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Related: About this forumClash City Rocker
(3,541 posts)And then that QB gets injured and has to leave the game.
vercetti2021
(10,402 posts)The Eagles have one of the best records this year, the 49'ers defense failed them after being touted as one of the best.
Clash City Rocker
(3,541 posts)Defense can only carry a team so far. If that had happened to the Eagles, theyd have lost too, believe it or not.
calguy
(5,768 posts)Had Purdy not been forced out of the game on their first drive, you would have seen a totally different game. Of course, we'll never know.
Not to take away from the Eagles' great season, but they beat a team without an offense today.
That point cannot be debated.
bronxiteforever
(9,409 posts)block Haason Reddick. If the o line executes there is no injury. It is the responsibility of the o line to protect the qb. That point also cannot be debated.
calguy
(5,768 posts)However, that doesn't invalidate my point that if Purdy hadn't been injured early on, it would have been a totally different game.
When an offense can't pass the ball with their 4th string qb, the defense can load the box and stop the best of running games.
It was pretty much game over when Purdy exited the game.
bronxiteforever
(9,409 posts)padah513
(2,674 posts)tishaLA
(14,321 posts)If they'd protected him better, Reddick wouldn't have been able to basically sprint to him and hit his arm as he was trying to throw, and he wouldn't have gotten injured. It's not like some freak non-contact injury where someone steps wrong and tears his ACL.
BumRushDaShow
(142,357 posts)FalloutShelter
(12,749 posts)Fly Eagles Fly is everything!
tishaLA
(14,321 posts)And you can't help but feel great for Reddick.
Just think: this might have been the last game at the Linc in midnight green for Kelce, Brandon Graham, and Fletch.
FalloutShelter
(12,749 posts)GreenWave
(9,189 posts)I thought well they don't care. So they lost.