VCU uPDaTe WeEk 11 – Games Ending November 17, 2008

EAGLES LAMENT. 

The loss to the Gnats was not so terrible. Yes, a thousand ways we could have won, but bottom line the Birds played a good game against a superior foe. And they lost. This week, however, against the lowly Bengals, we saw something big. Really big. What was it? It was the END of the Reid-McNabb era. Oh, they may finish out the season, they may even be here for one season more if Jeff Lurie is sufficiently myopic, but count on this: their time has passed. This season teeters on the brink. While McNabb stunk up the joint in Cincinnati, for the most part he has played well this season. Good enough for this team to be 7-2-1. Maybe 8-1-1. The Big Stink has been coming off Big Red. He is a zombie during the game, consistently calling the wrong plays on offense, failing to challenge when he should, challenging when he should defer, misusing the timeouts and failing to grasp the time element of the game. And, unforgivably, like Donovan, he did not know that overtime was limited to one 15-minute period. There can be no other explanation for his punting decisions.

I’m gonna reach for a twisted analogy, but here goes. A lot of people, beginning in 1994, voted GOP because they believed. They believed in small government, in free trade, in low taxes, in low spending, in reduced meddling by the government in personal affairs. They got some governance that was very little like what they hoped for. Their faith was shattered. There are a lot of zombie Republicans stumbling around, shell-shocked. Now, think of Andy. Think of his rock-solid belief in hard work, in discipline, in morals, in loyalty. Then think of how it all fell apart. Terrell Owens. Other Eagles bad-mouthing Donovan. The press harping. Even at home, his rock-solid principles produced two nightmares as his children ran afoul of the law and became addicted to drugs. I submit that, on a much more serious and somber scale, Andy Reid too is a disillusioned zombie. He cannot let go of his beliefs, even as he sees that only failure has resulted.

Jeff Lurie needs to put Andy, and us, out of that collective misery. Would Andy accept being kicked upstairs to be GM with a different field general? That could work. Even in the Rich Kotite era, there has never been a game-day coach as clueless as Andy Reid.

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GO PHILS! but…..THE STANDINGS