Futile fantasy failure, Superstar Scrub
I am so frustrated by that Eagles performance on so many levels. Obviously the pathetic defensive performance and lack of offensive production except scoring by Vick doomed my chance to steal the top spot in my fantasy league championship which I wound up losing by 23 points.
Let me not be a pessimist and list both the positives and negatives.
Positive – Howdy Doody finally pulled out Dimitri Patterson after he got burned once again by the Vikings 3rd string QB. Why it took this long I have no idea.
Negative – everything else.
Ok, everything was lined up for this to be a dominating Eagles win. Hell they were favored by something like two touchdowns, a HUGE margin for a NFL game. The weak decision to move the game to Tuesday so the teams wouldn’t have to play in a couple inches of snow should benefit the Eagles on paper.
The Vikings defense was ripped to SHREDS the week before in bad conditions against the Bears, allowing 44 points! Just imagine what the vaunted Eagles offense will do against such a unit?
On top of that, Brett Farve failed his concussion test and wasn’t going to play. Instead the Vikings were forced to start Joe Webb, their 3rd string QB that was actually drafted as a WIDE RECEIVER. This should be a cake walk right?
Well Andy Reid has a fabled history of blowing games where the Eagles are huge favorites. Who can forget the tie against the lousy Bengals or the loss to the horrendous Raiders a couple years ago? Well add last night’s game to that list of atrocities.
Right from the start you got the sense the Eagles thought the Vikings would just lay down. Instead the Vikings defense came out aggressively and literally blitzed almost every single down. For some reason the Eagles had no answer to the blitz and allowed the Vikings to hit Vick again and again and again. Another thing Andy Reid teams are historically bad at is making offensive adjustments if their initial game plan fails.
Even though the Eagles appeared to be going into half time with a small 7-0 lead I still had to think it would only be a matter of time until they put the Vikings away. Well then just before the half Vick committed one of his three turn overs (could have easily been 6 or 7 if Viking DB’s didn’t have hands of stone) fumbling away the ball which was scooped up and run in for a TD. WTF?
Instead of coming out in the second half with fire in their belly for allowing the stinking Vikings to hang around the Birds instead allowed the Vikings to march right down the field for an easy touchdown. The Birds were continuing yet another incredibly aggravating trend they excel at, making scrub QB’s look like All Pro’s. They hardly touched Joe Webb who looked more like Joe Montana as he lead the Vikings up and down the field. It was downright pathetic.
The futility continued till the embarrassing and disappointing end of the 24-14 debacle. Once again the Eagles blew a game as a huge favorite. It almost serves them right for pushing to cancel the snow game, stupid pussies. The game crammed enough uninspired, sloppy play into it to fill a season.
The loss meant the Eagles, just like last year, lost a chance to set themselves up for a 1st round playoff bye. They will be the 3 seed, no matter what the outcome of the game against the Cowboys is.
I have a concern about Michael Vick. Yea he still managed to run for one TD and throw for another (which killed me in fantasy) but overall his play wasn’t good at all. Like I mentioned, he fumbled twice, should have been picked off 4 times and he flat out missed a number of throws.
I remember from his days as a Falcon, one of the raps on him was he HATED playing in the cold. I clearly recall pictures of him looking absolutely miserable on the sidelines years ago in playoff games against both the Eagles and the Bears, both of which he played terribly in.
Last night was the coldest air he played in this year for the Eagles and look at the result.