Eagles vs Steelers game thread

[MadMarchHare]

IGY

not even a small chance the eagles win this game

pimp is shut down and maybe out for the first time

and the steelers d bodies the birds

21-6 pittsburgh

God I love absolutes.

[shorebird]

igy will have forgotten about that tommorrow morning and be right about everything again.

[Father Demon]

IGY

not even a small chance the eagles win this game

pimp is shut down and maybe out for the first time

and the steelers d bodies the birds

21-6 pittsburgh

God I love absolutes.

God Bless You, my Atheist Friend.

[SunMo]

unhealthy obsession

[QB Eagles]

A couple game notes from PE.com:

First Eagles safety since 2003. First one actually caused by the defense since William Fuller sacked Steve Young in 1994.

Only Harold Carmichael has played more games in an Eagles uniform than Brian Dawkins.

[Munson]

unhealthy obsession

Off his nuts.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Dio's favorite FB is playing pretty damn well as the 4th DT too.

[Don Ho]

man, Kemoeatu (LG) and Colon (RT) didn't play well...i think about 75% of the sacks could be blamed on those two guys alone.  Colon is slow, reminds me of Orlando Brown, and Kemoeatu (although injured) didn't seem his head was in the game on 1/2 the plays.

Winston Justice's two new best friends.

[Drunkmasterflex]

Couldn't be happier with the was this game was played.  The offense clearly is not as good without Westbrook, that really goes without saying.  I hope his injury isn't too serious, though it looked pretty bad. 

Jackson needs to get his head in the game.  That kid really has the opportunity to be special.  Dawk still may have a little football in him, he came up with two real nice plays.  I am really impressed with this teams run defense.  What has always been an achilles heal seems like a strength this season. 

So far I think I was wrong about Asante Samuel, he is clearly better than Tito.  That interception he made, Lito would have given up the catch. 

[shorebird]

The D looked great, but I don't want to get too excited after they were toasted by Dallas. It's still early, maybe the Dallas game was a fluke.

[shorebird]

Not a single recpt. from a Eagles TE in that game. WTF??

[shorebird]

Correll Skywalker.

[shorebird]

DARTH DAWKINS

[Feva]

Damn... I'll tell you what.  That was a farging hard-hitting farging football game.  If you can't enjoy a game like that, you don't have a farging pulse.

Haven't read through the thread, so if I repeat... deal with it, bitchass.


1. Brian Westbrook - I love you and I'll give you rjs' remaining nut if it means you're OK and you won't miss any time.  We all know that this offense doesn't run without you.  Surprising that it didn't fall apart yesterday without you.
1a. Correll Buckhalter - For anyone talking about how Buck should've been cut at the beginning of the year... case in point on why that was such a stupid idea.  He gave the Eagles exactly what they needed in relief of Westbrook.  Ran hard up the middle, caught a couple passes out of the backfield... blocked pretty well, outside of the sack by Foote?... and his TD leap was reminiscent of Miami in '03.

2. Donovan McNabb - Superb to start the game.  Completed his 1st 15 passes (I think?)... and moved the ball with ease against the Steelers' D early on.  He threw a couple BEAUTIFUL long 3rd down passes to Avant (who catches everything) and Baskett to keep drives going.  Scared the shtein out of me when they showed that replay from that dumb ass flee-flicker call.  (WTF, Andy?!  You call that bullshtein 4 times a game it seems.)  Scared the piss out of me when Kolb came out to start the 2nd half... I figured the Eagles were farged at that point... the INT's on Kolb's 1st attempt didn't help matters at all.  I'd never been happier to see McNabb in my life when I saw him coming back into the game.  He played aiiiiight from that point... good enough to win, and you could tell he was gutting it out as he looked beat up from the 1st half.  Hope he heals up through the week and is 100% good to go for Sunday night.

3. Hank Baskett - Big-ups to Hank.  He really had a good day.  Made some tough catches, at critical times... held onto the ball after taking big hits, and for once it wasn't just because the D forgot to cover him.

4. Defense - My God.. the D.  I haven't seen the defense look that fearsome in a LONG time.  You saw exactly what JJ's D is supposed to look like.  How many times did somebody have an open lane right to Roethlisberger? 9 farging sacks... and they should have had 2 more.  Dawk had a sack waved off because of a bullshtein offsides penalty on Killa, and Gaither had a sack but somehow slipped off of Big Ben.  Either way, they whooped his ass.  They beat him up all day and forced him out in the 4th qtr.  They no doubt kept their #1 ranking vs. the run by shutting Fast Willie down.  His 1st 2 carries went for negative yards and they set the tone early... swarming and gang tackling his ass all day.

IGY... time to give the LB's some love.  They played damn well yesterday.  Stew Bradley led the team in tackles, and had 2 TFL's that I saw.  He also was sly enough in knocking away a pass over the middle to get away with a PI.  Gaither was in the backfield all day, had 1 1/2 sacks (should've had 2 1/2)... and knocked a pass away over the middle that looked like it could have gone for long yardage.  I didn't even know Heath Miller was playing until inside of 2 minutes which is a credit at least in part, to the Engineer.  They were quick... got off of blocks for the most part... and swarmed to the ball when it was there.  Not saying these guys are all-world or anything, but they played well yesterday and hopefully they can play somewhat consistently at that level.

I was in the boat in the beginning of the season that while Asante was a nice addition to the D... he wasn't a necessity.  Well... I'll tell myself to STFU because Asante is for real.  His INT was a thing of beauty... and it was a great play before that as a replay showed he was going deep even before Washington was and had a few steps on him.  He put himself in position to make that play and in a change from last year... he made the play.  He also had a beatiful pass defense in the back of the end zone late in the game reading the WR and knocking the ball away at the last minute.  So far... worth every penny of that $57 mil.

Dawkins.  He's old... and he's good.  The rumors of his demise were greatly exaggerated.  Had a sack taken away, was disruptive with his blitzes all day... was right there in run support... and of course, the highlight late in the 4th... where he Supermanned that ho Big Ben.




Oh yeah...
5. Tony Hunt - You got knocked THE farg OUT MAN!!! That was a dirty hit, though.

[rjs246]

1. Brian Westbrook - I love you and I'll give you rjs' remaining nut if it means you're OK and you won't miss any time. 

To be fair this would almost be a fair trade. My testes could feed a starving African nation for 15 days. No one needs this much potato in their pants.