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Eagles Drop Fans to Depths of Despair

I swore this team wouldn’t do it to me again. Yet, here I am wondering how the Eagles have managed to drop us to such depths with their loss in the NFC Championship game to the Arizona Cardinals. My buddy has what he calls the “Seagull” theory of Philadelphia sports teams. The theory was never more in play than yesterday. The Eagles carried fans to the peaks of excitement only to drop us, plummeting to Earth, devastated. Or, as he put it: The team is the seagull. We, the fans, are a clam. The gull snatches us up, carrying us higher and higher. The view is beautiful; life couldn’t be better. Then, after the gull has reached a dizzying height (oh, just for the sake of argument, DeSean Jackson’s go-ahead TD), it releases the clam. We’re still having a good ride, unaware what is below. We gather speed (as Arizona begins its 8-minute drive, say), finally hitting the rock and shattering (the last, futile pass attempt to Kevin Curtis), whereupon the gull comes and eats our little clammy hear

Eagles Beat Giants; Super Bowl a Win Away

I wish I had some brilliant insight into yesterday’s huge win by the Birds beyond what’s already being said. But the truth is I can barely believe the Eagles are still not only worth blogging about, but are suddenly expected to go to the Super Bowl. Even Vegas thinks so. Juice on the 3-point spread favoring the Eagles versus Arizona on Sunday in the NFC title game, which is usually -110, is -130. I’m not Vegas Vic or anything but I’ve never seen that before. The win was pretty ugly against the Giants. Both defenses dominated, but Asante Samuels set-up the Eagles first touchdown with an interception return to the 1-yard line, which may have been the play of the day. The Eagles and the referees actually handed New York most, if not all, of their points. The Giants returned the opening kickoff to the Eagles 35 for their first 3 points; they got 2 points on what I thought was a ridiculous intentional grounding call on Donovan McNabb in the end-zone; the ensuing kick led to their next 3 po

Birds Move On

Yesterday was a rarity for the Eagles. Things went the way they were supposed to. The Eagles beat the Minnesota Vikings, 26-14, in a game that was fairly tight throughout most of it. The Birds took advantage of an inexperienced Tarvaris Jackson, using a key interception returned for a touchdown by Asante Samuels, to keep their playoff drive going. Andy Reid surprisingly stayed with the running game, despite the fact that it never really got going, just like normal NFL coaches. A lot of people are praising Donovan McNabb today, and he was solid but not spectacular. He threw for 300 yards on 23-34 passing, 1 interception and 1 TD. He also fumbled, but it wasn’t something he created. In fact, I thought there should have been some discussion as to whether or not it was an incomplete pass. Normally a 300-yard passing day deserves more praise, but Brian Westbrook took a screen pass 71 yards for a touchdown. That’s not a criticism of McNabb. No quarterback should be throwing the ball 40 times

Football Frenzy: Eagles, PSU, BCS, Playoffs

The Philadelphia sports fan is nothing if not resilient. A week ago no one would have admitted that they thought the Eagles had any chance of making the playoffs. Today, sports talk radio has plenty of “nobody really scares me” calls on the air. All of a sudden, it’s as if the Eagles not making the Super Bowl would be a shock. Sunday’s opponent, the Minnesota Vikings, are practically forgotten. The notion that the Eagles are the hot team is baffling to me. On a day when USC fans are crying about not being the National Champion, I’ll ask the same question every college fan is asking about every team ranked above their team: who’d they beat? The Eagles were 4-2-1 down the stretch, tying the Cincinnati Bengals, beating Arizona, a Giants team without Plaxico Burress, Cleveland, losing to Washington, and beating a Dallas team that thought it had nothing to play for and has a choker at quarterback. That’s a team everyone expects to win three road games and go to the Super Bowl because they’