Giants' Tuck: Eagles lack chemistry
The Eagles have had a bull's eye on their back all season, ever since their moves in free agency and Vince Young's "dream team" comment.
Giants' Tuck: Eagles lack chemistry
Sheil Kapadia, Philly.com
The Eagles have had a bull's eye on their back all season, ever since their moves in free agency and Vince Young's "dream team" comment.
After the 49ers beat the Birds, Frank Gore went on ESPN and indicated the Eagles quit.
After a loss against Buffalo, an unnamed Bills player said the same thing to Yahoo Sports.
And now, with a matchup against the Giants looming in two weeks, defensive lineman Justin Tuck has chimed in on what he thinks has gone wrong for the 3-5 Birds.
"I think everybody expected a little bit more," Tuck said on The Jim Rome Show, via the New York Post. "I think with the talent they have on their football team, they can be one of the most dangerous teams in the league. When they put it together, the thing I was quoted saying is, 'You can’t buy championships.' And what I meant by that is, you've got to build chemistry.
"You can have all the talent in the world, [but] if you’re not out there playing as one, if you’re just 11 individuals, you're not gonna beat anybody in this league," Tuck added. "And I think right now that’s some of the issues that they’re having. Nobody can question how talented they are, nobody can question how good of a coach Andy Reid is. Everybody knows that. You need more than talent in this league, because every team has talent."
Tuck had one tackle, no sacks and no QB hits in the Giants' 29-16 win over the Eagles earlier this season. He indicated last month that Todd Herremans intentionally targeted his neck injury during the game.
With New York's win over the Patriots, the Giants have a three-game lead over the Birds in the NFC East.
The two teams square off in Week 11 (Nov. 20) in a Sunday night matchup.
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Any organization that would hire someone like Michael Vick deserves all the bad things that will inevitably happen to it.— Manayunk John
I agree with you Tuck, the Washington Deadskins have proven your theory correct time and time again over under their current ownership. And when you hire a lawyer with no real football experience outside of fantasy football as GM and an offensive line coach as DC, did you really expect anything different? Eagles are a paper tiger.- Way to go Tuck.......You tell these losers! Love how Philly fans cry even more! Giants Rule and have you beat this year! Sorry....Its not 2010!— MRD
- Yo Tuck... go take a long walk of a short pier.— albertpa
- Poor tackling isn't about chemistry.— p-diddy
Comment removed.- Yeah the truth hurts Mike, so much that they take it as personal insult when you tell it how it is. It's an entertainment business and the Eagles are all about the bottom $$. Vick and his resurrection story sell very well, as do his jerseys and national broadcasting interests, which give them more TV money. Vick had me shocked and fooled the first 10 games of last season, they were a mirage. He' regressed and reverted to his old form as soon as he got paid.
- Nothing wrong with what Tuck said. A victory over the Giants would be a nice response.— armchairGM
Sidewinder7 ok so is that to say you don't like Vick for the dog fighting thing? If so, get over it and yourself. If not, there is a league full of teams, and I quote, "have a terrible QB who has never won a thing in his career." Stick to the topic not your silly prejudices. Tuck is just trying to retract an earlier statement because when Nov. 20 comes he doesn't want Herremans to break his neck. He needs to worry about the Giants and let the Eagles worry about the Eagles. If he wants to commentate he needs to retire and sit next to his buddy Starhan and talk his talk.- Tuck's right. I've been saying this for weeks: it's a team sport and requires time to work together. With so many player and coaching changes and no off-season it's going to take time.— reb
- Chemistry or Guts?— outta work
- Yes, I need spell check.....and for the record when Vick was at VaTech he won the Big East twice (back when Miami was in the Big East and it was the good years) and took them to the BCS chammpionship game and with 4 minutes left they were up by 4 over Florida State....but they did lose....and that is far better than anything the Andy Reid years have accomplished.....don't be a hater....bring some facts....as too urgency.....heart and urgency mean very little when you are "out-talented" JV players cannot beat seasoned Varisty players and the positions named above are manned by rejects and very low draft choices and coached by a nice man who is over his head.....talent with desire outweighs no talent urgent players with no comprehension and no coaching.....— nuggett
- This man is playing on a Giants team that should, for all their injuries, be in last place. I hate them like the rest of the division, but you've got to give them props. He's right.— VA-PhillyPhan
- I think they do need more chemistry because they do not lack talent. They need to play togther and with "alot of urgency." I've played competitive sports and when my team played with urgency and together we played well and won more. All the coaches need to get emotional, display a sense of urgency, and during the game communicate often with the players and the urgency and togetherness will rub off onto the players. This team has alot of new persons but they need to play together and with urgency.— fjulio
- nuget, heard of spell checker?— mikemaddog
- Is there a spell checker in the comment section or in my browser that I am missing? or are you just being another lame faux scholar who corrects everyone's English because you don't have a snappier comeback?
This is a comments section not English class.— Cr0we - Ya nuggets right, its not their chemistry they just have a terrible QB who has never won a thing in his career.— Sidewinder7
- Comment removed.
- Wrong....The talent in the o-line, the line backers, the safeties, the coaching by Andy, by the DC can all be called into question.....12 and half years of failure to witn the only thing that counts does mean somehting....."doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insantity" is the quote form the second most important man in the franchise.....so thanks Tuck....but leadership and winning builds chemistry and we do not ahve any on the fiel leaders and no coaches who lead (they only dictate and cover thier butts with redundent meaningless statements)— nuggett
- It's actually a quote from Albert Einstein, don't give the Eagles front office that much credit. Trust me Banner wasn't even born when that phrase was coined.
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