2009 - Game 1 Thoughts
wow. i am ecstatic with today's win. even if i thought i had a feel for the team coming into this season (i didn't), i don't think there is any way i'd have predicted that the birds would totally dominate a 12 win team in such devastating fashion.
a few things that were plainly evident today:
- this team can rush the passer. wow, can this team rush the passer. cole, parker, abiamiri, clemons, howard -- holy smokes. those guys combined with our two great fat guys clogging up the middle to just dominate what is supposed to be a very good o-line. good omen for the season if this is what the defense can do.
- desean jackson is so f-ing fast. when he runs, we might as well be the guys chasing him. everyone looks like they're running in quicksand. he scares me when he starts celebrating 20 yards from the endzone though... "don't drop the f-ing ball!"
- i only noticed winston justice once today -- on the peppers sack when mcnabb rolled left and probably should have let the ball go or run the ball. he played well.
- peters mashes people off the line. tra was a great pass blocker, but he was never a particularly good run blocker. if peters gets his "timing and cadence" down, big red's proclaimation that peters is the best left tackle in the game might not be too far off. (though i don't really understand why it's taking so long for him to get the timing down on the silent count)
- the panthers had 169 total yards today (about 50 of them on the first drive after that fluky parker facemask). 2.9 yards per rush, 2.4 yards per pass. are you kidding me. this was a team that won 12 games last season!
- quintin mikell trucked a running back on a safety blitz. i had to rewind the dvr to see which "linebacker" had done the pancaking, only to be surprised to see it was a safety. i've never seen a safety do that before.
- the birds can rush the passer, and they have 4 starting caliber cornerbacks. they've consistently been 3 deep on corners, but never this deep. also, how professional is sheldon brown? lito doesn't get his new contract, he pouts, whines, and fakes injury. sheldon takes it like a man, and uses it as motivation. he looks primed to have a pretty damn good season. if he plays like this for the rest of the season, i'd give him his new contract.
- akers must have gone on the lenny dykstra vitamin routine this offseason. he never kicked the ball further than he did today. his opening kick was 4 yards deep in the endzone and his 48 yard field goal would have been good from 60 easily (it was 2/3 of the way up the net when it hit). whatever it takes baby.
- really happy to see the birds have a legitimate nfl fullback on the roster. haven't had one since poor jon ritchie blew out his knee.
some things not to lose sight of in the euphoria of the win:
- drops, it never changes with this team. donovan just throws the ball too hard i guess. don only threw 18 passes today and 3 of them were drops on balls that hit the receiver in the numbers.
- westbrook did not show any explosiveness. coming off injury, probably not in game shape, doesn't have his timing, etc. all of those are probably factors, no doubt, but westbrook's first two steps were s-l-o-w compared to a couple of seasons ago. the good news is that mccoy looked active and spry.
- kevin kolb has no pocket awareness right now. i'm being tough on him too, but let's not be too rough on him. he's basically never played in the nfl. i don't think he's doing any worse than don did his first few games. kolb just doesn't have the athleticism to keep stuff alive while he gets his bearings. that being said, this defense better come prepared to play if don is out next week. there is a pretty darn prolific offense coming to town.
one interesting note: while trying to educate myself a little on the upcoming season over the last week and i read a few things that surprised me, one of them was that darren howard and chris gocong were among the leaders at their positions for "defeating" the opposing player in one on one situations.
i'd be interested to see how our fat guys stack up. i'm really happy with how bunkley and patterson control the middle. i know everyone was very worried when bradley went down, but do you think it's possible that the play of the fat guys possibly made him look better than he actually was? just a thought. i thought he was a good player, but didn't really understand why everyone was panicking when he went down. the guy is not the second coming of ray lewis.
what a way to start a season!
a few things that were plainly evident today:
- this team can rush the passer. wow, can this team rush the passer. cole, parker, abiamiri, clemons, howard -- holy smokes. those guys combined with our two great fat guys clogging up the middle to just dominate what is supposed to be a very good o-line. good omen for the season if this is what the defense can do.
- desean jackson is so f-ing fast. when he runs, we might as well be the guys chasing him. everyone looks like they're running in quicksand. he scares me when he starts celebrating 20 yards from the endzone though... "don't drop the f-ing ball!"
- i only noticed winston justice once today -- on the peppers sack when mcnabb rolled left and probably should have let the ball go or run the ball. he played well.
- peters mashes people off the line. tra was a great pass blocker, but he was never a particularly good run blocker. if peters gets his "timing and cadence" down, big red's proclaimation that peters is the best left tackle in the game might not be too far off. (though i don't really understand why it's taking so long for him to get the timing down on the silent count)
- the panthers had 169 total yards today (about 50 of them on the first drive after that fluky parker facemask). 2.9 yards per rush, 2.4 yards per pass. are you kidding me. this was a team that won 12 games last season!
- quintin mikell trucked a running back on a safety blitz. i had to rewind the dvr to see which "linebacker" had done the pancaking, only to be surprised to see it was a safety. i've never seen a safety do that before.
- the birds can rush the passer, and they have 4 starting caliber cornerbacks. they've consistently been 3 deep on corners, but never this deep. also, how professional is sheldon brown? lito doesn't get his new contract, he pouts, whines, and fakes injury. sheldon takes it like a man, and uses it as motivation. he looks primed to have a pretty damn good season. if he plays like this for the rest of the season, i'd give him his new contract.
- akers must have gone on the lenny dykstra vitamin routine this offseason. he never kicked the ball further than he did today. his opening kick was 4 yards deep in the endzone and his 48 yard field goal would have been good from 60 easily (it was 2/3 of the way up the net when it hit). whatever it takes baby.
- really happy to see the birds have a legitimate nfl fullback on the roster. haven't had one since poor jon ritchie blew out his knee.
some things not to lose sight of in the euphoria of the win:
- drops, it never changes with this team. donovan just throws the ball too hard i guess. don only threw 18 passes today and 3 of them were drops on balls that hit the receiver in the numbers.
- westbrook did not show any explosiveness. coming off injury, probably not in game shape, doesn't have his timing, etc. all of those are probably factors, no doubt, but westbrook's first two steps were s-l-o-w compared to a couple of seasons ago. the good news is that mccoy looked active and spry.
- kevin kolb has no pocket awareness right now. i'm being tough on him too, but let's not be too rough on him. he's basically never played in the nfl. i don't think he's doing any worse than don did his first few games. kolb just doesn't have the athleticism to keep stuff alive while he gets his bearings. that being said, this defense better come prepared to play if don is out next week. there is a pretty darn prolific offense coming to town.
one interesting note: while trying to educate myself a little on the upcoming season over the last week and i read a few things that surprised me, one of them was that darren howard and chris gocong were among the leaders at their positions for "defeating" the opposing player in one on one situations.
i'd be interested to see how our fat guys stack up. i'm really happy with how bunkley and patterson control the middle. i know everyone was very worried when bradley went down, but do you think it's possible that the play of the fat guys possibly made him look better than he actually was? just a thought. i thought he was a good player, but didn't really understand why everyone was panicking when he went down. the guy is not the second coming of ray lewis.
what a way to start a season!
Labels: football
posted by The Mean Guy at 8:04 PM
55 Comments:
good to have you back TMG. Spot on and fair observations. Saw the same game in all aspects. Loved what I saw from Shady, did not notice 18. Did he even suit up? I like what Alex Smith will bring when he gets in the fold. I love the Vick pick now because I think Kolb completely lacks awareness and panics under pressure. Vick can at least run around and make foot plays.
Any opinion on Andrews? I know backs are touchy and emotional issues are as well, but gun to your head, you are Andy Reid, do you say enough is enough and make this his last season?
Bumble
Any opinion on Andrews? I know backs are touchy and emotional issues are as well, but gun to your head, you are Andy Reid, do you say enough is enough and make this his last season?
it probably depends on how the season plays out, but drama queen or not, he's too valuable to dump for pennies on the dollar or cut outright. he's simply too young and too good to not make every last effort to get his head right.
besides, do you want another andrew toney situation? everyone doubted his injuries and he was constantly being criticized for being soft. meanwhile the real problem was that medicine hadn't yet discovered the stress fracture.
the guy is a head case, no doubt, but who knows, maybe he really is injured?
the only thing i know is this -- i wouldn't want to see him healthy and playing for some other team.
as long as justice seems like a serviceable option at right tackle, there is no reason to rush into anything you might regret later.
Welcome back, TMG.
Defense was probably primed to win one for JJ. I hope they can carry the emotion through the entire season. Blitzes seemed to work a high percentage of the time. This won't be the case next weekend as Brees gets the ball out a lot quicker.
Asante absolutely shut down Smith yesterday. One WR screen and a whole lot of nothing. Nice.
I noticed the same thing about Akers though none of the rest of his kickoffs ever got that deep. I wonder if that's because the Special Teams coordinator had him kicking the ball differently?
Everyone is saying McDermott's got lots of wrinkles that we haven't seen yet. This might get interesting.
Garcia signing tells us Kolb and Vick are not the answers. Nice to see Reid pulling out all the stops here. Goes to show you how much he values the QB position. He will NOT let a 5 injury stop him from winning a SB.
love the Garcia grab. Vick is Reid's athlete, not his QB. I don't like Kolb even a little bit. terrible mechanics. This weekend should be his last start ever as a Bird. I would rest Don the next 3 weeks as he was very solid save for a silly throw into traffic.
Bumble
love the Garcia grab. Vick is Reid's athlete, not his QB. I don't like Kolb even a little bit. terrible mechanics. This weekend should be his last start ever as a Bird. I would rest Don the next 3 weeks as he was very solid save for a silly throw into traffic.
i'll be shocked if garcia's on the roster 4 weeks from now. i wouldn't rush to judgement on kolb, we haven't seen him play enough to make any sort of realistic assessment. based on snippets, winston justice might have been cut already, which would be a shame because he looks like he might actually be able to play.
let's at least give kolb one start before deciding he has no future.
We've seen him back pedal in a pannicked fashion and randomly throw hurried throws in the face of a rush often enough to gauge that his mechanics look to be suspect. He also throws off his back foot too frequently and he just never seems to be able to move the team on offense. He also seems to lack pocket awareness. he held the ball 8 seconds on his sack fumble the other day. He has played a lot of QB in his life, he ahs to know that isn't normal. Admitted limited result set, but I've never liked what I've seen out of him and I hope he proves me wrong. I think a team that loves to blitz-Giants, Dallas, Bears-would give him fits and really slow our offense down.
And Justice played one game and did OK. He did give up a sack and when they ran they ran left, so not sure I would yet call him a success story. He didn't kill them and I like the guy and the way he amnned up and took his lumps from fans and media, but I'm not yet ready to call him an NFL caliber tackle.
Bumble
How is it the Eagles managed to sign Garcia when the team that REALLY needs him is CAR? I think that shows you what he thinks of this organization despite the fact they wouldn't pay him to be a starter 3 years ago.
Bumble, the thing about back-up QBs is that 90% of the time they're back-ups for a reason. Kolb isn't better than 5 so we shouldn't expect him to be. I tend to side with TMG in that we haven't seen a prepared Kolb in the preseason yet. I don't know enough about mechanics to say anything, but good decision making will overcome that a lot of the time. Course none of us knows if he has that or not.
Haven't seen a prepared Kolb in pre season yet? I'm sorry, isn't this guy's job professional football player? And by that logic wouldn't part of his job description be "be prepared to play, even in pre season"? I hate to quibble on minor details, he is and always will be a backup for a reason, I'm just certain that of the 5-6 times I've seen him play, he tosses the biscuit up too easily on picks and fumbles, he has so-so arm strength, he back pedals under pressure, and his mechanics are shaky. One week of practice with the first stringers probably won't change that, but I'm hazarding a guess.
I hope you are right, but I'd feel a heckuva lot safer with Garcia in there. Weak arm but knows the system and will care take nicely and let Don heal vs. be rushed back into action.
Bumble
Bumble, I think our defense just proved that what happens in the pre-season doesn't necessarily transfer into the regular season. Since Kolb has played those games with back-up, who knows how good he is? I don't anything about mechanics so they may really suck. We'll see.
Very interesting game coming up again NO. We need to see last week's D show up again to have any chance. I definitely share your concerns about a Kolb-lead O.
Why is everyone predicting a shootout for this NO game? I don't think there's anyway Kolb puts up 25 points this week. And our defense is good enough to keep them under 20 based on last week's game. I see this more as a 17-20 or 21-20 type game.
Phil NO has put a lot of points up on various Birds defenses the last few years and would score a lot of points on most teams. I don't think it means the D sucks or anything this weekend if they give up 28, I just think NO has too many options to spread the field and a great QB for that system. To me, the Birds only shot is to play ball control because they are not going to hold that team under 3 scores. No knock on them at all, but this may be the toughest team they face on offense. Although the Birds do have a ton of CB and could match the 5 WR set pretty well, I do predict a huge game for Shockey over that LB corps.
Bumble
And Justice played one game and did OK. He did give up a sack and when they ran they ran left, so not sure I would yet call him a success story. He didn't kill them and I like the guy and the way he amnned up and took his lumps from fans and media, but I'm not yet ready to call him an NFL caliber tackle.
me either bumble. my point here is to try to draw a comparison to the kolb situation. justice looks like he coul be an nfl caliber tackle when all is said and done. based on snippets only, he might have been cut two seasons ago.
i think we should hold off on passing any judgements until he's given a fair shot to play -- even though he hasn't shown us anything encouraging to this point.
Why is everyone predicting a shootout for this NO game? I don't think there's anyway Kolb puts up 25 points this week. And our defense is good enough to keep them under 20 based on last week's game. I see this more as a 17-20 or 21-20 type game.
my sense is that there seems to be a belief that the saints can score on anyone's defense. on the flip side, there seems to be a belief that anyone can score on the saints defense -- e.g. lions putting up 27 against them with a rookie qb.
i'm pretty interested to see what kolb can do. one thing andy seems to do really well is "coach up" quarterbacks. if he can coax a feeley led offense to score 28 on a belichick defense, i'm optimistic he can get kolb to do some damage against the saints.
Bumble, I bet our D does much better than you think. 20-17 is the score on Sunday, but I have no idea who scores the 20. Am very afraid we don't win this game.
Pretty interested? Yikes. I'm pretty horrified to find out what Kolb can do. I guess if you're going to roll him out, then this is the D to do it against.
D sucks.
I missed most of the game, but the bits I saw were very concerning. Looks like McDermott laid an egg with a crap game plan involving no pressure. You let Brees sit back and scan the field he'll cut you up like a surgeon. Too many turnovers spells doom. You cannot fumble that second half kickoff and then have Kolb throw a crushing pick. Game goes from dogfight to over in the span of 2 minutes. Cannot happen at home vs. a good team. Kolb looked Ok to me at times, but his mechanics are terrible and he is way too careless with the ball. if he never started another game I'd be OK with that. This team is nowhere without Don at the helm. D not as good as they looked last week, not as terrible as today, but way too many stupid penalties and mental mistakes by this team. Hopefully they've gotten the turd out of their system and can move forward. The Saints are better than them right now, but they aren't a 50 point, 4 TD better team.
Bumble
Agreed - those turnovers killed the team right there. Again, I don't know about mechanics, but Kolb played fairly decently. Threw the ball well with a couple balls behind the player and picks offset by the great pass to DeSean (how often does 5 hit a guy in perfect stride like that) and couple very quick throws to beat the blitz. He also ran the 2 minute drill well to end the first half. He's not a top 10 or top 20 QB by any stretch of the imagination, but he's clearly serviceable. Coming out of that game, I think that's a plus.
I have no idea what happened to the D. The short fields in the 3Q didn't help matters, but they were never able to get off the field when they needed it. It almost looked like they were playing a prevent defense the whole game.
And you forgot the special teams penalties. They probably cost the Eagles a good 10-15 yards of field possession on every series. Awful coverage units. Several shanks by Rocca. Akers is erratic on his kickoffs, too. He'll hit 1 into the endzone and then the next 3 are at the 10. This unit needs to improve very fast in my opinion.
Agree Phil. Not saying Kolb was terrible-didn't love that game ending turnover after the fumbled kickoff-but he did some good things. My thought is he is not an NFL starter and I want Don 1000 days out of 1000.
Penalties are pissing me off more than anything else. They are happening everywhere as well. Special teams, O line, D. That crap needs to be cleaned up in pre season. This team looks undisciplined and soft to me right now. What the hell did they do for the past 7 weeks?
Samuel had his worst game as a pro from the limited amount I saw. He is better than that. They have shutdown DB yet Brees threw to seemingly open men all day. Maybe it was complete lack of pass rush, but what the heck happened to our secondary? I never expected them all to get abused like that. It wasn't Randy Moss on the other side.
Westbrook looks done to me. No burst, shockingly already hurt, good bye.
Stacey Andrews got paid an awful lot of money not to know his plays. Pathetic.
But then they could stomp a mudhole in KC and make this week moot. i fear they won't do that due to Kolb at the helm and a shaky D.
Bumble
Bumble, are you high? If they lose this week, it's because week 4 is a bye. Ugh.
Is it me or are they running too many trick plays? Don't think that's really the way this team should be going.
I think we can all agree that KC is atrocious. Any time they got a shred of positive momentum going, they pulled a dumb penalty out of their fannies.
Bad mechanics or not, Kolb is an NFL starting caliber QB. Not a bad game for his second start.
Wildcat's got to go. They're getting no production out of the format especially vs. their standard packages.
Trotter? Really? What does that say about how poorly Reid thinks of his LB and how poorly they have drafted and identified talent for that position.
Bumble
Ya got me. It might be a leadership thing as well with JJ and Dawk gone. There's probably worse moves to make here and it's not like Garcia was going to contribute so why not?
I will admit that he looked done to me, but if you make desperate moves like this, then why let Dawk go last year? He's in the game and he's even more emotional.
Bumble
Just because someone else overpaid for Dawk doesn't mean the Eagles "let him go". They wanted him back they just didn't want to give him that much money. Even saying that, Banner's already come out and said they should have upped their offer to keep him. Everyone makes mistakes, but at least the Eagles seem to make those kind of mistakes and not Jamarcus Russell sized mistakes.
Kolb offensive player of the week for the NFC last week. That's got to be a little bit of a surprise.
I think we should rename this the BumPhil blog since TMG doesn't seem to stop by very often anymore.
Speaking of Dawk. I watched the Broncos game yesterday and didn't see much out of him. 2 plays looked to be all he was capable of though one of them was pretty decent.
Bye weeks suck.
Yo Phil !!!! Dawk saved the game with a touchdown saving tackle in the final minute ! Still plays with a lot of emotion and called the defense together for a pep talk after Dallas first score. He may have lost a step, but still a great leader and I love the guy.
Seriously, maybe TMG should turn the keys to this site over to Bumble or you for some more regular main page posts. I love the guys analysis, but he's too busy to post regularly. YO TMG !! Give up the keys, you're too drunk to drive !!!!!
Captain
Cap, that was the decent play (chased it down from all the way across the field). But it was still only 2 plays. You can't have your SS only make 2 plays a game. Well, maybe you can but that's not the Dawk we've all come to know and love.
5 and 36 are back practicing. Great news. Over/under on consecutive starts by them? I'll go fairly high at 4.
I'll take the under on 36. He's glass at this point. I'm optimistic on 5, however, so I'll take the over. If you mean as a package, I'm on the under side as well.
Is there any Phillies love out there in Scrappleland?
Ed Wade
No, but plenty for the 3-0 Flyers!
Hope the Phils can pull it off, but I'm not overly optomistic. Trying to repeat with a suspect bullpen and the bats have been very inconsistent for the last month. Last year the pitchers all started peaking at the right time, they rode the wave, and Lidge was automatic -- not so this year. I will watch, hope and support, but we shall see.
2TD favorites over the visiting Bucs. I think this says more about how bad teams seem to be really bad lately than how good the Eagles are. Remember back earlier this decade when there was a lot of parity? Doesn't look to be the case anymore. Bad teams are really, really bad and everyone else is decent with only a couple best teams.
Thank goodness the Eagles are much closer to the latter than the former. Never too early to celebrate Thanksgiving in this regard.
Contract extension for Reid? Why aren't coaches required to fulfill their full contracts, while players usually are? That's always bothered me a bit.
Wrap up Reid now. Why not? You don't have to worry about injury with a coach. Doubt he'll go senile in the next decade. Philly will appreciate this guy a lot more after he leaves. Damn good coach and organization man as far as I can see. You could do way worse. I'd keep him around for as long as he is motivated to stay.
Ed Wade
The Bucs today and Raiders next week? Coupled with the Chiefs and the bye, that's a month without football in the prime of Fall. Yuck.
Ed,
I totally agree with you. Reid is the best coach the Eagles have had in my lifetime.
Thank goodness they were playing the Bucs or all those penalties would have KILLED them. Some really mediocre play around the coming out of Maclin. This offense looks like it could be deadly once it dumps the Spread Eagle.
I would dump the Wild Cat yesterday. What's the point? I'm concerned that 10 will wind up hurt. This offense doesn't need a gimmick.
Ed Wade
by the way, the Phils just won one of the most exciting playoff series ever.....
Is anyone concerned that the Birds D looks completely inept? They let a rookie QB throw all over them. I think I was more frustrated with another game of stupid penalties. Aside from some home runs, offense didn't do much. Don looked great and the young playmakers all stepped up, but what is up with our D? I need to see them play a real team to learn what we have. I think the Birds are OK, but not elite. That Skins game will go a long way toward illuminating things.
Bumble
Except the Skins suck, Bumble. It's amazing how many bad teams are out there, and how many of them the Eagles have to play in the early part of the season. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the better teams, especially the football Giants.
I guess a win is a win, but it seems so hollow...
Ed
Agreed that the last Phillies's playoff was a heart stopper, and very very exciting. Great to see the teams, coaches and most importantly his own confidence back (Lidge).
Flyers still need to gel a bit. I'm still not sold on Pronger's ability after watching for a few games.
-Joe
Skins own the Birds the last few years Ed. That win would tell me they're beyond past struggles. Don't pencil a W there yet. Skins stop the pass well (#6 in the league). Birds don't defend the run well and Skins run well. Not a gimme.
Didn't I question the Pronger signing in the Spring and get leapt on, Joe?
Bumble
No Phils chatter here ? I am done with Hamels & Madsen, but i will never again berate Ruiz for all of his rally-killing double plays. And as my son says, "Raaauuuullllll Ibanez" !!
Captain.
It'd be nice to see the Birds run the ball tomorrow. They haven't done that well yet this year and I'm not sure if it's because they've faced awful secondaries and they just have to exploit them or they are unable to run the ball. I need this question answered.
Bumble
The Skins flat out stink. If the Eagles can't handle them this year, they have significant problems.
Ed Wade
Guess we don't need to wait until the Skins game to see if the Birds have significant problems. Are you even allowed to lose to a team as bad as the Raiders? Will the Eagles need to pay a fine or something?
Has a team that has lost to a team as bad as the Raiders ever made it to the playoffs? Help me out guys, I'm walking by the whirlpool's edge. When was the last time the Eagles lost a game like this?
Ed Wade
ED-They have significant problems. their O line stinks, their game planning stinks (are you shitting me?! Two weeks in a row you let the other team game plan to take away your WR), their LB stink (Trotter shouldve been a major uh oh signing), their K has a 35 yard range, and their QB still struggles to call adjustments at the LOS. They're not good at all, they beat a few bad teams. Expect a very long stretch of games coming up from here out.
Bumble
Roger that, Bumble. How does an 11 yr head coach get so thoroughly schooled by a 1st/2nd yr guy with possibly the worst team in the league. Again, poor, poor, poor gameplanning by AR coming into the game. I'm not even surprised anymore !! Why does our veteran QB continue to struggle with slow starts week in and week out ?? He cried for weapons, we got him plenty, yet he continues to get off to slow starts. Time mgmnt : First, our Syracuse graduate calls a timeout when we don't have any !! ARE YOU KIDDING ME !!!!! Westbrook knew the game situation, why didn't Donovan ? 4th quarter -- why did we waste 2 timeouts from 2:14 remaining to the 2 minute warning. Doesn't it make sense to let those 14 seconds run off and use those timeout to stop the clock AFTER the 2 minute warning ?? I'm not saying this had any effect on the outcome -- we all know this group's struggles in come from behind, less than 2 minutes to go -- but it's still laughable that AR hasn't figured out how to better manage the clock. I stopped living & dying by this team a year or 2 ago when I accepted that the AR/Donnie Mac combo will not get it done - and I enjoy football much more now. I still watch the Eagles always, but I am not surprised at this type of performance any longer. I thoroughly enjoyed the Balt/Minn game yesterday, look forward to the Denver/San Diego game tonite (as well as the phillies). I know some of the eternal optomists will throw out the, West Coast, long flight, bad team, looking ahead to division game next week, they're really not this bad excuse..... Guess what ???? They are this bad.
Out.
Captain
Crud.
My thing is when the good coaches (i.e. Bleicheck) are faced with a team that is blitzing the house, they just take it away. "OK, you're blitzing everyone, I'm 3 step dropping and hitting quick slants until you stop". Birds have the weapons to do that, yet don't. I just don't understand why their whole game plan was chuck as deep as possible with an O line struggling vs. the blitz. This is why I say that Don and reid will never get it done. Great teams win those games. The Giants wiped their ass with Oakland. i know Oakland was inspired, but at some poitn emotion dies down and the betetr team finds a way to win. instead, it was the same old pile of crap. It;'s these losses that kill them because it erases their margin for error and forces them to win one they'd have been underdogs in.
Bumble
this blog may officially be RIP. TMG seems to have abandoned. i am about to remove from my favorites.
Bumble
bumble and phil, send me your blogger account info (email address) and i'll add you guys as authors.
Don'e let it die boyz !!! TMG won't be busy forever and I don't want to lose contact with you knuckleheads :)
btw - Where's the big dawg been ?
Captain
Fine.
Any bets on whether we see good Eagles or bad Eagles on MNF?
Oh, and this is Phil from now on . . .
that was an excellent post on the "don't talk to me when I'm nude" thing. I had a college football coach who'd hang around in the George Washington pose (one leg up on the bench) nude post game to chat. Oh yeah, he was 75 and his old sack would hang down to the bench like a turkey gizzard. Good times.
Bumble
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