Eagles-Packers Report Card
The Philadelphia Daily News - Eagletarian
Eagles-Packers Report Card
Paul Domowitch, Daily News NFL Columnist
RUSH OFFENSE: The Eagles ran the ball just 21 times, averaging only 3.9 yards per carry. And that included eight carries for 33 yards by Michael Vick. LeSean McCoy, who had averaged 6.6 yards per carry in his previous three starts, had 46 yards on 12 carries.
Grade: C-minus
PASS OFFENSE: Michael Vick completed just 20 of 36 passes, and had his second straight sub-80 passer rating. His end zone interception with 44 seconds left killed the Eagles' comeback hopes. Wide receivers Jason Avant and DeSean Jackson both had costly drops. Jackson, who injured his knee early in the game, had just 2 receptions.
Grade: C
RUN DEFENSE: Packers were supposed to be a one-dimensional offense. But they ran the ball very effectively against the Eagles, grinding out 138 yards on 32 carries. Rookie James Starks rushed for 123 yards, which was 22 more than his season total.
Grade: D
PASS DEFENSE: The Eagles took away the deep ball from Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. He averaged just 6.7 yards per attempt and didn't have a completion longer than 20 yards. But he was 5-for-5 with 3 touchdowns passes in the red zone and completed 6 of 8 third-down passes.
Grade: C-minus
SPECIAL TEAMS: Usually reliable Pro Bowl PK David Akers, who had converted 26 of his previous 28 field goal attempts, missed 34- and 41-yard attempts that turned out to be the different in the game. Gerard Lawson had a holding penalty on DeSean Jackson's last punt return that cost the Eagles 10 yards.
Grade: D
OVERALL: An offense that set a franchise record for scoring for the third year in a row, managed just 16 points and 18 first downs. A defense that has struggled on third down and in the red zone all year, struggled again, though it held the Packers to few enough points to win.
Grade: C
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Coaching: The Eagles looked clueless in the first quarter, that comes back to coaching.
Grade: D— Andrewsgvl- Amazing that despite all the negative that happened, it came down to an end-zone play with less than a minute for a chance to win.— Philly Fan in Kuwait
- No defense, no defensive coordinator, no offensive line and a head coach who can't or won't adjust. "We have to do a better job as coaches..." Yea Andy and as a GM, too. All that said if you would have said in Sept that they would host a playoff game we all would have been happy. Problem is that once again they get close and don't show up when it counts the most.— Philliesguy
THE Game : C ... Expectations before and how the season ended..talk about full circle, I was so hoping that Kolb would have started the last drive in the 4th q... He began it and could have ... coulda would shoulda... I bet if #10 was 100% he wouldn't have been caught from behind. Let's hope for a lockout and bring on the 4 horsemen.- Agreed Andrew. I have Reid Fatigue, it's enough. He is way to stubborn to ever change (even during the game, making adjustments is admitting that your original plan wasn;t right in the first place) Both his Coordinators are terrible and his philosphy on BOTH sides of the ball is outdated and consistanly exploited by better coaches
- Jeff Lurie owes this city,....we've come through big-time for his financial coffers and he needs to step up and finally spend some money on some players that know how to play and are dependable instead of tip-toeing through the schedule and depending on the final-big-play that may or may not happen,......the first half was a disgrace and we need to get some better players in here— SyddBarrett
- This was a complete effort: the offense, defense, special teams, and the coaching staff were all terrible. The Eagles were extremely lucky to still have a chance to win it.— Trapper Jeff
- The defense stinks, the O-line stinks, the coaches are bargain basement and the special teams don't even deserve to be mentioned. The Eagles were the worst team going into the playoffs and it showed today. Seattle with a losing record looked like world beaters yesterday. The pigeons came out flat, were not prepared and played scared for most of the game. Vick is the only reason that they got as far as they did and Andy is trying his hardest to turn him into VickNabb ... way to go big red ..... plain vanilla, and predictable as usual.— sufferingfan
- They should get a big fat ZERO for the horrible run defense... running was supposed to be the Packer's weakness.— Sponge
- The same old same old Reid...ugh. He needs to go.— ccb2008
- With all the dropped passes and penelties at inappropriate times, the eagles never gave up, and faught to the end...good job guys...even though you lost...one heck of an effort...I understand effort doesn't get you into the next game, but none the less...heck of a game...
Packerfan.
— TitleTown USA - I'm happy with the season. I had 'em at 6-10 after last years debacles against the Cowboys. Winning the division was a great accoplishment. A young team gets better next year. It's still a great time to be an Iggles fan. Kolb should be the future. Franchise/trade Vick.
Coaching gets an F. you cant be an NFL coach and call 80% passing over and over, and lose in the playoffs over and over, I dont care if all the other coaches we had were statistically worse. This guy is better but STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH. 60-80% passing HAS NEVER WON A SINGLE CHAMPIONSHIP. EVER. and he DOES IT EVERY YEAR AND FAILS EVERY YEAR. give him 13 years he will fail 13 times. 15 years , fail 15 times. and on and on. The excuses have become laughable as well as his playcalling. HE IS HORRIBLY OVER-RATED AND WILL NEVER WIN A SB. EVER.- Just because some of you idiots have"Reid Fatigue" doesnt mean squat. So many players made so many mistakes and we still had a shot. What more can you ask for? Celek Avant Akers Mikell Vick all huge blunders and we still had the opportunities. Reid can make em for them but he can chg the personel and upgrade the OL.
- Good season all in all...lets face it, most thought we would be terrible this year. 10-6 and Div. champs is pretty damn good in a rebuilding year that was racked by injury. Draft a shutdown corner and 2 linemen with our 1st 3 picks and we are in very good shape.
