*Official* Philadelphia E-A-G-L-E-S Thread (2007-2008)

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Got my first live look at the Birds watching the first half (I still don't have TV yet, lol).

Thought McNabb and the offense looked fine, just too many penalties. Nothing really to comment on; they were just running vanilla stuff working on the no huddle.

Defensive line played well. Linebackers played very poorly; once PIT got the ball to the second level they were getting huge yardage. Gocong in particular was terrible. Dawk had a poor half. I thought Considine was ok, pretty standard for him, he's constantly around the ball and in the picture but sometimes [censored] up and doesn't make the play. But he had some nice tackles and batted down the one pass.

It reminded me a lot of the 2004 Steelers game. Ben avoids the blitz and completes a short pass into the second level void over and over and over again. We just got spanked on screens, crosses and even the one draw play they ran gained good yardage.

Pretty ugly half. We need to learn to tackle, not overpursue on the rush (Dawk is great at this; teach them man) and Brown still needs to learn to catch the ball.