As Usual, Eagles Self-Destruct On Final Series Of Another Loss
BREAKING NEWS, Eagles, General News, News Monday, December 24th, 2012
The game ended the way we all could have predicted. The Eagles beat themselves on the final series without help from the Redskins.
On the final play of the game, Nick Foles should have had the clock in his head set at five seconds. Once he counted out the five seconds and nobody was open, he should have thrown the football away. Instead he tried to do too much and it cost the Birds their final opportunity to tie the game up.
Foles took the snap dropped into the pocket. The offensive line was doing an outstanding job on this particular play, but the receivers weren’t getting open. The quarterback looked to his right, to the middle then to his left, but still there was no where to go with the football.
He felt some pressure to his right, so he started rolling to his left. The pressure was closing in so at the last split-second he decided to get rid of the football with a second to go on the game clock, but he wasn’t able to follow through on the throw because he was falling backwards.
The fact that he wasn’t able to get his body into the throw prevented the ball from going past the line of scrimmage and that resulted in a intentional grounding penalty, which meant ten seconds had to be run off the clock, so it ended the game, fittingly.
It’s the way the season has gone for the Eagles, self-inflicted wounds have doomed them time and time again.
Foles made that same mistake earlier in the game when he had about ten seconds to find an open receiver. He rolled to his right and rolled to his right and rolled to his right. Eventually Redskins linebacker Ryan Kerrigan arrived, stripped him of the football. It was scooped up by Washington defensive back Richard Crawford, who could have returned it for a touchdown had Eagles rookie offensive tackle Dennis Kelly not been in the area.
The young quarterback also missed a wide open Jeremy Maclin, who had run an out route in the end zone, but Foles’ throw was short. You’ve got to be able to make this throw if you want to be a franchise quarterback in the NFL.
Redskins defensive coordinator Jim Haslett was making things easy for the Birds by not jamming any of the Birds receivers at the line of scrimmage. Maclin was in the slot on the out route and was able to release and run a one-on-one route with the safety, which is a dream come true for any receiver.
On another play in the final series the Birds lined recently signed tight end Evan Moore up wide to the right side. He ran a quick slant and Foles hit him right between the numbers. It would have been a sure touchdown, but the tight end let the ball go through his hands. It hit off of his chest and fell to the ground as the receiver fell to the ground.
It was a good call and good throw, but you wonder why the Birds didn’t give starting tight end Brent Celek a chance to make the catch rather than Moore.
It was fitting that
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Vinnie I happen to agree with you about the QB’s coming out this year, the guys I like aren’t ready to step in and start, now the problem is neither Chip Kelly or Darrell Bevall the OC in Seattle will go with Foles as the QB if they are hired the NFL whether we like it or not is moving on with mobile QB’s and this read option crap. Unless you have a Peyton or a Brady and remember even Rodgers and a guy like Luke are basically mobile QB’s who excel in the pocket.
I dont think hes that fragile.. But why not just draft geno smith and let Foles be our back up .. we need a star
He’s only played 5 games and he’s already out for the year. Tsk tsk.
Some damn stupid comments, out for the year ?, there I
Is one game left in “the year” and no human has stronger hand bones than another , they fracture at the same rate, the amount of bs, bias is at an all time high here, nick foles is the best eagles qb prospect in A long, long time
Sucks when your own stupid logic is used against you doesn’t it?
Everybody always want to compare sombody to brady.. the truth of the matter is that just doesnt happen… brady has one of the best coaches ever.. if it wasnt for his coach he would be just a good average quarterback… they run a weird west coast offense with 2 star tight ends and a star slot reciever brandon lloyd on the outside and a tough running game at times.. you would have to emulate everything belichek does. and still then its a shot in the dark..
Yes larrwd, Brady must suck he hasn’t won a Super Bowl since 2004, he must not be great anymore. LOL
this is the dumbest comment probably ever written here. Brady would be average. haaaa
seriously u r an idiot
Brady made belicheck not the other way around guy
Total sarcasm dude, i guess you didn’t get it. Sorry wanna re think the idiot part?
Lion I think he was talking to Lawwrd.
thanks cigar if that was the case my apologies @mhenski
I was no biggie lion
I didnt say he sucked I said he a good quarterback with one of the best coaches ever running an unorthodox offense which is hard to game plan for there are quarterbacks with better mechanics better speed and better decision making…. they are constantly on brady about decision making.. watch the games.. they except nothing but perfection under belichek.. in contrast to peyton manning ..manning has the power he is like a coach on the field .. he like a conductor he know where everyone one is offense and defense ..does a million things presnap half of the time as just a decoy..
yea you’re an idiot. they may run a unorthodox offense now but bill switches it up every single year (along with his o cords.). Brady has basically mastered every system in the nfl… guys insanity and made belicheck
Does Brady win those chips as a Philadelphia Eagle under Andy Reid’s tenure ?
If you want to see stupid, read what lard ass had to say about probably the greatest competitor in all of sports, maybe the best qb of all time, but it’s because of his coach, meanwhile the great mv7 has all the excuses why he’s not even a jock sniff away from a good qb, figure it out, racism exists people, it’s black against white, del with it
I swear some of you guys really don’t have a clue…Brady is far from the best QB of all time first off, Jake!
In fact Belicheck has a lot to do with the success of the Patriots…Patriots end up with a 1000 yard rusher, pretty much no matter who he is…The play calling, their damage is done behind the line of scrimmage and 10 yards and under. They have a ball dominating offense. They aren’t looking for the big play. They will mix up run and pass, passes to the flat. 15 play drives. That is indeed a credit to the coach not just the QB.
pats have had a 1,000 yard rusher twice in the last 8 years
ok. yea you got me…really didn’t bother to go look at the stats like you did…was going off of memory…I know that since 2010 they have had a RB, break 1000 yards twice (the two times you are referring) and in 2011 Ridley got about a 3rd of the carries..two of them combined well exceeded 1000 yards..
u got me earlier with the players reid inherited so we are even. happy new year real.
i rarely agree with you but love that you have a different opinion than me. it keeps me coming back…
happy new year to you as well Mhenski…
Gcobb the greatest collection of dumb ass racists blacks ever assembled, and gcobb himself promotes this bull shit with some of his articles, you guys are disgraceful, how can some of the people stand by and passively take the bull shit pedaled here, stand up, call it out, speak the truth
No one calling out Jake for using the race card? doesn’t surprise me!
I think Lion called hi out With tact At 8:45 last night!
lmao . Im not racist I just break it down instead of looking through a magical lense..
Don’t bother larrwd, drinking and posting on the internet doesn’t go well as you can see. LOL
Watching the ESPN Little Cesar’s Bowl between Central Michigan and Western Jentucky and scouting LT for Cmenteal Michifan’s Eric Fisher
Who is the 5th Rated OT in the 2013 NFL Draft and projects as a high 2Nd Round Pick
If Eagkes select DT Star Lotukeije or LB Teo’ in the 1/st Round
This Kid Fisher could be their 2Nd Round Pick and would probably be the Starting RT from Day 1 and then move to LT once Peter’s days are done
Check him out ( #79) he’s big, smrong, nasty and moves real well
I like what I see from this kid for the NFL level moving forward
Can’t watch those games paulman it’s just overkill, I’ll do all my scouting during the Notre Dame vs Alabama game enough prospects in that game to keep me satisfied.
All you need to know…….
“I didn’t do my job,” Foles said Wednesday. “The starting quarterback, you have to put more points on the board at whatever cost to win the game. If you look at it like that, which I do, I didn’t do my job and that’s something that I’ve got to keep working on.”
Translation – it was my fault
“I can’t tell you,” Vick said Wednesday, after taking back the reins from Nick Foles for one last week as the Birds’ starting quarterback. “It’s just so many moving parts, guys in and out, we’ve had coaching changes and things of that nature. I really can’t say what happened, what went wrong. I’d have to go back and look at all the film. We all have to evaluate and assess our situation, as far as what happened at the conclusion of the season, but it is what it is. [This is] not the first organization this has happened to, and it certainly won’t be the last.”
Translation: it was not my fault
“The thing I’m truly confident about is my ability to play the game of football, what I know, what I’ve learned, the success I’ve had over the past years, what I can accomplish.” said Vick. “You never know what could come out of this game. You never know what I could learn. You never know what I could accomplish. I could go out there and break a record. There’s tremendous upside.”
He (Foles) was not specific about what he needs to work on during the offseason because, he said: “There are so many different things.”
“I think just continue to work on the fundamentals, continue to understand the defenses in this league, blitzes, protections,” Foles said. “But when you study it, you break it down. You don’t go at it all at once. It might be one week I’m just going to focus on my feet and keeping everything underneath and me and driving it. And the next week might be moves if I get pressure, getting out of the pocket.”
All you need to know right there.
And the Saga continues…..WHO THE FUCK CARES !!!!!!!!!!!
LOL
All this tells me is Foles is a better speaker, not doing the Vick, Foles thing today I will say it again all QB’s are me first guys. Find me one that isn’t. I haven’t’ met or played with one that isn’t a me first glory boy.
couple things lion. all qbs are not me guys whatsoever, not even close to true.
in my opinion foles is not a better speaker than vick. vick is one hell of a speaker and could talk for days. its what each of these guys say that is the issue….
what I meant is Foles is better versed in team speak. Vick talks and says exactly how he feels and sometimes people take that the wrong way. Now we are going to disagree about QB’s all of them are more about I then we. There is nothing wrong with that.
When you make 18 mill to represent a company you better learn to talk the company line… Not your personal interest line!
They may be but when they speak to the press they are team guys. Vick was that guy until adversity hit… Then he was a me guy. It is his character or lack thereof… I thought he turned the corner but a leopard shows his spots… Damn
Exactly cigar, one QB I have always admired was Brady, I mean this dude lost his job to Drew freakin Henson cost him to be drafted in the 6th round and he never has publicly uttered a bad word about Michigan. Just put his head down and worked.
Vick unfortunately has tried to keep it real… It’s cost him freedom, fame and fortune and the chance to win a SB but it’s won him loyalty and admiration from a group of people .
With his talent and toughness if he had kept his head down, disappointed a few of his keeping it real freinds he may have broken the mold. May have been an elite qb.
keeping it real, has nothing to do with any of that nonsense you speak…that was one of the silliest comments I’ve heard on here all day!
keeping it real has nothing to do with breaking the law. in fact if he were keeping it real, he would of listened to those voices that told him to stop doing what he was doing a long time ago…he lost his freedom due to being immature, stupid(what he was doing was stupid, especially being a million $ QB) and care free.
Yes still its not over for 7…he may not of won with the Eagles, but he’ll have one last chance to shine and even though I am an Eagles fan, I hope he does succeed and shuts the haters up like yourself, once and for all.
Instead of embracing his role as the face of a franchise, multi million dollar executive he decided to keep it real with his peeps. Stay in the thug lifestyle. That’s precisely what happened the two most famous Philly athletes to keep it real has backfired. Him and 3. Meanwhile 5 was not embraced… He did not keep it real in somew eyes. It is a very destructive attitude and obviously unreal it is a sensitive subject with me as I have worked with some great kids who mistakenly kept it real and it cost them
We all have to evaluate and assess our situation, as far as what happened at the conclusion of the season, but it is what it is.
This means to you, it was not my fault? you are one ignorantly selective individual…but you know what, at least you are consistent!
Real Stop Please…I’m begging you..DON’T FEED
NFL Released it’s Pro-Bowl Players for the 2012
Eagles have ZERO Pro-Bowl Players in 2012 so stop this garbage about Asmo,Cole,Jenkins,Ryans,DRC, D-Jax,Vick, (Babin) for they are not Pro-Bowl Players anymore..
7 Other Teams besides the Eagles did not have any Pro-Bowl Players either
(Panthers,St Louis Rams,Titans,Bills,Jaguars,Chargers and Raiders)
Eagles have now Offically become a bottom-feeder Team in the NFL
and are in the basement in the NFC since they lost Head to Head Match-ups with Arizona Cardinals, Detroit LIons and Carolina Panthers)
This Team needs a whole lot more than a QB… that’s for sure…
only Player on Eagles 53 Man ROster who is worthy of Pro-BOwl Status and Character is RB l McCoy who unfortunately missed a few weeks removing any chance for him to make the Squad but he will bounce back, these other Chumps lites above are on the downside of the Careers, every one of them including D-Jax who was stupid to sign a long-term Deal from and will become a 30 Snap a Game Player under the next HC regime and hopefully will have him Return Punts so he can earn some of his Contract $$$$, but he is not an everydown WR as I have been saying since he was Drafted..
He could play 30 Snaps a game and still end up with 40-50 Catches and make big plays, he’s too useless and disappears on 30%-40% of the Snaps, whether it’s in SHort-Yardage, Red-Zone Situations..
Not one Eagle belonged, but all that is a joke anyway. Jeff Saturday got benched and was picked, and what has JPP done this year to be called a pro bowl player?
biglion I heard Ross Tucker on sirius NFL channel laughing at that this morning — he also couldn’t believe 5 KC Chiefs made the pro bowl while only winning 2 games
This Eagle 2012 Team can be summed up very easily..
They were never as good as they thought they were from the Top to the Bottom
Very Average WR Corp, no big plays from the TE position, an Average OL which was decimated by Injury (LT was never addressed when Peters was injured last Spring, we all know Bell/Dunlap was not the Answer)
Very Deep RB Corp and yet the Coaches refused to change philosophy to lean on the running game with a struggling QB (Vick) and a beat up OL
(does this make sense to anyone??)
Now on Defense, 1/2 Season Disappearing acts by T Cole, C Jenkins and J Babin while he here.. They Carry DE D Tapp, but don’t play him much and de-activate a promising young Player in Vin Curry.. make sense ??
Drafar a promising LB in Kendricks, have him play out of position for 3/4 of the Season at SAM Spot when he’s a natural WILL Player.. (Make sense)
The they fail to properly address the biggest weakness of the Eagles Team and has been for about 3-4 Seasons now and that’s this Pathetic Secondary who play soft,timid, unsound fundamentally and are collectively the worst tackling Secondary in the NFL bar none, very few Int’s by the group as well
Even the Eagles had bad Seasons, you could always count on and rely on them have a physical and tough Secondary, those days have been gone since about 2007 when the arrival of Assante Samuel arrived and this Secondary has gotten softer and softer each Season since …
This Current Unit is an embarrasment to anyone who has playe CB/Safety and a real joke to watch.. See how both DRC and Asmo refuse to battle and fight to get off blocks.. Allen/Coleman continually coming in on bad angles and compound the erroe by tackling with their heads down so they have no idea what the runner is doing or where the ball is to try to strip or cause a turnover.. It’s brutal if you ask me and the real achilles heel to this Defense is the Secondary
yea reid and his staff are absolute morons in my opinion. all these guys talking about i dont want chip kelly i want this guy. here is my take
i would sign charlie gordon to be the coach over reid. this shit is old and stale and frankly he is a “goof”. time for change and some common sense.
new coach brings new players — alot of these Eagle players won’t even make it to training camp —-