Eagles Cap Off A Dog Shit Weekend In Philadelphia By Pissing Away A Lead To The Broncos Out Of Nowhere
Mitchell Leff. Getty Images.Saturday night. Citizens Bank Park. The Philadelphia Phillies get out to an early 3-0 start against the LA Dodgers in game 1 of the NLDS. Christopher Sanchez looks like an unstoppable flamethrower. The offense is getting contributions from all the role guys on the team. And then out of nowhere…the bats go silent, the bullpen pisses down their leg, they blow the lead and can't get a single thing going to change the momentum. A brutal gut punch loss out of nowhere after feeling so good early on.
Sunday afternoon. Lincoln Financial Field. The Philadelphia Eagles get out to a commanding 17-3 lead against the Denver Broncos. The offense is moving the ball down the field with ease. Jalen Hurts is hitting his deep shots to DeVonta Smith and Saquon Barkley. AJ Brown is getting all the touches he needs to make sure he doesn't spend the whole night firing off moody tweets. The defense holds Denver's offense to 6 straight punts.
And then out of nowhere…the offense can't do a goddamn thing. You've got AJ Brown, who spent the entire week bitching about not getting the ball, just quitting on routes.
The defense gets carved up by Bo Nix. They couldn't buy a stop. Even when they had a chance to get off the field, they'd be the dumbest group of dickheads on the planet and commit a foul to keep the drive going. Bo Nix drug his nuts all across the Eagles' defense faces in the 4th quarter, and before you knew it the lead was gone. This team pissed down their leg, couldn't find a way to shift the momentum back in their favor, and the game ends with AJ Brown and DeVonta Smith fighting over a potential game winning reception.
Oddly poetic.
It's crazy how this offense just consistently finds ways to stall out for massive chunks of the game. The first half against the Rams. The 2nd half against the Bucs. The 2nd half today against the Broncos. They have moments where it looks like they're finally figuring it out and getting back to their explosive selves. And then it just goes away. Poof. Just like that, they start to play the most uninspiring brand of "who gives a fuck" football you've ever seen.
Gross loss to cap off a gross weekend down at the Sports Complex. Maybe we needed this as a city. Maybe we lost our hunger, and that chip on our shoulder has gone away. This weekend was a great dose of reality directly injected into our hearts and souls. We needed to take our medicine, but that doesn't mean it still doesn't taste like shit going down.