WhitewalkerInPhilly

Yeah, that one pissed me off. Jesus, you want to blow the flag at the hint of contact on a pass play, or is someone breathes wrong on a starting QB, but man, if a defensive player yanks the helmet of a Buffalo Bill...man, you just have to let people play. I swear, this league is becoming the WWE.

God, so many and so little time. Yeah no ****. Again. NO ****!!! I know. No one calls that. I was screaming, considering how hardass they were on the Bills. Look, I know the Pats are the better team, but the F-ups on the refs side make the loss infuriating

Look, these are hot takes. Any and all constructive criticism is invited. That said.... 1) What the m*ther f*cking hell is with Hogan's deep ball not being pass interference? I mean seriously? This isn't one of those "absolute turning point" plays, but early on, you have a Patriots defender hit Hogan without turning back or making a play on the ball. If Brady had thrown that, or an star receiver been interfered with, do you think that would have been callled? Look, I like defensive play. I think the refs are too early to throw flags. But Jesus H. !@#$ing Christ, when it's on a bomb to the end zone, I would like a little bit of F*cking clarity, considering how hard you tend to hit our CB's. The CB never turns around. He never makes a play for the ball. He tackles a WR in the process of making a catch. You can argue how bad a rule it is (I do) but the ref who didn't call that deserved to have his eyes rubbed with salt, 2) If we can play a defense like that for the rest of the year, in spite of our flaws, we are ok. We crippled Brady tonight. 20 points is well under average. Which leads me to.... 3) Gorram it refs, call intentional grounding!!! Never before have I seen it exploited so flagrantly. You're going to tell me that at no time, Brady ever was out of the pocket and threw it in a place that was uncatchable? Come one. There has to be one. He hewed close, and he's good at that, but come on, you didn't get the dump offs by the the tenth time he did it? You have to be kidding me. 4) We need another receiving threat. I don't know how Clay didn't get involved. We had chances. They weren't there. More to follow.

You mean, unlike last year when we did it in the last game of the season?

Yeah. I watched yesterday and listened to the radio this morning and heard a lot of our worries about Kiko: Great in coverage, but doesn't she'd blockers and when he makes the stop he gets dragged a bit. Would anyone here want him as a tweener for Big Nickel stuff, like a rich man's Bryan Scott? On the plus side, if you watch the tape you see the exact gameplan the Bills want to run on the Eagles. Nearly 300 yards...yeesh, it makes our Miami games look like chump change.

Yeah this is the first I've heard about that. From what I understand, Kaepernick's contract has a very high cap hit, which makes it very hard to deal midseason for a guy who would have to ride the bench for a few weeks to get used to the system. In the offseason teams can better manage the cap to fit a contract like that, and the Niners can cut him for little dead money if they don't get any nibbles.

It would seem like a very Belicheck thing to do.

Chung was practically tarred and feathered out of Philly. Woods any day of the week.

Yeah, I tried to let Pats fans know what he is. We know enough. He's a good guy and good situationally but elite he is not.

The trade certainly seems to be in our favor right now. Through most of the offseason, Philly fans supported Chip's GM moves. They started saying that Shady was a primmadonna, and went crazy at the "the good black players" comment. And they were sure that they would be just as good, better even, at running the ball with Murray. Now, we find out that practically every player who leaves felt the same way McCoy did. Alonso has been hurt. Practically every free agent Chip signed has underperformed. This Sunday, Sanchez of all people looked better than Bradford. Chip cut his Pro Bowl guard for not attending optional OTAs, and traded his slot corner in a decimated secondary for a 5th next year. Riley Cooper, who still has a lot of resentment directed at him, got a new contract and has played abysmally. The Eagles are struggling to stay at .500 and Chip has started copping an attitude with the media. Believe me when I say the villagers are growing restless.

No no, you're thinking of deflating balls. That's what makes passes more accurate.

Look, I loved Kiko. He had a magic rookie year and I will not bad-mouth him. But watching Shady that night....that one play where on a third and short, when we really needed it, he was met 7 yards before the line of scrimmage. Most times, that's a crippling stop. But he broke free. The man may have run 20 yards total to get 4, but he does it when we need it the most. People who say that running backs are plug and play should ask why Whaley took 20 minutes to negotiate that deal.

Look, let's be real for a moment here. In the right scheme, with the right players around him, Nick Foles set a record Touchdown to Interception ratio. I am a Chip critic, but for that year, that magic year, you had Foles able to stretch the field with Desean Jackson, a fair complement with Cooper and Ertz as secondary targets, and Shady going for a career and league best rushing attack. Tell me, with a straight face, really tell me (and I will fight on this) that we are worse off with Tyrod being handed Sammy with Woods and Clay and Shady and Karlos pounding the rock. This is not a bad thing. Super Bowls have been won with streaky QBs with a strong run game and defense, over and over again. In Philly the initiall chatter was Bradford and a second for Foles...and there was much rejoicing, because Bradford and a second and a first might have been enough for Mariota. And then the real deal broke and there was much weeping.

That's where I am. Some NE reporters were trolling about how Edelman always kills the Bills.

While it would be nice to see the Pats streak broken, when it comes to a setup for a let down game for them, can you tell me if there's something better? They win an absolute down to the wire squeaker against the opponent who has plagued them in two failed Super Bowl runs. Its an emotional game and they lost Edelman, possibly for Monday Night. They looked plenty mortal tonight. Any given Sunday

When I first say it, I thought that it might have been a pict play, like earlier in the night. The problem is that the refs are loath to call it so it was be egregious and it wasn't if it was.

That's what the Scout article says. Talbot is usually solid in his reporting.

I just looked at Peters numbers. In 8 games, as opposed to Darby's 9, he's had at 60% completion rate as less than 50% for Darby. A 101.7 QB rating against, vs. 51.5 for Darby. Seven, seven, seven touchdowns allowed by Peters as opposed to zero by Darby. Yet Peters is getting more DROY votes. It's staggering.

Yeah, it was bad. I won't link it because I feel dirty giving them the click. Basically the premise, "Rex already proved he was a subpar coach (ignoring those championship games and the fact the poor GM moves doomed him) but at least you could say he was a nice guy. But he hurt my feelings this week by enjoying beating the team he got fired from and trolling them while he did it"

To be fair, the Jets receivers let him down in a big way: a lot of drops, some bad route running, and their top 2 got beat all day by Darby and Gilmore. Their best luck waa picking on Darby in the middle of the field against backup safeties. But Fitz did plenty to hurt himself, like calling that pass behind the line of scrimmage vs Darby, and making a number of risky throws, two of which went for interceptions. The Jets schedule gets a lot tougher as they prepare to face us again I'm the finale. I really think it might come down to that game for one or both teams.

Remember when so many of us initially freaked out over drafting a CB? Honestly I don't know of Gilmore learned as quickly as Darby has. They're both great, and you can certainly argue that Gilmore is better right now, but the fact that Darby is this good 9 games into the season as a mid 2nd round pick really says a lot about Whaley's knack for finding hidden gems.

All we've been hearing about being a "player's coach" is how it excuses bringing in "troublesome players" and causes discipline problems. But this article brings up something else: While the press was hounding Rex about making IK a Captain, and talking about him with a Clemson helmet on, and his twitter fuel that was less time talking about his players. They were so anxious to see him, the press lined up out of the locker room while players got ready. Meanwhile, after the win, players called it "a gift for Rex" This week anyway, it worked.

Fitz was at at his Fitziest. He actually delivered some beautifully thrown balls, and could throw deep in a way I can't remember him doing in Buffalo. But man, that last interception...it was like so many of us predicted.

Cable primetime games should be locally broadcast on a slight delay.

Alternately, he is 15-7 the week after a win in his first two years as head coach of a team. Let's not cherry pick statistics.