The best part of today's Eagles' game is that I watched very little of the 2nd and 3rd quarters as I spent most of the game playing with my God Daughter, her little sister and the Philly Sports Baby.
From what I could tell, the major theme coming out of today's game is that Birds have become one of the more boring, lackluster offenses in the league and while the defense has been much better this season, they totally collapsed at the end. If you told me that the game would come down to the Bears having to drive 97 yards with less than 2 minutes on the clock and no timeouts needing a touchdown to win the game, I would have told you to lay down some serious money on the Birds.
I really can't fathom what happened at the end except that the Birds stopped blitzing and let Brian Griese, of all people, pick them apart. The Birds did have two timeouts...taking one some where along the line to steady the troops and give everyone a breather might have been a great idea, but we haven't seen many great moves out of this coaching staff lately. A holding call on the Bears' right tackle would have been nice as he basically ass raped Juqua on the last play. I suppose it doesn't matter as the Birds had to step up and make a play at the end, but no one did.
So, where do we go from here? The Birds are 2-4 and have the look of a 5-12 or 6-10 squad. The front office seriously miscalculated on the potential effectiveness of this group of receivers. They are terrible and D Mac hasn't looked much better. I think we can agree that the division is now out of the question. We can also write off the playoffs if the Birds lose to the Vikes next week, which is a definite possibility.
We are on the fast track to NFL mediocrity. Don't you just love it?
2 comments:
Mediocre is accurate. Poor execution, dropped passes, overthrows, penalties, etc... Despite the personnel issues, the coaches accountability is increasing every week and seriously needs to be re-evaluated if they are to salvage this season. I'm not even going to comment on the Eagles D on the Bears winning drive.
Tom F.
Tom hit it right on the nose when he said that the coaches need to start taking some responsibility for the awful play of this team in the last 6 games. The only game they actually looked like a cohesive group was the Detroit game.
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