The Morning After: Eagles Week Two Injury Report

Asante Samuel got kicked in the head on a tackle late in the game.

I’m pretty sure Jackson did play after he banged up his ankle. So I’m guessing that means it wasn’t too serious.

that game against the saints was a killer for me

bye bye patterson .. hello jack? it could be coming ;-)

I was very worried about the vanilla defensive play-calling scheme McDermott showed us.

For a week, those concerns were obviously curbed. But again, it revealed itself this game. I saw no exotic blitzes, no extreme pressure like I had seen the week before. And let’s face it, Carolina’s offensive line is significantly better in talent than the Saints.

The real difference between McDermott and Johnson, as of right now, is if the defense got in a hole, Johnson was incredible at halftime adjustments. He was a wizard at many aspects of being a defensive coordinator, but this was truly his calling card; he would find some way to get to the opposing quarterback and shore up the defense every single half.

We got used to this every-Sunday excellence. So yesterday, when we saw this embarrassment, you have to wonder: what kind of halftime adjustment did McDermott put forth? It involved a lot of blitzes, but not enough misdirection and overload to make Brees pay. And, quite frankly, that’s the only way you’re going to beat Drew Brees.

This game scares me. And I’m really scared about next week, too. If McDermott is put into a similar situation, will he take his foot off the pedal and continue to be tenuous? Or will he devise schemes that Jim would take pride in?

This defense has the talent. That talent just needs to be utilized – they played about as bad as they could play last week from a technical standpoint. The players are certainly not being let off the hook, I grant you – but for a scheme devised with a clear primary goal of disrupting the quarterback…it didn’t come close to accomplishing that.

Hopefully, we’ll chin up. Because while everyone is saying the next few weeks are easy, the eleven after that? Not so much. We can’t afford to lose these games. Period. And with a defensive effort like the one we saw this past week, we’ll be splitting.

I’m hoping this game can be chalked up to the players on defense playing bad and Brees being a quarterback god. If McDermott is a fraud we have no SB chance.

Can we eagles fans remember that. Their defense didn’t play well but the two turnovers to start the second half were killer. Down 17 and a guy at qb making his first NFL start, the outcome wasn’t that surprising. Honestly if I were a saints fan I’d be more concerned. They’ve played two qbs both making their first NFL starts and had trouble stopping them. Talking heads like matt millen picking the saints to go to the super bowl after beating the lions and the eagles without mcnabb is insane. Their defense isn’t any better than it was last year. They got a lot of breaks against the eagles and the biggest was mcnabb not playing. So what I’m saying is get some perspective.

Given that McNabb is likely going to be a question mark from a health perspective for a good part of the season now, I was really hoping that Westbrook would provide this spark this team desperately needs. He showed a little of that in Week 1 and I was hoping that Reid could limit him Westbrook to 15-20 touches as Westbrook rounded into playing form.

Now Westbrook hurt that same ankle and is back to square 1 again. Eagles do have McCoy but this offense is going to struggle mightly this year if McNabb/Westbrook spend the better part o the year banged up.

BTY – Buckhalter has been running hard and effectively in Denver in early action. It mystifies me why Reid utterly refuses to run the ball especially with a supposed solid FB this year.

give me a break, the Saints O line gave up only 13 sacks last year. All returned. Our only Pro Bowler (besides Drew) didn’t play a snap yet this year. We had absolutely no problem running the ball on either you or Detroit, in fact Detroit’s defense made it harder on us. Even Reggie ran on you. You guys gotta be realistic. You are way overestimating your defense, your linebackers are mediocre at best as well as your safeties. You will have huge trouble executing your blitz packages this year without Dawkins and Jim Johnson to find a way to get your other D line players to perform on a level with Cole, who is very good but not among the top 10 in the league, and he can’t carry a defense like a Rewggie White or an LT could .

Andy Reid really screwed up 1) Shawn and Stacy Andrews?? WTF
                        2) O Line- where’s Runyon??
                         3) Starting a rookie at safety and letting B Dawk walk??
                         4) LB depth is deploreable- should have kept Wilhelm as backup
                          5) Letting go of Feely was stupid- at least he has started some games . Neither he nor Kolb are the future, but Kolb holds the recorsd for the 2 longest interceptions in the NFL history and his confidence is shot.
                         6) It’s going to be tough with Omar Gaither
                          7) Assante Samuel will struggle against tall/ big receivers and there is no B Dawk to bail him out
                          8) No one can replace Jim Johnson’
sorry, you don’t want to hear it, but it’s true and you got me going saying the Pathers oline is better than ours (think
like if I said dallas Oline was better than yours!)

at least Phillies fans and Flyers fans have some class. Eagles fans are pathetic. They always boo their own, just takes time.