That has been a hallmark of Reid coached teams forever. The Eagles used to do that during the McNabb era all the time. I always attributed it to Reid being deadly when given time to scheme. They often scored on the first drive and coming out at halftime. The area he struggled with back then was adjusting as the game went on. He seems to have worked that out.
Considering the birds brought in the " defenisve guru" Fangio to allow that mess is really the problem. Defense was excellent all year then you do this and walla your get your result. If it aint broke dont fix it
You must have missed that all of the persons on the Fox pre-game show predicted an Eagles victory and several by a comfortable margin.
Because the NFL has made the following clear, no need to fear the opposing defense. Team owners, Lawsuits and Tom Brady forced the NFL to basically neuter a defenses ability to neutralize a rushing QB or a WR cutting across the field. If the Eagles had 90 seconds on the clock they would have tied or won the game. Steve Young touched on this subject about 10 years ago and received harsh criticism. More recently Trent Dilfer made a similar comment as well. Both QB's basically responded to your comment Lion Jim. The game has gotten too "easy" for QB's and WR's to march down the field. I'm not suggesting that we go back to the 1980's but if we are going to be honest the NFL has implemented rules that make a QB's & WR's stats borderline fraudulent.
No whining or complaining but the call should not have been made. Nice contradiction in a single sentence.
I read that Fangio was there to prep the offense based on his understanding of the KC defense. It sounds like they needed a consultant for the defense too!
Maybe I missed something but didn't the Eagles have a 10 point lead at half? Didn't the Chiefs score on every possession in the second half, including 2 short TD passes which were virtually the same play on each side of the field with no Eagle defender in the same zip code? Zero sacks for the vaunted Eagles DL last night. Eagles have no one to blame for this loss but themselves.
that may all be true (you forgot the punt return) but it still doesnt explain why in the 58th minute they decided to call the one and only holding call against either team.
They should have started Allar.
The call ruined a great game. The entire country was waiting to see what Hurts could do with 1:30 to go, down a FG.
Are you suggesting the fix was in? Because I agree it was a bad call. All I'm saying is that the rules of today's game contributed to that bad call. Refs are inclined to make ticky tacky calls as opposed to letting the teams play.
If it were PSU on offense and that same holding were not called, we’d be screaming bloody murder. The Eagles made their bed. It was really clever of Kansas City to put an Invisibility Cloak on their TE for the first drive.
Making the game safer?
Does anyone really believe a ref won't make that call after the debacle in New Orleans in 2020?
So then why did very important calls go in the Eagles' favor? Questionable catches, questionable catches/fumbles, etc?
Eh, it was a defensible call that happened at an unfortunate time of the game. I don't think refs should call the game differently at the end than they would at any other portion of the game, so if you can provide proof of jersey pulls impeding cuts in the officials' direct line of sight that weren't called earlier, I'd be interested.
Juju was held blatantly earlier in the game. The ref let it go and JuJu yelled at the same guy who threw the flag. If you did not toss the flag the first time you don’t throw it at the end of the game. There were zero holds called until there is a hold with two minutes left
You mean like Smith's catch being called incomplete even thought video evidence showed differently, the holding call at the end, the missed endless holding calls by their oline which is a holding machine. My hunch is you have to ask the masses why they feel the nfl is rigged.
