Sunday Stuff
Posted: November 6th, 2011 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 82 Comments »ProFootballTalk reports that the Eagles are talking to LeSean McCoy and his ultra-shy agent about a contract extension. I figured Shady would want to wait for the offseason to maximize his value, but I would love to see a deal get done this season. Shady has emerged as an elite player and you want those guys locked up ASAP.
Work your magic, Mr. Banner.
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No Eagles today, but there are some games of interest.
Seattle is at Dallas. Go Seahawks! I’m certainly not expecting much, but sometimes these are the kind of games Dallas will lose.
SF at Washington. I have given up on WAS being a relevant team so I’m not even paying this game much attention. The Skins will start Roy Helu at RB. I’m interested to see how he does.
NYG at New England. Lets go Pats! The Giants DL is hoping to pound on Tom Brady, but I’m sure the Pats will have a few wrinkles for them. We really need NE to come up big and win this game to keep us near the Giants and the division lead. This is a 4:15 game.
Striking Distance is coming on Ion-TV for those who are into movies about drunk riverboat cops in Pittsburgh.
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Couple of interesting stories from Jimmy over at Blogging The bEast. Jimmy doesn’t seem to think Rob Ryan’s assessment of himself is all that accurate.
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Can’t wait for Monday night.
Good stuff from Sheil Kapadia on the DL.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/moving_the_chains/Washburn-effect-How-does-Graham-fit-in.html?ref=twitter.com
Neither here nor there, but great game from Alabama/LSU last night. Hate to see a team lose because neither one of their two kickers are worth a damn, but that’s the way football go.
Love those Alabama ILBs. Can you imagine Hightower in our old “MIKE blitz the A gap” scheme?
Hightower reminds me a bit of Trotter. So big, so powerful. Punishing hitter. He’s just not as fast as Trot was (early on).
How would Trotter do in the Wide 9? Doesn’t it make some sense to have a big thumper in there to fill those holes, 2 down LB or no?
HOU 14
CLE 0
It will be interesting to see how Dick Jauron’s defense does against a legitimate offense. Not off to a good start. 110 yards on 2 drives.
Yeah just keep rubbing it in, buddy. 😉
I don’t mind Sunday night games at all. I’ve got two fantasy football leagues and an office pick ’em pool that keep me occupied all Sunday, and it allows me to soak in the other 30 teams without allowing myself to drown in Eagles worry. Plus, Sunday nights give me “The Walking Dead” and the intrigue of “Hell on Wheels,” so I’ve got plenty to keep me entertained.
However, Monday night games f’n blow. Mondays in general blow, but having to wait 12 hours after waking to see the game kickoff borders on some sort of psychological torture.
Have not heard a lot of good things from media re: Hell on Wheels. Was hoping for it to pick up where “Deadwood” left off, but that’s a tall order.
Dang, thats a bummer. Then again, the media tends to be very mixed on “The Walking Dead” and I love that nearly every week, so I’ll hold out optimism.
I am a major sucker for a good revenge tale, and the setting of the post-Civil War/early-Reconstruction Era leaves it ripe for some awesome goings-on. AMC was airing “There Will Be Blood” last night, and I had forgotten how awesome that movie was. I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE.
I’m curious about Hell on Wheels as well.
LeSean McCoy and Matt Forte must despise Chris Johnson about now, given his miserable performance following a huge contract. There is no way either of them are getting close to that salary now. This timing favors eagles Eagles management, so why not do a deal? McCoy and Forte could also be playing for who gets the bigger contract on Monday.
Yeah, a new contract for Shady (and he deserves one) is REALLY going to alienate DeSean.
I keep asking myself, if the Rams were to offer a 1st rounder for DeSean in the offseason (obviously with a franchise tag attached), wouldn’t it just make as much sense to trade him and go after a more prototypical Z like Justin Blackmon? Can’t really see giving out huge contracts to Vick, Mac, Shady, and DeSean within two years of each other.
I was thinking about that earlier today. The RBs around the NFL would love to give Chris a blanket party.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCNqKrX1sx8
Awesome reference.
Got into a heated argument with a friend the other night… best Vietnam movie ever? I said “Apocalypse Now,” he said “Full Metal Jacket.” I love both, but I’ve always felt that FMJ levels off quite a bit after the Gomer Pyle stuff.
I don’t think people give enough credit to the incredible “Platoon,” either.
For me, “Apocalypse Now” is THE quintessential Vietnam War film, the others (Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, The Deer Hunter) are merely great films about the Vietnam War. Another underestimated film in the genre is “Casualties of War” with Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox, directed by Brian De Palma. I saw it again recently and was very impressed.
I think Platoon is the best movie about the Vietnam War because it dealt with grunts and not generals, the CIA, or Green Berets.
Hamburger Hill is also excellent in that sense.
I love Apocalypse Now and FMJ. Brilliant films.
Some underrated films:
Tribes
The Boys in Company C (Lee Eremy’s debut)
84 Charlie Mopic
The dynamic between Berenger’s Barnes and Dafoe’s Elias is probably the single most palpable of any the prolific Vietnam films. You could watch those two riffing off of eachother for DAYS.
Thanks for the other suggestions, too. Friend of mine always name-drops “Hamburger Hill,” but I’ve never seen it. I’ll have to add these to my netflix queue.
I grew up just outside Fort Bragg. Seeing Vietnam films in the theater with soldiers and vets made for some interesting times. You could really tell that those films hit home with guys who’d been over there and the young guys who were involved in combat in the 80s.
Seeing Rambo was really fun. GIs loved cheering every time he took out a bad guy. Lots of fun. Great atmosphere.
Man, I always forget about “Hamburger Hill.” I have no idea why; it’s a great film.
I will have to check that out, thanks for the suggestion. Considering that I like a handful of his films a great deal(“Blow Out,” baby!), I still have yet to get around to like 75% of De Palma’s resume.
He’s an underrated director these days. I think “Casualties” did poorly because people couldn’t get their heads around seeing Marty McFly (or Alex P. Keaton) in a serious war picture.
Love DePalma. Huge fan of Carlito’s Way. Also love Blow Out.
Carlito’s Way is very underrated because a lot of people view it as some sort of quasi-attempt at rekindling the success that DePalma and Pacino had with “Scarface.” I actually think its the better movie. Penn is incredible in it.
Grr, seeing Miami spring their trap game on Kansas City just reminds me how painfully close they were to knocking off NYG last week. I would feel so much better about the division right now if the Giants had lost last week.
I hear ya. Might be best that the Giants didn’t lose. If too many things had gone our way, you wonder if the guys would have just assumed the NFC-E was ours. We now have to stay in chase mode, not necessarily a bad thing.
Guess Julio Jones is feeling a little bit better. 2 catches, 130 yards, 2 TDs.
Is Kolb a no go today? I tend to watch just out of curiosity, but he never sold me, i.e. I never watched him and thought wow! Guess I watch to see if I can see what had so many raving about him. Anyway, if he sits it will be interesting to see what Skelton makes of his opportunity, because Kev’s play has certainly been of the level that a guy ‘taking his opportunity’ could unseat him.
Anyway, as well as signing McCoy, is there any chance we could steal Marcus Ware and DeMarco Murry from the Pukes. They are wasted there.
Kolb has a bad foot and is out.
I’d love to see DeMarcus Ware play for any non-NFC East team, but that ain’t happening.
The Jets D is playing like their season is on the line. Which, for all intents and purposes, it is. They’re really bottling up Jackson and Fitzpatrick. Too bad the offense still can’t do anything between the 20’s.
Jason LaConfora says that Shady has fired Drew Rosenhaus.
http://t.co/3xIyxba2
In the words of Michael Kelso…
“BURN!”
I wonder if a deal might be contingent upon that?
The “excellent” defense of CLE is finally meeting some quality OFF and have allowed 24 points in ONE half…
Gave up 174 rushing yards last week. Have given up 180 so far today. Ouch.
Dallas up 13-6 on Seattle. Cowboys are infinitely more talented, but sleepwalking through this game.
Remember all of those articles after week 1 about the Redskins feeling like a “special team” in the locker room, and declining an extra day off so that they could work harder and continue to gel?
Hehehe. Hehe. Heh.
Personally I don’t like the fact that the Redskins lost. I think the Niners are due a loss big time next week against the Giants.
That’s why the Patriots better win today!!!
Philip Rivers and Vincent Jackson just drove right down the field for the quick score against GB. Hopefully Rivers won’t make me regret starting him over Matt Ryan in one of my fantasy leagues.
Well, Rivers has thrown 3 TDs so far.
Unfortunately, only 1 was for his team.
Fortunately, the deep hole that GB put them in has led to Rivers lighting it up for me. He surpassed Matt Ryan in fantasy points already, so I’m happy. I also have Jordy Nelson and Mike Tolbert in my starting lineup, so this SD/GB shootout has been most fortuitous.
Quentin Demps had an INT today. How about them apples?
Good for him. I loved him coming out of college.
Same. Honestly, I tend to get enamored with one or two guys at the Safety position each year, but I do remember Demps being one of them. Excellent cover safety at UTEP, I thought he had a chance to provide a similar role as Dawkins did. Wasn’t too correct about that, ey?
I’m starting to dislike the Niners quite a bit – they remind me of the Falcons from last year; guys who overachieve partly on the basis of playing mistake-free football, but also by being lucky and having every bounce come their way. I was hoping they’d lose today and at least have to have a bounceback win next week. Now I’m concerned they may be complacent. I really hope the Giants go 0-2 this week and the next.
Guess what?! The Giants will go 2-0 over the next two weeks.
Bite your tongue!!!
This game is huge for us if we want to catch the Giants. The Patriots offense and Brady have not been playing as well as you would hope and I don’t trust the Patriots defense to hold a 3 point lead (as of right now). That being said, the Giants haven’t really been able to exploit the Patriots defense fully either.
Stupid Kyle Arrington.
Come on, vaunted Patriots offense. End this puppy. We need you!
What was that, 4 straight passes to Gronko? And it finally converts. Excellent.
Pats D needs to hooold here.
This Patriots defense is absolute garbage. Twice they couldn’t make a stop when they needed to.
Holy crap. Pats’ D is AWFUL. I’m not quite as worried about this matchup as I was earlier in the season.
I think the Pats are a very overrated team, but their offense can be scary good. I still see that as a very difficult game for us. If Brady is playing well, he could pick us apart, especially with the way he uses his RBs and TEs.
True, true. The TE-based passing attack is still a little troubling.
I’ll be honest. This is why I am not yet buying all the Eagles hype. We still have to catch up to the Giants who have 2 games on us and a win against us. Giants have to loose games like this, and well…. they didn’t.
I don’t know who kidnapped Tom Brady and replaced him with that shlub who was under center for new england today but until the 4th quarter I think you could have traded him for a box of bazooka joe and come out ahead on the deal.
I don’t like New England but we needed that one today. What the eff?
I just want to know where that awesome drafting Patriots team, the one Morton keeps talking about, was today.
What, you mean the Eagles would never have had the acumen to draft studs like Shawn Crable and Terrance Wheatley?
I never said the Patriots draft well. I usually point to the Packers, Giants, and the Steelers when I talk about good drafting.
One of the reasons behind the Pats’ downfall in recent years is a string of poor drafts in which Belichick shows more interest in accumulating massive volume of draft picks rather than quality players – a similar problematic strategy exhibited by Howie Roseman.
While they are accumulating picks, they are also drafting a lot of those guys in the 1st and 2nd rounds. A much different strategy than Andy/Howie’s 4th round and after bevy of picks.
New England really hasn’t drafted very well since Pioli/Dimitroff left. Surprisingly, however, is that both Pioli and Dimitroff have not drafted that well in KC and Atlanta, respectively.
So.unrelated but i couldn’t find the answer online…
Watching the ravens game and opening play is a td run called back for holding. Ok, except the ravens then get 1 and 10.. No offsetting penalty.
shouldn’t be 1 and 20? itAm i missing something? How is offensive holding assessed?
It’s assessed from the spot of the hold, I didn’t see the first play, but I would guess if it was 1st and 10 that the hold occurred somewhere 10 yards downfield of the LOS
Got it. So i guess most called holds just on the ol? seems like its always assessed from los
It’s always assessed from the spot of the foul.
Unless it’s behind the line of scrimmage, I think. I mean if an o-lineman holds 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage you don’t then see 1st and 23.
As pissed as I am for the Pats laying an egg today, I can’t help but think that the Eagles put themselves in this position in the first place. You can’t rely on another team to do your work for you. As long as we keep winning I believe we can win the East, unfortunately we have to hope that the Giants manage to lose 2 or even 3 more than us over the next 9 games. Hopefully the Giants win today acts like a reinforcer for the team to play with a sense of urgency and not think they can coast on talent again .
Once you go 1-3 in your first four games, your chances of winning a Super Bowl, or even just making the playoffs are next to non-existant. There’s a reason that almost 98% of the Super Bowl winners in the history of the game are either 3-1 or 4-0 in their first four games.
That works out to only 2 teams in history having won the SB without starting 3-1 or better? I don’t believe that.
Jeez, Morton. Just last year, the Packers went 2-2, losing to the Browns and Chiefs, before winning the Super Bowl.
I admit the Eagles aren’t likely SB winners. But strange things are most likely to happen in a year with a shortened pre-season.
The Packers went 3-1 last year in their first four games, losing only to the Bears by 3 points. They didn’t even play the Chiefs or the Browns last year.
What are you talking about, exactly?
These trends are made to be broken.
Pittsburgh Baltimore game resembling last night’s game between Alabama and LSU – a 9 – 6 tough defensive slugfest.
Excellent game. Those two teams always deliver the goods. Long story short, Balimore was 14-for-21 on 3rd downs. Astounding. And you have to respect Joe Flacco’s mettle. Facing a 92-yard drive, needing a TD, with less than 90 seconds in front of 65,000 crazy Pittsburgh fans… and he gets it done. Looked like Torrey Smith definitely pushed off, though. But I digress.
I never mind seeing the Ravens win, to be honest. Baltimore is only about 100 miles away, their teams pose no immediate conference or division rivals, Harbaugh is their head coach, and their QB/RB battery attended Delaware and Rutgers, respectively. Kind of hard to root AGAINST them, unless they’re playing the Birds.
Stupid Patriots. I have to hear about how wonderful Brady and Belichick are 24/7 and the one time I am hoping they really are that wonderful, they fail.
The Pats might be the most overrated teams in the NFL, while the Giants are the most underrated.
There’s a pretty good chance NY will run away with the NFC East title, especially since the Niners are due a loss next week.
I really think the Giants’ lack of depth will hurt them in the last half of the season, despite their impressive play of late. If they can maintain their level of play down the stretch, they fully deserve to win the East. I just don’t think it’s likely with all of their injury troubles.
The Giants always find a way to overcome injuries. At the moment they’re the 2nd best team in the NFC, only behind the Packers.
I’m tired of the metric that if you beat the Pats, all of a sudden you are heralded as one of the best teams in the league. Yes, the Giants beat the Patriots and slowed down the Patriots offense, but the Pats have an absolutely awful defense. If that defense makes one stop on either of the last two drives, Pats win that game.
Looking at the Giants so far this season, there is no question that they deserve credit for going 6-2 but let’s look at that a bit closer. The two games they have lost are to two terrible teams (Redskins and Seahawks). They have squeaked by some awful teams (Dolphins 20-17, Cardinals 31-27), and beat up on the terrible Rams. They did beat the Pats (a highly overrated team) the Bills and us, so they deserve credit there, but the point is, this team is not dominant by any means. They are not even close to the Packers and the Giants have proven to be a very beatable team. Yes, they absolutely deserve credit for winning the games they have won, but lets not go anointing them just yet.
Eli just can’t sustain this. I really don’t believe that.
Why? He really seems to have taken his game to another level. No bonehead interceptions any more. Instead impressive drives in clutch time.
He threw a horrible INT in the end zone yesterday. That was a pass that Eli has to eat or throw away. Awful decision to put the ball up and hope.
All those calling for Jerry Reese’s head now look like fools….I agree the Pats played like crap but the Giants “replacements” have been doing a good job…on another note why the heck is Jarrad Page still on the team and DeVan is cut…? Someone please explain that to me…
DeVan was disposable. We’ve got JamJax and Vandervelde. We could also shift Todd inside and play Justice or King at OT.
Obviously the team doesn’t trust Colt A. on defense and is hesitant about Jarrett. Maybe Page is good in practice. The guy can’t tackle, but he might be a good teacher in terms of how to read offenses and where to line up…technical stuff.