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I appreciate your post/input, because you know about these things. I may have been harsh, but it was an honest reaction to what I read, along with the video. I sometimes have to remind myself there is usually more to the picture than meets the eye. Sometimes its hard to discern exactly what the context is or even the point being made.

 

The Cardinals have received some bad news on tight end Zach Ertz.

Per Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, Ertz suffered a season-ending knee injury in Sunday’s win over the Rams.


Ertz had to exit the contest in the first quarter after making a 12-yard catch over the middle. Ertz was visibly distraught as he made his way to the sideline and the locker room.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Sunday that Ertz’s ACL was intact. But apparently, the tight end’s knee injury was still severe enough to sideline him for the rest of 2022.

Ertz ends 2022 with 47 catches for 406 yards with four touchdowns.

PFT

 

Ertz is a good TE, the Cardinals are toast now.

 

McBride (TE2) needs to step up.

 

I wonders if the Commanders vs the Eagles will be competitive, or is this going to be a blow-out snooze-fest?

 

It’ll be a game for the first five minutes

 

Rival game should end up closer than one might think

 

Looks like the forskins heard you

 

I'd say you nailed it perfectly - you came away from the article with a negative view of both Lockett and the writer.

I hadn't read the article yet when you posted your response to it, and your post was what tipped me off that it was bound to be a train wreck. So when I went back and read through it, I was already looking at it from the perspective of an editor rather than a fan. That made it really easy to spot things like Lockett name-dropping Andre Coleman - and the article not following up that he was saying THIS guy ...



... was the coach who taught him the importance of self-preservation.


The surprising part was going back to PFT to find the writer was Mike Florio. He's usually better than that. So now I'm wondering if he was intentionally hanging Lockett out to dry for some reason.

If so, the writing was brilliant. Evil, but brilliant.

 

Wow. Great job by Heinecke. I might even have to stop calling them the Generals.


... nah.

 

The forskins curcumsise the Eagles

 

If the team does get sold, I hope the new ownership starts by changing the name. "Commanders" is even worse than "Football Team".

 

I think they should be called the WTFs

 

Wow!

Monday Night Football: Commanders knock off undefeated Eagles 32-21



The 1972 Dolphins can pop the champagne.

The Commanders dominated the Eagles, giving them their first loss after eight victories to start the season. It was not even as close as the 32-21 score might indicate as Washington evened its record to 5-5 with an impressive performance.


The Eagles, who had three turnovers in their first eight games, turned it over four times. They couldn’t stay on the field or get the Commanders off the field and had some untimely and uncharacteristic penalties to boot.

Washington had 81 plays, 330 yards and won time of possession 40:24 to 19:36. It had 49 running plays for 152 yards and two touchdowns. The Eagles had 47 plays and 263 yards.

The Eagles’ best final opportunity was lost on an unnecessary roughness penalty on Brandon Graham with 1:38 left with Philadelphia trailing 26-21. Commanders quarterback Taylor Heinicke was in trouble on third-and-seven and took a knee to keep the clock running when, after Haason Reddick touched him down and whistles blew, Graham came sliding in to hit Heinicke.

The Eagles got the ball back with five seconds left at their own 10-yard line, and on the final play, Washington defensive lineman Casey Toohill put an exclamation on the victory by recovering a fumble in the end zone for a touchdown.

Commanders kicker Joey Slye had field goals of 44, 58, 32 and 55, and Antonio Gibson and Brian Robinson each had 1-yard touchdown runs. Robinson rushed for 86 yards on 26 carries, and Gibson had 44 yards on 14 totes.

Heinicke was 17-of-29 for 211 yards and an interception.

Every time the Eagles seemed to have something going, they turned the ball over.

Commanders safety Darrick Forrest had an over-the-shoulder interception of Jalen Hurts. Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert lost a fumble on a blatant facemask penalty on Jamin Davis that officials missed, and receiver Quez Watkins had the ball punched out by Benjamin St-Juste after a 50-yard gain to the Washington 23 late in the fourth quarter.

Eagles defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson did have an interception in a fifth consecutive game. He has six this season, which is more than nine teams have total. The Saints, the team that traded him this offseason, have a league-low two interceptions.

Hurts went 17-of-26 for 175 yards with two touchdowns and an interception.

PFT
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"on any given Sunday"

 

Nick Sirianni: Eagles played like crap



The Eagles are no longer undefeated following Monday night’s 32-21 loss to the Commanders, and Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni says they have no one to blame but themselves.

Asked about some questionable officiating that went against his team, Sirianni said that it was the Eagles’ own poor play that put them in a position where they needed calls to go their way.


“When you play the way we did tonight, and when you play the way we did in all three phases — offense, defense, special teams, coaching — when you play like that, it seems like everything is going against you,” Sirianni said. “You create your own luck. And we played like crap. We didn’t do a good enough job. If it feels like things go against you, those plays, those scenarios, when you play like that, get magnified. Whether it was the right call or the wrong call. We made our own luck today, and it was bad.”

The Eagles are 8-1 and tied with the Vikings for the best record in the NFL — and the Eagles have the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Vikings. So it’s far from panic time in Philadelphia. But Sirianni knows his team let a winnable game get away, and that his team can’t continue to play like crap.

PFT

 

WEEK 10: Its in the Books!

 

That was quite diplomatic - and generous - of Sirianni. The face mask / fumble was a horrible non-call that had a major impact on the game.

It's another humiliating moment for the zebras this season.

 

No worse than the catch Buffaloe got to be able to tie the Vikings and go into overtime. I don’t want to see penalties get reviewed. It would ruin football for sure if they did that.

 

Sarcasm or stupidity? It's hard to tell with you sometimes.

 

Every play just about has uncalled penalties. If they reviewed them all it would make the game unbearable to watch. Who would decide when to review them? There’s offensive holding on practically every play. You can’t just pick out the ones that look bad, that would be unfair. It’s all or nothing. If the booth is going to call these penalties you really trust the people who couldn’t review that obvious incomplete pass that the Bills got that should have been reviewed? There’s no way to implement a fair and equitable review system for penalties.