DET at PHI – 1st Half
Posted: December 8th, 2013 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 440 Comments »Weather will be a major factor, at least initially. Snow is falling and on the ground. RB Reggie Bush slipped while warming up and is now a major question mark. He might not be able to play. That would be a big loss for the Lions. He is a key playmaker for them. This happened after the inactives were already set so it puts Joique Bell into the spotlight.
The weather could affect the Eagles ability to throw the ball downfield.
Will this be a shootout? Will this be a slopfest?
If the snow stops, that could once again change things.
Get ready for an interesting day.
Go Eagles!!!
Are the eagles winning today? Does Pinocchio have wooden balls?
This would be a good test for the team. Can’t wait.
Field Management Strategy Pitch (a “pitch pitch”??):
1st down of every Eagles possession, run Clifton Geathers out there as a RB, but have him snow angel the pocket so that Foles can move. Sub him out before 2nd down.
This would be perfect weather for a Bumerooski
ATTN: Equipment Manager
FLY EAGLES FLY
I was hoping to see Brown used more today…and then I remembered he falls down when there’s nothing on the field,
But if he can’t see the sideline…
Is game delayed due to weather?
wow. just saw some clips of the stadium. it looks like quite the snowstorm!!!
Santa Kelce
…this should be an interesting game.
And, we’re off!
Da hell?
All that snow?
Holy weather game batman!
Fumble, what a surprise. lol
first two plays are already impacted by the weather. wow
I’m crediting Bill Davis for bringing the snow that shuts down CJ. Good call, coach.
You’re not going to be juking anyone today.
good first stop, great job by the snow there with the assist.
guh. djax returns the punt for negative yardage…
Oh, thank the football gods we are not listening to Moose & Goose today.
I want to play.
This game should have been postponed.
No way
it’s not safe, nor does it make for good football. What’s an hour or a few?
Looking at the weather map, it might be longer than a few hours.
weather reports online look like its going to be snowing until at least 6 PM. get the game started now before it gets too bad! otherwise, itll have to be postponed until later in the week…no one wants that
edit: ignore me, i’m an idiot
Hope everyone took the under.
No cuts for running backs, give me Polk and Brown today
excellent point
Yes and yes. No more cutesy pitch plays to DeSean in the backfield, pound the ball with the 215+ lb RBs
ugh. just run up field man!
Jackson is playing backwards football today.
DJax gotta stop giving ground
Jackson with his best Brown impression.
Stupid play all to Desean
running outside to avoid the lions DTs?
This is going to be painful to watch.
Arrrghhh Quit running backwards DJ
HOLY HELL look at that snow.
STs going to be massively important today, I can see a fumble return or something be the deciding play.
This is a lunch pale type of game. North-South/Power plays
Definitely. I wouldn’t be shocked if there’s fewer than 10 passes in this game.
I was thinking the same thing. Just man up and pound. I can see the TE and Cooper being important. 5 yard hook routes and body block the DB
AC’s traps!
Visibility is not much better than the Fog Bowl
My thoughts to
reggie bush questionable to return!
If this game ends in a 0-0 tie, I won’t be shocked at all.
Stafford having real problems holding onto the ball so far this game
Stafford having problems
damn. can’t let him fall forward for extra yards like that!
And they STILL can’t get a stop on 3rd and long.
anyone else noticed Nate Allen get blocked before Megatron caught the ball? send that play to the league for review! /Arians’d
Nice of #87 to block for megatron while the ball is in the air
c’mon. can’t be letting the backs break tackles like that.
Was that Chung?
i want to say it was, but i dont think so. looked like Cary. the CB to that side of the field.
THERE’S a tackle! nice one, ‘Meco!
jesus. 3rd fumble forced by the weather.
I love how the numbers remain immune from the snow.
That’s Fox doing that. Using the same technology for the first down lines and LOS.
Through the same magic that makes yellow first down lines
lol i had assumed that the field was heated under the numbers. thanks to everyone else, i feel stupid. haha
lions RT is out? did i hear that right?
yep
Yep, frostbite.
That’s bullshit they are going to call this penalty
I was kidding about the numbers
Weather wrecking my Sunday
What’s fg range?
god only knows with this snow…
0. Can’t get the ball up over the line.
3rd & 10. no, not bad enough. 3rd & 15? thats fine. give them the first. sigh….
Fumble!
Fumble!
Did you guys say fumble?
Fumble!
Fumblecats, hooooo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDVp22DytbE
(thought there was a better example from this movie, but this is what i can find lol)
Def a fumble..woo hoo
i’m taking your word for it. i can’t see a damn thing from here lol
lol….that’s why you cant overturn it…
big FF for Ced!
More proof that Replay is unnecessary
Hard to overturn anything on replay when they can’t see anything
It is like something from Star Trek where the players haven’t fully been fully beamed in. They are like shadows on e screen.
This is how all games used to look. You’d have to send the wife out to climb up onto the roof and adjust the antenna.
Thornton with the big play
Let the beat-down begin!!
Games like this are why I think all those “football was meant to be played in the elements” people are so full of shit. In what way does this contest determine who the better team is?
For a league focused on safety this is stupid.
It allows the bigger stronger men to impose their will for 4 quarters and win 9-6…
this is insane…i cant every recall a game like this
Actually reminds me of the fog bowls with the lack of visibility.
This game is going to drive me nuts.
I am a nervous reck. This isnt even fun to watch. Plus someone is bound to get injured.
Going to? Wow, you are patient!
Your DGR will be a white-out
all-22 should be fun to watch. its going to take time just to figure out who is on the field on each play!
LOL anyone else notice the ref on the ground at the end of that play?
How about we stop running backwards?
No to McCoy
also, how is that a 5 yard loss?? no forward progress from 1 -2 yards back?!?
i think we finally found out how to stop Chip Kelly’s offense…
Det run D is very good and Shady is a cut runner. We’re in trouble today
Lol, anyone else see the official fall over on shadys reverse run? Just an official laying in the snow lol
He didn’t fall, he just wanted to make a snow angel.
We’re going to end this game with negative total yards.
ugh. c’mon coop. gotta catch that one.
Is the weather that bad? It’s not even snowing at the Meadowlands.
It’s a damn near whiteout.
It should be coming
are you watching the game or listening to a live feed on the radio? i’m guessing the latter… if you were watching, you wouldn’t have to ask lol
looks like a great -2 yards of offense after 2 drives. STOP GOING BACKWARDS
This is the game to unleash Chris Polk
The All-22 footage is going to be the all 14 1/2 I think.
last blizzard like this I remember was a 1984 MNF game in Denver.
Broncos beat the Packers by the amazing score of 17-14.
The snow was just as deep . . . but the camera work was better.
Dallas-Miami Thanksgiving Day game in ’93 had a decent amount of snow. I don’t think it was this bad though.
Yes. But not the blizzard conditions of today . . . and the Denver game.
By the way, Referee Ed Hochuli was there in Dallas in ’93
Big ups for the D on that turn over. We are going to need them all day.
Before Detroit’s extra 3rd down completion I was going to say the white uniforms are a major disadvantage…
I never thought I’d say this, but these conditions are almost postpone-worthy.
Pickle juice Duce, make the swap.
The only good thing about this game is that Sky are covering it and they will lose viewers. Go rot Murdoch
It could be worse, they could’ve postponed until tuesday.
lots of arm tackles up front. c’mon defense!
hahah whoever plowed the line there is drunk
Can’t blame him.
Detroit has the right idea, power runs all day.
it helps when the RB doesn’t lose 5 each time : /
Surely they must be Joiquing.
phew. dodged a bullet there
WTF Chung?! you just not going to cover that guy?!
Maybe he’s snowblind.
Good Detroit is wearing white today
ughhhhhhhhhh this game is going to drive me crazy
Ugh, this is getting worse and worse.
facefull of ice for megatron. Rusting, perhaps?
How is Johnson not doubled on every play? just wondering?
Nate was definitely slow in coming over to help
couldn’t tell which one was him?
That explains why Allen was on the other side doubling Burleson. Execllent
The big one?
lol it really should be that easy
See how their guys stop and don’t run backwards?
Better generate another turnover. One score might do it today.
if our offense is going to go backwards each drive, we’re going to need points from the defense!
Especially since our guys like to run the wrong direction.
Actually, Detroit seems to have adapted very well.
The Eagles . . not so much
Well, we’re kinda light there, in the interior OL…
Tell Shady every down is 4th and 2.
Big body receiving will win the day and power running.
These pretzels are making me thirsty!!
Washington down 17-0 so far.
all right D. hold them to a FG here!
another fumble!??!?!
Thanks for the lousy play call!!!! Fumbleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
holy shit defense!
FUMBLE!
FUMBLE!
FUMBLE!
FUMBLE!
Fumble?
So they all say.
FUMBLE!
fumble
FUMBELL!
Holy shit, they fumbled AGAIN? I’ll take it.
all part of the game plan.
Game ball for Joique Bell
Just don’t hand it to him.
You can’t earn a game ball without putting your hands on it
Well, then ironically he’s in a “Catch” 22…
Tommy’s analysis continues to be spot on…
Except the part about the Eagles moving forward and not backward on every running play
craziness.
Two fumbles recovered by qb, but then another two. LOL And what an ass playcall that was, Chip would’ve got killed for that one.
5 fumbles for Detroit in less than 20 minutes, what a joke this game is.
And the birds are working on -2 yards I think.
All that DL fumble practice pays off!! That my friends is coaching and player execution!
This is the sort of game, where someone could score a td, and I’d still think in terms of down and distance before I go “oooohhhh”…
incidentally, it might be a good idea to per-emptively kick field goals…
I actually don’t mind allowing long 3rd down completions if we can keep recovering red zone fumbles. Gotta give Davis a lot of credit for the outside-the-box gameplan!
since we switched the field at end of qtr we might go in the right direction!!
hah. offense won’t know they are going the right way!
Throw talent out the window, coaching wins this game
This is a fascinating games into Chip Kelly’s offensive play-call psyche.
Didinger says the Eagles will win because the Lions turn it over and the Eagles have been plus 8 this year.
I hope we see B. Brown now (and he’s paid attention to J. Bell’s issues).
Detroit has been minus 7
No no no! Run the ball up the middle
Jackson is no snow player
Joique Fumbell
Let’s get that going…
replay shows Brandon Graham with the timely forced fumble
No first downs.
December — especially Today — is NFC East football.
“here we go to Baltimore…. same elements…” yea… something tells me they don’t have as much snow…
Wasn’t even close
we MAY have made it back to 0 net yards.
Eagles need receivers who’ve played college in the North.
avant
Only true North-South WRs is Riley Cooper. Avant/Jackson/Johnson/Brad Smith are speed/roue-running guys. Need to use the TEs more.
nope. only gained 1 yard on that drive. sitting at -1 on the day. what in the hell is going on with the offense?!
I’d say the weather, but Detroit seems to have adjusted just fine.
Not really, five fumbles would say otherwise
But they’re still moving the ball fairly well. We can’t even do that.
True, but they are going to fumble 20 times so we’ll be ok.
The Lions interior DL is tough, and the conditions are stopping outside runs.
Sounding like a broken record, but this is not a game for Shady.
If the Vikings weren’t so terrible…
If we can’t figure out how to run the ball today we are going to lose.
J. Bell should get the next fumble out of the way right now rather than waiting until they get to the red zone. Just demoralizes the offense when he does that.
Also the only way for us to move down the field.
Foles is 1/4 for 2 yards. : (
The weather is making us suck and the Lions fumble the ball away. No one is playing better, unless you’re talking about gaining actual yardage.
He didn’t fumble on that play? WTF
damn.
Stafford heard you.
What in the name of….
is that 6 fumbles on the day?
lolOLOLOL
What’s the record for fumbles in a game?
good question….. lol
I think Denver-Patriots had 9.
That’s going to be blown away.
Or in a half
how about by a single team in a game?
The most fumbles by one team was 10. Four different teams have done it, most recently San Francisco – Detroit in 1978.
That was our best shot at catching a ball…
COLEEEEEEE!!!
Are the going to get another chance because of delay of game this time?
6 lions fumbles in less than 20 minutes. What’s the all time record for fumbles in a game?
10
ok, lets get some running game and the tight ends going here.
Let’s get a first down guys! LOL
Hey, DeSean. Leon Lett has some advice for you about running towards a dead ball in the snow.
Wishbone I with Vick. Just a suggestion
can our D throw snowballs at QB….fastballs not getting pressure.
is there a rule against that?
put in polk and all 3 tight ends. run it right at them.
I hear ya.
Back in the ’84 Broncos-Packers MNF Blizzard game . . . Denver’s 2 TDs came fumble-returns for TDs of 22 and 27 yards.
GB got back into the game with a 54 yard pass to HOF WR James Lofton.
Curious to see how Kelly adjusts the offense. I’m hoping for Chris Polk to get some carries. His N-S running style fits these conditions.
Question, if a fieldgoal hits the snowdrift on the crossbar and stops, does it count?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
dammit………
Well, so much for that record. 🙁
Damn. Streak is over.
Houston intercepts a kid from Dallas. Hmm…
Foles has been throwing terrible in this weather, nothing has been close
yeah, that was expected, given the weather.
&*!#^%!&#%!*&#*#%!*#%##
I’m not thinking that Chip Kelly’s office is designed for bad weather
I’m sure he’s got a heater in there somewhere…
Bastard!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, AC… hanging curve.
It was beautiful
well crap. pressure’s off. just go win the game now.
Foles has completed as many passes to Eagles as he has to Lions.
Well we finally found a good way to stop foles. Just a bunch of snow.
Ok, don’t pull Shady, just ask Foles to throw. ish, ish and ish
WHY ARE WE NOT RUNNING THE BALL?!?!?!??!
Because Shady can’t cut in this weather
Foles is not suited for tackling! Got kicked by Ansah, accidentally…
Well if we have to lose 1, I guess this is the one to lose.
Ok, so it’s Kelly’s OFFENSE that is not designed for bad December weather.
His office is also a problem
Will Detroit go for it, or try FG?
I guess you can say snow is our white whale.
Chip is trying to adjust you can tell but why not go to bubble screens?
sigh….
BIG PLAYERS BEAT SMALLER PLAYERS
Joique Bell needs hitting with a snowball.
all right. we’re down 7. lets get it going offense. get your shit together.
8 pts
sigh…..
They’re moving the ball pretty easily now
How we going to score
Who is the commentator? Dumb as shit
get the dang running game going and some quicker throws.
wow. come on guys. you’re making the Lions look like all stars
mordant chuckle…
Without question, worst-called game by Chip Kelly so far.
includes personnel.
McCoy is not a mudder.
the good: we do have a muddder
the bad: he doesn’t get to play
The Lions are a Dome team. Hmmm.
Adjustments are needed for the Green team.
Whens the last time we have seen an 8-0 score?
When did the Phillies last play?
For giggles, what is Foles rating right now?
guess this is coming back to earth
Same as the Eagles point total.
We might be in a “can’t divide by zero” scenario…
Did he catch that? Guess it doesn’t matter
It could be worse.
See 2012.
There we go. Draw plays straight up the middle.
FIRST DOWN!
FIRST DOWN!
FIRST DOWN?
FIRST DOWN!
FIRST DOWN!
heyyyyyy first down, all right!
Hey we run power and… First down!
Detroits interior O-linemen:
G-Sims 320 lbs
G-Warford 335
C-Raiola 300
Eagles interior O-line. About 300lbs each?
looked like mccoy didn’t want to run it up the middle there and tried to go off tackle
Wait, we employ the shovelers, right? How about a few 3 yard lines sprinkled in there. Might make first downs easier…
4th and 2, how do you leave the rb wide open on the flat like that??? Ugh. That’s the easiest throw to make and if you give a rb a 5-10 yard cushion, that’s the easiest play to convert. Ugh.
Can’t say I have much confidence in our offense if the ‘elements’ hold up. DJax isn’t physical enough to outmuscle DB’s for a catch and Cooper either isn’t getting separation or can’t make the catch. Foles’ looks lost. Ugh. Somehow, we got to get Ertz/Celek more involved.
This is exactly why the SB has no business being in the NE
It would be a tragedy if this happened during the Super Bowl.
Half-time show would be amusing.
haha true
bingo
Only because I’d stop watching and miss the commercials.
I’ve always enjoyed games like this… until today.
A124:
Only thing worse is fog
Also, Foxborough is located halfway between Boston and Providence… the taint of New England.
EDIT: My brain read NE as “New England” – NOT the “northeast” as was intended. But, my “taint” comment still stands.
brown finally gets a carry. and i think we all saw that play coming.
This is shit. Playoffs fading because off frigging snow. I hate to be a Debbie downer but i have very little confidence in this team in this setting.
Unless you think the Cowboys are going undefeated in September (I sure don’t), losing here doesn’t kill us.
This team (and offense) is definitely built on the very things the snow erases: speed and spread.
Have faith. This is a Chip team. You’ll see adjustments and the players will execute.
This is garbage, football in the elements is such a joke.
This game is almost unwatchable, what slop.
This is the way we want it, we’d be screaming if this game had been cancelled in favor of Tuesday. Enjoy.
Washington down 30-0 now.
I don’t understand why the Eagles had no problem with this weather in 1948.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LQ0iNj80YA
Maybe it was their 230lb HB
Wow
Conditions are getting just good enough to give them a bigger lead and we’ll be playing from far back all game.
Has the snow stopped?
Closeups suggest no, just eased a little.
seems to be slowing down, at least. there is still hope for the second half
This would be fun if the game were not so important.
Kelly, who is a smart guy, better figure out he can’t do the normal stuff.
Agreed on the first point.
AND… the second!
RE: Adjustments?
Next Training Camp, Kelly’s going to move the team to Antarctica for at least 1 week.
Very close to PI
you mean where the other receiver blocked kendricks before the ball was thrown?
It all evens out. Send the tapes in!
haha i mentioned that earlier! i’d love to see a guy like Jimmy K put together a weekly tape of plays to send to the league office
kendricks nice pass breakup.
We got a break there.
Yet again Detroit #87 smashes a DB out of the way while the ball is in the air, no call.
heh. we seem to be watching the same game
unless the weather clears up, we may see Vick in this game without injury to Foles.
Why? Because of all those sharp cuts he could make on that field? His proclivity for protecting the ball?
Then we’d really be gunning for the fumble record.
Was thinking about the run game. looks better with interior running, now
Get D-Jax out of there.
He’s cold.
DeSean never took his hands out of the muff.
That doesn’t read well…
I think it is by design. Don’t risk the fumble. If there is no one close try it and go.
It’s not like you’re going to get a bad bounce and roll.
yep it is dying on second bounce
oh fuck, AD’s hurt!
For next week, Adrian Peterson was carted off to the locker room per John Clayton.
wow just saw the replay. that looks painful!
Well at least I can see the game better. Is that the weather, or did BlindChow’s wife climb on the roof and fix the Ariel?
My g’f is done early for work. Gotta go pick her up. Kill me
hope you are out of the weather. drive safe
Thanks, yeah i’m 20 mins from the stadium it is slowing up a bit
Go slow, expect other drivers to make mistakes.
Yep thanks guys, appreciate it, talk to yas later…
Steer into the skid…
And don’t jam on the brakes.
That run just doubled our yardage total.
there you go mccoy. trust the play and go upfield
Maybe this is a game to help him learn that.
Late hit
More of that please McCoy.
that looked like a blatant helmet to helmet on Shady a few plays back.
Yeah, that was one of those “safeties diving onto the downed player” late hits that never gets called.
see McNabb, Donovan.
gut check time. can our Offense just be physical and move them off the ball?
wow. Suh really is that big of a dirty POS….
oooooh a pass! thats caught!
By our team even!
Suh made Nickfolean mad. Now the Lions are in trouble.
hey there, a nice pass!
Run with Polk more please, he’s the best choice for this circumstance.
During the 2 minute warning break . . . I wonder when Shanny will resign/be fired?
His star pupil, Kubiak, is gone.
Hey look, we’re in field goal range…
Hit him out of bounds?
ouch. looked like that was on Peters
That was Fairly against Oregon-type blocking.
Good defensive play there.
Foles has got to get that pass up higher
what do you guys think? go for it on 4th here? or kick the FG?
I don’t trust either one…
That but I would go for it
I’d take the points, if Henery can get them.
We’ve barely moved the ball, so I’d take the points while they’re ripe.
I can’t criticize either call.
Go for it. It’s the first half…good to know now if we can kick FG in the 2nd half
I am on the FG side
Take the FG. Get some points. Provided you trust STs.
Field Goal – and I thought so before the outcome. I don’t see why you couldn’t make a 27 yard field goal – detroit boomed their kickoff earlier. Take the points. 4th and 7 is so difficult to convert. – especially with a short field to work with.
Why call a TO immediately after the play ended?
Seems like the reverse instinct to last week’s 4th down timeout at the end of the half.
Anyone have a good 4th and seven play for heavy snow?
My card just says “Don’t be in 4th and 7.”
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
ahh man. that one looked like it hit coop in the head.
Replay shows it did.
wowwww. wtf coop. having a pretty terrible game.
Frozen stone hands.
i guess the Florida boy isn’t used to the cold yet?
it did.
This game has facepalm written all over it.
You can’t float these balls! The fourth down pass is sort of fine, but the earlier pass to cooper had to have more zip. But floating all of these balls prime the CBs!
Cooper looks UNCOMFORTABLE out there.
Nice play by Mathis — Cooper needs to make that play
Cooper hasn’t beaten one on one coverage all day. At this point, I’d rather play more 2TE sets and split them out.
Try Ertz.
And get Casey in there at FB.
A FB might be what the doctored ordered
I was banking on Cooper eating their backup CBs alive. Not happening so far. Need him to stop up or start targeting someone else.
At least we get the ball to start the 2nd half. One TD + 2pt and it’s a tied game.
I’d like to say it’s luck that decided this game but honestly I think we really screwed ourselves when we kept trying to throw it.
McCoy started out playing like he was on astroturf in a dome. That hurt.
never has an 8 point lead felt so insurmountable.
Seeing as we put together a drive at the end of the half, and playing conditions should be better in the second half, doesn’t seem so hopeless to me.
The lions also get those better field conditions too, though. hopefully our D can pick up the slack
The bad weather appears to be hurting us more than them, improved weather should therefore help us more than them.
i hope you are right!!!
Sandy Koufax – 1965 WS 2-0 lead in game 7 over Twins
I was negative 17 years old, but I will take your word for it. 🙂
Weren’t we all negative at 17?
This isn’t even fun to watch
On the bright side, this snow will make our D’s performance look good, stats-wise.
So . . . the adjustments will be?
The weather will be adjusted.
more running, play action passes, mix in more of the TEs, i hope.
This does seems like a game where we might see more of Celek, don’t you think?
i’d like to see some 3 TE sets with Celek Ertz and Casey out there. would help out the running game and should be effective in play action as well.
and like someone else noted earlier, i’d also like to see some of Casey at FB
Hard to even think what to do.
This is like driving a Porsche in a blizzard with no chains on the tires.
The Eagles were a much better bad-weather team before the Nova-Bubble
at least we can make equipment changes at half-time….like snow shoes
Quintin Demps with a KO return TD against Washington.
Baloophi . . .
Just seems like the Eagles receivers have no space. No one’s very open.
Detroit’s playing man w/ single safety. But no one’s finding room.
only time i saw a WR with space was the play where DJax ran a come back route along the sidelines.
I don’t think we’ll have WR’s open at all given that any cut is met with a resultant slide… unless a DB slips and falls.
The key will be positioning – like Calvin Johnson’s long catch was a post so he didn’t have to make an exaggerated cut, and then Stafford could throw comfortably to the inside.
So we need the run-game to work enough so that the single safety creeps up. Of course, today, I’d feel better simply running it.
The guy covering Cooper is playing some great ball today. I’m hoping to see the TEs involved a bit more.
New post up by TL . . .
SECOND HALF THREAD
http://igglesblitz.com/2013/12/det-8-phi-0-2nd-half/#disqus_thread
http://igglesblitz.com/2013/12/det-8-phi-0-2nd-half/#disqus_thread
http://igglesblitz.com/2013/12/det-8-phi-0-2nd-half/#disqus_thread
Yes, 2nd half thread. Thanks