Boneheaded playcalls courtesy of Andy Reid

[ice grillin you]

probably couldnt see it as well on tv but vikings basically played a soft two deep the whole game...even when they did press they had a safety over the top everytime

[SD]

A lot of teams play press coverage against the Eagles WRs and leave their safeties deep or in an over the top zone coverage so they don't get beat deep. This is a perfect strategy because the Eagles WRs are the least physical WRs in the league and they have great deep speed, add into the mix Reid/More-hen-weg not adjusting their game plan and they become very predictable.

How to beat the Eagles offense:
Keep your safeties deep
Blitz, Blitz, Blitz
Box either your end or a LB/CB so Vick can't get outside the pocket
Watch and laugh as Andy hammers his circle peg into the square hole

McGlynn  (yeah he's an idiot) said they were playing vanilla on offense. I'd like to believe that as a set up for the playoffs except this game meant something and I don't think Reid has the foresight to pull something like that off.

[ice grillin you]

mcglynn really is a dope

like reid is going to reinvent his offense over the next 10 days?....a new wrinkle here or there sure...but so is everyone else in the nfl...

bottom line at this time of year and especially with veteran coaches like reid everyone knows essentially what you are going to do...you just have to call the right plays at the right time and then execute...thats what new england does...they rarely ever change their playbook on offense...they just execute the farg out of it

[SD]

New England (better than any team in league history) works with their players strengths to maximize their offense. They're not afraid to dink and dunk and run early because they know that will set things up later. I don't mind the deep pass every now and then to keep defenses off balance and honest, but that can't be your meat and potatoes offensively.

[Don Ho]

It pains me to say it but Belichick is an outright genius.  He works and tinkers with these low draft pick/FA/cast off vets roster every year and is always in contention and is almost always the team to fear going into the playoffs.  Granted Brady is the best QB in the business the past 10 years but what Belicheck does in New England is incredible.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Reid not primarily to blame for yesterday's loss

[Tomahawk]

It pains me to say it but Belichick is an outright genius.  He works and tinkers with these low draft pick/FA/cast off vets roster every year and is always in contention and is almost always the team to fear going into the playoffs.  Granted Brady is the best QB in the business the past 10 years but what Belicheck does in New England is incredible.

Belicheck does it on the defensive side too

Reid not primarily to blame for yesterday's loss

[watch] 330-pound King Dunlap replace Justice mostly because he took longer for Matthews to run around

hahaha

[QB Eagles]

Reid not primarily to blame for yesterday's loss

Or is he?

As the weekend's goats go, David Akers is far down the list. Yeah, he blew two makeable field goals—but the second one, in particular, he had no business even trying. The Eagles were down 11, with 13 minutes remaining, and sure, according to whatever combinatorial flow chart Andy Reid may have been consulting, a field goal plus a touchdown plus a two-point conversion would have tied the game.

But it was fourth-and-1, down on Green Bay's 16-yard line, and the Eagles had been playing from behind all day. Even speaking in abstract tactical terms, there was a strong case for leaving Akers on the sideline. Touchdown opportunities are harder to come by (and more time-consuming to get) than field goal opportunities. Who knew when the Eagles might get another look at the end zone?

Under the emotional logic of that particular football game, though, the decision was even worse. The Eagles had done nothing all day to knock the Packers back on their heels. Here was a chance to put the screws to Green Bay for the first time—in booth-speak, to "force them to make plays." And, as we know but so often forget, settling for a field-goal try is not the same thing as settling for three points. Even so, Reid sent out the kicking team.

Andy Reid! Did I mention that it's hard to be good at all parts of football at once? I still cuss at the TV, but after more than a decade of this stuff, I've made my peace with Reid. He is an excellent football coach who happens to be bad at calling football games. He is stupendously good at preparation, arranging his personnel, motivating players, and all sorts of scheming and invisible stuff beyond normal people's ken. There's a reason his Eagles are undefeated in games after bye weeks—give Andy Reid an extra week to think about a game, and he'll come up with a winning plan. Hell, he was all tied up with Bill Belichick's Patriots at halftime of the Super Bowl.

Then, oh, the second half. Given a shorter time frame for thinking—a normal week between games, halftime of a football game, or, God help us, a two-minute drill—Reid's slow, powerful coaching brain is like an aircraft carrier in a speedboat race. Other coaches out-adjust Reid on the fly all the time. Ninety percent of casual fans believe, not without reason, that they have a better sense of when to call timeout or throw a challenge flag than Reid does.

But would those other coaches (let alone the fans) have been able to go 10-6 and win the division with this year's Eagles? Or take nine trips to the playoffs in the past 11 years? Why was a team with no pass defense even able to be out there to make a wrong field-goal decision against a better team? You take the bad with the good.

[ice grillin you]

reid was absolutely the reason they lost the green bay game altho not because of anything he did in the green bay game (altho sending out akers there was hideous)...reid lost the green bay game when he put a woefully underprepared and not ready team out on the field and lost at home to an assed out viking team...so instead of having a bye and a home divisional round game they had to face a team that was better than them in the wild card round...season didnt end sunday it ended last tuesday

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Sure would have been nice to be waiting for the Seahawks in Philly this weekend.

[reese125]

Marshawn Lynch agrees with you.