PHI 10, TB 0 – 2nd Half

This one is not a T-shirt… sorry.

uh, huh…

I don’t think you’re following me. I didn’t watch the game, so I don’t know whether they are smart or not.

What’s more, sacks are seriously negative plays. They do tend to be drive killers, and it doesn’t matter whether the QB is “smart” or not, you really want to prevent an accumulative -43 yards from sacks. I mean, did Foles take every opportunity to throw balls away? All in all, six sacks is six sacks, with an average of -7 yards. That’s really bad, regardless of whether it’s on the QB or not. If it’s on the OL, who’s doing the most releasing of defenders? Tampa Bay is notoriously bad at rushing the passer, and they were without their best pass rusher for the rest of the year. *Someone* is doing a horrible job in that department.

/me raises an eyebrow…

Why so upset? Generally, sacks are assigned to the QB, on the offense. More advance statistics will show which linemen gave up pressure. In any event, QBs are supposed to avoid sacks, even when linemen does a bad job. General common football sense, you know. Because, you know, by and large, teams lose when they give up so many sacks, regardless of whether that’s the QB’s fault or not. It’s reasonable to see it as a flaw in a game.

There’s also the durability question as well. 13 hits is comparable to the hits a change of pace RB takes. You don’t want a QB to get hit that much, regardless of size.

Eh, what?

Okay, looking past the lameness of your attitude, my first impression is that it was a good, if inefficient, game. Foles will need more of them. He’ll need to improve his deep ball more, so I hear.

To the extent that I hold the idea that Vick will come back, it’s simply because I think Tommy et al has a weak grasp of the simple distance of Vick’s performance from genuinely bad. I’ve seen plenty of honest bad QB’ing this year. I also see just how many teams need a better QB, so there will be strong competition for the few viable options out there. Lastly, I think the evidence is pretty strong that the weak performance of the OL is the primary cause of less than excellent play by Vick.

Going strictly by the games I’ve actually seen Foles play, I’ve concluded that he doesn’t have to physical tools to consistently do well in the NFL. I was pretty biased from the start because Foles was a third round draft pick, and there just wasn’t much unknown about Foles–so little to speculate as to upside.

Is it a good game? Yup. I also remember Tannehill having a great game against Arizona, who’s completely humiliated other QBs. Tannihill hasn’t had very many good games, though. Foles did this against Tampa, and he doesn’t have the tools that Tannehill has. Watching the Miami game, and remembering the Thursday night game, Foles does have *much* better game IQ than Tannehill. Tannehill, while just throwing a nice TD, is just too raw to be playing right now.

/me rolls eyes. You can have the last word.

I’m going to agree with you that there is rarely ever such a thing as a “smart sack”, but having watched this game I’d say that Foles deserves little of the blame in this case. The Bucs got a lot of pressure from blitzes and stunts the line didn’t pick up, and they really struggled to block both Gerald McCoy and our old friend Daniel Te’o-Nesheim. On one or two of them he maybe could have gotten rid of the ball faster, but on most he had no chance to even set his feet to throw the ball away.

I guess after vick, I’m just saying anything that doesn’t result in a turnover is a smart sack. LOL

Which play re: the audible?

Here’s a game the Eagles were either leading or very close the until about 6:30 was left.

But no run calls. And when he called runs, they were — for the most part (and T-Law can arbitrate the final number) — were to the sideline.

Brown’s a N-S runner anyway. With a weak line, don’t put additional pressure on them against a great run-defense front 7.