Philadelphia Eagles: 11 and Done for Andy Reid?

After a gargantuan win last week against the New York Giants, the Philadelphia Eagles laid the proverbial egg against the Minnesota Vikings. Throughout the night the team had no urgency, no sense of desire to win and generally looked disinterested.

The Eagles didn’t appear to have wanted to be playing on the first Tuesday night game in 70 years.

The team is banged-up, but I feel the Eagles may have had their mind on something else other than the Vikings on Tuesday night and may have been looking ahead to the Cowboys and a potential first-round bye.

By losing to Joe Webb and the Vikings, the Eagles could be looking at the way the season started.

A loss to the Green Bay Packers.

The Packers are starting to get healthy and to click. The Eagles have probably the most banged-up secondary out of any of the playoff teams in the NFL, and Aaron Rodgers is going to have a field day.

This could be a situation of the better team taking advantage of a banged-up team and getting them at the right possible time.

If the Eagles do come out disinterested and get blown out by the Packers without a fight, Andy Reid should be fired.

The fans of Philadelphia should not have to deal with a team that has zero urgency in the playoffs. You could blame the players, but it is Reid’s job to get everything out his players, hurt or not, disinterested or not. It’s his job to get them 100 percent mentally ready for games.

They were not mentally ready last night.

They were not mentally ready for the end of the 2009 season, and in their last NFC Championship game appearance the Eagles were not ready to play until after halftime. If they had put together a full four quarters, they would have beaten the Cardinals and would have been in the Super Bowl.

But they didn’t. They lost then, they lost last year, they lost yesterday and they are primed to lose now.

Reid is doing the right thing and giving most of his key players the week off next week against the Cowboys, allowing his players to be as fresh as possible against the Packers.

But if the team comes out flat and has zero urgency, Reid should not make it to the podium at the press conference as the head coach.

He is the best coach the Eagles have ever had on paper. Lots of wins, but zero balance and continual letdowns in the biggest moments of the season.

If the Eagles do come out and play hard against the Packers, and it’s just a case of the better team winning, he should get one more shot, one more season.

Fans should just expect more than one-and-done in the playoffs or another humiliating loss in the NFC Championship. He’s had more than enough time to bring a Super Bowl championship to Philadelphia.

It could be time to change.