Mediocrity has returned to the building

By Bob | Permalink | No Comments | October 22nd, 2006 | Trackback

Losing on a 61-yard field goal to a team as pathetic as the fucking Tampa Bucs would kill me if I thought the Eagles were a Super Bowl contending team, but the fact is that this year’s version of the Birds is like so many before it: mediocre.

People always remind me of the three straight NFC championship game appearances, the Super Bowl against the Patriots and the fact that the Eagles are not traditionally as bad as, say, the Detroit Lions. All true, but the recent successes can’t mask the decades of frustration and futility that this franchise represents. The Andy Reid era has been more pleasant than most, but the fact remains that this organization has never won a Super Bowl and that isn’t going to change this year.

The Bucs started a quarterback today who probably wouldn’t be first pick in a flag football league. Tampa Bay is a sorry excuse for a team and a sorry excuse for a franchise. Yet, they have one more Super Bowl win than the Eagles do and they deserved the win today.

As Donovan McNabb goes, so goes the Eagles. McNabb was just short of miserable against the Bucs and as a result a team that two weeks ago was in the driver’s seat in the NFC East now faces the very real possibility that it won’t even come close to sniffing the playoffs. Jacksonville comes to Philly next week and I can tell you right now that 93% of Philadelphians are already predicting a loss. The other 7% are predicting nuclear holacust. We are doomsdayers by nature and this year’s version of our team has the all too familiar look of being a mediocre train wreck waiting to happen.

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