Sunday Morning Notebook

My PE.com column is posted.  It’s worth a look.  I listed the big plays we have put up on the Giants in the past 2 seasons.  Pretty amazing to see what we did.  Hopefully we’ll see even more today.

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After the first game I wrote my SB Nation Philly column about how clutch the Eagles were in the opener.  Last week the team made me look like a jackass (not that hard, huh?) with the way they played.  Poor Red Zone defense.  Dropped passes.  Costly missed tackles.  And a disastrous 4th quarter.

It will be interesting to see if last week was an aberration or if these issues are on-going and need to be dealt with.

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Remember how the O-line was the huge question a couple of weeks back?  Vick has been sacked 3 times this year.  2 of them were by DBs.  The third was caused by a DB.  The OL still needs to get better, but I think you can see that we’ve got some talent up front and that Howard Mudd is a pretty darn good coach.

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2 games, 2 Red Zone turnovers.  Can’t have that.  Both came on “complicated” plays.  One was a play-action pass.  The other involved a fake hand-off to one RB and was designed to go to the other.  Both times the defense attacked and the fakes were meaningless.  I hope Marty / Andy learn from this.  People attack Vick in the Red Zone.

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Field position is key.  4 of the 6 TDs we have allowed this year came on short fields.  We need to make the Giants drive a long field.

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DeSean will be key today, whether he’s a decoy or target.  I’m betting we open with a deep throw to him or at least a play where he’s going deep.  We want to scare the Giants DBs from the get-go.

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If you need some good pre-game time killers, Adam Caplan and Greg Cosell have 3 good film room sessions over at PE.com.

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It will be interesting to see if we go no-huddle and, if so, just how much we do it.