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Stop drinking the Kool-Aid... There was nothing unlucky about those losses. Reid's play calling was terrible in both those games.

 

+1, plus the 2 teams were much more physical....the team was unprepared to play a full game of football in both cases and they needed a bye asap...

 

now we'll face a young Atlanta team coming off a bye in a game where we should win, but the defense is not looking the same as the one I saw 3 and 4 weeks ago....they are more or less playing like they don't have to show up and live off the reputation of a few weeks ago....

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And here I was thinking the Atlanta game was a gimme. Not so anymore. Atlanta is looking real good right now.

 

 

yeah, I had us making a run after the bye and schooling a young Falcons team.... :wacko:

 

I'm not so sure about that anymore...but if any team is resilient enough to bounce back, it's the Eagles...

 

but Reid has to acknowledge that his playcalling is bad at best...

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Maybe I am drinking the kool aid, but I still think the only team that beat the Eagles physically was Washington. They slugged it out with both Dallas and Chicago to, basically, draws, and lost both those games on mental errors/execution (Mcnabbs poor INT vs. Dallas, poor play calling against the Baers 1st & goal).

 

That being said, I am even-keeled enough to know the Eagles have been without much of their skill-position players for some/all fo the year thus far, and it will be great to see the team fully healthy in two weeks.

 

Honestly, how well would the following teams be:

 

Dallas: no Barber, Owens & Crayton

Indy: no Addai, Wayne & Harrison

Redskins: no Portis, Moss & Cooley

Chargers: no LT, Chambers & Jackson

Saints: no Bush, Colston & Moore

Giants: no Jacobs, Burress & Toomer

Green Bay: no Grant, Jennings & Driver

Pitt: no Foster, Ward & Holmes

 

...and I didn't even mention each of those teams being without an All-Pro guard.

 

Could go on and on....I think the Eagles have managed well to go 3-3 without most of their skill-position players....aside from some bad play calling, and worse exceution, they could be 5-1. They have lost 3 games, all three by less than 6 points each, and each with a great chance to win.

 

I see them throttling the Falcons here, at home, assuming all missing parts are healthy and playing. Jimmy Johnson will toy with Matt Ryan.

 

Eagles 31, Falcons 17.

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You're putting Reggie Brown in an analysis with names like Wayne, Harrison, Owens, Burress, Chambers, Colston, Jennings, Moss, etc.? That is priceless. You are definitely drinking the Kool-Aid. :wacko:

 

True, a very bad comparison but still being without so many skilled players for multiple weeks is difficult to deal with. The Eagles O will be a handful when fully healthy IF that ever happens.

 

A big concern is their D. It's like night and day. Awesome at home, vulnerable on the road. A little consistency and the Eagles could roll. The schedule isn't difficult.

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You're putting Reggie Brown in an analysis with names like Wayne, Harrison, Owens, Burress, Chambers, Colston, Jennings, Moss, etc.? That is priceless.

 

the analysis is more to the fact that the Eagles are without their starting players, and the quality of those that must step into those roles. Christ, we had to start a combo of Greg Lewis/Jason Avant for five weeks....enough said.

 

Take any of the teams I mentioned, take out the starters I listed, and sub in Correll Buckhalter, Jason Avant and Greg Lewis.

 

Romo, Manning, etc. don't look anywhere near as menacing.

 

That was more the point I was making, not that Reggie Brown is Reggie Wayne.

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Brown and Curtis being out may have been a good thing for the Eagles

D. Jackson got to play a much bigger role because of it and proved he is legit

I don't think he gets as much of a chance without Curtis and Brown being out since Reid doesn't like to play rookie wideouts because the Offense is sooo hard to learn

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