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To: stormrider1 who wrote (2428)	10/15/2012 2:07:00 AM
From: LTK007	Respond to of 2749

Yes: look at depth and skill of DL, and then look at their production--i think other teams have figured out Washburn system, and he can't counter because he seems not to have the the skill of flexibility to make adjustments. Also, does Howard only keep players that can play his system, and will NOT adapt to players struggling with his system. The Giants today were so Impressive, they were ready and crushed and dangerous team on their homefield. i am a Eagles fan by far first and am 2nd an NFC-East fan 2nd, and i to admit Coughlin/Manning Giants overperform in the worst situations, i can't hate them anymore. They went to two SuperBowls and won while having to play all games on the opponents field! An astounding show of team grit. Their defense play against the 49ers offensive Juggernaut was awesome, i see no coaching staff of Eagles or Dallas that could ever do that. And Giants OL line has been mediocre talent for years but they get the job done. After Vick rallied the team back by breaking the rules "and saying FUCK "Stay in the Pocket" i feel Morningsweig , on having a 23-13 lead lectured Vick / no ordered Vick to stay in the pocket. Are three downs in the overtime the announcers and me could see Vick was rigidly staying in their pocket and thus getting MAULED, where Vick himself would read the rush immediately and rolled out , and that is when Vick is dangerous. The way Vick stood RIGIDLY in the pocket in the face of a wall of players wearing purple tells me--Morningsweig or Reid or both ORDERED Vick to stay in pocket, It seems like the coaching staff is destroying the talent they have because its OUR WAY even if it doesn't work, it is Our Way. Reid will have to do a reversal after bye week because i believe Lurie mind in made up, 8-8 or 9-7 will NOT be good enough. And another point in evaluated Eagles coaching staff, and that Cardinals are NOT remotely as good as we made them look. Cards lost at home today to The Bills. The Bills that lost to 49ers 45-3 last week at 49ers--that only JACKED UP Giants. i now pick Giants to be team to beat as i see them ready to return to Super Bowl--as you can see they WANT IT. Coughlin will ride them hard about having lost Eagles and Dallas. Eagles are NOT now a team, they are a bunch of terrific talent (EXCEPT for OL--which coaching should have been able to be adequate, but thus far have failed) that are confused and going in circles-- and that is the coaching staff responsibility.

To: stormrider1 who wrote (2428)	10/16/2012 7:11:44 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2749

Castillo's firing: stunning and desperate First reaction: stunned. I am not surprised that Juan Castillo is not calling the defenses for the Eagles anymore -- and especially not after cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha openly criticized schematic decisions at the end of the Eagles' collapse on Sunday against the Lions. But I figured head coach Andy Reid would protect Castillo, leaving him in place and having secondary coach Todd Bowles begin calling the defenses from the press box. That way, Castillo could continue to wear the headset on the sidelines and relay the information to the players and save face. But no. Yes, stunning. Castillo is out and Bowles is the defensive coordinator. A year and a half after the world guffawed in Reid's face when he turned his offensive line coach into a defensive coordinator, and months after he flirted with the idea of making a change and giving the job to Steve Spagnuolo -- which would have happened had Spagnuolo said yes -- Reid is very publicly admitting a grievous error. There is no other way to read this. All of the talk about how things were turned around at the end of last season was just that, apparently -- talk. And any benefit of the doubt that Castillo received after this defense got off to such a good start in 2012 also evaporated pretty quickly. This kind of in-season change happens very rarely in the NFL -- and it is hard to remember a coordinator who was fired from a .500 team with overall defensive numbers that are not alarming. But the trend obviously was. I have said all along that while we all had our suspicions, it was hard to really know about Castillo because none of us are inside the process, and because they did get better in the second half of last season, and because the defense has been pretty stingy overall in 2012. But now we know, after two late-game losses, two more blown leads at the end, that Reid feels compelled to make the kind of in-season move that he has never been pushed to make before. He fired himself as the play-caller once during the bye week, but this is different. And it is desperate. With that, mark down two days: The day Reid replaced Kevin Kolb with Michael Vick. The day Reid named Castillo as defensive coordinator. If this goes badly from here, those are the days that will have gotten Andy Reid fired. Read more: philly.com Watch sports videos you won't find anywhere else