will we ever win?

The season still lives

(Sorry this is late. Had no power from 2:15 till almost 1am yesterday. How did people survive before electricity? It was so boring.)

This game was pretty much an exact reversal of the Eagles vs. Giants game that was played in Philadelphia just a couple weeks ago. This time the Eagles dominated both lines of scrimmage and controlled the game, the Eagles ran the ball down the Giants throats, the Eagles were dominant in time of possession, the Eagles had a tight end that made big plays, and the Eagles had the shut down defense that made the opponent's offense look pathetic on 4th and short..

Of course this all occurred because Andy Reid, who is probably still an idiot, decided to stick with the run the ENTIRE game, despite it being a "failure" early - but keep running those end arounds! The last two convincing wins happened because Reid did what every pundit and knowlegeable fan has called for over and over and over and over again till infinity - run the ball more and balance the offensive play calling. And by successfully doing exactly that, not just against the weak Arizona Cardinals, but against the Giants, the current champions and probably the best team in football, just shows that Reid's pathetic reasoning of "we saw on film the Bengals were weak on pass coverage so we thought we'd throw it 80 times" is complete idiocy. If you can do it against the Giants you should be able to do it against everyone and should have been doing it the ENTIRE season, not just when it's 30 degrees out with wind gusts of 40 mph. There's a reason the Eagles are the most frustrating team in the world. They can even piss you off when they win.

Other notes:

• Please, no more end arounds and reverses.
• Did anyone else notice after Hixon's horrible drop, on the Eagles sidelines in the background was healthy scratch Reggie Brown clapping and laughing it up?
• These refs were terrible all game but it didn't end up costing the Eagles. Except...
• On the blocked field goal that was returned for a touchdown Akers was clearly blocked in the back.
• Have you ever seen an NFL game that had 3 blocked field goals?
• To me one of the biggest moments of the game was the first 3rd down conversion on the Eagles opening 2nd half drive. Blow that and Rocca comes in and boots a 20 yarder into the wind and the Giants are sitting pretty and building on their momentum.
• I don't think Rocca had a punt after the first quarter.
• LJ finally had a good game catching and even running after the catch but he still holds the ball like an idiot and blew a ton of blocks.
• Wouldn't it be nice if we could have had a replay showing what happened to Kevin Curtis?
• Eagles blew a fumble recovery they totally should have made, but worse was the botched Samuels/Dawkins interception.
• Loved that Giants (#1 rushing team in the league) 4th and 1 call. Looks like Coughlin needs to go back and study the greats like Bill Parcells and Bill Walsh like Reid did to figure out you should run the ball there.
• Did Reid outcoach Coughlin or was it Coughlin just really, really dumb?
• The Fox announcers, especially "Goose," were worse than usual.
• 2 games in a row McNabb scrambled at just the right time for first downs. So in his 10th year he's not only learned to throw the ball away, but in the 12th and 13th game of his 10th year he's also learned to take the 5-6 yards that the defense is giving him to move the chains and maintain possession of the ball instead of going for a 15-20 yard pass downfield.
• In the 2 games vs. the Giants this year McNabb didn't get sacked. Last year it was 15 or so.
• Westbrook was outgaining the Giants offense by himself until that last garbage time drive.

Is there a real reason to get excited?