8/7/2023 0 Comments How much time was left when julio jones dropped that pass in eagles playoff game![]() The Bills ain’t bad and the Giants actually won a football game with a quarterback not named Eli Manning. ![]() So here we are on September 23rd, just three weeks into the season, sitting at 1-2 with a trip to Green Bay on deck. But instead of getting the symbiotic juggernaut we saw in 2017, the post-Super Bowl iterations of the Birds look like squads that just don’t have ‘it.’ They lose close games, make cheap mistakes, and never seem to have all cylinders firing at the same time. This all comes less than two years after Doug Pederson stood on the Art Museum steps and declared a “new norm” for Philadelphia Eagles football, an expectation to play in February again. The offense can’t find any consistency, the defense can’t find the opposing quarterback, and Carson Wentz is leaving just enough plays on the field to allow his doubters to continue to feel the way they do. You can talk about injuries and you can talk about the refereeing, but this team really truly has underperformed across the board. He was talking about a fictional court case back in 1971, but that line works to describe your 2019 Eagles, who look exactly like the 2018 Eagles – a squad that has played basically two above-average quarters of football this season. It was a travesty of a mockery of a sham, as Woody Allen once said. That loss should fill you with an indescribable abhorrence and disgust. ![]() Maybe abhorrent? Abhorrent is a good word. There really is no word in the thesaurus that is apt for describing the horror show that unfolded at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday. Make no mistake, that was an absolutely ghastly Eagles loss.
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