GTripp0012
12-23-2008, 05:45 PM
If they are really a better team than us that just got unlucky twice, they'll go out and kick the Cowboys all over the field, and actually finish ahead of us in the standings.
Because if they go out, lay an egg next week, and put the Cowboys in the playoffs, that's 1-5 in the division, vs. our 3-3. And then it's a tough sell to your own fans that you aren't the worst team in the division.
70Chip
12-23-2008, 06:19 PM
I hate the iggles, but I respect McNabb a great deal, and I think he's not gotten enough credit over the years. He's still a pretty good qb, but his head coach/playcaller didn't help him by abandoning the run game. When we come out first snap & play most of the game in a nickel w/3 cb's do you really think passing twice as much as running is the best game plan?
McNabb was smart enough to at least not criticize his coach & recievers. The game could've easily gone the other way, thankfully it didn't. We've swept Philly twice in the last 4 years I believe. Feels good considering how they got the better of us for so long in the late 90s/early 00s.
McNabb not get enough credit? I think the opposite is true. The media has gone out of its way to avoid criticising him. The Eagles are a one man team offensively and the one man is not McNabb. Both times they played us, Westbrook was banged up and both times they struggled offensively. They had 14 points in the first quarter of the first game against us, but in the last seven quarters, they managed just two field goals. They are a lot like the Redskins actually - a strong defense with an offense that is easily contained. Perhaps its no coincidence that both coaches are Holmgren acolytes and both call their own plays. My view is that the West Coast offense as these guys run it is not the cutting edge anymore. The Packers run it too, and they're 5 - 10. The Seahawks are horrible. It seems to me the best offenses do whatever works without adhering to any one philosophy. That unpredictability is necessary in an age of computer analysis where tendencies can be catalogued.
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Be water, my friend.
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