Gameday – PHI vs NE
Posted: February 4th, 2018 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 1,249 Comments »Not too much time left. Waiting for this game has been crazy.
One surprise in the inactives.
#Eagles Inactives for #SBLII: T Beatty, WR Johnson, CB Jones, DE Means, DT Qualls, RB Smallwood, DT Vaeao
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) February 4, 2018
The Eagles go light at DT and heavy at LB. Vaeao sits out while both Dannell Ellerbe and Najee Goode will play.
I’m sure part of the thinking is that Vaeao wasn’t going to play much on defense. The team is well-rested and there is no game next week. You play your key guys as much as possible. Ellerbe and Goode can both play on defense and STs. That gives them added value.
I think Goode has played better at MLB than Ellerbe, but we’ll see what the coaches do tonight. I expect them mostly to play Nickel and Dime, but they’ll use base looks at times.
Ellerbe is better vs inside runs so maybe he has value in the Red Zone defense, when the Pats might try to run the ball.
*****
Neutral site? You be the judge.
Holy shit. pic.twitter.com/enpf61ngBl
— Jimmy Kempski (@JimmyKempski) February 4, 2018
*****
I re-watched a bunch of Eagles games on Friday night (condensed version on Gamepass). I wanted to see them vs different teams and QBs and situations. Seeing those games gave me a lot of confidence. This team didn’t get hot late in the year. They’ve been outstanding since the spring. This team is consistently good.
New England will be the toughest challenge of the season, but didn’t we just say that about the Vikings two weeks ago?
The Eagles can win this game.
The Eagles will win this game.
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Here we go boys. Been a loooong 2 weeks, and a long season. We’re finally here. See you on the other side!
In a sports bar, surrounded by pats fans… Help me
oh gawd why!
Out of town for my sister’s wedding. Someone recommended this place
I’d have a talk with them
SF?
Ya
Goodness, they’re obnoxious
Should have gone to the Kezar pub. It’s a philly bar. They actually have a few dudes who bring a bleacher fromFranklin field to the game every week. Plop it on some tables. And the. Watch it from there in all there glory. It’s awesome.
That said…I would have loved to host you at my place in Berkeley.
GO EAGLES!!!!
May the Foles be with you!!
is it me or is this the most uh ‘murica openning in a long time?
The anthem was under 2 mins
Go Birds
Wasn’t there an over-under of like 2.5 on how many times Michaels and Collinsworth would use the word “dynasty” during the telecast? I think they’ve already gone over and the ball hasn’t even been kicked off yet.
Here we go…
aaAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
Get Ags hot early lets goooooooo
Okay good start.. Foles doesn’t look like tight at all.
Alshon wide open!
Covered by the one and only Eric Rowe
Huge
Are clotheslines tackles like that legal?
Torrey big first!
Tory fucking Smith
Smith
Smith has great hands!
Kelce blocked two guys on that play.
Helmet catch!
Damn, they about to target Rowe all night.
wouldn’t have it any other way
Nick is so calm so far.
Oof would have been another first down if they didn’t get the shoe laces
Corey
Yeah baby! inside 5!
Pound it
Doug is who I wanted CK to be – play calling is fire right now
Put it in!
Dammit Zach.
Dammit Ertz!
Ugh
Alshon all day. Call it.
Thought they had it there shit.
Fuck
Wooo Elliot didn’t miss it. I wasn’t going to say it before he kicked it
Now 3 and out
Almost 7 min off the clock
Good start.. TD would have been better
A couple of hits on Brady to start off would be nice
That false start hurt so much. Goddamnit.
JP to Ertz: no more penalties
Looks like Alshon mistimed it a bit and couldn’t gather himself for a leap.
Wanted to come away with 7 but it was a long, clock-grinding, efficient drive that resulted in points. There are much worse ways to start a game.
Ertz would be the target of my wrath if I wasn’t too nervous to be angry.
He had one hand to catch for some reason, not sure what happened there
Ertz will have to make up for those lost 4 points by getting us 6 the the next drive
That’s the mentality of this team
Blount got tackled way too easily on that arm tackle by Van Noy. Ridiculous that a power running would go down like that. I want Ajayi and Clement.
Hard to power through a choke hold though
He was running high, definitely wasn’t expecting contact there. Lesson there is always run low
He did get clotheslined across the throat.
He’s a 250 lb bowling ball, there’s no way one arm should be able to stop him in his tracks like that.
Try taking a blow in the Adam’s Apple when you’re running full speed. Doesn’t matter how big you are, that’s going to put you down.
Actually, Van Noy took down Ajayi with basically an arm tackle as well.
Pad level wasn’t there for Blount. Also that tackle was BS.
On the board, Nick looks good and calm, o-line somewhat dominating, at times at least. Decent start
Hold onto your butts, Eagles D has looked shakey on these opening drives.
Lego movie – Nice!
Flipping ads.
7 would’ve been great, obviously. But, that was a nice calm methodical drive including several 3rd down conversions. Good showing from the offense to start the game and make Brady wait.
Knock the crap out of TB12 please
Not too tight. Rookie Clement looks ready to play.
Jenkins is getting old.
Two screens on the first three plays and tempo.. they’re definitely going to try the “tire out our DL” strategy.
Pats are blocking before the pass is completed. that’s fucking illegal.
I hate Jenkins on either white or lewis. He doesn’t have the speed or agility to stick with them. Fucking get it together Schwartz
What was that?
Oh goodness wtf
Okay, looks like Schwartz’s defense is going to give the obligatory early easy score.
Guys running wide open. I wish we would play man.
Brady is being given entirely too much time to throw. You play man against that and it’s a good recipe for a TD.
Gotta get some pressure…
3rd and 4.
Huge here
Hold em to 3 at least
Yes! gg
Nice stop
Mills!!
shut up collinsworth.
I’ve said that at least 6 times already. And I don’t usually mind him.
Acting like Mills didn’t make a good play.
MILLS!!
Ok
The stage isn’t too big for Mills, but it worries me that we actually schemed to have Jenkins cover white. That’s a terrible matchup, we’re just opting into exactly what they want to do.
They have a million small quick dudes
And Jenkins should never be the one on them. Gronk every time for Jenkins.
It’s not that easy.
I’ll take your word for it, but I don’t like it.
Who do you want on him?
Anyone but Jenkins is a better matchup. I’d even take Mcleod.
Ummmm, no. Have you watched McLeod in man coverage this season?
ahahhahahahaa no
No McLeod is usually high . no pun intended.
Then you’re going to have to draft a new safety. Watkins can run with the faster guys.
I don’t know that it’s what we schemed so much as that the Patriots came out in a formation that forced us into that coverage. The other guys get paid too.
I hate Dilly Dilly
Welp, survived that first drive, time to do what we’ve been doing and shut them out from here on out!
I was so worried about a fumble lol
Damn Ags so tough
BLOUNT FORCE TRAUMA
Nice run
Go boy
Blount, great blocking!
Gotta truck that safety next time though
wow! aj! nick!
FUCK YEAH!!!
Dear Eric Rowe: you still suck.
DOUGIE IS ON FIRE
yo fuck i hate them. like wow are u really the goat if u throw 5 times in the flat on 5 throws. throwing slants n shit. fuck em
DEATH ROWE LMAO
OH SHIT
Fuck yeah!!!!!
FUCK YOU ROWE GO JEFFREY YOU’RE WORTH EVERY CENT.
Wooooooooo! Keep it up guys!
Yeasss what Jake?
Gonna be points scored tonight. dammit elliott!
Jake Elliott fucking hell.
Fuck yea
I think they need to review that extra point.
Thats a killer
ELLIOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT YOU AND THE EXTRA POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, F U Elliot!
WTF Jake
Sad, our whole game plan is abusing our former pick like this.
just means we go for two every time!!!
yea no big deal
JP we need you to get Elliot straightened out again
Oh man
I petition to the league to move the extra point back up, we need it for Elliot.
We’ll get it back!
Brush it off. Defense’s turn to make a play.
I thought kicks were good if they went over the top of the post?
The need to review it. Can they challenge it?
as if they would be that fair.
Funking hell Jake. He needs a ten yard penalty to make it easier for him
but …. are we just not going to talk about JEFFERYYYY !!!!
Elliot’s just setting up Big Balls Doug to go for 2 later.
Who needs extra points anyways
exactly
I need them.
They’re “extra” for a reason
Blount and Alshon are huge early in the game.
You guys know Jake gets better as the game goes on…… Haha.
Go EAGLES!
Are we sure we want to hand Elliott the kicking job next season? It’s great that he has a strong leg and can hit from 55+ but a kicker who habitually shanks extra points and short field goals is a real weakness.
Seriously, I love Elliott to death but come on man.
IMO a competition between him and Sturgis
Sturgis makes me nervous on FGs though. Elliott will have to prove himself though.
That should be easier to work on. How are the snaps too? I always seem to miss them.
Next season is a long way away. I only care about this season.
Underdogs came to play again!
Ok, lets not let Brady make us looks silly with all that shallow crossing crap, they can’t run, they can’t hold onto the ball, flood that shallow crap
That first drive of the game is always just for our final scouting report.
We be OK. Go Eagles!
Shut them down this time
Damn. On my 2nd IPA already.
I’m 2 ahead of you!
get guys to false start on extra points intentionally to move it back?
Belichik is probably smart enough to decline the penalty.
then maybe getting 2 shots at it will help Jake? win/win
That was a duck.
Crap
How?
Who the fuck blew that coverage?!?!?
Darby probably .
How the Fuck
WTF PROB
What is happening with our pass coverage.
Patriots
Patriots are good.
No fuck that, we blew the coverage the Pats didn’t do shit.
Unlike most QBs – Brady knows when we blow a coverage
You mean like when Foles hit a wide open Alshon deep 2 weeks ago? My god what mystical powers Brady has.
They’re good but in the NFL nobody gets as open as Amendola was on that 3rd down unless the defense screws up.
That was fucking bullshit, the pass rush was closing in and we bail them out like that. Goddamn the defense is letting us down bigtime early.
But the rest of the WRs have been that wide open too..?
Patriots make defenses do dumb things. They always have.
There’s no excuse for letting a guy get that wide open in the NFL. Period.
Not how it always works against Brady & CO. They get a lot of blown coverages, always have.
Gotta get to Brady fast too.
Looks like we’re going to need to outscore them. I hope Doug has a lot of tricks in his bag.
the hell guys!
and btw, ok yea bill bel u might have been born int he football cooking pot but big balls doug too. ,behind brett favre , played for holmgren, reid, schula, Frank Reich behind jim kelly etc. we got this
F — KING ERTZ!!!!!!!
And Elliot and Darby. Big mistakes early.
Hope Dougie walks up to Schwartz and tells him to get his shit together.
Seriously, the Pats can move he ball well enough without us just fucking up.
Is their OL THAT good??? I know Brady is getting rid of it quick, but c’mon, we haven’t had a lick of pressure yet.
Can’t play run and gun with these guys
Hell Yeah!!!!!
LOL
Man, I’m late, late late. So I missed the first quarter!
I’ll have you all know, I predicted that the Eagles would be in the SuperBowl early this season!
woo hoo!
What was that about the defense?
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Dont see that often from NE
Okay… both teams with a ST screwup that leaves points on the field. That makes me feel better about Elliott’s miss.
Elliot misses extra point – Gostowski: “Hole my beer”
YESSSS FUCKING YEAH
Huge huge
letssss gooooooooooo
So, the Patriots make mistakes??!!!! Holy shit!!!
Will Belichick put the force chokehold on the holder?
You have failed me for the last time, holder Allen.
14-3 Eagles!!!
I mean . . . 9-3
UGH
I’ll take outscoring the Pats by 6pts a quarter for the rest of the game please
Looks like the Patriots are going to melt down… What the Patriots has to do is to score points and make Foles have to be a real QB.
hah, if he was doug he’d have gone for it
Just move the chains
THAT’S PASS INTERFERENCE
McLeod made a man’s play on the goal line!
damn it.
NBC . . . where’s the replays???
Like what I’m seeing from Foles on that series – good movement in the pocket
Don’t love the three and out but it definitely looks like “good Foles” has showed up.
Great movement in the pocket even if he didn’t get the 1st. I question if he could have run for it, he’s one of the slowest QBs in the league.
yeah, he saw ertz hands free, room to catch it. running would have been difficult
He might’ve been able to run for it on that particular play, but in general he’s going to have better luck converting by throwing so I’m not going to complain.
First time all post-season where the difference between Foles and Wentz jumped off the screen
Yeah wentz prolly runs that for 15 to 20.
tru
Looked like that really could’ve been a PI flag, but if they call it consistently throughout the game, let them play.
If.
Yes, if.
Im fine with it if we dont start getting ticky tack dumb calls on us
Lets go defense. Time for a 3 and out.
More horrific pass coverage. Ugh.
Darby again.
Darby please
Thats the 3rd duck of the game from Brady. WTF
He doesn’t have the arm strength he used to. That he’s able to mostly compensate is a testament to his greatness, but he’s definitely past his physical peak.
Darby getting burned all over the place
f uck u collinsworth u trash ass no helmet on this
Wow what a hit
Welp.
I hope Cooks is okay, but if he can’t return to the game I won’t complain about not having to worry about him.
Jenkins asserting the physicality. How do I say that I like that he laid the wood and Cooks might be out without seeming insensitive to the concussion? I’m not sure it’s possible.
That was Sheldon brown esque hit
welp, cooks is out for the game if Doctors exist
Darby better get it together.
Ouch .. sleepy time. .
..
KEEP THAT PASSION TRAIN ROLLIN BIRDS! !
Darby is not making me excited for the eagles to give him big money.
he was in no way defensless, dude was mashing the spin button, you don’y know what you’re going to hit when a receiver starts spazing out like that
It was a brutal hit but not a foul.
dammit jenkins!
FU TB!!!
That should hurt Pats if Cooks is out.
terrible pass!
If only he fit laid out
GREEN GOBLIN!!!!
yes field position!
LOL… if you want to run trick passing plays with Tom Brady as the intended receiver I’ll take it. It’s a free chance to knock his block off.
Yeah, It’s a shame Chris Long didn’t realize he was leaking down the field instead of going for the double pass, might have been able to get a big shot on Brady.
That was big
MILLS! MY BOY! FUCK YEAH!
Pats are in desperate mode!
Brady is clearly not the GOAT at wide receiver
So if they’re at this level of trickery in quarter 2…
lol, could you imagine any other coach calling that play, and how ridiculed it would be
But, but, but…it’s BELACHEAT
did al michaels say 1:53 to half?
MILLS
It’s WAAAAY early, but the Patriots have been uncharacteristically mistake-prone so far. This team is beatable.
I wonder if that was intended to be the double pass back to Brady, and he leaked downfield in improvisation because Long sniffed it out.
That, or they built the play off of the double pass anticipating that Long would react that way.
Points here
or else
Take the giant hole next time Jay Train
bad read by Ajayi there.
C’mon. We need a 1st down here. Give the D some rest.
Yes ertz!
Huge first!
Fuck ya
Okay, Foles’ first bad throw of the night.
C’mon nick. Keep it together
Air mail
Julie Ertz looks petrified!
just like the rest of us
Oh damn what a duck
That was an intentional touch pass.
AJ!
Nice fucking pass
Fuck yeah!
Wow throw & catch!
Alshon came to play tonight.
yes he did
Beautiful catch and throw
TD!
Hell yeah!
OH yeah Blount!!!!!
Blount Super Bowl MVP???????
Blunt
Make the fucking kick ELLIOT
YYEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Woooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
WHAT NO!! GO FOR 1
What blocking & read by Blount!
fuck i hate collinsworth, and its apparatn al micheals does too
Don’t know about going for two here.. just put the point on the board.
To be fair that looked PI.
Fine, but an uncalled penalty is one of the risks you run there.
I don’t like the idea of chasing a point you lost and losing another as a result.
Too early to chase points
Game is almost over already.
Come on man. Are you TRYING to jinx them?
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Rowe yapping.
Ok Dougie, this is Belichick you’re up against. Just take the points 🙁
BLOUNT!
Balls out. Just roll with it. Don’t let off the gas ever Doug.
Yeah it seems to work with this team even if they don’t get points.
I like the aggression, don’t change for anything. That being said I would have taken the points. lol.
So Dougie found the great mismatch that is AJ vs. their secondary. Keep attacking!!!
Defense tighten up and we’re good.
The Patriots will adjust. They always do.
The question is, how does Doug counterpunch.
AJ is killing it!
I want more blood
missing a lot of potential points, but so are the Pats. Keep on it, defense keep on it. Lots of good hits last drive.
shit!
Jesus, our defense sucks.
Yeah except when it really counts so far. It’s kinda how we’ve played.
Thats a killer momentum wise man
Why isn’t that intentional grounding?
Because Brady
Hit his ass
great recovery D
Fuck you Brady
One thing I hate about Brady (and all star players, to be fair) is how they get valorized for playing through routine injuries.
A cut on your hand that requires 12 stitches is not a season-ending injury. Even Belichick said “it’s not open heart surgery”. Give me a break with the “my season is over” drama.
God giving up a screen like that kills you but credit to the defense for recovering.
Cooks out! That will be the narrative why we won.
easy there, dude was knocked out, that’s an automatic
I will still take outscoring the Pats by 6 per quarter for the rest of the game. Please.
My cat has decided to sit on my lap which will cause problems if I leap up in excitement following a big play…
No offense but Fuck your cat
(Just in this instance) I’m sure it’s a lovely feline
She is. Usually I’m happy to have her there but not today.
Raise the cat! oh wrong team!
2 point conversion was poor choice IMO.
Its early for that. Take the point.
What’s up with these creepy cgi models?
Goddamnit Ertz
Ertz man….
Fucking Ertz
Ertz needs to relax
Cats always land on their feet.
Setting the edge is a fundamental part of any good defense, not just Bill Belichick’s.
Wrong. Belichik invented setting the edge and is the only one who does that.
NE outside run defense has been quite good. We need to keep pounding up the middle.
Wears them out and keeps them honest though, at least
ajayi beast run!
J train
AJAYI!!!! Do NOT throw that ball after a run!!
Jay Train!!!!!!!!!
damn
Jesus, something bad was bound to happen.
Fuck
Shit
Fuuuuuuuuccccckkkkkk
Only the Eagles man
Damn
FUCK FUCK FUCK
Ahhhh that’s unlucky lol.
At least they have terrible field position.
S’ok. Our defense is going to step up here.
Safety
D gotta step up and pin them.
We know it ain’t gonna be easy
shit, these bizarre fing plays always happen when the Pats are in the superbowl
Yeah.. we gotta stay aggressive though. Fluke plays happen. That easily could’ve been a TD.
yeah, Foles…
Wut? That wasn’t Foles’ fault. You spiking your haterade with Everclear now?
too much air, needed to be deeper. It wasn’t a particularly bad pass, though.
I agree it wasn’t perfect, but it was catchable, and you can’t count on your WR bobbling it and popping it up into the air like that.
being hard on Foles.
Need the stop here cant let Brady put togethere a drive to close the half
im confident we going to wint his game, all pats have is trickery, they lost their speedster. we ll get this
We can win the game. The Patriots aren’t dead until they’re losing with zeroes on the clock though.
So far only AJ can stop AJ
STOP!
replay? HELLO NBC
Oh come on, bullshit penalty.
Here comes the bullshit
Here comes the ticky tack crap
B.s.
There’s your bullshit phantom call
now they start throwing flags
wow
Sack here. We’ve been tooclose
Bet you theres another BS penalty on this drive
Patriots really don’t have the talent to play against the Eagles. Needs lots of luck.
Brady is good, tho’
OH MY GOD, TERRIBLE DEFENSE.
leave and never return scum
hmmm?
SHIT
Man, our secondary did NOT come to play today.
All these long plays…you gotta get to him too.
We’ve gotten some decent pressure on some plays, but there has been blown coverage after blown coverage. Brady is on track to pass for 500 yards.
Just whay I feared.
oh ffs
Tols yall
Okay defense, that was fucking pathetic.
You gotta wrap up
Yep
Exactly why I was hoping Sidney could contribute!
90 yard drive ffs
McCleoud – that was pathetic
OK
Three missed tackles on that play.
If we’re going to lose an assistant coach this offseason, can it be Schwartz please?
We gotta score here.
There was nothing on the hold. he just missed.
Damn, these are closely matched teams.
Both offenses are good, neither defense can play worth a damn.
17-12 or 16-12 would be a lot nicer. But could be worse given how terrible our defense has been.
Need some points to close half
shiiit, unreal turn of events. Whacky pick, phantom holding call. Give these guys some IV’s and a nap during half time, they need to come back awake though.
Shit like this happens. It happens to the Patriots too (Helmet catch, Kearse reception, etc.). Championship teams overcome it.
Our defense is letting us down this game.
This D needs to wake up!!
Lay the fucking kicker out
It looked like Gostkowski put an elbow up high on him, they won’t talk about it as a penalty but I’m pretty sure an elbow to the head is unnecessary roughness.
Kicker doesnt want to get left in minny
Hope you lot have your favorite CPR team on speed dial.
at least that turn of events didn’t happen in the 4th quarter. Christ this is getting tense
no point, apparently she’s working in Las Vegas under the name ‘Mystique’
I’m two beers and an old fashioned in. Keep it flowing
I’m so disappointed with the defense. It feels like we’re giving them more than they’re taking from us. I mean how many people missed the tackle on that run?
And the 4 ridiculous blown coverages from Darby and Mills
Darby and Mills have both mostly sucked in this game.
need to turn “they can’t run on us” back to remembering what it took to not let teams run on us. Get in there and tackle!
This is a huge drive. We need to put up points without letting the Pats get the ball back for a score.
Yup
North-south Ertz! C’mon
Fucking Torrey Smith.
We need this 1st down
Ummm, completion and a fumble? What the fuck?
Fuck torrey
GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s the wheel route!
Clement beasting!
CLEMENT!!!
I LOVE CLEMENT
Now finish the damn job!!!
Christ Clement!
WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Clement again!
Like the clock management here. Run on first down, run the clock down, don’t give them a possession (or at least force them to use their timeouts).
omg Clement
UP
THE
MIDDLE!!
OH SHIT
for the sake of my heart, don’t say that if it’s something good!
This is the exact situation (reversed) in which Reid did not take a TO 13 years ago
They must have a TD here, go for it on 4th – ATTACK!!
true
4 down territory here?
just pound it now 4 down territory
Lol
Oh come on, WHERE’S THE FUCKING FLAG?
how is that not PI???????????????????
Too much of same fade play to AJ.
Fuck Steratore
I think Collingsworth has money on the Pats
These refs, I swear….
What would big balls Doug do?
Yeah. Go for it!!!
PI!!!
only the other team gets those lol
That was PI but they’re really letting them play. Except when Mills held of course.
Exactly
I’m gonna go on record here and say I like the decision to go for it.
same
me too
Me too. After the fact
Our QB can catch!!!!!!
Refs blow, we knew Steratore was a bitch.
Ok
I love Doug!!!
HOLY SHIT
coolio!
WOW
Balls!! Love it
AHAHAHAHA we saw them do it and copied!!!!
Unbelievable!
DOUG HAS THE BIGGEST BALLS I HAVE EVER SEEN.
Big balls. Doug.
Tom Brady: “We’re gonna run a trick play where I go out on a pass route and they’re not expecting it and I’m wide open and OH SHIT I DROPPED IT.”
Nick Foles: “Let me show you how it’s done old man.”
You’re winning post of the day with this one.
UN-FUCKING-REAL!!!
And Foles catches HIS ball!
Foles reception TD, who had that predicted ?
omg
Mike Trout and Bradley Cooper lol awesome
Loud Eagles chant in the stadium, nice
Hahahahaha!!!! Doug said “I like that play you ran earlier so I’ll one up you.” And Nickpolean had to show Brady how it’s done.
The balls on this guy
I can’t stop laughing, that was incredible!
D.u.g.
We gotta pick one of these
The first pass breakup our defense records tonight is on our own defender.
Graham just took Mills and the pick out
Uhg, no more prevent though, I don’t like it!
Agree all it does is preventing winning
quick let them have 30 yards at a time!
Jeeeedzus, how is that not holding????!
doug ”ballz” pederson
Nicky had nice form on the reception too. Better than Tom’s!
Haha. Go EAGLES!
Hands team deep.
hail mary coming, no penalties!!
dumb run by old man brady lol.
Put Alshon in
He might tip it back in play though…
god he’s slow
lmao
I was hoping they’d hold him up and strip sack him
Brady vs. Foles. 50 yard dash. Who wins?
the tortoise?
NICK IN A RUNAWAY!
We may not have video resolution slow enough to capture that
Giraffes have decent top end speed if they can ramp up.
The heat death of the universe occurs before we find out.
Nick has some functional mobility, he just has the grace of a Giraffe, Foles wins handily
I might take Wentz on crutches over Brady
Wow. Just Wow.
Longest halftime ever now.
Made worse by Justin Timberlake.
It’s going to be very interesting what sort of adjustments happen. Belichik is really good at second halfs…
Yup, the cheating tapes will be delivered and the refs paid off as usual
Indeed. This game is not remotely over.
The thing that gives me is confidence is that I don’t think Doug is intimidated and I don’t think he’s going to let his foot off the gas. You can bet at halftime he’ll be reminding the Eagles of what happened to the Falcons last year and how they came out flat in the second half of the split practice this past week.
Our D has played badly, we’ve turned the ball over and dropped picks, and we’re still up 10 at half time.
That is my fear. Cannot make mistakes vs the Pats and keep them in the game. Must place foot on neck and snap hard
Time for eternity. To quote Lewis Black “Because when I think football, I think n’sync”
We gotta pick a couple of Brady’s lollies!
It’s just football, boys. Eagles up 22-12 at the half. Great game so far!
Was that a gutsy red zone call by Doug or what? OMG!
Epic all time forever
Is it just me, but does it look like Brady’s hand is not 100%?
Some of his passes don’t look that good and they didn’t even try a Hail Mary at the end there.
Hand is fine. Pressure is good.
And coverage is taking away his guy
Maybe wishful thinking, but they said he did have to “glue his hand” this week (I assume with that nasty NewSkin stuff).
If we manage to hold on and win this game, you can bet that would be the excuse we hear from the Pats fans, along with the Cooks injury.
If we manage to hold on.
He’s getting old and his arm is going too.
We gotta catch one of those ducks soooooloon
Yoooo Yooooo
Eagles adjustments?
all defense. And run more, they ain’t tackling
each back has busted a big one today. Liked that dougy gave Clement a couple shots to get it in
chewed up their timeouts too
We’ve got to get our run game tuned up and churn clock
Can’t turtle and just run the ball – the Patriots are too good for that, as Jacksonville learned.
However, I think we’re well set up to hit them with the RPO now. They have to respect the threat of the run so there will be opportunities in the passing game.
If we run it effectively and keep moving the chains, that will open everything else up and they will have no answer. Turtling imo would be throwing and going 3 and out routinely. That gives Brady chances to pick us apart.
Turtling = playing conservatively.
That’s what Jacksonville did. They ran the ball into eight man fronts repeatedly, went three-and-out, and lost.
If there are opportunities in the passing game there, we have to attack them.
Play to win the game. Don’t play not to lose.
Agreed, that why we need to do it effectively and keep moving the chains. Obviously we mix in the pass and stay aggressive, but the Pats weakness is vs the run. If they overpay to stop our run, then make them pay over the top again.
Travel back in time and somehow get the 85 Bears D to replace our players right now.
Defense: Tell the defensive backs to start covering somebody.
Offense: stop with the Alshon iso stuff – they’ve already adjusted to that by flipping Gilmore onto him. Call some plays that take advantage of the opportunities that opens up.
throw it to whoever is covering rowe
The Gronk stuff is working. Maybe some personnel on the D line. Maybe put BG and Cox inside, Long and Barnett outside, get even more pass rush.
gotta make sure we clamp down on their run game. They aren’t a good running team, and they’re having way too much success
Turn it up a notch and make Brady cry!!!
My own thought is we need an LB to watch more carefully for those screens. We’re getting gashed because their OL is getting out well. Need the DL to bullrush more and slow them down and not let the RBs sneak out.
Our tV just blacked out .. that was 5M wasted air time
happened to me about 10 mins ago, weird
Holy crap. New York area just had a local commercial for a car insurance company that said “If you cheat on your auto insurance you can get arrested; If you cheat at football you can sleep with a super model.”
Best commercial ever!
This halftime show is lame. Justin Timberlake is lame. Who’s idea was this.
I hated the Doug hiring when it happened.
I thought he was over his head after last year.
I was wrong.
He is a beast.
If we lose this game it won’t be because of Doug that’s for fucking sure.
Agreed. I’m more confident than ever that we will win a Super Bowl with Doug, even if we somehow lose this game.
Doug has a great touch with players, he is smart, he is creative, he is adaptable, and he is absolutely fucking fearless.
The guy is a great coach.
Clement has really turned himself into an overall back that does it all. Anxious to see if he can maintain this level with more touches in the future.
This halftime show is so much worse than Bruno Mars last year. Were we really craving a medley of Justin Timberlake songs? lol.
This is the part that scares me. Belichek with 30 minutes to make adjustments and an eagles team not used to the extended hslftime.
pederson gets 30 minutes as well. and it is a 10 point lead but feels like it has been back and forth, close game, so i doubt the team is in there congratulating themselves. kinda the best situation to be in. they are going to come out aggressive.
Yeah, pederson won’t sit back. I just worry about a momentum shift. I mean, crap, I worry about everything at this point. Getting so tantalizingly close.
This halftime show is worse than I thought it would be.
Yup
They don’t even have any cool special effects like some shows have. Like when Katy Perry did that rotating wall thing. If you’re not going to do good music at least do good visuals.
I actually kind of liked the dancing sharks…
Bring back Left Shark!
You would be an instant meme sensation if you brought back left shark, I can’t believe someone hasn’t capitalized on it.
Free hot dogs where I’m at. I have one in each ear. Works fine. 🙂
Waiting for the wardrobe malfunction,
If you wanted to attract the hipster crowd then you could have done a lot better than Justin Timberlake.
Major props to Timberlake, he brought Minneapolis’ homeless population onto the stage to dance with him!
Dayummmmm
The worst part of this halftime, a 30 minute break from a banger of game, that was an incredible half, and now this…
my heart needed a break. seriously running out of breath, scared for my health, i at least need a long halftime right now.
Timberlake is no longer a thing if he was a thing. I mean besides being filthy rich….
They may as well have brought the Backstreet Boys out of retirement.
Respect for having real musicians on stage.
Yeah but Timberlake with a big band backing? This is the most half-assed show I’ve seen in a while.
What’s that thing called he’s wearing? A dumpster suit?
What the thing that makes it look like he’s about to rob a train in the 1800’s?
Exactly. gonna start a trend…
I just asked my wife, the fashionista, the same thing.
Her response: That’s an ugly pattern.
Trying to channel Marvin Gaye
Good luck
Hopefully his musical guest is the Lonely Island, only Dick in a Box can save this
Well the prop bet on whether Timberlake would play a Prince song hit.
I feel like the eagles need 10 more points at least.
I’d be comfortable around 40-43 points total.
Haha, no amount will give me comfort, but if feel like 32 or more gives us a shot to win
I’m serious. 10 isn’t enough unless we have some 12 play, 8 minute drives.
Each quarter
Do we have a “Tommy Take” on the game thus far here anywhere?
Tommy is probably double fisting PBRs while muttering to himself pacing in circles.
My first thought is picturing Animal House when Blutarksy crushes that beer can on his forehead
Just checked. Not yet
Wow I wish this was Prince instead of Justin. Sorry…
Timberlake is a talented entertainer. Just tough to figure out what he’s singing about.
I think he’s trying to tell us that Chicks dig him and he’s got lots of ’em.
Is that it?
It’s R&B.
I.e. every song is “girl you’re so beautiful, I want to make love to you”, the occasional social protest anthem excepted.
They call it “baby makin’ music” for a reason.
Needs more Quiet Storm.
His voice is unintelligible. Except for the kiddie trolls song!
Maybe if Chicks could understand him, they wouldn’t dig him as much…!
That’s why I think.
“I’m rich and chicks dig me! Yeah!”
(Haha.)
What was the score at halftime in 2005?
I think it was 7-7 or 10-7 us
7-7
I understand the hate for this show, but this is my first real exposure to J Tim (or whatever). The music is nothing but he’s a talented guy. Singing and dancing just as good as he walks.
He is a good entertainer.
I must admit I got light-headed for a second after Foles caught that TD pass and almost keeled over.
The only proper word for that contains all caps. EPIC
I couldn’t even process it was Nick until afterward. I was like who dat, my eyes were all over the place.
I think I discovered my primal scream when that happened.
I almost puked from nerves.
If we win, big if but, that play needs a name. It will go down with 4th & 26 and every other great play we know.
Name it.
Well at least the long halftime gives me a chance to calm down. My knees were shaking when I got up off the couch.
figure out how to cut down on giving up the long plays and they got this.
.
..30 mins away
Gonna be the longest 30 minutes of football of our lives, either way it goes.
well hopefully we score every drive and bury Tom so we can have fun with it.
I’ve been an Eagles fan for 30 years. I won’t believe we’re going to win the Super Bowl until the game is over. Even then I’ll probably wait 30 minutes or so to make sure I’m not dreaming.
Lets go boys. Long way to go. Lets bring it home.
Guys, I might not survive this. If my head spontaneously explodes from stress it’s been lovely rooting with you.
Want a turnover, just hit Brady as he releases a lollipop.
whoa Kelly Clarkson got fat
I was thinking the same thing.
“New England gets the ball to start the second half, Enjoy…more commercials”
Hope we’re changing defensive signals this half.
didnt thought about that but ur right….
I thought he sang “nothing like shitting on a country porch” in that The Voice commercial
Now comes the hard part.
Word. Hardest 30 minutes of football right here.
We all we got. We all we need.
Alright defense, remember your pride, remember what got you here!
Brady miss.
Man Brady has been erratic tonight. Gronk was wide open.
and after that, Gronkowski all the way. An actual jinx in the wild!
ugh. gonna have to be a shootout.
Even when he’s completing throws, they’re lollipops. He just has such great touch and timing he can still get them in there.
Our DBs are not prepared for anything
They have been atrocious tonight, for real.
seriously, 2 plays in a row we don’t have a defender within 5 yards of Gronk?
Progress? They weren’t in the same area code last half.
Not the defensive sequence I was hoping for
Our DEs are being consistently ridden wide and long. Need an inside move.
Yea, two straight plays where they let the DE ride outside. Tom Brady just stepped up. He’s weaker with pressure up the middle.
C’mon schwartz
You had to know Gronk was coming ugh.
Damnit defense
We gotta outscore them.
Probably will need a turnover to win, I’m guessing
Yep, if we’re going to win this game, it will be our offense that does it. The defense is useless.
We knew it was not going to be easy.
Gotta do something to slow down Gronkowski though.
Who do you even have to double besides Gronk with Cooks out? Fuck you Schwartz
Pathetic D……….way too much time for Brady to sit back there. Schwartz is going to have to go after him at some point
Pass rush is not getting it done. We’re getting there but only after 2.5 or 3 seconds.
Also, maybe double Gronk? Corey Graham got made a bitch that drive.
too many weapons
Only 1 weapon that’s actually a problem at this point.
Not really. Cooks is out, and that drive was all Gronkowski with the exception of a few handsoffs that didn’t go anywhere.
A well time blitz that gets home might be key
Thant was really a pathetic display. You had to know they were gonna come out and go to Gronk
Everyone knows it but they still do it to everyone practically.
Or our offense can score every possession
Well, this could be the superbowl if we don’t handle gronk in a hurry.
Lets go offense, they can’t catch you if you keep scoring TD’s
It’s one thing to get beat on D, but that was a dreadful effort. We didn’t make them work for it at all.
I’d like the D to take some chances to get some hits on Brady. What they’re doing isn’t really working.
bad time for the D to have it’s worst game of the year
Brady tbh
Brady when pressured regularly wilts just like any other QB. Eagles so far have given him way too much time to operate. He could have read a paper each play before throwing on that drive
Not at all. What’s Brady going to do if we blitz him, complete even more 25+ yard passes?
Exactly
The front 4 must win the LOS and pressure Brady sooner. This is where they earn their legend
stupid penalty.
I’d rather him take the knee in the EZ.
the good this is, we got doug p calling plays and nick
5 to 1 penalties
Ags drop.
drops ffs
These dropped passes are killing me.
Offense must execute – nice Nelson!!
Ags makes up for it!
Ags with the redemption first down
A lot of missed tackles by both teams tonight
Nice Blount!!
Let’s plow these muthafuckaz down!
I think the guys who said they wanted Blount benched owe him an apology. He has balled out tonight.
Keep pounding them, ughhhh they cannot stop us
Nice run Jay!
Oh get up Chung you fake
Eagles O’ line blew the Patriots’ front five yards off the ball on that play. Fantastic blocking.
Brady has 344 yards passing. Gotta keep scoring TDs.
Need Ertz to step up. Answer Gronk.
Wiz out, fuck
chung out
Oh no, not Isaac Seumalo in the game…
Oh god not Wiz
cmon Wiz! he’s hurt. seumalo in.
Nice Ertz!
Great play call. Great execution.
Coach of the Pistons? Is Patricia switching sports?
lol
Bet he’d win more games coaching the Pistons.
Big 3rd down here!
I LOVE CLEMENT!!!!!!
What a fucking throw!! wow TD
Big. Dick. Nick.
COREY CLEMENT FOR MVP
Clement beast but Foles laser.
What…
a…
throw!
the balls
Corey Clement triple covered
If this is not a catch I am fucking done with the NFL. He caught the damn ball.
That is a fucking catch…OMFG if they over turn this
If they overturn Im gonna lose it
He had it well before the oob touch. He caught it and took a step.
Story of this game for the Pats is just how bad their pass rush is.
Or how bad ours is.
Yeah, after that TD, yeeeeeeeaaaaahhh.
God if they overturn this… God the catch rule… Jesus.
This is the fucking shit that has gone New England’s way all year.
Guys I think this is coming back
I didn’t think Clement lost control of the ball but who knows. Anything can happen with the catch rule. It was called a TD on the field.
If this is overturned and this game is decided on the catch rule the NFL will deserve all the heat they get for it.
Can’t overturn
I swear if this gets overturned
they will bro they will.
First step was fine. Depends on whether they consider it control at that point.
Pats always get these close ones
how can you overturn 2 and 2/3 feet in when you need just two?
I dont see how you can overturn that. Zero chance they would if it was the Pats.
YES!
Yeah!!!!!!
Yessssssssssss
My heart cannot take this lol
Same
OMG
He never lost control of that ball.
that was clearly a td dumbasses.
I think it’s a TD. It stands.
Big V is fired up!
Thank goodness
I didn’t see him ever lose control, so I dunno. Who knows.
Caught it. Took two steps.
Exactly. Collinsworth was a receiver. He knows he had control. He hates the Eagles, this is proof.
Man it feels good to get a call against NE wow
I mean it was just the correct call really. He never lost control I don’t think.
I agree I just feared the worst man
wow Steven Tyler looks fucking OLD
Not after that Kia ride.
He’s 69.
yeah he looks pretty good for ~70, given all the drugs that man did
-ing
He’s got about 40 years of mainlining heroin under his belt.. it’s to be expected.
exactly
St. Nick showed to play!
my hate for collinsworth has just grown exponantially after that comment fuck this guy
I believe in St. Nick.
Ok the fucking D better do its job now
seriously, do they expect the offense to score on over freakin drive? Come on D
Shut up Collinsworth.
Movement of ball != loss of control
FUCK YOU COLLINGSWORTH
Yup
Nah, he might be the best analyst there is in pro football.
I’ll take Romo
A-Team NFL Analysts
1. Collingsworth
2. Aikman
3. Gruden
4. Romo
1 and 2 are close. Romo is not my cup of tea.
Tonight he sounds like a Pats cheerleader
if philly wins i might come down from canada and just roam the city of boston ahd laught at people for a day or 2 then go to philly
Pick that!
Even if it was incomplete (and I don’t agree it was), it’s about time a critical judgment call goes against the Patriots.
Collinsworth a former receiver proving he’s an Eagles hater.
6-1 on pens
I think the Patriots’ mystique really benefits them on this score. Because they have a reputation for being superbly coached, I think refs probably have it in their minds that any borderline action is legal, even if only subconsciously.
Are you fucking kidding me lol
what defensive holding….give me a break
Tell me the Pats OL isn’t holding every down.
They just cannot cover anyone, WTF!!
Darby beat again.
Thank god it didn’t go to the guy behind him because he was wideeeeeeeee open.
Gonna have to keep scoring
Tackle for god’s sake….man what is going on with this D?
OMFG.. blitz him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Defense is killing us right now
Our defense has no prayer of stopping them. We need to score on every second half possession.
So much time on 3rd
Get some hits on Brady, he’s a machine
We need some new CBs.
He’s getting too much time on this drive with our lame dbs..
Gotta get pressure ffs.
Its going to be super frustrating if the defense loses it for us.
Unbelievable….I can’t watch any more
Another duck wtf is going on in the secondary
The defense is just the biggest disappointment. Our pass defense is a joke.
Its hard to cover when Schwartz lets Brady have 10 seconds to find someone
JJ would be bring the heat, that’s for sure
Get it together schwartz. Foles has handed you 29 points through 40 minutes
The D is fing up. At least make Brady pay for the yards
The thing that annoys me is that they should at least be able to limit these chunk plays. Just play off coverage and give up the underneath stuff. Yeah, they’ll move the ball down the field without a problem, but at least it will take time off the clock.
This is like pitch and catch man, we can’t cover anything or anyone.
And ya wonder why i was hoping Sidney could possibly play!
This reminds me of the first Giants game, no one could cover anything.
It’
Next year’s SB.
Defense will win us this game, bank it
Hope so, because they are doing their best to blow it for us right now.
I can’t believe their scrubs are shedding us so bad. Time to bench somebody. These DB’s are shook
You gotta get in Brady’s face too. They weren’t getting to him on that drive..
Too many weapons, no run game but got 3 slot recievers and the best TE in the game, hard to stop
It’s all the QB man. If you give Brian Hoyer these weapons he’s not doing anything with them.
yup
Its all the time Brady has….Schwartz is just letting him sit in the pocket, look for options for 7-10 seconds and then pick us apart. If Brady is on his back, he cannot make those plays
We are not getting pressure with 4 and guys are wide open. Time to bring a big blitz on one of these plays.
Yeah. What’s the worst that could happen?
The argument against it is that Brady carves up the blitz. I.e., that he might do to us what he’s doing already.
exactly
If we’re going to let them have the catches, start zero blitzing and hitting Tom
Yep
I bet the first sack on Brady will result in a flag or some bs.
Exactly. Obviously what we are doing isn’t working so….
That baby commercial… It was a Nirvana song, played by marimbas, right,?
All Apologies
“All Apologies” I think
When Chris Hogan looks like he’s too much for you you know you’re in trouble. The pass rush not getting it done when we need it the most, Brady was a statue on that drive.
damn yo our d ….
I didn’t think the Eagle’s seconday was very good, but I didn’t think it would be as much a liability in this game as it has been. Very hard to get Brady with an average pass rush, but some of these open WRs and bad tackling attempts deserves to be condemned.
Tim Jernigan where art thou?
Fletcher Cox, Brandon Graham, where art thou?
When was the last game Jernigan made a play? Oh yeah it was Dallas 1st game. The guys been MIA since he signed his extension.
Let the search party know that they need to find BG too.
Jim Schwartz, where art thou?
He got paid, then totally disappeared.
It’s not the defensive line that’s totally shit the bed in this game. They have gotten some pressure on Brady. It’s the secondary.
Chill. We’ve been down this road before.
Defense will step up.
So angry with this defense, can’t believe they’re going to make Nick Foles score on every drive for us to have a prayer
cant win with a shootout between foles and brady, or not likely. each team gets one more touchdown for the rest of the game.
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeed a stop on D to make a difference !!!!
I don’t see the logic here. Why not? As of this moment, we ARE winning a shootout between Foles and Brady.
That RPO was so good it fooled the cameraman.
We need another score. And we need sacks and pressure on defense.
I think we need about four more scores, honestly.
That was a helmet to helmet hit on Ags
Pats only have 495 total yards already – 4th most in Super Bowl History – per Rueben Frank
Wiz is
Whoever gets the ball last wins!!
Not if we can keep going up by 10. TD every time.
Maintaining the lead in this game is going to be crucial!
#Analysis
You know Al, I think the team with more points has a good chance to win this game.
Well, our defense can’t stop anything, but conversely, their defense can’t stop anything either.
Who had a bet on Eli being in more SB commercials than Peyton?
I was told the Eagles defense was supposed to dominate the Pats O-line
They’ve been a disappointment no doubt. I didn’t think it would be a beatdown but I thought for sure it would be better than this.
no idea what is up
Not sure I can make it. Now I know how McNabb felt
I’m starting to feel town soon by the Patriots. My fandom is weak.
I know we are not supposed to like the Giants, but that commercial was awesome!
Do we go for it on 4th down here? I think we do.
Why stop now?
Let’s make it on third please
before the game if i was told we would get barely any pressure on brady but still be winning going into the 4th i would take it
Well, the good news is the pats have only had 19 minutes of possession, so our defense should be relatively freah, and the patriot defense might start to wear down
Bad news is they’ve Gotten shredded while fresh
Okay, that play didn’t work at all. And we have to settle for a FG attempt.
I don’t know what that was.
It’s the classic case of a play that looks brilliant if it fools the defense and has no chance if it gets sniffed out. It was the latter that time. Gotta give the other guys credit, sometimes they make a play.
Uhhg. Too fucking cute. Run the ball twice doug for a first down
He got this play from Reid’s cute playbook
That snap was not good. Good job Donnie.
Would rather have seen RPO on that 3rd
Uh oh.
Alright, Eagles guys back there, you’re really going to have to cover the WRs and Gronk.
Eli Manning and OBJ did a love dance to “I’ve had the time of my life” during a Super Bowl commercial?
I think I’ve seen everything now…….
Here we go, Defense! Here we go!
God I wish I had more faith in our defense to actually stop the Pats here. I mean holy fuck they’ve been going down the field in like 5 plays.
Its like they know what our defensive calls are.
Need some adderall.
Those two points we gave up with the missed XPA and the failed two point conversion could come back to haunt us.
At least they made it a bit longer for an easier kick for Elliot
that was whole point of third down play – needed to lose some yards to increase fg %
Hopefully Doug’s 1st bad playcall isn’t the turning point it feels like.
nah i think we good we going to run and play action their asses. dude we just need a stop and we good
That feels like the big if right now.
Really didn’t like that 3rd down call, you wan’t to attack their athleticism, fine, attacking their discipline, not so much.
We’ve had lots of success with plays that attack their discipline and/or decision making in this game.
Play calls don’t always work.
that design assumes there won’t be any backside pursuit, you aren’t convincing me on this so don’t try
Think what you like, but I think there’s an element of process vs. results in your thinking.
Limiting them to a FG would be a welcome start
These CGI players are way too creepy
i know lol
Our DL is getting beat bad now.
Oh no, what is you doing, iggles run D?
Okay, I….think we’re in trouble.
Yup.
Damjit mills
way too soft.
Our defense fucking sucks.
Terrible.
Welp. This is how you blow super bowls.
We gotta score tds and have ball last.
Basically. I have zero faith in our defense to make a play.
I just can’t understand how bad our defense is playing
Now they’re tired and worn down.
like Jacksonville? Belichik wearing out the CBs and then killing them?
DBs lack the sense of urgency and athleticism to keep up with the scrappy gym rats.
Athleticism isn’t the issue. Our CBs are more athletic than Amendola and Hogan. It’s lack of discipline and sloppy technique more than anything.
Darby can’t cover double moves. Mills can’t keep up with quicker guys without using the sideline. That’s athleticism.
Darby is one of the most athletic corners in the league dude. The guy was a near Olympic quality sprinter.
Covering double moves is a question of not biting on them. Athleticism is not his problem.
bro they basically have 6 slot wr with their Rbs and run drags and screens.
We are in big big trouble. This will be 3 straight tds w no end in sight ugh
Our defense has not made a single play this entire game.
Got everything you could ask for and more from foles. Can’t believe the eagles are scoring 32 or more and will probsbly lose
Unbelievable
OK. That was a hell of a catch.
Jim schwartz and the defense should have to find their own way back to philadelphis.
No adjustments by Schwartz disaster
Schwartz is screwing this up. Do something
At least we know who to blame for this outcome.
Allowing Tom Brady to get his is going to happen. He’s a great player.
Allowing their offense to move the ball at will and wrack up 600 yards, 21 second half points, and TD after TD does not have to happen.
Oh yea put the 5’10 CB on Gronk in the RZ. Pack your shit and don’t return Schwartz
Jesus christ defense. Is one play too much to ask?
Bangs head on desk.
Just…
Oh, fuck you, Brady.
I think this drive is going to break our back
Schwartz with an epic kind of sisaster
Have we given up the most yards in super bowl history? I think we’re well over 500 by now.
yeah
I feel sick. Just angry
If we were going to lose the game I didn’t envision it would be because our defense gives up 700 yards.
Come on Nick
This is the worst feeling. Going to come down to who gets the ball last, IF doug and the offense doesn’t flinch and keeps scoring
Soooo, 9:22 drive ending in a score?
Chasing points going to cost us?
Probably
The thing is, we’re WAY more talented, overall, than the Pats. Schwartz simply doesn’t have his guys ready to play.
Schwartz is very rigid, he doesn’t adjust well in game.
If we had Wentz, this would be a easy win. SHOULD BE.
But even if Wentz was back there, we’d still be losing!!!!!1!
I don’t think so man. Foles has played pretty well. Quarterbacking is not what’s losing us this game.
That’s what I’m saying, man.
Okay. I thought you were saying if Wentz was in there we’d be winning with your first sentence.
NORMALLY…
We’re getting everything we could reasonably have asked for from Foles, and we should be easily winning.
Wentz could hardly have scored more than foles
Torrey, go get the damn ball
or at least get fouled
I think that’s what he was going for, “look I can’t go get it, someone throw a flag”
Those 2 points left on the field looming pretty large.
Yes, though their kicker has left 4 points on the field
Pederson has better not do a punt unless the down and distance is really long. We’re clearly not able to stop the Pats offense anymore.
Agreed.
Only hope is to run the clock down. Slow, methodical drive.
Doug starting to blow it. Run the damn ball doug.
fuck
Do we go for it here? It will take them what, two plays to gain the forty yards we’d be gaining by punting?
sigh
Oh my god, Pats are doing semi-protect defense now.
Heart attck no 1
had to we can’t stop em anyway.
Yup. Another decision that gives me faith in Pederson. We may very well lose this game, but it won’t be because our coach doesn’t give it his all.
Doug’s balls are bigger than I thought.
Why they can just march it down to our 45 anyway.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKKK
I believe
GRIND GRIND GRIND
I agreed with that call. Go d.u.g.
BB CALL BB DOUG .. once again
whew.
jesus christ, so we need a TD, and a 2 point conversion, cuz brady is going to get a touchdown
Score with 0 on the clock, amirite?
Yup. Four minute offense all the way here.
So, grind 5 minutes off of the clock and kick a field goal. :). Or score now sp you get the ball back with time after the patriots take the leqd again.
Shut the fuck up Collinsworth
What the fuck was he talking about?
Can’t speak for Insomniac, but the thing that’s annoying me is he keeps verbally fellating James Harrison even on plays where he does nothing remarkable.
hate him
really, let the Pats score so we can hope to score a TD + 2PT and tie it up with time left? wtf?
Especially when the alternative is keeping the ball and scoring to take the lead. That was possibly the dumbest thing I ever heard an announcer say.
Nick throwing on the move again!
Do we slow it down?
Yup, got too.
we need a TD and 2 pt conversion so hard, even if brady gets it back with plenty of time, we can get a field goal with 30 seconds and 2 timeouts
Assuming Brady will score in 30 seconds
BIG DICK NICK
Bleed the clock, for the love of god.
New England with the fake injury time out
Chung cheating for Bill and Tom
We gotta run but we need another first at least maybe even two.
Okay, run the ball a lot here.
My god please don’t leave it in the defenses hands to win.
gotta dance with the one you brought
”injury” timeout…..
STAY IN BOUNDS NELSON!!!
don’t go out ags. dumb play nelson. that could cost us the game fuck.
stay in bounds Ags
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do NOT like that decision from Nick at all.
Do not like that play call at all in this situation
Our d is gonna have to stop em somehow.
ugh ground causes drop! I can’t tell.
Yo, HE WAS A RUNNER HE’S NOT GOING TO THE GROUND YOU IDIOTS!
Okay that IS a td
A fade-ish sort of pass has to be playable in this context, throwing out of bounds is baaadd..
crossed the plane!!! hy is this a question
Patriots nut hugger Collinsworth making things up
pray to whichever deity for our D now
He’s a runner there. 2 steps after catch.
That is a catch. He was not going to the ground while making the catch.
ball broke the plane in clear possession, come on
He took two steps with the ball and broke the plane, but that’s going to be an incomplete pass.
The catch rule fucking sucks.
No way, he was a runner!
He was not going to the ground while making the catch.
I agree but I think they’ll still overturn it.
Two feet and a football move. He’s a runner at that point
it’s just so clear, come on
How is that even debateable???
He was clearly a runner.
Was he a runner? The fuck is he talking about
he was a runner… not close at all!!! what are they talkign about
He’s a runner when he crosses the line, what are these guys talking about?
yeah agree.
HOW COULD HE NOT BE A RUNNER, HE’S A RUNNER, WHAT THE FUCK
It is not close. He was not going to the ground while making the catch
Collinsworth does not know the rule book.
he’s been clueless all night.
Too much into Pro Football Focus I suppose
The ball didn’t actually touch the ground ever I don’t think
Why is this being debated her ran work the ball!!!
thats a td
Breaks the plane. TD. No question about it.
he took 2 steps and a football move! wtf come on!
of course, yes
Ground can’t call a fumble.
thank you, holy shit.
defense!
YES! Now let’s convert this two pointer.
2 pt time kids!
omg my nerves
Thank you index card man.
We knew but who knew what the refs works say,?
football move 2 step cross plane, thats it
I can’t stand it…
defense
Someone hold me I’m not ready for this
Fuuuuck. Really needed that 2 point conversion
That was clear as day PI
Hahaha. Gooooooooooooo EAGLES!
Should have been DPI
We needed the ball last.
Do we let them score a TD quickly so we can get the ball back for an attempted FG drive?
I’m only half-kidding.
It crossed my mind a sec ago
Some blatent pass interference there.
let them score and kick a field goal to win?
Fuck u Collinsworth
Here goes, guys. All we need is a miracle. Either way total respect to the O
the defense though, absolutely disgusted, 1 shot at redemption here
We had to have that 2 point conversion.
Should have had that flag as well
lol tht was pi
Well, Schwartz is playing for his coaching career here. Bevell probably lost his job this offseason because of that bad playcall in the Super Bowl back then.
Please defense. 1 fucking big play. Jiat 1 wins us a super bowl.
Chris Long make a play please if you’re even in!
OMG OMGOMG
YES!!! YES!!! FUCK YESSS!!!!
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!
Wish we kicked xp now!
omfg
OMFGGGGGGGGGG
Yes
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
There’s the miracle
AHHHHBBBHHHH&
YESSSSSASSSSSSSS
My god
BGBGBG
that was humongous obviously.
We win.
The defense only needed to make ONE PLAY!!!
KEEP SCHWARTZ’S NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH HATERS
Bailed out
Oh. My.
I just absolutely lost my goddamn mind
Same here
get a touchdown and win
I’ve been thinking all half the defence would do something, my faith was wavering but there it is
wow
OMG!!! I can smell it!!! Please God if you’re listening…..
Passing play here – better chance at a first down and the clock stops at 2:00 anyway.
Just don’t take a sack.
There’s still some time
Shit not over yet
Yep, but nice turn of events there.
It’s not over until the clock hits 0:00.
Noy over yet we need this FD
Aww shit
man, a lot of time left. dont get 5 yards then brady has almost 2 minutes. so go get the five yards, dont just run it up the middle unless you think that is the best way to get 5 yards
1st down here and we’re super bowl champions.
that is what doug is thinking. he will go for it, some pass play here, fake up the middle
Obvious jinx that was written not posted.
“Tide is America’s number one detergent in America.”
Seriously guys, this is your Super Bowl ad, and you let that one through? Fire your ad copy editor.
At least they didn’t say it’s the tastiest?
Oh ffs
wow. go all year and then go conservative
I think it was a smart decision. The surefire extra forty seconds off the clock is more valuable than the higher possibility of a first down.
Don’t like that call.
I would have thrown it
Why would you run it with Blount tho
Better, surer hands in traffic.
yep
ilove u guys, its been 14 years of joy and misery and it might end right here
Help me.
fuck could have won with a TD
Coulda won with made xp on last td in hindsight hahaha.
a couple of times, uhg
Shut up Meg
It’s the right call
Nailed it Jake
Ok. Cool.
Tee off on Brady!!!
Jake Money!
65 seconds.
Tough ask here.
For Brady, that is.
awesome!
what was that Pats?
Yes
nice tackle Braman
They tried some razzle dazzle
58
53
My boy vinny curry needs to get his real quick
Braman
48
yes! brady arm is dead!
2 more plays
Now we have a pass rush
Weird, thought we were tired.
One more down!!!!
Come on!
Doesn’t help Brady to throw ducks now, old man!
1 more play!
42 seconds. 4th and 10.
4th down!!!
Gus were going to do it
Who is Gus?
You jinxed us 🙁
:26
Bradley Cooper going nuts in the Owners booth.
Come on , Brady arm is falling off.
:20
We got this!
80 yards in :20 seconds?
:13
Shiiiiit
Still scared shitless. Make the plays
me too
We can not lose this. I will cry.
I’m going to cry either way
I think I know what women are like on their periods now. This torrent of emotions is too much for me.
0:09
So close
2 plays….
YAYYYYYYYYY
YES
I’M CRYIN. I REALLY AM!
WE WON THE FUCKING SUPER BOWL!!!!!!!!!
my hands are shaking so hard….yes we did
MOVE OVER ROCKY STATUE, SAINT NICK IS COMING
This can’t be happening!!!!
EAGLES!!!!!!!!
omg fuck.
ok. We’re Super Bowl champs.
Is Philly happy now?
Hug Allen Iverson happy?
Give Santa a piggyback ride happy?
We going to give this City of Brotherly Love thing a shot, now?
Amazing ending to the amazing season
FUCKING YES!
wowza wowie howie!
Wow. This is amazing! I love you all!
Thank you Eagles
Were Super Bowl Champions I cant believe it
Congrats guys, love you all
Unbelievable!!!
I’m going downtown. If you see an idiot in a black Jason Peters jersey, hug me. I’m happy
St. Nick came early in 2018!
Looks like I’m through with the sleep-phase of my life, HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS! EAGLES WON A SUPER BOWL, WHAT IS THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guys.
I can’t stop cryin
who the hell could possibly be MVP?? It’s got to be Foles, Alshon and Clement had HUGE games too
ST . NICK
The only answer even though Clement played out of his mind as well.
It is pretty interesting just how bad Foles looked at the beginning of his starting duties. And play reasonably well. Certainly better in the super bowl than vs the Vikings.
Technically, I’m still sort of mad at the Vikings for sticking with Case Keenum.
I think Foles should be mvp
me too – never thought i’d say that
Sort of hard to pick anyone else, given the bad D this game.
Liberation!
yes, we did it!!! incredible philadelphia!!!!
Rub it in Cowgirls fans!!
Giants you aint the only one to beat Brady now, hahahaha
Been waiting for this win for 40 years you guys. Since the first Vermeil playoff loss in Tampa Bay. Wow!
Dougie. Nicky. Carson. Cox. Malcolm. Ertz. Agholor. Wow. Just WOW!
WE ARE THE SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!
i’d like to that each of you for your role in bringing the trophy to philly
Hey, I predicted that we’d play in the Super Bowl before anyone else!
Some credit here, please! I know you all have EXTRA LOVE TO GIVE, RIGHT?
like a heavyweight fight…they went blow for blow then knocked them out.
Congatulations to everyone! I love you all!
We gave up 500yds passing to Tom Brady and still won, thanks to Nick Foles and Doug
I am speechless, but this one’s for you, Dawk, and most of all, for you JJ.
That is not how I saw the game. If you gave me the pats offensive stats before the game, I would have been VERY depressed, wouldn’t even watch the game.
Dougy P and his offense, the dude is a Philly legend, officially Immortal
World Folesing Champions!
COllingsworth still trying to throw shade, but he can’t bring me down!
Ok Collinsworth, I like you more than most, but you have worn out your welcome for dumping cold water on our TD catches to the bitter end
I was a Collingsworth fan before this game, but I will never forgive him for this shit.
Does anyone think we do this without signing Nick? We coulda easily not have.
Howie deserves a big share of the thanks, for everything
Yeah, we could have.
but the important point is that we did win. Fuck counterfactuals.
Good point!
I know you don’t like Nick, but you have to give it up for what he did the past two games.
So long as people understand that he’s the backup QB who did good, I’m cool with it. And with Wentz, there’s not going to be the stupidity we saw with Keenum.
you suck buddy
well you are joe webb lover.
Yup.
Hell no.
Kinda just sitting here and trying to let it all soak in. This team is historic and fuck all of the haters that said we were gifted TDs.
Can’t process this, still waiting for the Patriots to have another shot somehow
What do we even do now? Our identity is just shattered. Welp, time to run out into the night howling and wake up tomorrow in a haystack with no recollection like a Werewolf
I like the dynasty identity
both blount and long left NE came back and beat them in the SB,
2004 payback
and they join the select club to win back to back SBs with different teams
Made up of only them I believe lol
Haley
EAGLES WON THE SUPER BOWL.
AND IT’S NOT EVEN MADDEN!
That image of Ertz diving across the plane needs to be a poster
And Nick’s td catch!
this is surreal…I still cant believe it
Foles about to sign the biggest contract ever
Get that flacco money somewhere. No one deserves it more, even if he can’t ever possible live up to it hahaha.
He deserves it.
I wouldn’t trade him, keep him here next year
You know if Howie can deal him for something nice, he might do it.
Happiest man in the stadium
… Roger Goodell
Gotta be a gret day for Dawk + TO = gets into HOF, and watch eagles win SB, lots of serendipity
I’m not convinced I didn’t actually lose my mind somewhere in the 3rd quarter. Will take a good week to be sure this is real.
That’s how I feel
i went to a dark place a few times
I finally stopped crying.
I didn’t tear up until they handed the trophy to Jeff Lurie.
He’s been working at it for almost 25 years just about since ’94.
The Eagles previous championship was 1960 and I was born in 61. Been a big fan since I was 7. SO MUCH pent up emotion. Wanted it before I die!
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Congrats Detroit fans, your coach just let Nick Foles hang 41 points on him. Enjoy your next couple of seasons. (I’m sorry, I’m still learning joy, my only emotion is pain, If it isn’t mine, it has to be someone elses!)
Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles and Coach of the Year afterthought Doug Pederson just banged in 41 points against the Evil Empire.
You can’t even say the defense won it. Yeah they got the big stop. But Foles and Pederson went head to head with Brady and Belichick and won the game!