2 Seasons End in a Matter of Days

Funerals are a great place to pick up chicks at least?

Within the past week, there have been two seasons that have officially come to an end. One ended in a playoff run with a record setting season; the other ended in Week 5 of the regular season. While we here at 'continued success' are usually positive and optimistic, this week we can find ourselves in only one spot, the graveyard, as we bury two professional sports teams in the area.

The Eagles again have embarrassed themselves with another disgusting loss. 4 interceptions for an unlucky Michael Vick, one huge fumble by Jason Avant, and an encroachment that should get Juqua Parker removed from the team. This was a team with high hopes at the beginning of the year that just came crashing down. After showing some life in the 2nd half, led by Michael Vick, the team (especially the defense) found a way to give it away again while trailing this time. Brian Billick was spot on with his description of what happened. The timeout was called for that play in the timeout the Eagles' coaches explicitly said "DON'T MOVE," and yet here we are talking about another Eagles' loss. Although most of the blame at this point will be pinned on Parker, there were quite a few other hiccups that cannot be forgotten.

Avant, for being as reliable as he has been over the past couple years, really could not have given away more in this game. He seemed to be Mr. Butterfingers today and hurt the Eagles just as much as Parker did with that last boneheaded play. Hopefully he can make up for it the rest of the season.

Another factor is that even though the defense played better in the second half, this can't happen. You cannot give up that many points in any game and expect to win on any given day. The unit as a whole cannot tackle. When Youngstown States' own Donald Jones is breaking three tackles on a play, you know that you have basic fundamental problems. The missed tackles of the Eagles is leading to big plays. The Eagles' defense is essentially making every team that they face look like their offense used to look last year. Even though Juan Castillo has definitely not done a good job with the defense this year, he cannot get out there and tackle for his players. If they have any hope of reviving the season, this is the number one priority that needs to change.

So with this game, we here by bury the season of the Philadelphia Eagles. It was once a promising and upstart life that has now been  cast asunder. However, with death, comes new life. Thank goodness for us, the new life comes in the form of a very good Philadelphia Flyers team.

(This is not a story encouraging you to stop watching/rooting for the Eagles. Please continue to yell and scream at the TV as if we are still undefeated, but have the thought in the back of your mind that we may not be making the playoffs this year. Hey, it has been worse.)

Just so we are all aware, we still are hopeful the Eagles will go 10-6 or 11-5, and we will continue to sit in front of our TV every Sunday to live/die with the final score.