This was a horrendous loss by the Philadelphia Eagles to an inferior San Francisco 49ers football team. It may have been the worst regular season defeat of the Andy Reid era. All the coach could say afterwards was that “they need to score more points in the fourth quarter and hold the other team to less points”.
Something major needs to be done on the defensive side of the ball, because for the third week in a row the defense feel apart at the end of the game. They were leading 23-3 in the second half and squandered that lead.
Andy Reid arrived for his post-game news conference he said the following, “Absolutely terrible job by myself and my football team today. When you have the lead in the National Football League, you build on it and you continue to score points, when given the opportunity. In all areas, we were terrible today.”
Realize that the Niners offense had produced a grand total of three touchdowns in three games to begin the season, but in the second half of their battle with the Eagles, they were able to drive the football nearly the length of the field, three times to win the football game.
What in the world was Ronnie Brown doing on that fumble in the goalline? The Eagles don’t have any idea what they’re doing on the goalline. If they could have punched in one of those drives, they would have their second win of the season.
The Eagles felt it was time to rid themselves of the greatest kicker in the franchise’s history, David Akers, and replace him with a rookie, Alex Hennery, and the rookie promptly missed two chip-shots, a 39-yarder and a 33-yarder, with the game on the line.
Nmandi Asomugha, who is supposed to be one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL looked like a rookie getting his first taste of NFL football.
Michael Vick threw the football for 416 yards with two touchdowns, one interception and a 99.5 quarterback rating. He also ran for 75 yards.
DeSean Jackson had a big day catching the football. He racked up six catches for 171 yards. Jeremy Maclin who committed a huge mistake when he fumbled on that last drive. Jason Avant had six catches for 69 yards and tight end Clay Harbor caught three balls for 55 yards.
The second leading rusher in the NFL was an after thought as he carried the ball only nine times for 18 yards.
Ronnie Brown, the author of the throw the ball on the ground technique carried the ball three time for 15 yds
Frigging ridiculous aint it fellas?.. I mean what the hell is going on around here? Im lost.
G – Lurie needs to FIRE Reid and clean house. Roseman has to go also…
Lurie needs to get on the phone and send a private jet to pickup Bill Cowher or Jeff Fisher and bring one of them to Philly to clean up this mess
“Absolutely terrible job by myself and my football team …. ”
Hey, he said it. I didn’t.
time for AR to go. Did anyone watch tulloch today? that was the MLB i was sure we’d get.
right now we stink everybody the only move left to made i think is fire juan yes juan not andy any time you get down in the redzone 7times and get 2tds,3fg, one fumble and a missed kick its not on andy but this team should be 4-0 right now but juan who has never coached d ever has but this defense is bad spots the past 3 weeks there are no leaders on the d they hav good player the dline is great the lbs are poor the cbs are great but safetys suck page should never be on the field agin for this team lets just hope these losses help make them better in the long run but i want juan gone asap juan must go juan must go now if they lose any within the next 4games this season maybe over but next year it maybe time to draft a lb in the 1st round or sign one in fa if anyone has a list lb that are still fa and are good post it i pissed now its only one thing that can help me get over this now some good sex with the wife lol
The Eagles are clueless on offense and defense. Vick is running around like a chicken without a head and Frank Gore is averging 8 yards a carry when it was questionable that he would even play. From the most insignificant coach to the owner they are clueless as to how to put together a sound team. On my schedule of games I put this game in the loss column before it started. I hope now people can understand why I have been so down on the front office and the head coach. They have had enought tome already”to do a better Job”
I agree Smitty…about the wife part.. Goddamn man! I feel like Ive been lied to. This team looks and plays like shit.. Few bright spots..Babin is beasting…but overall? We arent going anywhere…Once again.
agree gloomsmitty
Juan is killing us….. the defense is awful.. Probowlers everywhere and the defense sucks?
I could do a better job than Juan… the issues are obvious and show up every week right on que…
“The Niners had produced a grand total of three touchdowns in three games. . ., but in the second half were able to drive the football nearly the length of the field, THREE times to win the football game.
The Eagles felt it was time to rid themselves of the greatest kicker in the franchise’s history, David Akers, and replace him with a rookie, Alex Hennery. . .
Nmandi Asomugha, who is supposed to be one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL looked like a rookie getting his first taste of NFL football.”
The defensive situation wouldn’t be so bad if it were a work in progress, perhaps a defense in need of a player or two. But this is a totally revamped defense built on the acquisition of high-priced free-agent talent.
After last year’s record-breaking defense, it became Reid’s focus to dramatically improve. Last year’s defense got us to the playoffs. This team is going nowhere.
At the end of last season, I stated my case about the release a sure-fire kicker. That’s something you just don’t do. We’re talking about the highest-scoring player on your team. It’s not a glamorous position, but it’s a high scoring position. Akers was the team’s highest-scoring player year after year. Why would they let him go during an “all-in” year?”
On what, exactly, did Reid base his promotion of Castillo? Did he simply believe that hard work get it done? Did he think that because Castillo was pretty good as position coach that he had to be good as a coordinator (on the other side of the ball). When the move was made, I scratched my head, but I wasn’t privy to Castillo’s resume. For all I knew, he was once a great defensive coordinator in college, high school, or at least, pee wee football. Now I wonder if he’s ever coached a defensive position? What did Reid know that I didn’t?
As some of you may remember, last year, I tracked Reid’s play calling during each game. Well, I understand that during today’s game, Reid called pass plays 82% of the time with a 17-point lead. Do I even have to comment on that?
J.A.M.
Juan Andy Marty!!!!!!
The gun is fully loaded and J.A.M. It never gets FIRED!!!!!!
The moral of this!!!!!!!! FIRE THESE FUDGE PACKERZ
GO EAGLES!!!!!!
In some ways maybe this shouldn’t be a surprise. This isn’t baseball you can’t buy a super bowl. Most good teams have excellent drafts create leadership from those drafts and only patch a few holes with free agents. Most good teams have coaching stabilability. This team has a rookie defensive coordinator and almost a new coaching staff on the defensive side of the ball. There is no leadership because they haven’t been though the wars together. It’s going to be a long season
BTW – I see Brian Dawkins out there making plays today. Go figure.
Here is the telling quote from the post game PC:
“It’s offense and defense. You can’t sit on leads,” Reid said. “You can’t do that as a football team. That’s what I did with our football here and we lost the football game.”
Because its exactly wrong on both counts. If all the Eagles’ had done was hand off the entire second half, SF would have run out of time.
Reid was entirely too agressive. I’ll look at the numbers later, but he called over 80% pass plays in the second half….how is this….in any way…”sitting on a lead?” Its the exact opposite of sitting on a lead. If they had “sat on the lead” they would have won!
Sitting with friends at half, and I said, “Despite that totally idiotic play, I want to see 15 Ronnie Brown carries this half to keep McCoy from getting hurt. Run out this clock and send this shitty SF team home.”
Instead we “sat on the lead” by calling passes 8 of every 10 snaps. If that’s “sitting on a lead” then I wonder what “being agressive” means….
y making a lot of plays Drummer…to the tune of 35 pts against in 2.5 quarters. Give the Dawkins bit a rest.
Stephen Tulloch FA for weeks and signs a one year deal with the Lions and very familiar with the wide 9 scheme……. U let him pass by!!!!
1,2,3 picks wear the same clothes I wear….. they are just fans with great seats!!!!!!
Andy Reid is the Public Defender of coaching!!!!! Would you put your freedom in his hands?????? HELL NO!!!!!!! LMAO
Wow! Green Bay is clicking on all cylinders. Their defense has made this game a route.
lol for all those people that say give the dawk talk a rest sayn that the pack is kickn there ass right now 2points on that 1 thereare 10 other players outthere with dawk on d and 2.who would really rather hav right now allen and dawk or allen and that slow bum page i mean common man is this really a ? i would trade page,winston justice ,casey mattews and a 7rd pick to get dawk back
Aw Vinnie – in a foul mood today? Okay, how’s this: Dawkins stinks!
Feel better, now?
Gloomysmitty
Some people just don’t get it. “Nough said?
ok for all those people that are made our draft picks dont start who really wants a bunch of rookies starting on a “super bowl team” yes i want them to play but not start you dont need a alot of kids starting and for all the tulloch talk they tried to sign him but he got more money from det for this i still see the eagles going 11-5 or 10-6 they will get things right and it will be better after tomorrow when they fire juan
Andy Reid is a hoarder!!!!! He promoted trash to be his defensive coordinator!!!!! He promoted young trash to be his middle linebacker demoted trash to outside linebacker and then demoted trash to the bench!!!!!! He holds the good stuff and and doesnt put them on the mantle of his house……. Whats he do….. He lets them lay around and linger not to be used correctly!!!!!!
Paging Mr. Gruden!!… Paging Mr. John Gruden!!… Huh!..Oh…Yes sir… Are you Mr. John Gruden?!… Yes sir… Well, sir…. You have a call from Philadelphia on line one sir!… Yes sir… I believe the gentleman identified himself as a Mr. Jeffrey Lurie. He says it’s extremely urgent sir…
I can’t lie. I’m happy. I feel like I’ve been in a bad marriage for a long time, and it’s about to end.
Sure it started off “good,” then it got “real good,” then it got “real.”
The marriage looked good to my family and friends. Everyone told me what a wonderful wife I had, but no one was with us behind closed doors.
Well, now, everyone’s beginning to see that I chose the wrong girl. She’s got little tits and her feet stink. She’s unemployed and her talks too much. You get the picture.
Sure, the divorce will lead to some pain, but it won’t eternal pain. Even if my next marriage fails, at least I’ll have some hope for a period of time.
Andy, I want you out of my life!
What did Reid learn from promoting Sean McDermott?
“All the coach could say afterwards was that “they need to score more points in the fourth quarter and hold the other team to less points”.
No $h!t. Isn’t that the object of the game or is he just trying to be a smart a$$ as well as an brain dead incompetent? And the sad thing is, if he goes to the Front Office, they’ll more than likely name Moron-wig the Head Coach. We are doomed to decades of less than mediocrity, fans.
At least the Cowboys also blew it and the Giants are behind…
hey drummer they are not gonna fire andy 2 reasons 1 they dont want eat the money they would owe him and 2 i keep coming back to this he may be the head coach but the d isnt on him and thats the problem the last 3 games the d has let 2nd half leads go inthe air so juan is the problem here he needs to go dont know who would take over but he has to go juan is ok in the 1st half but in the 4th he just seems lost
Slick1
You just made me shutter and fall out of my chair.
I had never even entertained the notion that Reid would be moved to the front office. Gotta go . . . I’m feelin’ ill.
The ALL HYPE TEAM Story is coming into PLAY!!!!!! Maybe Nastra-grossman was correct…… Perhaps the Redskins will win this division……. Rob Ryan called us the all hype team for a reason!!!!!! BOY O BOY………. they knew we had the talent…… They knew we had the same OL coaching behind that talent!!!!!! WOW!!!!
Have been watching Redzone for the last 45 minutes and its amazing how many teams convert in the redzone without there qb running around like a chicken with his head cut off. Its amazing watching these teams run the ball on the goal line and scoring easily like they do against us. We are the only team that cant gain 1 yard on 3rd down. Its unbelievable.
Man, Green Bay’s D looks great!
Mimitaro – Thanks for the silver lining. I’ve been Facebooking all my friends and family who are Cowboys fans.
Excuse me gloomysmitty, meaning no offense…But wasn’t it Reid that appointed Juan as Defensive Coordinator. That’s Piss Poor judgement in my opinion. As Head Coach wasn’t it HIS responsibility to hire an experience DC instead of adhering to that totally unreasonable tradition of his of hiring in-house? That, and about a hundred other things this nincompoop has done in the past, is reason enough to FIRE REID and hire someone like John Gruden whom I’m sure could utilize the talent on this team to it’s fullest capacity, instead of the retarded crap that Reid seems to have an intrinsic proclivity for doing.
drummer, if that was New England going empty backfield while up 25 in the 4th quarter there would be an uproar. Packers are douches.
Daggolden
Isn’t it something? Last week, how many opportunities from the 3 yard line? And how many years has our red zone production been a problem? How many training camps have focused on red-zone scoring?
STAND AND DELIVER MY ASS!!!!!! JUAN CASTILLIO!!!!!!!
“HOW CAN I TEACH THESE KIDS”!!!!!!!!!! U deliver nothing but tragedies!!!!!! AR is the arthor and Juan Castillio illustrates!!!!!! And MM is the narrator with a side of snuff in his mouth spitting into a coke can rreading the Philly Fans an Early nighttime Season ENDING STORY!!!!!! WHY LURIE WHY!!!!
I guess i’m still wrong, apologists!? They f^#@ing stink! Andy square peg in round hole Reid, & his entire staff of moronic, stupid cronies, need to be fired 2night! Same garbage every week! Redzone OF & DF sucks! Play calling is horrid! LB’s, safeties & O-line suck! Another challenge lost by the genius, on a clear call, that he wasted! Didn’t run the ball again! DF can’t make play’s or tackle! Vick hit close to double digits, again! Ritalin boy Castillo, might be absolutely the worst DF coordinator, that i’ve seen in 20 years here! JJ must be doing gymnastics in his grave, at how laughable the DF is! I’m f^#@ing beyond disgusted & furious!
Mimitaro
Don’t get it twisted, I hate GB.
Yeah, I agree. Empty backfield in that situation would probably cause NE fans to question their coach’s play-calling.
This lack of strategy has been the norm here for so long, it almost goes unnoticed.
Trade Riley Cooper and sign Randy Moss to end our redzone woes!!!!
Alright, I gotta be like an NFL corner. Time to forget this loss and get my game face on for the Phils.
Jrroc the Hell with Randy Moss Im watching all these other teams who DONT have a Randy Moss and it doesnt matter. They still run the ball in the end zone. Recievers are still wide open. Its only a STRUGGLE for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Jroc – I had hoped the Birds would grab Moss or even Plaxico. We passed on both of those guys multiple times only to watch them produce elsewhere. Granted, they’ve got issues, but if we could have gotten just one Lombardi out of either, it would have been worth the investment.
You can absolutely forget about the playoffs, now! Guaranteed, they win no more than 7 games! This is & should be an end of an era!!! The entire staff needs to be fired 2NIGHT!!
Andy should have ran a triple flea flicker form the one yard line, with the fireman running it in after becoming eligible as an extra tight end. That would have fooled everyone.
By the way guys…where’s Schiller?
Dag
I feel your pain, man. Other teams . . . lesser teams get it done in the end zone. We have weapons. It’s got be scheme/play-calling.
Songs
LOL!
GO Phils. Cardinals have no idea what they are in for with Cliff Lee. Lights out. later all.
@ gloomysmitty11-5 or 10-6? WOW! How delusional can you get? You ARE dreaming aren’t you? My God! C’mon…Wake up, man! The Eagles are toast this year. Just look at the rest of the schedule:
Sun Oct 9, 2011 @Bills 1:00 PM ET FOX Buy Now
6 Sun Oct 16, 2011 @Redskins 1:00 PM ET FOX Buy Now
7 — BYE WEEK —
8 Sun Oct 30, 2011 Cowboys 8:20 PM ET NBC Buy Now
9 Mon Nov 7, 2011 Bears 8:30 PM ET ESPN Buy Now
10 Sun Nov 13, 2011 Cardinals 1:00 PM ET FOX Buy Now
11 Sun Nov 20, 2011 @Giants 8:20 PM ET NBC Buy Now
12 Sun Nov 27, 2011 Patriots 4:15 PM ET CBS Buy Now
13 Thu Dec 1, 2011 @Seahawks 8:20 PM ET NFLN Buy Now
14 Sun Dec 11, 2011 @Dolphins 1:00 PM ET FOX Buy Now
15 Sun Dec 18, 2011 Jets 4:15 PM ET CBS Buy Now
16 Sat Dec 24, 2011 @Cowboys 4:15 PM ET FOX Buy Now
17 Sun Jan 1, 2012 Redskins
They MAY have a decent chance against the Cardinals and MAYBE the Seahawks but, as I posted prophetically yesterday, the Eagles are capable of making ANY team they play, look good.
Songs, leave Schiller alone. I understand how he feels. I still remember how long it took and how painful it was to finally realize the Reid was a bum!
I started out liking him, then began to dislike him, then we got to the Bowl, so I had to like him again, then he started doing even more crazy stuff, so I began to dislike him again. And now I hate him! I hate him because he fooled me good. I used to have arguments with my Dad. I would defend Reid to the bitter end. Now, I am my father!
Reid must go!
Hey…at least Kolb is leading the Cards over the Giants….so we’ll only be 2 games out of the division lead!!
🙂
That being said….I have as much faith in the Ariz D to hold this lead as I do in the Birds to hold theirs….