Sunday, November 29, 2009

Is A.I. Coming back to the city of brotherly love?



It's late and I'm drunk... so bare with me.
Despite Philadelphia phenom Allen Iverson announcing his retirement a few days ago, Larry Brown (former Sixers coach) tried to persuade him to return to the league and apparently it has almost worked.

"Numerous team sources confirmed on Friday that the 76ers' brass has already talked — and talks will only escalate this weekend — about bringing Iverson back to Philadelphia. Possibly as early as next week.
"It's being seriously considered," one Sixers official said before his team lost to the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night. "We know the history. We know the ups and downs. But we're also aware of what (Iverson) can do and that he's needed here. We simply can't just ignore the upside he'd bring. Not with our situation."


Oh sheeeeet son. Does this mean THE A.I. is coming back to the Illadelph to our fair city in the aspect of basketball??? Stay tuned Philly fans, 'cause this could get interesting. 

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving Philly!

Things I'm thankful for:
1.) The Phillies bringing some validity to our fare city
2.) DeSean Jackson, LeSean McCoy, Brent Celek and the rest of the Eagles young talent
3.) Chris Pronger coming to the Illadelph
4.) Andre Iguodala (because everything else on the Sixers sucks)
5.) Harry Kalas for gracing us with his presence for so many years
6.) Danny Briere (I'm still a fan!)
7.) Lionshead beer
8.) OLD Bob Dylan music
9.) Plaid
10.) and of course my friends and family

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Lou Williams fractures his jaw

As if last night's game wasn't weird enough, the Sixers will now lose Lou Williams for the next 2 to 4 weeks due to a broken jaw. He did finish last night's game in Washington though, scoring 26 points before getting elbowed in the face. Other than missing a potential game-winning shot in the final seconds, he had a great game and will be missed by the struggling Philadelphia squad. But if there's anything good to take from this, the Sixers 1st round pick Jrue Holiday might get some legit playing time.
First Marreece Speights gets hurt and now this? They already have too much money invested overrated players, a crappy coach and an empty stadium... the injuries are only piling it on. Hopefully Jrue and some of the other young guns can turn this developing season around.

Monday, November 23, 2009

STACY Andrews is officially useless

Notice something different along the offensive line last night? Well you should've. Because the Eagles six-year, $38.9 million dollar free agent pickup was BENCHED in favor of backup guard Nick Cole. So instead of THIS:

RT - Shawn Andrews
RG - Stacy Andews
C - Jamaal Jackson
LG - Todd Herremans
LT - Jason Peters
... to THIS:

RT - Winston Justice
RG - Nick Cole
C - Jamaal Jackson
LG - Todd Herremans
LT - Jason Peters

Is it safe to say the Andrews brothers are useless now? Shawn acts like he doesn't want to play anymore, whereas Stacy just can't play football period. That's A LOT of money wasted on an offensive line that craves continuity. Looking back at last year's line, we probably could've gone another year or two with Runyan & Thomas. It's just the fact that the Eagles organization more often than not lose faith in players past the age of 30. In the off-season the Eagles better fix this (I.E. cut both of them), or else it could blow up in their face. Because there's a lotta money tied up there for two useless bodies.

Week 11: A fourth quarter comeback?! PREPOSTEROUS!

Over the last two years, the Eagles have lost to the Bears twice and as of late, lost their last two games. Looking at those stats you could imagine that not a lot of confidence would surround this game but as usual with the Eagles, stranger things have happened.
As most Eagle fans know, you can tell how the team will preform by the first five minutes of the game or the first two drives (whichever comes first, usually). However this wasn't the case Sunday night in Chicago. The Birds started off the game by driving down the field and characteristically stalling in the red zone, settling for a field goal. Following an erratic first drive for Jay Cutler the Bears punted back to the Eagles. They had the same production as their first attempt, but this time they scored inside the 20-yard line - a 13-yard Jason Avant touchdown. The first ended with the Birds up 10-0, but their offense became anemic in the second.
It was as if the two teams had switched jerseys as the next fifteen began. During the quarter, the Bears kicker Robbie Gould put three through the uprights while the Eagles seemed to do nothing but turn over the ball. Donovan McNabb was intercepted by Zach Bowman and DeSean Jackson fumbled the ball during drives where they had the potential to strengthen their lead. If Jay Cutler was on point with his passes this game may have been a lot different. With Philly just trying to stop the bleeding, the two teams went into the locker room with the Eagles winning, 10-9.
The third quarter wasn't much better for the Birds as Sav Rocca - who has become a glaring problem at punter - kicked the ball 16 YARDS and gave the Bears great field position. Culter was his same irrational self, overthrowing receivers left and right, but Sheldon Brown saved a touchdown with an amazing one-handed play and Chicago settled for another field goal... this time, taking the lead. Tonight though the Eagles wouldn't give up. On their third drive of the quarter, they took three plays and scored a touchdown on a 48-yard pass from McNabb to Jackson (which coincidentally is D-Jack's shortest score of the season to date). The big-play birds were back in action. The Bears offense finally woke up toward the end of the quarter as Culter threw a touchdown to backup tight end Kellen Davis, but there was a feeling that this time the Eagles wouldn't take it lying down.
About five minutes into the fourth, LeSean McCoy turned the ball over and stalled what was surely a scoring drive. But unlike past occurrences, on the very next drive they went right back to McCoy without hesitation. This was the smartest thing the Eagles did all night. Not only did it show that they had confidence in their young runner, but it helped him instill confidence in himself. And because of that McCoy helped the offense move down the field and the rookie scored the game-winning touchdown on a 10-yard run. For once, the Eagles were ones making the decisive plays. The Bears has some solid chances to regain the lead, but Cutler was far too sporadic and the Birds ultimately won, 24-20.
So there IS some fight left in these old wings. This game was a huge lift for a sliding football team and should give them plenty of hope going into the coming weeks. Even More importantly though the Eagles showed they in fact could score in the red zone and eat up clock. Both of which will be important keys to winning in the twilight of the season.
Next up is the Redskins. On Sunday they struggled to score at all in Dallas and lost in the most boring game ever, 7-6. Nothing they tried worked, so expect a repeat of the Eagles first meeting with them.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

This just in: we blow

So all of a sudden the Philadelphia sports scene blows? Why can't anyone win for Christ's sake!?
- The Flyers went to lowly Phoenix tonight (who have more wins than fans) and actually LOST. No one wanted to play offense or defense, and Emery looked completely confused at all times. Phoenix's goalie Ilya Bryzgalov is strange, because he can either be mind-blowingly good or bad at any time. Unfortunately for the Fly-guys though he was the former. He went 23-24 and had some incredible saves that Emery could only wish he had.... they ended up falling to Phoenix, 3-1. I'm sure all six in attendance were SO proud.
- On the hardwood for Philadelphia they traveled to Cleveland to face the LeBron James' in Ohio. Mr. James had more points than all the Sixers players (32) and totally took over the game as he usually does. I for one never thought that the Sixers would win, but only being behind six points is sorta impressive even if it is a loss. The fuck am I saying? They still lost. I got ten on Eddie Jordan being fired before the All-Star break.

... So NOW we have to count on the Eagles (who've lost their last two overall AND their last two against the Bears) to try and salvage this shit-storm of a weekend? Ugh. I may need a drink.

Slow week, eh?

Don't worry, I haven't abandoned it, just haven't found anything worth writing about. Sure I could post about the Flyers inconsistency or how much the Sixers suck... but who wants to hear about that? The Flyers play the lowly Coyotes tonight in Arizona then the Birds are back in action tomorrow night, so you'll surely hear about those two things. Outside of those two stories I hope I can come up with more... 'cause honestly this sucks.