Oh no oh no, what happened in this game??? This is probably the main question most Eagles fans are asking themselves after the falling apart of the 10 point lead they had acquired toward the end of the 3rd quarter. Well I am a strong believer in not saying woe is me when it comes to a loss. A lose is a loss and we have to learn from it. We can though, at least in my opinion safely assume that if Mike Vick had continued to play in the game the Eagles would have won. Understand that sounds like an Eagles fan just being overly confident but let’s think that with a 10pt lead and everything continuing to go well the win was just a quarter away. Although when you take out the leader of the team and throw a possible prolonged injury the moral of the team starts to fade and the other team begins to realize the opportunity they have in front of them. This is exactly what happened during the game, the Falcons capitalized on the opportunity of a weakened Eagles team and were successful at it.
It so sad to have to watch your team just wither away and crumble at the hand of a team who was all but defeated with one more touchdown. Even though this loss hurt, it is only the 2nd week and I believe that this is a serious learning experience for future issues that may be caused by injury.
So let’s be done with the negative aspect of the last game and think about what happened well before it all went bad. Before Vick suffered his injury he did manage to accumulate 242 yards and 2 TD's. Also Vick and Kafka were able to have a 100% and better NFL rating, where Ryan only had a rating of 91.5%. I would also like to congratulate Kafka for the valiant effort given to finish out the game. You could tell they were trying to play it safe by mostly using running passes to McCoy to try and get down the field. In a post game interview Andy Reid even admitted that they were going light on the play calling because they were unsure of the level of pressure that Kafka could handle. Being that this was Kafka's first NFL start I’m sure we were all a little nervous. And I know that many people were really hoping for Vince Young to make an appearance but being inactive due to a hamstring injury made his presence on the field impossible.
All in all the game was decent and an unfortunate turn of events lead to the lose but there are so many more good things to come from this team the rest of the season the NFL is not even ready for it. I am so optimistic and in my opinion this game was just a minor bump in the road to success!
peaceouteverybody!
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