There is just no buzz with the Eagles anymore. When they were in the their golden years, or as Jeffrey Lurie stated, when they were the "Gold Standard" of the league, each week was an event.
It didn't matter if they played the Houston Texans or the Arizona Cardinals; you looked forward to every game and expected this team to win. Most importantly, you expected the Eagles to display that Eagles brand of football we love.
Now that the Ray Rhodes holdovers are gone and Reid's defensive selections are in there this team's defense has about as much heart as a cadaver.
So what if they win this Sunday against the Bengals. They're supposed to beat a 1-8 team, especially one that is arguably the worst team in the NFL. When this team plays games that actually matter against division opponents they flat out stink on ice. They're 0-3 thus far this season and they were 2-4 against their NFC East foes last year.
Even though people have been saying it for years, they truly have become a predictable team and it's not an Eagles team that we can identify with-not like the ones of the Buddy Ryan era, early Ray Rhodes era, or the early years of the Reid era.
Brian Dawkins is coming to the end of the line. Mike Patterson and Brodrick Bunkley look overmatched anymore. Gocong looks like an experiment gone awry and Omar Gaither is just ok. Stewart Bradley aside from the game on Sunday night hasn't been the impact linebacker we hoped he would be. Asante Samuel isn't tough enough.
So, what's there to look for on Sunday? We want to see a win naturally, but we won't learn anything new about this team if they do win.
It's what football has become in this town-just another game each week.
4 comments:
I agree with you on some things. The Eagles don't look like the Eagles teams we are used to, but you can't tell me there wasn't buzz last week before the Giants game, or most of the games this season for that matter. I don't agree that people aren't looking forward to the games, and Asante wasn't brought in to be a tough physical CB, he was brought in to get turnovers which he is doing.
Just not sure you should be speaking for an entire city. Yes we are disappointed, but your making it sound like the people of philly could care less about the Birds which just isn't true IMO.
"Even though people have been saying it for years, they truly have become a predictable team"
predictable? having 95% of your pass plays from the shotgun is predictable?
There was definitely a lot of buzz last week, but the season is over in my opinion because they failed to deliver against the big boys.
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