Afternoon Open Thread
Posted: January 1, 2006 @ 11:26 am
I get to see the big games one at a time. Carolina/Atlanta at noon and Washington/Philly at three. The Cowboys are tonight.
Live blog the Panthers and Redskins defeats.
Update: Looking at the halftime scores, I see only one team in the league that flat out quit before the opening gun. Your Atlanta Falcons. Okay, their Atlanta Falcons. I wouldn’t claim them either. Then again, I was listening to the game and heard a cascade of boos from the Georgia Dome crowd as the Falcons went in for halftime.
It seems the home folks don’t want them either today.
It’s down to the Eagles.
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244 Responses to “Afternoon Open Thread”
Go Eagles (choke)! Go Falcons!
Who cares if the boys get in the playoffs and get bounced right away–that would be one more week we can all come in here and complain about them!!
But that would be constructive criticism, not complaining.
GO FALCONS!!!!!!!
GO PHILLY!!!!!! God,I think I’m going to be sick.
I think the league has do have more divisional games in the last two weeks of the season, it really makes the playoffs races come down to the wire.
come on ATLANTA!!! Get in the end zone!!!
hard to ever root for the Beagles…but after the season they have had……LOL…..and our SWEEP of the philly segulls…..i say Go Philly beat Washington!!!
atl has no d
this game doesn’t look good for Atlanta 14-3
If we have to rely on Atlanta’s porous defense or the expansion Eagles to give us a chance to make the playoffs, it’s going to be tough.
Atlanta’s defense is pathetic. They can’t stop the Panthers.
Our best chance now, is Washington playing on the road and having to win their fifth in a row. Unfortunately, they’re playing against Mike McMahon and the expansion Eagles. Sigh….
I heard in the pregame show that Brunnell is starting for Washington too. that doesn’t help.
Man, Vick is so overated. How does this guy get voted to the probowl.
How bad is that week two collapse against the Skins looking now? Just another example of how every game counts, until you’ve wrapped up home field throughout the playoffs.
I was afraid that loss would come back to haunt us, but then again you could say that about all our losses. I just wish tonight’s game is more meaningful than just for a 10-6 record.
Atlanta, like the Raiders last night, is just playing out the string. Just goes to show you that you can’t rely on teams that have nothing to play for. Our only hope now is for the Skins to choke and beat themselves, but that may be asking too much.
The Raiders had first and goal at the Giants’ one yard line, and Atlanta had 4th and one yard. Both failed. It doesn’t look good.
I agree onepaniolo, I knew that game would come back to haunt us, but SSSHHH, the what “if” bloggers here will tell you dont live in the past, well the past could end our season earlier than they would like.
Derrick,
Amen, Brother!
Atlanta’s linebackers play like they’re 14 year old girls. How can they be slower than every fullback, running back, tight end and WR the Panther’s have? It’s like they’ve never played football before.
This is going to be a shi**y Sunday, I think.
Tampa now leading 14-3 over the Katrina, I dont have a home Saints
God, I’m going to have to root for the Eagles, what the hell is this world coming too…..
Joey2zs,
I think it’s called playing out the string and thinking about vacation time!
Even if Oakland had beaten the Giants last night, we still needed the Aints to beat the Bucs for that one playoff possibility to come to fruition. What was I smoking?
Watching the Falcons defense is making me sick! I just switched to the Bengals, Chiefs game. I can’t watch this Falcons defense anymore. I thought our defense had problems!
i guess Atlanta is mailing it in today. Kind of surprising……Carolina is playing like it matters.
Yeah Derrick, Go Eagles!!!!! One can only hope that the combination of Brunell’s injury, Arrington’s distraction, the Linc, and the Eagles fanatics can help us out! LOL
I hope the Eagles are more ah, “mentally prepared” for their game, LOL
Wow, guys! Our season has come down to this. It seems like only yesterday that we were celebrating our great draft, now we’re rooting for the T.O. and McNabb-less Eagles to win one for us. Where has the season gone?
No matter how this all plays out, whether we finish 9-7 or 10-6, it has been one hell of a ride, with lots of Alka Seltzer to boot!
It’s been a good season for us, but it would sure put the icing on the cake to make the playoffs!
Thanks for mailing it in, Oakland, Atlanta and the Aints!
Go Eagles!!!!??? Go Cowboys!!!!
see there Derrick you get it
I’m watching the Cincy, KC game and Larry Johnson just ran one to the house! That guy is amazing!
If KC holds on, and the Lions somehow pull it out, Vermeil could retire with a bang! That would be nice, but back to our team…. Go Eagles!!!??? Go Cowboys!!!!
I was being Sarcastic LINUS!!!
Derrick me too
KC just looks like it wants to get into the playoffs, and Detroit is at least “Mentally Prepared” for their game against the Steelers, and may give KC a late Christmas present.
Too bad Oakland, Atlanta and New Orleans couldn’t be “Mentally Prepared!” LOL
Derrick, let’s hope the Eagles have more pride than those losers I just mentioned. Go Eagles!!!??? Go Cowboys!!!!
carolina 17 atlanta 3 and Panthers marching Too bad for us
24-3 GAME OVER!!!!
24-3 Carolina!!!! Our last hope is the Eagles!!!!! AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!
Will we even have the opportunity to sign Woody? It doesn’t look too good right now.
Philly, Does your team have any brass monkeys?????????
Atlanta, FUMBLE!!!!!
Michael Vick is in the Pro Bowl? What a joke!
Probably going to end up that two decent 10-6 teams in Dallas and Kansas City won’t make it to the playoffs. KC’s general manager Carl Peterson wants to have more wild cards — any chance we can get that opened up this year? (Note: sarcastic question)
Carolina’s ball. It’s only fitting!
hey cheer up Atlanta held them to 3
Linus,
At least KC has a better chance, because Denver won yesterday, and Detroit is playing well enough to give KC some hope, unlike the losers who haven’t come through for us! Regardless of how it goes with the Eagles, I just hope our Boys don’t mail it in, and at least make it a 10-6 season. Gives us a positive end to our season, and makes us hopeful for an even better 2006 season.
this is one of the few years so many teams had winning records and did not make playoffs……but with parity and salary cap it is sure to continue……
i think they should let the players and coaches decide……but if it were me i would rather have a chance to take on another 10-6 team….than to have my strength of record or conference or div record keep me in our out of the playoffs…..
Giants win division and had 9 home games? Nobody else in our division got that? I say cut out a preseason game and add another week to the playoffs!!!
Linus,
I dont know if I would want anymore teams getting into the playoffs, dont you think that would water things down and make alot of the regular season games less meaningful.
I would like the league have the teams in the divisions play each other more at the end of the season, the game would mean alot more playoff chance wise.
I wouldn’t mind a 18 game season though, do away with the off week and start a week earlier like they used too, labor day.
I’d like the roster increased from 53 to 58. teams just have no depth anymore.
Atlanta is just showing us what a bunch of losers they really are, and always will be! Their Super Bowl season was an aberration, and it took a former Cowboy (read Winner,)in Dan Reeves to show them the way!
I expect more out of the Eagles, who come froma very proud NFC East! I sure hope the Eagles uphold the tough NFC East tradition and at least show up for their game. They don’t owe us, but they owe it to their fans!
and change the pass interference call to a 15 yard penealty, not a spot foul
Onepaniolo,
sepecially after that Monday night masacre from the seabags
Derrick Yea, I guess I agree with you but am being very biased right now Look at NBA and nearly everyone is in the playoffs — Doesn’t add much. I guess in the end I feel like we are a better team than Carolina and could beat NY or Washington — well, I think we could beat Seattle too so that is what bites
Jon and Derrick,
You guys make good points. I too would like the rosters and playoffs expanded, instead of expanding to any more cities, because the talent would definitely be too watered down.
Its been awhile since we play Seattle, and from what I watched, they seemed to have gotten alot better, where we seemed to have taken a step back abit.
I agreee with you about the NBA, but one thing I do like and that is they have a lottery for the first overall pick for the teams that dont make the playoffs, I like that and wish the NFL would something along those lines.
pittsburg putting stake in KC’s heart
Yeah, Derrick. You got me there! I guess that may be asking too much out of an expansion team. So much for NFC East pride! LOL
Derrick,
The players association will fight roster expansion tooth and nail. It drives down salaries. It will also get some opposition from teams, who remember well how Joe Gibbs abused roster exemptions and injured reserve lists to create huge rosters throughout the ’80s.
There is no depth, it’s true. But the league likes it that way. It keeps the playoff contenders churning.
Fox just spared us the agony of watching more of the sorry Falcons and is switching us to the Aints and Bucs! Thanks, Fox!
Rafael,
It also gives hope for players like Vinny, Mike Barrow, Deion and Woody to return, past their prime!
Isnt Atlanta the most overrated team in the NFL? I love watching Vick play, but he isnt that good. Bledsoe, as up and down as he has been, def deserves a Pro Bowl spot before Vick. The defense sucks. GO EAGLES!!!!!!!
Raf,
Yup I remember those days of Gibbs and his long injury reports.
Since so many Veterans get cut because of their salary, not their performance, dont you think the Union would go for something along the line,if a player has, say 10 years service to one team, your salary is exempt from the cap.
Yeah Linus, I guess Detroit could only hold it together for one half of football. Sorry KC. Unfortunately, like we found out against the Skins in week two, the game is 60 minutes long. LOL
tell me again why we finish pro bowl voting when we do? Vick’s performance would surely kill any sane vote for him
they keep flashing the score here in KC Has to be like a dentist drill each time
I just dont think its good for the league and teams to continue to bring players in for a week or two, then cut them, only to bring in another player to fill another spot short term, instead of having a five more players on the roster that can develop, you cant develop a player if he’s in and out of a teams facility every other week.
I hope the Eagles show up to play, and dont just lay an egg thinking about the offseason and the time off (Falcons?) I hate not making the playoffs because teams tank games and put scrubs in.
Lou C.,
Atlanta was a mediot darling all year, and so was Vick. Bledsoe definitely played better than Vick, and so did Brunell. NFC will lose another Pro Bowl!
carolina 33 atl 3 pathetic what an embarrasment
make that 34
Hate to say this, but we lost out on the playoffs in week two. How can you fold like that and hope to make the playoffs? Losses like that ALWAYS come back to bite you! It didn’t help that we had so much inconsistency in our kicking game, and the oline, and so many injuries in our linebacking corps, but that’s just the way it goes!
We can’t really point to any one thing that cost us, it was many things, but blowing 13 point leads with 3 minutes to play just stand out more.
Looks like we are down to drawing one card for an inside straight what are the odds?
As pathetic as the Falcons look, I hope the Mediots don’t pick them to win the Super Bowl during the offseason. Then again, that’s why they’re MEDIOTS!
Yeah everyone says we wont make the playoffs because of week 2. Every team can say that. What about the Redskins 36-35 collapse when they played TB? They let them score in the last minute and then convert a 2 pt conversion. I know we really blew that game, but all the other teams in the NFC blew some too.
If not the Falcons, the Mediots seem to like the Rams, why, it beyond me, but they pick them every year.
You just cant lose division games, no matter when you play them, early or late. They are the biggest games in tie breakers in your division and conference.
Yeah Lou,
That’s why I said in my second paragraph “We can’t point to any one thing that cost us….”
It’s a 16 game season and a 60 minute game. However losses like that just stick out more. Every team has one or two games that stick out like that. That was our worst loss of the season, so that one really stands out.
I dont think the eagles will play hard for us. Their season ended that monday night when we beat them and when they lost whatever was left of McCrap…
I hope they win, but seems unlikely
I take back what I said about the Saints not showing up. They’re at least making a game of it, unlike Atlanta. Iwas also wrong about the Raiders. At least they were in it for most of the game.
Atlanta on the other hand……. They mailed it in.
I’m happy with a 10 win season anyway, I predicted 10-11 wins. With all the injuries and JJ not performing to what I expected, I’m actually suprised we are as good as we are. But if you told me 10 wins, IN THE NFC, wouldnt be enough to make the playoffs, I would have laughed at you. 8-8 made it last year, thats pathetic. Oh yeah, and if the Redskins win, we are the best team not to make the playoffs, dont give me the Chargers crap.
I find that teams that are eliminated late in the year,like Atlanta, mail it in, where teams that are eliminated earlier in the season, tend to play harder because the coaches are doing alot of player evaluating to see what players on the roster can help them down the road, thats why I thought Phily, even with all the injuries they have, will come out and play hard and show some heart, atleast thats what I hope.
Derrick,
I agree, and don’t forget that the Redskins are on the road, they beat us and the Giants in front of that huge crowd. On the road, they beat us in Week 2, and the Rams (losing record) and Cardinals (losing record). So one never knows.
Derrick,
I sure hope you’re right about the teams mailing it in, and the Eagles showing up. It makes sense, because those that are eliminated late seem to suffer a hangover effect from being eliminated, while the ones eliminated early were over it a long time ago. No hangover!
Lou,
I too will be happy with 10-6 whether we make the playoffs or not, but I agree with you about not making it as a 10-6 team. If you’d have said during pre-season that we’d be 10-6 but not make the playoffs, I’d have said you’re nuts! Past trends have shown that 9-7 is usually enough to make it!
the pro bowler Vick has been replaced I guess they are saving Vick for a meaningful game — the pro bowl
Linus,
LOL
Vick’s an idiot….he’ll have T.o next year and that team will suck….big egos, big mouths (including the stupid coach)
You’ve got that right linus, Vick a Pro Bowler, what a joke! The mediots just like him because he runs around like a maniac and trys to create plays. Half the time he doesn’t create anything but a loss or incompletion anyway. But, I guess they seem to think all that fluff makes you worthy.
Vick is not a running QB, he’s a Running Back who can sometimes throw the ball, though not effectively!
I’ve seen Running Backs who can throw better, like LaDanian Tomlinson. Vick making the Pro Bowl is a joke.
Lets GO EAGLES
Amen brother! He’d probably be better off as a rb/wr type, a slashing player.
I would rather have an immobile Bledsoe than Vick. I’m sure most Wide Receivers would agree, because accuracy suffers when you run and try to throw. They’d much rather have a pocket passer who is accurate, than a dead-duck thrower, who will likely get you killed with an inaccurate throw down the middle of the field.
Yeah, Bushpilot. Kordell Stewart is what Vick really is. Randall Cunningham was a better QB than Vick ever will be. Randall could throw.
OK Eagles! You’re our last hope for a shot at the polayoffs. Please show up!!!!!! Go Eagles!!!?? Go Cowboys!!!
Well,
Looks like the Panthers go to NYG next week and us or the skins go to TB. Go iggles.
Let’s go Eagles!! Cunningham was a better quarterback, he could really fling the ball. Kordell was what Vick is, right on with that analogy.
Big question. Is Washington good enough to win 5 in a row? I think not. Go Eagles!!!!!
Yeah, the Eagles come out throwing. Go Eagles!!!!
25 yard pass…..wheeee….go stupid eaggles…we love you
LETS GO jump out in front early Eagles kill their momentum
Now, where the hell did I put those Pompoms, oh, I found them!!! shake the dust off,ok here we go, repeat after me,
give me a E–
give me a A–
give me a G–
give me a L–
give ma a E–
give ma a S–
What does spell
E A G L E S—GO EAGLES!!!!
man, I’m spent after that, I need a drink!!!
amazing that we have to root for these idiots…
ooops….punt
Derrick,
We should all be drinking…. for rooting for the Eagles! LOL
OK, the Eagles DO have something to play for. Fox just showed that no team has ever gone to the SB, then gone 0-fer in their division the following year. The Eaglets are 0-5, so There is hope!!!! LOL
Eagles, stop the run and dont give up big plays to Moss.
Eagles D looking good.
It’s all come down to this…… US ROOTING FOR THE EAGLETS! What is this world coming to? At least the Eagles defense has shown up so far. Go Eagles!!!!
Derrick and Jon,
Ray Brown, 43 years old, starting for the Skins! There may be a real need for expanding the rosters…. if only to 55 players.
i wish we were linked to an eagles blog I know we are doing a better job of rooting for their own team we could show them how its done
Eagles gotta score here!! With McMahon at QB, that may be tough!
hey, you know what? We are an eagles blog right now
3-0 eagles!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
so far we have playoff hopes!
Go Akers!!!!!!!! I want Akers as our kicker!!!! What a winner this guy is.
Yeah Linus! An Eagles blog for this afternoon! LOL
the eagles have shown up so far…let’s hope they don’t quit…
All i want to see is a Portis fumble or Brunell INT
you mean, an eagle blog for this day ONLY.
you almost got your INT…he overthrew that one badly
4th down….great…
another 3 and out, eagles so far came to play, maybe they could somehow build a lead
Eagles playing hard so far, brunell limping abit, wont last to much longer, Damn muff!!!!
it was too good to be true….eagles fumble the punt
I don’t think I can watch…
Eagles special teams….. Ouch!!!!
Eagles D playing great so far. Brunell’s on the run.
wow Hou 10-0 in the Bush Bowl
turn over deffense please
Freakin’ Eagles! This sucks!!!
got to hold them to three atleast.
The Eagles D is our only hope!
damn…wash about to score
Tough to watch this one. Damn
Big D here.
ooops
Tough to watch this one. Damn Moss!
eagles have to play mistake free and this cost them 7
Reid, you fat bastardic bum….win his crap
Man #31 sucks on the Eagles. Cost them 7 points. Typical Eagles.
So, will the Eagles mail it in, now?
Looks like we’ll get no help from our NFC associates
Come on Eagles!!!!!
Eagles D is our only hope! They gotta score one for us!
Go Eagles D!!!!!!!
OK, I guess I got the “Eagles Blog” to myself. Sigh.
Mcmahan, can you hit a wide open reciever for christ sake.
Detmer, get warmed up.
I’m with ya brother
Thanks Derrick. I thought I was alone there for a moment! Go Eagles!!!
TD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
touchdown philly!!!!!!!!!
Their moving down the field-touchdown!!!!!!!!!!
I gotta tell you, this one’s gonna be a fight until the end, the Eagles came to play.
Hey One, I’m not even watching it…just reading the play-by-play here!
where are those pompoms???? rah, rah, rah
don’t worry guyz - you’re not alone - there are some other boyz fans “lurking around” today - it’s just hard for me to say it…but i’ll give it a try…”Let’s Go Eagles!”(ugh)
one suggestion - i keep a little listerine handy - each time i blog something in favor of the eagles, i just get a quick swig of it to wash out the bad taste : )
Hey, everyone’s back! Go Eagles!!!!!
Mo Rice,
We’ll keep you informed, Brother!
Go Eagles!!!
E-A-G-L-E-S. Goooo Eagles. 10-7 end of the 1st
Sounds like a plan Loozeeana!
Thanks One and Derrick!
Eagles D is playing tough!! 4th down for the Skins!!!
another punt….if the eagles score again I think we have a chance…I would love to start seeing Brunell making desperate throws (no like 15 weeks ago tho) for INT’s….let’s go stupid eagles, i swear I’ll never root against you today if you win…NOT
I knew I could count on those eagles for something, unlike those damn Falcons, bunch of gutless idiots.
Come on Philly, run the football more, that where yout success is
against you again I meant to say…anyways…just too much pressure to deal with…
ManTab,
That would be great, but they’re punting again. It’s up to the Eagles D!
Yeah, Derrick. We can’t count on the Falcons! They don’t have avery good history. At least our NFC East is made up of a bunch of teams with a great history. I don’t think it was an accident that they moved the Cardinals out of the division.
off course its grounding
Oh, yeah,them damn Cardinals, since 1920, what do they have two back to back winning seasons and are 2-5 in playoff games, what a joke that frsnchise is. I guess Atlanta looking for that same kind of record too.
Washington looks like they’re not here to play. Maybe the Giants win last night, meaning they couldn’t win the East, coupled with the pressure of winning 5 in a row is getting to be too much for them. They punt again!
ok, lets go…7 more…and take the rest of the time off as well…they get the ball first in the second half, score again, game over…and it’s up to us…..damn sundays are killing me
well one positive sign - the only time the Redskins have put together a scoring drive is when the Eagles gave it to them way down at the eagles 20 or so…everything else for the skins offensively has resulted in punts
keep it up eagles d!
Yeah Derrick,
Atlanta and the Cardinals, wherever they play, are just losers! At least Atlanta went to a SB, so they got that over the Cards! LOL
Yeah, Loozeeana! It took a muffed punt for the Skins to score!
As long as the eagles dont turn over the ball anymore, I think their going to win this game, Mcmahon got to play alot better, get the ball to the recievers, who are wide open at times
like that!!!
yesssssssssssssssss..McMahon for MVP
Eagles down to the 11 yard line!!!
Yeah!!! First and Goal for the Eagles!!!!!!
yeahh eagles drivin
good call derrick
cover up the damn ball
OK, it was one yard shy of first and goal.
McMahon is going to give me a heart attack!
….ouch
what the hell was that?
what the hell is going on!!!!
McMahon has got to stop choking!!! He trips!!!
and he’s laughing….you stupid moron
yes!!!!!!! thank god
Eagles First and 10 down near the 5 yard line!
Yes, a penalty against the skins!!!!
Redskins just gave us a very nice christmass present
we need a touchdown here
yess!!!!!!!
that’ll work! good job Beagles!
Touchdown Eagles!!!!!!!!!
TOUCHDOWN EAGLES - HELL YEAH
yes!!!! touchdown
TD!!!!!!
Aikman is starting to piss me off……off course it was Pass int and you should be celebrating cabron!!!!
Td!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how this bunch in marooon and white beat us I’ll never know. they are bad!
Redskins probably took this one for granted. They’re throwing their helmets on the field and think they’re going to win.
eagles not laying down like alanta
by the way…i dont think we an easy one tonight…..our matchup against those receivers has trouble written all over it….we need our offense to show up
I would like wash turn over here and stick it to those skin one more time this half with a touchdown