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I'm disappointed about the loss of course, but I took a lot of positives away from last night. We took the best team in the NFC down to the wire. We're still a step behind a great team like Philly, but the gap is narrowing.
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I agree in principle but I honestly don't think that we're a step behind Philly. I think we are now on a level playing field with them. The only other I can think of that played them this well (and I haven't really been following them) is Pittsburgh, and the Steelers manhandled them. As far as I'm concerned, either call us as good as Philly or consider them to be as bad, but I don't see them being any better than us based off last night's performance. I also think we've pretty much got our team for next year with the exception of maybe an upgrade on the OL and DL. I thought the playcalling was pretty solid but like you said, the clock management in the last 5 minutes was again problematic, and I think the coaching staff needs to look at that and how to improve it, unless they were simpling having technical glitches. I know from the past games there were a few times when Gibbs said there were issues with communication from the booth or going on to the field.