PHI 7, ARZ 7 – 2nd Half
Posted: October 26th, 2014 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 903 Comments »Ugly. Very ugly.
That wasn’t the 1st half I was expecting. The Eagles piled up 273 yards, which I didn’t expect. They only scored 7 points, which I didn’t expect. And so on.
The officiating is painful, for both teams. There have been 16 penalties, 9 on the Eagles.
The 2 big mistakes were a fumble by Josh Huff inside the ARZ 10-yard line and an INT in the end zone by Foles. The rookie made a sloppy mistake and didn’t protect the ball well enough. Foles forced the ball downfield. Huff was open on the play, but Cromartie was in position to undercut the route and make the play, which he did.
The Eagles should be winning this game. They aren’t due to the mistakes. They have to clean things up and play smarter in the 2nd half. This game is still there for the taking.
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LETS GO BIRDS
aww isn’t that sweet? the NFL has an anti-domestic violence commercial.
I don’t get why we’re not running the ball more. Shady has 7 carries for 35 yards. They’ve been doing a decent job with the run.
True, they’ve had guys open all over the field too. Bet if they scored on those turnover plays he would’ve ran more. Maybe.
but it’s not like they were down three scores and had to throw. They just didn’t run the ball too much.
True, Chip is supposed to be a running coach and McCoy is ripping off some nice ones. Good point.
Indeed. The playcalling in this game is reminiscent of Andy Reid.
If the refs gave us that many calls, what would the score be? Lol
We gotta even out the turnover ratio
I hate to keep saying this, but that’s at least 10 points right there. Ugh
i want to get at least 1 so the defense can keep that streak of consecutive games with a turnover going
something tells me the bad blood between Eagles fans and Cards fans will persist after this.
Why not inside zone with Foles behind center more often? I don’t know why they don’t emphasize this formation???
If you don’t know, we sure as heck don’t know.
Rec for truth.
Odd 1st half. Felt like we outplayed both the Cards and the officiating crew.
Just tighten a few things up, no more turnovers, and this game is ours.
The refs are particularly of note. I love football, but it is more or less unwatchable when there’s a penalty flag thrown every other play.
Remember this crew.
See if any of them turn up calling the SB.
If so, then today is the future of the NFL
I’m not feeling Andy’s….. I mean Chip’s 3 : 1 pass to run play calling
Any word on Peterson?
remember guys, we’re a second half team! keep wearing them down.
Let’s go and score a lot of points this half!!!
They rate these officials like MLB does for playoff games I hope.
1st play of 2nd half, earl wolff goes down hurt. great start.
Injury or penalty, a play thrown in here and there.
Did you see Arians’ play card? Like Andy Reid’s.
Remember the close up of Kelly’s play card? A few games back.
About a dozen hand-written plays on a sheet of paper.
That handoff almost didn’t happen haha
I have no use for glass safeties
I really hate see fletcher so far off the receiver.
Cmon birds 3 and out lets do it!
OH COME ON
That’s the Super Bowl play.
But shorter throw
‘cept for the pick?
of course
Eagles defense.
what the fuck, guys.
blinkoftheeye…
damn…
I cant wait till larry retires
Of course Fitzgerald would leap into a youth fountain and burn us..
you called it, @Corry:disqus… fletcher played too far off
Boykin came up limping at the end. Uh oh.
We got called for a pick on similar
That one was different. Green team, not red team. Obviously not the same.
Cannot believe Fitz outran BB
This was Boykins shot against a no 1 guy. It’s ugly but necessary. Eagles have some pressure now let’s see what happens.
That “little pick” could have been pass interfence.
I don’t gamble but I wished we could gamble on players stats. i’d bet the house on Fitzgerald whenever he plays us
We can go right down the field, so lets go tie this.
so why did Ginn not get called for the pick? when we got flagged for the same thing?
We forgot to pay the refs I guess
such a chickensh*t no call
cardinalsh*t, technically
Let’s see if the announcers show it. They had plenty of time to look at it.
Mike Quick was up in arms about it.
Yep and they are talking about it.
does that penalty have anything to do with the player that initiates contact? i saw our guy really laid into the WR… makes it seem less of a play from the WR.
no clue if thats how it works, though
I dont know the specifics to be honest, but if someone runs straight at you looking at you, you would generally try brace and hit him back, on first look the WR looked like he ran straight for CB without even looking back
No flag on the pick play…bunch of bull shiz
No replay is more revealing than a close up of a player running . . . so the viewer has absolutely no context regarding where the player is, who’s around him, or even which direction he’s going.
What a bunch of crap….they called it in the first half and now swallow their whistles…
Just in case no one knew…these refs suck ass
Seriously, people here are sounding like Arians with their constant whining about the refs…
Cause they suck today
I wouldn’t mind if they were as picky on both teams but they’re not. missed a horse collar, defenseless receiver and a pick play… whereas ARI are getting more of those iffy calls
Huff touched the ball this drive is over before it starts
c’mon matthews. hit somebody out there. get angry.
That’s not good run defense when the runner gains 5 yards…or am I missing something???
only if murrary did it
Exactly.
smart throw away there. well covered by the cards.
That’s a nice pass.
C’mon lets get that running game going.
get some rhythm
positive jeff maehl sighting!
omg a Maehlman sighting
lol, are you guys paying attention the shot clock?
screen to the left would of been money
in high sight of course
Maybe this game will quiet the “Boykin should be starting” talk. Larry Fitzgerald is absolutely abusing him.
You’re right. Getting beat by a multiple pro bowl receiver with a huge size advantage clearly shows Boykin sucks.
any chance of Polk straight up the middle from Foles under center?
All Zach Ertz does is catch first downs.
Solid 3rd down execution
That play looked weird starting off.
the way the blocking was done on that side of the line made it look like a screen pass….
Lane didn’t even start moving until after the guy was past him.
ertz good for another first down!
Yuck…..
run of the middle there for one yard…
Running outside, slow developing crap
They’ve been all over Celek today.
thats the same goddamn play that we couldn’t convert earlier. i don’t know why we thought they would cover it differently this time
Still not a fan of running wide on short yardage
And to the shorter side of the field….smh….
Playcalling is out of whack. Too many busted passing plays. Kelly got into that pass cycling pathology that Reid gets into…
We get the turnover now.
Pi?
Thought it was close. No replay of course.
RUN THE BALL ON 3RD AND SHORT WITH ONE OF THE BEST RB’s IN THE LEAGUE
Need to keep running. Not a fan of the playcalling, way too much rolling Nick out.
This is an odd game
godawful playcalling there
3 and out pleaseee
I wish…
Here we go…
damn, ‘meco! that was badass
Get this stop!
3rd and long; can we blow it?
Maybe the question is of how?
glad to be wrong
Well, I guess they might as well run out the clock with the way our offense is playing.
just like the play Foles threw earlier. 2 vs 3… don’t throw that pass.
Three receivers running together? What a weird play. Then the QB just lofted it up for whoever.
Damn, I’m having flag withdrawal.
i hate having mac there to catch punts, but my god is it better than Coop
awful play design by the cards
score points!!!
Whats the plan Coach?
like jeopardy.
Score some fucking points, whats your?
Larry always Focks us!! It never fails…. Now that we got that out of the way, let’s go win this game!!!!
Gotta get in a Rythem
lets see some shady here
Run. The. Ball.
Nice
Love this chip kelly Maclin
Regardless of everything else, Maclin is playing lights out today.
Yep!
Beasting !
..
Best WR play since TO
That’s McCoy
go with like 3 running plays in a row
they won’t see it coming!
Ugh, he should have just run forward.
Can’t believe he couldn’t go forward there.
Go fucking straight Matthews!
What was Matthews looking for? Could have gotten that first down if he went straight ahead.
And punt.
I’m ripping my hair out at the moment…holy shit.
Come on with that crap
wtf is this play calling. Chip is out doing himself
why no RB behind the formation on 3rd & 2???
Go for it.
This is long
Let’s go kid
I love Parkey.
I’ll be a son of a gun
Damn the legend grows
wow. helluva kick
Could have easily made a 57 yarder
He blaammmed that one.
maybe we should have kicked that 60+ yarder before halftime??
6 seconds left? Yeah, I think so.
Great kick Parkey !
I’m telling you I seen this kid consistently kick 67yarders warming Up at the Linc
Cody Parkey: *kicks a 54-yard field goal*
Alex Henery: *asks someone if they’d like fries with that*
Man dont we have a better pass play then having foles feed the post to Celek..
With a guy hanging on his back.
Right? Some slants or something
Seriously, these plays are terrible. This is the kind of stuff Shurmur is known for.
Time for the turnove
Holy Eagles shirt!
you see the guy in the Royals hat shamelessly getting a look? haha
lol no I missed that.
thats a great kick from parkey….. had a couple yards left on it too.. huge asset knowing if you get stopped at 35 and he can still get you points
shady is starving right now
Where’s the love for Parkey? That was good from 60!
Had a 6-0 Start in 2004 not best since 81….
Just stop talking
Yep ended 10-6 and lost to Giants in wildcard. Year after Super Bowl.
Is it just me or did Parkey look kinda bored after the field goal?
Easy call
not one they have been making much this game!
Tbornton forced the holding penalty
Here comes the turnover, Cary!!
Bring the heat!!
nice coverage by the LB there. 51 is acho, right?
Correct.
Bless you. Yes.
nice job, defense!!!
Dude really looked scared before he got tackled.
INT! INT! INT! Wings Flap!! Let’s GO!!!
Sack Fumble now
Big play, need a rush!
There’s that rush baby!!!!!!!!!!
isn’t that intentional grounding?
Yep, happened before. Guess they are changing the rules just for this game.
Pressure!!!!!
Nice play design on the fake blitz!
BRAMA bull Barwin in the building bitches!
Whewww…no flag on the qb hit
The fact that we’re losing to this god awful team is irritating.
Barwin’s a hell of a player.
Field position.
lmao
That’s a not top 10 right there.
How that ball stuck to him well never know.
thats the second time. i expect this from Madden, not real life!
OMG I don’t care what he did, hurry back Sproles!
I can’t even describe how hard it is to watch fhis game with dogs
Tell me about it GE.
Try a dog and a 6 month old kid…
Try a dog and a wife! No whisky.
Lol
3 150lb 1yr old guard dog puppies.. I’m like Go! go! Go! Go! When Maclin has the punt, and they all jumps n the bed, crazy guard dog mode, step on my balls… I want to cry.. I can’t watch a game with them ever again
almost as bad as watching it in college with headphones in
No drinks for you guys!
That’s gotta hurt at the end
What is maclin doing out there!!! That was bananas from start to finish!
Good source of potassium on that play.
maclin really wanted some gatorade…. he loves that Glacier Freeze
Maclin WTF Bruh….
That was fun but very stupid….again
Feels like the league office called the refs during half time and told them to stop taking center stage.
That’s Maclin’s first return since 2008 at Missou
ahh. i was going to say since high school. guess i was wrong.
Even better.
As exciting as the return was that one was once again close to a muff.
think he’s ok but the cards are out of cups….merrill
Clearly… Maclin is a Powerade man
Here comes Maclin’s Gatorade contract!
Inside Zone all day with Foles behind centr!!
Smart move by Maclin, take out their Gatorade…
LOL i didn’t realize it was their side of the field. hahaha
sports science at work. dehydrate the opponent.
Haha nice highlight.
Keep doing the 2 yard side pass, great job
Braman looks like an extra from Braveheart.
3rd and short need this.
need a different play called this time!
zone run with foles keeper!
Why are we playing into this teams plans?
Right on schedule!
ugh…. where is the running game?! we knew what they were going to do on defense… how could we not counter?
Ughhhhh.
Serious garbage playcalling.
Guess it can be advanced idiot
called for the fair catch… can’t be advanced… ref marks the ball anyway
They don’t even have Peterson, Washington, and Dockett playing today and we still can’t score.
I think campbell is back and besides peterson who we touched they havent had those guys all season
Fixed.
Gotta beat that blitz, everyone knew they were coming.
Defense.. Let’s go boys!
nice hit, Graham!!!
b Dot Grizzle!!
Nick Foles is not the answer…..
Brandon Bammmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!
Turnover time
Nice
Here comes the INT
Conditioning Affect…… Sports Science will secure the comeback!
Stop them deep here please.
DEFENSE!!! Them boys hunt!
THERE YOU GO DEFENSE!
(i thought he caught it….phew!)
B dot grizzle BIGTIME ball!
Thanks for catching it.
Have to score here. Tired of this, TD now!
The play calling has been so predictable we can catch them off guard with almost anything here
you called it. faked running the usual plays
And they rejected my OC application smh lol
What a pretty throw.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Oh baby!
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
it finally worked guys!
Yes
wow. wow. wow.
there you go. give it to the girl with the huge cans.
Oh wow…
They faked the 2 yard side pass and it was beautiful. Set them up all game!!!!!!!!!!!!
chip at his best
Big DICK NICK!! #RAINMAKER!! Powers you fucking Pigeon!!!
PERFECT PASS BABY
Every time i post a negative comment he shuts me up!
Keep ’em coming!
keep postin
BOOM!!
Beastin
Yes sir!!!!
foles and maclin back in groove ….. awseome
MACLINS AND FOLES!!!!
Now THAT was excellent. DeSean who?
atta boy Foles!!!!
mac is having a HUGE game
Nick Foles throws a beautiful deep ball!!!!
That was nice, Maclin getting pai$$$$$$$$$$
All right! Tell me Foles has his deep ball mojo back.
perfect throw man… just awseome
Noodle Armed Nick . . . 60+ yards into the breadbasket.
#RAIN!!!!
“RAIN” . . .
Bang!
*shah 8 shaking his fist angrily* FOOOOOOOOOOLES!
thats fantastic
No Patrick Peterson we need to get that all day
Time for your Eagles defense to take OVER!!! HOSTILE TAKEOVER TIME!! This is our NEST!! We will PIRATE your NEST!!!! You and your soft Winey coach!!!
GET THAT BALL BACK
Foaming at the mouth time
Wow. Love seeing that. If Maclin and Foles can get into a groove, Maclin has been getting open all season long.
Parkey booms it
Now you’re not allowed to re-sign a player on his last year right? Does he have to go to free agency? I know, it’s early to ask, but geez that would suck.
someone’s earned a payday, thats for sure.
I think it’s just FAs you sign to one year minimum deals that has to hit free agency before you can re-sign them
omggg almost had that
You could see early that this was 2013 foles
OHHHH Almost double screw you
Ahhhhhhhh, missed sack, missed sack, dropped int
C’mon Acho. You gotta hang on to that.
omg. should have had the sack. and the int. ugh.
Someone kill that a-hole
I really hate Larry Fitzgerald with my entire heart.
c’mon guys. stop letting fitz beat you like that
Hit Carson some more
Did eagles screw our Fitzgerald somehow? Wtf
At least he didn’t win the Super Bowl with his TD so there.
If the cards let Fitzgerald walk, the Eagles should sign him as a defensive measure.
Nolan stays making plays
That’s a fumble sorry
Bull shit!
No that’s a fumble.. Y
Challenge
Fumble!!!!!!!!!!!
God please let them challenge.
that ball was loose!
FUMBLE! FUMBLE FUMBLE!
OUR BALL!
Thats a fumble!
We got our turnover! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
THROW THE FLAG!!!
Nate made a play!! Don’t take that away from him you pussies!!!
Stevie wonders has called better games
think we win this one
Nate Allen!
was nate’s foot out of bounds when he got the ball?
Eh, with these refs?
That ball is out!
ALRIGHT NATE!!!
Fuk ya!!! That’s ours!
Nasty Nate!
There it is NATE!!!!!!! Barber is an ass!!!!!
Nate saw the trade rumors.
Old-style management to motivate
c’mon refs. nate NEEDS this
Shut up Barber.
He is terrible.
Challenge!
Definately out before hes down… Thats the stuff nate
where is nate’s left foot?
Guess we don’t need that other safety
Nate hearing the safety trade rumors
both feet are in. thats our ball!
Yep easy call
Now let’s see some McCoy and Polk!
What a fucking play by one of the most maligned players on our D.
If they screw this up I’m goi going apeshit
Give him a big extension!
!!!!
The streak continues!!!!!!
Good thing the home office is there to help, these officials would probably fuck it up otherwise.
LETS SCORE
I love the Eagles crowd there, though.
Chip showing Bruce how to use challenges
Sounds like they are in Philly!!!! LOL
right?!?! that was amazing
and the streak is alive!
The streak continues
Allen disagrees with trade rumours
My dogs started barking and I heard the crowd and not the ref and thought we lost the call
me too
that ref we hired is paying off
chip really is great at half time adjustments
Give me 7 Foles. Give me 7.
I’m telling you Our defense is going to grow into a bunch THATS not to be fucked wit!! You Go Nate wit ya bad self!! Kid deserves it!!!
Whats the record for games in a row with a takeaway?
ugh. GO UPFIELD!
Indecisive McCoy sucks.
That wasn’t indecisive McCoy. That was “making a really bad decision” McCoy.
Not scoring……
Time to retire that play today
Oh McCoy ….don’t screw our great chance after a turnover!!!!!!!!!!
Ugh. The takeaway goes nowhere. What a waste.
Our game, clearly the better team.
We really need a legit N-S runner
How do we lose 7 running after a turnover? Our best player can’t do that.. Wtf. Give it to Polk da,n it… He will run straight!!MM!
Bad shady….should of done 1 cut and dive for whatever he could get….7 yard loss for what????
Where is polk???? give it to him straight up the middle
Polk runs straight… Why not use him in grind the clock situations?
probably not mentally/physically prepared..or so Chip likes to say.
Also, this is not yet a “grind the clock” situation.
Nate Allen makes a huge play…. then McCoy decides to go take a page out of the lousy playbook he was using early in the season.
Sometimes, it’s not there. Just take the two yard loss instead of turning it into a 7 yard loss.
Next drive..Polk needs the ball early in the drive..DUCE needs to TEll him now, get mentally ready not to fumble
I hate that sweep play so much. seems like it gets blown up every time. I know chip uses it to set up other plays but it is just so frustrating to watch shady lose yards every time.
And it seems like we run it more then any other running play
In theory…can’t a RB just throw it out of bounds when he sees a play is dead like that?
I think you can get caught with ineligible man downfield in that instance.
Ah, good point!
Good point. Didn’t think of that
I was wondering this same thing!
Thanks Shady. Thanks a lot.
2nd down play, killer
Come on….three and out after the turnover….what garbage
Need a good punt. Got it.
Worked out for field position, big stop here now.
How about some under-center runs? Why does Kelly hate those so much?
An emerging, fair question — especially this season — that we’ll NEVER get the answer to.
Donnie Longballs. That’s what we needed.
Fuck it..Time for the Nasty defense to get Nasty again! No! No! No!!!!! FLY EAGLES FLY!!! Dirty defense time!!! Vinny Curry, time to GET SOME!!!!
Jenkins read that t
Here we go 3rd and short, come up big D!!!
Take this from them boys!! Our house!!!
Great D
Wow Defense is balling
Telling you, this group will grow into a top unit. I know it like I know it’s sunday
JENKINS with the big pass breakup!
Jenkins was the star of that series
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Scared of the punt though.
There’s your defense!!! Love crowd noise on their. 3rd down lol
Whew!
Ok, time to put this game away.
I think this game would of been over if spoles was healthy. Idk how but he would of done something
Those turnovers, without them we are at least in a double digit lead.
make one cut and go
I siding think we’d go anywhere until the d got it together. You can’t tell me we aren’t the best team in the nfc. The d line can get it done.
At this point only team I could argue is Packers.
Gonna be a heck of a game against Rodgers. Big test.
Telling youtheD is no joke
Eh, we need a way better offense.
We’re the best when we’re on point..that’s not often though. I think the Packers are still slightly ahead of us until we get consistent.
I can’t remember a game in years in which the Eagles seem to get the ball near mid-field on so many possessions . . . and have only 17 points.
the only team that could truly beat us is us
Let me know when it’s an accepted fact our defense is no joke
sure would feel better with a TD
Drive this down their throats.
That would be the correct direction, Shady.
McCoy straight up the field. Nice.
Hurry up to the line, and run straight again wtf
Damn could’ve used another run no?
i’ll take 4 yards a play all day
Need this bad
foles is a joke
I see what you are doing here.
NO really he SUCKS!!
SHIT it didn’t work he was really garbage that time
what a waste of a play : (
Why do we abandon tempo? Run the ball, hurry back to line and run again
Looks like we’re trying to figure out where the blitz is coming from.
Here they go with the tempo bs
*facepalm*
Why are we letting them set up their blitzes.. Go fast!
ugh. c’mon guys…..unacceptable.
Maybe better off a little further back haha
Looks like the Andy Peters and not the Chip Peters
Dick Foles.
…….
Jesus Nick.
Jesus, Foles just can’t help giving the ball to the other team.
Can’t help but think that our tempo would have helped this game
Foles really got his whole body into that throw. really threw a lazer. wow. coop just did not adjust to that one, either
Sadly, it was thrown to where Coop was, not where he was going to be when the ball got there
Yeah if that would’ve been right where Coop was going it would’ve been perfect.
its like the space invaders episode of Futurama. haha
It was not a terrible decision, but a terrible throw. Unfortunately, the result’s the same.
Huh
NICK IS NOT THE ANSWER
Defense again.
Yeah, he’s a franchise guy. Clutch.
Foles is on pace to throw for like 60 attempts if this continues
Time for the Sanchize
I don’t get how a guy who was so good with taking care of the ball last year can be so bad this year.
I don’t get it either. It’s like witchcraft..
Combination of shoddy mechanics and bad decision-making, plus a dab of overconfidence in forcing balls he shouldn’t.
Again another head scratching play by foles….that was an awful ball
The frustrating thing with Foles is not that he makes awful throws like that. It’s that he’ll look good for stretches and then make awful throws like that.
he needs a concussion to perform
Just handing the game away. Last year is looking like a fluke.
Cool was coming open on his route to….dangit…
Cooper waved to the side line before that play. So he saw something.
But we don’t know if Foles thought he’d run a DIG route.
Or stop out of the turn.
Yeah I saw that too
i thought he was waving to the coaches because he didn’t know the play
RP —
That makes sense. More than my thought
I wonder if Cooper mis-read/misunderstood the play.
Time for the defense to roll up its sleeves and go be dominant! Opportunity knocks, let’s go defense!!!!
They need to win the game.
No way to defend that. I don’t know what Foles doing out there
was Coop supposed to run a comeback? that was too far behind for Nick to just miss i’d say
Ok on the bright side it wasn’t a dumb interception. He just made a bad throw.
Ugly INT, but I’m almost curious if he thought Cooper was going to run a hook instead of the in.
lets trade nick for cousins
Whoa where did our run D go?
It was intercepted by Cromartie.
That’s the last first down they get today!!!
You never know about the int until you hear what the play was postgame.
2 tos a game. But we’ve got great d and the ‘re US tin of time so in ok right now. McCoy was wide open in the middle though
thats the third one today : (
I 🙁 Tricky Nicky
Bennie from the block!!
Nice Logan, he was cruising for that first down.
anybody else drinking a carson arnold palmer
oh hey. kendricks is out there
Damn
Grrrr no more first downs damn it!!!
it was a good game but with Nick files at QB our fate is sealed
So much for our defense.
Foles looks like 2012 Foles.
helluva worm burner right there
Turnover boys! Take this!!!
Turnover time.
Let’s go D!!! No! No! No! Give them nothing
Hold me to a fg
Tina Eat Your Ham!
Here’s the big play, turnover or fg attempt please.
Pressure him into INT
Nice play by ruans
Thank you Demeco for saving me from a heart attack.
Good play Demeco!
huge breakup by demeco!!!!
Mecoooooo!!!! Veteran shit
Every time there’s a play like that I expect a flag.
Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow
just saved us 4 points right there!
Wow….huge play by Demeco
Here we go…
Huge Meco!!! So BIGTIME!!!
The BEST
Against their fastest WR.. What a veteran boss!
Lets see if files loses this shit for us
Let’s go!!! 6-1 is there for the taking!!!!
Two plays by Meco down there right? The worm burner was because he was standing there.
I thought it was Carson Palmer is planning to dress as Donovan McNabb for Halloween and wanted to see what his teammates thought of his costume.
3 turnovers yield 3 points
Eagles fight!
Cost us 10. 2 of them were deep in their territory, still, thanks defense, doing great.
You beat me to it.
Please get Shady in space.
Big time players make big time drives for first place.
Crunch time!! Put the woman and children to bed, e tutti a migniotte!!! AC viking!!!
You know we have Nick Foles Right?
mr Clutch fool! Show some respect
He’s only clutch on opposite day
Clutch players don’t lead the league in turnovers.
Poor guy has had the wool pulled over his eyes Trick Foles strikes again
that was a beautiful run.
That was that handoff fake one way go the other. Very nice.
Finally McCoy!
Seriously, take it out of the hands of the guy who keeps giving it to the other team.
KEEP POUNDING THAT ROCK
Our Oline blew them off the ball on that one.
My wife says when I’m nice the Eagles score.
My gf has come to the realization that she cant talk to me the day after a loss…. Keeper
Running game, thanks Chip!
why wait all day to run out of the I?
that was a nifty little play
Pope jordan the 81st
GOAT
Beautiful, safe play that fooled the crap out of them.
anyone else screaming at them to snap the ball while the defense was running off the field?
I wish that “one timer” thing was true for Matthews.
Ugh don’t tell me.
Man this sloppy sloppy crap!!!!!!!!!
And there goes the drive.
They’re are cruising then that.
YEssssssssssss
HORSE COLLAR
Horse Collar. Has to be a horse collar.
give us 15
Horsecollar
oh no not us, please
hand to the face? ugh thats probably on us….
Holding
shouldn’t we come out of the bye better than this
YEssssssssssssssssssssss
yes. both on defense!
Holy Scnikes its not on us!
He made it sound like the cut back was going to give us holding, crap face.
Run Run Run forward
nice effort just to get back to the LOS
OMG nick hes 6’2 not 8’7
Foles is used to playing with 8 ft receivers.
Big people beat up little people…and can be found by climbing bean stalks.
Refs want to go out the same way they came in. Throwing flags.
Big play!!!
That’s how you hit a hole!!
Need to somehow get the ball to Ertz/Maclin
Boss!!
maybe we should try to get shaw and yao ming next season
Again, I love Ertz.
No Turnovers!!!!
Finally a good 3rd down call!
OMG the playcalling can be tremendous out of this world at times.
huge play. i have to think that the cards are guessing that since we subbed in Polk that we’re going to power it up the middle
I’m pretty sure Ronde Barber had a stroke.
Nice run, Ill take it.
Let’s go.. Hurry up and run again
Imagine if we ran the ball in the first 3 quarters.
first down!
Shaaaady you twinkle toes son of a bitch you!!!!
WOW! He made that, beautiful.
We need a touchdown.
Wow, that’s the GOOD Shady!
The Dreaded redzone!
Run run run…POLK!! Rumble young man Rumble!!!
Running running, beautiful
now they know that we WILL run it with Polk back there!
Ugh, we’re in FG range. That’s just asking for a turnover.
Keep running
NO FUMBLES!!!!!!!
PUT SHAQ AND YAO IN
1st?
i think thats a first down
Run run run!!!! Rumble young man rumble!!
Hes in I thought
Please don’t let them get cute.
I like Polk.
Foles :”sprint out” to the corner on a keeperl.
files can’t sprint he gallops
bad spot
thats a bs spot. the tip of the ball was like a millimeter from the endzone line
It’ll be an awful fade.
Gotta do this, thought he had it by a mile. Geez
Forest grump that shit!,RUN RUN Run
The chain was on the damn goal line. Horrible spot
Announcers think its 4th down?
Jesus christ why not sneak? UGH
Terrible, not under center, you can’t get going. Horrible.
I don’t know where they came up with that spot. He was clearly about 4 inches from the goal line.
I thought TD dude, so I don’t know why they didn’t take a challenge there.
But at least first down.
I thought it was at least first down too.
O man..come on D
What an awful play call
Take the FG and let the D win it!!!
Very, very hard for Chip to do that.
Qb sneak
WTH?!?!? If you’re going to run the ball, don’t go with two wideouts out of the shotgun. All you need is six inches. Line up in a goal line formation and power it ahead.
My Weiner just went DOWN!
This run-every-play-from-the-shotgun is going to cost us.
HATE THE SHOTGUN ON SHORT YARDAGE.
Yeah could have gone under center. Really think chip wanted to get the clock down past 3 minutes
I really hope we’re not witnessing the emergence of Chip Kelly’s Achilles’ heel. That was an awful play call, and it’s not the first time this year that Chip has run out of the shotgun in a situation where only a good surge and a plow into the line was needed. I know he’s an innovator, but there’s still a place in the game for old time power football.
Fastest way forward, QB sneak.
so many more options under center
why’d they take polk out
Wtf was that
Defense deserve to win this game. Take the 3 and give the D the respect it earned! And let them win the game!
Another garbage goal line call.
should have put polk in on that run I’m all about that bass!
think they go for it here? or kick the FG?
Take the 3
Definitely. I wouldn’t trust this offense to pick up that yard.
Agreed, sad but true.
time to trust the defense I think.
i think you have to take the 3 here
Defense won’t let us down!
There you go PARKEY!
Looking your way defense. Good drive Foles, not his fault at the end there.
I think I’m gonna watch the end with my eyes closed
It’s about time they put Palmer on his ass.
ST and D now boys!
nail biter time
Well, I’d rather have the lead at the 2:00 minute mark.
20 yards at a time, no problem. 1 yard or less, forget about it.
Here come the heart problems again
Time for the Defense to go TAKE ITS Respect!!! Opportunity knocks boys! Vinny Currys Fletcher Cox, B dog Grizzle, BRAMA Bull Barwin, Hunter COLE..where you at boys??
If we want Playoff wins now is the time to show your stuff.
I was hoping there would have been some soul searching over the bye to figure out what is happening in the red zone (especially with the success we had under center against the Giants). Guess it’ll just be more of the same every week.
End this with a turnover.
COVER FITZ!! COVER FITZ!! COVER FITZ!!!
kick it out of the endzone, parkey!
Parkey.
Get some defense!!!!!! NO! NO! NO!!!! Wings flap!!!
These jerk announcers would’ve never been picked for this game had they known Arizona was going to be 5-1.
Turnover turnover turnover.
Nice tackle.
Next to the long passes, I love watching the Eagles kick off
2 more downs baby.
Nolan Christmas Carroll!
Turnover time boys! That’s the 5th play Nolan made today
He’s picking on the wrong corners!
Shhh don’t let him know about Fletcher and Williams. Its a secret.
I swear, if any of our corners had any kind of awareness we’d be leading the league in INTs.
ugh. we really need carroll on the field right now. cards are going to go with a 5 WR set or something
If they tie the game……
I propose Parkey and cards kicker have an old fashioned place kicking game of horse.
Duel in the Desert
Kendrick makes a huge difference down the middle of the field on pass defense.
i’m not sure Casey Matthews would have made that tackle
HEY
Where’s curtis marsh when you need him
2 more downs….lets go eagles
COVER FITZ!!!!!
firecracker firecracker sis boom bah Eagles Defense Eagles Defense RA RA RA
LETS GO CHIPWICH
Sack fumble!!!
Sack?
so wwe used a timeout so he can stay out there, right? doesn’t have to come off for a play?
I thought the timeout was automatic since the clock was running in the last two minutes…
so Carroll didn’t have to come off the field after that? i wasn’t sure about that part too. whatever. doesn’t matter now
That was just awful
OMFG
lmao, amazing
Really?
what. the. fuck.
SIGH…
They had one job.
BRuh I hate them so fuckin much
That last throw ’em up was the one that worked… Da Fuq?
Can’t wait to hear what Cary Williams’ excuse is this time.
I’m not going to complain too much though – the Eagles deserve to lose this game.
INCOMPETENT
Pathetic
that FG instead of a TD really hurts right now
Yes it does. Chip needs to be roasted for his playcalling after this one.
still don’t know why it wasn’t ruled a first down on that 2nd down carry from Polk
Doesn’t matter, the refs are going to make bad calls sometimes. When all you need is six inches, you can’t call a play like that.
now we gotta have Nick Foles Win it he sucks
There’s your defense, Geagle.
lot ot time….two TO
…what’s there to review?
right? i would think the refs upstairs wouldn’t tell the refs on the field to review it…
please dont mention cary williams again
Get on the field with two time-outs and let’s get back out. Wtf else should I say?
Trade Nate please.
Where’s Blind Chow . . . you tipped them off
Yep
Seriously, what the fuck is Nate Allen thinking there?
We can’t get a 3rd and one.
the cardinals should have done this all game blown us out we suck
We deserve to lose this game.
give them the TD! don’t let them waste more time on the clock…
Nate Allen….nuff said…it seems that our safety play still leaves a lot to be desired
Time to get going with 2 time-outs.
John Brown — best looking WR in the rookie class.
Shades of Cliff Branch.
Watkins and Benjamin?
Eh, our defense makes everyone look great.
Fuck off
Maybe Asomugha wasn’t wrong.
Bout to cry,. Go be a legend and make it tears of joy,.. How many timeouts we have?
2 left
Interesting
used one when Carroll was down for a minute with cramps
If two of your heroes didnt blow, we wouldnt be here.
Nate Allen getting nosey and not defending his man
John Brown runs a 4.3 40. If the defensive playcall there was to have Nate Allen cover him 1-on-1 that’s on Billy Davis.
Please….Allen got nosey….If goes with his man like he is supposed to…most likely there is bracket coverage with him and Williams….he did not help himself by not going with the man in his area….blaming the coaches is downright silly and using someone’s physical gifts as some sort of reasoning as to why a player does not do his job is silly….
I hopE this is the last game of Nate Allen as an eagle.
2 timeoutseft
comeon. give us a chance to return it!
or not.
80 yards to go, boys. get it done.
Great. Now we have to count on our offense.
Need to get a td
Chip magic, but the bottom line if they lose, the turnovers in their territory.
not a good start
How does this not end in an interception?
Game is over. Awful. Just terrible.
So can we bench Foles? He seriously cost us this game
Bruh Sanchize time!
Horse collar!!!
I bet the Cardinals don’t let someone run wide open behind them.
This defense has looked very good except for two plays
another one
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Horse collar
Facemask
Refs have been laughable today.
Wow
Was I off.
looks like a penalty to me
nah, he “had control of that other arm” according to Barber.
lol Barber
How is that not a horse collar?
Shit get it down there.
Insomniac . . .
Rookie WRs — Watkins is the best.
Brown’s been doing it it every week. Watkins more recently.
Better team, maybe.
This fuckin ridiculous
Please get this down the field and get it in.
Perfect play
PHEW. barely caught that one
My heart is in my throat.
Execute
Jesus can Foles not throw a swing pass anymore?
thank god mccoy is Mr.Fantastic and can stretch his arms out
Can’t get someone deep in the middle
he can’t throw shit
Wtf is Foles doing
Chip Kelly’s every first down playcall is “throw it out of bounds.”
hah!
LOL seriously
Bruce Arians bitching can’t pay off! Score this TD!
HEY MATTHEWS BLOCK SOMEONE
Get down there get down there
ok guys. 2 yards.
Just get the 1st down!
Let’s go… Execute!!! Execute! Execute! BLOCK!!!!!!
Chip magic
Game over.
Tense, this is game.
this game is tense.
Thought it was 3rd down, crap.
Let’s go
fuck that was scary i thought files was gonna bitch out
aaaaaaaaaaand about 4 seconds run off after they call the timeout
looks like they put 2 back on the clock. thanks…
Whew. Great use of the Foles keeper.
Time to go to end zone..they needed that first
Walk off TD.., it’s fuckin Coming!!! Here comes the legend!,,,
come on MAC
or Matthews
A run was a bad Idea, though. Had to use TO and with 19 seconds? just three plays, max.
No way Foles completes a pass there.
Walk off TD
TEs come on
Money!!!!!
OMG
huge catch for Mac!
now we’re in TD range. we can do this.
Walk off TD! The legend is coming!!!!
GOD I HOPE YOURE RIGHT
Man 1-2 plays…if you hurry
there’s the first down incomplete pass out of the way
It’s just…I can’t see it happening.
ONE MORE PLAY
This is it. Everyone in the end zone.
Oh well. Foles’ stupid turnovers and those stupid long TD’s.
Same as it ever was
What an awful attempt. Matthews has at least 5 inches over Mathieu and didn’t even box out or jump at all. I hated his passiveness in college and still hate it now.
IM SO FLACCID RIGHT NOW!
Gosh, never been in something like this.
I don’t want to watch this play but I know I have to.
put boykin in there and have him jump for it lol
Walk off TD
Noooo
omg. one foot from a TD…
That could’ve been over there.
I miss the force out rule…
yep. a few years ago, thats a TD. but oh well….
I’m so fucking mad.
Ball wasn’t in the endzone…
Well that sucked
If he didn’t jump…?
If Foles wasnt throwing of his back foot?
GREAT JOB NICK!!
Hes just got to throw the ball in the field of play
Great game…great drive by Foles…just came up a little short
Too bad he kept turning the ball over earlier.
or kept leading our WRs out of bounds
There was a possibility if he had a chance to throw the ball different
Bartender, do you have something stronger?
They fucking blew it. That team was NOT better than us today.
I made a stupid bet. Now i have to wear a card jersey to work tomorrow
Wear a St. Louis Cardinals baseball or Louisville Cardinals basketball jersey. I’m guessing the other party didn’t specify WHICH Cardinals…
Turnovers
Polk had the first down, no measurement or challenge..so much shit
That’s what I saw.
Fumble near the goal line
Maybe Dallas will lose tomorrow.
Where are they?
WAS
Need the crowd tomorrow..lol..can’t believe I’m saying this.
This goes on and on and on
foles made a bad throw he had matthews open
That’s a bad loss. Bad turnovers by Foles and Huff, bad penalties that repeatedly short-circuited Eagles drives or prolonged Cardinals ones, bad playcalling by Chip Kelly in the game’s most crucial series, bad breakdowns by the defense allowing a Cardinals offense that couldn’t sustain drives all day to score two long TDs. Teams are supposed to play crisply coming out of the bye week but that didn’t happen today.
There will certainly be lots of (irrational) doom and gloom around here this week, especially if the Cowboys win tomorrow. But there’s no sugarcoating the fact that this was a bad loss.
The bad playcalling is the worst thing. Since Kelly’s the head coach, you know it’ll never get fixed, just like all the crap Andy did for so many years that cost the Eagles games.
We’ll see. Chip has shown the ability to learn from his mistakes (see, e.g. the much more effective clock grinding in the Giants game after the Rams almost came back to beat us the week before). Hopefully he’s self critical enough to learn that “spread ’em out and run the draw” is a much more effective way to run the ball in the middle of the field than on the goal line.
The same thing has been happening for awhile though. He still hasn’t learned it. He went under-center last week, but this week it was the same old crap.
Really hope they trade for a safety. Nate’s one forced fumble doesn’t make up for letting a receiver get behind him and score a TD.
Cary Williams I’d fast. Had a good run down on that play. Just don’t think mate dogg had the speed
Well, Boykin couldnt keep up with a 91 year old Fitzgeral, so sometimes speed can be weird
Im sorry to anybody who think Foles is a franchise QB. HE WAS BAD TODAY. He keeps throwing of his back foot and keeps throwing ints
Yeah when he’s off I’m like where was that ball going. But when you give the ball up 3 times this Is what happens.
Cardinals blitzed a lot today and Kelly didn’t keep blockers in to counter it much. That’s one case where the QB almost has to throw off his back foot, so while I fault Foles for the two picks, I can’t blame him for throwing while backpedaling in those two cases.
Outside of a few select plays, Foles had a clean pocket.
What game were you watching? The Cardinals brought heavy blitzes repeatedly. Quite a few times the Eagles burned them when they did so, but the commentators were even discussing how much Bowles was blitzing. I don’t think “clean pocket” means what you think it means.
There is difference between blitzing and getting home. The Cards rarely got home.
They didn’t get home but they got guys into the backfield and forced Foles off his spot. You can’t set your feet to throw effectively with unblocked guys bearing down on you, you have to throw off your back foot in most situations in that case.
Foles throws off his back foot all the time, pressure or not.
That was a helluva back foot throw to Maclin.
That was one of his great throws. If he did that more consistently, we wouldnt have so much doubt about him.
Foles needs to go
We almost have to trade for vjax. It’s clear we only have 1 nfl wide receiver on this team. Would love to see target breakdown for this game.
Kelly Needs a real QB
kelly needs to move on from shotgun 100%
Give it a rest. You’ve made about 50 posts to this effect today, we know your opinion.
Foles again made a couple of really bad plays today, and was part of the reason they lost the game. But far from the only reason, and not nearly the biggest one.
Yeah, he wasn’t responsible for either of those two big TD’s against our defense, for example.
No, but a better throw to end the game would have won us the game (both on the Matthews and the Ertz play)
Shotgun at the goal line, you have to close it up and barrel that m’fer in
Penalties should be reviewable in a replay, Very poor officiating today and that last no call on coop was just bull. Its not good enough for those game changing calls to be determined on the field when you have the replay system in place. And it wouldn’t take any longer than all the refs huddling in the middle of the field to discuss it.
It’s official, on the play with Coop, Coop went the right way. Just never know until you hear it from the coach.
The Riley Cooper hatred is getting irrational. The guy’s a mediocre NFL receiver, and shouldn’t be starting for a contending team, but that doesn’t make everything bad that happens his fault.
The ball was behind him. So in a QB-WR situation sometimes people don’t realize what the play is. Was it a stop route? Or was he supposed to make the cut and have the ball while he ws cutting? The question was asked, it should’ve been asked even if it was Montana Rice. I never said a bad word about Cooper actually, it was a normal question. The first int there was no doubt Foles threw the ball late.
I’m not blaming you specifically. I’m just saying it’s a sign of the general mentality around here that on a play when Cooper is open and Foles throws the ball directly to the defender trailing him the immediate assumption is that it’s somehow Cooper’s fault.
Oh yeah I understand, it looked almost certainly the QB’s fault from the beginning, but sometimes they get crossed. Just a horrible pass to a guy who was wide open and had 1st down yardage. You’re right, it was a horrible pass to a guy who takes a lot of shit around here. What I mean is, it’s harder to question Cooper on that kind of play because the typical fan yells about Cooper sucking. But Foles is getting his shit now though lol….Oh god, we need Houston to come fast.
A few thoughts.
1. John Brown appeared to beat the same coverage the Eagles had successfully used all day.
2. Kelly, after Polk gained 9.9 yards in two carries inside the 10 yardline,
(a) replaced him with a RB who’s not been nearly as effective as he was last season,
(b) called a play that required McCoy to go laterally then straight because the Birds were in the shotgun, and
(c) did NOT call a run behind Peters — who, in 2011, routinely collapsed entire defensive lines on short yardage plays.
3. Why did Matthews JUMP on that last pass to make a body catch?
If he puts his hands up he gives himself a chance to ensure his feet are in bounds.
4. The Birds lost . . . so what. WHY?
Huff fumbles inside the Cards’ 10 because he has the ball in the wrong arm.
Foles throws a terrible INT deep inside Cards territory.
Kendricks hardly played.
The O-line is 2 players away from being much better.
The Eagles have only 2 defensive starters from Dec. 2011. This team is
still being reconstructed. (7 starters on offense from 2011.)
And if Matthews just catches the last pass with his hands . . . well, the Birds win.
The Eagles will continue to get better.
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HATE THE SHOTGUN FOR SHORT-YARDAGE.
But I’m not the guy calling plays.
Watching the Matthews play, he had to jump to catch it.
Regarding the shotgun in short yards, we used it last year successfully and Kelly have done it all through is career.
Not sure of that.
Keeping his feet on the ground would’ve shown great field awareness.
But once he jumped, given where he was, no chance.
If he stays on the ground, the ball will be out of reach.
Need to see the replay.
What’s clear though is, once he jumped, the ball landed in his breadbasket — which suggests he could have reached up for the ball.
The last pass wasn’t one where Matthews caught it only because he leaped and high-pointed the ball with arms outstretched.
(Earlier in the game, on the first Cards’ challenge, Matthews again let the ball come to his body.)
Well, Matthews just showing he isnt Jordy Nelson (and yes, I have seen that comparision a lot on twitter, hell seen people call him baby-TO for some reason)
[redacted]
36 completions and 62 attempts both records by Foles today. Tied his own on the first, and tied someone else(McNabb?) on the other. Too many passes on a ‘running team.
I know the cards were the #1 run D, but we were having success on the ground especially towards the end of the game, mystified why we didn’t run more.
Yes. And it’s not even like they had to throw that much because they were trailing the whole game or the running game wasn’t working.
Does anyone else feel like they played? Emotionally we all did.
Hail to the Redskins! Hail to victory!
Re: Run v. Pass Calls in 2014
In the last 8 games of 2013, the Eagles went 7-1.
Kelly called 280 running plays vs. 240 passes (att + sacks) — for an avg of 35 runs/game vs. 30 passes/game.
The percentage was 54-46 percent run-to-pass ratio.
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In the first 7 games of 2014, the Eagles are 5-2.
Kelly’s called 191 rushes vs. 306 passes — an avg of 28 runs/game vs. 44 passes/game.
The play calling this year shows a 39-61 percent run-to-pass ratio.
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I’m sure Kelly has a good reason for what he calls.
But the stark difference in the run-to-pass numbers from last year to this year is pretty remarkable.
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You know, I always see the other teams getting that zero second TD crap on the highlight of the week. It happens to other teams, and you see it over and over and you’re glad you’re not the team that was victimized by it. But what about the team who didn’t get it? What about them? Does anyone care about how they feel????