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Will the Eagles defense hold them back?

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Mike Burke.

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The Eagles are in the place they need to be in order to make a playoff run. However, I have a lot of concern about the status of their defense. There were some questions in the secondary coming into the season and there’s even more questions now. The linebackers seemed to be set going into [...]

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Philly Reider: Defensive Thoughts

Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by Tex.

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The Eagles beat the Redskins…well, they won. On the bright side, they didn’t lose against the elite Raiders. Andy Reid finally ran a balanced offense against the Redskins with about half run and half passing plays. However, Donovan McNabb and crew generated a comparatively meager offense (aside from the two 60 yard plays from DeSean [...]

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Eagles defense must duplicate Cardinals game plan

Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by Mike Burke.

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I don’t know how many of you got to see the Giants and Cardinals game on Sunday night, but the Giants offense looked terrible. Eli Manning threw for three interceptions and of their two touchdowns, one came on a total fluke play. Manning wasn’t able to get anything going because the Cardinals called a great [...]

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Let’s talk about the defense

Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Mike Burke.

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I feel as though we’ve been spending a lot of time talking about the offense lately, so let’s take some time to talk about the Eagles defense. We’ve seen two different defense’s show up for the Eagles this year. In Week One and Week Three, we saw a dominating defense that forced turnovers and beat [...]

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Two different teams on Sunday

Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Mike Burke.

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To me it seemed as though two different Eagles teams played on Sunday. There was the team that played the first half, and the team the played the second half. Although they weren’t playing outstanding football in the first half, I was happy with the 17-13 score. Within the first five minutes of the second [...]

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Eagles must shutdown Drew Brees

Posted on 19. Sep, 2009 by Mike Burke.

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Last week with Carolina, it was all about stopping the one-two punch of DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart. This week however, the Eagles have to focus their efforts on shutting down quarterback Drew Brees. Playing the Lions last week, Brees put up over 350 yards passing and threw for six touchdowns. He came out and [...]