THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES...

The Juggler wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

gotta love fans who are only fans when a team is good. .

when was the last time you rooted for the sixers?

rooted for the sixers? probably about 1992. can't stand the NBA and take no satisfaction nor any annoyance at what they do. will watch as a casual observer with mild interest but can't even tell you the last time i watched any NBA game start to finish. I DO NOT consider myself a Sixers fan. I have as much fandom in the Sixers as I do the Philadelphia Union. Mild interest as a local team but their success or failure doesn't phase me in any way. Of the 3 games they have played so far i have watched a grand total of zero minutes.

The Juggler wrote:

looks like todd herremans could be done for the year. god help us....and whoever is lined up under center for the next 8 games.

before the season, one of my concerns was how thin they were on the line (depending on such young and inexperienced backups). but i don't think anything could have prepared them for this. only evan mathis remains

All the OL they got rid of are better than what they have and they're still $20mil under the cap. Roseman gets an extension for this? He needs to go. I was excited about Nnamdi at the time but why sign him when you had 2 all-pro caliber CB's on the roster already?

The Juggler wrote:

JK_Livin wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

looks like todd herremans could be done for the year. god help us....and whoever is lined up under center for the next 8 games.

before the season, one of my concerns was how thin they were on the line (depending on such young and inexperienced backups). but i don't think anything could have prepared them for this. only evan mathis remains

All the OL they got rid of are better than what they have and they're still $20mil under the cap. Roseman gets an extension for this? He needs to go. I was excited about Nnamdi at the time but why sign him when you had 2 all-pro caliber CB's on the roster already?

i just do not understand the roseman thing.

with asante....if anything, they should have traded him before last season. instead they got a 7th round pick. and he is having a good year.

i'd have to go back to previous years but didn't a lot of people here dislike Asante because he couldn't tackle and gambled too much?

and EVERYONE loved the Nnamdi signing at the time. Hall of Fame writer Ray Didinger called him one of the 3 greatest cover corners he had seen. NO ONE anticipated him being this average, no one. hard to blame the Reid or Roseman for Nnamdi sucking.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/football/ ... team-kelly

A few years ago, Mark Bowden (the author of Black Hawk Down) did a hagiographical piece in The Atlantic on Eagles coach Andy Reid. It read like an anointment from someone outside the regular channels, proof that Reid was the thinkingest coach in the NFL.

Today, Reid is better recognized as a goldfish snatched from the bowl, gulping air on the sidelines while his players spend another game running into each other on both sides of the ball.

Did Reid suddenly drop a few IQ points? No. He’s the same Xs and Os guy he was back when, but the Xs aren’t trying quite as hard to avoid the Os any more. His team has given up on him.

Reid wasn’t a genius in the Schopenhauerian sense — that while talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits the target no one else can see.

There are certainly as-yet unseen targets in football strategy, but the men who get raised to the top are the least likely to spot them.

The people who hire coaches will always go with a conventionalist, a mainstream thinker. It provides more cover for them when they eventually have to fire them. And that eventuality is the only inevitability in the GM-coach relationship.

Geniuses are visionaries, and visionaries risk embarrassing their employers.

So the best that can be said about any coach is that he is an unusually talented man. Reid is still one of those. Like sport itself, that’s a cyclical process with too many variables for consistent performance. At some point, your own talent won’t be enough to make up for the shortcomings of the fifty-odd other guys who actually play the game.

Another constant is cosmic injustice — Reid will pay the heaviest price here. Philadelphia quarterback Michael Vick will be unemployed for about 10 minutes after the season is over. Reid will have to spend a year or so in a TV studio hoping the time off works like tomato juice, dissipating the stink of failure.

The Sporting News did another of those anonymous polls this week, asking players who is the most overrated coach in the league.

They might have got it right with their first choice, Rex Ryan. They definitely got it wrong with their second, Bill Belichick. Reid was whistling in the background at third, trying not to be noticed.

Not everyone gets their turn at the very top, but everyone who does knows they’ll eventually be tipped off the pedestal. That’s happening to Andy Reid now. It’ll also happen to the new generation of geniuses and the one after that.

In the interim, we’ll pretend not to notice that the smartest foreman is nearly always the one with the most dependable crew.

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oh boy, let's just fast forward to next season :?

What makes the loss even worse was it was to the Cowgirls :x

The Juggler wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

rotten to the core, this organization is. from the owner all the way down to the water boys.

even the moronic fans who wanted to throw the ball in the last 40 seconds of the half from inside your own 20 with a rookie qb who had never played before today. brilliance from the stands as well.

clearly we can hold off the legandary status just yet for nick foles.

saddest part of today is the cowboys suck and basically sucked today as well. not good at all.

any of those names in the paper as possible replacements float your boat? not good seeing comments the Lurie didn't get along with Gruden when he was here. seems like that one is already out.

they had 2 timeouts. the play calling there was not surprisingly poor. and okay, if you are just going to run the clock out, fine....but why on earth call a pass play to havilli? you're just giving the cowboys an extra few seconds that they thought they would not have in the first place. that's moronic.

what names did they list? i didn't see that article. i mentioned some names i would be interested in last time this was brought up and asked if you could name someone you would like but you did not respond. assuming reid is let go, who would you like? i'm guessing gruden?

i did answer that before. i would love gruden or cowher but i don't see either of those happening. assistants with no head coaching experience are a crapshoot as are college coaches (although the latest college coaches are having a bit more success with harbaugh and pete carroll having some success) . i think you have to be blown away in an interview to hire a guy with no head coaching experience.

it broke down the possible candidates into groups of offensive coaches, defensive coaches and college coaches. the top names were actually josh mcdaniels, mike nolan and chip kelly from oregon. then listed a whole of other names of assistants including fagiano and fewell (spelling?). also briefly mentioned Bill O'Brien who i think could be a real attractive candidate.