Really LeSean?

Eagles haven't beaten any good teams. Not. A. One. 

 

This "Chip Kelly is the new best HC in football history" crap from the media all season is laughable. 

 

Three reason's he's a doofus based on the Packers game alone: 

 

1. He stuck to "what has worked" by stacking the line of scrimmage with defenders, and going man-coverage on the outside against the Packers WRs that are having record-breaking seasons. How did daring the Packers to pass work out for you, Chipper? 

 

2. Down 21 points, he stuck to "what has worked" and kept running the ball. Packers would have taken that all day -- and they did. All the way to a soul-crushing blowout. 

 

3. Down 1000 points (not really, but might as well have been), he not only leaves LeSean McCoy in the game, but he KEEPS GIVING HIM THE BALL. If this is a playoff-bound team, why risk injuring your best player? Pad the stats? Preserve his offense's "rankings"? What a loser. 

I was saying that too, even had Sproles in late on punt return.
Can't see how those players would think much of that.
Also, Sanchez might be his guy but sure looked like some of those players had WTF moments with Sanchez quite a few times .

I really believe, even if Foles were in there instead of Sanchez, the Pack was going to win yesterday.  It may not have been as easy, but the Pack was going to slice up that defense no matter who the QB was. 

 

The Eagles played a really poor game, making some unforced errors that just added onto the avalanche.  They better take a good look at themselves and make sure they don't continue to play that poorly or they'll be on the outside looking in for a playoff berth. 

In the immortal words of Mike Smith, "They were the better team... tonight."

Foles has been garbage this season. He wouldn't have helped the Eagles at all and in fact they might have done even wore. Foles is a statue in the pocket and the Pack would have racked up a few more sacks that Sanchez was able to evade yesterday

 

 

Maclin says.....

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2. Down 21 points, he stuck to "what has worked" and kept running the ball. Packers would have taken that all day -- and they did. All the way to a soul-crushing blowout.

Buck and Aikman were saying that the brilliance of Chip Kelly's offense is that it allows him to keep running the offense even when they're down 21.

Tell me again why Buck and Aikman are Fox's #1 crew?

I don't think Philly is better than GB, but I do think Philly is still a very talented team. The major problems I see with Philly are: a legit QB that actually fits Kelly's scheme and an elite pass rusher on D. Kelly needs a running QB who defenses will respect running the ball, that isn't Mark Sanchez. Don't be surprised if we see Jameis Winston or Nick Marshall (Auburn) running the offense in Philly next year, that could be very dangerous. As for the D, they have some good pass rushers, but not an elite one and not one who is a game changer. Their CBs are physical and while their Safeties have been an issue this year, I think they could probably get by with them if they had a legit pass rusher. 

 

Honestly I knew we would beat Philly, we played them pretty tight last year with Tolzzzzzzzien at QB.

Many comments here in Eagle country revolved around the helmet to helmet on Sanchize that wasn't called. Others talked about holding calls never flagged. I guess it comes down to whatever gets you through an outright beatdown.

 

I do know the Packers went down to the Bayou three weeks ago and got stomped....it happens. My biggest issue with many fans, Eagles in particular, who never have the sack to give credit to any opposing team. Your team wins games on their own talent and merit, and loses only due to officiating and NFL conspiracy....gotcha.

IMO, its not helmet to helmet when a 6'2 QB ducks his head down into the oncoming 6'4 + crusher, when the QB saw it coming and could of turned away.
Very dum suggestion by Mr.concussion Aikman at the time.
Jmo.

Those helmet to helmet hits on Sanchez were borderline IMO. I think the reason they didn't get called was because Sanchez lowered his head, presumably because he knew the hit was coming. To me a non-call was the right thing there. The NFL has made it hard enough to hit QBs in the pocket, not too low but not too high, so what is a DL supposed to do when a QB intentionally lowers his head? 

fully on board with yaz, trump & GD.  if a QB wants to duck his head he should have to deal with the consequences not expect a flag.

Whether or not we agree with it, helmet-to-helmet is a penalty. Regardless of what the QB does with his head. They call that with an elite QB back there. Sanchize ain't that.

It didn't have anything to do with who the qb is.  Come on, chickenboy.  Joe Buck only called helmet-to-helmet after the slow motion replay.  It simply wasn't blatant enough to see in real time.

 

Refs can impact games negatively and it sucks when that happens, but seriously.  Not when your opponent hangs 50 points on you.

 

 

If the refs would have called that, I could see that some QB's and even coaches will coach that the QB lower their head on purpose to draw the call.  Technically it was H2H but a good no call.  You could "technically" call holding on most plays, and many are no calls, which are good.   

McCoy has a point: it was one game, one point in time. I don't see anything wrong with what he said except this: Rodgers said it better when he said, "Relax." Both knew they weren't as bad as the game/record indicated.

Does that mean the Eagles are a better team? Nope, not yet. We win with Foles in anyway. But, if Kelly gets a better QB to run his offense, then they will be tougher to beat. But they still need to improve their D as well. It doesn't matter how many points you can score if your D can't stop the other team, you'll still have games where you get beat. (NO game, for us.)

I didn't see anything wrong with what McCoy said. What's he supposed to say? That there is no way they can beat Green Bay this year if they meet again?

Do any of us think that New Orleans is significantly better than Green Bay? Even though two games ago New Orleans blew GB out 44-23?

this is bulletin board material on the level with Clay's brother saying he didn't like being a MLB.

What does baseball have to do with anything?

Don't get me started on Joe Buck. Pretty sure he hates the Packers, too. And loves penalties. And ball "movement" during super-slow-mo' replays. 

And Troy Aikman

Loved it how the 2 idots in booth were starting to go on and on about some guy named Bill Davis's defense, until AR & Co started shredding it.