Where Did This “The Eagles Are Full of Themselves” Take Come From?

I hate Fox Sports 1. But, what I hate more than Fox Sports 1 is that their on-air “talent” always somehow sucks me in to their shitty takes like a vacuum on brush role. The new outlandish take they are floating around this week that makes no sense but still has me emotionally invested is that the Eagles are “full of themselves” and “arrogant”.

Jason Whitlock is like Marcus Hayes but on steroids and nationally broadcasted. This ignorant opinion stems from a portion of Doug Pederson’s book, a book that I agree with Mikey Miss, was a little weird to be promoted on Get Up today. If you haven’t seen it, here’s what Doug had to say on the Jaguars having no balls:

“I was there thinking, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me right now’, It made me mad because Jacksonville had New England right where they wanted them. I was screaming at the TV in my office. When they knelt right before halftime, inside I was like, ‘I’ll never do that.’ It fueled me. They could have least tried for a field goal. They took it out of their quarterback’s hands, and they didn’t give to their big back Leonard Fournette. I thought, ‘If they lose this game, this is why.’ Sure enough they would go on to lose the game.”

So, let me get this straight…Doug Pederson is arrogant for making the right call to be aggressive? The Jaguars lost that AFC Championship game, 24-20 and were driving on their final possession in need of a touchdown. Squandering that possession near the end of the first half essentially ended their season. What’s ironic is that while Doug is getting criticized for his opinion on the Jaguars lack of play calling aggression, Jalen Ramsey said the same thing in his interview last week. Ramsey voiced his displeasure with taking the ball of out Blake Bortles’ hands in the AFC Championship game instead of going balls to the wall.

I guess I just don’t how a society who slobbers of analytics is now criticizing a coach for wanting the maximum number of possessions possible in a game. If Doug doesn’t take the chance early in the season against the Giants, there is no 61 yard, Jake Elliot bomb for the win. If he doesn’t get the offense moving against the Falcons at the end of the first half to set them up for a field goal, we probably lose. If he doesn’t let the guys air it out in the Super Bowl at the end of the first half, there is no Philly Special. If being arrogant entails maximizing the potential of your offense and squeezing every last drop out, I’ll take Cocky Doug every day.

Aside from our new hero Kyle Brandt, every national sports show co-host has been shitting on us before we ever won the Super Bowl (how do the Vikings look this year, Nick Wright?). I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that now that we are Super Bowl champions, they continue to do so.

Baker Mayfield just did a photo shoot with a fucking tiger in front of a suicide door Phantom. But, Doug and the Eagles are full of themselves because we didn’t take a knee like a bunch of pussies during a conference championship game? Cut me a break.

I think every national sports talk show on ESPN or FS1 should just be Ray Didinger giving us a history lesson on Philly sports.

By Aidan Powers | August 24, 2018