will we ever win?

Jokeland, ha ha

Seemingly full of themselves after beating powerhouses like the Chiefs and the Buccaneers the Eagles, not the Raiders, were the joke today. A sad, pathetic joke, especially the McNabb and Reid run offense. So while we all laughed it up because Dallass had to go to OT to beat the Chiefs, the Eagles did them one better by losing in 60 minutes to the Raiders.

All the Eagles offense had today was a few big plays and nothing else. And the big plays did not score TDs so the Eagles lost. This of course is a complete indictment of Reid and his concept of how offenses should work. I have no hope that Reid will ever learn the lesson that a running game is important and so is a normal, non-gimmicky offense that can just simply grind things out.

Let's look back at the last 5 minutes of the first half as a distillation of the Eagles ineptitude and stupidity.

McNabb tosses it to Westbrook who takes it 34 yards to the Oakland 27. That's followed by an incomplete pass to McCoy and then a timeout. The next play is an incomplete pass to Celek and then another timeout, their last of the half. Then the next play McNabb takes an 8 yard sack and in the process takes the Eagles out of field goal range, which went completely unnoted by the terrible Fox announcers. Then Rocca brilliantly punts it into the endzone.

A couple plays later Russell throws a stupid pass that's picked by Mikell who returns it to the Oakland 40. There is 1:53 left on the clock. McNabb passes to Celek for 14 which is followed by a dumb pass to Weaver for 3 yards. Westbrook then runs it for 4 with 1:04 left. The next play, a pass to Jackson for 4 yards starts with 35 seconds left. Classic McNabb/Reid time management. But at least on this play Jackson gets out of bounds to stop the clock. So what does Reid do?

For some insane reason Reid thought it would be a great idea to run out a wildcat play with Vick. Turns out McNabb's now racing and panicky brain couldn't handle this, and decided to do a Chris Webber and call a timeout that didn't exist. The 5 yard delay of game penalty was then followed by a 5 yard sack where half the team didn't seem to know what the play count was. Then with 12 seconds left McNabb spikes it on 3rd down and out comes Akers to kick one of the field goals he didn't miss.

Horrible. And it was like that ALL day.

Other notes:

• Is the Trotter experiment over yet?
• Great effort by Hobbs on the Raiders TD. Gee, I wonder if Dawkins would have made that play.
• Did the refs not feel like calling obvious penalties against the Raiders because they felt sorry for them or something? (I'm not blaming the refs in any way for this loss though.)
• Looks like the the straw landed on the offensive line's back this game.
• Is the wildcat experiment over yet? It better be. P.S. Vick SUCKS.
• So I compliment Akers last week, this week he sucks.
• McNabb was terrible.
• Tackling was pretty bad today.
• How many times are you going to pass (and get sacked) when it's 2nd and 2?
• Didn't the Giants run all over the Raiders last week?
• Did anyone on the Eagles have a good game?
• I'm glad Fox can spot a stupid pigeon on the field and feature it in its coverage, but can't tell the difference between DeSean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin.

I sure hope those contract extension negotiations with Reid go well.