Just now, cunninghamtheman said:

I could see criticizing the call. It was a clock consideration move. Give the D that extra help with the clock as the 12th man. I don’t think it was a confidence in the QB thing call. The thought is put the Cards back against the wall with the clock. A throw incomplete stops the clock before the kick. So manage that clock. Take the 3 point lead. The D has to step up and not give up 29 second half points to the Cards…at home even. But the clock could have been a huge factor in forcing the Cards to kick a field goal. All the factors. D could just do their job and get a stop. Or just hold on long enough the clock limits the Cards to settle for the kick and OT. Always a chance huge pressure kick is missed. That’s several key scenarios to rely on. D gets a stop we win. They miss field goal we win. They get field goal we don’t lose..yet. Three big scenarios that should be able to rely on against the Cards at home. Totally see all that logic in the call on third down. All the D had to do at least was….not let them score the TD. Even if they stunk and didn’t completely hold….just hold on to kill the clock and make it to OT.

D just failed. Think if you have more confidence in the D you aren’t worried as much about the clock management. But Siri was definitely thinking about the clock being the 12th defender to hold on for the victory. Could win with the field goal. Probably should have. But in that situation…gotta think we had a fair shot at OT if nit getting the outright win. D just couldn’t get it done. Not much if a surprise.

  But the call on third down more was about our D. What they potentially in worst case scenarios were facing. Siri have the D that extra weapon of clock. Just don’t give up a TD….again. 29 second half points kill us. Anything less? Was OT or the victory. My analytics point to this being a smart call and move. But we lost. Gave up the TD. Pathetic D second half.

1 hour ago, joemas6 said:

I thought the onside kick was great idea...shortened the field, make it harder to kill the whole clock with less field to drive.    We settled to FG.  No balls. No confidence in QB after penalty. 

As much as you could see the actual point in the onside kick by Gannon. Well done. Think you missed the thinking on the third down play settling for a field goal thinking by Siri. Both not obvious understandable situational football to casual fans. So give you props for getting one out of two. I would bet 80 percent of fans didn’t catch either. Heck probably even more.

1 hour ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Time to put the "we need to do better" Presser on a loop and forget it

For how long?

Just now, cunninghamtheman said:

For how long?

24 hours? A week? Until next season? For a couple years?

59 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

He's in the process of losing this team to the point they aren't going to bust for him anymore. Actually this was on the D,but still he(Hurts) played like a rook

Totally D related. If you trusted the D at all…going for it on fourth down could have been at play somewhere in the thinking even. Call was made just thinking about protecting the D. But they sucked.

45 minutes ago, EaglesTD123 said:

A designed QB run on 3rd & 9 WTF!

This team will be lucky to get 1 post season W

We just had been discussing how extremely difficult these playoffs would be. Top seed we’d get to second week of playoffs with a bye. Second and third seed paths were tough. Fifth seed we get South winner. We get to the second week I’m confident. No easy path this postseason. We could lose to any of them. But you know what? We can beat any of them as well. Just no shot at wearing unstoppable Kelly Green the whole way to the SB now. 

Sky isn’t falling. We are who I thought we were. But we have a punchers chance!

51 minutes ago, EaglesTD123 said:

A designed QB run on 3rd & 9 WTF!

This team will be lucky to get 1 post season W

These playoffs were always looking that way.

Haven't been on. Can't bare to watch a good team playing so badly. We are so poorly coached it's not funny and have so many blaring holes which we knew and didn't do anything about , a few band aids. We're heading in to a miserable slump as we need a rebuild and caching changes. Still a fan, just not happy with the team -  it's a t-shirt season like I said months ago.

I'm also off college ball. Player money and the player portal put an end to it - just greed. Players got free room, board and education, then greed took over. Colleges making money off players then players wanted more 0 money, money, money - MONEY! Forget what song that was.

I want the money to move to Curacao and forget the rest of the world exists. See you whenever

We gotta beat the Niners to win two playoff games now. Is what it is. Even if we beat that inevitable matchup….still face Detroit v Cowboys winner. Bit of them are rooting hard for us to pull the upset on the Niners..believe me. But we’ll get to all that point later.

1 minute ago, mjkline1958 said:

Haven't been on. Can't bare to watch a good team playing so badly. We are so poorly coached it's not funny and have so many blaring holes which we knew and didn't do anything about , a few band aids. We're heading in to a miserable slump as we need a rebuild and caching changes. Still a fan, just not happy with the team -  it's a t-shirt season like I said months ago.

I'm also off college ball. Player money and the player portal put an end to it - just greed. Players got free room, board and education, then greed took over. Colleges making money off players then players wanted more 0 money, money, money - MONEY! Forget what song that was.

I want the money to move to Curacao and forget the rest of the world exists. See you whenever

Think there was one more MONEY

But colleges are making insane money off these kids. Feels unAmerican to not let them sell their own names. Only a college has rights to make money off the person? Or the person has rights to market their own name? Which sounds more American?

Really nothing changed considering postseason. Niners had to lose to get a bye. 2 seed faces what? Seattle. Lost to 8 straight times. 5 seed we get South winner. I’d argue easiest matchup…not being the bye obviously.

Don’t even know much about all who will win the South. TB, Saints or Falcons. As far as opponent goes? That’s who we want. 5 seed not really that terrible. We will win that playoff game. Fine with being on the road. Road vs Bucs? Or Home vs Seattle? I say Bucs if give higher odds to our victory. We will win. We will beat the South Champs. Put it in the ‘I called it’ bank. That’s if we are the 5. If the season done nothing else…should have shown us all Cowboys could lose last game.

13 minutes ago, mjkline1958 said:

Haven't been on. Can't bare to watch a good team playing so badly. We are so poorly coached it's not funny and have so many blaring holes which we knew and didn't do anything about , a few band aids. We're heading in to a miserable slump as we need a rebuild and caching changes. Still a fan, just not happy with the team -  it's a t-shirt season like I said months ago.

I'm also off college ball. Player money and the player portal put an end to it - just greed. Players got free room, board and education, then greed took over. Colleges making money off players then players wanted more 0 money, money, money - MONEY! Forget what song that was.

I want the money to move to Curacao and forget the rest of the world exists. See you whenever

Don’t give up faith brother. Nothing really changed. Things looking bleak. But maybe more expectations for you rose to high believing too much hype. But …we got a real shot to make some noise still. We weren’t the best team in the league like some tried to prop us up as. Feels like you fell victim too much hype. We weren’t those guys ever this season in reality. 

Beat the giants. That’s 12 wins. If you really had your expectations set any higher? Never saw that. 11 or 12 win team is best we ever were this year. Think we are right on pace. Had a real chance to overachieve. Thought of this squad reaching the top seed was incredible. But wasn’t based on we deserved and clearly were that level team.

12-5. Heck of a season for us. Even 11-6 would be. But not if it means losing to the giants. That’s where we’re at now. I never just accept losing to them. Hate the giants! {Spit}

So everybody here is upset it feels. Losing to the Cards stinks…especially at home..and the way it happened. But please any of you explain to me how you had expectations of more than 12 wins this  year. I’m curious. 12 is really good for this squad. Pretty much needed to fire both coordinators and to reach 12 wins is near unheard of. Personnel mistakes so glaring never gave a chance to accomplish more …in my eyes. Just unrealistic to have expected more than 12 wins we have right in our grasp still.

Just saying don’t lose hope. Feel the pain of the dark day all out there. But it’s really not that big of a deal. Health issues always the biggest concerns. Niners lose next week against the Rams and can see that making an argument for today’s loss hurting more. But no easy path this postseason. Can make the case for the fifth being slightly preferred…if the goal is postseason success. Just wasn’t ever an easy path in this postseason.

If I was told we were a 12 win team that won a playoff game but lost to the Niners second round…before this season? I would have told you..,sounds about right.

DeVonta Smith the worst potential loss for us today in my mind. Heard crutches walking boot he’s in. Not good. I’d take him healthy and getting blown out today instead. Haven’t heard anybody mention this. 

Man I am REALLY, REALLY disappointed in the Eagles now. I was just REALLY disappointed prior to this game. 
The defense is possibly the worst I have seen for an Eagles’ team. I KNOW that’s not true, but I miss Jim Johnson sooooooo much. This team PASSIVELY plays defense. RARELY make plays on the opponent’s side of the line of scrimmage. They get nickel and dimed to death. Couldn’t stop a Cardinal’s team that I had never heard of any of their skill players past Connor and McBride. 

And Hurts made some crucial errors today. The called QB runs are stupid. Hurts clearly does NOT want to run them. He runs SOFT…clearly worried about getting hurt. On 2nd and 3 he needed to just fall down! Don’t make it a 5 yard loss. By the way, he could NOT throw the ball away as someone wanted him too since it was a called running play. If you want to call a QB draw, put Mariota in the game or create a wildcat play for a RB. Hurts does not want to run the ball this year. I get it. Without him, the offense has no chance. But throwing a WR screen on 3rd and 16 with the game on the line is EMBARRASSING!

I think I’m pissed because now the cowpies win the division. I dont want the cowpies to win anything. Apparently i hate them almost as much as i love the Eagles.

The playcalling on offense today. First drive. Two runs and it’s 3rd and 2. Hell, run the QB shove twice in a row if you have to. No, we call a pass play for ZERO yards. What the hell? It set the tone.

Grrrrr! I wish I didn’t care so much. It would be so much easier to watch this …..stuff.

Happy New Year Eagles fans! Sure hope 2024 brings LOTS of wins for the Eagles team.

Felt like many took my words so much as just negative. Was trying to prepare you just a bit. I let myself even ponder us getting that top seed. But it was a real possibility we lost this game to the Cards all along. Gannon knows us so very well. Cards are at the highest point of the entire season. This upset potential was written everywhere. Don’t lose all faith just yet.

24 minutes ago, Senhorcook said:

Man I am REALLY, REALLY disappointed in the Eagles now. I was just REALLY disappointed prior to this game. 
The defense is possibly the worst I have seen for an Eagles’ team. I KNOW that’s not true, but I miss Jim Johnson sooooooo much. This team PASSIVELY plays defense. RARELY make plays on the opponent’s side of the line of scrimmage. They get nickel and dimed to death. Couldn’t stop a Cardinal’s team that I had never heard of any of their skill players past Connor and McBride. 

And Hurts made some crucial errors today. The called QB runs are stupid. Hurts clearly does NOT want to run them. He runs SOFT…clearly worried about getting hurt. On 2nd and 3 he needed to just fall down! Don’t make it a 5 yard loss. By the way, he could NOT throw the ball away as someone wanted him too since it was a called running play. If you want to call a QB draw, put Mariota in the game or create a wildcat play for a RB. Hurts does not want to run the ball this year. I get it. Without him, the offense has no chance. But throwing a WR screen on 3rd and 16 with the game on the line is EMBARRASSING!

I think I’m pissed because now the cowpies win the division. I dont want the cowpies to win anything. Apparently i hate them almost as much as i love the Eagles.

The playcalling on offense today. First drive. Two runs and it’s 3rd and 2. Hell, run the QB shove twice in a row if you have to. No, we call a pass play for ZERO yards. What the hell? It set the tone.

Grrrrr! I wish I didn’t care so much. It would be so much easier to watch this …..stuff.

Happy New Year Eagles fans! Sure hope 2024 brings LOTS of wins for the Eagles team.

If you would have been reading here you would have known all about The Human Dortch. I mentioned him each time talking about this game. 7 targets. 7 catches. 82 yards.

Cook, game on the line play read back on WHY we did it. I explained the logic a page back.