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Originally Posted by Beerocrat
I'm surprised you guys want to just wave off a complete embarrassment, but ok.
Oline playing bad, sanchez is bad, shady bad vs a mediocre defense. Obviously not the end of the world but it matters more than not at all.
I don't think we are waving anything off, what happened today was a lot of stuff we already knew. The secondary is terrible and they faced one of the best passing offense in the league. I also think a lot of us aren't panicking because it was one game. One loss is exactly that, a single loss. Philly is still tied for 1st in the East with Dallas and basically controls their own destiny with two games against Dallas. This wasn't the end of the world. This was their 10th game and it was the first one where we couldn't say that it came down to one play.
Sanchez played ok. He made some Sanchize-esque plays late but the game was out of hand and he was probably trying to do too much at that point, and every time somebody says "lol Sanchez sucks" I remind them how terrible Foles has looked this year. It's not like they went from Rodgers to Sanchez. I also don't see how he played *that* bad. Seemed like every other snap he had pressure immediately from somebody coming in untouched.
Shady needs to stop trying to hit a home run every time he gets the ball. Look at Sproles. He gets the ball, finds the hole and explodes. Shady just keeps looking for a hole that isn't there to cut into. He needs to realize he's not going to juke the entire defense and run for a TD every play. Especially on that field today. He would get a run, try to juke and slip. Next play; gets ball, cuts, slip again. Like, holy **** dude. The field seems pretty slippery. Maybe trying to cut 46 times per run isn't going to work. Sproles is almost averaging double Shady's average (6.6 to 3.7). There's a reason for that and it's not the blocking or the playcalling.
I don't think anybody's expectation ITT were super high going into the season. I think a lot of us picked them to win the division but mostly by default as nobody else looked decent. Even if they make it, it looks like they will have to play three of Ari, SF, Sea, GB, Det, Dal and [NFC South winner] just to make the Super Bowl. I'm not saying it's impossible but I'm not exactly expecting it to happen. The defense is bad and even as great as the offense has played, if they have to put up 30+ PPG just to compete, it won't end well in the playoffs.