Or is it just "Boring"?
I have been watching the Eagles play for almost 70 years...sometimes at the games when I still lived in the Delaware Valley, but mostly on TV. They have been the source, occasionally, of great joy and more frequently, of great sadness. But almost always I have enjoyed watching them, even when they had really shitty teams and usually lost. It is not enjoyable for me to watch them this season. Until this year, I would go to great lengths not to miss a game. My Sunday's were planned around somehow watching my Birds. Since early this season, I simply don't care as much.
I think the constant/unending injuries to key players is the biggest part of this issue. I don't put much blame on the players. I believe they play hard and don't quit. The problem with the players is that so many good players have been hurt that the team has had to go to too many players who are either raw or lacking in talent or both. I do place some blame on the coaching staff, especially Pedersen and Schwartz. Pedersen's play calling is not consistently head scratching, it's just bad at the worst times a little too often. Schwartz's defense actually played well today, especially considering how much time the God awful play calling and execution of the offense left them on the field. But in general, I'm just really sick of his chicken shit, "Bend don't Break" approach to defense.
And then there is Howie. Could the trading genius, who in prior years always seemed to be trying to add good players, have been more invisible in the team's injury plagued time-of-need than he has been all year? There have been some talented players change teams during this season. Who has Howie picked up, during the season, to either make the team better or, at least, try to fill some of the holes left by serious injury. There have been some talented receivers who changed teams. Some had some 'warts'. And who does Howie come up with? Jordan Fucking Mathews. I'm sure Jordan is a nice man. The problem is that he's a #4 or 5 WO at best who does nothing well. WTF is that?
If I seem angry, I'm really not. Just very disappointed or maybe worse... bored by the team I've lived and died with for 70 years..
And as to the single biggest problem. What the fuck is it with the injuries? Really, WTF is going on? Is there some cosmic force that has it in for the Birds? It's gotten to the point that, after each play, I'm looking to see who's not getting up.
In the meantime, today Sanu gets his leg bent in a manner than ends careers for many guys and he goes out for one play.
Again, WTF is going on?
I have been watching the Eagles play for almost 70 years...sometimes at the games when I still lived in the Delaware Valley, but mostly on TV. They have been the source, occasionally, of great joy and more frequently, of great sadness. But almost always I have enjoyed watching them, even when they had really shitty teams and usually lost. It is not enjoyable for me to watch them this season. Until this year, I would go to great lengths not to miss a game. My Sunday's were planned around somehow watching my Birds. Since early this season, I simply don't care as much.
I think the constant/unending injuries to key players is the biggest part of this issue. I don't put much blame on the players. I believe they play hard and don't quit. The problem with the players is that so many good players have been hurt that the team has had to go to too many players who are either raw or lacking in talent or both. I do place some blame on the coaching staff, especially Pedersen and Schwartz. Pedersen's play calling is not consistently head scratching, it's just bad at the worst times a little too often. Schwartz's defense actually played well today, especially considering how much time the God awful play calling and execution of the offense left them on the field. But in general, I'm just really sick of his chicken shit, "Bend don't Break" approach to defense.
And then there is Howie. Could the trading genius, who in prior years always seemed to be trying to add good players, have been more invisible in the team's injury plagued time-of-need than he has been all year? There have been some talented players change teams during this season. Who has Howie picked up, during the season, to either make the team better or, at least, try to fill some of the holes left by serious injury. There have been some talented receivers who changed teams. Some had some 'warts'. And who does Howie come up with? Jordan Fucking Mathews. I'm sure Jordan is a nice man. The problem is that he's a #4 or 5 WO at best who does nothing well. WTF is that?
If I seem angry, I'm really not. Just very disappointed or maybe worse... bored by the team I've lived and died with for 70 years..
And as to the single biggest problem. What the fuck is it with the injuries? Really, WTF is going on? Is there some cosmic force that has it in for the Birds? It's gotten to the point that, after each play, I'm looking to see who's not getting up.
In the meantime, today Sanu gets his leg bent in a manner than ends careers for many guys and he goes out for one play.
Again, WTF is going on?
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