The Eagles and Bengals played to the first tie in the NFL in six years. This was easily the worst football game I have personally watched. Neither team wanted or deserved to win this game. The Bengals were given the ball 4 times by McNabb. One of which only called for 1 yard to convert it into 6 points. Terrible. McNabb played poorly with 4 turnovers. Andy Reid thought 58 pass attempts was a good idea compared to only 14 rushes for Westbrook who actually looked sharp on a few plays. This coming a week after Westbrook kind of, sort of took a shot at Reid’s play calling and lack of a consistent running game. Good job Reid, way to listen or even pay attention to not only one of your players but arguably your best player. That right there is all the analysis I have for that game. I already wasted hours of my afternoon watching that slop and a 13-13 tie isn’t worth me wasting anymore thought or time on that.
If I had the power I would have given both teams a loss. They don’t even deserve half a win.
And with that game ending in tie (which is completely ridiculous the NFL allows ties by the way. This isn’thoweve freakin’ soccer!) the Eagles season is over however you look at it.
The inability to beat a 1-8 team suggests even whispering the word playoffs would be ridiculous for the Eagles. So they sneak in there, then what? They get blasted in their first game. Why waste everyone’s time and promote a false sense of accomplishment that will only lead to more of the same the following season. The one benefit of losing is that it often leads to change. Something that is welcomed and needed right about now.
Going into the Bengals game the Eagles had the 2nd toughest remaining schedule. Well they couldn’t get a win vs. the weakest opponent of the bunch there is no reason to think they will beat the likes of Dallas, Washington New York, Baltimore or the Cardinals. Hell if the Browns rally behind Brady Quinn that game looks like at best a tie for the Eagles right now.
The season is unofficially over because there are still games to play and maybe if the Birds win out they could slither in. But for me personally I am done with this team and especially the coach/GM. I will still watch them, because what else is there to do on Sunday’s until the NBA on ESPN starts up again. But as far as being emotionally involved or dedicating anymore brain power to analyzing this team I am done with that. I have officially checked out.
Eagles optimists feel free to “try” and spin this if you want. The team stinks. It’s time for a change in leadership and style no more excuses.
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I’m with you, Dannie. Look for me at the Thanksgiving game. I’ll be the one in the black Dawk jersey cheering for the Cardinals. And again at Fed Ex Field next month, cheering for the hated ‘Skins.
Go, Andy. And take your mediocre QB with you.
I watched the game but could really care less what had happened. This season was over with the lost to the Giants. There is no emotion toward this team and the players as I watch right now. I wanted to see the old group (McNabb, Dawkins, Tra, Jon and a few others) try just one more time this season to put up a fight but this season is over. Looking ahead the Browns may be the only team we really have a chance of beating. I will not get that upset about what happens now, but I will if there is no real change by next season. I don’t know if it should be the coaching (I personally would have fired Andy right after the game but thats why Im not Al Davis), players, GM could be anything, could be everything, but this team needs a new direction. Hopefully we actually use our first round draft picks toward it next year.
Put a fork in ‘em. They’re done I hope they can give us some entertaining games at least before the season is over.
It’s funny, before this year I thought the Eagles could challenge for a playoff spot and might get a top 10 draft pick from the Panthers. Looks like it’s reversed…
What an embarrassment! There are so many things that it’s hard to remember them all. 3 interceptions (which could have easily been 4 or 5, but for a couple drops) and a fumble by Mcnabb. 58 pass attempts. Throwing on every 3rd down (all 18 of them, including a 3rd and 1) and converting 3-18. 16 possessions (actually 18 but one was with 8 seconds left in the 4th and one was the hail mary with 7 seconds left in overtime) and only 13 points. Tying the worst team in the league. Finally, not even realizing that the game could end in a tie and that playoff games and the super bowl can not end in a tie. Yikes!
It all starts at the top and the first changes that should (must) be made are with the coaching. When you read quotes like this from the opposing defense……..
“From watching film, other teams in the league have been successful against them,” said Joseph, “They may have a lot of yards or whatever, but teams have been successful getting them off the field. They have tendencies you can pick up on and you have a good idea of what’s going on.”
“They run those 14-yard curl routes – they ran them like four or five times today – so when they do that, the safeties were going to be aggressive and the corners were going to be over the top,” Joseph said. “On that particular play, that’s what happened.
…………you know that the coaching staff is not doing it’s job. The offense is stale and very predictable so, even if you have great athletes and are sharp running your plays, it makes it very difficult to be successful. Heck, when Tiki Barber can call the play you are about to run from the studio, like he did last week, that tells you all you need to know about how poorly the coaching staff (Reid ) is doing their job.
Attention, everybody go to Sixer games- this team needs us and we need them! Mo probably does a better job coaching than Andy Reid(now). Andre Miller probably does a better job with those long outlets than McNabb. However, Swoop is always welcome to Halftime Entertainment at Wachovia! Swoop is great!
I am with all of you in that the Eagles are dead to me at this point. I will watch the games with as much emotion as they are playing with……NONE. They need to bench McNabb and start Kolb to get him ready for his full time position next year. Trade McNabb in the offseason while he still holds some sort of value and draft for the future, for the team that Kevin Kolb will lead to victory. Reid should, but most likely will not lose his job. His play calling and time management is horrendous, and he can’t even beat the worst teams in the league any more. He brings his team down to the level of their opponent and plays bad football against bad teams. Its time to rebuild and get as much value out of our stars now while we can by trading them off to contenders. Sure we have had success with this team for most of the past 10 years, but we have seen the best and its only gonna get worse.
First the good and there was plenty of excellence in this game. Our Defense is world class, the Bengals have good recievers and we shut them down. Nobody ought to even bother throwing to whoever Asante Samuel is covering, the guy is awesome. Let’s remember Defense wins games and that will count in the upcoming games.
Ok the ugly. Passing nearly 60 times. Guess what Andy NOBODY is buying your stupid play action. WHY? It’s really simple, you don’t run the ball, so NOBODY is afraid the play action might actually be a run, cause you NEVER run. Ditto the screen, we know you are throwing it.
Not his fault. Donovan was again pretty good. Some turnovers? Yes but throw the ball 60 times and the D can figure that out.
Time to cut from the team. Reggie Brown, you are useless and yet another high round WR waste of my time and Donovans pass attempts. Go get a gig with Freddie
The defense played good? against the Bengles, who can’t score with Carson Palmer, yet alone without him. Doesn’t matter how good the WR’s are (and nothing this season makes 85 look like a great reciever) if a team doesn’t have a QB or running game. McNabb was pretty good? More turnovers in 1 game then the titans have this year, completing well under 50% of his passes (and a 50% completion rate is bad, you realize good QB complete 70 to 80% of there passes in a good game AND throw downfield). Less than 6 yds an attempts, horrible in so many ways. Maybe you have devoloped low expectations. I don’t doubt McNabb will have another “good” game, to give false hope and make Kolb rot on the bench until he’s a free agent. I hope you were joking or smoking
BTW, the Bengles scored pretty much there average. 2nd to only the Raiders in points scored (even worse then the Lions) AND they had no Carson Palmer, Eagles suck
that’s a pretty good point but we know the Giants and Cowboys pretty well. The Bengals scored 23 on the Giants ( a great D) and 22 on the Cowboys, vs us only 13 and that’s in 5 quarters of play not 4.
hello, it’s the play calling
From USA Today
COACHING: F — Not one of Andy Reid’s better days. Against a Bengals defense that was ranked 25th against the run and 10th against the pass, the Eagles ran the ball just 18 times and threw it a season-high 58 times on a cold and windy day, including on three failed third-and-one plays.
Here’s more wood for the fire. I think today’s article by John Smallwood encapsulates the Eagles’ situation very well. It’s worth a read.
Mike, you hit the nail on the head with one of my biggest pet peeves with this team, the play action. Why are they wasting 1-2 seconds every play to do nothing. No one is buying it and by the time McNabb composes himself to throw, the pressure is already there. Why not save the play action for 10-20% of the plays so teams might end up being fooled? I just don’t understand the logic behind this. It seems that the risk is much greater than the reward.
Has anyone been to the homegames recently? At what point do the fans start chanting for Kolb and booing McNabb/Reid if they haven’t already? This seems inevitable at this point given that all the media hype is filled with anti-Reid/anti-McNabb articles and views.
JDubbz asks: When does the inevitable booing start? If you’re going to Baltimore, you can start it there. I’ll pick it up at the Linc on Turkey Day.