Week 4: Lil Donny Comes Home

[QB Eagles]

The o line despite jason peters and his bone head penalties actually played pretty well.

One thing to remember is that the Eagles were playing against the worst defense in the NFL today, and a team that just got beat by the Rams.

In summary, the O-line is good enough to take on the worst defense, but the Lions D-line is too much for them.

[SD]

So yeah, one QB threw TD passes when needed.

The other threw, well, lots of 5 yard passes in the middle of the field in a 2 minute drill and then an INT to seal the game.

We should also blame Kolb for Shady's fumble, Mr. "I haven't dropped a pass in training camp" drop, and Peters holding penalties too.

lol at your Kolb hate and your "I already said I hope I'm wrong but...". Lets be honest, unless he wins a SB you'll never give the guy credit regardless of what he does.

[Munson]

So yeah, one QB threw TD passes when needed.

The other threw, well, lots of 5 yard passes in the middle of the field in a 2 minute drill and then an INT to seal the game.

We should also blame Kolb for Shady's fumble, Mr. "I haven't dropped a pass in training camp" drop, and Peters holding penalties too.

lol at your Kolb hate and your "I already said I hope I'm wrong but...". Lets be honest, unless he wins a SB you'll never give the guy credit regardless of what he does.

Sounds familiar.

All of the people talking about Kolb's horrible play today are not saying he's the reason that they lost. They all seem to be rational enough to realize that the team as a whole played like shtein, including Kolb.

I'm searching and searching and failing to see a post from anyone that said Kolb was the reason why they lost, or that McNabb is super great/did better than Kolb.

[MDS]

theres a lot of complaining going on for what always was and what will end up being an 8-8 team

[Don Ho]

8-8 was looking good on The morning of September 12.  Now it 's a pipe dream.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

McNabb wasn't the reason the skins won.  Kolb wasn't the reason the Eagles lost.  The game sucked, but not as much as most of you bitches.

[Diomedes]

I was busy for the first half of this game, doing some very cool errands.  Framing a friend's house.  So at five we quit, I got in the car and found the taterskins Nation channel, just in time to listen to the last four minutes of the first half.

If it's not clear to people that Andy Reid is the biggest problem with this team, I don't know what to say.  That sequence at the end of the first half was textbook AR FAIL.   Absolutely embarrassing.   If Reid were Japanese, he would have killed himself at halftime in shame.

[QB Eagles]

On the other hand, there's a very real possibility that the delay of game penalty allowed the Eagles to score 3 points instead of 0. But that's another indication of Reid's poor decision-making.

[Diomedes]

Reid deprived himself of the opportunity to choose.  You aren't helping matters if you limit your own options.

[shorebird]

As I said before, the fact he had to call a timeout after the officials took five minutes reviewing the previous play, is proof he was lost, didn't have a clue. You could see it in his face. He just doesn't get it, he's been coaching way too long to pull stupid crap like that.

[Diomedes]

It's atrocious.  I hope he gets murdered for it  by the press and talking heads all week long.

[Seabiscuit36]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DDQ4Y9ZIwI&feature=player_embedded

Awww, look how Donovan is still hurt

[SD]

I still think we robbed them blind

[SD]

Link

In the final minutes of yesterday's 17-12 taterskins victory, McNabb showed his penchant for both heroics and boneheadedness - all in the same play. Faced with a third-and-4 from his 22-yard line with just under 4 minutes remaining, he scrambled away from a blitz, rambled 18 yards - and then ran out of bounds rather than slide.

Which takes us to Reid, who now seems so exposed without his favorite alibi around. He called three timeouts with more than 5 minutes left in the opening-game loss to Green Bay, then answered, "It's what we do" when quizzed about it afterward. Yesterday, on a fourth down near the goal line just before the half, he incurred a delay-of-game penalty after realizing that his team was 18 inches farther from the goal line than he originally thought.

Instead of scoring a touchdown, the Eagles settled for a field goal. In a defensive game in which the Eagles had the better offensive statistics, it was the difference.

Reid was a big reason his team lost. McNabb was hardly the reason his team won. He was up 7-0 before he even attempted a pass. He was up 14-0 after three throws, one an awful overthrow of tight end Fred Davis, wide-open down a sideline, the other a laser that hit Cooley in stride down the middle of the field.

I asked taterskins coach Mike Shanahan if the early playcalling was to help McNabb get comfortable.

"Not really," he said. "We had a game plan. We understand the type of defense we were going against. You get into a throwing game, especially here, in this environment with the crowd, usually you're in for a long day. So you have to establish the run and kind of build some play action off it."

[SunMo]

Frank Gore's numbers next week:  32 carries for for 176 yards and 2 TD, sounds about right.