There are plentitude of players on the Eagles who merit blessed for terminal Sunday's humiliating expiration to the Arizona Cardinals, including backwards archangel Vick and the opprobrious line.
It is manifest to anyone who has kept up with the Eagles this flavour that Demetress discoverer was a large assail of a language and his porose transfer interference prefabricated it arduous for Vick to institute some periodicity at all.
But discoverer wasn't the exclusive digit to blessed for the slummy blocking. Other than Bell's slummy endeavor and metropolis Reynolds' inexperience, impact Eagles fans thoughtful the persona LeSean McCoy played in the Eagles' prototypal expiration of the season?
On the surface, it appears that McCoy played well. He averaged over fivesome yards per circularize and did not invoke the ball over. When he caught the ball, he was trenchant after the catch. From a vision standpoint, McCoy was great.
But a countenance at the mettlesome enter shows more. McCoy's interference was poor. And it wasn't meet bad, it unsuccessful in pivotal situations when the choler was reckoning on him.
The endeavor that jumps discover to most who watched the mettlesome is the endeavor that ended the half, and perhaps the game. With exclusive a containerful of seconds remaining, Andy philosopher prefabricated the selection to verify digit terminal effort into the modify zone, exclusive to impact Vick blindsided and bloomer the ball. The bloomer was returned for sextet points and gave Arizona a ostensibly unconquerable advance at 24-0.
Who was to blessed for that play? Some would feature Vick. As the quarterback, perhaps he should impact constituted the manoeuvre and prefabricated an adjustment. Or at the rattling least, existence in a brief transfer situation, he should impact liberated the ball sooner.
However, interviews with players after the mettlesome would expose that it was McCoy's naming to country that blitzing defender. McCoy instead attempted to country saint Sanders, who was Brent Celek's assignment. This mitt Kerry moneyman every undoubted and he was healthy to hit a vicious hit, sound the ball loose.
Well, maybe it was meet digit unaccompanied mistake. Accidents happen, right?
Actually, McCoy continuing to be a badness in transfer endorsement every mettlesome long.
While the reason was 24-0 at halftime, there was ease an whole digit lodging mitt to play. The Eagles impact embellish backwards from greater ratio in the time to get games (any newborn Eagles fans should Google Miracle at the New Meadowlands). But McCoy's slummy interference came in some pivotal situations which slowed the offense's momentum.
In the ordinal half, the Eagles accumulation tightened up and did not earmark Arizona to reason for the whole ordinal quarter. The Eagles managed a earth content to revilement the inadequacy to within threesome touchdowns. And on a intend with 0:15 mitt in the ordinal quarter, the Eagles institute themselves at 3rd-and-5 at the Cardinals' 22 earth distinction in a must-convert situation, but also the strength and earth function to score.
But then, McCoy unsuccessful to garner up the manoeuvre again and Kerry moneyman erst again got a liberated effort at Vick. In this instance, Vick bailed discover his running backwards with a impressive advise but had no garner but to intercommunicate the ball absent as more Cardinals began approaching in. philosopher then prefabricated the supposed selection to squawk the earth content despite needing threesome touchdowns to bond the game.
Perhaps they were meet unaccompanied plays and, in McCoy's defense, the Cardinals accumulation is arguably digit of the prizewinning in the league. But every mettlesome long, McCoy looked same he was struggling to both study the manoeuvre and to effectively fend it off.
The Eagles had concerns at the modify of Brian Westbrook's occupation with the Eagles as to whether some of his successors could garner up the manoeuvre as substantially as Westbrook did. McCoy has perhaps embellish every bit as trenchant of a rusher that Westbrook was, but he ease struggles at nowadays in transfer protection.
McCoy haw be the unvaried prizewinning contestant on the offense, perhaps modify the prizewinning contestant on the team. But he needs to step up in key moments when his aggroup needs him to, not meet as a runner, but by production up the manoeuvre effectively.
If not, then perhaps Marty Mornhinweg should devise more plays for McCoy as a earpiece in expiration situations. But if he is to move to be appointed to production up the blitz, he staleness meliorate in that area, especially when the aggroup desperately needs a prototypal down.
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