From postgame:

Here’s the play itself:

Jalen Carter plays a physical game and a mean game. Not sure if it’s “dirty” in a Derek Barnett sense, which would insinuate that he’s taking cheap shots or late shots, but only he knows for sure. I guess fans of the other 31 NFL teams have their minds made up.

They’ll point to the Dak spitting incident, which was scummy. And there was the hand to the facemask of Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl and the racing incident stemming from his college days at UGA, so there are a couple of high-profile,...

Shout out to Carla in New York:

The Eagles beat the Chiefs 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX and ended the dynasty. Always remember that it was 40 to 6 at one point and the Chiefs didn’t score most of their points until garbage time. It truly was a behind-the-woodshed type of game. “Belt-to-ass,” as Chauncey Gardner-Johnson famously said. BTA! BTA! BTA!

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The Eagles had 17 yards of offense and one first down in the second half of Sunday’s win. But Nick Sirianni doesn’t think they were being conservative:

Yeah, well it’s not like fans were asking them to start slinging it downfield in the rain, or run Jalen Hurts on the wet turf, or take unnecessary risks. They were more or less looking for better play calling, for better situational feel, especially when the run game stopped producing. They had six running plays that went for two yards or less in the second half, with the caveat of needing to get...

Jalen Hurts completed 13 passes for 27 yards and a touchdown on Sunday in Buffalo, logging 110 yards and a 71.5 QB rating. He ran the ball three times for five yards and didn’t complete a second-half pass.

And yet, he had a better game than Josh Allen:

This game was a good snapshot of the larger QB discussion we’ve been having for a few years now. Jalen Hurts is consistently ranked outside of the top five, six, or eight on these arbitrary lists, while guys like Allen, Joe Burrow, and Patrick Mahomes lead the way. Lamar Jackson is often...

The Niners beat the Bears in a Sunday night thriller, keeping the Eagles alive for the #2 seed at 11-5:

Pretty simple scenario. The main problem is that the Lions are eliminated and have nothing to play for. If both the Eagles and Bears win, they each finish 12-5 and Chicago takes the head-to-head tiebreaker. That would give the Bears a first-round home game against the #7 seed Packers.

The Birds as a #3 seed would play one of the Wild Card teams from the NFC West. The Rams can’t win the division, but the 12-4 Niners play the 13-3...

It’s conflicting to feel Negadelphia after the Eagles went into Buffalo and beat the 11-win Bills while holding them to 12 points.

But the reality of the situation is that they held on for dear life, and only a miracle defensive performance and bad miss from Josh Allen on the game’s final play allowed them to walk away with a W.

Offensively, the Eagles mustered less than 20 yards in the second half. Didn’t even complete a pass in the 3rd or 4th quarter. They continue to kill themselves with unsuccessful running plays, logging the following in this game:

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Now that our blood pressure has returned to normal (still high, but not 150 over 95), let’s laugh at Josh Allen missing a wide-open receiver in the end zone on what would have been a game-winning two-point conversion:

This is straight-up karma. Karma for Sean McDermott, who ran the tush push on the previous play, and earlier in the game for the first Bills’ touchdown. The same tush push that Buffalo voted to ban after McDermott complained about health and safety risks over the summer. In fact, he’s run it more than anybody not named the Eagles this season and...

This isn’t a catch. Incredible effort, but the ball hits the ground at 31 seconds into this clip:

The Eagles ended up holding on 4th and goal in what amounted to a karmic defensive stop, but it left them with hideous field position. They ended up going three and out and having to punt back to the Bills after creating just enough breathing room to get off a kick.

This play wasn’t reviewed because Buffalo ran up to the line of scrimmage and quickly got a snap off. Maybe the Eagles video team was looking at it, maybe not. Second...

They probably deserved to lose that game. Let’s be honest. You play chickenshit offensive football for an entire half and ask your defense to be the 1985 Chicago Bears and you’re probably not going to win a lot of games.

Thankfully Josh Allen missed a wide-open guy in the end zone on what would have a been a game-winning two-point conversion, so the Eagles improve to 11-5 and leave Buffalo with a ridiculous, improbable victory.

Make no mistake, the defense was awesome in this game. They sacked Allen five times for 51 yards and held that offense to 12 points...

GREAT stat! –

Incredible achievement by the Commies. They were awarded eight standalone games on the strength of their run to the NFC Championship Game and the excitement surrounding Jayden Daniels’ sophomore season. Then they proceeded to be wracked with injuries and their season went off the rails entirely by the beginning of November.

The standalone games, i.e. games in which nobody else was playing at the same time, were:

• Thursday Night Football at Green Bay (27-18 loss)
• Monday Night Football vs. Bears (25-24 loss)
• Monday Night Football at Chiefs (28-7 loss)
• Sunday Night Football vs....

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This was near the end of the Commanders game, after the brawl in which Tyler Steen fought six guys at the same time. Fred Johnson was part of the initial shenanigans that sparked the brouhaha, and I am 99% sure it’s him in this clip telling someone on the other side to “shut the fuck up.” That’s his voice, and the other two linemen in the picture are second stringers who had just come into the game. It’s a little hard to discern since Greg Olsen is speaking as color commentator, but he says “*shut the fuck up… I’ll...

Jake Elliott missed three field goals on Saturday evening, though only two went into the box score.

He missed from 43 yards in the first quarter, then hooked a 57-yarder that was wiped out due to a penalty. That resulted in a 52-yarder that he also missed left. Not the easiest kicks in the world, 50+ outside in December, but kicks that he’s made over the course of his storied Eagles career.

Now he’s second-worst in field goal percentage among qualified NFL kickers in 2025 (at least one FGA per game) –

For context, all seven of Elliott’s misses are...