Tanking Eagles!

[siena2003]

[saints22]

Jan 5, 2021 8:22:02 GMT -5 siena2003 said:

It was pretty blatant. Will be interesting to see what the NFL does about it, if anything.

I don't remember the specifics, but I think New England lost a first-round draft pick, and was fined one million dollars, for "deflategate" a few years ago. That Eagles game the other night may strike more at the "integrity of the game" that the NFL talks about a lot, than "deflategate" did.

[Papi]

Teams lay down the last week of season, it's not much different from a team that clinched and rest players. It just had a strange look because the game was winnable for the eagles heading to the 4th quarter. Like I said if the Giants had one more win it wouldn't have mattered.

[saints22]

Jan 5, 2021 11:53:33 GMT -5 Papi said:

Teams lay down the last week of season, it's not much different from a team that clinched and rest players. It just had a strange look because the game was winnable for the eagles heading to the 4th quarter. Like I said if the Giants had one more win it wouldn't have mattered.

You're right about the Giants. Really have no one to blame but themselves. But, with a division championship at stake (as tainted though it may have been for whichever terrible team ended up as the champ), the Eagles owed it to every team, including themselves, to play to win. They didn't do that. Hurts wasn't having a particularly good game, but he's been the starter for several weeks, and should have been on the field throughout the game, barring injury. Despite what Coach Pedersen said, this was not the time to give the third-string guy some snaps to see what he could do. Plenty of time in the off-season to make that assessment.

[gorvy]

That game was so bad it was hard to believe it was nfl football. It was nice to see the giants win, that was their playoff game.