Week 17 NFC EAST Championship Game Day Thread

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

Gonna' piss me off if the Eagles, YET AGAIN, get major draft capital for a QB. They did that shit to us for McNabb and they did it for Foles.

Yeah but if they move him, they are going to take a HUGE cap hit. Unless they throw in a draft pick and negotiate for the new team to absorb some of the contract money.

[Chief X_Phackter]

Originally Posted by MissouriSkin

Wonder what all these talking heads would be saying about keeping Hurts in if he’d have slipped and torn his ACL in the fourth quarter after it really started raining....

Probably something along the lines of - that's unfortunate and part of the game.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by AnonEmouse

I don't get all the negativity. I get some of it, but you can only beat the team you face, and we did that. I am not favouring us to beat Tampa, but we're NFC East champs and in the playoffs. NOBODY would have predicted that after going 2-7. Let's just revel in the moment before we come crashing back to earth in the next couple of weeks (barring a miracle).

out of 263 teams that started 2-7 we are the first and only team to make the playoffs. And I think it is a fair thing to say that our team might have been further along with a normal off-season, (NYG too in all honesty), and a few early losses may have been wins.

[Chief X_Phackter]

Originally Posted by MTK

To me it's the same thing whether you rest starters or pull them in game. In both cases neither Pitt or Philly had anything to play for so they can both do whatever they want.

It's not the same. Steelers have the playoffs, so I get them resting some guys so they are healthy for a run at the SB.

I'm not down on the Eagles for resting their banged up players, but J Hurts wasn't banged up. Sudfeld was a significant drop-off in talent and effectiveness. Pederson pulled the rug out from underneath every other player on that team that fought for three quarters.

[MTK]

And if Sudfeld led them to a W people would be calling Pederson a genius today. Honestly I could care less about all this drama. We won, game over. On to Tampa.

[SunnySide]

Pulling on Hurts was ... odd.

Eagles had 2 QB questions. Big one - do they fully commit to 2nd round rookie Jalen Hurts in 2021? Do they continue to carry FA Sudfeld as their QB3 on their active roster as they have for a few years now?

I think they Eagles saw enough to answer "yes" to question 1 - they are committing to Hurts. So why not get a last look at Sudfeld. Whose poor play makes his decision easy.

Theyve answered the 2 QB questions and secured the no. 6 overall pick .. a Jamaar Chse or D Smith or Sewell or Parsons etc
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4th and goal decision - no problem with that. Hurts completes that and its brilliant.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by MTK

And if Sudfeld led them to a W people would be calling Pederson a genius today. Honestly I could care less about all this drama. We won, game over. On to Tampa.

I'm pretty sure if the Eagles were playing either the Cowboys or Giants last night, and it was Washington depending on the win, what the Eagles did would not have been a big deal or not widely discussed.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

I'm pretty sure if the Eagles were playing either the Cowboys or Giants last night, and it was Washington depending on the win, what the Eagles did would not have been a big deal or not widely discussed.

and they would not have been mentioning us nearly as often as they did the Giants. Man the booth was awful last night. ( I hate the SNF booth)

[gibbsrcnfan]

Originally Posted by MTK

And if Sudfeld led them to a W people would be calling Pederson a genius today. Honestly I could care less about all this drama. We won, game over. On to Tampa.

im with ya all the wy ..on to the Bucs


we won moving on

[MissouriSkin]

Originally Posted by Chief X_Phackter

Probably something along the lines of - that's unfortunate and part of the game.

No it would be “why was your starting QB for next year playing in bad conditions in a meaningless game”. It’s easy to second guess or criticize any decision made when you aren’t responsible for it.

[SunnySide]

Hail To The Football Team
@HTTREDWOLVES_
·
1h
Replying to
@JPFinlayNBCS
and
@DeAngeloHall23
This is hands down the most blatant hold I’ve ever seen. Dude was trying to reenact the titanic scene. Luckily this wasn’t a TD for philly.
https://twitter.com/JPFinlayNBCS?ref...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

^^ video of the uncalled hold on the 4th and goal play. I was screaming at my TV dude was bear hugging him from behind.

JP Finlay
@JPFinlayNBCS
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1h
Tampa will be without LB Devin White for the Wild Card game against Washington but the news sounds good for WR Mike Evans. MRI reveals no structural damage, per @JayGlazer
, and Evans seems on track to play Saturday night

^^ Devin White is cleared of covid protocol on Sunday .. game is Saturday. Hes the Bucs leading tackler, big blow.

[SFREDSKIN]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

Hail To The Football Team
@HTTREDWOLVES_
·
1h
Replying to
@JPFinlayNBCS
and
@DeAngeloHall23
This is hands down the most blatant hold I’ve ever seen. Dude was trying to reenact the titanic scene. Luckily this wasn’t a TD for philly.
https://twitter.com/JPFinlayNBCS?ref...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

^^ video of the uncalled hold on the 4th and goal play. I was screaming at my TV dude was bear hugging him from behind.

JP Finlay
@JPFinlayNBCS
·
1h
Tampa will be without LB Devin White for the Wild Card game against Washington but the news sounds good for WR Mike Evans. MRI reveals no structural damage, per @JayGlazer
, and Evans seems on track to play Saturday night

^^ Devin White is cleared of covid protocol on Sunday .. game is Saturday. Hes the Bucs leading tackler, big blow.

I saw that and was going WTF? There was a lot of holding not called last night.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

Hail To The Football Team
@HTTREDWOLVES_
·
1h
Replying to
@JPFinlayNBCS
and
@DeAngeloHall23
This is hands down the most blatant hold I’ve ever seen. Dude was trying to reenact the titanic scene. Luckily this wasn’t a TD for philly.
https://twitter.com/JPFinlayNBCS?ref...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

^^ video of the uncalled hold on the 4th and goal play. I was screaming at my TV dude was bear hugging him from behind.

JP Finlay
@JPFinlayNBCS
·
1h
Tampa will be without LB Devin White for the Wild Card game against Washington but the news sounds good for WR Mike Evans. MRI reveals no structural damage, per @JayGlazer
, and Evans seems on track to play Saturday night

^^ Devin White is cleared of covid protocol on Sunday .. game is Saturday. Hes the Bucs leading tackler, big blow.

He literally lifted Settle off of the ground. That said, Settle needs to be flailing his arms to get the attention of the refs.

[Number44]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

I saw that and was going WTF? There was a lot of holding not called last night.

Refs did everything they could to help the Giants last night. If the game had been called on the level, we win in a blow out. Blatant uncalled holding fouls by the Philly OL all night long. Not one single call. Not one. The first Eagles TD drive was a travesty. We stopped them three or four times, only to have bogus penalties called to extend the drive. The one pass interference call at the sideline on third and long was outright criminal. The only penalties called on Philly all night were 2 or 3 obvious off-sides, one obvious block in the back, and a holding on a punt play where the Eagle tackled our wide man right off the snap. Even on that punt play, since the obvious penalty occurred pre-kick, it could have, and probably should have, been called defensive holding, giving us a first down. The player is an eligible receiver until the ball is kicked. That is why you will often hear the ref say "after the kick" or "before the kick" when announcing penalties, because before the kick it is a defensive foul and after the kick it is a return team foul.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

He literally lifted Settle off of the ground. That said, Settle needs to be flailing his arms to get the attention of the refs.

There was at least 2 missed holding calls on the Eagles o-line last night, the Settle one and there was another play where one of our linemen got literally tackled on an outside rollout and they didn't call it.

I'm not one to blame the refs when we take an L but the officiating was terrible last night.