Josh McCown Gets Some Playoff Action
I feel bad for Josh McCown. Dude is 40 years old and has suited up for what feels like a 4th of the NFL by now, and yet had never actually played a playoff game in that entire timeframe. 20 years of football and he never once got on the field for some playoff action.
He retires, then the Eagles manage to swing him back into one more season to cover up the giant dick shaped hole behind Carson Wentz. Then for once Wentz lives an entire season! However to do so I presume he must have made a pact with a demon that his injuries would instead be transferred to the rest of the team. What feels like the entire Eagles offense decided to “Pull a Wentz” and die in tragedy after tragedy. Surprisingly, despite a faltering line, no targets to speak of, and a history of getting pummeled into paste, Wentz lived.
Until roughly 1 quarter into a playoff game. I guess his demon pact didn’t come with the playoffs included in the package. Probably offered as a downloadable DLC. Demons are getting awful about those damn micro transactions.
After Wentz died (to an unflagged dirty hit to the back of his head), the game was more or less over. McCown is a football folk hero but there is only so much to do when your supporting cast is leper colony castoffs and various trinkets found in a flea market bin. The game ended up being a complete slog, ending our streak of excellent chaos with a typical of 2019 Seahawks gross and sloppy victory. The Eagles had a chance to win it, but it just didn’t work out.
Honestly, if I was an Eagles fan, I’d punch myself in the dick until I passed out. But I’d also be pretty hopeful for the future! Injuries are freak occurrences and despite a legion of death that would cripple any team they still made the playoffs. That’s a good coaching staff they got there. Good players too. Even some good fans, despite what Jadeveon Clowney thinks. Pro tip life advice to my man Clowney: if you don’t want a fanbase to be mad at you, don’t knock their QB out with an unnecessary hit to the back of his head.
Punch him in the dick instead. It’s way funnier.
I agree that Clowneys hit was unnecessary however, this is a fast game and a player going down who is a runner you want to hit and try to force the fumble
Without going back to look at the play, it’s also possible Clowney may have expected Carson to slide. I think that play was close to dirty but also really stupid. Wentz must be the only person who doesn’t know his tendency to get hurt.
Hard to slide when your ankles are wrapped up by Bradley McDougal and you are falling forward.
If you watch the play again, I’m pretty sure you’ll believe it to be a dirty hit.
That’s why I said without watching it. Replay is great for us. Not so useful for a player making a split second decision and operating off of instinct. Not defending the hit. Like I said, it was close to dirty in my opinion. I don’t think the intention was to hit his helmet or hurt him. But with Wentz going down, there was no need to pile on contact. Late hit for sure.
Please let Friday feature Mr. Allen’s Wild Ride. That last quarter+OT of Texans/Bills was like someone trying to figure out the football meta on the fly. 50+ yard fuck-it passes to double-covered fullbacks (why was he even running a go route?), rugby laterals, everything. It was beautiful.
i am constitutionally obligated to root against texas teams, my GF and i went out to dinner that night, and arrived around halftime. “the bills have this well in hand,” i thought, sitting down at the bar. needless to say, i was distracticated for the rest of dinner. like, what the hell was he even TRYING to do half the time?
This game was a little odd. It was a one-score game yet it felt out of the Eagles’ reach for much of the second half
Don’t forget Clowney had 2 dirty ass hits against Foles last year too. Yet he still isn’t sure why people in Philly don’t like him
RIP, Drago. You managed to elevate yourself far beyond what a middling career backup should be by being a pretty good all-around guy and looking exactly like Dolph Lundgren.
As it turns out, McCown has played for 9 different teams in his career (so slightly more than 1/4th of the league).
I wonder if he’s done the Bizarro Favre by riding the bench to victories over all 32 teams.
I mean, he finaly got to play in a playoff game as a send off “gift” (assuming he retires again) Not that he could do anything there, the Iggles being in the playoffs at all after this year full of apocalyptic injury is equal parts thanks to Wentz shuting the haters up and straight up balling, Peterson delivering another Top 5 coaching performance and the Dallas Jerry Joneses being their incompetent self. And even Wentz & Doug wouldnt have been able to make it happen if not for the Lulboys.
The most surprising thing to me tho is that they actualy took Wentz out and didnt let him come back. Even 5 years ago there would have been no way in hell the NFL enforced the concussion protocol on a QB in a playoff game unless the guy was literaly knocked out cold for a couple seconds on the field. A bit wobly but walking under his own power? Have some Gatorade, sit out this drive and come back in after 10 minutes, no ones gona notice…
Take this with a grain of salty irony, since I can’t remember who said it or what station it was on… they said Wentz was in the medical tent and he didn’t know where he was and was having difficulty remembering things.
If that was even partially true, I don’t think he would have been going back into the huddle even if it was 1957. I’ll post again if it comes back to me.
Ok, found it!
It was Stephen A. Smith, who says he got it from an Eagles source. True or not, dunno:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVJ3wvm1pK4&feature=youtu.be&t=55
Hm allright if it was that bad we gota go back a bit further for him to be able to come back into the game xD
But didnt Elway famously say he got no memorys of one of his playoff games whatsover? Or was it Marino? I defo remeber reading about something like that and it was one of the late 80s early 90s QBs…
But yeah just shows that you realy cant judge a concusion (and how heavy it is) from the television. While the hit was questionable at best it doesnt realy look like you could get concussed this badly on the screen.
Sorry, it’s well documented that Eagles fans are indeed the worst
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-fans-are-the-absolute-worst-and-here-are-9-times-they-proved-it/
McCown has suited up for almost a third of the NFL
Dave you seem to have a preoccupation with the people of Philadelphia being punched in the dick. That seems unhealthy and ridiculous, but I have to let you know, you now have my vote for your presedential bid this year!
Wentz should get himself traded to a shitty team with no chance at making the playoffs. Otherwise his long term health might be in serious danger
as a backup
Part of me wonders if the Eagles might be willing to contact Jacksonville about Foles in the offseason. I know his contract is brutal. But they may can find a way to work those details out. Foles may not be the franchise caliber QB they need, but he was a great backup to Wentz and he knew how to step up. It’s fair to wonder at this point if Wentz has already hit his career peak. Scrambled eggs for brains will only let him go so far…
jameis to the eagles!
COACH JUDGE. We all know what the next comic will be about!
One can hope. If not a comic, at least Dave’s take. I’m seriously curious.
…and the Giants are interviewing Kitchens for OC.
Sorry, Dave…
>downloadable DLC
Now available on all ATM machines.