After the Eagles beat the Colts..
- Sign of a good team is winning even when you don't play your best. Eagles are without their weapons. Plus they have a huge bull's-eye on their back for every team wanting to knock off the defending Super Bowl champ. So, even at home, no surprise the Birds had squeaked out a win over Indianapolis.
- Carson Wentz looked elusive and impressive in his first game back. he makes everyone else look quicker and more confident. Somehow, someway, Wentz will get it done.
-Penalties hurt the Birds yesterday but they also benefited from several calls, including a key defensive holding call to keep a drive alive with a little over six minutes left in the 4th quarter. Penalties break the flow of the game. not as much fun to watch as a fan, thinking there may be a flag on every play to cancel a big gain. There's got to be a happy medium.
- Corner Jalan Mills sucked again yesterday. He's just not that good. Hopefully Sidney Jones eventually moves outside from the slot or Rasul Douglas gets more playing time.
- Hopefully Jeffery is back this week against Tennessee. Are Ajayi and Sproles far behind? Whatever, the team can still use a DeSean Jackson-like speedy receiver .
- With San Francisco quarterback Jimmy Garafalo possibly out for the season with an ACL injury, is it time to trade QB Nick Foles?
- Bad decision by coach Pederson, trying a 55-yard field goal on a rainy, wet field and giving the Colts excellent field position, which led to their game-tying score. Kicker Jake Elliot is wildly inconsistent. Even extra points are an adventure.
- Credit the fans for being so loud Sunday afternoon that it effected Indy at the end. Me and my nephew usually sit in that end zone, in section 112. It does get extremely noisy there, with crazy Birds' fans stamping their feet and screaming.
- Andrew Luck is back as the Indy QB but he's not the same. Even on the last play of the game, when the Colts needed a Hail Mary pass into the end zone, Indy substituted their stronger-armed second-string quarterback.
The sack rule and protecting quarterbacks is becoming a joke in pro football. Twice already this season Green Bay linebacker Clay Matthews has been penalized on key plays for supposedly body-slamming opposing quarterbacks during sack. Like the catch rule, they are making the game too confusing, too complicated and too soft.
- The Eagles move to 2-1, tied with the Redskins on top of NFC East. Philly travels to Tennessee to take on the 2-1 Titans. Before the season I had the Birds undefeated going into Tennessee, losing to the Titans. Now I' ll make my pick later in the week.
I did go 3-0 with my NFL picks here in the blog and on Twitter ( #WheelinGreg), winning and covering with the Chiefs, Redskins and Seahawks.
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