(01-21-2018, 09:35 PM)burt1jason Wrote: After a 24-7 halftime lead, the Eagles coach said that they're going to stay aggressive. By not being aggressive in the 2nd half, we let the momentum change. Never change a winning game. Eagles just scored on their first 3rd quarter drive. 31-7. NO GUTS......NO GLORY.

Amen. So correct. Did Philadelphia go into a Zone defense up 31-7, did they run, run, run and pass when Minnesota knew we had to pass because it was 3rd and 8 and they blitzed us. The reason why Blake had worse numbers in the second half is because he was running for his life after the terrible play calling by Hackett got him into bad situations. when you play not to lose, then you lose. When you play to win, you win. Philadelphia played to win and they won! We were up by 10 and sat back and said we've got this game, all we have to do is run it and get first downs. When Plan A got stopped, we had no Plan B, we said eventually Plan A will work. The lack of guts, not BB5, and awful play calling. Did they not see the Super Bowl where Atlanta had a large lead and lost it? How could they have done the same thing. I know that NE is a good team, but their defense was average at best, and we just cowled up like a scared bunch of plays in the second half and let them come back and win.

The play calling in the first half was more like the Pittsburgh game where the play calling in the second half was worse than the Buffalo game, even though Blake had a tremendous game. What a shame, these games come only so often and to lose it because your coaches got out-coached and lost a game that we should have won easily as we outplayed them until Hackett got crazy. It will be a long time before we get back there given our extremely rough schedule next year.

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