Eagles/Racist Game Thread

[reese125]

the root is the players just suck that bad on special teams where coaching wouldn't matter, its the talent behind the executing

regroup

[Dillen]

special teams coaching goes like this...pick your return direction...left right middle...block the farg outta the other team...have a returner with skills....rinse wash repeat

Wrong. You forgot reverse to Baskett.

[mussa]

those two blocks by runyan and andrews on the westbrook td were great. especially runyans, ouch!

[PhillyPhreak54]

The STs have been pissing me off for awhile now...

Yes, the returners suck.

But its not Rorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry's fault. Those iceholes couldn't block under Harbaugh either. Minus the BMitch days and one good season by the pre-pegleg Reed, they suck.

[Seabiscuit36]

The NFL put up the video of Westbrook's long TD. Check out the sweet blocks that sprung him free. I count at least four great blocks, including two savage hits by Andrews and Runyan.

Andrews blew up Rocky McInstosh, but what Runyan did to Cornelius Griffin (96) was just awesomely brutal. If you slow the video down, Runyan basically not just blindsides him, but swings his arm and jaws him, Runyan actually left his feet, and Griffin was flat on his back for a minute after the play. Runyan is a bad, bad man.

Watching that play happen real time, my brother and i were going apeshtein when Runyan jumped in the air and clubbed that DT.  farging hilarious and brutal at the same time. 

[Seabiscuit36]

Reed did better than buck, but overall the guys up front havent done shtein as far as blocking all year.  Sure they dont have a gamebreaker back there, but Blocking makes everyone look good, except Reno

[PhillyGirl]

Was this mentioned?

John Smallwood | Dawk's actions show his true leadership

Philadelphia Daily News
IT'S ONE OF the oldest clichés in the book, but sometimes it still hits right on the target.

Actions speak louder than words.

So while it has been important for the Eagles veterans to look at this floundering ship and say that the season is not over and the Birds still have the opportunity to accomplish the goals they set, it takes things to an entirely different level when those same players are willing to put their bodies on the line for the cause.

It probably went unnoticed to a lot of fans watching the Eagles' 33-25, season-extending victory over the Washington taterskins on Sunday.

But after Brian Westbrook turned a simple screen pass into a dynamic, 57-yard touchdown, Brian Dawkins went to Andy Reid and asked to be put on special teams to cover the ensuing kickoff.

In his 12th season, all with the Eagles, Dawkins is the longest-tenured athlete in Philadelphia.

He has been with this franchise through many of its highest and lowest moments. It was only a week before when he had seen his first action after sitting out five games with a neck stinger.

And now with the season on the line, here was Dawkins asking for extra duty on the suicide squad late in a game that might already have been won.

I didn't notice. A lot of you might not have noticed.

But you can be damn sure that Dawkins' teammates noticed.

And if the 12-year veteran coming off a serious injury volunteers for special teams because he believes that getting the team's record to 4-5 is just the first step in saving the season, you better believe the other players got the message loud and clear.

"Yeah, he wanted to get in there," Reid said yesterday of Dawkins, who also played on the Eagles' final kickoff. "It sets a little tempo for things when you have a veteran [in there].

"[Dawkins] wanted to get in there and go, so I let him do it . . . He made a little statement there. He's one of the leaders of the football team and has desire to win games."

Through the Eagles' media relations department, Dawkins denied requests yesterday to talk about his special-teams foray because things are about the team, not him individually.

That's OK because Dawkins' message was clear.

It's the same one that tackles Jon Runyan and William Thomas have been delivering each week as they play through injury.

It's the one that Westbrook and his banged-up body, cornerback Lito Sheppard and his sore knee and quarterback Donovan McNabb and his still-healing body and beat-up ego deliver each time they strap it up and go out on the field for practice and games.

Each game, each practice, each play matters.

"We want to go out and win every game," Westbrook said after the win over Washington. "We have to win every game. We're going to continue to fight, continue to push, and we're going to go to work on Wednesday and do everything we can to win the next one."

It's OK for me to say the Eagles' chances of making the playoffs, much less win the Super Bowl, are virtually nonexistent. I don't have to believe.

I can look at the daunting task in front of them and conclude there is no way this team can win enough games to qualify for the playoffs.

But I'm just an outside observer. It's not going to affect my life all that much if the Eagles make a miracle run or fall on their faces.

The players, on the other hand, they have to believe.

No matter what the odds say, they have to believe that as long as there remains just the slimmest chance, they still have the ability to make it happen.

Just saying it isn't enough.

All players talk the talk, and most of them do it until they are eliminated from the playoffs.

But walking the walk requires a different level of character.

I doubt Dawkins was even thinking about the impression he was making on his teammates when he went out for that kickoff.

I think he was just so zoned in on winning that he was willing to do anything necessary to help preserve a much-needed victory.

Still, cornerback Sheldon Brown said it jacked "everybody up" to see Dawkins running down on kickoffs.

Words are meaningless without the willingness to back them up with action.

I can and do question a lot of things about the Eagles, their ability and their overall talent; I'd never question their effort.

Over the past nine seasons, the moments have been few and very far between when I've actually believed the Eagles have given up.

So no, I don't think the Eagles have much chance of salvaging this season, but I believe them when they say they still believe they have that chance.

I also know they are willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen.

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[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I wish there were a way to make Dawkins younger and more physically able, but his attitude aside, he's really not doing much of note on defense.

[Rome]

I wish there were a way to make Dawkins younger and more physically able, but his attitude aside, he's really not doing much of note on defense.

Shut your filthy mouth.

[SunMo]

I wish there were a way to make Dawkins younger and more physically able, but his attitude aside, he's really not doing much of note on defense.

Shut your filthy whore mouth.

fixed

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Hate all you want, but the defense has not been very good since his return, and he made a bunch of very visible and very ugly mistakes in coverage in the Dallas game, specifically.

I love the guy.  He's just a shell of his former self on the field.  The good news is that it's still better than anyone else on the team at safety.

[PhillyGirl]

Yeah, well, I'm willing to give him a couple of weeks to come back from his injury and get his shtein together.

Apparently, you are not.

Not to mention, he is also having to clean up the messes that are left by (previously) Considine and now James.

[Magical_Retard]

didnt dawkins have one of his better seasons last year?

i know sometimes players lose it over just one season but i doubt it with him. hes been hurt...im willing to see how he performs the rest of the season...but nice to see that he gives a damn.

we need more dawkins on this team. clone him. draft his children already.

[ice grillin you]

he had a good last four games last year...the first three quarters of the year he was i wouldnt say bad but underwhelming...age isnt just a number

[Magical_Retard]

he had a good last four games last year...the first three quarters of the year he was i wouldnt say bad but underwhelming...age isnt just a number

thats why the lack of addressing the position thru the draft was so dissapointing.

where is gaddis anyway? didnt he sign on with KC?