Sunday, January 28, 2007

Old Wounds Reopened

Tonight, I had the distinct pleasure of catching "America' Game" on the NFL Network, which detailed the New England Patriots 2004 Championship season that culminated with their 24-21 victory of our beloved Birds. A couple of interesting tidbits relating to our Eagles' came out of this show.

  • Bill Belichik's pep talk to his team before the game included details of the Championship Parade our city planned to hold had the Eagles won. Great...thanks to the idiots who leaked that information. I'll blame that on Mayor Street everyone's favorite whipping boy.
  • Lito Shepphard totally and inexplicably blew his coverage on the Patriots TD right before the first half. It was a three man pattern. The main target, TE Christrian Fauria, fell down. The second option, Deion Branch, was double teamed and not open. Lito was in zone coverage, with only one receiver in his area, but for some unknown reason barely paid attention to David Givens as he caught a touch down.
  • Belichick and Tedy Bruschi reminded me of how the Birds failed to go into the two minute offense with five minutes left, lollygagging their way down the field, but draining the clock down to about 1:45. Belichick stated that he was incredulous, mockingly asking the coaches in the booth "we're up by ten points, right? What are these guys doing?" Bruschi was even more shocked at the Birds' offense lack of urgency. Well, we were all with you, Tedy. I still think D Mac should have pulled himself if he was unable to run the offense properly. Excuse, me but just thinking about this again made me throw up in my mouth.

Thanks NFL Films. While your "America's Game" series, is fantastic, I'm now totally pissed off over Super Bowl 39 again.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the recap man. Just like you, I am now heading for the pepto.

Tom F.

St. Joe's Nick said...

Agreed Tom. I'm throwing up right now just thinking about Donovan throwing up with 5:40 to go in the biggest game of his life.

Anonymous said...

Remember Brian Quinn, he threw up before every football game, then quit on the team, then begged to come back. Sad story.

George said...

Isn't McNabb your boy? I never saw Elway or Favre throwing up on the field.

Philly Phan said...

Favre usually puked on the sidelines...especially when he was hopped up on Vicodin and Bourbon.