TMQ

[General_Failure]

Oh goodie, I hope it's another pointless epic like last week.

[Wingspan]

Oh goodie, I hope it's another pointless epic like last week.

and every week...

that said, it's great for printing out and wasting 20 minutes in the nice and spacious handicapped stall.

if anyone is looking for me....

[Tomahawk]

For the truly lazy, here's the new TMQ.

It's not that I'm lazy, I'm not internet savvy - the only reason I was able to find concretefield was by doing a search for midget porn.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

New one's out.

[TexasEagle]

Stats of the Week No. 2 : Eagles' coaches called 48 passes and 13 rushes -- though trailing by a touchdown or less most of the game.

This is what botheres me the most about Andy Reid. He's WAY too pass happy sometimes.

On a related note:

Tis Better to Have Rushed and Lost Than Never to Have Rushed At All:  Willis McGahee gained four yards on his first five carries against Houston. When the run doesn't work right away, many teams immediately give up and go pass-wacky. But often the running game starts slowly, then builds steam as defenders tire. Buffalo kept giving McGahee the ball, and on his remaining 17 carries, the gentleman rushed for 113 yards. NFL teams, don't abandon the run.

More on the Iggs.

Pass-Wacky Is Putting It Mildly : When you're way behind, you call lots of passes and end up with crummy rushing stats. But the Eagles were not way behind at Atlanta -- trailing briefly by 14 points, they trailed by a touchdown or less for most of the contest. Yet Philadelphia coaches called 48 passes and just 13 runs. (This counts sacks and a scramble as called passes.) Trying to pass on 79 percent of your snaps in a close game is, as ecologists say, not sustainable. It was especially amusing when the Eagles, making no attempt to rush, called play-action fakes: talk about an empty threat! Contrast to the Falcons, whose play-fakes were credible because they were rushing well and often. The game's biggest play, Michael-Mike Vick's 58-yard throw to Michael Jenkins to the Philadelphia 1, setting up the winning score, was a play-fake. Philadelphia safeties crashed the line when Vick play-faked, because the Falcons were rushing well and often. When Donovan McNabb play-faked, Atlanta safeties ignored it.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Post Super Bowl edition

NEWSFLASH:  Drafting well is important.

[rjs246]

Don't tell the taterskins.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Don't tell the taterskins.

How many original draft picks regularly started for them this year?

Samuels (1st round)
Dockery (3rd round)
Jansen (2nd round)
Cooley (3rd round)
Arrington (1st round)
Rogers (1st round - replaced Walt Harris mid-season)
Taylor (1st round)

Awsum.  7.

[SunMo]

how many on the Eagles?

McNabb
Westbrook
Tra
Andrews
Trotter
Lito
Sheldon
Dawk
Lewis

9

[General_Failure]

Reggie started, too. He didn't start opening day, but he started. And that Pinkston guy.

[SunMo]

yeah, and i forgot LJ too

i was going by opening day rosters, before injuries made players like Reggie and Cole step in and start

[rjs246]

LJ Smith anyone?

[Wingspan]

LJ Smith wasnt drafted, he was created in the novacare lab out of all the leftover buckhalter ligaments and mcdougle intestines.

[MURP]

Patterson had some starts. 

[qwert246]

Don't tell the taterskins.

How many original draft picks regularly started for them this year?

Samuels (1st round)
Dockery (3rd round)
Jansen (2nd round)
Cooley (3rd round)
Arrington (1st round)
Rogers (1st round - replaced Walt Harris mid-season)
Taylor (1st round)

Awsum.  7.

What Lemar Marshall doesn't count?