A Decade of Andy Reid

[General_Failure]

I wish him well in San Fran, and look forward to seeing him give up a 2nd rounder for Kolb.

[Rome]

Say what you will, but if Reid gets canned he will have a new HC job within a week.

The success of Dungy and Cowher will keep us stuck with Reid for years to come.

How about the failures of Dan Reeves & Marv Levy?

[Feva]

Say what you will, but if Reid gets canned he will have a new HC job within a week.

I can't put into words how much I don't give a farg about Reid coaching somewhere else.  That'll be another team's problem.

I just pray for the day he's not coaching my team anymore.

[shorebird]

Say what you will, but if Reid gets canned he will have a new HC job within a week.

I can't put into words how much I don't give a farg about Reid coaching somewhere else.  That'll be another team's problem.

I just pray for the day he's not coaching my team anymore.

Alright now. Who gives a crap about what happens if he's ever let go? Just get him gone.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Say what you will, but if Reid gets canned he will have a new HC job within a week.

I can't put into words how much I don't give a farg about Reid coaching somewhere else.  That'll be another team's problem.

I just pray for the day he's not coaching my team anymore.

What will happen is what he did here. He'll go in and revamp an organization like he did with the Birds. That is his strength. He is very good at that. But he'll probably fail like he has here because of his stubborn mentality (treating the run like it banged his wife).

[Cerevant]

Let me do the math for you all, since you seem to miss any subtlties:

1) Reid thinks he is doing a good job, and his regular season record supports it.
2) Coaches as successful as Reid have gone on to win the Super Bowl.  "It just takes time"
3) There are teams much less successful than the Eagles who wish they had a coach "as good as Reid"
4) All of the above contribute to Lurie and Banner's opinion that they have one of the best coaches in the league.

There is no way Reid gets fired before the fans lose interest in the team.  As long as the team gets a sniff of the playoffs every year, the fans keep coming back.

You can hope for a lot of changes, but the odds of the "big change" being the dismissal of Reid are about nil.

[ice grillin you]

andy reid = marty schottenhiemer but maybe even worse

[Rome]

Success is measured in Super Bowl wins.  Anything less is failure.

[QB Eagles]

andy reid = marty schottenhiemer but maybe even worse

The Browns are looking to hire Schottenhiemer. Hopefully they pick him up before the Eagles do.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

This is funny, even if his pick turned out wrong.

GIANTS (-7) over Eagles

Here's how much I respect the Giants (and don't respect the Eagles): We just witnessed one of the all-time in-season distractions in the history of the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (Copyright: Ron Jaworski), and even though this looks like a classic "They're too distracted to get focused for this one" situation, I still think the Giants win by two touchdowns as Andy Reid shatters the record for "most failed challenges in a single season" with three games still to go.

That reminds me, here was my favorite e-mail of the past two weeks, courtesy of Brad in Arlington after the Eagles lost to Baltimore:

"I've figured out what's wrong with Andy Reid: He can't deal with the stress of being an NFL head coach anymore, so he's gone to his happy place. Apparently his happy place is a labor day BBQ. That's the only other venue where he shows such self-destructive behavior and constant choice of instant gratification. Consider the similarities:

1. Reid in BBQ mode:

Wife: Honey, don't you think four burgers is enough?

Reid: Nah, I'll have one more.

Wife: Well, how about a turkey burger this time?

Reid: Nah. Regular burger. Cheese and bacon on it.

"Let's just throw, that's our bread and butter. Mmm ... bread and butter ... "
2. Reid in 2008 coaching mode:

Marty Mornhinweg: Third-and-1 coach, what's the call? Donovan sneak? Swing to Westbrook? Buckhalter off tackle?

Reid: Nah, just have Donovan throw long again.

(Result: interception by Fabian Washington.)

Mornhinweg: Second-and-inches inside the Baltimore 3. We should just pound it in, right?

Reid: Nah, let that Kolb kid throw it. I like his moustache.

(Result: 108-yard TAINT by Ed Reed.)

[phattymatty]

brad is my neighbor.

[Feva]

Diddy

Since the 2000 season, the Eagles are 5253-10 in games in which they have more rushing attempts than their opponents. They are 35-39-1 when they have fewer rushes. Games in which they have 30 or more rushing attempts, they are 3738-5. Games in which they have 20 rushes or fewer, they are 9-23-1. This season, they are 5-0 in games when they have more rushing attempts than their opponent. They are 1-5-1 when they don't.

[Cerevant]

...and if the Eagles make the playoffs, you can count on at least another 2 years with the big guy.

[PhillyPhreak54]

"We were able to run the ball successfully early, and Coach stayed with it," Westbrook said. "He was very committed to it, and I give a lot of credit to him because usually we're not that committed to it. He saw that we were getting it done.

"We always try to tell him 2 or 3 yards is not that bad, and we had a couple of carries where it was just 2 or 3 yards. But he stayed committed to it, and sooner or later, that turned into 5 or 6 yards, then we had the big run down the middle."

Huh...imagine that.

Its like the players handcuffed him, waterboarded him and threatened to withhold food if he did not stick with the run.

Nice to see, but his itchy pass calling will return and it will be even more frustrating to see.

[Butchers Bill]

Diddy

Since the 2000 season, the Eagles are 5253-10 in games in which they have more rushing attempts than their opponents. They are 35-39-1 when they have fewer rushes. Games in which they have 30 or more rushing attempts, they are 3738-5. Games in which they have 20 rushes or fewer, they are 9-23-1. This season, they are 5-0 in games when they have more rushing attempts than their opponent. They are 1-5-1 when they don't.

While the point is made, it's easy to skew those numbers.  If you have a big lead at the end of a game (which the Eagles did regularly for a few years) you have a tendency to run more...even AR.  In addition, many of those "runs" were McNabb scrambles from back when he was a black quarterback.

All that being said, what happened yesterday needs to happen 7 more times this year for me to be satisfied.