My god, how are the Eagles playing this damn good?
I am so glad someone started this thread.
It is actually fun to watch a Patriots game.
The Eagles are winning (I am not sure what punctuation to use here.)
I’d go with a 
followed by a :eek: and finish it up with a :mad:
Excuse me while I throw up for like the next six hours. I hate the Patriots, and love the Eagles, and my head is about to explode.
I’m loving the Patriots this year-
why flag???
You bet that was a TD.
I think they should have reviewed that…
Definitely.
He had his feet in, I still would have reviewed possession. Looks good to me, though.
Missed field goal.
Seems the Pats are just use to Touchdowns and extra Pts.
Is it me, or are the NBC camera-and-mike guys sticking it to Belichik by filming (and audibly recording) every snap-count that Brady makes? If I were on a team that had to play the Pats later this season, I’d be reviewing the game film along with the incredibly helpful footage that NBC is shooting… next time I hear “OMAHA! OMAHA! One-eighteen!” I’d be pretty confident that Brady was passing short to the right sideline. And yeah, I’m sure that some of those signals are just dummy signals… but a savvy mathematician could use the extensive data set that NBC has provided and force the Pats to change their snap calls for next week.
I’m rooting for Philly, and while I don’t expect them to win, it’s nice to watch a Patriots game in which the announcers are focusing on the game and not on polishing New England’s… trophies.
That was a close one. I was following via the Web but that final touchdown drive looked very efficient on the play-by-play.
Wah!
The Eagles gave it their all, they had the Patriots on the ropes for a moment. At leas they didn’t bend over and get reamed like 90% of the other teams that have played the Patriots this year.
I can’t figure the Eagles out this year. They get crushed by Dallas, they barely win against the winless Dolphins. They slaughter the Lions while losing to other mediocre teams.
Hmph.
At least I can say 'Suck it Patriots, you ain’t all that."
Seen every minute of every Pats game so far this year, and that was by far the best any opponent has played against them. Including Indy - the Colts needed everything the refs could give them to make it that close, but the Eagles just plain went on the road and executed their plan near-perfectly, with the exception of the mistakes that finally lost the game for them.
Eagles have a QB controversy for sure now, right?
Um, it’s the NFL. Some of the world’s best athletes are playing this crazy game. Also, shit happens.
I don’t think the Patriots are going to be undefeated. It’s a long season and it’s not an easy one. If they do, good for them, but I seriously don’t think they’re too obsessed with the perfect season. They want another trophy.
It seems to be a weakness that they do not run the ball. I’ve heard it said that they use the short pass as a run, and I can see that, but it breaks down when you can get pressure on the quarterback and make those short passes less than a certainty. Combo that with a blanket of Moss to take away the random deep gouge (and hope he has a mediocre game) and that’s how you beat the Pats.
Brady seemed to be on the ground a lot more than normal during that game. I agree, it was a win for the Eagles and they gave it away with mistakes. There will be a lot of people studying this film.
I have to say, even in as tressful game like this, and as an Eagles fan, I can’t hate the Pats. They play with intensity without being dicks. I even watched the perennial douche Moss help up an Iggles secondary after a hard fall into the back wall. It’s gorram contagious.
The refs clearly ripped off Moss on that TD pass interference call, and then ripped the Pats off again on the FG (if the yellow turn to blue thingy was working correctly).
Somehow it got overlooked that the play of the day was #75 ((Juqua Thomas) for the Eagles running down Wes Welker from BEHIND on what was looking like a sure TD. It was a screen pass, and #75 got hung up, but stayed with the play, and made a remarkable tackle. That was the drive where they nullified the Moss TD, and the FG.
I’m guessing that the refs this week were told “Moss is pushing off, so be sure you call it if you see it.” Problem was that the dude called it without seeing it. Moss might be a push off artists, but on this play, he wasn’t doing it. Could have been huge.
Feely made an atrocious decision to throw to the endzone while they were in FG range late. The final pick was inconsequential.
In all the talk that is starting up about how to stop the Pats, keep in mind, they still put up 24 offensively, which should have been 31.
Defensively, the Pats got no pass rush, and it made Feeley look like Brady, and Madden was right that everything into the middle was working. I don’t see Belichick letting such a thing slip again, though.
Hell of a game.
It’s instructive that holding the Pats to 24/31/27 is seen as a defensive victory. Part of that is that the once-vaunted D does not seem so impenetrable when they are asked to play a full share of a close game. You can score 35 on this Pats team if you keep them bottled up on offense.
Defensively, the Patriots didn’t look so hot on this one. They didn’t get much pass rush, but didn’t get much downfield coverage, either. Seems to me they played it as if they were afraid of Westbrook killing them. They did manage to keep him pretty much in check. But without those three interceptions, the D would have been lucky to get a D for their day’s effort.
But this has been a bit of a recurring theme for the Pats the last few years. The secondary has long been a problem spot, even in their Super Bowl victories.