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ITS VERY COLD IN PHILLY TODAY AND BY GAME TIME THEY SAID ITS
IS GOING TO BE WINDY AND COLD. AROUND 18 DEGREES AT GAME
TIME. NOT GOOD FOR WARNER HAND! I REALLY THINK THE EAGLES WIN THIS GAME TODAY! MARSHALL FAULK WILL BE A GAME TIME DECISION. LOOK FOR THE EAGLES TO RUN THE BALL
RIGHT AT THE RAMS. AND ALOT OF SHORT PASSES! WENT THE EAGLES THROW MORE THAN 40 PASSES A GAME THEY SCORES MORE THAN 30 POINTS A GAME.
IS GOING TO BE WINDY AND COLD. AROUND 18 DEGREES AT GAME
TIME. NOT GOOD FOR WARNER HAND! I REALLY THINK THE EAGLES WIN THIS GAME TODAY! MARSHALL FAULK WILL BE A GAME TIME DECISION. LOOK FOR THE EAGLES TO RUN THE BALL
RIGHT AT THE RAMS. AND ALOT OF SHORT PASSES! WENT THE EAGLES THROW MORE THAN 40 PASSES A GAME THEY SCORES MORE THAN 30 POINTS A GAME.
i really like this kid . he a big kid and he did a very good job in the preseason, i was very impress with his performation, i think he will
do a good job! plus the eagles have a alot of weapons . plus revenge to boot and a home dog!
do a good job! plus the eagles have a alot of weapons . plus revenge to boot and a home dog!
Ray,
You already gave one 'UK Play of the Day' with Tampa, but we also have Oilers-Colts on live here in the UK.
Any thoughts??
Cheers,
CrookyCymru
You already gave one 'UK Play of the Day' with Tampa, but we also have Oilers-Colts on live here in the UK.
Any thoughts??
Cheers,
CrookyCymru
Hey Crooky!!
Hey Crooky!!
Hey Crooky, I'm not sure what the time difference is between your house and mine, but it must be alot. LOL!!
Our Houston Oilers left town, and changed their name, but kept the same owner, and that seems like a bad choice. However we have a New team in Houston, and we call them the "Texans". We are very proud of our new team, and new stadium, and the new owner. I hope this brings you up on current events and I hope this makes you laugh.
Keep it Positive, Topdog
Hey Crooky!!
Hey Crooky, I'm not sure what the time difference is between your house and mine, but it must be alot. LOL!!
Our Houston Oilers left town, and changed their name, but kept the same owner, and that seems like a bad choice. However we have a New team in Houston, and we call them the "Texans". We are very proud of our new team, and new stadium, and the new owner. I hope this brings you up on current events and I hope this makes you laugh.
Keep it Positive, Topdog
copyright i hope i don't get into trouble
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ted on Sun, Dec. 01, 2002
Bill Lyon | Now, Birds are rallying around Feeley
By Bill Lyon
Inquirer Columnist
The most heavily protected, closely watched, and zealously guarded site in all of Philadelphia is a swatch of jersey that extends from the shoulders to the waist of a 25-year-old calf-roper from Oregon, into whose care has been entrusted a professional football team, a civic passion known as the Eagles.
A.J. Feeley is the name, quarterback is his game, and it is his back that is the object of red-alert attentiveness. All week, as the Eagles have prepared for today's game against the St. Louis Rams, he has been assured and reassured, over and over and over, that his back is being looked after by his teammates with all the ears-up caution of sheepdogs who smell a wolfpack.
It's called the "rally 'round syndrome," and it is a phenomenon common to team sports. When stars are struck down by injury and lowly substitutes are summoned from anonymity, the rest of the team pledges to lift its level of play. And it seems to happen more often than not, most recently and impressively Monday night when the Eagles, with the soon-to-be-injured Koy Detmer replacing the already-injured Donovan McNabb, disassembled the San Francisco 49ers, and in so doing rescued a season that looked irretrievably lost.
As recently as two weeks ago, Feeley had been languishing in obscurity, the backup to the backup quarterback. Fetch me a coffee, will ya, kid? Two sugars. Thanks.
But in one of the more bizarre and perversely entertaining seasons in Eagles history, the line of succession is ripping along on fast-forward. You can go from knight-in-waiting to king in a blink.
So it is that, with almost no warning, Feeley finds himself at the controls of a team that is 8-3, its best record at this point in 21 years, and that is also in the midst of the most crucial portion of its schedule.
The Birds' Super Bowl possibilities, which seemed dismal when McNabb broke an ankle and then Detmer suffered a ghastly dislocation of an elbow, have been revived. But Feeley's NFL debut as a starter will be against the Rams, who are in a desperate way at 5-6 and know all too well what it is like to see the meat wagon carry off your quarterback.
But no matter what sort of calamity befalls a team, no one is granted a pause in play. You can call time-out only on game day.
In the words of Antonio Freeman, the veteran Eagles wide receiver: "The show must go on."
And so it must, and that seems an especially appropriate metaphor because Feeley said he would spend a portion of his preparation week rehearsing his lines. Or, more accurately, practicing the calling of the plays in the huddle.
"This isn't like learning a foreign language," coach Andy Reid said of his offense.
No, but the plays have a language all their own, the usual blend of the exotic and the rhyming and the nonsensical, and several of the Eagles have testified that some of the plays are "real tongue-twisters."
So you envision Feeley in front of a mirror practicing, calling out: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? On 3. Ready, break.
The rest of the Eagles appear unperturbed about the tenuous quarterback situation. Not that they have a choice. But what they have seen of Feeley they seem to like. Certainly the Birds liked what they saw, and privately suspect that they made off with quite a bargain by getting Feeley in the fifth round of the 2001 draft.
He has some swagger to him, which is not only not all bad but is a desirable trait in the man who is in charge. Reid likes Feeley's instincts, his feel for the game, and his ability to read, recognize, and react to the defense.
When Detmer was hurt, Reid promptly ordered up a pass play for Feeley. It showed his confidence in Feeley, and you liked that call for that very reason. Feeley looked, faked, reloaded, and then threw a touchdown pass. It was the perfect start for the replacement, a jolt of confidence for both QB and team.
"It's been a while since I've been the guy," Feeley said. "I missed that feeling."
An honest and encouraging admission. You want your QB hungering for the spotlight, not shying from it.
Of course, the Niners had pretty much surrendered by the time Feeley came in. The Rams will be a formidable opponent, and no matter which star plays and which doesn't, they will be sure to come after the new quarterback from the first snap.
In the NFL, the weak and the young are always the first targets.
Feeley will have this game and at least another. Estimates are that Detmer won't be available for at least two weeks, McNabb not for another month. So it is quarterback by committee, and Tim Hasselbeck, whom Feeley narrowly beat out for the No. 3 slot, now is the backup.
Following him as backup to the backup is Tee Martin, newly acquired and available since the Steelers released him. He is still on the practice squad, so the emergency quarterback remains Brian Mitchell, fresh from another record-shattering performance returning kicks, this one the all-time record (13) for most touchdown runbacks in history.
Reid has not reached out to Troy Aikman, Randall Cunningham, or any of the other names of the concussed and retired that have been dredged up. Reid likes Feeley. A lot. And lately, the coach has been coaching up a storm.
Still, this is a game fraught with peril for the Birds. They are working on a short week, with jet lag as a bonus. They are starting a quarterback who hasn't started a game, any game on any level, since 1999. They are playing a wounded, desperate opponent.
But under Reid the Eagles have shown, with only the occasional letdown, a resoluteness. This would be a key win for them. Their defense could be the sealant.
"Guys get hurt, bottom line," said the 11-year veteran linebacker Levon Kirkland. "It's how you react that matters. Do you bounce back? Or do you lie down and say it's over?"
The Birds have been down twice in the last two weeks. So far, they haven't stayed there.
copyright i hope i don't get into trouble
ted on Sun, Dec. 01, 2002
Bill Lyon | Now, Birds are rallying around Feeley
By Bill Lyon
Inquirer Columnist
The most heavily protected, closely watched, and zealously guarded site in all of Philadelphia is a swatch of jersey that extends from the shoulders to the waist of a 25-year-old calf-roper from Oregon, into whose care has been entrusted a professional football team, a civic passion known as the Eagles.
A.J. Feeley is the name, quarterback is his game, and it is his back that is the object of red-alert attentiveness. All week, as the Eagles have prepared for today's game against the St. Louis Rams, he has been assured and reassured, over and over and over, that his back is being looked after by his teammates with all the ears-up caution of sheepdogs who smell a wolfpack.
It's called the "rally 'round syndrome," and it is a phenomenon common to team sports. When stars are struck down by injury and lowly substitutes are summoned from anonymity, the rest of the team pledges to lift its level of play. And it seems to happen more often than not, most recently and impressively Monday night when the Eagles, with the soon-to-be-injured Koy Detmer replacing the already-injured Donovan McNabb, disassembled the San Francisco 49ers, and in so doing rescued a season that looked irretrievably lost.
As recently as two weeks ago, Feeley had been languishing in obscurity, the backup to the backup quarterback. Fetch me a coffee, will ya, kid? Two sugars. Thanks.
But in one of the more bizarre and perversely entertaining seasons in Eagles history, the line of succession is ripping along on fast-forward. You can go from knight-in-waiting to king in a blink.
So it is that, with almost no warning, Feeley finds himself at the controls of a team that is 8-3, its best record at this point in 21 years, and that is also in the midst of the most crucial portion of its schedule.
The Birds' Super Bowl possibilities, which seemed dismal when McNabb broke an ankle and then Detmer suffered a ghastly dislocation of an elbow, have been revived. But Feeley's NFL debut as a starter will be against the Rams, who are in a desperate way at 5-6 and know all too well what it is like to see the meat wagon carry off your quarterback.
But no matter what sort of calamity befalls a team, no one is granted a pause in play. You can call time-out only on game day.
In the words of Antonio Freeman, the veteran Eagles wide receiver: "The show must go on."
And so it must, and that seems an especially appropriate metaphor because Feeley said he would spend a portion of his preparation week rehearsing his lines. Or, more accurately, practicing the calling of the plays in the huddle.
"This isn't like learning a foreign language," coach Andy Reid said of his offense.
No, but the plays have a language all their own, the usual blend of the exotic and the rhyming and the nonsensical, and several of the Eagles have testified that some of the plays are "real tongue-twisters."
So you envision Feeley in front of a mirror practicing, calling out: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? On 3. Ready, break.
The rest of the Eagles appear unperturbed about the tenuous quarterback situation. Not that they have a choice. But what they have seen of Feeley they seem to like. Certainly the Birds liked what they saw, and privately suspect that they made off with quite a bargain by getting Feeley in the fifth round of the 2001 draft.
He has some swagger to him, which is not only not all bad but is a desirable trait in the man who is in charge. Reid likes Feeley's instincts, his feel for the game, and his ability to read, recognize, and react to the defense.
When Detmer was hurt, Reid promptly ordered up a pass play for Feeley. It showed his confidence in Feeley, and you liked that call for that very reason. Feeley looked, faked, reloaded, and then threw a touchdown pass. It was the perfect start for the replacement, a jolt of confidence for both QB and team.
"It's been a while since I've been the guy," Feeley said. "I missed that feeling."
An honest and encouraging admission. You want your QB hungering for the spotlight, not shying from it.
Of course, the Niners had pretty much surrendered by the time Feeley came in. The Rams will be a formidable opponent, and no matter which star plays and which doesn't, they will be sure to come after the new quarterback from the first snap.
In the NFL, the weak and the young are always the first targets.
Feeley will have this game and at least another. Estimates are that Detmer won't be available for at least two weeks, McNabb not for another month. So it is quarterback by committee, and Tim Hasselbeck, whom Feeley narrowly beat out for the No. 3 slot, now is the backup.
Following him as backup to the backup is Tee Martin, newly acquired and available since the Steelers released him. He is still on the practice squad, so the emergency quarterback remains Brian Mitchell, fresh from another record-shattering performance returning kicks, this one the all-time record (13) for most touchdown runbacks in history.
Reid has not reached out to Troy Aikman, Randall Cunningham, or any of the other names of the concussed and retired that have been dredged up. Reid likes Feeley. A lot. And lately, the coach has been coaching up a storm.
Still, this is a game fraught with peril for the Birds. They are working on a short week, with jet lag as a bonus. They are starting a quarterback who hasn't started a game, any game on any level, since 1999. They are playing a wounded, desperate opponent.
But under Reid the Eagles have shown, with only the occasional letdown, a resoluteness. This would be a key win for them. Their defense could be the sealant.
"Guys get hurt, bottom line," said the 11-year veteran linebacker Levon Kirkland. "It's how you react that matters. Do you bounce back? Or do you lie down and say it's over?"
The Birds have been down twice in the last two weeks. So far, they haven't stayed there.
Topdog,
Thanks for the updates. I am actually quite clued up on the NFL....although I dont know enough to handicap the game myself. We have 2-3 live games a week here in the UK. The NFL rightsa were recently bought by sattelite TV over here, which took it off the terrestrial viewer.
However, Sky TV is a must for any sports fan. We used to have 2 MLB games on terrestrial TV, and since that has finished we have 1 NHL game a week. Not enough but it will do until Sky give us a US sports only channel!!
Rugby Union is my bread and butter......the USA have a half decent team, and Canada a better team again. Hitting about 79% YTD on the rugby in the Off The Wall forum, so pop in some time!
Thanks Raymond for the post!
Good Luck Today
Thanks for the updates. I am actually quite clued up on the NFL....although I dont know enough to handicap the game myself. We have 2-3 live games a week here in the UK. The NFL rightsa were recently bought by sattelite TV over here, which took it off the terrestrial viewer.
However, Sky TV is a must for any sports fan. We used to have 2 MLB games on terrestrial TV, and since that has finished we have 1 NHL game a week. Not enough but it will do until Sky give us a US sports only channel!!
Rugby Union is my bread and butter......the USA have a half decent team, and Canada a better team again. Hitting about 79% YTD on the rugby in the Off The Wall forum, so pop in some time!
Thanks Raymond for the post!
Good Luck Today
Agree strongly with the Philly pick.
This has been the year of the young/bench warming quarterbacks. Don't forget that Bulger was the third string QB for the Rams. Now everyone is clamoring that he should start over the vaunted Warner, who as we all know was a soup can marking benchman for Trent Green before getting his opportunity. Look at what the begging for a job Tommy Maddox has done with putting a Pittsburgh team about to blow their season back into the playoff picture. Many other college youngsters have stepped to the fore this year. Has Pennington made a difference for the Jets over Vinny? Hutchinson certainly seems to be coming around for Dallas which has actually shown some offense over the last two games (time to quit automatically betting the under in Dallas games). Look at how Redman revitalized Baltimore's season before he went down. They haven't been the same since. Look what Hasselback did last week with Seattle.
Frankly, based on what has happened this year I would look at Feeley playing as a positive not a negative. I think it's ironic that a third string QB is starting his first game against the very team who had to go to a third string QB for the very same reason (injury to first two starters) and prospered for it. I'm sure Feeley and Reid and the rest of the Eagles are aware of this and can use that as all the proof they need that they can win this and future games under these circumstances. Couple that with home turf, poor weather conditions, the better defense, an opponent in a must win pressure packed game with an undercurrent of team dissension which has never played well out of doors and POINTS. I think Philly is the way to go here.
This has been the year of the young/bench warming quarterbacks. Don't forget that Bulger was the third string QB for the Rams. Now everyone is clamoring that he should start over the vaunted Warner, who as we all know was a soup can marking benchman for Trent Green before getting his opportunity. Look at what the begging for a job Tommy Maddox has done with putting a Pittsburgh team about to blow their season back into the playoff picture. Many other college youngsters have stepped to the fore this year. Has Pennington made a difference for the Jets over Vinny? Hutchinson certainly seems to be coming around for Dallas which has actually shown some offense over the last two games (time to quit automatically betting the under in Dallas games). Look at how Redman revitalized Baltimore's season before he went down. They haven't been the same since. Look what Hasselback did last week with Seattle.
Frankly, based on what has happened this year I would look at Feeley playing as a positive not a negative. I think it's ironic that a third string QB is starting his first game against the very team who had to go to a third string QB for the very same reason (injury to first two starters) and prospered for it. I'm sure Feeley and Reid and the rest of the Eagles are aware of this and can use that as all the proof they need that they can win this and future games under these circumstances. Couple that with home turf, poor weather conditions, the better defense, an opponent in a must win pressure packed game with an undercurrent of team dissension which has never played well out of doors and POINTS. I think Philly is the way to go here.
Good Luck today with UR T.B PK
Good Luck today with UR T.B PK
Thought ya might like this...N.O. is 5-14-1 ATS in DEC at Home off SU loss....N.O. is 5-19 ATS in DEC as HM Fav...I like this game as well...take care
Good Luck today with UR T.B PK
Thought ya might like this...N.O. is 5-14-1 ATS in DEC at Home off SU loss....N.O. is 5-19 ATS in DEC as HM Fav...I like this game as well...take care
hope ur right on eagles
hope ur right on eagles
have them to win div, have sf to win div, have huge future (with mcnabb in mind -1) vs rams back when ...
go andy reid!!
hope ur right on eagles
have them to win div, have sf to win div, have huge future (with mcnabb in mind -1) vs rams back when ...
go andy reid!!
