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Right, that would be the only way that all 3 teams could be tied.You are right about the Eagles being 5-1 in the division in that scenario. I am :11: So the Eagles are in the playoffs with 1 more win. If they beat Dallas, they will win a 3-way tiebreaker with NYG and ATL. If they beat Atlanta, then Atlanta will have it's 8th loss, so the Eagles will be in the playoffs.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here . . .If the Eagles beat Dallas they will be playing for the division and quite possibly a bye.
If you run a search you'll find multiple posts by me asserting that the WCO is a poor fit for McNabb's skill set.Slider said:Or maybe just maybe, Garcia is a better fit for a WCO.redman said:Only Philly fans could convince themselves that the 2006 version of Jeff Garcia is a better option at QB than the 2006 version of McNabb.So, how they doing without the great one?Wow, I don't like to criticize but that is the worst thing I think I ever read on this board. Worse than that guy trying to sell shirts. Hey, I'm not sure if you know this, but you can actually watch these "NFL Games" you hear about. Try it sometime.p.s. (hope you weren't)
All it takes is one look at their college careers to get an idea of who was a good NFL prospect coming out, and who was a one-year wonder who got drafted by Mike Brown.
I agree. Said another way, when McNabb's in the game the coaching staff considers him the best guy on the field and builds the game plan around him. When he's not on the field they consider Westbrook to be the best guy on the field and put the game on his shoulders. I agree that they should make Westbrook the focus regardless.
McNabb, to his credit, has made himself into a respectable QB in spite of Reid's worst efforts, but as I've said before I'd love to see McNabb in Norv Turner's or Joe Gibbs' or Al Saunders' offenses, each of which has been known to make strong armed but otherwise modestly talented QB's into stars. Strong running game and play-action passing. I'd love to see what McNabb could do with that.
http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/playoffrace/scenariosPhiladelphia can clinch a playoff berth with:
Agreed. I'd also add that McNabb has been inserted into a pass-heavy offense and given receivers that were barely NFL backup quality to throw to. Charles Johnson, Torrance Small, Freddie Mitchell, Na Brown, Todd Pinkston, James Thrash, Antonio Freeman and Wilbur McMullen were/are barely talented WRs at an NFL level. The fact that in the past 2-3 years the Eagles have finally seemed to bypass Andy Reid's learning disabled approach to the importance of actual WR quality in a pass-heavy offense is telling of the current success of the offense with the backup QB. Also that AR has seemed to hand off the play calling seems to have resulted in a better planned, more balanced offense. The big man does learn...eventually, just much more slowly than anyone else would.Next maybe the Eagles will somehow get around the AR/Jim Johnson LIE that LBs are actually an important and integral part of any quality defense. They tell you that but it's a lie, considering that the AR regime has invested 3 2nd round picks (including 1 with the 4th overall pick in the 2nd round in 1999) and a 3rd (if in fact Gocong stays at LB). That shows that AR/JJ do value the LB position, they just haven't been very successful at drafting or developing any in the decade that they've been here...only to brush-off criticism with a comment like LBs aren't important in this defense to cover for their own failures at that position. Perhaps they should go back to the free agent route like they did when the LBs were Trotter, Shawn Barber and Carlos Emmons?
Glad to have been wrong on this one.This speaks volumes about Garcia, Reid and the team in general.Big props to Jim Johnson's defense really stepping up to the challenge. They won the Dallas game with that goal line stand. I don't know the numbers, but they have done very well over the years at the goal line.
LOL!You have been wrong more than right on a lot of things this year! Don't kid yourself....Glad to have been wrong on this one.This speaks volumes about Garcia, Reid and the team in general.Big props to Jim Johnson's defense really stepping up to the challenge. They won the Dallas game with that goal line stand. I don't know the numbers, but they have done very well over the years at the goal line.
To Andy Reid's credit as a head coach, this is the second time in five seasons that the team has rallied around modestly talented backup QB's to win critical stretch games and make the playoffs. They did it in 2002 with Detmer and Feeley. I may not like Reid's inflexible approach to offensive play-calling, but there's no disputing that he's kept his teams focused and unified through adversity (with only the TO episode being the notable exception), in sharp contrast, for example, to the arguably more talented and certainly louder Giants teams over the last couple of seasons.Glad to have been wrong on this one.This speaks volumes about Garcia, Reid and the team in general.Big props to Jim Johnson's defense really stepping up to the challenge. They won the Dallas game with that goal line stand. I don't know the numbers, but they have done very well over the years at the goal line.
