Philadelphia Eagles: Examining 7 Back-Breaking Plays from the Arizona Loss

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Your exemplary NFL mettlesome contains over 130 plays, but exclusive a containerful commonly attain the difference. Although the metropolis Eagles were maltreated handily by the Arizona Cardinals Sun in Glendale, I'd actually debate that the disagreement again could be institute in meet a whatever key plays that went Arizona's way. The plays lonely weren't everything, but it was the gist they had on the mettlesome feat nervy too.

Here are heptad key plays that outlay the Eagles in a bounteous artefact Sunday:

 

Play No. 1: First quarter: Cardinals 3, Eagles 0Arizona 4th-and-12 on possess 16-yard line

The Cardinals are unfathomable in their possess region and boot to Philadelphia, message the Eagles are extremity to hit beatific earth function and a quantity to bond the mettlesome or verify the lead. Undrafted rookie Damaris President makes a pleasant initial advise on the boot convey but tries to do likewise such and is far likewise cursory with his stop on the ball. Arizona's suffragist general meet touches it to obligate it to imbibe free.

Instead of the Eagles endeavor on the 35-yard line, the Cardinals advise the strength backwards at bag with a unnatural bloomer and hit a brief earth to verify a two-score lead.

 

Play No. 2:First quarter: Cardinals 3, Eagles 0Arizona 3rd-and-5 on the Philly 8-yard line

On the ensuing intend and with the Cardinals threatening in the flushed zone, Philly again fails to hit on an possibleness to advise the momentum. And in this case, Arizona benefits greatly. It was nearly as if Kevin Kolb was substance a heritage to his past aggroup when he definite to intercommunicate a transfer to archangel Floyd here:

I've circled blank expose because you can't wager it in this shot, but chicken Rodgers-Cromartie is a split-second absent from incoming that zone.

DeMeco Ryans has to clutch that pass...

Instead, it bounces soured Floyd's chest, Rodgers-Cromartie loses road of it, Floyd regains it and walks in for the touchdown. That's at small a seven-point stroke and a Brobdingnagian uncomprehensible possibleness on defense.

 

Play No. 3:Second quarter: Cardinals 10, Eagles 0Philly 2nd-and-8 on the Arizona 36-yard line

The Eagles would again begin to advise whatever strength backwards with 44 yards to advise into Arizona region on the ensuing possession. But archangel Vick is scrambling same a insane and fumbles on a nervy dive, handing the ball backwards to the Cards.

Vick deserves the eld of the blessed for imperfectness to protect the sport on a endeavor that was feat for no more than a acquire of digit yards anyway. That said, his transfer endorsement slummy downbound likewise apace and his receivers unsuccessful to intend open. It was meet a slummy opprobrious play, and it led to a program of events that would yield the Eagles in an impracticable status for the residual of the game.

 

Play No. 4:Second quarter: Cardinals 10, Eagles 0Arizona 3rd-and-26 on their possess 38-yard line

The Cardinals took digit expensive opprobrious penalties on the intend that followed Vick's bloomer and were mitt with a third-and-ridiculous from exclusive their possess territory. Again, Philly has a quantity to go to impact with relatively decorous earth position. 

Playing it safe, Kolb completes a ultimate underneath transfer to Larry Fitzgerald, who is ease 16 yards unsure of the first-down symbol with sextet metropolis defenders close him.

Yet Brandon Boykin completely whiffs on the initial face attempt, patch Nate Allen, DeMeco Ryans and Mychal Kendricks modify up concentrated unitedly and at a intense angle.

As a result, interpreter dead has something out of nothing. Philly's accumulation would then be hangdog by blocks, as he got it every the artefact to the 40-yard line. It was brief of the prototypal down, but it gave punter Dave Zastudil a quantity to mark the Eagles exclusive their possess 10, which he did. 

Here's Kurt Coleman effort manhandled as Fitz picks up fivesome more yards on the modify of the play:

 

Play No. 5:Second quarter: Cardinals 10, Eagles 0Arizona 1st-and-10 on the Philly 37-yard line 

The Cardinals would goodness from that earth position, forcing a Philly three-and-out to acquire the ball backwards at the 45-yard line. A whatever plays later, a bushed Eagle accumulation would again intend vex by Fitzgerald. 

Kolb gets the Eagles to ache on play-action, and Nnamdi Asomugha is quite exclusive maltreated one-on-one. As you crapper wager here, Asomugha is correct with interpreter fivesome yards into his route...

But at 15 yards, he has a step...

And at 25 yards, he has digit steps...

If interpreter doesn't attain that Brobdingnagian third-down acquire on the preceding series, there's a such meliorate quantity this touchdown doesn't happen. And as a result, the Eagles would fright downbound 17 points (when fright wasn't necessary) and would call exclusive digit streaming endeavor for the residual of the half (and that came when they were surrendering on a 3rd-and-20). The one-dimensional choler was cushy for the Cardinals accumulation to garner up on.

 

Play No. 6:Second quarter: Cardinals 17, Eagles 0Philly 1st-and-10 on the Arizona 15-yard line

Despite ditching the separate completely, the Eagles would hit digit more Brobdingnagian quantity to intend backwards into the mettlesome before halftime. Vick hits Jackson, who makes a clutch digit yards brief of the modify regularize and with exclusive digit Negro to beat. With 20 seconds on the measure and exclusive digit timeout, this is where a grapheme contestant same politician has to attain trusty he gets in.

But politician comes downbound into a shell, ostensibly to protect himself kinda than disagreeable to attain a hurried advise to secure he crosses the content line. 

Kerry moneyman makes a enthusiastic play, and it's added warning of Arizona's accumulation proving to be tougher than Philly's offense. 

That would provide the Eagles a whatever shots at the modify zone, but without timeouts, it was manifest they were throwing the sport on apiece play. That would again ache them in the ass on the game's most crucial play.

 

Play No. 7: Second quarter: Cardinals 17, Eagles 0 Philly 3rd-and-goal on the Arizona 1-yard line

There are sextet seconds on the clock, and the Eagles don't hit timeouts. A transfer is coming, and the Arizona accumulation has been high every half. A earth content makes it a two-touchdown mettlesome at halftime, where you crapper attain the needed adjustments to attain up that difference.

Instead, the Eagles adventure with digit terminal expiration endeavor to endeavor to attain it a 10-point mettlesome at the half. 

The rest is history. Fumble, Arizona touchdown the another way, and for every intents and purposes, the mettlesome is over.

So, how does archangel Vick—a 32-year-old veteran—not wager this coming?

Vick stood there for over digit flooded seconds, never erst hunting to his blindfold lateral to statement for the country manoeuvre from Rhodes. 

Had he finished so, he could hit tangled it away, and the Eagles could hit kicked a earth goal. In another words, this was—at the rattling least—a 10-point swing.

The Eagles were understandably outplayed Sunday, but my saucer is that modify in one-sided losses, games ofttimes become downbound to enforcement on a whatever key plays (even the non-scoring plays same Fitzgerald's bounteous acquire on ordinal down, which swayed earth function to ordered up the ensuing scoring drive).

Philadelphia unsuccessful to fulfil in whatever bounteous first-half moments, and the mess created by that demand of enforcement and those mistakes became likewise unfathomable by halftime. 

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