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Well now that we know McNabb was suffering from the flu during the game and nearly passed out in the 4th quarter on multiple occasions including forcing Freddie to call a couple of plays it puts a new light on this game and his performance. Now that we know this I am amazed at the guts and heart of our football team (unfortunately McNabb couldn't come out for an IV).

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What was his excuse for the first three quarters?

Had flu symptoms the whole game....no wonder he struggled to throw for almost 400 yards and three touchdowns against one of the best defenses in football.

Wow if he was healthy...WOW we would've destroyed New England.

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AP reported he should have had 6 INTs

BTW- Im not surprised McNabb and Andy Reid keep losing all these big games.



Reid's Eagles bird-brained: Coach can't recall 'what's the hurry?' drive
BY RALPH VACCHIANO
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER


PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - There was a moment during the Philadelphia Eagles' penultimate drive of Super Bowl XXXIX when Eagles center Hank Fraley rushed up to the line of scrimmage to get ready to snap the ball. Then he looked behind him and saw his teammates waving him back to the huddle, as the clock continued to wind down.

So at least someone was attacking the Eagles' comeback effort with a sense of urgency. It just wasn't coach Andy Reid.

Even yesterday, 11 hours after the Eagles lost, 24-21, to the New England Patriots, Reid still had no explanation for why his team wasn't in its no-huddle offense, trailing by 10 points with 5:40 remaining. It was a mind-boggling decision that even left some of his own players speechless, and probably cost the Eagles a chance to win their first championship in 45 years.

"Well, you know, I'm trying to remember back on that. I put that away a little bit," Reid said a few hours before the Eagles checked out of their hotel. "But we did try to get it going. I can't remember. I can't detail the circumstances why it didn't work as well as it should have."

Chances are there are many Eagles fans who can help refresh his memory. The Eagles were trailing 24-14 and had two timeouts left when they got the ball at their 21 with 5:40 left in the game. But instead of trying to move downfield quickly, they went on a long, methodical drive filled with short passes. And they huddled before almost every play.

When they did finally score on a 30-yard touchdown pass from Donovan McNabb to Greg Lewis that cut their deficit to three points, they had eaten up almost four precious minutes and left just 1:48 on the clock. By the time they got the ball back after a three-and-out by the Patriots, the Eagles were stuck at their 4-yard line with just 46 seconds to go.

After the game, no one seemed to have a reasonable explanation for the clock mismanagement. Reid said they were trying to hurry up, but "it was the way things worked out." McNabb said they couldn't do it because they were waiting for receivers to return from their deep routes. And right tackle Jon Runyan said the Eagles didn't want to rush because they didn't want to make any mistakes. He added, "It wasn't a big deal."

Tell that to the Eagles fans who were moaning at the game or at home screaming "Hurry up!" at their TVs.

At some point, maybe, Reid will have an answer for what happened, but he didn't have one yesterday. Asked if he wished he had handled that drive better and left the Eagles more time for a comeback, he said, "Well, you know, you'd love to have back the second-to-last interception there. It might have been a little different if that were the case." He was talking about Tedy Bruschi's pick that ended the Eagles' previous drive.

The drive he can't remember, incidentally, doesn't represent Reid's only bizarre decision. He mismanaged the clock at the end of the first half, too, when the Eagles had three timeouts and the ball with 1:10 remaining. Reid didn't use a timeout until there were 10 seconds left. Asked about that after the game, Reid said, "I don't remember that at all, to be honest with you."

There were also issues with his play-calling, which included just six running attempts in the second half. ("I need to go back and kind of reevaluate what I was doing from the play-calling standpoint," he admitted.) And then there was his decision to rush 11 men at the Patriots' punter with 55 seconds left in the game, leaving no one back to return the football, which rolled dead at the Eagles' 4.

"We made an attempt to stay aggressive with him and go after him and try to block the punt and put ourselves in even better position to get a field goal or a touchdown," Reid said. "It didn't work out."

For Reid, in his first Super Bowl as a head coach, not many of his decisions did.

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Eagles coach Andy Reid left a lot of unanswered questions with some of the decisions he made in losing Super Bowl XXXIX to the Patriots. Below are five of the biggest that will be torturing Philly fans for a while:

1. What's the rush?
Trailing by 10 points, 5:40 remaining, 79 yards away from a touchdown, two timeouts left...sure, what the heck? Take your time. Huddle up. Call short passes. That helped the Eagles move a whole 15 yards in the first 2:08. By the time they finally scored, there was only 1:48 left and their championship dreams were all but done.

2. What's the rush, Part II?
With 1:10 left in the first half of a tie game, the Eagles get the ball at their own 19 with all three timeouts left. Plenty of time to get into FG range. But instead, they open with a run and don't use their first timeout until they get near midfield. By then there are just 10 seconds left in the half, and the Eagles come away with no points.

3. What's the rush, Part III?
The Eagles get the ball back at their own 4 with 46 seconds left, they have no timeouts and are about 60 yards from a shot at a game-tying field goal. But miracles can happen, right? Not this way. They start with a 1-yard pass to Brian Westbrook, followed by an inexplicable pass into the middle of the field. It fell incomplete, but if Terrell Owens had caught it, there wouldn't have been time for another play.

4. Where's the rush?
The Eagles don't run much anyway and it didn't work well in the first half, but Reid gave up on the ground game entirely in the second. RB Brian Westbrook rushed two times (for minus-4 yards) in the final 20 minutes. And QB Donovan McNabb (above), whose legs worried the Patriots, rushed one time (for no yards) all game.

5. Why the rush?
With 55 seconds left, Reid took a gamble by sending 11 men at the Patriots' punter to try to get a block. The problem was, when they didn't get it, there was no one back to return it. The punt was good and the ball was downed at the 4-yard line, leaving the Eagles a long way from game-tying FG range.

Originally published on February 7, 2005
 

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Well that would explain why many of his balls looked wobbly and off, I believe it!

I said it right after the game mcNabb didn't look like himself....
 

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Reid has no excuse for not running the hurry up offense earlier and giving us more time to get the ball back and have a chance to win.
Knowing about Donovan and the flu now makes his performance in the Super Bowl viable. It's not easy to play football when you can barely stand up in the huddle.

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McNabbs passes have looked wobbly and off target his entire career!
 

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Well that would explain why many of his balls looked wobbly and off, I believe it!

I said it right after the game mcNabb didn't look like himself....

We were definately a different team with him sick...and he's the last person that would make an excuse for losing this game. He wouldn't take anything away from New England.

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This vindicates and validates his performance. The numbers he put up were quite amazing considering his physical health.

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Eagles with a McNabb that couldn't even call plays in the 4th quarter play to within 3 points of New England in the Super Bowl? They're all winners in Philadelphia! :party:

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I think Andy Reid and McNabbs performance in the SB explains why this team was outcoached and lost three striaght NFC championship games!

Now these two losers have started a new streak!
 

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The flu??? Give me a break. Sounds like an excuse to me. One play Fraley said he couldn't get out. By the way, Brady had a 102 degree fever the night before the AFC Championship game. Hey, we can't all be as tough as him.:howdy:
 

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The flu??? Give me a break. Sounds like an excuse to me. One play Fraley said he couldn't get out. By the way, Brady had a 102 degree fever the night before the AFC Championship game. Hey, we can't all be as tough as him.:howdy:


Congrats bosox on the Super Bowl win for your Pats. :toast:

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In the post game interviews McNabb was smiling and happy and said that no one expected them to really be in the Super Bowl. He said it was quite an achievement.

think they achieved their goal, BEFORE the game started.

Dont oou think once The Eagles got TO, a super bowl appearance was expected and anything less would have been seen as a total failure?


EXCUSES, EXCUSES, and more EXCUSES!

Eagles fourth Quarter display was the equivalent of the Boxing "No Mas"
 

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NightHawk said:
In the post game interviews McNabb was smiling and happy and said that no one expected them to really be in the Super Bowl. He said it was quite an achievement.

think they achieved their goal, BEFORE the game started.

Dont oou think once The Eagles got TO, a super bowl appearance was expected and anything less would have been seen as a total failure?


EXCUSES, EXCUSES, and more EXCUSES!

Eagles fourth Quarter display was the equivalent of the Boxing "No Mas"

Sick McNabb...TO on the mend still has 9 catches for 122 yards...amazing performance by a hurting Philadelphia Eagles team.

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BTW- your super intelligent QB said last week TO didnt make him a better QB!
 

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so thats how Freddie had 1 reception. He called his own play in the huddle. Great game Freddie. Stellar career.


anyone have any pics of McNabb after the game. Would like to see something from the press conference.
 

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The Pats took away McNabb's running game and basically gave him a beating resulting in his "sick" play at the end of the game, They also took away Westrbook which left a gimpy Owens free man on man with one of the rookie corners to make 9 realtively harmless catches. Watch the game again the Pats were never in any real danger of losing. McNabb having to throw 51 times is proof positive the Pats defensive game plan worked even with a back-up to a back-up defensive secondary. Nobody mentioned Pats starting weak side saftey Eugene Wilson breaking his arm on a special teams play in the 2nd quarter (done for game) unknown Dan Ried taking his spot for the rest of the game. Westbrook's 22 yard run to end the 1st half against a prevent defense was half of the total 47 yards the Eagles had running the ball. Todd Pinkston needed help off the field from the beating he took (they said he was dehydrated). This game was as big a route as a three point game could ever be. To top it all off Rodney Harrison was a stone monster at strong saftey. Better luck next year Philly fans.


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