Suddenly the Eagles look like contenders once again after winning three straight games and sporting the NFC's top ranked defense. Yep folks they have the top ranked defense in the NFC and third ranked in the NFL behind Pittsburgh and Baltimore.
And, the offense isn't too shabby either, clocking in at #7 in the NFL.
Why is this team fighting for their playoff lives? Is it incompetence on the part of the head coach? Is it lack of effort and toughness by the 11 and 11 on the field? Bad luck?
Probably a combination of all of these in some way, shape or form. They Eagles find themselves behind the Cowboys and Falcons, whom are 9-5 at this juncture. Meanwhile, they are sporting an 8-5-1 record and need to not only win out, but receive a bailout of their own in the form of a Vikings victory this weekend over the Falcons.
Matt Ryan on the road against the Vikings. Hmmm. I'll take that and say the Falcons win this Sunday unless they suffer a letdown. The Falcons are the NFL's best story this year, having crawled out from the depths of the ocean amongst the bottom feeders to become a contender in the NFC.
Matt Ryan is an NFL MVP candidate-yep the same Matt Ryan from our area. There hasn't been a rook in the NFL to take the most coveted individual award since Jim Brown did it over 50 years ago.
The Eagles are going to have count on a Falcons letdown this weekend or dare I say it against the Rams. And, those aren't good odds.
This season could be another case of "just what if" and they'll end up a 10-win team.
Who would have thought 10 wins couldn't get you in the playoffs in the woeful NFC. Newsflash, the NFC has gotten much better. Just like the Eastern Conference in the NBA.
There's little doubt that the Eagles will run over the Redskins this weekend. The Skins are a dead team and their coach as yours truly predicted, is a joke. And, little Danny Snider will fire him at season's end and hire his 27th head coach in the past 10 years.
And, what pray tell was the NFL thinking by putting the Eagles-Skins and Falcons-Vikings games on at the same time? Sure, they couldn't bump the Panthers and Giants from the spotlight, because that game has implications for who is the top team in the conference (great move trading for Carolina's 1st rounder by the way Big Red) but at the very least they should have put one of the games on at 1:00.
I wouldn't want a Sunday night game anyway. I don't know about you, but I'm about suck of staying up late to watch the Eagles on prime time. Some of us have to get up at 6:00 in the morning for work you know.
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The State of the Sixers = Sad
Sure, the Sixers are coming off a 2-game winning streak, but lets just put a fork into this team now shall we.
The easiest job in the world is being a Monday Morning Quarterback, but a GM's job is to not F up.
I praised the move of signing Elton Brand and still think he'll pan out-well at least I hope so.
However, there is no reason in hell the Sixers should have ever signed a second-rate player like Andre Iguodala for that kind of contract when he still had a year left on his rookie deal!
Heck, they should have let him walk if he wanted that kind of money. This is the kind of contract Billy King would have signed a player too. And, now the Sixers are stuck with a middle of the road player on their roster making superstar money.
And, unless Isiah Thomas is reincarnated or possesses the mind of a GM in this league the Sixers are going to be back in salary cap hell for the next few years.
After all they went through to get out of cap hell, they decided to sink right back into it.
What the hell was Stefanski thinking? I thought the guy was a smart basketball guy. Boy was I wrong.
So were so many of us.
1 comment:
You forgot that if Tampa Bay loses again and the Eagles win out, they still get in. So it's not just on Atlanta.
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