Week 15: Eagles at Minnesota - No Snow

[ice grillin you]

OK, so it was a trap game

no such thing in pro football

[phattymatty]

sorry guys. this was my fault. i wore a black desean jersey instead of my kelly keith jackson today because i took a new ladyfriend and there were too many beer stains on it. i said at about noon the eagles were going to lose because of it.

will not happen again.

[BigEd76]

nah it was my fault.  I was 6-0 this year when watching the game at the cuz's house, I showed up after Jennings' TD, and the furniture was rearranged for Christmas so I wasn't in my usual spot.  You can't farg with stuff like that

[General_Failure]

You motherfargers.

[Eagaholic]

OK, so it was a trap game

no such thing in pro football

I know, I saw your previous post, I was just trollin for some igs but you didn't take the no such thing as a good loss bait.

[MDS]

farg this team

today wouldve been one of the all time great eagles days ever....cowboys lose in epic fashion...saints lose to open the door for the 2 seed....eagles set up with a home primetime game to clinch the nfce

BUT NO.

[Geowhizzer]

All week I kept mis-reading the title as "no show."  Now I know why.

[shorebird]

I didn't get to watch the game but from reading around the web it seems that the offenses numbers are misleading. They had too many blown red zone opportunities. But still, that can't be why they lost. If friggen' Minny can rip the Eagles D like they did then what the hell will Chicago and Jay Cutler do? It's not going to be pretty. The minute you think the defense is playing decent they lay an egg.

I'm still on the Foles bandwagon. The guy hasn't even played a full season's worth of games yet. I feel the Eagles will draft a qb with there being so much talent this year, but the more they win the farther they fall and the less their chances of getting that franchise qb, so igor and people like him better be ready for a lot of Foles next year.

[Sgt PSN]

I didn't see the defense doing much scheme-wise that they haven't been doing the last 8 weeks. Players just weren't executing as much as they had been. Front 4 wasn't getting as much pressure, corners were playing soft coverage and no one was wrapping up.

Chip definitely outsmarted himself with kick offs. I know they gave up 2 return tds last week but you can pretty much dismiss anything that happens in weather like that.  ST players get paid too. Gotta let them try and earn their paychecks.  If I played on ST, the message my coach just sent me is that he thinks we're completely useless.

After the Eagles scored 2 quick tds in the 3rd, there was no reason at that point to exclude Shady. I kind of get it if they're down 3 scores, but at that point you need to get back to doing what you do and get the leading rusher in the league a few more touches.

So Chris Polk scores a fluke td and now he's taking snaps from Shady during the game?  There's a reason he wasn't getting much run all year.  He's not very good and shouldn't get meaningful snaps.

2 things I never thought I'd see:

1. A no huddle offense take a delay of game.
2. An offense use a TO before a 2pt conversion.  99.9% of the time the d might take one after seeing the offense line up. Chip not only wasted a TO with that, but he might have saved Minn one as well.

The challenge was possible the worst challenge I've ever seen. The 3rd and 4th down play calls were also terrible.  Remember last week when Foles got under center and handed the ball to Shady and then Shady ran really far with the football and was watching himself run on the jumbotron?  Good times.

All in all, it was a pretty bad all around effort. Foles had a good day if you only look at the box score, but he left quite a few plays on the field. But I'm not looking as it as a disastrous performance nor do I feel any differently about him today than I did 2 days ago.  He's still my guy for 2014.

[Dillen]

So Chris Polk scores a fluke td and now he's taking snaps from Shady during the game?  There's a reason he wasn't getting much run all year.  He's not very good and shouldn't get meaningful snaps.

Said that to myself during the game, what, all of a sudden Chris Polk is a great 3rd down back? There was maybe 3 or 4 drives in a row he came in on 3rd down.

His drop on that dumpoff made me laugh. It wasn't going anywhere, but he looked uncomfortable as possible catching a football.

[Eagles_Legendz]

I can't get on the challenge because if you have eyes all of shady's upper body got across the first down line and they marked him a full yard back.  100% chance that was a first down.  The problem is referees never overturn that call.  Ever.  They just say they can't see the ball so they don't change the result despite any common sense indicating the ball is over the line.  It's like a hockey review where they can't see the puck but there is almost no physical way it's not entirely across the line but doesn't get ruled a goal.

[hbionic]

I sat on the wrong spot on the couch, I couldn't swear because we had a guest in the house, so all of the normal pent up negative energy in me couldn't be released in its normal fashion. I was unbalanced, and couldn't watch the game comfortably. It was definitely my fault.

[Zanshin]

No, my fault....uh, yeah, farg that. It was their fault. They played like shtein for long stretches yesterday. The end.

[SunMo]

oh really?  it wasn't magical cosmic powers that caused them to lose?  interesting theory.

[General_Failure]

The obnoxious beer commercials lied to me?