Eagles lose 23-15 to Colts in preseason game two

Although I only watched the last 2 mins of the second, all the third quarter, and part of the fourth (don’t blame me, I had band :/). What I saw was a future starter in Baboon (my nickname for Babin), Maclin looking HORRIBLE especially when he yelled OH SHIT during the Kickoff which he fumbled, Feeley CONSISTENTLY looking for the dumpoffs every play (either that or the playcalling was too conservative), lastly Booker deserves to get cut after tonights ABYSMAL performance. One more thing, I did watch the Freeney sack/fumble. There should have been a back on Freeney the whole game. That’s how you stop a spin move.
On a positive not Jackson and Gibson seem to be something special and if you ask me, Gibson’s looking better than Maclin. I won’t grade them until I see Westbrook and Vick in action. You also forgot to mention about Brown’s dumb penalties and Myers looked decent.

Ellis Hobbs is Reggie Wayne’s bitch….

Ellis will be the kick and punt returner exclusively after his terrible defensive play, Jose deserves the nickel anyway.

Maclin will not make an impact immediately.

Brandon Gibson makes the team over Hank Baskett.

Booker G-O-N-E.

Brett Farve can make fun of himself, but looks extremely stiff while doing it.

Babin has made this team.

Desean is the truth.

Rob Meyers may make this team as the 3 TE.

It is clear how much this team misses the leadership of Dawkins. Look at the penalties. Look at the almost hapless way the team (especially the D looked). And I am more worried about the defense than the offense. It has been a while since I’ve seen this many penalties. Three words: Lack of leadership.

Oddly enough, I don’t even care so much about the blown coverage by Hobbs (or Demps, or whoever was to blame). I mean, I do care, but that’s preseason stuff.

The real problem I had with Hobbs was the missed tackle on the 3rd and long play, where the Colts WR caught the pass short of the marker and was in absolutely no position to make a defender miss, and Hobbs basically bounced off him, allowing the receiver to run for the first down. You remember how good Sheldon Brown really is on plays like that.

Babin back ribs… Philllllllyyyyy’s Babin back ribs…

Barbeque sauce!

(stolen from Whodie, I think)

Im not a Ellis Hobbs fan i think he sucks. I remember watching the super bowl i mean he was sticking Burress on the goal line for the touchdown throw, its not that he got beat he got beat and was nowhere to be found. He looked slow and scared on that play. Not only cus of what i seen last night but throughout training camp he struggles with man to man. I played football in for PAL, HS, and college i do know when u play zone u have to cover the man in ur zone until someone else comes in ur zone and u switch alot of communication is important. On that play the the thing is he released reggie wayne but there was no running back tightend or receiver coming in his zone. If he would have looked inside and saw that while he was with wayne then he would have known that that there were 2 ppl on his side going vertical. Also the eagles eye the qb too too much idont know if their taught that but u got to find the man coming in ur zone 1st see what kind of route he’s doing then look at the qb(the giants are great at that they play the man to the qb) Also this is someting i never liked or understood about the eagles even when Johnson was there. If a corner especially but even a linebacker or safety shows blitz and the opposing qb reads it because they gave it away to early (the qb audibles to pass to where the blitz is coming) we still blitz and get torched. I can name countless times in the superbowl Brady killed us when we blitzed cause we gave it away (and last week), last yr in the nfc championship Kurt Warner threw whereever we blitzed from until the second have when we stopped blitzing so much, Peyton always does it to us. I know we have to sometimes cus(bunkley and patterson never never never get and inside push) but when the blitzer gives it away like joliseo hansen did last night the blitzer should have the freedom to back out of it. id rather they not show it sometimes at all especial if ur covering a slot receiver. remember when sheldon brown did taht to eli and the ball went in the air and trent cole caught it and ran for aTD that because sheldon never tipped Eli he was coming. This is what Jeremiah Trotter was talking about when he did he liked jim johnson’s scheme but sometimes he doesnt modify it and he never wanted to.