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[rjs246]

In other words, Andy doesn't understand how to win football games.

[QB Eagles]

Apparently when teams run the ball, that means they are attempting to lose.

[Rome]

In other words, Andy doesn't understand how to win football games.

No.  He only knows how to win them his way.   He's the most stubborn motherfarger I've ever come across in sports.  Everything about yesterday dictated that they run the ball yet he still passed it almost twice as many times as they ran it.  You don't win that way with a backup quarterback.  Hell, you rarely win that way with all cylinders firing.

That, alone, is why he should be sent packing.  His asinine overreaction at the presser today proves once and for all that he takes being questioned personally as well and that's deadly considering he answers to no one in the organization.  Not even Lurie.

[Father Demon]

That, alone, is why he should be sent packing.  His asinine overreaction at the presser today proves once and for all that he takes being questioned personally as well and that's deadly considering he answers to no one in the organization.  Not even Lurie.

I'm on the Get-Andy-Out-Of-Town wagon, but the hypocrisy has to stop.  Andy gets bashed for having no emotions and vanilla pressers, and he finally is getting pissed (and I personally think he's getting pissed about team performance and not because the press is being mean by asking hard questions), and now blasted for that?  Choose a side, man, and stay on it.

[rjs246]

I'm on whatever side results in Reid leaving. All bash all the time.

[MadMarchHare]

Amen.  The guy farging up the most this season is Andy Reid.  farg him and his temper tandrum.

[reese125]

That, alone, is why he should be sent packing.  His asinine overreaction at the presser today proves once and for all that he takes being questioned personally as well and that's deadly considering he answers to no one in the organization.  Not even Lurie.

I'm on the Get-Andy-Out-Of-Town wagon, but the hypocrisy has to stop.  Andy gets bashed for having no emotions and vanilla pressers, and he finally is getting pissed (and I personally think he's getting pissed about team performance and not because the press is being mean by asking hard questions), and now blasted for that?  Choose a side, man, and stay on it.

Thats because hes going to be judged again on whether hes a good coach. He reads

Some of them were very straight forward questions. He hates to be asked about his coaching decisions, feels like he can do no wrong (but he always does), and he never explains why he does what he does. I see plenty of coaches after a game explain why they did certain things on 3rd and this and 4th and that,and not be a bitch about it.

[Feva]

In other words, Andy doesn't understand how to win football games.

No.  He only knows how to win them his way.   He's the most stubborn motherfarger I've ever come across in sports.  Everything about yesterday dictated that they run the ball yet he still passed it almost twice as many times as they ran it. 

Wait... are you talking about Seattle this past week or Jacksonville in the tornado last year?

[ice grillin you]

i think the weather was if not a non factor close to it on sunday...not fun to sit in and watch a game but it was not terrible to throw the ball in...there was no wind in the stadium....thats not to say he should have thrown it 45 times but he shouldnt have done that if it was 75 and sunny...and its not like seattle ran the ball down the eagles throats..altho not as much as the eagles they still passed significantly more than they ran...

the difference is that seattle had mo morris and a non effective shawn alexander while the eagles had at rb arguably the second best player (non qb) in the nfl and a back up qb...not to mention the qb matchup of matt hasselback vs aj feely

the jacksonville game was totally different...the wind was off the meter

[Feva]

Disagree somewhat. I don't think the conditions should have been a deterrant to the passing game... but the freezing rain and subsequent conditions (slower routes, wet ball, etc.) should have served as a flag to point out to Andy that this was a game to lean on Westbrook and the running game... which is where we do agree.  Westbrook's abilities not being tapped into more in a game like that is inexcusable.  I agree that JAX was worse, but I was using that as an example that if Andy threw the ball in those conditions, he damn sure was going to let a freezing rain stop him this past weekend.

[ice grillin you]

Les Bowen | FURTHER REVIEW: The bottom line - Birds need to let Westbrook run
by Les Bowen
Philadelphia Daily News

IT'S A head-scratcher, all right.
At his weekly postmortem news conference yesterday, Andy Reid noted that his team "struggled to sustain drives" in the second half of a crippling, 28-24 home loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Indeed, in the fourth quarter, I have the Eagles gaining 9, 6, 16 and 3 yards on their four possessions, ending with the Lofa Tatupu interception that kept Brian Westbrook's 64-yard punt return from mattering.

Westbrook is the only difference-maker the Eagles currently employ, a view that now has even been embraced by the team's official Web site. Yet the punt return was one of very few chances he had down the stretch to win the game - Westbrook carried three times on those

final four series, for 11 yards. He caught two passes, for 4 yards.

Meanwhile, four passes went to Kevin Curtis, two completed, for 12 yards. Two passes were aimed toward L.J. Smith (including the infamous down-the-sideline long toss on third-and-1). None completed. A.J. Feeley scrambled for 4 yards, and was sacked while scrambling, for a loss of 1. Correll Buckhalter gained 4 yards on a draw. Two passes went toward Reggie Brown, including the final, fatal interception. Nothing came from those.

Westbrook carried the ball once, in the Eagles' final three series. So it really is puzzling, isn't it, why those drives weren't more successful. Gosh, who can say?

What's that? They could have run the ball a little more, given that all afternoon, defenders were slipping and sliding when they tried to react to cuts in the open field? Maybe if Westbrook can go out there for two fourth-quarter punts, and bring one of them back 64 yards, he might do something equally dangerous, if they handed him the ball a few more times?

"We were trying to win the football game the best way we could. If you think he should have run it more, then that's what you'll write, there, but we were trying to do what we needed to do to win the game at the time," Reid said when asked about that yesterday.

Reid opined that the only thing to do in the wake of defeat is "learn from your mistakes and move on," something this 5-7 season has afforded the Eagles bountiful opportunities to do. Yet Reid and his offensive coordinator, Marty Mornhinweg, don't seem to embrace the concept.

The Eagles point to successful teams such as New England and Indianapolis, even Green Bay, as examples of pass-based offenses that win (leaving aside the fact that the Patriots rank seventh in the league in rushing). They think this validates their approach. And it would if they had the quarterbacking and the weapons that those teams possess. But they don't, right now.

In terms of offensive talent right now, the Eagles are actually more like the middle-of-the-pack teams they are fighting against for a shred of wild-card hope. Like, say, the 8-4 Giants, who come to Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday with the league's sixth-ranked rushing attack

[rjs246]

That's awful.

[Feva]

Westbrook is the only difference-maker the Eagles currently employ, a view that now has even been embraced by the team's official Web site. Yet the punt return was one of very few chances he had down the stretch to win the game - Westbrook carried three times on those

final four series, for 11 yards. He caught two passes, for 4 yards.

Meanwhile, four passes went to Kevin Curtis, two completed, for 12 yards. Two passes were aimed toward L.J. Smith (including the infamous down-the-sideline long toss on third-and-1). None completed. A.J. Feeley scrambled for 4 yards, and was sacked while scrambling, for a loss of 1. Correll Buckhalter gained 4 yards on a draw. Two passes went toward Reggie Brown, including the final, fatal interception. Nothing came from those.

Westbrook carried the ball once, in the Eagles' final three series. So it really is puzzling, isn't it, why those drives weren't more successful. Gosh, who can say?

Printed, cut out... and put into my wallet for the next time someone looks at me crazy when I mention that Andy needs to be fired.

[SunMo]

they'll still look at you crazy for having that in your wallet...but i love the effort

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Actually, he lives in Georgia... so very few people actually look him in the face anyway.  And if they do look long enough to see his wallet, they'd assume it was stolen anyway.