They lost a close one in Atlanta to start the season and then they were soundly beaten by a wounded Cowboys team in their home opener. You all know what that means, right?
Yep, it means we're getting their A-Game on Sunday, on a short week no less, and we better be ready for it, because we are walking into a buzzsaw and nothing less than our best will suffice.
Thats just the way it works in this league. If you've been following this league for any length of time you should know that. Its always tough to beat a good team after they've lost, but especially when they drop the first two, because they know 0-3 teams that make the playoffs are exceedingly rare in the NFL, it happens about as often as a total eclipse of the sun, so they are playing to save their season this week.
Only the novice fan looks at the first two weeks and expects to see the same Eagles team Dallas saw last week, the one that rolled over and died.
THATS FOOLS GOLD.
What we have coming into MetLife on Sunday is a wounded animal, out for blood. The coach is in a bad mood, the players are in a bad mood, their fans are in a bad mood, even the Philly beat reporters are mocking them and impugning their character, while the national media has all but written them off, so their facility will be a miserable place to be around this week and come Sunday they will literally be frothing at the mouth to take out their frustrations on the Jets.
Meanwhile the media is throwing rose pedals at the feet of the Jets and in two weeks they've leaped us from he late 20's all the way to the TOP 10 in their power rankings. This is whats known as fattening up the calf for the slaughter.
That doesn't mean we can't win, but we better not read our own press clippings and think 2-0 means we've arrived, or next week we'll be 2-1 and the media will be searching for their next victim. Just look at the way they hyped up Buffalo last week, following their destruction of Indy, and notice how Rex ate it up, even encouraged it, and whipped that town into a frenzy. Between Rex and the media they had the Bills believing they were the 85 Bears about to drop the hammer on the Patriots in SB XX, then Sunday came and they got their absolute heads handed to them in their own building.
There's a cautionary tale to be found in that story my friends, about the dangers of thinking you've arrived before you have actually accomplished anything. 2-0 is nice, it beats 0-2 or 1-1, but we've got a long way to go and the last time I looked 2 Wins has never won a division title or gotten anyone to the playoffs. Its still 2 less wins than we had last year.
If we wanna be 3-0 we better take the Eagles serious, expect their best shot, and be ready to answer it.
This is not a concession speech. Its not like we can't or shouldn't beat this team, but I can promise you this, if we bring anything less than our A-Game, if we don't match their intensity and come with the same sense of urgency, if we are not equally as desperate to get this win, then we will not win this football game, we will have fell right into the medias trap and blew a golden opportunity to start 3-0, and then the same media that was singing our praises will be calling us overrated, one hit wonders verses Indy, the Same Old Jets, and the search for their next victim commences.
I hope thats the message Coach Bowles sends to his team this week, because it happens to be true.
Yep, it means we're getting their A-Game on Sunday, on a short week no less, and we better be ready for it, because we are walking into a buzzsaw and nothing less than our best will suffice.
Thats just the way it works in this league. If you've been following this league for any length of time you should know that. Its always tough to beat a good team after they've lost, but especially when they drop the first two, because they know 0-3 teams that make the playoffs are exceedingly rare in the NFL, it happens about as often as a total eclipse of the sun, so they are playing to save their season this week.
Only the novice fan looks at the first two weeks and expects to see the same Eagles team Dallas saw last week, the one that rolled over and died.
THATS FOOLS GOLD.
What we have coming into MetLife on Sunday is a wounded animal, out for blood. The coach is in a bad mood, the players are in a bad mood, their fans are in a bad mood, even the Philly beat reporters are mocking them and impugning their character, while the national media has all but written them off, so their facility will be a miserable place to be around this week and come Sunday they will literally be frothing at the mouth to take out their frustrations on the Jets.
Meanwhile the media is throwing rose pedals at the feet of the Jets and in two weeks they've leaped us from he late 20's all the way to the TOP 10 in their power rankings. This is whats known as fattening up the calf for the slaughter.
That doesn't mean we can't win, but we better not read our own press clippings and think 2-0 means we've arrived, or next week we'll be 2-1 and the media will be searching for their next victim. Just look at the way they hyped up Buffalo last week, following their destruction of Indy, and notice how Rex ate it up, even encouraged it, and whipped that town into a frenzy. Between Rex and the media they had the Bills believing they were the 85 Bears about to drop the hammer on the Patriots in SB XX, then Sunday came and they got their absolute heads handed to them in their own building.
There's a cautionary tale to be found in that story my friends, about the dangers of thinking you've arrived before you have actually accomplished anything. 2-0 is nice, it beats 0-2 or 1-1, but we've got a long way to go and the last time I looked 2 Wins has never won a division title or gotten anyone to the playoffs. Its still 2 less wins than we had last year.
If we wanna be 3-0 we better take the Eagles serious, expect their best shot, and be ready to answer it.
This is not a concession speech. Its not like we can't or shouldn't beat this team, but I can promise you this, if we bring anything less than our A-Game, if we don't match their intensity and come with the same sense of urgency, if we are not equally as desperate to get this win, then we will not win this football game, we will have fell right into the medias trap and blew a golden opportunity to start 3-0, and then the same media that was singing our praises will be calling us overrated, one hit wonders verses Indy, the Same Old Jets, and the search for their next victim commences.
I hope thats the message Coach Bowles sends to his team this week, because it happens to be true.
