Official Game Thread - Week 11 - TNF Edition - Commanders @ Eagles

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Washington Commanders (7-3) @ Philadelphia Eagles (7-2)



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When: Thursday, November 14th
Where: Lincoln Financial Field - Phialdelphia PA

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house money, this team is playing with house money. wins are everything, but progress and a good disciplined showing verse these green bastards is VERY close behind—for me. the sad reality is the team is banged up, coming off a physical game on a very short week to prep. a win would be ... NUTS.
 
Green Bastards lol. Thanks for firing up the thread SilentThreat to get our game plan in place.

So I think we can all agree at this point New Orleans wasn't sandbagging Lattimore to make sure he didn't get injured and hurt his trade value. Sure getting him was a long play by Peters but damn it would have been great to have him vs Philly in prime time. Dude is injury prone. So what do we do on that backend. Desperation play may be fire up Forbes! Joking aside we just have to ride the horse we rode in on and have BSJ follow AJ fist fight him at the line try and get them both ejected (hopefully Lattimore showed him some Mike Evans tricks), and for the love of the game give him help over the top. Magic Mike aka Sub Zero on Devonta, Free up our Micah Parsons Dante Fowler however possible to stunt and twist Hurts into submission. Luvu shadowing to finish him if he tries to scramble to safety.

As always now for 50 years straight, I like our chances.

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Any word on Marshon Lattimore or Brian Robinson? Feel like we're going to need those two to make it a game. BSJ vs AJ Brown? :eek:
 
Eagles D—5th in points allowed, 2nd in yards allowed ... 1st in least penalties on their D. oof. could be tough sledding man.
 
Anyone know the status on Crowder? He’s got to be better than OZ returning punts.
 
Worried about this one especially after last week
 
This feels like an L only because I don't believe we are that good we sweep them.

We got a short week going on the road, be fair, impress me, but I'm not planning to get angry two days from now.

I'm mean, its not in my calendar to he angry during that game right now.
 
Just heard this on Sheehans podcast

The last time the Eagles and Redskins faced each other with both teams over .500:

2000
McNabb was in his second year as a QB
Jeff George had replaced Brad Johnson
Norv Turner would be fired after the following game, a loss to the Giants
Robiski (sp?) would take over

(Now I’m adding)
Norv had just come off a 10-6 record, a division championship, a playoff win in the first round against the Loins, and a loss to the Bucs in the second round. I remember watching that game in Minnesota - there for my cousins wedding.

I recall Snyder justifying the firing by saying 10-6, division win, but losing in the second round of the playoffs “wasn’t good enough” and that he demanded more. Snyder had taken over the team the year before but, like Harris, had no real opportunity to make any real changes. The draft had already occurred, it was too late to make any serious changes. Given the results from the previous year - he rode with the org as constructed on the football side when he assumed actual ownership of the team. The team had been in the stewardship of the NFL following Cooke’s death in 1997 - in reality things had stayed the course at the top for a while as Cooke approached death and the team had no real owner to call the shots for a while there.

Snyder went on to post just 2 10 win seasons (2005, 2012), only 3 NFC East titles, and 1 (one) playoff win in TWENTY FIVE YEARS

This is why all of our rivalries went dormant. Hard to have a rivalry when the games never matter, and one team is always the butt of jokes.

The team would wander the Desert of Irrelevancy for 25 years under Snyder. What a clown.
 
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As an eternal optimist, I want to say we win this!

But… Hate to say it, but this feels like a hard fought loss to me. We’ll be fired up by the loss to the steelers, but I worry we’re too tired and beaten up on a short week.

But, looking at the rest of the schedule, I think we have the easier path out. Eagles still have Baltimore and Pittsburgh on their schedule and they will have us again, but this time at home rested and with key players back (fingers crossed!)

I always thought we might split with the Eagles.

That said, I still think it’s close and we have a punchers chance. I think JD always gives us that shot. If our WRs catch this week and we can get a ground game going, we’re in this fight. I worry mostly about our secondary being abuses (again!) and the key injuries across our Oline.
 
There is indeed a stat about teams that play the Steelers not doing well in their next game. It’s a real concern.

I have tempered expectations on this team compared to most at this point. I expected them to do well and had them at 10 wins for the season - but now that the seasons underway I see lots of people talking about #2 seed and all sorts of stuff.

I get you work with the cards you’re dealt and you never shy from opportunity - but the reality is a team that fights hard and has real promise is the realistic expectation; nailing the franchise QB pick is an incredible bonus, as is finding out your coach makes people want to run through walls for him.

I won’t be upset at a loss here just like I’m not upset at a loss to the Steelers. There’s a bigger picture about what this franchise is going to be going forward. We call it “identity.” We have that. After 25 years of not having that.

Go out there and regardless of final score make sure the eagles know they played you. And that they don’t want to play you again.
 
So, the good news is that Quinn and Witt have experience beating the Eagles. They have gameplanned against them for years. So, we know what they like to do and how we like to line the chess pieces up to counter that. In that way, this is like the Giants game. The Giants had the number of Washington's defense since the Haslett days. Now, they don't. There is bad news, too. We are beat up, especially in the lines and they were smoke and mirrors to begin with. If we get Lucas back and have Coleman on one side and Cornelius on the other than that will help, but there is a talent defecit. We are the try-hard team with a rookie QB who's blowing past expectations.

On the flip side, I think this "puncher's chance" rhetoric undersells us a little bit especially if we get Robinson and Lucas back. We went toe to toe with both the Ravens and Steelers and were a dropped pass or a better spot away from winning one or both. This team has earned its record. It can play the David role and doesn't need to fear the Goliaths. We can win this. There is every reason for the team to believe in itself. This isn't the team of the last few years where we need to invent dream scenarios to win. We don't need the miracle movie haymaker to fell the bully (even though I just compared us with David.) We are a team that Philly needs to take seriously and I wonder if they won't. I wonder if institutional memory will make them relax and expect us to be pushovers. Ironically, that could be our edge. New York played better against us then they did against every other team because we were the one team they believed they could always beat. The Eagles may not lack their edge because in their hearts they expect this one to be a cakewalk no matter what their coaches or heads tell them.
 
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