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First, to f-d;
Feeley DID give the game away last night, but he also made about 15 throws McNabb refuses to make tat got them in a position to win it.

Thanks but really I had little to do with it other than believing that the D could hold up against the Pats and that AJ had a chance if he got the start, other than that I didn't have much to do with get them into a better position to win...

Secondly I may take a bit of heat for saying this out loud BUTTT, the loss is solely on Feeley. nobody else... The entire team played hands down one of the best games I've seen... The Coaching staff was coaching and calling plays like they had 3-4 years ago... They were not nearly as predictable and no matter how much you hate Feeley's bad throw Reid made the right call going for 6 and not trying to grind it out and take the FG... Go for the win, Belicheat would have run the score up over 100 if he had the chance. So you go for the TD putting your team up by 4 thus making the Pats have to score a TD as well to beat you, if they tried to run the clock down and settle for the FG all the Pats had to do would be get into FG range and they could win on a FG... Granted it didn't go the Birds way but I am impressed with the way Reid called the game( and I'm pretty sure he did call it he had the big menu in front of him all night) From the onsides kick(which I turned and called just before it happened, "they need to go for it all try an onsides kick or something" BAMM!!)

All in all the way I see it, Feeley starts agin this week and the Birds get back to .500... Shocked you are by my early prediction, hhmmmm?!? Well I think the way Reid shelved him for this week sets it all up, on Sat he was listed as OUT, BUT not for the sprained ankle, swollen thumb... the reports I heard it was reported like this "swollen thumb and an ARTHRITIC ANKLE, the sprain aggrivated the condition that goes back to the broken ankle he suffered a few years back"

Now I could be wrong BUT I think Reid knows the team isn't 100% behind #5 and that after last night he knows his team can and will win IF the right QB is in there, with the Seahawks and Gmen the next two games and both at home, the birds have a VERY good chance of getting to 7-6... IF/when #5 walks onto the field against either of those two teams he will be booed after the first weak attempt at a throw IF the fans wait that long...

Just my thoughts but in all honesty Reid showed signs of his old self last night and the int's I saw after the game the players quietly/nonverbally said they wanted AJ as the QB next week, by answers like "that's not my call", "It's up to the big man", and my personal favorite "hey McNabb is the starter and leader of this team he will be the QB next week, it's just nice to know we have a decent back-up if need be" that was said by... wait NOBODY said anything like that... The team has had enough of him and his momma

Ok this started off as a little post and turned into an epic

Probably your best post ever, tat.

This is still The Patriots that they faced and had a legitimate shot at beating. No one has come even close this year. McNabb, injured thumb or not, would have been given a "good job, almost..." by the national press.

The local reaction (if McNabb played that exact game last night) would have been largely:

"McNabb chokes again in a must-win game against a legit defense. If not for McNabb's choking throws into NE's coverage, they would have won".

Locally, no doubt.

Just in case you missed it, in the press conference, Reid said that Don would have to be 100% before returning. Looks like he bought himself another week to mull this one over.

They were not nearly as predictable and no matter how much you hate Feeley's bad throw Reid made the right call going for 6 and not trying to grind it out and take the FG

Why is handing the ball off to Westbrook not considered "going for 6"?

Westbrook has a chance to break any play for a TD, and by handing off to him you get to both use up clock, and potentially score a TD.

There's no way I will ever think that throwing for the end zone on that play in that circumstance was the right call.

sorry sarge I've got to disagree, the D was playing the best it has in years and the call was a good one, AJ's read and throw were bad, he over threw the pass and even worse there was a WIDE OPEN man in the flat on the same side of the field that could have pulled a Chad Lewis after catching the ball and gotten the 1st down... BUT that's hindsight, I still think the call was a good one...

Hook, I hadn't heard that and to be honest I think that bodes well for my senario to play out, and IF AJ wins the next two games Reid could easily keep him in there by simply saying #5 is healthy but AJ is on fire and I'm just going to stick with the hot guy and momentum going into the stretch run for the playoffs... (granted even I know Reid would never say it) but IF that played out the Eagles would be a team to fear as long as the play could stay at that level...

Looked like Curtis slipped a little bit when he was running that route that led to Ashanti's 2nd INT of the game.

I don't like the call. You have #36. You run the ball on 2nd and short. Just because folks here are saying kill some clock doesn't mean kill the clock to kick a FG. Kill the clock as much as you can but go for the TD. If NE starts calling timeouts then fine, hit them with an inside route for a TD(like they were doing all night) and then dial up some blitzes on NE's ensuing last minute(s) drive.

I don't want to give Brady a chance with 4 minutes and timeouts to engineer a game winning TD drive. Everyone knows how that story ends.

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