The Eagles have just announced their inactives for tonight’s game: Trevard Lindley, Jorrick Calvin, Chad Hall, Daniel Te’o Nesheim, Reggie Wells, Austin Howard, Garrett Mills, and Mike Kafka is the 3rd quarterback.
I think this game comes down to the answer to one question. Can the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line and game plan give Michael Vick enough time to throw the ball against the New York Giants? There’s no way they can cover the Eagles receivers, if Vick has time to get the ball down field to them.
New York Jets’ secondary was torched last week against the Dallas Cowboys. Jon Kitna sliced them up and he had plenty of time to do it. I’m sure Osi Umenyiora and Justin Tuck know they’ve got to play great in order to give their any chance of stopping the big plays of the Eagles.
I hope we have plenty of good things to talk about tonight. Let’s keep it clean and have a good time talking about the game.
I’ve been waitin’ alllllllllllllllll day for Sunday night!
Eagle Offense, Eagle Defense, and Good Karma, Eagles win, as always LONG LIVE THE EAGLES
You gotta love this quote:
The guiding principle of his revolutionary, aggressive defense was to “find out who the second-string quarterback was,” Buddy Ryan once said.
I still miss Buddy. For my entertainment dollar, he was tops.
Monolith
Gotta give it you to you. You keep positive energy. Go Birds!
and I don’t?
Im ready babyyyyyyyy
Hate sunday night gms to much waitn
A Huge game for the loser of this battle will be on the outside looking in as far as the playoffs go..
I believe only the winner of the NFC East Division will make the playoffs with th ewildcard teams from
The NFC South and NOrth Divsions.. Look how the COmpetition did today in the NFC
Falcons win 8-2
Saints win 7-3
TB Bucs win 7-3
Packers win 7-3
Bears win 7-3
Only 6 teams make the playoffs and remember the NFC West will get one (Probably Seattle at 5-5)
The Winner of this game tonight joins the rest at 7-3 and 1 game behind Atalanta for overall best record, The loser falls to 6-4 with a tough remaining schedule and a uphill battle sinec the Falcons,Bucs,Bears,Packers all have easier schedules remaining than the Eagles or Giants..
Eagles win 31-13
Wow andrews playing in pain. R u serious? Unreal
Dixon a beast
nice
Monolith
So far, your good karma is present.
7 step drop….hmmmm
Special teams are showing improvement. The script has no magic, thus far.
Vinnie
Where ya been?
Vinnie
Didn’t hear from your during the record-breaking Monday night game. Did you watch it?
We’re bringing the hat against the run so far.
i was out with buddies like every Monday night for the past 20 yrs or so
no chat
I like the D so far
Need score though…know what happens to D efforts like this if scores don’t follow…..
Miss ya, man. Glad you’re with us tonight.
oh peters…..glad to have u back
solid throw
florida gators???
i want to ban the 2nd and 10 run……hate it
nice drive
Very patient and methodical drive – 7 minutes – Eli’s gotten cold on the sidelines.
that was impressive
Liked:
throw to Maclin on side blitz came from
throws to desean on 3rd
one dump to McCoy on 2nd and 9
Didn;t like
2nd and 10 run
florida gators Mike Vick run
called QB run for TD….
that’s 2 called QB runs on the drive…….Do they want Vick to last season or not?
Nice run down by Trent Cole.
First Quarter
16 Plays – 10 passes, 6 runs for 63% passing.
Run defense has been good.
Of course, as soon as I type that . . .
but drummer….2 were vick runs (maybe called) and one was a vick scramble for 1
mmcoy got has 3 carries…..desean 1…so 4 “real” runs
Nicks getting physical with Patterson.
so its even more skewed (as usual)
I’m not charting scrambles as runs. I chart them as passes.
Good defense in the red zone!
I’m charting the stats. They’re not skewed.
The table doesn’t past correctly, but here it is.
Pass Run Type of Drop Notes
1 5 Sacked – 1 yard gain
false start
1 2nd and 14 – no gain
1 7 3rd and 16 – Maclin drop
False start
1st and 15
1 3 Quick out to Maclin no gain
1 2nd and 18 – Pass to Jackson for 23
1 End around Jackson – no gain
1 3 Hot read to Maclin – safety blitz
1 Wildcat fake hand-off QB keeper
1 3 1st down by McCoy – safety valve
1 7 Overthrown to
1 No gain – Winston Justice missed the block
1 5 3rd and 9 – complete to Jackson for 1st down
1 play action complete
1 McCoy 1st down – cross buck
1 Thrown away
1 Vick run
7-minute drive
y but i don;t even like the 2 called qb runs….bad news….unless you’re the 1990s cornhuskers
McCoy has been called 3x
Desean once
Vick 2x
and one Vick ‘scramble’ for a yard
Those are the Birds 7 ‘runs’
yuck
Hobbs looked scared there.
no you;re not skewed…the pass/run defense is sqewed
I’m not as much concerned about running as I am that they mix up their plays, i.e., reverses, screens, draws (inside hand-offs), etc. We just need to make their pass rush a bit hesitant.
did i say defense??…sorry…rye….I meant the pass/run ratio….ugh
but speaking of D…they look good
I just don;t like going through a Q and a half with only giving ball to RB 3x (and he;s good!)
I still worry about long term effects of such a policy
see that’s bad frikkin’ news
a 5 (maybe 7) step drop on 3rd and 1…..terrible
Here’s where I always get concerned. After the first 15 plays, Reid starts calling consecutive drop back passes and the pass rush heats up. It’s happened nearly every game (except Atlanta and I believe one other). Against Atlanta, his play calling was excellent.
Vinnie
I agree that Reid’s play-calling exposes his QB to injury.
nice play by hanson
Yes!!!!
he does…but I still think he does it more with McNabb/VIck at the helm because he’s such a believer in the “one explosive play” philosophy
on the flip side…love to see the D just going after the ball…ripping it out