bmorepunk":31te7crt said:
sdog1981":31te7crt said:
You see what the Eagles do is they play bad teams and they beat bad teams they don't let them stick around.
The 24 points they gave up in the 4th quarter against the (scoreless through the first three quarters) Giants in Philadelphia which required them to kick a field goal with 13 seconds left to win clearly demonstrates this.
Up by six against the Chargers at the half, they were only up by two points with almost seven minutes left in the game. Clearly another demonstration.
They've been on a tear, but they had three out of four weeks where they weren't in the driver's seat where it could easily have gone the other way. It's not like they always blow everybody weak out.
1) That Giants game was in Week 2 when the Giants were fully healthy and had Odell Beckham Jr, Brandon Marshall, Sterling Shepard, etc. Not to mention is was a tough division game which if you pay attention much to the NFC East, those games are almost always highly competitive. Giants season (and credibility for this win) went down the tubes as soon as Odell went down for the year (and shortly thereafter followed by BMarsh).
Just going off memory, I believe the Seahawks only have one win over a team with a winning record too (Rams). Just a weird skewed stat to use. Clearly the Texans-Seahawks game was one of the most fun games I've seen all year (perhaps the best) and at the time, that was a fantastic win for the Seahawks but you look at it now and see the Texans are 4-6. Is that fair to look at that and say, well...not a good win?
2) The Chargers game was nothing more than a tough game on the west coast....you are going to have those types of games regardless of whether you are "good" or not. Seahawks got a taste of that with the Tennessee game this year. Seattle is much better team that the Titans were/are (especially then when you had a healthy secondary) but those games are tough.
Sox-n-Hawks":31te7crt said:
I remember looking down from my seats at home against the Eagles last season to watch RW catch a TD pass. Wentz was "too good" the running game "too strong" We were " too inconsistent." At home in primetime, I have faith the Hawks will prevail. This D-Line is about to eat some lunch.
:| Huh? Wentz was not "too good" last year. The Eagles running game was not "too strong" last year (hint: it sucked). The Eagles were in large part a dumpster fire on both sides of the ball for much of last year (RT was a mess, RBs stunk, WRs couldn't catch a cold, nobody could cover in the secondary, etc). This is a completely different team and shouldn't be compared to the 2016 team even a little bit.