Well, it started good. (Image-B. Garfinkel)

It looked great!  Vince Young threw a deep ball down the right sideline and Riley Cooper made a superb catch.  A few plays later, LeSean McCoy crept into the endzone for a touchdown.  The Philadelphia defense made a short drive look easier than I could have ever anticipated against a dominant New England offense.  Another deep ball to DeSean Jackson and a seemingly unimportant stalled drive resulted in a field goal and 10-0 Eagle lead.  Three drives and the Eagles looked like the dominant football team.  The problem is three drives do not a football game make.

Eagle fans learned that in a blink of an eye.  The Patriots rattled off a run that I am still working on fathoming to this very moment close to three hours after the the scoreboard ticked zero.  After the initial ten points put up by the Eagles, the Patriots outscored the birds 38-10.  Tom Brady had his way with the lackluster Eagle defense for the next three and half quarters.  He would connect with four different receivers twenty-four times for a total of three hundred sixty-four yards.  Wes Welker would catch two touchdown passes and Rob Gronkowski would continue to be a Brady favorite as they hooked up for another touchdown.  Add on two rushing touchdowns from BenJarvus Green-Ellis and a field goal from Stephen Gostkowski, and you have yourself one lopsided football game.

Young had a career record 400yds passing. (Image-Drew Hallowell)

If someone were to tell me that Vince Young would throw for four hundred yards and end up with only one touchdown pass and a tally in the loss column, I would never have believed it.  So where did it go wrong?  Hard to say, but I will start with the 10 carries given to McCoy throughout FOUR quarters.  There is absolutely no good reason as to why a pro bowl caliber running back should be limited to ten carries.  Taking the ball out of your best players hands is unacceptable, especially when your weapons are limited by injuries.

Then, there is Desean Jackson and his horrendous showing (I give credit where it may not be due by even calling it a “showing”).  Jackson dropped two touchdown passes in the three score loss.  One in the second half that let slip through his hands.  The other, more disappointingly, appeared as though he pulled a Todd Pinkston and alligator armed a touchdown opportunity in the first half.  Andy Reid would bench the “confident” wide receiver.  Jackson would later tell reporters, “Nothing I can do.”  Uh, yes there is.  If you want the big contract, catch the ball.  Earn it.

Perhaps equally as embarrassing as the final score and the showing that the team had all in all is the alleged argument between defensive line coach, Jim Washburn and offensive coordinator, Marty Mornhinweg.  Apparently, Washburn was not happy about the playcalling and the two had a bit of a spat during the most embarrassing loss I have witnessed in my near quarter century as an Eagle fan.  I know many fans share my sentiments because of the near empty stadium that is usually filled with fans who are willing to chant “E-A-G-L-E-S…EAGLES!” during baseball season.  I know my thoughts are similar to their’s as they chanted to have the decade tenured coach fired.

More than anything else, I know my idea is in the minds of others because we are Philadelphia fans.  And let’s face it.  When a loss like that clearly mirrors an entire season in a city like our’s…that is just plain unacceptable.  Enough is enough…

- MA

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