Darn It Eagles:That Was One Ugly Tie, Sister

Last year it was the punt returner. This year, it is the fullback.

Yep, it finally happened. Success merged with futility and produced an ugly, kissing your sister, 13-13 tie with the Cincinnati Bengals. And the architect? The coach and pro temp General Manager Andy Reid.

The Eagles' defense played fine. Bengals linebacker and former Eagle Dhanti Jones also played well. And even Donavan McNabb could not give himself a passing grade, pardon the pun, with three interceptions. The last time the Eagles QB threw three interceptions was when the Bucs Matt Bryan kicked a 62-yard field goal in a familiar painful loss about two or three years ago.

Why do I point to Reid? To my memory, the Eagles faced three 3rd-and-1 situations and all three times passed the ball resulting in an incompletion. The Eagles and McNabb did convert on a 4th-and-1 on their way to the game-tieing field goal by David Akers in the fourth quarter.

And why didn't the Eagles make those 3rd-and-1 situations? Execution? Wrong scheme? Bull bananas and I am sick and tired of those "we are dumber than monkeys" day after press conferences by Reid. It is because they don't have a fullback or a tight end, for that matter, who can make a hole big enough to get Brian Westbrook or Correll Buckholder through for one stinkin' yard. Chicago, Washington, New York and now Cincinnati. How sad is that? Pathetic.

You know: I gave Reid a break last year with all that went on with his sons. I thought a healthy McNabb and Westbrook and the addition of Asante Samuel would make a difference.

I was wrong.

It is because Andy Reid is bullheaded and the Philadelphia media and fans are football morons who don't understand football.

Come on Andy: Call this a stinking ugly game. 'Cause it was.

When Donavan, post press conference, said he could understand that fans could not understand what the Eagles were trying to accomplish, I took him for face value.

Like Donavan or not, he sometimes skirts around a question, but when it really matters, he tells it straight.

Remember the black on black crime he said that Terrell Owens pulled on him? I understand it. Yep, this is not the hood. But where in the hood do you have 300 pound men who can run a 4.8, 40-yard dash and deliver twice their weight in force to a quarterback? That's how I understood McNabb's statement. Owen did not have his back late in his Eagles career. Think I am whining about old times? Put a mic in TO's face after a Dallas loss.

And right now McNabb knows that this team ain't as good as one of his momma's home made biscuits. That is one thing he won't say, because he has to believe in the team.

But how many people believe what Reid is trotting out there anymore?