Eagles/Bengals bitchfest

[SD_Eagle5]

supposedly Hugh is on WIP saying there's in-fighting in the front office and it's trickling down to the players. yay

Good, that crap usually leads to people getting fired.

I was thinking a tie is the worst thing these idiots could have done. At least with an L they could improve their draft status.

[rjs246]

supposedly Hugh is on WIP saying there's in-fighting in the front office and it's trickling down to the players. yay

Clean house.

[phillymic2000]

supposedly Hugh is on WIP saying there's in-fighting in the front office and it's trickling down to the players. yay

Fighting? all I see is everyone laughing, smiling and celebrating a tie against a 1-8 team. Oh and of course our qb has no idea there is only one ot, brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[phillymic2000]

supposedly Hugh is on WIP saying there's in-fighting in the front office and it's trickling down to the players. yay

Maybe he should go bitchslap McNabb in the locker room.

[LBIggle]

a bitchslap would be way too farging nice for that retard.  a nice swift roundhouse kick to the throat would be more permissible. and fat ass should be brutally murdered, slowly.  what a bunch of dumb farging nitwits.

[Magical_Retard]

im probably the biggest mcnabb fan on this board but that was the worst game he has ever played. good follow up to last week's game where reid probably called his worst game. 

i mean hes had stinkers before but this one just terrible. i was scared of every throw thinking it would get picked off. he deserved to have at least 2 more INTs by my count.

this is a weird feeling right now. usually im angry and unable to do whatever else i have to do after the game. today? i just don't care anymore. ill watch the rest of the season but the losses i guess will not hurt.

farg andy reid. farg mcnabb for just a terrible display of anything the QB is supposed to do.

i would complain about the lopsided play calling in a very close game but that's just a given in every game.

[JackStraw]

So when does Reid throw McNabb under the bus to assure a few years to "rebuild" - or at least one to "reload"? Will Lurie buy that?

[QB Eagles]

So when does Reid throw McNabb under the bus to assure a few years to "rebuild" - or at least one to "reload"? Will Lurie buy that?

Spew threw McNabb under the bus in today's "On the Inside". Didn't mention Reid at all.

[rjs246]

If that's true that's bullshtein. McNabb didn't tell himself to pass the ball 58 farging times and ignore his best offensive player while doing it.

[phillymic2000]

I just heard McNabb's press conference, and what a fargin idiot. He actually said he'd never been a part of an overtime game, and he would hate to see what would happen in the playoffs or superbowls. Holy shtein are you serious dickhead? You sir, are a complete idiot.

[General_Failure]

He must not recollect his early years here.

[Yeti]

I am an Eagles fan.  Theres been worse times.  I am an Eagles fan.  Still a shot at the wildcard.  I am an Eagles fan.  It will get better.  I am an Eagles fan.

[PhillyandBCEagles]

Blow.

This.

farging.

Team.

Up.

[SD_Eagle5]

Link

Bengals say they knew what was comingBy JOSH KATZOWITZ
Philadelphia Daily News

For the Daily News

CINCINNATI - Bengals cornerback Johnathan Joseph didn't care that the Eagles had the fourth-best scoring offense in the NFL entering today's game. He didn't care that Donovan McNabb had thrown for 2,372 yards, fourth-best in the league, and had tossed only five interceptions in 324 attempts this season.
The Bengals - coming off a bye - had 2 weeks to prepare for the Eagles' offensive attack, and when Joseph finally saw McNabb and his receivers in person, he knew what was coming much of the time.

Certainly, nothing the Eagles threw at Cincinnati threw Joseph for a loss. Forget the statistics. He knew much of the game plan.

"From watching film, other teams in the league have been successful against them," said Joseph, who recorded one of the three Bengals interceptions and tallied three pass defenses during the 13-13 tie. "They may have a lot of yards or whatever, but teams have been successful getting them off the field. They have tendencies you can pick up on and you have a good idea of what's going on."

The big stress in Cincinnati's defensive meetings this week was to stop the Eagles on third down and keep the them off the field as much as possible. In that sense, the Bengals were successful, allowing the Eagles to convert only three of 18 third-down attempts as Cincinnati held the ball more than 8 minutes longer than the Birds.

Even when the Bengals couldn't make the big play, they still had a pretty good sense of what to expect. Just ask Joseph, who had a chance to turn the game during overtime, dropping a sure interception from McNabb that would have given the Bengals possession in Eagles territory.

"They run those 14-yard curl routes - they ran them like four or five times today - so when they do that, the safeties were going to be aggressive and the corners were going to be over the top," Joseph said. "On that particular play, that's what happened. He overthrew it a little bit and I had a chance to make a play on the ball. I just took my eyes off it. It's one of those things that you think is an easy play and the ball goes through your hands."

The Eagles' defense, meanwhile, made its mark on Cincinnati. Bengals quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick was sacked eight times, and the Eagles - led by defensive ends Trent Cole and Darren Howard, both of whom recorded a pair of sacks - kept the mobile Fitzpatrick from hurting them with sneaks and scrambles.

"A couple of those today, where it was a 2-yard loss or a 1-yard gain, when we played Jacksonville, it would have been a 20-yard gain," Fitzpatrick said. "They're good. They're not afraid to pressure the quarterback and not afraid to blitz guys. They do a good job. Their ends are fast up the field and we had some problems running against them today. They did a good job of getting me a few times where I thought I was going to get loose."

The result for the Bengals, a team that scored its first win of the season 2 weeks ago and is playing in front of a frustrated and apathetic fan base, could be construed as a positive step. After all, they didn't lose the game.

But that's not the way they saw it. They thought they should have beaten the Eagles.

"It almost feels like we lost," said receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh, who caught 12 passes for 149 yards and Cincinnati's only touchdown. "We were winning a majority of the game. The defense played great, and a lot of guys sucked it up on offense. We had great field position in overtime. We just didn't get it done."

Nobody took it harder than placekicker Shayne Graham, who missed a 47-yard field-goal attempt with 7 seconds left in the extra period that would have won it. He said the wind behind him was moving briskly from left to right and he aimed left, but he kicked it straighter than he wanted. While the kick appeared good when it left his foot, the wind pushed it wide right.

"I hate looking back on any kick in my career, knowing I should have made it, and this is one of those ones that I can look back on and get disappointed about," said Graham, one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history. "I'm more disappointed than anyone else. I don't think there's anyone else - a fan, a coach, a player - who's more disappointed than myself. I missed an opportunity to give us a win, and wins aren't coming very often for us." *

[Feva]

this is a weird feeling right now. usually im angry and unable to do whatever else i have to do after the game. today? i just don't care anymore. ill watch the rest of the season but the losses i guess will not hurt.

I agree.  I felt like shtein watching that "game" yesterday... and realizing just how zesty this team is.  Today, I'm just numb to it I think.  It's not even farging up my week like a loss normally would.

I'll watch the games, but with low (very low) expectations... there's less chance for disappointment.