Today's post-game conference will feature a guest appearance by former Cardinals coach Dennis Green. Coach Green, your thoughts on Sunday's game?
Well-put, Coach; thanks. If I might add just a few words...
First of all, Jesus H. Christ. These Eagles are in a sex-boatload of trouble when they travel to Minnesota next weekend. Any loss in the next three games and this team is officially doomed. They have to play the Cowboys in two weeks; how do you think that's going to work out?
Save for the game against Detroit, the Birds have scored a touchdown exactly once twice when inside the red zone this season. Once Twice. We're talking a single-digit percentage rate of success getting six when inside the 20 in five out of six games. There's something very, very wrong here, and the bye week did nothing to fix it.
Brian Griese was picked to be John Elway's successor by the Denver Broncos. In Denver, he was never able to duplicate Elway's success, but it does appear that from time to time Griese can at least remind people of his predecessor's greatness. A team whose offense scares exactly nobody won the game by executing a 97-yard drive with 1:52 left and no timeouts, down by 4 on the road. There is simply no excuse for letting ANYONE do that to you on your home field.
By the way, my deepest apologies to any Cleveland fans out there reading this, since the last thing you want to be reminded of on a day like today is another famous playoff collapse.
Fall through trapdoor kills season [Phil Sheridan, Philadelphia Inquirer]
Bears drive from own 3, land in end zone to beat Eagles [ESPN]
Monday, October 22, 2007
Eagles Notes, Week 7: "The Drive," Version 2.0
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Can you imagine the carnage when we go up to Foxboro next month?
Sooner or later they are going to flirt with triple-digits, and it may well be against the Eagles. I'm thinking seven TD passes from Brady, two from the backup, two rushing touchdowns and three defensive touchdowns.
Maybe just for good measure we'll see a couple of two-point conversions or a safety thrown in for that "fuck you" vibe the Patriots exude with such utter classlessness.
(I'm only half-joking; we could be witnesses to a blowout of "Texas-over-Rice" proportions.)
"The Drive" would of never even existed, if the four minute offense hadn't become a two minute offense, leaving the bears with two minutes.
Reminds me of when "Jake the snake" used to be with the Cards, and he would drive down the field and steal the game in the last two minutes.
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