They Were Ready for Some Football
Eagles' Second-Half Surge Sends Green Bay Packing
IT TOOK them a half to wake up, but once they did, the Eagles completely outplayed Green Bay last night. I turned the game off late in the third, after a Birds score had made it 24-9; they would go on to tack on another touchdown. The defense held the Packers to three field goals, while Andy Reid decided, for a change, to mix up his play-calling. And so despite Brian Westbrook's absence, the Eagles moved the ball well, and would have tacked on more points had not Correll Buckhalter fumbled twice at the goal line. Donovan McNabb looked like Donovan McNabb -- running intelligently and well, feathering some passes nicely, grounding others others not so nicely, and having a good time throughout. And though these Packers are but a shadow of the team that Brett Favre led in the glory days -- did he really say in training camp that this was the most talented Pack team he had played with? -- a Monday-night thrashing is always a thing to celebrate.
A word must be said about ESPN's new Monday Night Football broadcast crew. That word is "yikes." Mike Tirico may be shooting for understated, but it comes off as comatose. Joe Theismann just babbles, as if no one is noticing that he starts three sentences in five minutes with "When you're a team as young as the Green Bay Packers, you have to ..." And Tony Kornheiser, this season's Dennis Miller experiment, tries gamely, but in-game analysis just isn't his thing. The network should just let him and Wilbon riff at halftime; I'd watch that over Stuart Scott every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Tirico et al aren't bad, they're just ... average. And Monday Night Football isn't the place for average. Get better, boys, or get out.
Did you hear Theisman say that Donovan McNabb's mechanics were all screwed up because he bounced a pass? The next pass hit a guy in stride. What happened to those mechanics.
As for Tirico, I think he is a lightweight. Did you hear him ask when Ben Franklin climbed on top of City Hall? Dreadful.
Kornheiser was annoying, Theisman is horrendous and Tirico is bland. A bad combination.
Posted by: Bill | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 at 02:00 PM
That was not MNF we have been watching. The MNF we all loved is dead.
Posted by: Mr. Sucks | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 at 04:18 PM
Is it spring training yet?
Posted by: Drama Queen | Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 07:19 AM
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME BASEBALL!!!! DAD
Posted by: | Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 08:51 PM