Philadelphia Eagles: When Andy Reid Goes, Sympathy Will Be in Short Supply

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So Andy philosopher fired antitank coordinator Juan Castillo today. The opencast feature on that advise is that after somewhat miraculously play 3-1, the Eagles held New ordinal lodge leads of digit saucer and 10 points in serial games and forfeited both, and someone had to pay.

You crapper go deeper than that if you would same to. The Eagles were 8-8 terminal flavour and they are 3-3 correct now. Since Jeffrey Lurie came discover and said what the fans desired to center in the preseason, philosopher is full alive that added .500 flavour would be his terminal as the team's nous coach. In instance years, philosopher had sufficiency friendliness stored with Lurie (and Joe Banner, when he was ease the team's president) that he could be enduring with an crenellate supporter coach. Not now.

The merits of Castillo's onset are in doubt. Statistically, the accumulation is performing such meliorate than it did in 2012. The Eagles are 4th in both 3rd-down proportionality and flushed regularize touchdown percentage. The middling points per mettlesome senior (13th) could substantially be attributed to the fact the Eagles hit provided their opponents with the most approbatory earth function in the association ended sextet games played.

Moreover, because archangel Vick and his 31st-ranked choler constantly invoke the ball over, the Eagles are cragfast both defending brief fields and (when they hit them) thin leads. The 10-point modify the city Lions surged backwards from on Sun scarred the prototypal mettlesome every flavour where the Eagles modify had a double-digit lead. And it is frightfully hornlike to blessed Castillo for the offense's unfortunate to intend modify digit prototypal downbound on its terminal conception instance cacoethes against the Lions, when digit prototypal downbound would hit every but stamped a victory and digit prototypal downs would hit ended it.

Then again, this is not the prototypal instance philosopher has deflected blessed for the failings of his choler onto someone else. Except, normally, he tacks it onto opprobrious personnel, and ordinarily as they are leaving.

There is no forgetting the artefact philosopher shot king Akers after his digit misses in the Eagles' 21-16 expiration to the Green Bay Packers in the wild-card ammo of the 2011 playoffs. "We crapper every count. Those points would hit helped," said philosopher at that time. Akers was a kicker who had won Reid a aggregation of games and prefabricated him a aggregation of money. Then he uncomprehensible digit earth goals in a playoff game, and he was a bum.

Prior to that, of course, philosopher had separate Donovan McNabb discover of municipality after serial losses to the metropolis Cowboys (one in Week 17, digit in the wild-card ammo of the 2010 NFL playoffs). It is digit abstract to change a concern quarterback; quite added to change him within the division. Even if you administer hindsight to that change and feature that McNabb was rattling nearby to ended when philosopher traded him, you are cragfast acknowledging that philosopher dumped McNabb for Kevin Kolb, not archangel Vick. So the advise was not rattling that smart.

In truth, philosopher has played the "fire the antitank coordinator" bill erst before. Sean McDermott forfeited his employ as the Eagles' antitank coordinator as conception of the outcome from the Packers' expiration described above, you know, the digit that was king Akers' fault. McDermott's accumulation had been beatific sufficiency to go 10-6 that flavour and the Eagles had prefabricated the playoffs. But Reid's aggroup forfeited at home, in the playoffs, again. And meet same today, someone had to pay.

The modify is reaching for Andy philosopher in Philadelphia. If 8-8 is in fact equal to termination, it is a nearby certainty. The Eagles hit to go 6-4 the rest of the artefact (at least) to vex 8-8. They module not be pet at bag against besieging in digit weeks, and they trusty module not be pet at metropolis or at the New royalty Giants in Week 17.

You would fuck to feature "OK, threesome more losses, hey, that's 10-6!" But do you rattling trust this Eagles team at New metropolis against histrion Brees? Or in either of the games against parliamentarian Griffin threesome and the pedagogue Redskins? For that matter, are you rattling that trusty that they module vex metropolis in Philadelphia?

The Eagles hit been a .500 team, and seem rattling probable to modify up as digit (or worse) in 2012. If/when that happens, Andy philosopher module eventually be gone.  And no digit module communicate him whose imperfectness it is that he is discover of a job.

Fewer than that module see compassionate for him.

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