Resistance is Futile

[Beermonkey]

Jim Johnson usually deserves more of the blame than he actually gets.  Do the fans just love him because he blitzes?

I've noticed this for a few years. I think fans view Johnson as one of them, like a guy you'd expect to see sitting next to you drinking 50 cent drafts at some corner bar. His somewhat blue collar, unpolished demeanor seems to allow him to get overlooked when the defense plays like shtein or he is out game-planned.

These same people will tend to demonize Lurie, Banner & Reid because they represent arrogant management to them, probably the same way these type fans resent management in their real lives.

[The BIGSTUD]

Reid didn't call a good game, and I'll even say he panicked. After thinking about it more though, if our players make the plays they were supposed to, we win this game. Westbrook fumbled, LJ dropped a pass, Donte dropped a pass, Reggie Brown dropped a pass. He called a bad game, but I'd say Andy gets no more than 50% of the blame. The players need to be accountable too.

[ice grillin you]

the difference is johnson is overrated where as andy is incompetant...thats why the level of criticism is different...plus the head coach is always going to take more heat than a coordinator and rightfully so

[SunMo]

again eli completed over 70%...70!!...sitting back would have done absolutely nothing...so he throws deep and beats mike lewis and sheldon brown instead of just sheldon brown...or he throws for an easy first down on hanson

at least with a blitz youre trying to dictate what happens instead of getting disected apart like they were...

plus as i said you have a chance at a sack and put them out of or in deep field goal range

i don't have a problem with a blitz, in theory, but like i said before, Eli got to see the blitz when they had a the false start.  he was able to make a route adjustment if they did it again, and they did.  i don't think you can run the same blitz after you had already shown it on a wasted play.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

i don't think you can run the same blitz after you had already shown it on a wasted play.

Oh yes you can... with hilarious results!7fc9892!

[ice grillin you]

i see what youre saying but its not as if they blitzed only dhani two plays in a row and eli checked down to shockey...they brought the house and eli went deep...he didnt check down to a safe or quick route that would avoid the blitz...he took a gamble as the eagles did...all or nothing...the giants executed and the birds didnt...i have no problem with that

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Then you can't have a problem with Reid going for it on 4th and 1 to ice the game.  Also a calculated gamble that failed.

[ice grillin you]

after third down i yelled for him to go for it...punting and pinning a team that you couldnt stop anyway would have done nothing....so the call to go for it was a fine one...running a guy with no knees who has played one game in the last three years was not...

not to mention bringing him off the sidelines for that play...once he did that everyone in the country knew where reid was going...westbrook needs to be on the field there to give the defense more than one thing to think about

[General_Failure]

No, it was one yard. Keep Westbrook and Buck off the field. Go goalline, put god damned Cole at FB and let Tapeh pick it up.

[Feva]

after third down i yelled for him to go for it...punting and pinning a team that you couldnt stop anyway would have done nothing....so the call to go for it was a fine one...running a guy with no knees who has played one game in the last three years was not...

not to mention bringing him off the sidelines for that play...once he did that everyone in the country knew where reid was going...westbrook needs to be on the field there to give the defense more than one thing to think about

It would have taken time off the clock.  Time that meant something considering they tied the game with :10 left... or that they started that game tying drive with :52 left.

[Feva]

No, it was one yard. Keep Westbrook and Buck off the field. Go goalline, put god damned Cole at FB and let Tapeh pick it up.

Now THAT'S what I was screaming for.  Andy teased us with that play all preseason... and had two opportunities to use it and neglected to do so.

[ice grillin you]

i would have preferred a sneak...but i could have lived with that...buck is a good story and all but he just doesnt have the power he had preinjuries and should not have been put in that position...i mean hes had what 10 carries since 2002 and hes brought in the game to get an uber important first down...i just dont understand that...its like andy went to his roster card and looked to see who was the teams 'big' back...and whatever that card said he was gonna go with it meanwhile ignoring every single other factor in the decision...andy is a horrid on the fly decision maker...

[PhillyPhreak54]

What?

Come on IGY. Buck has been running with power. Did you see him truck Gibril yesterday after he reversed field and tried his best to imitate McNabb in Dallas on MNF in '04?

Running on 4th and 1 there had zero to do with power. Just like when everyone laments the fact that they have "NO BIG BACK!!" as a reason they somehow lost yesterday.

That play was going to fail no matter who was running it. Wilson was crashing down and there was no one to block him. The OL didn't get a push and then Wilson cleaned up Buck as he crashed down.

And FYI - McNabb said that play call was Marty's. Not Andy's. So put away the hate Andy boner for a little bit.

[General_Failure]

I want to strangle everyone that says they have no big back. And then I want to give Tapeh a hug.

[SunMo]

the play might have worked, but instead of a 3rd TE, they had Reggie Brown in, and he totally missed the safety coming off the edge.  Tapeh got good penetration into the dline and Buck probably could've picked it up