Gameday – Tampa Comes to Town
Posted: November 22nd, 2015 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 367 Comments »Make mistakes and you lose. Make plays and you win.
Sometimes the NFL is as simple as that. Take away the blocked punt from last week and there is a good chance the Eagles win. Take away any of several plays from the Dallas game and the Eagles might not win that. The Eagles are just that kind of team this year.
Most of the league is like that, actually. Tampa could have lost last week very easily, but just happened to have one more thing go their way than Dallas did (which makes us all happy).
I think the Eagles are better than the Bucs, but if the Eagles make mistakes, they will lose. Simple as that. Nobody plays a perfect game, but I’m talking about key mistakes. An illegal shift penalty that wipes out a TD is very different than one that just turns 1st/10 into 1st/15.
The Eagles have made some critical mistakes in close losses. Eliminate them and this team is winning.
That still doesn’t solve the issue that this team isn’t playing at the level we expected. This team wasn’t supposed to win. It was supposed to be outstanding. We’ve only seen flashes of that.
At this point we have to focus on just winning, ugly or not.
Here is the game preview I wrote for PE.com.
We now know the inactives.
QB Sam Bradford
RB Ryan Mathews
OL Tanner Hawkinson
OL Josh Andrews
DL Brandon Bair
LB Emmanuel Acho
DB Denzel Rice
Obviously that means big news…Ed Reynolds is active.
Oh and so is Jason Peters. He’ll be the LT, which moves Lane Johnson back to the right side. Let’s hope this version of the OL plays better than last week. Not having to face Ndamukong Suh will help. That guy is a friggin monster.
Thad Lewis will be the backup QB.
Hopefully Lewis only plays if this is a blowout and he’s handing the ball off to Kenjon Barner late in the game.
Alright Sanchez…show us whatcha got.
Go Eagles!!!
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Let’s go Eagles. 8-8 is still doable!!! Whoooooo!!
Well, I hope Peters can stay in the entire time. If the line has to shuffle because he isnt ready and is being stubborn then I am pissed.
I just can’t get excited about this game..
After a sleepless night and a trip to Wawa’s..I think I’ll regret staying up to watch the game.
Any thoughts on Bair not being active, always feels like he’s big with the PBUs, is hart really that much better in games?
Lingering groin injury? Those keep guys out for awhile but I’m not a doctor so..
maybe they need a new massage therapist?
Any chance Sanchez actually keeps the ball and runs with it, helping out our Run game? Last week he had some great opportunities to run, but he never took advantage of them,..
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As a passer, Sanchez defines mediocrity, he knows this offense better than SAM does. I would rather see a conservative offense that punts a lot, than to see the offense put our defense in bad positions with a turnover
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KElce was Right this week when he said we are showing all the signs of a Bad team… If Tampa beats us so be it, but I can’t stand another game of us killing ourselves and helping our opponents beat us with so many Undiscaplined, boneheaded. I’m so tired of watching us beat ourselves for 4 ours a week
Well, since QBs are supposed to pass the ball, not run with it, I hope he doesn’t run.
Hopefully, Sanchez and Murray have fixed their read option hand-offs. Murray looked confused at times last Sunday. I believe that the threat of Sanchez running will open things up for Murray and others.
Winston 10 TD/9 INT….. sanchez 81 TD/ 80 INTs..
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Terrible Tampa secondary….. Terrible Eagle WRs
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never would I have imagined that The Eagles would be so bad, that I fear garbage Tampa coming to down with a rookie QB smh
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How the hell does our highest paid WR Coop ONLY have 11 catches and we are into the second half of the season?
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chip better not give Miles Austin a ton of snaps like last week
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Hopefully Kenjon Barner can give our ST a boost
We haven’t thrown to Cooper since early Oct… im not sure if the issue is the play calling, the WRs or the QB
bradford throws to RBs and jordan matthews.
jameis threw to MIke Evans 32 times the last two weeks,.., Gee! I wonder where the ball is going today?
So let’s see…being optimistic:
Bucs W
Lions W
Patriots L
Bills W
Cardinals L
Redskins W/L
Giants W/L
Say we win one of last 2. 8-8, miss the playoffs. Seems about right.
Ed Reynolds is part of the ‘hands team’ to line up against Jameis.
Wow this is ugly
Send in K. Barner
I can’t even get in here before the fumble!! WTH?!?
saved by the refs!
lol, its funny how much better the offense looks with Sanchez. He’s so much faster than Bradford.
Hey, that’s better
My god.
Haaaaaaa that’s so great. Sanchez > Bradford.
If Sanchez wasn’t such a fuckhead, he’d be a pretty decent QB!
I never want to hear anything about bradford again. Huff!!!!!!!!!!!!
Huff!
A lot of this is the Buccaneers being the bucs, though.
yah ok…
hey hey, level head, right?
but Bradford being tentative would have produced much less exciting results. Tho’ probably a TD, too.
nah no read option keeper for the first down. that’s gonna pay dividends later.
Tampa was just Sanchized
Sam who?
kurt coleman picked cousin’s overthrow to djax #eagles.
coleman has 3 picks, a sack and 5 pbus
Kendricks almost the spectacular play there.
Curry. Stay on side
Kinda dead in here today huh?
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m eating.
Made my famous wings today. They’re a hit.
I’m hate-watching.
yeah only die hardest of the die hards this faternoon
Hard to get fired up for this game.
Sproles is awesome
Sproles, all 5’6″ of him, leveled that guy. Whoever that was, he’s going to mocked in the film room this week.
He wanted to stay down, but he knew he better get up or he was just gonna hear it worse
I would probly have stayed down and claimed I was laughing
Sanchez looks so much faster and more decisive than Bradford did. I’m gonna miss Bradfords shower pep talks though.
Bradford might be able to up his pace once he gets more time in the system, but he’s never going to be a running threat (except to us)
How many games… How long does he need. Are we going to risk that with a big money extension or franchise tag? We’ll see, my gut says Chip is all in on Bradford.
sanchez picked up the system WAY faster as a backup
Lets make it 14-0
just moved back to CT for thanksgiving from DE so i don’t get the game…give me more people!
google thefirstrow and you can just watch the stream in low quality.
sticking with redzone might be better for my mental health
sanchez leads to a td on first drive (only happened one other time this year)
You’ve been waiting for this for a while, he’s probably better than Bradford.
murray [is great]
I’m excited to see Barner today.
Catch the ball ertz
Sanchez sucks.
I can’t tell if Tampas defense didn’t show up today or if they can’t tackle like this team did in 2014.
What was that?
djax 50yd td
Tobin playing the role of turnstile
Yeah, Gerald Mccoy is a monster though so I’m willing to give him a discount.
He was preparing to recover the eventual fumble.
At least Donnie Jones is still awesome. The entire highlight reel from 2015 is going to be all punts.
BLOGAN!!
Stay on side damn it
Nice penalty graham
Nolan Carroll is really fast. might have save us 4 points.
ohwell
Not very tall though
what Nolan giveth, Nolan taketh away
Great. Now the D is shitting the bed.
defense leaned it’s center of gravity too far one way…
come on 59
Terrible awareness by the D
That’s a catch.
Need to see the heel to be sure, but it looks good otherwise.
remember when our defense was good?
7 point offside penalty
This Tampa drive should’ve been over, but no, we jump offsides, give up a big run, and now the game is tied. This team is so dumb and undisciplined, it’s maddening to watch them.
defense was so stout for 6 games
One of the least disciplined teams I’ve seen in a long time. Which is odd considering our coach is someone that stresses culture, accountability and discipline more than almost anyone else in the NFL.
Chip talks a good game on these points, but he doesn’t back it up. Has he ever benched a player for poor performance/mental mistakes? Even with Bradley Fletcher last season, he didn’t take him out until he was injured.
true
Bad Coaching, def. “This team is so dumb and undisciplined, it’s maddening to watch them.”
Can any Eagles receiver make the play that Evans just did? I don’t think so. The talent in our receiving corps is still a major issue, which is a pretty big problem given that Chip as personnel evaluator has invested more heavily in that position than any other over the last two offseasons.
Cooper can, once or twice a decade. Celek or Ertz have a better chance at it, but are usually needed to block
they can drop balls as much as Evans does
I see those types of plays every week watching other teams games, yet I almost never see a guy wearing Eagles green do that. And, that’s over the last 25 years. We haven’t had someone that can make that type of play over a DB in my entire lifetime as an Eagles fan.
TO
That was a really fun 12-13 games
of course eagles can’t find a way to make that work.
Joe Banner was such a dick
as was TO…but I don’t hate TO all that much. It’s like hating a mentally challenged person. It’s not TO’s fault that he was crazy. Banner was just a dick though.
I think Matthews and Ags will be ok
defense is going to make sanchize win this game.
Not a good strategy
Christ Huff. Do you have rocks for brains?
Helps if Cooper blocks a guy, too
Yes, but taking a ball out from 7 yards deep is usually a dumb idea.
One good play. One bad play. That’s just Huff for you.
what a stupid return.
redskins hanging close w/ carolina
Celek you wus.
Gah. Bad Sanchez is back. This is depressing.
Celek should have had that…. he did overthrow the second pass though
Could have had that, maybe. It was overthrown, right on the edge of a possible catch, which of course exposes the receiver to get blasted. It was not a good throw, as Celek was wide open to begin with.
yep, this is what I was expecting to see.
Good response
sanchez’s arm too strong
has said no one ever…haha
strong arms can be accurate deep. Provided you have accuracy.
For all that Chip’s flaws are becoming more clear, there’s nothing really wrong with the scheme, we have receivers running open on just about every play. Still, it is only TB.
it’s def execution
Yes, but after 10 games bad execution is no longer on the players. It’s either on the coach (not coaching guys up/making adjustments to make things easier for them) or the GM (picked bad players). Both of those are Chip. We used to make fun of Andy Reid for talking about “putting guys in better position to make plays” and such but there’s something to it.
I once played a pickup game against Tim duncan. I got the ball and took off, trying for the dunk. Unfortunately, I’m 5’8″ and have no hops. Execution.
This team is a QB away from being a relevant team and a few more tweaks after that from being a real contender. Shame is that’s the hardest part of the personnel equation to figure out.
I just stepped away for a minute. I guess I shouldn’t rewind.
nah, better to live in the moment.
true. true
Winston was a fan because of Cunningham? Was he even alive during Randall’s tenure
No…he was born in 1994. So he was only 4 years old when Randall had his big comeback year with the Vikings. He was almost too young to really root for McNabb during most of his prime.
One of those days I fear
We are getting whooped by the Buccaneers. ;(
Same 3rd down play again…..
Goddamnit. I took eagles D in daily fantasy too haha. Home team bias as usual.
me too, figured for sure there’s a pick six waiting for me
Eagles D has won me a lot of matchups this year, no shame in taking them
same here. It’s a safe bet. I think their biggest weakness is the offense.
keep expecting to see something different from this team. I have no idea why at this point.
seemed like there were 8 eagles just sitting around
“we have to do some things to take away mike evans”
wow
Of course
Whew, fuck us. lol.
That…
was a great pass.
don’t blame the defense there.
knew i should have started vjax
Is it illegal to defend the slant?
2 tds given up by nolan carroll.
Memo to Chip: if you want to have a high octane offense, it helps to have good receivers. This is especially true if you have a mediocre quarterback who needs bailing out.
You need a good OL more, though. I think a good OL will make an average QB look better than a good QB makes an average OL look. Especially when you factor in the running game.
Ideally you’d have both. Helps if you don’t dump productive players like DJax and Mathis for nothing and allocate cap space well.
#talent
Smooth return there.
Riley Cooper looks stoned
And another 3 and out … We know how to respond
this is embarrasing
this is painful to watch
Keystone Kops
Sanchez thought out, Ags thought in, and away we go on defense. How many embarrassing losses can we endure?
all of them?
well as long as dallas and the skins lose we’re still in it
Skins and Dallas are probably going to both win
Please. We’re not in anything. This team sucks.
To be clear, I’m not close to there yet. In fact I think it’s ridiculous to contemplate at this point. But at what point does the “fire Chip” drumbeat really start to pick up?
3rd quarter
next year
agreed. Chip gets another free agency + draft to fix his mess, then the patience is gone.
That’s my position. If things continue on this trajectory and we finish 7-9, he should be on the hot seat entering next year.
Next year. I honestly hate a lot of the moves he’s made but I’m not ready to advocate firing yet. That’s a pretty drastic move, considering you have no idea who you might end up with.
You must not listen to sports talk radio?
I’m talking about among reasonable people.
Understood. lol
We’ve seen 42 games with Chip. This is game 43 and the team has gotten steadily worse. Chip must go.
I doubt Lurie fires him after this season, but I am hopeful college lures him back.
Indeed. Scary to contemplate but at this point there is no evidence Chip is a better NFL coach than Ray Rhodes or Rich Kotite. In fact both of them accomplished MORE through their first 2.5 NFL seasons than Chip has.
chip’s first year as gm, i think the scheme is fine, need better players.
‘course, the other problem could be that Chip hasn’t found out how to teach his scheme to NFL players yet
That is grounds for firing him right now.
In other words, he could have failed at literally the most fundamental task of his job. That would be a major problem.
It doesn’t say much that Chip did more with Howie and Andy’s players than he has with his own. The more power he has accrued, the worse the team has gotten.
This offense looks like it never even practices
Whew, Cox made that play. Beast.
uh oh 3rd n long
thurmond might be our best pass rusher.
2 fumbles on that drive
Kendricks forced it, playing good today.
Really fooled ’em there Chip.
This offense is so hard to watch
See ya ertz
Wow that looked like it hurt. Glad he’s up and walking.
Man, this is just bad offensive football.
No replacement for ertz on the punt team. Coaches are awful
Putrid
two straight games, promising start, and then collapse into badness.
so can we go for it on 4th?
Obviously, looking at the last two games, scoring a TD in the first quarter destroys our offense.
can’t even blame sanchez, not even letting him play really.
This is some shit.
did we used to have our way w/ tampa 2 teams?
Pitiful
This is unwatchable.
we’re about to be blown out by the Bucs…of all teams.
2 60 yds runs in the first half?
So, did the Defense decide to pack it in after the Miami loss? What the hell?
i think team is close to giving up, this is 2012 type shit
But, but,…culture!!
They were fun to watch for the first drive at least. I thoight we were good on run D.
its that bad?
Kiko on the ground on that big run
Jenkins still cant catch 🙁
Game over. Lets roll over for the rapist Winston.
Culture trumps talent! Um, yeah, Chip, about that …
Nolan Carroll must have Winston as his fantasy QB…
Well, at least the TD is for a guy we drafted!
Great, another week of CockMonger or whatever the f his name is to pollute this place.
this team has zero fight
top 8 draft pick please. that’s the least you can give us Chip
Srs. Can we get a damn qb cause there are wide open WRs everywhere and no one to get it to them.
Winston’s doing alright at that
I wont cheer for a rapist.
That’ll be awhile since well..I don’t think there’s a franchise QB in next years draft.
Theres probably at least 1 in every draft. Just depends on where they go and if they fit.
I’m not ready to fire Chip. But if they don’t come back in this game I’m ready to tank the rest of this season for a high draft pick. We just need a catchy name for the campaign. Drop off for Goff? Get the hook for Cook? Fail for Cardale?
Cardale? I just threw up in my mouth. We would certainly be failing with him.
I’m not a fan either. But his name does rhyme catchily with “fail”.
3 for 3 in rz. russell shephard, wasn’t he on our ps?
jenkins with the whiff on martin then a terrible drop.
Honestly they deserve to get blown out like this. They need to be punished.
There’s the Murray swing pass that instills fear across the league…
LETS GET A FIRST DOWWWWNNNNN
getting smoked by russell shepherd…smh
maybe we should have kept him.
YEAH FIRST DOWN BABY!
“Make mistakes and you lose. Make plays and you win.”
Whelp, we know which side we’re on today.
Yay. Do it again.
Whew, bout time we did something.
Great. But we left too much time on the clock for Tampa. They can score at least four more times now…
With any luck Doug Martin will be exhausted after running 80+yds so often
Ha! The plan is to tire him out for the second half! Bill Davis = genius.
cant see the game, is it on sanchez or chip this time around
Defense.
When half of your completions are TDs…you know the other team stinks.
Yeah, it only took Chip 10 weeks to get the ball in Sproles hands.
Maybe Tampa will attempt to burn some clock by passing it…
TD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sturgis making the extra point, we have hope.
Darren Sproles is a really dangerous, versatile player. They might want to consider actually using him on more than a handful of plays a game.
That’s Deuce’s fault apparently.
Their OL> Our overrated DL
So far. To be fair our offense was busy going 3&Out in less than 90 seconds per drive.
Somebody needs to throw some crab legs on the field.
As long as it’s not Bradford…
your humor is much needed
I’m shocked they didn’t flag Kelce for holding on the TD. Not saying he deserved it, but his man went down and he had his hands on him…
Not sure they’re calling that today, on their big run one of their OL was holding one of our D players with each hand
Hold Free Sunday? I dig it…
Our Run D sux
What’s with the run D today? So frustrating.
Nobodies really showing up today.
skins going to lose
Bout time zebra. That coffee starting to kick in?
I love coffee.
I love turtles.
That is really sick Baloophi. The SPCA shall hear of this.
Please don’t. I’m on their “watch list.”
Was that a result of the llama incident?
EVERYTHING is a result of the llama incident.
Are you a Russian Box kinda guy or a Yellow Eared Slider kinda guy?
at least they didn’t jump offsides
Goddamn, why are we not pressing anyone today. Guys running free all game. The fuck is this plan.
Waiting for a big play by COX.
that was a good one
We could all use more COX.
Sims was way too open for that first down.
In other news, Cam has gone crazy.
why did they wait 5 minutes to touch him down!!!!!
Hey Tampa, the ill-conceived, poorly executed WR screen is our specialty. No stealing it!
No respect
so our defense still hasn’t figured out how to stop a slant pass on third down. Maybe in year four Billy will finally open up that part of his defensive play book
we must not see it enough during the week for us to plan for it. slants and draw plays
Don’t think our O has tried a slant since Maclin left, and even then it was only once in a blue moon, so maybe he tore up that page for the D.
The sad thing is … my feed is a minute or so behind real time. So I wrote that on the earlier 3rd down that they converted and by the time I caught up to the live stream they had just completed another third down slant.
Hopefully fire him at the end of the year finally.
Sad to say, but this team looks zero percent different with Sanchez in instead of Bradford.
The D is much worse
That’s a lie, our 3&Outs are much faster now
when’s the last time we had a screen pass actually work? Gotta say say defense looks way worse with sanchez on the field.
Sanchez has definitely made our defense worse
Nice hands
CATCH THE BALL!!!!! THATS A PICK 6!!!!
Tough catch from so close. But yeah, we need somebody to make a play.
Its not meant to be
catch the effing ball!!!!!!
What a joke
NICE PLAY MAXWELL
Face Palm
What a joke. Are you serious? We have ZERO luck this year.
Good teams don’t need to be lucky.
Lucky teams are often good. See the Pats last week.
So much for execution
Execute them all
we should have like 4 takeaways right now
The luckiest red zone ever for Winston. god.
If only we had paid Maxwell $63,000,001…
Sign Charles Sims to play corner, 12 million a year. He outplayed Maxwell for that ball.
28 points in the first half
Has Tampa scored that much combined coming into this game?
Honestly they outplayed the Giants pretty badly, except the Giants held them to field goals and turnovers. If they had converted more that game could have looked like this. But our defense on 3rd down… yuck.
That TD looked like the Landry play
We have ZERO luck this year. Everything goimg against the Eagles.
That wasn’t luck it was a shitty play. Maxwell had a bead on it the whole way and just let Sims outplay him for the ball. What a joke.
What is this? Letting a rookie do this? Come on D.
What a joke. The whole defense should just commit seppuku on the 50.
But they wouldn’t complete it until inside the 5…
Still time for a vintage Sanchez pick six before halftime.
don’t forget TB gets the ball to start the 2nd half
that’s depressing
Int coming up
At least they scored in the first half.
O Howard.
Too many missed opportunities. Also, the defense looks unprepared and I think this is on Bill Davis, which ultimately is on Chip. Looks like the players are being put in positions to fail. Ryans and Alonso shouldn’t be on the field. Maxwell looks like he has no faith and confidence in the scheme.
0 luck
Was it last year they had all the luck?
Ahahahahahahahahahjahaahahahhahahahah. Who called it?
Me me me
I said pick six. But I was kidding.
Were you though?
You can always count on Sanchez at crunch time
THAD LEWIS TIME!!!!!!!
You know…I”m thinking about it…
Team failure in the first half.
Let’s hope we don’t give up a TD on the kneel-down…
I wish I was at the game so I could boo too.
Is this the official beginning of the end for chipper?
I think that came when he demanded personnel control and kicked Howie to the curb.
So it was the end because he got full control after 2 successful seasons?
You must know some new logic never before heard of by mankind.
Well it’s his team now, running his gimmick offense that has been exposed for it is – college-level.
It is the beginning of the end for Chip – it’s just unclear when that end will come. I think he’ll get next year, but if this goes off the rails and we end up 6-10, who knows?
I do think he’ll be stripped of GM duties after this year, however.
If you think he’s getting fired after his 1st down year and first year in full control, you’re braindead.
I didnt say I believed. Just curious on opinions.
You have yours
sanchez just doesn’t have the brains for the position. The thought in that situation is to get the team in to field goal position. Not throw into double coverage.
Barwin catches that pass its 21-21.
Sturgis hit’s that FG last week, etc. I guess good teams make enough of those ‘if..’ plays to make the difference.
Jenkins missed an int as well.
That’s a hard pick to make…..Jenkins should have caught his or Maxwell should have picked off the last TD they scored
difference is other teams catch their picks
Let’s see how Tommy spins this one. Over under on ugh’s is 3.5
Lets all boo from our couches. Fuck this nonsense.
problem really is just that sanchez throws such a catcheable ball
Huff looking much better recently.
And they stop throwing it to him
Gotta say.. I’m a little tired of people blaming the quarterbacks for all the turnovers. Yes, Sanchez, Bradford, and Foles have been bad with ball security over the last few years. But maybe, just maybe, if your quarterbacks are turnover-prone, you should be running an offense that doesn’t constantly put them in position to turn the ball over.
30 throws a game to the middle of the field.
Perhaps, but when the QB throws into double or triple coverage when we’re close to FG range, that’s on them.
Like having the QB throw at all?
The offensive and defensive personnel do not match their schemes.
Ags has been open today. he was wide open on that pic!!
i gotta think it has to do w/ the QB coach. Last year we had tons of sideline / outroutes this year everthing is toward the middle of the field which makes ints really easy.
I don’t understand why we keep condensing the field ….
I want all 3 teams to lose this week. I want the NFC East to send a 6-10 team to the playoffs, just for the novelty.
Sanchez through a costly pick but this run defense has been pitiful and they are just abiding Carroll today.
It’s pitiful because demeco shouldn’t be in there. The defensive plan is ridiculous. Bill Davis putting his players in positions to lose.
demeco makes the run d work. kiko gave up the bg run i think
Probably but Alonso has gotten eaten up a couple of times including that big Martin run where the guard just enveloped him and knocked him back.
both of them. alonso is not ready for the field as well. the impact of hicks going down in both this game and the last has had its effect.
Down by two TD’s at the half to a rookie QB at home…sorry but this is a bunch of bullshit….
mouth
Potty? Yes it is…..
Right before the half I said to myself, “Isn’t it about time for a Sanchez INT?”
Yeah.
That’s not a really difficult prediction.
New thread! (unfortunately, same old team)
score and time?
Holy shit really? Is this real life?