What’s really impressed me is the outstanding play calling by Arizona. It’s like they already know what the defense is going to throw at them and they counter with the perfect play. And what has not impressed me is McNabb. He’s always struck me as a talented player, but one who simply doesn’t have the perfectionist streak in him that will make him outstanding. He plays better with a chip on his shoulder, and all too often, like these playoffs, it seems to me he doesn’t much care. Maybe I’m wrong though.
I love how the Eagles thoughtfully called timeout before 3rd and 12 so they could give Arizona as much time as possible with the ball at the end of the half.
That was a bullshit hit that Eagles just threw on Warner. IMO, any cheapshot like that on the QB should be an automatic disqualification. And if I were the Cardinals, I’d send the biggest, most useless meathead they on the field for one defensive snap and tell him that his only job is to piledrive McNabb.
Up by three scores at the half. I love it…I fucking love it. I’ve been hearing Eagles fans talk all week about who they would be facing in the Super Bowl, how Warner was going to completely fold in the face of their massive pass rush, and similar looking-past-the-Cards comments. This is an absolute thing of beauty.
I won’t go that far, but I’d be fine with an automatic ejection. One of the major roots of my hatred for the Eagles is the fact that they constantly and consistently pick up scumbag players. Whether or not this is true is a big bone of contention I get when arguing with their pinhead fans, and I’m sure Bunkley’s play here will be yet another in the massive pile of ignored evidence (by the way Bunkley, if you’re going to try and pull a scumbag cheap shot like that, next time you might not want to do it right in front of the ref, you dipshit).
And another season of the Andy Reid era comes to an end. The team had some good days, and at their best, they looked unbeatable. But they also lost some games to far-inferior teams.
They made the playoffs, managing to to win a couple games behind their defense, but in the end they were doomed by their inability to run the ball, poor performance when in scoring position, and several McNabb misfires in crucial situations.
Ahh, ok, I see what you were going with. When I hear the term “disqualification”, I think of the entire team (as in a move like that costing the Eagles the game), but yes, a disqualification can also be on a person.
And damn, there were some panicky moments there, but goodness and non-scumbaggedry wins out in the end. Congrats dalej, Osip and all the Cardinals fans out there. I’ll be pulling for you in two weeks!
Now then, we just need a total score of 31+ in the AFC Championship so I can move on to the title game in my pool. 17-14 or better, please!
And thus commences the annual 8 month period in which Eagles fans demand that their highly successful Head Coach and highly successful Quarterback be replaced. As a Giants fan, I take a certain perverse pleasure in watching the drama unfold.
Really, it was a very close game, on the road, against what I think we can now safely call a good team. The refs definitely could have called interference on that last play (though it wasn’t a mandatory call or anything). If Westbrook was healthy, if Akers didn’t have an awful game, if any one of a handful of plays went just half a yard further or shorter, Philly wins and goes to a winnable Super Bowl.
Not an Eagles fan here, and I am perfectly happy to see the Cards in the SB, but that was *clearly *contact before the ball got there, and it was clearly *not *accidental. That was textbook pass interference, and should have been called.
It’s hard to call it “whining” when they’re right.