will we ever win?

Eagles, outclassed and uncompetitive

So another home game, another disaster, another embarrassment and another loss. This time 38-20 to the Patriots. I thought the Eagles would keep it close and then get blown out in the second half. I should have said second quarter. This collection of sad, dumbass clowns "led" by a a clueless, out-of-touch but knows-it-all ringleader and his hapless sidekicks, Marty and Juan, staged another performance of prat falls, boneheaded acts, comedy of errors, slip on a banana peel unfunny crap that resulted in the loudest boos of the season and the first loud and sustained "FIRE ANDY" chants.

The defense, its scheme and its coach was the biggest joke of the day. The worst of the worst aspects of the defensive play is the pylonesque secondary made up of safeties that don't know what they are doing and can't cover, and every would be tackler that gets dragged for a couple yards before actually bringing a runner down. The second biggest joke is the offensive game plan and play calling. We all know what I'm going to say next - run the ball blah blah blah. Use up the clock blah blah blah. Give it to your best player, McCoy blah blah blah. After Young had his early success that's all it took for Reid to throw it over and over and over again for the rest of the game. Young was erratic, and his receivers can't catch - so throw it even more! Third biggest joke is wannabe 10 million dollar man, Alligator-arms Jackson. In the first quarter his turtling resulted in a drop that killed a drive that ended in a field goal. In the second quarter when the game wasn't totally out of hand yet, he was more concerned about not getting hit than catching a touchdown that hit him in the hands. He later failed to catch a punt that rolled for 20 or so yards and a 50 yard bomb for a TD that practically landed in his lap. Fourth biggest joke is the broadcast team of Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf. They were willfully ignorant of things like Jackson's turtling and the loud "FIRE ANDY" chants, and failed to offer any criticism at all and instead repeatedly said things that weren't true. And even after a replay showed they weren't true - like Dierdorf's insistence that #31 on the Patriots got a hand on the bomb Jackson dropped - maintained that their version of reality was still plausible. True pros.

Other notes:

• Eagles didn't convert a third down until the third quarter.
• Vince Young threw for 400 yards on 48 attempts.
• McCoy had a whopping 10 carries.
• I think "REID MUST GO" better lends itself to mass chanting than "FIRE ANDY." Somebody print fliers to hand out for Jets game.
• Jenkins had a decent game.
• Avant came on strong in the 4th quarter!
• Nate Allen was the worst player on the field by far. Good thing the Eagles passed on Earl Thomas and moved up for Brandon Graham instead.
• The Patriots made it look so easy on offense. Or maybe it was the Eagles defense making it look so easy.
• Once again Vegas and the bettors overrated the Eagles by a lot.
• The woman in the Verizon ad "wrapping" the tablets and smart phones is fine.
• Good joke - Will Desean also drop his walking papers?
• It's a cliche, but when you don't play as a team and for the team and instead play as individuals, you will lose. (And you will also look pathetically bad while losing.)
• Fire Reid.