Eagles lose to Saints 48-22
by JasonB on Sep 20, 2009 5:04 PM EDT
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PrintThe Eagles were involved in a second straight blowout game against an NFC South team, but this time they were on the wrong end of the beating. The Saints offense did pretty much whatever they wanted all day and the Eagles special teams was absolutely terrible. The offense certainly wasn't great, but is much lower on the list of reasons this game got out of hand.
The defense, who was stifling and so active against the Panthers did a complete 180 today. Rarely got pressure, were beat short, long, in the red zone, out of the red zone... Just altogether terrible. It's hard to even point out a guy or a unit that was more at fault than the others.
The special teams was almost equally terrible, when they weren't turning the ball over they were committing a penalty that left the offense with terrible field position. Plus, Sav Rocca was absolutely terrible today.
On offense, the team did manage 20 points... which isn't really good or bad. Generally, that's a fair representation for how the offense played. Not very good or very bad. They did move the ball, they did make some plays, and they certainly showed some interesting stuff with the wildcat.
Of course, I'm sure everyone will also want to talk about Kevin Kolb... We'll get into that after the break.
I'm going to put the last couple drives aside. Kolb added a bunch of yards and catches along with a couple picks to his stats. None of that is terribly significant to me. So while stat line shows 3 picks and almost 400 yards passing, he wasn't that good or bad. The end of the game inflated his stats both negatively and positively.
He did made some really good throws in this game. He showed much better decision making overall and looked tough out there standing in for some big hits to make a play. He also made a terrible decision on the pick at the start of the second half. He looked at the WR the whole way, didn't see the defender, and threw an easily picked pass. And while I don't think the end of the game mattered, you still don't want to see a guy fall back into bad habits and make poor throws from bad positions. Kolb was good today when he set his feet, made smart throws, and knew when to throw it away if need be. He needs to keep doing that even if you are playing out the string and airing out against a prevent D.
I will give him credit for generally playing well under pressure today. The offense line didn't give him a ton of time and Kolb was often running from defenders. He did much better against pressure today than he has in the past.
I thought for his first NFL start that Kolb looked capable out there. I don't think he proved that he's definitely the future of the franchise, but he didn't embarrass himself either. As first starts go, that wasn't so bad. The bar starts to rise from here on out though. Today's performance won't always be considered good enough.
One thing I can say without a shadow of a doubt is that the loss of McNabb isn't what lost this game for the Eagles. If you blame that or blame Kolb, I have to wonder whether you're trying to convince yourself that the defense can't be this bad...
I don't think the defense is this bad, but then again I think it's fair to say that D isn't as good as they looked last week. Hopefully, we'll see them settle into reality in the coming weeks and not see this wild inconsistency.
More on the game later.
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go fuck yourself!
I have never wanted a VaGiants win more.
"I want to maintain my flexibility."
-Andy Reid
by BroadStBullies on Sep 20, 2009 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Can We Please
Put to rest these proclomations that McNabb is better than Eli. NcNabb can’t even stay on the field, much less pull games out at the end. I am going to show you what a genius Ernie Accorsi was. This is excerpted from his scouting report on Eli.
“Eli Manning is the first quarterback to come along who reminds me of Johnny Unitas. He doesn’t look good all the time. But when the game is on the line and everything needs to be thrown into his hands, he goes into a zone where he has a sixth sense of what needs to be done in order to win the game.”
That is what we saw yet again tonight, and will continue to see many, many times in the future. We never see that from NcNabb, even when healthy and on the field. He had golden opportunites many times in recent years and I will recount them for you.
1) Super Bowl XXXIV
This is the quintessential McNabb failure. He got the ball back with plenty of time to score and threw up on the field.
2) NFC Championship Game 2008
Again, perfect weather conditions, got a good return and enough time to get the ball in the end zone to tie the game. He threw innacurate passes on all 4 downs and another Eagles season ends in disaster at crunchtime.
3) Sunday Night, Week 2 2008
A very well played and exciting game ends with McNabb making an extremely feeble showing in the 2 minute drill.
4) November 9, 2008
Sunday Night game on NBC between Giants and Eagles. McNabb leads Eagles right down the field (fairly impressively) against the prevent defense. He gets the ball back and spits the bit. The drive ends on a stop in Giants territory on 4th and 1. You remember.
Sometimes a team plays badly and they lose. Sometimes a QB plays badly and they lose. The good ones pull games out all by themselves. I hope I never have to again hear anyone say that McNabb is better than Eli, because it hurts my ears it is so untrue.
You go fuck yourself too!
When has Eli EVER beaten McNabb when it counted? The Eagles shut the Giants up every year. Congrats, you were able to squeak one in on a rare off year for the birds.
"I want to maintain my flexibility."
-Andy Reid
by BroadStBullies on Sep 21, 2009 8:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Eli has never beaten Mcnabb...
and Mcnabb has never beaten Eli.
Until they do a skills competition, they don’t play against each other. The Eagles when they beat the Giants its not cuz of Mcnabb either, its usually a combination of the Defense and Westbrook.
And I like how you seem to have that picture on ‘speedpost’……
What the f$%k is the internet?
by FreeBradshaw on Sep 21, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions
AKA Big Blue Poo
"I want to maintain my flexibility."
-Andy Reid
by BroadStBullies on Sep 21, 2009 9:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Hahaha
In no known universe Eli is better than McNabb
How about this:
December 7, 2008
McNabb throws 63% and a TD to beat the Eli in their own stadium on a day when the Giants could’ve won the division by themselves. Eli can only manage a TD with time running out in the 4th quarter.
NFC Division Playoffs 2008
At home and being the number 1 seed, Eli throws 2 interceptions and no TDs, and can manage only 3 FG. McNabb has a wonderful performance against a good defense, throwing for TD and running for another, as the Eagles become the first 6th seed in the NFC to beat a 1 seed.
Aww it hurts...
“it hurts my ears it is so untrue.”
Try this
"I want to maintain my flexibility."
-Andy Reid
by BroadStBullies on Sep 21, 2009 9:15 PM EDT up reply actions
holy crap
how stupid do you feel?
Eagles.
by #1EaglesFan on Sep 21, 2009 1:31 AM EDT up reply actions
Don't you mean "Screwed this game."?
If we could just sythesize life in a laboratory, we could prove that the creation of life requires no intelligence.
by Tigernut on Sep 21, 2009 7:23 AM EDT up reply actions
I WOULD blame Kolb...
…if everything else weren’t so completely horrible. Kolb isn’t good, but, today, neither was anyone else.
"Right now Winston Justice is the guy...until that person gets back out there"
Kolb put us in a position to win I can’t really ask much else from him at this point.
Jim Johnson 1941-2009
"The 0-2 pitch, swing and a miss! STRUCK HIM OUT! The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 World Champions of baseball! And let the city celebrate! " - Harry Kalas 1936-2009
Kolb was capable
but has a ways to go….special teams was awful. And there were way too many penalties.
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Honestly
Kolb was better than a lot of other guys in green today
"What did it feel like? That collision, I didn't feel nothing, because he was pretty much defenseless. It was like running through a cardboard box. Seriously. Cardboard box."- Sheldon Brown on his pounding of Reggie Bush in the '06 Playoffs
he really wasn't that bad...
i expected worse to be frank. but he can build on it next week. i was encouraged. the first pick was admittedly bad. but otherwise, i can deal with it.
and you can't really blame him when only 7 points out of 48 were his fault.
Drew tried to give Kevin the ol’, “you did good, kid” pat at the end of the game, but I think Kolb was completely unconsolable. You guys never had to watch Aaron Brooks smile and shrug his shoulders after a loss like the one your team suffered today. At least Kolb CARES about winning and losing. Lay off of him if you really are the ‘supportive’ fans you claim to be. It’s one game, his first, and there is still a s***load of season left.
If we could just sythesize life in a laboratory, we could prove that the creation of life requires no intelligence.
by Tigernut on Sep 21, 2009 7:26 AM EDT up reply actions
over/under 3.5 qbs start for the eagles this year
i say over, already had mcnabb and kolb, next week will prob be garcia, and vick when mcnabb gets hurt during the 2nd half of the season
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Vick is back next week … Garcia gets cut this week.
Jim Johnson 1941-2009
"The 0-2 pitch, swing and a miss! STRUCK HIM OUT! The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 World Champions of baseball! And let the city celebrate! " - Harry Kalas 1936-2009
The money is guaranteed not the length … if they are going to deactivate him for the game why not just cut him. Even if McNabb still isn’t ready to go we went into todays game with just 2 QBs active so it won’t hurt to do it again next week.
Jim Johnson 1941-2009
"The 0-2 pitch, swing and a miss! STRUCK HIM OUT! The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 World Champions of baseball! And let the city celebrate! " - Harry Kalas 1936-2009
KOLB HMMM??? defense hmm rSAVV EFF YOU
he was alright missed some chances at big plays but who doesnt. but man his throwing motion and that damn water pistol for an arm omg . i felt like we had no shot at throwing deep. i think kolb did alright not good but decent enough as for him being the future . HELL NO . when D-MAC is out there u feel like desean or anybody can make a big play at anytime or a sack will turn into a TD down by 14 hell we are in the game. sorry kolb i dont get that feeling i know its the guys first start but im already yelling draft jake locker Wthe white mcnabb lololol jk. decent game outta kolb tho
defense BS who ever said weapon x wouldnt have done ish i think your kidding right . i love macho i was so0 hype when we got him but he didnt do ish today i bet DAWK would have made somethin happen a play or 2.
savv rocca you sir are what the white boys call a douche bag
Kolb has no arm.
He didn’t kill us out there today like I thought he would (we still lost by 26), but he is not the QB of the future.
"Right now Winston Justice is the guy...until that person gets back out there"
Is this person speaking English?
If we could just sythesize life in a laboratory, we could prove that the creation of life requires no intelligence.
by Tigernut on Sep 21, 2009 7:33 AM EDT up reply actions
D Scheme?
What the *(&( was McDermott thinking? The scheme he had in there to stop Brees was horrible. “Lets only rush 4 and let him choose who to beat us with”. WTF?
The saints deserve a lot of credit. That team has a lot of firepower and their team is designed to beat our team. That is, their quick passes defeated our blitzing defense. Same way the Cards were able to dismantle us in the playoffs.
"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds." - Wilt Chamberlain
by soman319 on Sep 20, 2009 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Our only chance today would have been to knock the shit out of brees. FAIL.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
He would have to be full of shit first before you could do that.
Which, as you can plainly see, he is not.
If we could just sythesize life in a laboratory, we could prove that the creation of life requires no intelligence.
by Tigernut on Sep 21, 2009 7:34 AM EDT up reply actions
What blitzing scheme? We barely tried to blitz. Letting him just throw obviously wasn’t any better. Maybe if we hit him enough he makes a mistake. The Lions did the same thing we did last week, and they got killed too.
And I’m not saying the the offense sucks- Brees is a very good QB and he has some awesome receivers. But playing the way the Eagles did is a sure fire way to lose.
Yeah McDermott didn;t look great today but neither did his players. Early in the game the Saints were running the hurry up so we couldn’t send in our packages. I hated the frequent all-out blitz calls on 3rd down that let brees dump it off for an easy first… we didn’t disguise them and we sent too many…. 4 man rush wasn’t what I picked up from the game but the Saints definetly ripped us when we did it.
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by RadioheadbeatlesEagles on Sep 20, 2009 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions
I just saw that Kolb is leading the league this week in Passing yards with 391. Who saw that coming? I know we still lost and a lot of those yards were at the end when it didn’t matter but still, I for one am surprised
Two thirds of the earth are covered by water, the other third is covered by Dawkins
Anyone who still dismisses Kolb at this point is just plain unreasonable or stubborn. I’m not saying he will go on to be the best quarterback in the NFL, but clearly the guy showed he has what it takes to win games. He did MORE than he needed to for us to win this game, and this loss is on our defense’s hands, not his.
Say what you will about his throwing motion or accuracy, but the fact is he almost threw for 400 yards, delivered us two touchdowns, and gave us a fair shot to win. The first interception he threw was a truly terrible toss, but everyone has bad interceptions. The last two interceptions were against a prevent defense at the end of a blowout game, so I could care less about them.
Anyone who is not happy with Kolb as a backup after what he did today is either delusional or blindly sticking to their guns. I haven’t seen enough of him to know if he will be the future, but he is definitely a good backup if you look across the league and compare him to some of the other horrible backups out there.
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by southjersey89 on Sep 20, 2009 5:45 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
No he didn't.
I would like to disagree with your analysis of Kolb’s performance
1) he almost threw for 400 yards—most in junk time
2) everyone has bad interceptions—Kolb has lots of them, and it’s not an eagles game with Kolb at the helm unless there’s at least one Pick 6…mission accomplished today.
3) Anyone who is not happy with Kolb as a backup—I agree with this…he sure isn’t the future. I’ll be happy to have him hold the clipboard, but he’s not the future of the Eagles.
4) He did MORE than he needed to for us to win this game—nope. Sorry.
"Right now Winston Justice is the guy...until that person gets back out there"
1) he almost threw for 400 yards—most in junk time
2) everyone has bad interceptions—Kolb has lots of them, and it’s not an eagles game with Kolb at the helm unless there’s at least one Pick 6…mission accomplished today.
Have to go both way there. He threw like 100-150 yards or so in junk time but he also threw two of his three picks in junk time, including one with 7 seconds left (aka meaningless).
RIP Jim Johnson, best ever.
Good call
This loss wasn’t on Kolb. His pick to start the 3rd Q gave up 7…but that was no worse than Hobbes’ fumble that gave up 7…our Defense couldn’t stop Brees at all…the loss is on them!
"What did it feel like? That collision, I didn't feel nothing, because he was pretty much defenseless. It was like running through a cardboard box. Seriously. Cardboard box."- Sheldon Brown on his pounding of Reggie Bush in the '06 Playoffs
agreed...our D couldn't stop cover anyone nor put any sort of pressure on Brees..
not to mention all the “Special” Play from our Special Teams….yuck.
by 5 plus 10 equals 6 on Sep 21, 2009 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions
If Kolb has thrown for two more TD's...
…would you still say that? You still would not have won the game. So, who’s fault is it REALLY?
If we could just sythesize life in a laboratory, we could prove that the creation of life requires no intelligence.
by Tigernut on Sep 21, 2009 7:37 AM EDT up reply actions
I have no idea why we tried to replace Sav Rocca this summer, but then again I don’t remember any punters that were on the market except for Shane Lechler and I think he re-signed with the Raiders before Free Agency began which pissed me off because I think we would of went after him and got rid of the bum known as Sav Rocca.
I blame the Special Teams more then the Defense today, we have already mentioned Rocca, and if there wasn’t a penalty after every Special Team play except for the one Hobbs play where he returned it long which absolutely shocked me we would of probably kept it closer or possibly won since it gave us bad field position and when Hobbs fumbled it it gave the Saints great field position.
Also if the refs didn’t miss that obvious call on the Saints O-lineman right before the half when he held Clemons face mask who knows what would of happened since I am not sure New Orleans would of scored a TD.
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The refs did give you a TD that obviously hit the turf first.
Doesn’t that make up for it?
If we could just sythesize life in a laboratory, we could prove that the creation of life requires no intelligence.
by Tigernut on Sep 21, 2009 7:41 AM EDT up reply actions
All I know
Is that Brad Lidge better not blow a save this afternoon or there’s going to be a riot in Philly.
http://www.thegoodphight.com/2009/9/20/1045091/eagles-vs-falcons-oh-wait-phillies
Fortunately, no
But then again, it was one of those “should the rulebook really give you a save when you’re up 3 going into the ninth and give up ‘only’ one run saves”?
Iggles, well, here’s the best I can say: when I lived in the bay area some years ago, I got a chance to go to that joyous game where Charlie Garner had a breakout day and they crushed the 49ers 40-8. But Young and the Niners regrouped and went on to win the Super Bowl.
(Yeah, I know, but I was jut thinking that in theory, at least, you can get humiliated at home in September and still go on to great things.)
We lost to Dallas in Sept (very much like today), and then smashed them in a game that counted.
The Eagles can come back from this…it’s just demoralizing because we don’t have another shot at a strong NFC team until Nov 1 (not buying the ’skins).
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
wow...Drew Brees and the Saints proved me dead wrong
I am eating my words from that post. Absolutely horrible game. The defense was not what we thought they were, neither was our Special teams. The offense was below average and Kolb for sure is NOT our QB of the future. He throws like a girl and his not accurate. He threw behind Westy on that easy 3rd down play when he blew by Vilma. The only throws he made were when receivers were wide open and during garbage time. My God, his long ball sucks ass! He is just another Feeley. Good backup not a starter. Eagles have a LOT of work to do and it starts with getting Mcnabb back next week.
Felix is better than Brian. You can call me FIBTB.
by Route36 on Sep 20, 2009 6:10 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Thanks.
I was watching the game with a bunch of Eagles fans (why there are so many in Greensboro, NC I have no idea!), and they were almost all very cool about giving credit where it was due.
The Saints flat won today, they outplayed the Eagles, in every aspect of the game.
You guys have a great team, lots of potential, and if it weren’t for having the DOG MURDERER on your roster, I’d be pulling for you to win your division. I still think if you can get McNabb back, you have a good shot at doing so.
I hope we have home field in the playoffs if we do face you again, the Linc in January is probably pretty nasty.
Good luck the rest of the season, Eagles fans!
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by GSO Saints Fan on Sep 20, 2009 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks for being classy
Yes, you guys kicked our asses today. I need to see more Saints game to figure out if you offense is really that good, or if our D is really that bad
"What did it feel like? That collision, I didn't feel nothing, because he was pretty much defenseless. It was like running through a cardboard box. Seriously. Cardboard box."- Sheldon Brown on his pounding of Reggie Bush in the '06 Playoffs
Takes a big man to eat crow...
… feathers and all, no less.
If we could just sythesize life in a laboratory, we could prove that the creation of life requires no intelligence.
by Tigernut on Sep 21, 2009 7:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Brees is an elite QB
kinda like Mcnabb is an elite QB.
Elite QB’s can shred any D, even the Eagles. The Eagles were without McNabb. Kolb looked pretty good in his first start, then again the Saints D is nothing to write home about.
Eagles looked like crap, I guess it would have been “nice” to see them stay in the game based on how good they are supposed to be, but the Saints are not some pile of crap team. They probably win their division or at least make the playoffs.
THey play each other again, and a healthy McNabb is there, this is a different game.
What the f$%k is the internet?
Our D just can't get any respect.
Even after a 97 yard pick return and three sacks.
If we could just sythesize life in a laboratory, we could prove that the creation of life requires no intelligence.
by Tigernut on Sep 21, 2009 7:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Im not just sticking to my guns
While he did make some pinpoint throws and got completely rocked a few times standing up to make the completion(and I do give him major props for taking those hits) I did not think kolb looked good at all. A shit ton of his yardage came when the game was a blowout and the saints were running prevent defense.
The D was ass today (probably bc of some very questionable schemes) but they probably would have played better if they werent on the field the whole damn game. By the middle of the third quarter half the defense looked ready to collapse. Basically I felt exactly how mcnabb looked when they put the camera on him after kolb threw incomplete on 3D again and he had a solid “WTF is this even real!?” look on his face for a good 10 seconds.
Agree 100%
I consider your guns stuck to. But because you’re right, not because you’re stubborn.
"Right now Winston Justice is the guy...until that person gets back out there"
ESPN Clowns Keep Trying
Although Kolb certainly did some bad things today, he is way down on this week’s shit list.
Yet ESPN News made his “bad performance” the storyline on this game.
They played Andy’s soundbite where he said that Kolb would start again if McNabb wasn’t ready. Then they laughed at that then brought up both week’s stats. Their parting shot: “Well, Andy Reid has found more questions at the QB as interceptions were ‘clearly’ the Eagles’ achilles heel today.”
‘Clearly’ they didn’t watch the game.
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by goodfella46er on Sep 20, 2009 6:50 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Problems and solutions
We were outplayed and out-coached today. Someone mentioned above how similar the Saints’ short-passing game today was to the Cardinals’ same in the playoffs last year. I agree and it’s worrisome, in that our defense can look one-dimensional at times, leaving us open to these ass-whoopings when we run into a team that has the right makeup to exploit it. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what McDermott was trying to do today. It isn’t as if there is no template for playing against teams like this – if you go heavy on the blitz you have to have creative packages and you have to have personnel who are effective at getting their hands up on the line of scrimmage and playing in throwing lanes behind that. It’s not so much a question of trying to cover guys as it is keeping the ball getting through to them. If you’re not going heavy on the blitz, which I think is how we should have approached this game, then you need an effective zone and we simply didn’t have anything like that today. What is surprising and worrisome is that it appears no one watched the film from the Cardinals game last year – unless someone does we’ll simply have to hope we don’t play this sort of team in the playoffs (knock on wood that we get there).
Special teams was terrible, and I don’t really know what to say about that.
On offense, I’m with the majority in thinking that Kolb had an alright game. It wasn’t that good and it wasn’t that bad. There were a few throws which an NFL quarterback simply shouldn’t make – but that simply takes experience. I liked the different looks we threw out there, those wildcat plays are going to be incredibly hard for a defense to deal with considering the personnel that we have available. Westbrook was sorely missed this game. He’s been a great option for us against the Saints in the pass and I wonder how early he sprained his ankle because he seemed to disappear completely from the game fairly early on (they brought him from the trainer’s table to the field for one series late and he went straight back to it). The template for this game was to limit the Saints’ possession, win the field position battle, and win the turnover differential. We couldn’t keep their offense off the field, our special teams laid an egg, and we turned the ball over.
by rockaintdeadyet on Sep 20, 2009 8:48 PM EDT reply actions
T.O.P. battle.
At half, it was 17-13. We had killed 8 minutes in the 2nd quarter on one drive and it was 10-10 before the shenanigans at the end of the half. We were playing the game well, and following a gameplan that is effective against brees and the saints!
2 turnovers and 14 points later we are in the hole, playing uphill. It’s an overall team loss in my books, as decent as Kolb looked at times. Every ST play there was a penalty it seemed and the Hobbs fumble killed us when we fighting our way back to a lead coming out the the third quarter. Our defense couldn’t minimize the damage afterwards. Kolb makes his 1st real mistake, our defense fails again.
The good news is that this is happening week 2 and not week 12. Hopefully, if we have an opportunity to play the saints again, we can learn from our mistakes and maybe change the outcome. Until then we lost to a clearly better team and we have to bounce back and go 2-1 into the bye. If there was a game to lose in the 3 games before the bye, then this is the “best” one (I guess).
"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds." - Wilt Chamberlain
Yeah,
Terrible all around…but it seems like the game was lost when we gave up on our game plan, and that happened just a couple minutes into the 3rd when the Saints got 14 pts on 2 quick turnovers…
Before that, Kolb was playing well…the defense even forced a couple punts…ST SUCKED!!!! Penalties all over for them…I’m at a loss
"What did it feel like? That collision, I didn't feel nothing, because he was pretty much defenseless. It was like running through a cardboard box. Seriously. Cardboard box."- Sheldon Brown on his pounding of Reggie Bush in the '06 Playoffs
Our Best Characteristic...
….as Eagles Fans this week will be short term memory loss.
What Saints Game?
What Special teams Implosion?
What defensive failure of biblical proportions?
I know not of what you speak.
"Sometimes, children, fear is an appropriate response"
The first step to recovery...
is admitting you have a problem and the Eagles my friend, have quite a few.
Felix is better than Brian. You can call me FIBTB.
Oh, I’m sorry. I couldn’t hear you above the sound of the Cowboys just losing. Welcome to 1-1, and you just lost to a divisional rival.
Have fun with that one, scumbag.
by UnclaimedFright on Sep 20, 2009 11:51 PM EDT up reply actions
He’s an Eagles fan. He’s just saying we should not agonize over this one and just kind of move on and not think too hard about this one.
As fans, yeah. I want the team to be pissed off about this for a long time.
Food for thought though. Kevin Kolb didn’t do enough to win, but he wasn’t the main reason the Eagles lost today.
Compare to Tony Romo, who was absolutely the reason Dallas lost.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
I’m sorry, and I usually don’t try to post here, but you can’t say Romo was the ONLY reason Dallas lost. They had NO pass defense, the entire game. Romo played bad, yes, but come on, the only reason they lost? Please.
yes
i agree with u the cowboys defense let them down.. the giants were down near their own goal line with 3 minutes to go and cowboys let the giants run the ball all the way down the field eat off clock and some good passes in on that final drive..
Not the ONLY reason. (Where did I say “ONLY”?). But despite all those very legitimate problems, don’t you think Dallas wins it pretty handily without the four tunovers, 3 of which were Romo INTs.
And sure, the one off Witten’s foot was a lucky bounce, but it was still a really poor throw.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
You said he was absolutely the reason they lost, which is just false. The three INTs were bad(1st was a floated throw, 2nd was the lucky foot play, regardless of it being a bad throw, Phillips was beat and was lucky, and the 3rd he over threw the ball). But there was no reason why Garrett should have kept throwing it. They were running all over them the majority of the game, and the dude decides to STICK with something that wasn’t working(the pass). Just stupid.
Easy, there, Tonto....
….you obviously misconstrued the intent of the post. Kinda Like a lacrosse goalie: Forget the last shot, focus on the next. As Eagles fans, forget this one game to the aints, I think half of the fans expected a loss anyway (just not this thorough of a beat down).
Andy and Co will bounce back….they show remarkable adaptability on defense and always have.
Signed,
scumbag
"Sometimes, children, fear is an appropriate response"
At one stage Merill said: “Well last week we were wondering if this team was that good or the Panthers were that bad. Now we know for sure that they aren’t that good.”
Lol this season is going to be exactly like last year. Start with a blowout, then lose a few…
Okay so maybe it's time to move on. Hopefully it'll be moving on to winning a Championship!
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