I didn’t watch the Eagles on Thursday night, but I worried about them a little bit. I shouldn’t have. They crushed the Cardinals. But that’s a big part of what frustrates me about them. They’re totally schizophrenic. If the offense shows up, the defense stinks. When the defense plays well, there’s no offense. If you look at all their losses, with the exception of the Ravens game, the offense played well enough to win. Well, maybe not against the R*s, but the rest of those games? Definitely. It was the defense that gave up farrrr too many points. I mean, with Donovan being the lightning rod for controversy that he is, it’s understandable that nobody’s talking about it, but I’m here to tell you: the primary reason the Eagles are where they are is that the defense is stinking. It’s mediocre, at best. Except for that game when they served Pittsburgh, they’re just not very good. They give up way too many big plays, and they can’t control a game when they need to. Everybody, including me, talks about the Eagles inability to convert a 3rd-1 (and I’ve been talkin about that for years), but this year, their inability to STOP a 3rd and 1 has just as much to do with their record. One stop in those Cowboys, Giants, and Bears games, and we’d be talkin about a whole nother season. Even with the tie.

But it is what it is.

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