A Sad, True State

Phil Sheridan nails the current state of the Eagles

they really have no one but themselves to blame for the beating they are taking this time around. There is no mess quite as unpleasant to clean up as a mess you made yourself and really should have avoided.

The Eagles are 5-4-1 for the many of the same reasons they were 5-8 at one point last season and 5-6 in 2006.

Reid won't run the football. McNabb has been inconsistent. There are glaring personnel errors. Worst of all, the team seems to play in a kind of fog at the worst possible times. All of this is interconnected, of course, making it almost impossible to untangle Reid's play-calling from McNabb's cold spells from the defensive lapses from the occasional time management gaffe or head-slapping penalty or special-teams miscue.