&#8230;Yes, Mr. Bowles is a Temple Owl!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on the state of the Eagles later this week, but the news just broke that the Eagles have fired Juan Castillo in the wake of that devastating fourth-quarter collapse against the Lions on Sunday.\u00a0 Secondary coach Todd Bowles was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3410\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,1185,1283],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-eagles","tag-juan-castillo","tag-todd-bowles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}