PHI at CLE – 1st half
Posted: September 9th, 2012 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 190 Comments »Inactives:
OL Demetress Bell
OL Nate Menkin
RB Dion Lewis
WR Riley Cooper
DE Vinny Curry
S David Sims
S Colt Anderson
I’m not surprised by the Bell move at all. I’ve mentioned on here that Dennis Kelly is a Mudd favorite and may play more of a role than expected.
Dion Lewis isn’t 100 percent. If Bryce Brown plays well, does he keep the job? Did he pass Dion anyway?
Jai-Jar is the only backup Safety. I’m sure Brandon Hughes could slide in there if needed. Could be another CB, but Hughes has the skill set and some experience. Just makes sense.
Hopefully the backups won’t play until the game is out of hand…yeah, I think we are going to win. We better!!!
GO EAGLES!!!
G’day from Aus, it’s 3AM here! But it’s worth it, Let’s go eagles.
G’day to you. You are a truly dedicated fan.
London’s calling! I get up in the middle of the night too!
Still think it is worth it?!
I thought this day would never come.
Definitely, bizarre how attached I am to this crazy game
What is the timelimit for BEll before he has to be active? Is it okay for him to take this long to take in Mudds ideas? I mean, I find it very troubling that a rookie can out-learn a seasoned veteran in the classroom/in the mind…
A beautiful day here in England, I can’t wait for the season to start!
Ugh…that’s not a good way to start the season.
mccoy loses a fumble. : (
and we were doing so good without running the ball. hahaha
Good start to the Turnover differential.
And the replacement refs are off to a great start, too.
Who’s Aaron Curry? Is that Vinny’s real name?
Ha. I saw an old Aaron Curry highlight late last night. His name must have been stuck on my brain.
someone on the d line got amazing pressure there, wtf happened in coverage?!?
A miraculous 3rd down stop!
Made more miraculous by the fact that it wasn’t erased by a bone head penalty!
I prefer to think that’s an omen for what we’ll see this year.
are you effing kidding me with this crap? botched snap….
The offense is off to a very sloppy start. Frustrating to say the least.
But McCoy is back to even now, right? One fumble, one recovery.
I really wish McCoy would carry the ball in his left arm on run plays to the left
Sloppy
Nice to see Australia and England in the house!
Geography Roll Call…
L.A.
PA. Unexciting, I know.
lol same here… north jersey..
3rd and 1, please don’t throw a bomb downfield….
oh thank god.
Good grief…the offense looks sloppy as hell. On the bright side, other than the botched snap, Vick looks sharp.
How many 2nd and 16’s have we had so far? 3?
Good to see D-Jax over the middle…
Least diciplined team in the NFL. Make dumb mistakes like that all the time.
penalties!!!! ugh….
Barf
WTF!?!?!?!?!?! that was a horrible throw!!!
Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
This team looks a lot like last year, which I was mocked all last season for saying. Dumb penalties, bad coverage, and giving the ball away way too much.
Wow a disaster so far
I don’t think anyone touched the LB after the INT… I guess the replacement refs swing both ways…
This might snowball… Vick trying to make too much out of the play to compensate for Dunlap’s holding call. Watch out for a similar mistake next possession to make up for this mistake… etc.
So you are skipping right over the defense trying too hard?
At this point, that’s a given, right?
I’ll never understand why MM and AR put a rookie RB in on passing downs . . . like Bryce Brown, who missed at least one blitz pick-up, maybe two.
MM put BBrown right after McCoy ran the ball.
Why not get Brown warmed up with a run. Then put McCoy back in. Jeez.
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Turnovers. Missed blocks. Penalties.
Let’ see . . . how long until Vick’s injured.
Because it’s 2011 again.
WHAT THE HELL!?!?! great play on d negated by penalty. sheesh. what a game.
Demeco cleaning up Babin’s mistake…
Yep. I was just threatening Babin and every one of his relatives for the past 1000 years. Lucky that Ryans saved them from my evil plans.
4 penalties for 35 years in 12 and a half minutes. Seriously does our team not bring in officials at practice?
Actually they do.
Seriously guys, you have 15 more games after this. You don’t have to break the record for most penalties in a year in the first game.
Impressive by Johnson. And I’m a little disappointed the official didn’t bother to check the schedule to find out the name of the team in white.
I love the “Eagles Alumni Softball Game” feel after each play… Sheldon Brown, Dmitri Patterson, Juqua Parker
Hadn’t thought of it from that angle. Is kinda funny.
Good to see Sheldon up and walking. I thought I read from a Cleveland reporter that they’ve been talking about him switching to safety for two years. Same old same old…
At least the D looks strong so far.
PR idea for the NFL to mask their labor issues with the officials – “one lucky fan” gets to be a line judge at each game.
HAHAHAHA yea it wont be much different than what we see now so why not.
Next time McCoy goes out, I think Polk comes in.
If the Eagles are gonna throw the ball w/ McCoy’s back up in the game, then go with Polk.
Brown’s not there yet on the blocking side. Let him run the damn ball.
Vick is already taking a beating…holy crap.
who else was screaming “throw it away” at the tv on that play? lol
o/
i miss jason peters
Eagles’ Pass Protection . . . needs WORK
That probably wasn’t the smartest move from Vick. I guess we’ll test Henery after the break…
The new face of fear…
http://vmedia.rivals.com/IMAGES/PROSPECT/PHOTO/ALEXHENERY150.JPG
I like the fact he’s willing to throw the ball away. I wish he’d do it before 2 guys are hanging off his body.
Not the first quarter i was expecting to see
Boy, you got that right.
i’m surprised we’re not running more screen plays on O.
we have run quite a few plays where the linemen pretend to block for a few seconds and then let the DL through
Now that the regular season’s here, the loss of Jason Peters looks much more serious. More re-scheming required.
I counted two blocks in the back on that…
Maybe the refs didn’t install that part of the rule book yet.
Ha!
That looked like a clip to me…
Thank god the Eagles aren’t playing RGIII or some other rookie. Or a real QB.
Remember how Jim Johnson’s D was always described as “bend but not break?” I wonder if Castillo’s is “break but don’t bend.” It always feels like we shut them down, shut them down, and then have some disastrous penalty or missed tackle…
C’mon. They’re pitching a shutout.
Just imagine how it’ll be against Flacco, Eli, Romo, Brees, RGIII.
Was that a Dawk celebration from Coleman? Nice coverage by Allen… the safeties did something! The safeties did something!
yea. that was all from allen on that play to get the ball loose.
T-Law:
Browns doing a pretty good job of neutralizing Eagles’ pass rush.
Oh crap, get up Mac!
Maclin back in…
vick throws it away again, kinda wish he would throw it away BEFORE he gets hit, though. lol
Exactly.
he’s learning that’s all we can hopr for
Maclin back out…
Maclin . . . cramp or, worse, groin pull.
mac hurt again. ugh.
Didn’t look like that bad of a hit.
Time to fast track BJ Cunningham.
Maclin tackled short of the 1st down.
Second time today the Eagles receivers did NOT run their route to the 1st down marker (Harbor earlier . . . bailed out by the Brown’s offside).
That punt and coverage was our best play of the game so far.
What would the call be?
wow RG3 is killing the saints.
How is that not a penalty on Richardson?
Holy shit, it’s a play by our middle linebacker!
gotta love how ryans is so sure with his tackling.
DeMeco Ryans . . . ALL PRO
Just asked Domo on Twitter to call his scout for re-evaluation.
Almost forgot what real LB play looks like
I would have liked to have seen them put Cooper on IR – Des. for Return and activate Gilyard for this game. Hope they don’t come up short with WRs but they saved a few bucks.
C-Thornton manhandled on that Richardson 9-yard collision into Coleman.
Ouch.
I was impressed Coleman didn’t let go.
SLIDE!!!!!
he’d rather risk his head than his legs
yea, i guess he’s not playing with his head so he doesnt need it.
i feel bad for the defense sometimes. had coleman hit richardson like that it wouldve been 15 yds
and a fine.
Even though he just got trucked, K. Coleman is playing a heck of a game. Very encouraged by the play of our D so far. Now, our offense???? Don’t get me started….
He made the tackle.
ugh. this offense is so painful to watch sometimes. i just don’t get it. with the talent we have, how can they be this ugly?
2 words:
O line.
Well, we can throw the “look good” goal out the window. New goal: score at least one more point than the Browns.
This is a joke
Roger Goodell is a tosser.
hey tommy seen any o linemen worth drafting yet
Is the Browns D that good, or is the Eagles D that out of synch?
T-LAW:
Vick’s pocket awareness is still troubling. He had a lot of space on that 3rd-11 to move back (7 minute mark of 2nd Q). Instead, he rolled left . . . into the pressure.
Frustrating from here. But maybe I miss-read it.
Nice INT… maybe the same as a punt. Good pressure up the middle
Tying to follow a game on gamecentre sux!!! Hope you die Goodell!
try firstrowsports.eu
DRC is having a pretty amazing game.
jesus effing christ. throw the goddamn ball.
Was Vick just tackled by his helmet?
i dont think so, but it was close.
Our QB has such good pocket presense. Quick, sharp decisions.
Great evaluation of Nick Foles.
This o line might be the worst of the NFL today.
3rd and 13, throw a 4 yard pass. That’s a McNabb classic!
Offense is pathetic
Chas Henry – MVP.
I keep saying to myself, we can’t lose this game, we can’t lose this game…! Can we lose this frigging game???
I keep waiting for the offense to wake up. Gotta happen at some point. I hope.
6 penalties for 50 is horrible.
If I just stepped off an alien spacecraft and watched this game, I’d say these are two evenly matched teams.
Rams 13, Lions 10 for what that’s worth.
nice grab by “Magic Hands” Dorenbos on the bench…
run defense/ tackling much improved
Vick is a wildly inconsistent QB.
The defense is excellent (although Juan Castillo, by law, cannot get any credit).
DeSean Jackson looks to be back fully to his pre-sulking days.
The officials are horrible.
All in all, isn’t this what we knew?
I think the officials have been okay.
sounds about right to me. you left out the penalties though, which once again we saw in preseason
vick is still getting hit way too many times
Gonna be over 100 yards in penalties, seriously, Reid not care about holding calls?
These are all legit holding penalties, but have you EVER seen a team called this tightly for holding? If officials called holding like this, the Giants would never make the playoffs.
That wasn’t much of a hold…
so i guess since each linemen have gotten a holding call time to for the skill players to get in on the action
That hold on MAclin was terrible. Better be calling the PI on the play after if youre gonna call ticky tak crap like that.
Was anyone else praying we’d get to the 2 minute warning before snapping the ball? Good gravy. At this point, I’m shocked we managed to score 3 points.
I hope we will draft 5 o liners in the first 3 rounds next year.
Surprised we didn’t get called for taunting on that…
He threw that off his back foot… a testament to both arm strength, and mental weakness.
Vick is running on just his reactions right now, has no idea what’s coming from moment to moment.
If you’re going to call timeouts to get the ball back, why wait 14 seconds after the whistle to call it? Sigh…
he had to debate whether he even wanted the ball back
Ha!
vick was getting legit pressure early, but he needs to settle down
Okay, Damaris… do your thing…
The Browns’ HORRENDOUS offense — and bad QB’ing — is keeping the Eagles in this game.
Yes, the Eagles defense is playing okay.
But we’re really not playing an NFL QB today.
Or putting one of our own on the field.
true but it is a legit o line and RB and he’s barely gotten anything
I guess 6 snaps in the pre-season is not enough to get ready…
Vick looks lost
Not so much any more
Is Vick playing any better today than Kevin Kolb on opening day in 2010?
UNTIL THAT LONG PASS TO MACLIN?
Celek down the middle, please
Laser!
Beautiful!
mac with the TD!!!
Like I’ve been saying all day, Vick is unstoppable!
hey look! points just before the end of the half!
In the 2 minute drill! with only 1 timeout!
Maclin ran a GREAT route on the TD.
BROWNS stopped blitzing on those last two plays.
All pressure lost.
Yeah, that was a real nice route. And good move on the long pass down the sideline, too.
That was a massively important score for morale.
I don’t expect the O to do that every drive, but why can’t they play with that same mental focus on all their possessions???
can we just put a traffic cone out there at LT and save the cap money? Kendricks and Ryans for Pres / VP
Coleman and Ryan are the d MVP of the first half
don’t forget DRC and Nnamdi
And Chas Henry!
See you suckas in the 2nd half thread. Good luck staying awake in Australia!
Honestly somebody should refund the money anyone in Aus has paid to watch that first half live. Staying up ’til 3-4am for that??
holy crap. stafford has 3 INT in the first half?! wow… i thought vick was playing poorly.
2nd half thread is up.
Just neerd a holding call here by Todd Herremans, for holding perfection by the OL
Too early to wonder if Nick Foles might be the better option?
and too early to call for Reid’s head? No exuse to lose to this offense.
Well coached team. This is what you get when you buy in to a 4-8 team, and return just about the entire roster….beating Mark Sanchez, Matt Moore, Rex Grossman, and Stephen McGee isn’t what you hang your hat on.
Seriously, Nick Foles? VIck is awful. He was awful last year. He was awful in the pre season. And he’s been god awful today. Do something different.
I’ve honestly had it with this team. I think I’m officially giving up on them. I didn’t buy it when they brought Reid back. I didn’t buy it when the kept the same roster essentially. And I don’t buy it now. No reason to torture myself. Next week – I’m watching red zone, watching national game, watching anything but this loser team.
If they make some much needed changes next year, it will be a yera too late, but I’ll be ready to buy into whatever change they offer.