Eagles Are Blown Out By A Bad Redskins Football Team
BREAKING NEWS, Eagles, General News, News Sunday, November 18th, 2012
The Eagles were totally embarrassed by a bad Washington Redskins team. Getting beaten 31-6 by such a bad team means that the Eagles can’t be considered a legitimate NFL football team.
I know Reid and Mornhinweg were hoping Nick Foles would be able to help get the offense going against a mediocre Washington Redskins defense. That hope is no longer there. Foles had lot of problems executing the offense. He was going against one of the worst defenses in the NFL and still couldn’t get the job done.
Foles was 21-46 for 204 yards for a 44.5 completion percentage. He threw two interceptions and threw no touchdowns. The first interception wasn’t his fault. He was off target many times with his throws and was in jeopardy of having more interceptions.
Howard Mudd and the Eagles offensive line performed so poorly, they should have been left in Washington after the game. They were either jumping offsides, holding, or getting beaten for sacks the entire game.
I think the fact that Jake Scott, who was signed this week, was able to start over a healthy first round draft pick, Danny Watkins, says everything.
Birds tight end Brent Celek was given the chance this year to be a bigger part of the Birds offense, especially in the red zone. He’s been awful with dropped passes, dropped TD passes and pass interference penalties.
Eagles running back LeSean McCoy has to be more careful with the football in a situation where he’s running out the clock at the end of the half. He was holding the football like he was out in the open field, despite the fact that he was cutting back in the middle of a crowd.
Eagles new defensive coordinator Todd Bowles is making Juan Castillo look like a great defensive coordinator. Today his defense let rookie Robert Griffin III complete of 14 of 15 passes for 200 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions for a 158.3 passer rating. How could any decent defensive coordinator let a rookie quarterback complete that high of a percentage of their passes? The Eagles defense under Castillo gave up some comebacks late in games, but the defense under Bowles starts out the game poorly and gets worse as the game goes along.
Eagles cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha has been horrible in the secondary. Last week he missed a tackle on Felix Jones’ touchdown run which was unforgivable. This week he turned Redskins wide receiver Aldrick Robinson totally loose. This has been happening all season long. Asomugha is always turning somebody loose in the secondary.
Eagles defensive end Jason Babin did get a sack, but the defensive line was virtually nonexistent most of the day. RG III had all day on most of the passing plays.
His battery mate, Trent Cole should have been benched earlier in the season. He’s not even getting close to get a sack nowadays. If they would have sat down some of these defensive ends at the beginning of the season, it might have gotten the attention of the rest of the guys on the defensive line. The rules should be if you do not produce, you will not play.
Mychal Kendricks has hit the rookie wall in a very bad way, he’s going backwards as a player. He doesn’t get off blocks any more and doesn’t have the burst in his legs. The youngster used to close on ball carriers, but now he has ball carriers run away from him a consistent basis.
Eagles safety Kurt Coleman was totally overwhelmed by Redskins receivers. He’s just too small to be an effective NFL safety.
Nate Allen isn’t a NFL caliber safety either. He’s not aggressive enough, doesn’t hit hard and he’s always a day late and a dollar short. I’m really disappointed in him because he never seems to get his hands on the football. This isn’t a good thing to say about a safety.
The most troubling thing about Allen is the fact that it reminds me we’re going to have the organization run by the guy who drafted Allen and Watkins, Howie Roseman. This is the number one issue for the Eagles going forward. How can you turn this organization over to Roseman?
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blogging tough guys… I stand by my earlier comments. If Andy isn’t anything he’s consistent…and could give a damn what people think. When Vick gets healthy he will start. San Francisco’s offensive play calling has been pure genius so far. Our offensive play calling horrible…Marty M does not deserve to call an Nfl game… I love the tic QBs. Nick Foles the verdict is still out young fella…
You know what is really sad, is that you goofballs spent all day, getting angry with other, ripping each other, & calling each other names like petulant children, when the real people you should be ripping, is this f^#@ing inept, moronic, clueless organization of ours!!!! Let’s really, get real, this entire coaching staff HAS TO GO! We DO NOT HAVE A FRANCHISE QB (ALL INCLUDED), able to get us to the next level! Our GM is a glorified bean counter, who doesn’t know WTF he is doing! Our offensive line, is the worst I’ve ever seen! Our WR’s are small, heartless, pu$$y, quitters! Our DF is full of NON-tackling, overpaid, heartless, undersized, DOGS, who should be cut IMMEDIATELY!!! Get it through your heads, IT DOESN’T MATTER, who the F^#@ the QB is! Stop defending Vick & stop F^#@ING ripping him! We know he sucks, but it isn’t ALL his fault! THIS TEAM SUCKS, & are an EMBARRASSMENT!!!!! NUKE EM!!!!!
you say it doesn’t matter who the QB is, then you say stop ripping Vick, but then state he sucks…how much of a hypocritical statement was that? What makes you believe that our WR are small heartless quitters? The problem with the defense is the play calling and failure to make adjustments, bottom line. Teams have been doubling our D Line since the start of the season…Haven’t seen an adjustment yet…No delayed safety blitz. bringing LB up the A gap, no adjustments period….Defense could be good with the right play caller…Juan Castillo showed us this early in the season…
Make a list, of who is worth rebuilding this team around. My list isn’t full of a hell of a whole lot!
DF- Cox, Curry, Thornton, Ryans, Kendricks, Boykin, Marsh, maybe DRC?
OF- Shady, Brown, Polk, Havili, DJax, Kelce, Herremans (back at Guard), maybe Celek.
ST- Hennerey.
That’s about all I think, who are worth of bringing back. Just saying!
The wide receivers are small, fragile and quit on routes, the exception is cooper, but he’s not fast enough to create separatiion, couple the poor offensive line with the crappy receivers and you see why both quarterbacks struggled, albeit differently
What does “doubling our D line” mean exactly. Doubling the whole line? That would take 8 guys. Add in the QB and that leaves 2 guys running routes. Is that what you see?
Don’t try and sell us now on Castillo. Clearly the D benefitted from facing Wheedon, Flacco, Kolb to start the year….Brees, Ryan, RGIII and even ROmo have exposed the players and scheme.
And while there are issues with the scheme, it wasn’t scheme that had Cole “ole” right buy Brees when he had a free shot, or whoover DB/safety tandem that was out jumped by mini-man Santana Moss on a desperation RGIII heave the other day.
Juan Castillo would n’t be solving these problems.
The team is rife with Probs
QB: Hopefull this has been solved…we’ll see…
OL: This will take 2 years to rebuild
WRs: Some tweaking req’d. try and trade Desean (no takeers) and get a little more size
TE – I don’t think as desperate as others. Get Celek some of those towels SD was using
DL: Start Curry and BG now…build around them and COx. High draft pick here
LBs: Promising. Not an area of draft need
DBs: Nmadi and effort when he wants DRC both must go. 2nd round pick on a DB.
Safities: Ugh…..going to take 2/3 seasons to repair the secondary
Coaching staff…all new
So….the Birds have made the first step in replacing an again broken down QB, and now the next task is to move on to the other positions…but this will take a couple years.
Nothink however can be started until a QB is in the fold. Just ask Pitt and Chic what a competent QB means.
VinniemySISTER….. max protect. two guys on one at times, yea thats what I see…thats what I’ve seen…I’m a defensive guy when it comes to football. Sometimes teams are doubling two of our ends single on the DT’s…some times its reverse, sometimes its max protect, sometimes they release and setup the screen (dont block any)….You can’t double team every D Line member the entire game, DUH! you have to keep teams off balance, provide your QB with more options than 2 at times…But yea the Eagles haven’t been able to get pressure because the LB’s haven’t been put into place to make plays on the QB enough nor has the DB’s..The wide 9 schemes has gaps and the defense has not been creative enough with the coverage behind it.
Again, you simplistic dumb ass…The game of football is a little more complex than going with the same formation over and over and over and over and over again!
Stick to bashing Vick, you don’t know much else about the game of football than that.
I have argued and gotten a very hard time over the last couple years that the Eagles WR Corps were actually a weakness of their Offense since they disappear once inside the 25 yard line and that unless it was a big play, busted covereages, that this WR Corp was not tough or physical or big enough to lead the Offense to 8-10-12 play Drives for they were not consistent enough to make the touhg catches and especially down in the Red-Zone where they disappear
lies. If this were true why did EVERYONE want them to sigh Burress? Why have we for YEARS been talking about the lack of ability in the red zone?
Pman the martyr. I guess you have been arguing with us all about the lack of a DC and the Head Coach running too much too right?