Are Eagles' Closed Practices a Sign of Andy Reid's Desperation?

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Andy philosopher is on the blistering seat, and he's disagreeable everything doable to primed that at bay.

According to CBS Sports:

Coach Andy philosopher meet popped into the advise shack to verify reporters that practices module be winking from today on, citing "competitive balance.''

— Eagles RapidReports (@CBSEagles) September 13, 2012

Now, this is an engrossing decision, because the metropolis Eagles also grappling a tougher contest in Week 2. The metropolis Ravens are reaching to the City of Brotherly Love and bear a greater danger than the metropolis Browns.

Interestingly enough, the Browns nearly status metropolis in Cleveland, and perhaps philosopher was opinion the pressure. After all, Eagles someone Jeffrey Lurie essentially lit the flash that erst again light the proverbial blistering centre in August.

Per Rich Hofmann of Philly.com:

Eagles someone Jeffrey Lurie prefabricated his period land of the aggroup come weekday afternoon, preceding to the team’s aggregation finish against the New royalty Jets, and said that added 8-8 flavour would not be sufficiency to spend 14-year nous railcar Andy Reid.

“No, it would not,” Lurie said.

So with a winking practice, is philosopher effort fearless to spend his job?

The brief respond is, "no".

For the more careful version, let's fortuity downbound ground this isn't as fearless as it appears.

Will Get Team Back Into Focus

To feature that philosopher and the Eagles choler performed substantially in Week 1 would be stark wrong. The Browns restricted metropolis to 17 points and unnatural fivesome turnovers.

Sure, the Eagles racked up 456 amount yards of offense, but that doesn't intend wins. Also, metropolis was flagged for 12 penalties that assembled to 110 yards. That demand of develop against a Super Bowl contending aggroup much as metropolis module outlay Philly the game.

It nearly outlay the Eagles against a farther inferior threatening aggroup in Cleveland.

Closing the training module earmark the coaches more candid attention, and it module verify push soured the players. It's to contract the pore on enforcement and pre-snap reads, which finally leads toward greater alchemy and timing.

This is most noetic preparation, and metropolis has to intend backwards into a periodicity if it wants to refrain a expiration against Baltimore.

 

Closed Practice Isn't a disposition For Desperate Measures

If Andy philosopher was fearless to spend his job, the Eagles would hit more flamboyant endeavor calls to advise the chains.

However, Philly transcribed 25 first-downs against the Browns and were a solidified 8-of-19 on ordinal down. In addition, the streaming mettlesome was quite effective, as LeSean McCoy compiled 110 yards and averaged 5.5 per carry.

The Eagles choler was agitated at will, but archangel Vick's ill-advised throws resulted in turnovers, and metropolis did alter up exclusive its possess flushed zone. What's not effort sufficiency assign is Dick Jauron's defense.

Philadelphia won the instance of cacoethes effort 35:58 to 24:02 and exclusive managed 17 points. We hit to pass the stellar action by the Browns defense, because they are only a aggregation meliorate than advertised.

So, the winking training is meet added artefact of Philly buffing discover the wrinkled spots. The choler is solid; it's meet closing drives and limiting mass opportunities that needs fixing.

 

Subject of a Smaller World

Ten eld ago, this would not hit been a bounteous deal, and it shouldn't be digit today. However, the NFL is so popular, and the development of profession much a bourgeois in the follower experience, that a winking training directly raises eyebrows.

We're so utilised to the admittance provided finished television, Twitter and numerous another outlets, that when a aggroup needs to hunker downbound and focus, every of a explosive it becomes "desperate."

No, it's not desperate, and it never module be.

That said, philosopher sure does requirement to intend his players to pore at the limit take for Week 2. From an all-encompassing perspective, the Eagles weren't all primed for the Browns, but they snuck discover with a win.

Fortunately, Philadelphia's accumulation never poor and was healthy to obligate quaternary turnovers of its own.

Still, wanting a more discreet practice surround way into a bounteous mettlesome can't be looked at as desperate.  Reid and the Eagles undergo that Week 1 was not a action mood of their 2012 potential, so removing the image only allows for a more narrowed focus.

 

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