The silver linings in the Eagles' putrid loss against the Vikings

is only 4 days then sunday

I’ve seen the last of Dimitri Patterson as a starter on this defense.

I only hope this loss serves to kick the Eagles (and the crowd) in the pants; this shenanigan of getting off to a slow start then coming back only works to a certain degree. Don’t leave any points off the board, score fast and early, and hold on D.

Oh, and if Vick sees more than a quarter against Dallas next week, I’m going to wring someone’s neck.

I’m the silver-liningest dude around, and I still think this is all a stretch, albeit a typically admirable JimmyK attempt.

For me, I never thought the Eagles were a championship team in two phases, but I believed the offense could rescue them more often than not. I believed with 3 games to a championship instead of 4, their D was less susceptible to being exposed, and we might manage to avoid the three or four defensive lines that could contain Vick.

Tonight just wiped the luster off everything in one fell swoop. I kept on waiting for the calvary to ride in and save the day, and for really the first time, Vick and the O never showed up.

Given that we’re coming off 112 crappy minutes of the past 120, this is more than just “oh good, we’ve been humbled and we’ll rest our good players and go into the playoffs fresh.”

This is “we’re too beat up and not that good.”

I’m reverting to “well this was a step forward from preseason when we weren’t sure if we’d be 8-8.” We found our QB and an FS and a LB and McCoy is way better, etc., etc. I’ll enjoy the NFC East title and the accompanying playoff game, and we’ll always have the Meadowlands … but I’m retiring the Super Bowl dreams until I see something to indicate that we are that team.

Re: the bye

“We don’t deserve it after that performance,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said. “Every phase was terrible. We didn’t coach well enough. We didn’t play well enough. I’m disappointed in myself. It’s embarrassing.”

yeah, pretty much Andy.

All in all, we could be the Panthers. Or the Cowboys. So there’s that.

Playoffs are a clean slate. Maybe they’ll surprise me.

So the silver lining is we take the worst possible path to the Super Bowl?

Instead of a bye (a real possibility despite what people say), we get a tough Packers team- a great QB with good weapons and decent enough defense, and then if we actually do beat them, a Bears team who humiliated us on their shitty field, and THEN a Falcons team who is pretty damn good at home.

That’s a great fucking silver lining. Not pure silver of course. Just that fake shit.

This is the beginning of the continuation of your sorry, pathetic destiny. You will do nothing of note again this year. You guys are a bunch of thug monkeys. See you after the game next week.

Remember a big win over the Giants and we were being touted as the team with the “explosive offense” that “no one wanted to play”. One win last year and we had the #2 seed locked up. I read the same thing on SI.com right before the game tonight and then we laid a pile of shit on the field. Same as last year, big win over Giants and then our ass handed to us by the Cowgirls on consecutive weeks. No #2 seed, and early exit from the playoffs. I had this year written off as part of the learning curve, they got my hopes up, but the reality has to be if Joe Freaking Webb can beat us Aaron Rodgers is going to make us his bitch. We are just too beat up on D. I will keep hope alive but they alway break my heart, always….

The stadium crew did a great job of getting the snow out which was a good thing because there was a guy dressed as Santa in my section and I don’t know if I would have been able to resist

1. This team let me down easy – rather than leading me into the playoffs with high expectations. Now I’ll be ready for them to lose and pleasantly surprised if they don’t. I’d rather be pissed and upset all night now during the regular season than get my heart broken again in the playoffs.

2. We’ve pretty much shut the door on the slim possibility of the Giants making the playoffs.

A loss like this will always be a dark cloud, but …..

1. Giants and there fans must be happy knowing that the Bears have nothing to play for. That’s never a bad thing.
2. A week and a half of rest is needed. If you are going to lose one of the last two, this was the one.
3. Giving Kolb and some of the other second / third teamers some playing time is a good thing.
4. Pretty much knowing who you play in the playoffs this early is a good thing. Packers, at Bears, then who knows, I wouldn’t rule out hosting the Saints if were to win the first two.

Bottom line is that we have a good, but inconsistent, team. We are young. The good thing is that these young players will have 2 (3 for some) years of playoff experience under their belt, regardless of what happens. I’d love for us to get to the Super Bowl, but I am not sure that we can play consistent enough for 3 games to get there. When we are good, we are as good as anyone. It’s just that we are not good all of the time.

1. Rest
2. Build momentum

Why is anyone assuming the Bears or even the Eagles will rest? We saw how that affected the Colts. I am in camp #2. Look no farther then the Giants vs Pats game week 17 ’07.

I guess if the injury is bad enough like Vick can’t walk. Maybe I am bias because of camp cupcake and a bye week is a win bullshit.

Thoughts?

to hear the controversy that starts when Kolb smokes Dallas. We’ll be the talk of the town once again.

I think I’m still in the denial stage about that game. I can’t help but think that if it was Tom Brady and not Joe Webb and alot of those throws were actually completed…ouch. Ok, whatever at least we dont need to worry anymore about where our chances lie.

was it to see our QB actually take responsibility for something, not give scripted answers, and actually have some real emotion during his pc.

im sure they got some fat &$$es that could play on the right side of the line.

what i pulled from the game
A. blitz packages from the vikings were terrible defended against. Where was Schmitt? put him in the backfield (AND KEEP HIM THERE not run someone to the line to block a person twice their size next to McGlycrap) and pull McCoy, its not like we were going to run the ball and the vikings knew it too.
B. O line was horribly planned and executed, too many times did i see two lineman putting the buns on a burger (double teaming) letting people loose on the outside, they need to do a better job maning up against people.
C. DeSean has lost a step due to injury
D. keep colt on special teams. he is terrible on defense.
E. McDermott (sp maybe) is terrible and throws the most obvious blitz packages that do nothing but stuff more bodies on the line and let wrs loose. JJ was always good because he mixed it up, i know you have had injuries McDermott but youve been BAD for the past two years begining to end with the exception for a very few games. your an NFL coach a few games dont make up for your full season payroll (besides to ESPN broadcasters)

97.5 mike n mike has already jumped off the bandwagon of vick hassleback is so pathetic with how short his attention span is.

end.

bad bad game.

Anyone remember the last regular season game last year against the Cowboys? Does anyone remember who they so easily beat us?

I remember the Birds blitzing like crazy, and all the Cowboys would do time after time, is run that stupid little bubble screen that always worked because we had everybody blitzing and nobody could catch up to tackle the ball. We NEED to start running something like this. If teams are going to start blitzing the shit out of us, we have to get some quick hitting plays back into this offense. It is still a west coast right?

rec’d

(but yeah, hearing bs all week will be a tad annoying)

If Vick, DeSean, & Asante play next week I hope it isn’t for more then a quarter.

I just read that Andy yelled at Les Bowen during his press conference do you guys know why?

This is the second straight year we had a chance at a first round bye and be blew it two in a row

I am still trying to be a optimist, so Im going with the theory of “The Saints lost to the Buccaneers at the end of their season, and rebounded from that to win the SB”

Sure, it was ugly, but who cares? It will wake the team up…and it’s better to lose now then in the first round.

Resting starters this week is well and good. It should happen. But it won’t change the fact that our offensive line will still be crappy. Clay Matthews is gonna be on Vick all day if we play the Packers. And our secondary will get torched by Rodgers. It’s not that I don’t think we can win, it’s just that I won’t be surprised if we shit the bed. The comeback against the Giants was incredible, but other than those 8 minutes we have not been a very good football team recently.

I really do hope Reid rests some people though. If not everybody then at least Vick. He will need all his rest and strength to face the Packers. And Kolb will need to get reps in before the playoffs since Vick may very well get hurt at some point.

I am glad the Eagles got a loss out of the way, but disturbed by the inability of the offence to chage the game plan. Do you think Tom Brady would have always looked for deep routes on blitzs? No. The offence would have called some plays to the vacated spot of the blitz or a screen. I didn’t see any of this til the 4th. A couple of times I saw McCoy wide open for a short pass during the blitz but Vick just throw it sown field to a having a bad night Jackson. I used to think this shit was McNabb’s fault . Most of the year the Eagles have adapted but tonite was not one of them. I think Andy Ried puts too much emphasis on the deep pass when I feel the Eagles could do Drew Brees and the Brady thing with 8-10 yard pass til you are dead.

One thing i do knw is we’ve played A LOT more games A LOT better than last nights game. The laws of average say we shall play better the next few games. We have gotten so used to seeing the team rally,or get an early lead that we aren’t used to having to rally back. Except for the NYG game,we haven’t had to make such a thrilling comeback. But its good to knw we can.

about 50% of this board is ready to throw in the towell. Wuts up with u guys? Have some faith behind your team and stop bitching. It’s getting old.

squeaked into the playoffs with a terrible defense, labeled as “the worst team to ever make the playoffs.” Yet they went on a tear and almost won the Super Bowl.

I’m definitely concerned after last night’s game, but we gotta keep the faith.

Anything can happen.

lost to the Vikings 35-14 in Week 15, lost to the Patriots 47-7 in Week 16, then beat the Seahawks 34-21 in Week 17.

In the playoffs they beat the 11-5 Falcons in round 1, then the 12-4 number 1 seed Panthers… then we know what they did in the NFCCG against the Eagles.

Again… anything can happen.

Does anyone know of a site that collects the total hits on a QB? Just trying to write a fanpost

Let me say that I have considered this since the Colts game:

What if we go one-and-done in the playoffs? Vick is hobbled, contained, picked off, etc…

It’s draft day. Andrew Luck has declared. The Panthers give us a call. “Hey, we’ll give you Luck, a 3rd, and next years 1 and 2 for Vick.”

You, with your new 400 pound frame and sick ’stach, think about it. You thi nk, “Hey, Mike is 30 years old. He got this team moving. But is his style of play viable in the long run?”
You think about the success of Sam Bradford. New start? Stock up on more skilled players? Trade Kolb as well?

Do you take the deal?

I think that if there is any problem with Vick it is that he makes some miraculous plays, and the coaches get used to and expect this. So last night instead of adjusting much they just let Vick run for his life expecting that eventually he’ll make a play. Vick made bad plays but it was the play calling that put him in the situations, mostly.

This off-season the focus should be on OL / CB first.