2nd Half – PHI 16, MIA 13
Posted: November 15th, 2015 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 372 Comments »This game was headed to blowout city. The Eagles led 16-3 and drove down into scoring territory. Bradford took a sack and the drive stalled. Caleb Sturgis missed the FG. Miami than put together a long drive to score. Then they got great field position after a blocked punt. That led to another score and the game is now 16-13.
Ugh.
The Eagles have been a 2nd half team all year, but that 2nd Qtr was some seriously ugly football. And it could have been worse if the Dolphins weren’t such a mess themselves.
The Eagles are winning and I’m as frustrated as if they were losing.
Good news is that the Eagles get the ball to open the 2nd half. Go get some points and let’s take care of this thing.
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Seems like after Sam took the sack, which helped to stall the drive, his accuracy has also taken a hit.
So I’ll say this again. Football isn’t supposed to be this hard, right?
Not for the viewers, at least.
I really don’t know what to make of this team.
if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck… it’s an eagle?
Way to go Kelce
Miami bailing us out again
Hello?
Dammit Andy, run the ball!!!
3 penalties on Kelce today.
awful today
to be fair, he is going against Suh who seems to be awake
yeah, but Suh is beasting right now. not sure what else he can do
Kelce has had a tough year, but Suh is a tough block.
Here come the 3 and outs again
For Miami, I hope. We did get a long pass to Ertz there; not close to three and out.
You’re right
My mistake
I am not sure that term means what you think it means.
everything going smooth, until the penalties
We need a turnover. Blitz blitz blitz
More Ags and less Austin
Austin looked like he barely gave 2 shits and a fuck about catching that ball. More Nelson who has potential, this season isn’t going anywhere.
Great tackle by Kendricks
Good pursuit, 95
That punt return was one of those no no no yes ones
then No again
followed by a damn on the penalty.
Stupid penalties are killing this game.
Kind of a weak call but no reason to even give the refs an option. Did put the hand on the back but didn’t push much.
Agreed, but come on, that was so weak.
nice. and totally uneccesary. Thanks Miami!!!
And that is one more reason why you have to throw downfield.
sigh
Weird play.
It looks like Bradford has time again. What the hell was that????
Oh ffs. This team is trying to lose now
wow just wow
Kelce, wtf?
Not good
this team is hot garbage
Worst. Read Option Run. Ever.
And of course a fumble after.
not read option they explained it on replay. matthews dind’t turn around
if you’ll permit me the exaggeration…
ah, my b.
I think it was Austin who didn’t turn around.
FUCKING KELCE
WTF is happening?
As bad as that play was, it was excellent concentration by Kelly. I really though he wasn’t going to be able to recover that.
Jesus christ, this is crazy.
This game is bad.
And boring.
It’s definitely bad, but not boring for me. I’m getting more and more agitated as it goes along.
I dont get how Kelce could get so bad in what should be his prime
If we hold on for the win, this will feel like the Giants game. Yeah, we won, but we played like crap.
i guess, but I don’t think we’re winning this one by 20.
At least we are apparently better than Green Bay
Dallas winning by 3, WAS blowing out NO. We don’t need to drop ourselves into the division sewer by blowing this.
Will be looking at centers in the draft for sure
doubtful we just extended kelce, chip loves him
Miles Austin screwing up again, He was uncovered and Sam wanted to hit him quickly but Austin never looked back……don’t know we are going to escape this with a win
Austin is straight up worthless
Kelce having an awful season
Things look pretty good on the box score, but I gather they don’t look good
Penalties and mistakes (latest a bad snap on 3rd down)
It may be the most misleading box score ever.
Did Carroll knock that out with his left? I was sure that was a catch right up to the last sec.
Don’t think so, pretty sure he just didn’t catch it clean.
good thing Miami stinks.
3 and our is good
Here’s what’s extra annoying. The only TD the Fins have is off the blocked punt. Other than that our Defense has held them to 2 field goals. They have played fine.
Our offense on the other hand…
whats annoying me the most is how our running game has been sort of mediocre so far, this is a game id actually like to see runs to the outside
I can’t help but think this is all Vandervelde’s fault…
hahahahaha!!!!!!!!! is there some correlation between when we pick him up and losses?
Yes, we haven’t won a Superbowl since he first joined the team.
I had not noticed that. Cut him! although we also haven’t won a superbowl since we cut him.
Lingering stench
Alright, let’s get something going!!!!! Sending positive vibes to the offense!!!!! C’mon Eagles !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
skins pummelling saints
They should dress Rob Ryan as a turkey for thanksgiving
of course another penalty
Jesus Christ the penalties.
hey a run to the outside
Sanchez time.
bradford hurt
Oh for fucks sake.
Collarbone?
Left shoukder
christ.
looks like the bad shoulder.
But our OL is still good right?
Welp. Bad OL got us killed.
Kelly is the MVP today. His strategy is to let his man pass him so that he can recover the strip sack. Gotta know your strengths.
Prease be to the Sanchize.
If Bradford’s out for the rest of the season we will have just missed our 4th round pick return…
So to answer Tommy’s question, no, Dennis Kelly is not better than we thought.
Actually he’s pretty good at recovering Bradford’s fumbles
1 for 1 bitches. Sanchez is on fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder if Bradford would’ve been able to avoid the hit if he had shorter sleeves…
the sleeves create drag and slow him down. basic physics.
Aeronautical engineering…
My physics teacher in high school taught me that everything is physics. Aeronautical engineering is just physics applied to aircraft.
penalties racking up
Sanchez looks skittish. Was hoping he’d be more composed, he’s a vet.
Adrenaline, probably
WHat was that over/under on Bradford. He iS DONE!
Has Kiko done anything today?
I had to sit at a hundred dollar minimum table in Vegas to watch this shitty game. Double lose
OL straight up got the QB killed
He’s not dead
Walking Dead
You know, if only we had signed JOE WEBB for our starting QB this year. We’d have been better off.
And you know? I bet this is just not kidding enough.
Whew! I was starting to think you and Joe broke up, but I didn’t want to ask.
well, he’s having his hangover recovery at work. Celebrated birthday yesterday!
I almost want us to pick up Webb just so we can see. It’s a war of attrition.
Shitty offensive line + sam Bradford…..that equation is brilliance.
you have to have an = sign for an equation. like this:
shitty offensive line + sam Bradford = finishing 4-12 with mark sanchez
#draftpick
correction:
shitty offensive line + sam Bradford – 2016 2nd rounder= finishing 4-12 with mark sanchez + ?? at qb for 2016
Did I hear right? Ryan Mathews evaluated for a head injury?
That’s what he said, but he hasn’t said much right today, so there is hope
Kempski also reporting it on twitter
Whew we desperately need to hold them to a FG here.
Who played the Coleman role?
sigh. Idiots ran into each other.
I swear that I heard yackety sax in the background.
*sigh*
Maragos a nickel safety great idea
Shouldn’t tackling be one the thing he could actually do?
Weird commercial, someone hurt?
Oh quarter… My bad
oh well
Oh fuck this .
Of course.. deflected for a TD
You don’t see that often
2 week in the row with BS touchdowns. luck is not on our side.
This is truly some cosmic shit going on right now.
Alright I’ve had enough I think.
For some reason, I still think we’re going to win today.
I hope they do, but I won’t be watching .
can’t argue with that. I may join you in a few minutes.
Guys how bad does the Sam injury look
Collarbone
That’s what it looked like to me too. Man, the karmic return for Romo has been devastating.
Where did you see that? Looked like shoulder to me.
Not official, I broke mine, that’s how you have to hold your arm
that’s exactly what I was thinking. it looked very familiar.
X-rays negative
could still have sprained the joint though
must be nice to have a reciever w hands
Jenkins froze and looked the wrong way, like a player with 0 awareness on Madden.
Jenkins should have tackled him post deflection
Is this real life? I give up…
logan looked at the ground twice while the ball in the air not sure why
making sure he wasn’t going to step on someone I think
Still found it before anyone in the secondary
Yeah left shoulder being looked at for Bradford. Not good.
If Bradford is done.
Who is our QB next year?
Chip will extend Bradford I’m sure of it.
You can’t franchise him though, not if he’s done for the year.. surely?
Don’t call me Shirley
Won’t have to. Who else is going to sign Bradford to a better deal than what we’ll offer him? We’re already pot committed giving up the 2nd and having no prospect to over take him. Hopefully we’ll get him at a big discount for a few years and he magically becomes Tom Brady.
Wow, Suh just annihilated Kelce there.
X-rays negative
no 1st team reps for sanchez? I thought our fast practices got everybody reps.
x-ray negative!!!
So wth do we do with Sam now
Release him?
Cut Austin tonight
These handoff exchanges…
Cut Austin.
Murray and Sanchez can’t get the handoff right
Illegal motion
push off?
ffs with these penalties
God JESUS WHAT THE HELL
FFS! Cooper with a TD losing formation penalty
Ok things are way more exciting with Sanchez even if he is a turnover waiting to happen
First hitch ever by CK?
ppl hating on sanchez but he’s not the problem.
sanchez is crushing them w. tempo
F—k
getting our team killed
Defenseless receiver?
Has to be a headshot
I’m not sure how that is called.
Forgot about that part of Sanchez’s game – he gets receivers killed.
How can that not be?!
So how was he not defenseless?
It was a legal hit
(2) A receiver attempting to catch a pass; or who has completed a catch and has not had time to protect himself or has not clearly become a runner. If the receiver/runner is capable of avoiding or warding off the impending contact of an opponent, he is no longer a defenseless player;
Matthews was defenseless, but the hit was clean.
I guess I misunderstand the rule. I thoght a defenseless receiver couldn’t be hit forcefully… I.e 2 hand touch rule
The guy didn’t launch or use his head.
._.
Aaaaaaand the Sanchez tax.
Matthews looks like he has broken ribs.
Glad to be wrong.
gotta catch that ball
Yes Miles Austin needs to catch that … and we wouldn’t be here
Maybe if Riley cooper could get himself set…
That too
Aw too soon…
Sanchez already has 2 TDs on this drive.
yeah, i’m not sure if can expect more than that from any qb in the league. it’s a tall order for sanchez.
IN other news TB in the red zone at the 2 minute warning down 3 to Dallas
please, please, please, please ….
Also Chicago who many people though would be a potential bottom 5 team is quietly about to get their 4th win
this game is more frustrating than week 2 vs. Dallas
I can’t believe I can’t believe this game…
I can’t believe they scored off a deflection from Barwin’s head
I don’t believe you
I can’t believe you can’t believe it either
I thought you had watched Eagles games before.
That’s why I repeated the can’t believe part. It was a thinker.
Let’s Go D
winston just blew it in the dallas game
Penalty on Dallas!
Penalty bailed him out
wow, our special teams has really regressed.
I briefly feared for Huff’s life and wished it was Cooper.
Well, that pass DID hit Murray between the numbers…
he hit him in the numbers at least
Just me or Murray hates Sanchez?
they look very disjointed
Much like Sam’s shoulder.
It aint you
I would think you both hate Sanchez…
taking my kids to the park. I’ll just pencil this in as a win.
Problrm is everyone pened it in as a blowout
TD tampa
Safety for the lead
I miss Bradford already.
not sure those issues were 100% sanchez
I don’t know I’d rather watch exciting and bad than boring and bad
And f ol es
lions might beat packers
good spot for another safety
Safety Dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs
Safety! Safety! Safety!
Come on Sproles!!!
Cowboys lose to TB
Let’s go Sanchez!
You know, I’d appreciate vocal appreciation of a Byron Maxwell play. We paid so much for him after all…
Think positive everybody: we’re only 6-7 defensive holding penalties away from the red zone…
sanchez tripping murray
Field goal range for a real kicker
I suspect they are going to be burning Foles jerseys in St Louis. Chicago has such a weak defense…
Let’s burn Sanchez jerseys too!
Sanchez keeps that and its a TD
Pull it Sanchez
run blocking is awful
Wish Sanchez would keep it just once
Gotta keep one
There is the real Sanchize
Noooooo too early for Sanchez to turn into a pumpkin
Bradford could’ve done that…
I guess he thinks Kevin Bradford plays for the Jets…
Thank you to Jones for running that out though.
Austin weak there
He gave great effort
Steve Smith, is that you?
Cut Austin. with a knife.
they are gonna run this clock out
no we get ball back kick field goal and win
That’s the game, hello 3rd place
Sanchez playing a little fruit ninja on the bench to relax.
First down and its over
Ballgame
Game
Season
easily most frustrating game of the season
offense fell apart after 1st quarter.
If you take a look at the stats for this game…yards, TOP and first downs we should be whipping the Dolphins…..again this is an 8-8 team….this is a classic example of shitting the bed…
I had hoped we’d kicked our sloppy ways from early in the year, but today was pretty ugly. Ultimately, last week, we beat a pretty bad team. It was nice to win against Dallas, but in terms of our whole season, it wasn’t much to get excited about.
Truthfully, we’re just not a very good team this year. We have moments and flashes, but we’ve been sloppy and struggled to put it together.
Missed FG, blocked P, two TD called back by penalty, give up a TD on a deflection and an end zone pick..: other than that a great game
don’t forget the many OL penalties.
and yet, if our kicker hits a 32yd FG..
He may yet miss another one
i knew that kick was going to come back to haunt us, i knew it
There’s still some oxygen…
just enough to put another bag over our head
Exactly!
I’ll bring the gasoline.
He technically isn’t over but it feels like it
Oh he is over, but I guess the game isn’t quite yer
You make fun of my typo but then have a typo -_-
CUT AUSTIN RIGHT THIS SECOND
Austin is a Cowboy double agent I swear. Same as Steve Smith years ago.
Wow.
Austin has some great awareness and hustle
Tremendous
Game
Why
BARF-O-RAMA
Why run a 6 yard route on 4th and 10
season over
genius
Perfect ending
This one hurts
Can’t wait to hear all about execution after the game.
Miles Austin is such a leader in the locker room. All the leadership we have is really paying off with crisp, mistake-free execution.
Can we execute the coach and GM now?
Now we get the trolling accounts again.
tommy is going to have a lot of work to do.
why the fuck does he run that short of the sticks?
And I had to miss the first TD series from Bridgewater for that mess.
This team effin blows.
My Vikings are killing it
Season technically isn’t over but this team is done
Chip must go.
ANNNDDDDD that’s your season. Fire Chip Kelly.
I heard the Dolphins gave the game ball to Austin but he wasn’t looking for it.
Brilliant.
Thanks, I needed that
they gave the other game ball to the sanchize
Then he threw it back to them.
nice. but for real when he wasn’t throwing crippling endzone ints he was tripping the shit out of murray all day. hell he couldn’t hand it off to anybody cleanly.
sanchez was not the problem.
he sure as hell wasn’t the solution. i don’t know what you think a problem is? i think it’s a problem that your backup qb can’t even hand the ball off or not throw a horrendous redzone int. i mean we were in fg range to take the lead.
Sure he was. Made a poor decision that resulted in a really costly INT.
Wasn’t an ideal play call but that decision to throw there was on Sanchez.
That 1st down red zone interception with less than 4 min in the game while we were down by 1 and our defense was playing well begs to differ
not his fault austin can’t catch, or look for the ball. Sammy B did didly for 3 quarters.
Can’t argue with that. In all fairness, Sanchez threw 3 TDs on that one drive. Beautiful pass to Austin who’s the only veteran WR in the league that can’t drag his feet, beautiful throw to Ertz that’s called back because Cooper can’t get lined up fast enough, and really the INT while a poor decision given the situation was a completely catchable ball if Austinmade any effort whatsoever.
Bradford I thought played well though in spite of the constant pressure. He led them to 14 points on their first two drives and should have added a FG to that as well. Then the line gave up, Kelce forgot how to snap and he got destroyed by Suh.
My theory is that – unlike Bradford – Sanchez actually thinks he might pull it and keep the ball himself, so he’s moving his feet to accommodate an actual run and is therefore getting in Murray’s way.
1 week of practice will fix. be nice to have ro open holes. you can tell there’s no option when bradford plays.
Wow…how crappy was this today,,..at least the end game did not end in a dropped pass by Matthews…OTOH…lane Johnson whiffed on Vernon….badly….8-8 baby at best….any word on Sam Bradford…
They said X-rays were negative. No timetable on return.
Cant wait to hear the excuses after this one.
That was the worst game I’ve ever watched. I’ve seen plenty of Eagles teams that just sucked because they were talentless or riddled with injuries, but I’ve never in my life seen a team so inept. So incapable of getting out of their own way. So prone to monumental mental mistakes, dropped passes, penalties, bad decisions. I’ve honestly never seen anything like it. This looks like the worst coached team in the league. And the most baffling thing is that neither of Chips two previous teams have had these problems. I’m at a complete loss.
Last year we lead the leauge in turnovers no?
Yea but that was just one position basically. Foles and Sanchez threw a ton of INT and had just as many fumbles too. But, the entire team didn’t look inept, there weren’t penalties negating every single positive play, dropped passes left and right, terrible snaps, missed FGs, blocked punts AGAINST US, big returns given up, players not looking for the ball, people not getting set right, ect. This is much worse. I’d take last years team and just change out Cary, Fletcher and Allen for our current secondary any day of the weak. This offense is PAINFUL to watch.
yea im with you
you obviously didn’t see the cowboys game, hyperbole isn’t your strong suit.
The first Cowboys game was terrible, but I truly found this game to be even less enjoyable. The offense got beat mercilessly in week 2, today we beat ourselves with a ridiculous comedy of errors. That’s just so much worse to me. Just my opinion.
we played competently for half the game today. against the cowboys we did nothing right. that first dallas game was the absolute worst regular season game i’ve watched in 15years. if it’s not #1, if def on the short list of shittiest regular season losses
Lots of roster churn. That’s all I got.
We’ve had some pretty bad Dallas games the past 2 years but this one was awful too
We’ve had bad games, we’ve had games where we could do nothing offensively, we’ve had games where the same guy beat our defense repeatedly with no answer. But I’ve never seen a team so consistently beat itself. Plays were there all day. We dropped the ball MULTIPLE TIMES, we didn’t look for the ball MULTIPLE TIMES, we caught the ball 3 yards inside the end line and couldn’t drag our feet, we scored a TD but Cooper doesn’t line up right, we throw a 1st down red zone INT with a sure fire lead sitting in our laps, we missed a 31 yard FG, we had one of our punts blocked, our center threw the ball ten yards over the QBs head, our starting QB got injured, our best RB got injured, our best WR got injured, we batted a pass up into the air and our DB was too busy looking in the stands and let the WR catch it for a TD. This was by far the most pathetic showing I’ve ever seen.
Well when you put it that way…
classic bradford, classic tebow, classic 1 possession loss. not as bad as the cowboys loss, but this one’s up there.
Sanchez threw a touchdown pass. It’s a shame Miles Austin let it sail right past him into the arms of the defender.
fuck miles austin he sucked all day. couldn’t get his foot down on an easy td catch. couldn’t catch anything else. 1 of my least favorite eagles. why the hell did we have to pick him up
why no ags?
why didn’t we throw it to ags or why did we pick up ags?
Or even on the last drive where Sanchez told him to be coming right out of the huddle and then Austin doesn’t run anywhere near the throw ball.
Austin makes you long for Cooper.
Dejection. That was the overwhelming reaction from fans leaving the game right now.
Can’t remember the last Eagles’ record season game I was at where the crowd left so flat and deflated. Not even angry with a ton of boos at the end.
Don’t worry, we’ve got a lot of leaders in the locker room. They’ll get this thing turned around.
This team is a flat out disgrace.
Great Preseason. Horrible regular season. That’s going to be my comment on wikipedia. Chip Kelly MUST be fired.
Fired after 1 bad season?
do you really think they are going to be good next year? Chip needs to go. Brilliance is not putting a horrible offensive line together with Sam Bradford as your starter and losing a 2nd rounder. These are HORRIBLE decisions. He is not good and does not belong in the NFL.
That didn’t take long.
we now have the same record as the redskins
and the Bucaneers, Bears, and Rams. 🙁
too soon allen3000
But not the same ethical record…
If Kelly thought the media has become a bit cantankerous and feisty with him the past few weeks, wait until this week.
There is almost always a point where a coach burns his bridge with the Philly media and becomes a focal point of criticism moving ahead forward largely regardless of what happens on the field.
This upcoming week is my bet when it happens for Kelly.
I can’t believe some people talked of this being a trap game. LOL. Dolphins have the same record as us (as does TB) AND beat us on our home field, so it looks like they are at worst every bit as good as us. As I said before, until this team actually plays a complete season and wins at least 1 playoff game, please never speak of winnable or trap games.
I’m being extra negative, I know. I just need to vent right now.
We stink, we need to play all the young guys the rest of the year and see what we have. Although that don’t matter with Kelly, I know Tommy has faith but my GOD. Maxwell sucks, Murray was a horrible pick up, we got nothing for Desean. I could of handled trading Files for Bradford but we gave a second round pick in this draft. 2014 draft class was terrible the possible highlights Matthews and Huff drop as many passes as they catch, no one else worth talking about including Smith. 2015 class was even worse, the only highlight Hicks is hurt again which was why he slid, injury prone. So with the talent evaluators we have it don’t matter.
This crowd didn’t even stick around to boo. Everyone just made a beeline for the exit and it was empty as fast as any game at the Linc that the crowd hung around until the end.
Heard on the radio in the car this is the 3rd game the Eagles have had a lead going into the 4th quarter this year/had a lead and lost. Not a good or a bad team. Just a mediocre one that has a lot of flaws which show up in the inconsistency on both sides of the ball.
at least we aren’t detroit
Detroit escaped… blocked a 52-yard FG which would have won it for Green Bay. Or maybe just a bad kick.
Chip Kelly does not belong in the NFL do you really think they are going to be good next year? Chip needs to go. Brilliance is not putting a horrible offensive line together with Sam Bradford as your starter and losing a 2nd rounder. These are HORRIBLE decisions. He is not good and does not belong in the NFL.
Cutting DJAx
trading McCoy for some bum named kiko alonso.
HORRIBLE DECISIONS. FIRE HIM NOW
Do like them French fried potaters?
Go away
Interested to see if Kelly throws his players or any of the coaches under the bus this week ala Staley a few weeks ago.
not so far
Of course he will. He is gutless.
436 yards – 17 pts offense
Bradford x-rays were negative but he did reportedly have a concussion.
Bradford/Sanchez is Peete/Detmer. Two marginal starting QBs who aren’t simply aren’t good enough to be even Top 20 QBs.
Felt that way all season and today didn’t change my opinion at all. If anything, Kelly has probably gotten the most he can out of either one.
what are you talking about bradford was like 16-20
16 for 20, 220some yards a TD, under constant pressure and had some really nice throws. Bradford was not the problem today.