The talent is there no doubt about that… the injuries are a major setback and a big reason.. but you gotta put a good amount of the blame on the coaches/playcalling.

But the run D just wasn’t there and when we needed stops they couldn’t get them. Our linebacker play is a big, big problem and it doesn’t look like it’ll get any better. We are gonna have to score our way to wins moving forward I’m afraid.

i don’t know if we have the talent left to make a push, but at the beginning of the year we did. If our defense gets healthy and McNabb plays well….I think we could make a late season run. If the team doesn’t get healthy, there is no way our makeshift LB corps. can do a good job, no way our 5th string CBs can consistently play well against #2 receivers, and no way our short yardage woes will go away.

or this team for that matter….to many ifs, and’s and but’s. At least dallas lost and if the playoffs started today we would be the 5th seed in the nfl…why is it that we can lose or beat to ANY team in the league….this is too damn much, the nfl gods really hate us

Atrocious. I can think of 4 penalties off the top of my head.

I liked how he showed a little fire..when REID chose to pass and instead of run on that last 3 and 1 in the redzone! U could clearly see Dmac was not happy bout that call.!

I didnt like the Defense today, and as USUAL, Reid was being Reid! Same old Reid! hahaha he never fails! LOL . Sorry I gotta laugh cuz Reid cracks me up. Ridiculous

We SUCK at the redzone. Period. How many times did we go into the redzone and kick a field goal? 3 times? We can’t settle for field goal after field goal after field goal for points. We need TOUCHDOWNS.

Oh, and and stopping the Bolts with more than 30 seconds left in the game would help a lot too.

Normally I would pin our bad play on McNabb but he was the least of our problems today.

Could you sound a little more modest.

Honestly, the D was just no where to be found. Injuries are hurting us bad on D. I still blame the LBs (except Spoon). What was killing us the most seemed like the quick passes (same that NO runs). Quick Plays hurt. As for playcalling. I dont hate McNabb, I dont hate Reid (even though I’m not the biggest fan of him coaching wise), but I am tired of Marty. I’m pretty sure he is making the offensive play calls, and he makes pretty bad ones at that. It seems like he cannot deviate from his gameplan at all. It showed in the Dallas game and it showed in the first half of this game. Teams are going to take away the big play from us so we can’t expect it to always be there. Also, I think we might have to give LJ a call just for this season because it looks like 3 and out for Westy.

I dont hate McNabb, I dont hate Reid (even though I’m not the biggest fan of him coaching wise), but I am tired of Marty. I’m pretty sure he is making the offensive play calls, and he makes pretty bad ones at that. It seems like he cannot deviate from his gameplan at all. It showed in the Dallas game and it showed in the first half of this game.

Dog, stop drink’n the kool-aid! Reid and Marty are synonymous! Reid creates the gameplan and Marty puts in his 2 cents! Marty calls his own plays sometimes but for the most part he follows the script that Reid primarily writes out! Marty does call some things, but Reid runs the show! Don’t get fooled! Reid likes being in control so he’s gonna do just that. Control!

I dont hate McNabb, I dont hate Reid (even though I’m not the biggest fan of him coaching wise), but I am tired of Marty. I’m pretty sure he is making the offensive play calls, and he makes pretty bad ones at that. It seems like he cannot deviate from his gameplan at all. It showed in the Dallas game and it showed in the first half of this game.

Dog, stop drink’n the kool-aid! Reid and Marty are synonymous! Reid creates the gameplan and Marty puts in his 2 cents! Marty calls his own plays sometimes but for the most part he follows the script that Reid primarily writes out! Marty does call some things, but Reid runs the show! Don’t get fooled! Reid likes being in control so he’s gonna do just that. Control!

It is absolutely pathetic. I typically do not approve of Reid, and am a skeptic of McNabb, but McNabb had a great game. Reid is a good coach for the most part, but what kills me is he can not close out a game or perform under stressful situations (ie Red Zone, and late 4th quarter). That is what makes or breaks a team, and it has obviously broken us. When we are going down the field Reid and Marty are usually pretty good, but my god. They can not deal with those situations for their lives, not to mention their jobs. I personally want see a change in the coaching during this off season and hope to see Reid and Marty on their way out.

like you said: when mcnabb has a game like that we’re usually celebrating a victory. i’m a mcnabb supporter but i hate wasting a performance like that. we all know how up and down he can be.
the westbrook news in devastating. the o-line is unstable. asante bit like a starving fish on that naanee play. cole was pretty much silenced. ugh, such a frustrating game. it doesn’t help that i hate phillip rivers almost as much as tony or eli.

I’m just as confused as you JoeD. I came into the preseason thinking… “shit, we got what it takes to win the Superbowl this year. McNabb wanted weapons and he has more than he ever did” Now we are left here after two bad losses wondering where things are going to go.

I really wasn’t impressed with the game last night and it actually made it pretty hard for me to watch because of:

Penalties – we always have so many penalties and I hate when it ruins a great drive.

Running – we don’t run the ball enough. Period. McNabb threw for 400 yards because we can’t run the ball.

Redzone / short yardage situations – I think Marty should dedicate an entire practice to this because its getting ridiculous and its part of the reason we lost both of these games. Our Oline is disappointing. Yes, they haven’t played together but I don’t care at this point – its their hot damn job. There is no reason we should be able to give Weaver the ball and gain a yard after I don’t know how many trys.

McNabb/WR/Vick – Maybe its just me but I wasn’t that impressed with McNabb yesterday and I’m usually a supporter. Besides the fact that he was throwing almost every damn play, he tired to throw bombs down the field was overthrew I don’t know how many times. There were some catches that the receivers should of had and when Vick came in and finally attempted a pass, I was a little pissed off that Jackson couldn’t keep both hands on the ball. Regardless if it was a little behind him, he had both hands on the ball so don’t drop it.

And Asante should not be giving so much room to receiveres in the end zone. That last touchdown pissed me off too.

I’m frustrated.

 - down by a score
 - few to no timeouts remaining at two-minute warning
 - defense cannot make critical stops

Now, I’m not pinning this on the defense. I’m merely stating the obvious – the defense wears down at the end of the game because of our lack of depth.

It’s just a painful God damned way to lose three football games within five weeks.

This is a painful loss. We outgained San Diego by more than a 100 yards. How many times have you seen a team turn the ball over just once all game, put up 462 yards, and score just 23 points? Penalties killed us many times. Two huge offsides penalties that kept drives alive on defense, and that offensive interference on Jeremy Maclin was a backbreaker (though Vincent Jackson straight knocked Sheldon Brown down earlier on a play and that was not called; I think the refs screwed us).

That said, we lost by just 8 to a good team on the west coast without Jason Peters, Akeem Jordan, Sheldon Brown (for most of the game) Joselio Hanson, and a number of other players. We’re still tied for the wild card spot with two teams who we will play before the end of the season (albeit both on the road) and we still within striking distance of Dallas.

The most disturbing thing was seeing Patterson and Bunkley get pushed around. Gocong is no middle linebacker, so it was imperative for these two to have big games and they just didn’t.

Hes been entirely useless, but I remember on at least 1 occasion during the preseason when we used him in the red zone and got a TD outta it. I know, it was the preseason, but I think its worth a try, I mean, nothing else seemed to work yesterday.

A rollout with Vick on the 1 yard line seems like a good play to me.

To read you not blaming McNabb for once! Tough loss man… I just don’t think we’ve got the talent at this point to win close games like that, not with all of the injuries. Run defense looked pretty awful, run blocking atrocious and poor play calling. No excuse for not being able to punch it in on 4 tries from the 1.