Week 2 - Giants at Eagles GAME thread

[The BIGSTUD]

This is the worst Eagles loss ever for me for a regular season game. I don't go that far back, I'm in my early 20's, but it's worse than Hutton, it's worse than McNabb to Roy Williams last season, it's worse than anything. The sheer devastation of the loss coupled with the loss of Kearse. Just, ugh my god. Sometimes I wish I was Prince from the Prince of Persia games, and I could rewind time. Because all we needed was one of the 10 things that went wrong to go right and we win.

[General_Failure]

No, the Indy loss was worse. That one was so bad so far that Stockholm Syndrome had time to kick in.

[Geowhizzer]

This is the worst Eagles loss ever for me for a regular season game. I don't go that far back, I'm in my early 20's, but it's worse than Hutton, it's worse than McNabb to Roy Williams last season, it's worse than anything. The sheer devastation of the loss coupled with the loss of Kearse. Just, ugh my god. Sometimes I wish I was Prince from the Prince of Persia games, and I could rewind time. Because all we needed was one of the 10 things that went wrong to go right and we win.

Ah, youth... sigh.

Actually, this one hurts for me more than any game since the Super Bowl.

[Magical_Retard]

yeah im in my early 20s also and as far as my memory serves this is the worst regular season loss i have ever had the pleasure of watching. its worse than the dallas game last season simply cause then i kinda knew our season was over even b4 the game. 2ndly any game where u are up by so much and completely dominate another team and then let them come back and win....just really stings.

now i know what KC felt like last yr when we did this to them.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

[Diomedes]

LOL

[MURP]

If only Koy was in there under center.  2-0. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

If only Koy was in there under center.  2-0. 

If Koy was playing for the Giants, sure.

[Tomahawk]

If only Koy was in there under center.  2-0. 

If Brett Favre was the QB, the Eagles would already be 16-0.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

ge99's analysis on Mike Lewis:

Mike frustrates me.

He is a good SS. He can be physical vs the run. He can hit. However, his cover skills are more marginal than they should be. The biggest problem as I see it is that Mike lacks good instincts. He's got to sense things better than he does.

I could live with him getting burned in coverage if he was an impact hitter. Mike isn't. He's good, but Sean Taylor and Roy Williams are impact hitters. They punish guys. Mike will unload a good shot, but nothing that wakes up the other team.

I know a lot of people compare Mike to Roy. Mike has 5 sacks and 7 INTs in his career. Roy has 6.5 sacks and 14 INTs. Mike Lewis has not made one huge play in his career. He's solid, but hasn't developed into a top player as I'd hoped.

Yes.

[Feva]

Dead on.

[phattymatty]

This is the worst Eagles loss ever for me for a regular season game.

I actually agree with you.  I'm still disgusted. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

Frpm King's MMQB:

How do the Eagles recover from that one? I asked Jeremiah Trotter what it was like in the Philly locker room after the loss to the Giants. "Quiet as a church mouse,'' he told me. "No one saying anything. Just shock. Everywhere, man. This will have a hangover for two days. I want it to be like that. We need to feel how bad this hurts. It's a lesson we've got to learn -- finish the game. And I want this bad taste to stay in our mouths till Wednesday, so we can feel the hurt and never want to hurt like this again.''

Just then, Jerome Bettis heard me on the phone with Trotter. "Tell him to hang in,'' Bettis said. So I passed the phone to Bettis. "Hey,'' Bettis said, "you guys got something going down there. Hang in there. Don't let those boys get down.'' It will be Trotter's and Brian Dawkins' job -- they're the two guys who run that defensive ship -- to make sure that loss is not a fatal one.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

That would be inspirational if King, Trotter, and Bettis didn't have the combined IQ of my basset hound.

[Feva]

Can your bassett hound play CB?  Might need him this week.