I assumed the poor o line play was the reason for soft holding calls (no idea if that’s true I just feel like a lot of angry comments on game threads are on d line getting held all game)
Seems like you’re only getting a holding call on an outside run or a blown up scramble where the OL gets caught trying to change direction and grabs his man from the side
Holy hell I forgot all about Adam Gase
I like to call it “here comes a reference to Jalen’s squat numbers / Jason kelce’s success at the center position / Jordan mailata being big”
The eagles’ superpower is that they make opposing teams play just a bit worse to secure ugly win after ugly win
The Jets, for obvious reasons, are immune to such dark magic
Lol fuck, you know what I meant
The pet theory that I’ve been working on, but not yet able to adequately express to my satisfaction, is that the NFL is worried about defenses getting so frustrated that they A: start engaging in dangerous behavior to try and stop it or B: say “fuck it” and take the play off to try and regroup on the next series of downs
So you have the safety concerns, which I think are more legitimate, or some sort of scenario where there’s an unspoken agreement that 3rd and 9 is a gimme and you can see it on the field that both sides are just going through the motions for a play, thus DEVALUAING THE PRODUCT
but who the hell knows, refs might just not be very good at accurately determining if 22 men are lined up perfectly along an axial plane
The best comment I saw on an IG post of a sad eagles fan was a bears fan: “eagles fans after 45 minutes of bad football”