After going an abysmal 0-4 this round, and more importantly, suffering a Giants loss that made me want to throw up, it's time to break down why this all happened in the first place. I will start off with the Giants Eagles game, just to get it over with.
Let me start off by saying that our offensive play calling was absolutely atrocious. I knew what the next Giants
play was going to be at least 50% of the time. And the other 50%, the
play calls were just so dumbfounding I wouldn't even expect our
coaching staff to be so stupid. On 1st and 5 and relatively deep into Philadelphia territory, the Giants
elected to pass the ball 3 straight times, and guess what came of that-
a field goal. When you have 3 great backs, and Eli is having a terrible
day, why throw it three straight times? if we would have used Jacobs
the way we should have I believe we would have won. Jacobs averaged
almost 5 yards per carry, but just wasn't given the ball enough. Carney
missed 2 field goals in this game, and he missed just 3 all season (and
only 1 of those was a real miss, the other 2 were blocked). Most
importantly though, we settled for field goals every time we got into
Eagles territory.
RIDICULOUS!
We couldn't score even one touchdown. The problems today for the New York Giants were obviously on offense. Both defenses played very well, and both offenses didn't look that great, but the Eagles offense managed to look better than ours today (not much of a feat though). So, if Carney makes his kicks, Eli makes better throws, the coaching staff doesn't call stupid plays, and we actually managed to get some touchdowns instead of field goals, we would have won. However, that didn't happen, and Philadelphia pulled off the win. So since that I have rambled on about the Giants mishaps, maybe I should spend a little time on what Philadelphia did right. It was an ugly win for them for sure, but a win is a win, and they got the job done. Westbrook was non existant and McNabb didn't play very well, but the Eagle offense was able to pull off a few key plays to compliment how well their D played. Philadelphia's defense was a force, and won this game for them. Infact, they won last week's game for them as well. So will the Philly D be able to stop Arizona? Only time will tell, but they sure as hell did a good job stopping one of the top offenses in the league in the regular season today.
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