Everyone knows this is not true
The 256th game of the NFL season, played in the first season on NBC, is usually a great appetizer for the playoffs. Last year, the 49ers defeated the Seahawks in Football Sunday night showcase to win the NFC West and get the home advantage in the playoffs. This year, he let them all look sour in the mouth.
The Giants, after defeating the Cowboys earlier, only needed the Eagles to beat Washington to be crowned NFC East champions. Washington played like a team that knew it was on the verge of the postseason. The Eagles players also played hard, but their coach did not.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Doug Pederson gave Jalen Hurts the hook and put Nate Sudfeld, the third colleague of his career, in the game as a full-back. Sudfeld was terrible and the Eagles lost without a fight.
After the game, Pederson explained his decision.
“Yeah, I was training to win,” Pederson said. “It simply came to our notice then. Obviously, Nate has been here for four years and I felt she deserved a chance to get some photos.
“Listen, if there’s anything out there that thinks I wasn’t trying to win the game, [Zach] Ertz is there, Brandon Graham is there, Darius Slay is there. All our top guys are still on the field at the end. We were going to win the game. “
The charitable interpretation of this quote is that Pederson thought he could give Sudfeld a chance to play, while also trying to win the game. Everything the national TV audience has seen from Sudfeld should make it clear that there is no way that can be true. The game ended when Sudfeld stepped on the field. Pederson is right: the pair of star players who weren’t inactive remained in the game, but at the top spot, the Eagles played a guy who seemed as inefficient and outdated as Cowboys QB Ben DiNucci was against Philadelphia earlier. this season.
The uncharitable interpretation is that Pederson was lying on his ass when he claimed that the Eagles were trying to win the game. Pederson may point to the presence of Ertz, Graham and Slay as proof that he has not completely given up the game, but there is simply no way to keep that from his decision to put Sudfeld in charge of the offense. Even though Hurts easily played his worst game of the season, it’s ridiculous to suggest that the Eagles had a better chance of winning with him on the bench.
Pederson added Monday morning that he is also trying to assess some of the players who are still in the top of the depths.
If evaluating the future of the Eagles defenders was the goal, then Hurts should have played the whole game. The biggest decision the team will have to take this off-season is whether Hurts will remain the starter and turn Carson Wentz into the league’s most expensive reserve. Every extra moment Hurts takes – especially in a game where he fought an elite defensive line – helps make the decision easier.
This is also not the college where a bench heater acts in the last game of the season as a reward for working over the years. Unless you are a playoff team unable to improve your standings, players want to win every game of the regular season. The only other time Sudfeld saw an extended action of the game was in the last game of the 2017 season, when the Eagles, 13–2, rested Nick Foles against the Cowboys after already gaining an advantage at home.
The players and fans of the giants (including me) are understood that the lack of effort of the eagles has come to decide the race of the division. (The Giants could have taken their fate out of the hands of the Eagles by winning more than six games.) Fans of the other 30 NFL teams outside of Washington should also be upset that the Eagles turned the game into a mockery and that Pederson he was furious to claim that it was not a farce.
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