PHI at DAL – 1st Half
Posted: December 2nd, 2012 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 162 Comments »This is a crappy year, but we can salvage a little respect with a win in Dallas.
Other than winning, the primary goals are for Nick Foles to play well and the defense to hold Tony Romo to a QB rating of less than 120.
Inactives:
Vick, Shady, Polk, Menkin, Salas, McNutt
We’ve got 2 RBs and 4 WRs. Hope there aren’t any injuries.
Go Eagles…and Dallas sucks!!!
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Let’s Go Birds. Dallas Sucks!
Everything points to Romo lighting us up. There’s the reason for hope since logic has been totally upside down this season with this team.
good evening from Marrakech…!
Good start for King Dunlap.
Sorry… Celek.
Maybe we should block Ware.
Play action on first play….drink!!!
2 3rd down conversions!
12:35 in the 1st quarter and Al Michaels has already blown his Bryce Brown “checkered past” nugget…
Good protection, good fight by Celek.
I think Bryce saw that Tecmo Bowl video you linked to earlier, Tommy – no other explanation for the way he tries to turn the corner by running backwards 8 yards.
Really? The 3 yard checkdown didn’t get us a 1st down on 3rd and 11?
Great effort by Celek on that first down.
Wish we were going to get a chance to see Salas or McNutt just for something to look forward to.
Bryce Brown needs to be more careful with running forward. I was not a fan of him running backwards on that play. He should have gone forward and at least minimize the loss on that play.
Foles actually looking decent. Hopefully he keeps calm and makes some good decisions. I’m sure the defense will get him some more possessions by giving up some quick scores.
I’d like to see Foles make a few 15-20 yard throws. His deep balls look questionable, but if he can make those medium throws, it should keep the defense more honest. Foles can’t just constantly hit the short routes and check downs.
The OL is having another bad start runblocking…
Anybody else notice that Foles will keep his mouthpiece in his facemask when it is going to be a run and put in his mouth when its a pass?
Looks like Trent Cole is losing contain… uh-oh. If I were him, I wouldn’t answer any phone calls in my garage.
Nice.
Caller ID says “Big Red”……straight to voicemail
Brandon Graham!
Nice job by Graham. I really want to see him emerge as a quality starter next year.
Goodbye Jason, Hello Brandon!
Graham!!!! My man!
Well…..we may have something here.
BROWN!!!!!! YES!
Nice drive!
Dunlop’s block on Ware!
Bryce Brown is worth watching this crappy team.
Brown having a good game so far. I didn’t like his one run where he ran backwards, but he ran tough on the long run and scored the touchdown on that drive (not much he had to do on the TD run, but still got it). Definitely a good sign so far for next year.
Too many edge runs on opening drive. Need to attack the middle.
Bryce Brown beast on that 24 yard run, lets whoop that Cowboy ass!!!
Great second drive. Running inside. Quick throws. More please.
Nice design on that WR screen with both TE’s out as lead blockers.
Jeff does not look like he wants to be there.
Run D needs to step up. We seem to be getting gashed with regularity by Murray.
LBs are slow to get to the ball for some reason. Not sure what’s up.
Pretty sure they’re trying to get Cole cut.
Cole is having an absolutely horrendous season, but AR should have absolutely no ability to cut a starter at this point. Those decisions should all be made with the new coach and Howie Roseman together. I was not a fan of Babin, but I still think that was a wrong move in the sense that the new coach should have been the one to make that decision, not AR right now.
COX WAS GETTING MUGGED….HOW DID THAT NOT GET CALLED?
That’s twice now. He was held on the scramble too.
there’s a bad joke every time he gets held.
Whew….made me check and make sure I wasn’t on the other blog.
Got to make that sack
Got to make that tackle. Romo is elusive, but he is not Roethlisberger in terms of being hard to tackle when you get your hands on him.
Missed holding call on that
again, DL is failing the rest of the defense…
God I hate this defense so much sometimes.
I’ve been yelling at my TV with all the blatant holding by the Cowboys O-line. I understand a little holding happens on every play, but wow
I love complaining about officials.
We finally get a holding call… and it’s negated by PI.
looked liked offensive PI
Looked like offensive PI to me…
Is there any player in the NFL that gets more phantom pass interference calls than Dominique Rogers Cromartie?
Cost us a down or 10 yards on Free’s holding. When you suck, the refs pile on in this league.
fuck, there goes our one good defender.
Glad to see DeMeco get up. Need him.
Graham getting some pressure. Good to see.
Once again! Plus a Cole siting!
Babin who?
Nice
Jason Whobin????
Jason Babidin’t do shit this year.
Nice.
Graham coming out party tonight!! Fuck yeah.
Take that morton!
I’m disappointed that Morton isn’t here to gloat over the demise of the team.
I think he’s now a 49ers’ fan…
How dare you say that.
Damn, I miss the the double stuff sack. It’s been a while.
From someone on Twitter… Doug Free is the white Demetress Bell.
That’s awesome.
and we almost signed him remember?
Why does Bobby let Brandon leave the end zone?
Yeah, that wasn’t good.
Nice throw under pressure by Foles.
That’s the type of throw I want to see from Foles. I need to see him making less check downs and quick slants and more throws 10+ yards. Those are not deep balls and at least pushes the defense away from simply covering all the short stuff.
Foles has been pretty conservative with his passes. I wonder if this is by design, people aren’t open (likely), or if he’s waiting for someone to be open (the old McNabb “hold n’ throw”).
I think it is partially a rookie being nervous about throwing the ball down field after being picked a few times in the last couple weeks. He has used the check downs a lot in the last two games. I do think we need to see him get some more balls down the field. It doesn’t need to be a bomb (although I would I certainly not be against Foles connecting on a bomb), but he needs some balls over 5-10 yards or else the defense will start to cheat up and making plays on those short balls.
Welcome to the dink & dunk era in Philly…
Trapped against the turf. Good challenge. So we’ll probably lose it.
I sit corrected…
Cole had such a clean line to Romo he got excited and slipped. Needs to stay under control.
I wish Collinsworth had laryngitis.
I wish he would lose his voice and Madden unretired
Too much dancing by Damaris on that PR.
Hmm… is Boykin our 5th receiver today?
And Damaris Johnson injures himself. This team is going to look like 2005 by the end.
Which donut decided to dress 2 RBs and only 4 WRs?!
I think it was the cheesesteak actually. Argh. I was angry about that when I saw it on BGN 20 minutes before the game and I didn’t want to say anything.
Wow.
Oh yeah… Maclin is still on the team.
Thought he had a chance to get out around the safety for a TD, but slipped. great play design
Maclin has to try to make the defender tackle him on that run. I hate to critic a long pass and catch, but he is one on one with a defender. Make the guy make a play.
So I’m thinking we release a player every Tuesday.
Please let it be Reno Mahe, this week.
Bryce Brown!!
EAGLES WOOP DAT COWBOY ASS!!!!
My 10 year-old son says, “Holy Poop!” Can he get a second?
/me happy…
Foles is not stinking up my screen like Christian Ponder, whom I have a death blood-feud with.
Harbor is the 4th receiver.
Mathis with a pretty blatant hold on the TD. Makes up for the missed holds on Dallas’ FG drive.
Bryce Brown – 4 years, 2.15 million. Saweeet.
hold out coming?
The sad thing: with Vick under center we would have passed 4 times inside the 10 yard line…
NO, @ the 8 yard line… IN INFAMY, Andy…
Bad OL, but…geez
Jerry Jones is starting to rock back and forth in his suite…
Bryce Brown is pretty good, huh?
Great find by Roseman. This draft class is quite good.
He is legit
Good close ups of jerrah tonight
The blatant holdings are now being called?
Amazing.
Tommy, Free is Demtres Bell
I’ve never seen them on the field at the same time…
Eagles defense allows a 2nd/20 conversion..
Kendriks needs help with Witten.
Now a 2nd/18 conversion.
I want to see the Eagles tighten up here.
Whitten’s killing us, but we’re not giving up the big play. This may be good. I remember the good old days where TE’s used to kill us and we’d tighten up in the redzone and force FG’s.
I can live with short throws to Witten.
Need the antsy Romo here.
Once again, wide open in the middle! Unbelievable!
Think that one was on Kendricks. Should have stuck with him
It’s mind boggling.
Time for a pick.
I meant blown coverage.
Unbelievable. Seriously, whatever coverages they’ve designed are way too stupid or complicated.
I have to say, that’s one was impressive. No one in the screen and he is in the middle of the field. How does that happen?
This defense is killing us
Whois the blonde in the stands? I have the sound turned down.
Romo’s wife.
Watching some bimbo cheer for Romo just makes me want to beat the Cowboys even more.
Very cute Bimbo. Romo’s over his head there.
Let’s see, 42 seconds left in the half… I predict a triple reverse flea-flicker from our own 15 yard line… Maclin fumbles the ball, Cowboys touchdown.
Well for a half the eagles looked like a real football team. Then we went back to blowing coverages.
Any chance Boykin runs this one back?
……to our 15 yd line
Good call.
No.
why is Witten running wide open on numerous occasions downfield? He’s their go-to receiver. that’s unforgivable.
I don’t fully understand that coverage.
Simple… select the most sure handed receiver and dont cover him ugh
Curious to see if the Eagles just kneel it here. Game plan wise, it seems like that would be the right thing to do, but I would like to see Foles running a hurry up and throwing the ball down field a bit. Of course, I think that may be overly risky.
Thank you Colinsworth.
Don’t leave the endzone Brandon
That ball was inaccurate, but it looked like a better ball than most of the other bombs Foles has thrown. He had him open though. Needs to make that throw.
Great throw to Avant there!
Why in the world is Boykin returning that kick? Preserve time on the clock. Furthermore, his returns have been awful.
We are all with you on that, but it is beating a dead horse at this point.
To fulfill DF587’s prophecy.
Great throw from Foles to Avant there.
Truth.
Nice drive by the rookie. Even if Henry misses, that was great to see. Great QB’s make those throws.
Fantastic drive right there. It was a relatively short drive and Brown made a lot of it happen, but that was among the best we have seen from Foles so far.
Nice answer. Any points are good there.
Foles!!! 2 minute drill!!! Eagles look like a real team!!!
Nice! That was a “classic” Eagles end-of-2nd-quarter drive for a field goal.
I feel dirty that henery just broke an eagle’s record….because he definitely missed an extra point recently…..
Henery – most FG’s in first 50 attempts in NFL history? Hm.
Sure looks like a keeper!
So I guess Babin was the problem..
The OL has settled down, but Bryce Brown has been heroic, and played a big role in diminishing that pass rush!
Run the ball, Andy.
Don’t forget Dion Lewis neither!