The Worst Part Of That Game IS....

[Feva]

ive seen the eagles front seven and ive seen the cardinals offense and i expected the cardinals to put up three or four td's at home without much of a problem...granted i also expected the birds defense to force a turnover or two that would lead to a score...but what i really didnt expect was for the offense to put up 6 pts in the first 30 minutes...game was over right then

There's no way you believed this and at the same time thought "there's no way the Eagles lose this game."

You COULDN'T have considered the game to be a lock if you expected the Cards to put up 21-28 points.  This is the NFL, dog... that amount of points WINS the game for you more times than not.

If there was "no chance" to lose, then you mean to tell me that you were expecting McNabb and this inconsistent ass offense to put up 4-5 TD's?  Like that just happens all the time?  Come on, IG's... you can't really believe that.  Hell, they had only 3 offensive TD's in the playoffs up to that point.

Bottom line, man... McNabb and the offense put up 25 points.  No matter how good or bad they looked doing it, they put up 25 points.  That should be enough to win the game... especially the way the defense had been playing over the last 6-7 weeks.  The defense didn't just struggle with a top offense of the Cards.  They never even showed up.  There's a difference. 

I would've LOVED it if McNabb would've led that final drive for the game-tying TD... for so many reasons.  But this game was not lost in the last 3 minutes.  32 points is way too many points to give up if you're expecting to win a game anywhere... let alone on the road.

[ice grillin you]

i expected the eagles to drop in the forty range so yes i could have believed that

and mcnabb failed in two huge areas...

1) when warner and his team came out blazing mcnabb couldnt match and dropped 6 pts in the first half

2) when warner came up with the biggest drive in cardinals history mcnabb had a chance to come up with the biggest drive in his history...FAIL

blame the d...blame akers...blame reid...blame demps...all would legitimate complaints...but when you strip the game down to bare bones the cardinals qb got it done and the eagles qb didnt

[Feva]

Again... in the NFL, you "expected" a team to score 40 or more points... on the road... in the playoffs... during the NFC Championship Game?

The word "unrealistic" comes to mind, but whatever man... do you.

[ice grillin you]

they played a 9 win cardinal team who a month earlier got 48 dropped on them by the birds and on the year had given up over 400 pts in a disgustingly bad division...thinking the eagles could put up 40 on them was not a reach at all..and in fact they should have

[rjs246]

they played a 9 win cardinal team who a month earlier got 48 dropped on them by the birds and on the year had given up over 400 pts in a disgustingly bad division...thinking the eagles could put up 40 on them was not a reach at all..and in fact they should have

Only if they wanted to win the game, which clearly they didn't.

[SunMo]

that was probably their first mistake

[Magical_Retard]

they played a 9 win cardinal team who a month earlier got 48 dropped on them by the birds and on the year had given up over 400 pts in a disgustingly bad division...thinking the eagles could put up 40 on them was not a reach at all..and in fact they should have

cept that was about 3 months ago and we all know they did not bother to show up for that game. in fact if you looked at the past three games they played you would have seen a better defense and offense.

that game meant nothing. it was on a 3 day rest and they had to travel back to the east coast. they dont play well away from home.

you expecting the eagles to score 40 something is your way of trying to dance around your "lock win" statement.

i certainly did not expect the defense to give up 32 pts.

[ice grillin you]

if i was throwing out some totally unrealistic shtein like i expected mcnabb to come up with a game winning clutch drive in the nfc championship game then i would be trying to "dance"...i said all week they would trounce the cardinals and i fully expected them to...and to trounce someone you generally have to score lots of pts

if the offense had merely played two halfs rather than one they easily score 40

and the cardinal defense sucks...to try and revisit history by saying they were different last week than in nov and december is a cop out...their front seven is an embarrassment...the amount of time mcnabb had to throw on sunday was incredible...and the secondary is subpar as well

[RezRob]

Get your heart broke in NFC rd or Superbowl... Doesn't matter. Who thinks they could beat the Steeelers again the way Polamalu/etc is playing?

McNabb v Warner 1 Eagles lead until Buck goes down. Warner has Holt,Bruce,Faulk.

McNabb v Warner 2 Eagles come back to late, Westbrook is a shell. Warner has Fitz,Boldin,Edge.

Comparing the arsenals at each QBs disposal plus the coaches gameplanning McNabb seems at a disadvantage, but go ahead and slobber at the unit of guy who goes from GroceryStore to HOF to Goat to Backup to HOF again.

[Don Ho]

McNabb v Warner 1 Eagles lead until Buck goes down. Warner has Holt,Bruce,Faulk.

McNabb v Warner 2 Eagles come back to late, Westbrook is a shell. Warner has Fitz,Boldin,Edge.

1 McNabb has Pinky, Thrash, Duce (Buck busted knee chapter 1)

2 McNabb has Curtis, Jackson, Avant, Baskett, Westbrook (barely)

Good god.  It's a miracle the birds got that far both years.

Agreed on the Steelers comment.  Steelers D is playing out of their minds and the offense is healthy with the exception of Ward.  Polomalu = Fitzgerald.

[shorebird]

Agreed on the Steelers comment.  Steelers D is playing out of their minds and the offense is healthy with the exception of Ward.  Polomalu = Fitzgerald.

I want to see someone, like Polomalu, lay the wood to Fitz and see what happens. I want to see someone actually make a tackle on him, see if he's really as good as the Eagles made him look or if he really can be brought down one on one. The Steelers D is as good a test as he'll get.

[ice grillin you]

fitzgerald is that good and more...probably the best wr in the nfl...youre acting like the game against the eagles was a fluke and the only good game hes ever had

[shorebird]

When was the last game he had when he scored three td's in the first half?

[ice grillin you]

huh?

so youre waiting to see if he can score three touchdowns in the first half of the superbowl and if he doesnt hes overrated...newsflash: if he has zero catches in the superbowl hes still arguably the best wr in the nfl

[shorebird]

No. Were did I say he was overated or that his preformance was a fluke?

huh?

so youre waiting to see if he can score three touchdowns in the first half of the superbowl and if he doesnt hes overrated...newsflash: if he has zero catches in the superbowl hes still arguably the best wr in the nfl

What the farg do you mean, huh?? It was a simple question. The answer probably is, never, and after an awesome preformance like that I want to see someone knock him on his ass and wrap him up with a decent tackle. Not just bounce off of him like most of the Eagles D did.

I just want to see if he is really as good as he looked against the Eagles, or did the Eagles just forget how to tackle. After his lights out preformance in the championship game I want to see someone put him on his ass, thats all I'm saying. I'm not acting like anything and you are just trying to make someting outta' nothing.