Monday, January 17, 2005

Eagles & Colts, Yin & Yang Gone Wong

I'm happy that the Eagles had a good game against the Vikings yesterday. The national media has been discounting them for losing the last 2 games but fails to point out that they weren't playing any starters. The local Philly papers have been frying Andy Reid and second guessing him for sitting the starters....they would have been just as crazy if they had played them. Finally this town can settle down and brace for the big letdown next week. Personally I feel they will beat the Falcons, but then lose to the AFC champion. People around here are really burned about going to the NFC Championships for 3 years and continually losing, lots of talk of a Philly Curse.

Depressing to watch that Colts/Pats game. It's amazing that you can take one of the best offenses EVER, but they have one team they are paralyzed against. The Colts are all about speed, and the Air...you can only count on those things indoors. Make the ground mushy and your superfast receivers slow down to the same speed as the Corners. Blow Snow in your face and you have trouble getting the ball out a distance. The Pats completely took away the long ball, and then covered the line so they couldnt run. All Manning had was the short game in the middle to Stokley and Clark, and they were dropping passes left and right. I'm sad to say that unless they can clinch homefield advantage for the entire playoffs, the Colts will never get to the Super Bowl........
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