The Skidding Eagles Are Getting Outcoached
IT KILLS me -- just completely destroys me -- to even approach agreeing with whatever conventional "wisdom" is represented by the WIP consensus. But it's getting tougher lately. For years I've resisted the petulant calls for Andy Reid's job. He's been about the most successful head coach in Eagles history, but because we're Philadelphia, we destroy all that is good, and so the 'IP consensus is that Andy can't coach. Never mind the multiple division titles, the conference championship appearances, the Super Bowl his team reached. Last season's T.O. clown show combined with Donovan McNabb's injury were sufficiently mitigating factors in my mind to warrant giving Reid a clean slate this year. Alas, what he's writing on that slate is painful to read.
The Eagles are a pedestrian 4-3, and are in the process tonight of losing their lead in the NFC East to either the Giants or Cowboys. The losses have been gruesome, and marked by bad coaching. Really dumb-ass penalties, poor special-teams play, incompetent clock management, conserative play-calling at all the wrong times -- Reid's most notable weaknesses have all been exposed in the first half of this season. I'm not willing to throw him under the bus just yet, but for once in my life, I'm willing to concede that the sports-talk drones may have a point.
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