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Leonard Wiliams cheap shot late hit was the turning point

since1925 : 12/10/2019 9:43 am
Wentz was nearly sacked and threw an incompletion. Would have been second and ten. Out of nowhere Williams came up from behind and threw a forearm into CW's chest after the play.

Before that 15-yard penalty Philadelphia had been completely inept on offense. After it they accepted the penalty drove the field and score a TD and moved the ball smartly for the rest of the game.

It's the kind of invisible play that often goes unnoticed. But this stupid cheap shot penalty is a bright before-and-after line. It's the kind of play that losing teams make. Instead of letting sleeping dogs lie, they wake up an opponent and give it a sense of focus.

Could I be reading too much into this? Sure. In a 60-minute there are hundreds of factors that produce an outcome. But there is no questioning that there were two Eagle offenses on display last night. The one before the cheap shot and the one after.
3rd and long Pass Interference  
Gettledogman : 12/10/2019 9:45 am : link
on BEAL on the game tying drive was the play that killed the game.
The turning point was the Eagles remembered who they were playing  
The_Boss : 12/10/2019 9:45 am : link
Early in the 3rd quarter and realized they still can host a playoff game in January.
It was not a good play by Williams  
Rjanyg : 12/10/2019 9:46 am : link
but lets face it, there was a lot of football to play after that. How about the play where Williams bats the ball in the air and if Golden just catches the ball we are in field goal territory. That would have won the game in regulation.

Back up the Brinks truck!  
Greg from LI : 12/10/2019 9:46 am : link


Williams is SO awesome, though. Without him, we wouldn't have held...ummm...*checks boxscore* Boston Scott to a mere 59 yards on 10 carries!
That was one play.  
section125 : 12/10/2019 9:47 am : link
Turning point was the whistle at the end of the 2nd quarter.
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GiantEgo : 12/10/2019 9:47 am : link
You could feel the game turn when the Giants went 3 and out to open the second half.
Leonard thought he was still playing for a Greg ...  
Spider56 : 12/10/2019 9:47 am : link
Dumb but not catastrophic.
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DRich1980 : 12/10/2019 9:50 am : link
In comment 14712279 GiantEgo said:
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You could feel the game turn when the Giants went 3 and out to open the second half.

+1
Give LW a break...  
bw in dc : 12/10/2019 9:52 am : link
when you haven't sacked a QB in a year you sometimes overreact when you finally get close...
Actually there is some truth to this  
jvm52106 : 12/10/2019 10:05 am : link
post. I saw Jason Peters immediately afterward get in LW's face about the play. The eagles Oline sure seemed to be fired up going forward and they started to maul our guys in the run game. We got pressure but mainly because the Eagles had nobody outside to throw to.

That play by Williams was stupidity. Anyone who dismisses it dismisses the fact that had the game been tied right then or we were trailing and needed a big stop, a play like that changes everything. Smart teams do not beat themselves. Dumb teams literally go out of their way to prevent themselves from winning.
Oh please  
djm : 12/10/2019 10:08 am : link
Get off this guy’s jock already.

The turning point was 2018.
The game turned..  
BamaBlue : 12/10/2019 10:09 am : link
when Shurmur opened his copy of Football for Dummies instead of the playbook.
the turning point in this game  
GeneInCal : 12/10/2019 10:12 am : link
was not going for it on 4th and three. What ion the world do we have to lose?

Schurmur is awful.
It was  
kcgiants : 12/10/2019 10:14 am : link
when we hired Shurmur.
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shockeyisthebest8056 : 12/10/2019 10:16 am : link
It was a loser play  
hitdog42 : 12/10/2019 10:17 am : link
it didnt cost the game- but a total loser play
It certainly could have fired them up  
Rudy5757 : 12/10/2019 10:20 am : link
but I would rather a guy hate on the Eagles and take a small cheap shop than congratulate him for making a play. There was plenty of bad in that 2nd half. We basically needed 3 points and couldnt get it done. You are not going to win a lot of games with 17 points anymore.

All in all losing was the best option for us. We can still win one of our last 3 and stay at #2. We may lose out and have a shot at #1. We've got the Dolphins, Redskins & Eagles.
Agree with you  
BBelle21 : 12/10/2019 3:27 pm : link
Got a bad feeling as soon as I saw it. I usually mute the game and listen to Papa and Banks. They were livid. Just couldn’t see why he would do that. It changed the momentum for the Eagles. They drove right down and scored.
RE: It was not a good play by Williams  
5BowlsSoon : 12/10/2019 3:32 pm : link
In comment 14712275 Rjanyg said:
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but lets face it, there was a lot of football to play after that. How about the play where Williams bats the ball in the air and if Golden just catches the ball we are in field goal territory. That would have won the game in regulation.


Much better......that ball was there for the taking. I’m not sure if someone knocked it out of Goldens hands.
RE: RE: It was not a good play by Williams  
Brown Recluse : 12/10/2019 3:34 pm : link
In comment 14713313 5BowlsSoon said:
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In comment 14712275 Rjanyg said:


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but lets face it, there was a lot of football to play after that. How about the play where Williams bats the ball in the air and if Golden just catches the ball we are in field goal territory. That would have won the game in regulation.




Much better......that ball was there for the taking. I’m not sure if someone knocked it out of Goldens hands.


Or when Jackrabbit jumped the screen and should have picked off the ball for an easy 6 points.

nonsense,  
uther99 : 12/10/2019 3:41 pm : link
Eagles went 3 and out after that penalty and punted. I can't understand what half of you people are watching
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