Comments on: Football is Unofficially (Officially) Over in Philadelphia http://www.reclinergm.com/football-is-unofficially-officially-over-in-philadelphia/ Philly sports blog for diehard Sixers & Phillies fans Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:49:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dwight Burke http://www.reclinergm.com/football-is-unofficially-officially-over-in-philadelphia/#comment-7489 Dwight Burke Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:28:39 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=2687#comment-7489 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.  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. 

]]> By: J Dubbz http://www.reclinergm.com/football-is-unofficially-officially-over-in-philadelphia/#comment-7439 J Dubbz Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:29:55 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=2687#comment-7439 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. 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.

]]> By: J Dubbz http://www.reclinergm.com/football-is-unofficially-officially-over-in-philadelphia/#comment-7438 J Dubbz Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:26:31 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=2687#comment-7438 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. 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.

]]> By: bski http://www.reclinergm.com/football-is-unofficially-officially-over-in-philadelphia/#comment-7437 bski Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:07:26 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=2687#comment-7437 Here's more wood for the fire.  I think today's article by <a href="http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/20081118_John_Smallwood__Time_to_go__Andy_Reid_s_system_has_run_its_course_with_Eagles.html?viewAll=y" title="John Smallwood" rel="nofollow">John Smallwood </a>encapsulates the Eagles' situation very well.  It's worth a read. 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.

]]> By: Mike Donnelly http://www.reclinergm.com/football-is-unofficially-officially-over-in-philadelphia/#comment-7436 Mike Donnelly Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:41:56 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=2687#comment-7436 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. 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.

]]> By: Mike Donnelly http://www.reclinergm.com/football-is-unofficially-officially-over-in-philadelphia/#comment-7435 Mike Donnelly Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:36:51 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=2687#comment-7435 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. 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.

]]> By: Joe http://www.reclinergm.com/football-is-unofficially-officially-over-in-philadelphia/#comment-7432 Joe Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:15:29 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=2687#comment-7432 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 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

]]> By: Joe http://www.reclinergm.com/football-is-unofficially-officially-over-in-philadelphia/#comment-7431 Joe Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:13:50 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=2687#comment-7431 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 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

]]> By: Mike Donnelly http://www.reclinergm.com/football-is-unofficially-officially-over-in-philadelphia/#comment-7429 Mike Donnelly Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:32:42 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=2687#comment-7429 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 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

]]> By: J Dubbz http://www.reclinergm.com/football-is-unofficially-officially-over-in-philadelphia/#comment-7424 J Dubbz Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:04:15 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=2687#comment-7424 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. 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.

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