will we ever win?

A win is a win I guess

Watching the 49ers last couple of offensive series was like watching the Andy Reid led Eagles. Instead of sticking with their strength and what worked all game - running Gore, short drops, and throwing quick passes and screens, they suddenly decided to throw the ball downfield, run end arounds, and all sorts of other stupidity. But it's not suprising, Mike Martz thinks he invented the game and is smarter than everybody else just like Reid.

So in the end, the team that sucked more lost to the team that just merely sucked. Yeah, the final score made it look like a dominating victory, but if the Eagles were actually a good team they never would have been down by 9 points to the 49ers and this game wouldn't have still been in doubt with 2 minutes to go. How many times did the Eagles get inside the 10 and go nowhere in 3 plays and had to trot out Shakers? And until the 49ers started to get dumb, the defense was once again giving up big runs and big plays and unable to get off the field.

I watched this game like I'd watch an Eagles preseason game - with limited emotion and interest. So when the Eagles started losing the game in the second quarter I didn't get angry. When the defense gave up another 50+ yard field goal before the end of the half, eh. When Akers got his 54 yard attempt blocked and returned for a TD to end the half, oh well. When the defense laid down and died to start the second half, it's pretty much what I expected. When they turned it around in the 4th with 23 unanswered points and ended up winning it was nice, but not the usual feeling I would get from a victory. The Eagles and Reid and McNabb have lost me for now even though they managed not to lose the today's game.

Other notes:

• Fitting that the Eagles started the game with a drop since they lead the league.
• Defense gave up a score on the opponents first possession of the game, but it wasn't their fault this time.
• 49ers defense should be pretty embarrassed. They let the Eagles run the ball on them successfully in short yardage inside the 5 once.
• Watching the 49ers run screen after screen successfully, sometimes with the same call 2 plays in a row, reminded me of the Patriots shredding the Eagles defense in the second half of the Super Bowl.
• I hadn't heard Trent Cole's name since the last time he idiotically jumped offsides in a game.
• Well, who could have guessed the defense would give up a 50+ yard field goal right before the end of the half? Fourth time this year.
• Who could have guessed a 50+ yard field goal attempt by the Eagles would turn out bad? But to be fair that would have been blocked from 20 since the guy that blocked it came right up the middle untouched.
• Fitting that the Eagles started the second half with a drop since they lead the league.
• Booker sucks. Just like I said back in the preseason.
• By the way, Dawkins is still old and slow just like he's been since last year. Just because he made a play in the Pittsburgh game doesn't change those facts.
• Funny that Takeo Spikes was finally able to hang onto a ball thrown right into his hands. Nice pass McNabb, he didn't even have to move. LJ sucks, but it was McNabb's fault.
• Akers "good" field goal I thought was no good. I think if it was low enough it would have hit the upright yet again. That's when things started going the Eagles way in this game and the 49ers started getting stupid like challenging the kick and bringing their high suck factor to the fore.
• Juqua Parker is the player of the 4th quarter, Buckhalter the consistently good player of the game.
• And how sweet was that bonus Dallass loss? It made me happier than the Eagles win. Dallass sucks.

With the Washington and Dallass loss, do the Eagles have new hope?