Eagles/Bengals bitchfest

[ice grillin you]

actually the half game means a lot...its almost like a free tiebreaker against other teams that lose...for example if the birds win this week and the taterskins/cowboys lose that tie moves them ahead of them rather than just tying them...hell if the falcons also lose youre in the playoffs as of this week

bottom line is in that situation with a hideous passing game and an even worse short yardage run game on your own 20 you dont go for it unless the season was on the line and thats not even close to the case yet

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Agree with IGY... The good news about the tie is that it makes all the tiebreakers the Eagles WON'T have meaningless.

[Don Ho]

the eagles have proven time and time again that they cant get one yard in any situation

forget the playoffs, forget 4 NFCCG, forget his record after a bye week, this is what i'll remember from the AR era the lack of confidence he has in gaining one lousy yard.  one lousy yard. 

[JackStraw]

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forget the playoffs, forget 4 NFCCG, forget his record after a bye week, this is what i'll remember from the AR era the lack of confidence he has in gaining one lousy yard.  one lousy yard. 
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I dunno - a son in the big house with Oxy's in the bung is a pretty memorable coaching moment, too. Right up there with Kotitie's rain-smeared PAT chart. Or maybe Ryan's early game exit up the ramp.

Good times

[QB Eagles]

Bill Simmons sums it up:

You know how Mike Holmgren is retiring after this season? I think Andy Reid retired three years ago. That's the only explanation. He just didn't tell us. Our friend Mike Lombardi did a nice job breaking down the epic "Four Two-Minute Drills" debacle Sunday in Cincinnati; that game was so unbelievably bad that NFL Films should be working on a one-hour documentary about it. I'm not even kidding. That was the worst football game ever played. We need to spend a solid year interviewing people and breaking down the key moments so we can place it in its proper historical perspective.

So, what would the Bengals-Eagles documentary be called? I vote for either "Four Hours Of Life That Nobody Will Get Back" or "The Longest Turd." Either of these will do. I don't care. And, yes, I wanted this show even before McNabb pushed the epicness (epicity? epiciousness? epicism?) of such a memorably putrid game by admitting he didn't know the overtime rules. I thought Warren Sapp summed it up well:

"Donovan, your legacy will be throwing up in the Super Bowl, Rush Limbaugh and now -- not knowing there were ties!"

I'd also throw in Campbell's Chunky Soup commercials, but, yes, that's probably it. I have watched far too much of the Eagles this season (again, for fantasy purposes) and would evaluate McNabb's 2008 performance like so: out of shape, careless, semi-competitive and uninspiring. The fact that Philly can't run the ball in short-yardage situations but McNabb never, ever, EVER runs QB draws or sneaks should tell you something. I think he just doesn't want to get hit anymore. He seems like a guy on his way out of the league to me.

[Magical_Retard]

i agree with the out of shape comment. mcnabb seems to be bigger every season.

[ice grillin you]

careless = he could care less

thats how hes always been...wants to win and if he does thats great but if we dont well get em tomorrow or next week or next year or next career or next lifetime....whatever

[phattymatty]

as someone who was sitting in the 5th row in the endzone for the entire second half of the game, i agree that it was easily the worst game i've ever seen.

[Diomedes]

I can vouch the same for the GameCenter crowd.

[ice grillin you]

wasnt it on in baltimore or do you prefer gamecenter

[Diomedes]

no man, the Baltimore game was on and nothing else in that time slot

[shorebird]

2008 Eagles vs Bengals

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