Idiots
I'm sure the excuses for this pathetic loss will be "the Eagles are a young team." They are, but the reason they lost today is because they are a dumb team. They have completely failed to learn from previous near collapses in games vs. the Lions and the 49ers. Today they also took their foot off the neck of their opponent and failed to put them away and close out the game. Only this time they ended up losing badly because the opponent wasn't totally horrible and didn't give the game away like in the previous examples. Redzone failures, penalties and turnovers killed them.
The Eagles had complete control of this game for almost 3 quarters and were leading 16-9. Then a fumble on the exchange between Kolb and McCoy at the 3 yard line going in for a TD changed everything. It maybe wouldn't have mattered as much if the defense could have held and forced a punt, but the worst player in today's game, Ellis Hobbs who was horrible and stupid all day, bailed Tennessee out with a stupid pass interference penalty. Titans took that gift and drove for a field goal. The Eagles answered with a nice kick-off return across the 50 but they crapped out in the redzone, like they did most times today and only got a field goal. And that was it for the Eagles offense for the rest of the game.
Titans responded with a long bomb catch and run for a TD by Kenny Britt, the only player you needed to cover all day, but the Eagles failed to cover him all day. Britt set a record with 225 yards catching and he didn't even play all 4 quarters. Great job McDermott. Keep Ellis Hobbs on him! He isn't horrible or anything.
The offense responded with their first 3 and out since the first quarter. Titans responded with a field goal to take the lead. Eagles responded with another 3 and out, Titans responded with a drive ending with a wide open Kenny Britt TD catch to go up 27-19. The Eagles responded with another 3 and out. Nobody stepped up, nobody made a play. Maclin cried for a pass interference instead of going up and getting the ball.
The Titans tacked on 10 more garbage points off of bad turnovers to further embarrass the Eagles for a final score of 37-19.
Other notes:
- Wow, 2 weeks in a row defense starts with a 3 and out.
- Kolb was perfect on passes over 20+ yards last week, not so great today.
- McCoy has that same crucial skill Westbrook had - he makes the first guy miss every time.
- Pleasantly surprised Reid is still committing to the run and not just when they are ahead.
- It was a small play in the scheme of things, but the simple short pass to Schmitt coming out of the backfield that he caught and converted for a first down is a pass that McNabb could never make.
- Who knew Joe Sestak, a former Navy vice-admiral and the highest-ranking former military officer currently serving in Congress, was practically a member of al Qaeda? Thank you cowardly, fear mongering Jews for Republicans for alerting me to this danger.
- The idiot Juqua Parker gave the Titans 7 points with his stupid roughing the passer play. Don't body slam Collins and the Titans are punting.
- Mikell started the game well with a pick and a forced fumble, but finished weak. Hobbs was terrible all game. Samuel made the pick that should have put the game away, but the offense fumbled away. He then blew an interception in the endzone that would have preserved the 19-17 lead and may have stopped the disaster that unfolded.
- I hate gadget plays that take forever to develop. Cooper had to make a great play to save the Eagles from disaster on whatever you call that wildcat reverse flea-flicker/ QB lined up as a wide receiver pass something or other thing. Nice that he got rewarded with a TD a few plays later - the only time the Eagles got a TD in the redzone.
- Akers responded to last week's disaster with 4 field goals and 5 touch backs.
- Defense held Tennessee to 87 total yards in the first half and Johnson to 44 yards rushing. It didn't last. They did shut down Chris Johnson really well though all game.
- Fox announcers were impressed by Kolb after the first half, but he really should have been picked off 3 times.
- In all the lauding of Kenny Britt neither Fox announcer bothered to mention the police investigation of his bar fight and why he was not playing in the first quarter. Good job.
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