In a strange kind of way, I'm actually quite impressed. It took an absolutely Herculean effort to piss that came away, along with an eerie confluence of circumstances. I don't think I have seen a 4th quarter like it in a long time. Saquon's first fumble of the year. Hurts took his first sack of the day at the worst possible time. So, so many penalties. The weird thing with that big Mann punt. They had absolutely no business losing that game. It's almost funny. And, right on cue, I see Tatergeddon has arrived, just in time for Thanksgiving.

10 hours ago, MagicMoment said:

Hurts lost a step. I believe it happened sometime between 2022-2023 when he got injured. Running east to west, he cannot separate from anyone. Which is why he does the ridiculous high step that fools no one.

Agree, when he runs towards the sidelines he looks like he’s wearing ankle weights. It’s so weird because on occasion when he runs up the middle, he looks like he has burst but that’s not happening very often.

Is Gipson cut yet?

7 hours ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

First half we throw more than we run, there's an early slant to AJ, the ball goes out quickly, we run Hurts sensibly we score 21 unanswered points, so far so good, should we be concerned that we scored the last TD with a rough looking tush push after rushing Jurgens back into the line up from injury? I hope not.

Second half, Sirianni goes back to his play percentages protect the football and control the clock nonsense, we start running Saquon early downs, he gets nowhere at all, we get behind the chains, we get into 3rd and 8 or worse, the pass plays become the stuff defenses have been diagnosing early all season, the pass protection starts to waiver and the offense begins to stall, even when we do manage to get good plays off there's a flag... there's lots of flags... on all phases of the game.

This game was basically the Denver game all over again, get a lead, go conservative on offense and stop scoring points, start giving up chunks on defense, refuse to accept what's happening with the offense and go back to what works. Lose the game.

It was a one score loss in a tough road game, but they had them, all they needed to do was stick with what worked first half, instead they went back to the same crap that hasn't worked all season, Barkley just isn't the same player this year, the run blocking isn't where it was last year by any stretch, but Bigsby is hitting the holes there are better, he has more juice.

The Refs stunk in this game, we got called for every ticky tack foul after going 21 up and the Dallas O Line got away with murder all game, but there is no excuse for the number of false start and alignment penalties we get though, I can't even recall the last time I saw a false start on a receiver lined up outside, and Jesus tap dancing christ why do we have Steen lined up turned around and tapping the center to snap it every down? Why can't Hurts give the line a verbal cue like every other team in the league?

I agree, but to be fair, they win this game if they don't have the back to back fumbles and stupid penalties. Those penalties were huge because they killed what were good drives, and Saquon's fumble cost us at least 3 points. I believe we were driving and in scoring position when he fumbled. Oddly enough, as soon as he caught that pass I had a feeling that he would fumble it and sure enough he did.

I don't mind the loss, because it's a divisional game and those tend to go either way. Hopefully this loss wakes the team up and they can get their stuff together to play well heading into the playoffs.