#on such a high level it just whiffed by everybody

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The butt slap was ad libbed according to the writer. The whole it was the bi bookend to the waitress slap was not a thing. SIGH. This stuff kind of proves how a lot of queer meta is a lot of guesswork that rarely pans out. Posters in the background that must mean a thing, suddenly don't mean that thing. Macho male posturing about triplets suddenly becomes "but who says they were women" like if queer men actually brag the same way straight men do! They don't! Triplets = women. Come on! CRINGES

I’ll take “passive aggressive ‘I’m a tired concerned fan’ masquerade” for exhibit 3, as if anything I’ve talked about was at all contingent on the ass slap, and as if I’ve been engaging at all in that corner, and as if honestly that detail was even marginally relevant beyond something to chuckle at with a smile.

Lmao even the genders of the triplets are literally irrelevant in this conversation, that’s the most hilarious fucking thing. This fandom is so wrapped up in its own hilarious and frankly, half-hysterical dialogue that they get caught in the strangest hair splitting that honestly, when you’ve never plugged into this ridiculous escalation culture? I don’t… think you realize how funny it is to watch.

How Funny-Unfunny. Laugh or you’ll cry. The fact that you even GALAXY BRAINED up this post with those arguments and really thought to bring this to my wall.

Literally guys what kind of ridiculous hetnorm culture have you been not just saturated into but trained into drawing *the most* regressive arguments and giving it platform? I recently just listed a whole assed adventure in literal queer representation history. Like, the way actual cinema history works. And it’s messy, and it’s sloppy, and half of you would flay the content, but it’s us, because people are messy.

Aside from that, whether or not you clearly haven’t watched Oz,as coffeebrainblog has pointed out, or any of the groundbreaking films that DID do the kind of bold representation work this fandom implicitly footstomps for – unless you really watch your share of documentaries – Tongues Untied, even if it’s intersectional with the black community; Learn. Your. LGBT. History. Before. Engaging.

If your entire premise ends up centrally featuring what is, essentially, alt-right viewpoints (eg not gay if the dicks don’t touch because ewww; three+somes in regards to generational closeted queer culture, or certain preformances of affection expected of characters in the show, all kinds of shit the LGBT community has talked to death and explained and featured and held LONG DIALOGUES WITH TREMENDOUS NUANCE) 

And here’s supposedly socially liberal tumblr or whatever with people explicitly going to 1. unearth these mindsets (if not actually having internalized them) 2. Delete content 3. use arguments entirely premised in like, ignorance of how many decades of LGBT discussion because someone literally chooses to elevate alt right thinking as if it’s even an argument angle to bring to the table in the year of our lord 2019.

You REALLY THINK a fucking middle aged LGBT male political rights activist who was writing polemic commentary about LGBT representation via incrementalization BEFORE SUPERNATURAL EVER EXISTED much less before he wrote on it – what, is writing this content for the alt right conservative demographic he drops Trumps America burns on at any time? Or that he has no idea how to arrange queer content, which I’m sure you have other hilariously disconnected-from-the-text-value arguments like this original anon. You know, it’s not a mix tape bro, because anyone in the actual represented character demographic would know what that is, it’s just a tape of songs Dean likes. Yes, literal argument of hilarity heard. No, absolutely not relevant to the discussions of our canon and not whatever the mythical monolithic GA this fandom dreams up yeets themselves to either.

So this shit? Yeah nah. Miss me with that fam. Watching people still trapped in hetnorm ideals and heavy internalized dialogues talk down their own content while disregarding actual lgbt media representative history and the political activist author on deck that has been open about this very same issue is some whole other form of Dumbass Circus people are choosing to perform.

Not to mention this new bizarre purity culture of representation people will only accept now that no actual rep guideline discussions ever came up with, we just want to be “represented” by people who don’t sometimes do bad things. And yes, the nature of conservative representation has also been dogged to death by Bobo, along with packaged heteronormative picture framing of gay men ala Pete Buttigieg. And no, what you think is “conservative representation” (eg, haven’t popped out in a coming out ceremony that was full central text, haven’t been illustrated in bed even if the straight couples don’t anymore, haven’t kissed even though… the straight… pairings… don’t…. ) Conservative means all these fucked up ideas framing this conversations right here and right now officer.

Well that and in the other corner the people that keep trying to bring incest into LGBT discussion. Which IS, according to representation guidelines and again, decades of internal discussion that is already WELL PAST any of the arguments someone with their Ao3 ship has come up with and spun this fandom in circles about – generally, it’s actually conservative rhetoric to try to include that in LGBT discussion too. Which is why it’s banned to begin with. It’s defamatory because it’s literally a slippery slope argument used to strip us of rights. And no, we don’t want it here, and we don’t claim it and we never will and this was settled decades ago kiddos, right alongside pedophilia and beastiality which, surprise, are all summarily forms of rape. No, “consensual incest” got put down like a fucked dog too years ago, don’t. Don’t start.

So even the fandom’s habit of trying to blend “all ships [in fanon] are equal” into “all ships are equal” in the representation field already pitched you more right-of-center than america is with the rest of the world, and then everything after that has been one downhill spiral anchored in a thousand representation activists that don’t know representation history. A lot have come around. Thankfully there’s a very low volume of y’all that haven’t started tuning in to the LGBT middle aged man you’re saying you’re here to represent. There’s poorly-trafficed failed tumblr threads and a handful of anons, and beyond that, a few people mistakenly choosing to cycle this regressive dialogue by what ultimately amounts to social pressures skewing perception. Now just waiting for everyone to catch on to how illusory those social pressures and perceptions are.

Literally ignoring decades of nuanced discussion of LGBT cinema media representation elevating voiceboxes of LGBT men, and the voice of an LGBT male author in the demographic, who was politically active before some people here knew how to read. What a bizarre “representation” discussion.

So before anyone starts talking representation in canon, why not go back and review queer canon. Yes, that big list I posted. That is literally a list of queer representation canon, long before you ever started yelling about a gay angel.

#i don't do stan bullshit #but if i stan one person #i stan bobo berens #his level of galaxy brain #actual galaxy brain #not like nonnie's idea of galaxy brain #has made such vicious commentary ON the fandom #and this bullshit right here #on such a high level it just whiffed by everybody #but that's a whole other topic I've banged on about #seriously guys #if you're going to act like this is about activism #educate yourselves on the history of it all #wtf #i can't emphasize this enough #bobo is actually dean and cas(visual) demographic #i'm p sure we won't find a 2 billion year old agender guy to ask how to rep #so middle aged is probably the fairest demographic for him too #respectively #but that all said #all this young activism #bobo was once a young activist too #and he wrote shit #and we've held entire discussions about this shit #and yet we're still sitting right fucking here #and now Bobo's an old but still progressive activist #and standing in front of ice walls #and then bringing you lovely queer content #and this is what the fandom does to the discussion #i can't

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MLB — Ups and downs of bullpenning on display as Milwaukee Brewers take Game 1

MILWAUKEE — The intention of bullpenning is meant to be to forestall runs, not generate them. Even in terms of that, it appears the Milwaukee Brewers can not observe conference.

Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw struggled to execute in Friday evening’s Recreation 1 loss to the Brewers, based on supervisor Dave Roberts, however the Dodgers’ 4 errors and two handed balls did not assist his trigger.

From the wild-card spherical by means of the World Collection, we’ll have the 2018 postseason lined.

1 Associated

Maybe greater than any staff in postseason historical past, it was solely acceptable that it was a center reliever who sparked the euphoria that engulfed 43,615 followers at Miller Park on Friday and propelled the Brewers to a 6-5 series-opening win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. That center man was a fastballing rookie “out-getter” they name “Woody” — Brandon Woodruff — who after one recreation of the Nationwide League Championship Collection is the MVP of the spherical.

Woodruff rocked Brewtown within the third inning when the blasted a Clayton Kershaw fastball over the center-field fence for Milwaukee’s first run of the NLCS. It landed simply extensive of a celebration deck suspended over the fence, eluding the keen arms of the Milwaukee trustworthy, 407 ft from residence plate.

“It undoubtedly modified the vibe for positive,” Brewers supervisor Craig Counsell mentioned, maybe understating issues just a bit.

The blast generated all types of lists. He turned simply the third pitcher ever to homer towards Kershaw. He turned the third reliever in historical past to homer in a postseason recreation, and the primary to do it in a lefty-lefty matchup. Briefly, what Woodruff did towards Kershaw was not alleged to occur.

Kershaw went right into a little bit of a tailspin after that. He did not get any assist from a ragged Dodgers protection, and Kershaw was carried out after three-plus innings and his membership trailed 5-1.

“It is one thing clearly coming within the day, you do not know in your wildest goals that that is going to occur, to have the ability to get an at-bat off Kershaw and hit a house run,” Woodruff mentioned.

The quick outing for Kershaw is a key element from the sport and, fairly most likely, for the collection as a complete. Kershaw is a future Corridor of Famer — his enterprise playing cards ought to bear that label — and what you noticed on Friday was greater than a foul outing from an ideal pitcher. It had some metaphorical punch to it as nicely.

If we will evaluate Kershaw to the fictional Gulliver, then the horde of high quality relievers within the Brewers’ bullpen are the Lilliputians. And it was Kershaw who ended up subdued and tied down on the seaside.

“As soon as I knew it was gone, it was simply a type of type of moments the place you are not likely considering,” Woodruff mentioned. “I used to be simply letting some emotion out. It was a cool second, and I used to be joyful that I might simply go on the market and do it for the staff.”

It was the proper instance of not simply how the roles of pitchers are altering earlier than our eyes, however why it is taking place. Kershaw is the practitioner of an artwork that’s nonetheless very important and hopefully at all times might be, however generally, the masters of that artwork might be overtaken by the collective. In fact, right here we’re not speaking about Woodruff’s hitting, however the factor he is really on the staff to do: get hitters out.

Woodruff’s residence run will deservedly lead the entire spotlight reels, but it surely was his pitching that had the most important reverberations for the remainder of the collection. The Dodgers grabbed the lead early when Manny Machado went deep off Milwaukee “starter” Gio Gonzalez, snapping a string of 20 straight scoreless innings for the Brewers.

We now have to make use of the scare quotes as a result of there was no pretense of Gonzalez serving as beginning pitcher, not within the sense that we have at all times thought-about beginning pitchers. Counsell had a pinch hitter on deck to exchange Gonzalez within the second inning, after he’d confronted eight batters and thrown 32 pitches. He did not begin, he opened.

From there, we noticed simply how efficient bullpenning could be when all of it works based on script. We additionally noticed how precarious the tightrope could be whenever you stroll it with that scheme in your again.

First, Woodruff sailed by means of two excellent innings, putting out the final 4 batters he confronted, then handed the baton to lefty Josh Hader.

Josh Hader was dominant in his three innings throughout Recreation 1. AP Photograph/Matt Slocum

Thus set in movement the chess match between managers that may play out over the following few days. It is a match that might be as a lot in regards to the strikes that are not made as these which can be. On this occasion, Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts did not sub en masse when Counsell flipped from the lefty Gonzalez to the righty Woodruff as a result of it was so early within the recreation. Max Muncy did take over for David Freese, however that was it.

With L.A.’s beginning lineup principally intact, plus Muncy who handles lefties nicely, that meant Hader was principally going through the righty-dominant lineup Roberts had penciled in to face Gonzalez for his one-time journey by means of the Dodgers’ lineup.

Righty, lefty — it would not matter that a lot with Hader. Righties have little likelihood towards him, whereas lefties haven’t any likelihood. He rolled by means of three scoreless innings, giving up a few hits and, like Woodruff, putting out 4.

“I threw Josh on the market as a result of he was throwing the ball rather well,” Counsell mentioned. “I assumed as soon as he had two innings he was down for tomorrow anyway, and so he is received two days off now and he’ll be able to go once more.”

By the point Hader was carried out on the finish of the seventh, Milwaukee’s collective pitching line seemed like that of a basic, Kershaw-style gem: seven innings, one run, three hits, one stroll and 9 strikeouts. Good numbers, however — by design — it took three pitchers to do it.

It was 6-1 Milwaukee by the point the eighth rolled round, and Counsell handled it like a basic set-up state of affairs, the sort that Dodgers pitching coach Rick Honeycutt participated in lots of occasions as a set-up man underneath then-A’s supervisor Tony La Russa a technology in the past, to bridge the hole to Dennis Eckersley.

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In different phrases, it was matchup time. Lefty Xavier Cedeno and righty Joakim Soria — each acquired from the Chicago White Sox in the course of the season — received two outs but additionally loaded the bases.

The jam little doubt gave gas to opponents of bullpenning, the type of state of affairs old-schoolers level to after they rant in regards to the technique. That’s, in the event you maintain turning that bullpen dial, ultimately you are going to set off an alarm.

To quell the menace, Counsell summoned Jeremy Jeffress, who was dominant all season, a lot of it as Milwaukee’s nearer. He promptly coughed up a two-run single to Machado and an RBI single to Matt Kemp. The lead was down to 2.

“I assumed there was a situation type of after Josh received three innings the place we might keep away from [using] Corey [Knebel] tonight and have him obtainable for one thing longer tomorrow, but it surely simply did not work out,” Counsell mentioned. “They battled again and made it robust on us, as we anticipated. They’d a very good eighth inning with some massive hits. So we could not get by means of it and we had to make use of our guys.”

Former and obvious present nearer Knebel received the ninth. That he’d be within the end-of-the-game position made sense — he hadn’t given up a run since Sept. 2 over 19 outings.

Once more, this was a simple save state of affairs. The bullpenning had been designed to guide up so far. And whereas the Brewers meandered off script within the eighth, they made their method again to it. Given the two-run cushion, Knebel received two fast outs, walked Joc Pederson and gave up a harrowing triple off the right-field wall to Chris Taylor. The lead was down to 1 run.

All of it labored out. Knebel whiffed Justin Turner, who had an terrible evening for the Dodgers, going Zero-for-5 with 4 strikeouts and likewise committing an error. That he was the final out was becoming, and Knebel celebrated along with his teammates. The Brewers received their 12th straight recreation courting to Sept. 22 and have drawn first blood within the NLCS.

“It was a superb feeling,” Knebel mentioned. “A win’s a win. We’re 1-Zero within the collection, up to now. Hold our head on our shoulders and prepare for tomorrow.”

However as Knebel and his teammates exchanged handshakes and congratulations on the sector, the problem forward of them was clear. Hader and Woodruff had been excellent, and the again finish of the bullpen had been simply adequate. It took a village — the Lilliputians — to do it. Now, they need to seize three extra Gullivers.

Hader will not pitch in Recreation 2 after throwing a season-high 46 pitches. Everybody else, together with penciled-in Recreation three starter Jhoulys Chacin might be obtainable Saturday, when Counsell tries to piece all of it collectively once more, whereas the Dodgers will hope for an additional lengthy, dominant outing from lefty Hyun-Jin Ryu.

For now, for no less than one evening, the Brewers can bask.

“We received the ballgame,” Hader mentioned. “That is the tip accomplishment proper there, getting that win, first recreation of the postseason of the championship collection. So it is big, particularly towards this staff.”

The Milwaukee bullpen not solely iced the Dodgers’ offense in principally dominating trend for 5 innings, it established the template for the way it can beat the richer, extra well-known and extra established Dodgers. Keep shut early, and let the sport’s finest bullpen go to work. It has been the Milwaukee system all season.

However at no level have the Brewers needed to prolong their relievers in this sort of crucible — excessive stress, excessive stakes and an intense schedule with little time to relaxation. Because the Dodgers confirmed throughout their late comeback in Recreation 1, they are going to maintain coming after you with waves of depth. They platoon as a result of they will, however most of their gamers are of first-division-regular high quality, so your matchup good points are marginal.

Clayton Kershaw was understandably exasperated with how his begin turned out. AP Photograph/Matt Slocum

“I assumed we performed a complete baseball recreation,” Roberts mentioned. “I did. For them to make use of Hader for 3 innings tonight, and for us to get a superb take a look at their arms within the pen, I assumed we had good at-bats all the way in which until the tip.”

The early drama within the collection now shifts to a query: Can the Brewers maintain this for the three extra wins they should get again to the World Collection for the primary time since 1982?

We’ll get a glimpse of that reply in Saturday’s Recreation 2, with Hader out. Counsell should bullpen with out no less than considered one of his hardest-charging bulls. Nonetheless, Hader was hardly ever utilized in consecutive outings in the course of the season, so it is a situation with which Counsell is acquainted. He thinks his bullpen is in good condition.

“You will not see Josh tomorrow, for positive,” Counsell mentioned. “I imply, he is received two days off (together with Sunday’s journey day) after which he’ll be good to go.

“Everyone else we’re good with. We’re in good condition tomorrow. Corbin Burnes didn’t pitch at present and was not up. So we’re in good condition. We received potentialities, quite a lot of potentialities for tomorrow, so good things.”

If Counsell is correct, it would behoove the Dodgers to hold some crooked numbers on the board within the early innings. The Brewers won’t have invented bullpenning, however proper now they’re working to grasp considered one of baseball’s latest arts.

In the event that they succeed, we would have to start out calling it Brewpenning. And as we maintain listening to from the Milwaukee relievers, these guys can rake. A minimum of Woodruff can, as we noticed.

“It actually sparked, not solely everybody within the dugout, however everybody within the stadium,” Gonzalez mentioned. “It was simply an eruption of pleasure. Everybody was going loopy. I am fairly positive we knocked him a few occasions within the helmet. I am simply hoping he can bear in mind his title.”

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Getting Torched by Ryan Fitzpatrick – Ten Takeaways from Buccaneers 27, Eagles 21

Listen –

Sometimes you hang 41 points on the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

And sometimes Ryan Fitzpatrick hangs 402 yards and four touchdowns on you.

Sunday was one of those days for the Birds, a day where the opposing quarterback carves up your secondary and then has the audacity to show up at the podium looking like a cross between Conor McGregor and two of the three members of ZZ Top.

I guess that’s the glass half empty part, the fact that the Birds were torched multiple times by a guy who is actually a backup quarterback. The Eagles lost Jason Peters and Mike Wallace and missed a field goal and just didn’t seem like they were ready to play.

The glass half full outlook would focus on a second-half comeback that fell just short. Nick Foles showed some good things and some bad things as he finished with 334 yards and a touchdown pass. Zach Ertz and Nelson Agholor looked like their normal selves as the rest of the offensive pieces struggled to impact the game.

And of course we’re still looking at the return of Carson Wentz and Alshon Jeffery, maybe this week for Carson, which will go a long way towards getting this team back to where it needs to be.

So I’m not gonna do the knee-jerk “woe is me” thing and lament a road loss that really could have been a lot worse. I’m not gonna do that after week two. Let’s pull up our big boy pants and look at the game.

1) No safety help

Let’s just start with the first play of the game, when DeSean Jackson smoked the Birds on a 75-yard touchdown.

I don’t have the all-22 video yet with the super-wide angle, but what happened here was that the Eagles actually started in Cover-2 and disguised a corner blitz:

What you’re looking at here is that Rodney McLeod comes down to pick up Mike Evans, since Ronald Darby (yellow circle) is blitzing. Malcolm Jenkins slides back into the middle portion of the field and Jalen Mills stays on DeSean, so really they slide into Cover 3 with a single-high safety and Jenkins is responsible for helping over the top.

I’m really not sure why Jenkins tried to undercut that route, or why he came in so shallow. He told reporters after the game that it was his responsibility to cover the middle third of the field.

2) More secondary breakdowns

The second touchdown can mostly be blamed on a poor tackle attempt from Darby, though Jordan Hicks got beat in coverage.

I’m not sure if Hicks was to blame for the third score, or if McLeod was responsible for Chris Godwin here, but you can see Hicks turn around and look at McLeod after the catch as if to say, “I thought you had him?” –

I’m not sure whose responsibility that is there. Corey Graham is also in the mix as the Birds are in dime here trying to match up against Tampa Bay showing trips right with a receiver on the left and Jacquizz Rodgers coming out of the backfield.

This game did remind me a bit of the Seattle game last year, not because Fitzpatrick was scrambling like Russell Wilson, but because the Eagles do have some coverage issues when teams send out four and five receivers at a time and keep their quarterback upright without extra blockers on the line, which is what happened in the play above.

For what it’s worth, Jim Schwartz doesn’t speak after games, so we’ll hear what he has to say on Tuesday. As far as specifics on each play, the players didn’t really get too much into that. Maybe we get some more from them later in the week as well.

I’m not sure anyone in the secondary had a great day, though Jenkins deserves credit for the big forced fumble and I do think Mills was on the receiving end of a facemask on the fourth quarter matchup with Evans where he was flagged instead:

Lmao pic.twitter.com/uKy5XoeK9I

— Brian Coulter (@PhilaBCoulter) September 16, 2018

I guess both guys were guilty of an infraction there. Looks like a pair of facemasks.

But anyway, Mills is a 7th round draft pick, so I don’t know what people expect of him. He was elevated to a starting role on a Super Bowl winning team because Leodis McKelvin and Nolan Carroll and Byron Maxwell were not the answer. Jalen has had some good games and some bad games, but to expect him to be Ramsey instead of Mills is not accurate.

3) Don’t blame us

People say the defensive line didn’t do enough to pressure Fitzpatrick in this game, and maybe that’s true. They finished with eight QB hits and two sacks, which is about half of the 15 hits and 4 sacks they put up against Matt Ryan last week. Fitzpatrick was a little more uncomfortable today after the Saints barely touched him last week.

But in reality is that the line was fine, and limited Tampa to 43 rushing yards on 22 carries. Only 9.8% of Tampa’s 436 yards came on the ground, and the irony of the Buccaneers hitting quickly on some of their scores was that they gave up the time of possession battle to the Eagles by a 12 minute gap, holding the ball for just 24 minutes compared to the Eagles’ 36.

Point being – the defensive line was relatively fresh throughout the game, even in the South Florida heat. And they DID make Tampa more or less one-dimensional, holding the Bucs to just one rushing first down on the day. If you’re looking for a spot where the defense could have been better, Schwartz could have dialed up more pressure or come up with different ways to get to Fitzpatrick and/or make him uncomfortable.

4) Play calling

Ups and downs from Doug Pederson, who didn’t use nearly as much shotgun this week.

Here’s what I wrote down on my notepad while my dad and uncle and cousin yelled at the TV:

44 passes out of the shotgun (a lot in the 4th quarter while chasing the game)

7 passes from under center

13 runs out of the shotgun (including the direct snap to Agholor)

8 runs from under center (two quarterback sneaks and the option/toss to Smallwood)

(two more under center sets were wiped out due to a holding and tripping penalty on the second drive)

So I think Doug mixed it up pretty well. I don’t know why Nick Foles wasn’t pushing the ball down field more, but I have a strong hunch that the departure of Mike Wallace really took away the Birds’ ability to stretch the defense. Shelton Gibson should theoretically be able to do that, but he finished with zero grabs on two targets.

As far as run/pass option, I only noted three or four instances where they might have used it. Again, I’d have to go back and look at the film to watch how the line sets their blocking schemes on those plays, because it’s very hard to tell when a play actualyl has a run option vs. just being a simple play-action motion. I feel like the Eagles got away from their RPO package on Sunday and showed more play-action coming from under center sets.

5) Personnel decisions

Sort of going hand-in-hand with the above entry, I wasn’t huge on the running back rotation. I am, of course, biased towards fellow Mountaineer Wendell Smallwood because I’d for him to do well, but I need to see more of Corey Clement as an offensive staple. I don’t care what he does on special teams; I need Clement to carry the ball more than six times per game. And if Jay Ajayi was okay in the second half, then get him back out there, too. This feels a lot like the early parts of last season, when LeGarrette Blount wasn’t getting enough snaps and the Eagles were trying to figure out what exactly they had in the running game.

Also, here’s a picture of me searching for Dallas Goedert on Sunday afternoon:

Josh Perkins is a fourth-string tight end behind Ertz, Goedert, and the injured Richard Rodgers. Kamar Aiken is a sixth-string wide receiver behind Jeffery, Agholor, Wallace, Mack Hollins, Gibson, and maybe even DeAndre Carter. He was just re-signed to replace Markus Wheaton, who was signed and then waived after week one. So I don’t know what the fuck the Eagles are doing with the receiver depth chart right now, but obviously the preseason means jack shit since Goedert and Gibson both looked more than capable out there and are now invisible.

RE: the Perkins playing more than Goedert, here’s Martin Frank at Delaware Online:

Pederson gave a convoluted answer about why that was the case, basically saying he wanted to adjust just one role instead of several once players like Wallace and Ajayi left the game.

“Listen, it’s a complex thing when you start moving bodies around,” Pederson said. “And without getting real specific with the game plan … one part that goes down, then you have to adjust everybody else.”

And more Pederson via NJ.com:

It’s complicated because you (the media) don’t know the plan. When you don’t know the plan or the formations, where we move guys and have guys specifically in the game plan, when one guy goes down, it shuffles the whole thing. So we can keep it real consistent by just moving one part and many parts.

Yeah, I get it. I guess. You’ve got some young/new guys out there who might not be 100% comfortable with the play book or even ready for a too much pro-level action. And Perkins used to be a receiver back in the day before he converted to tight end. So if you’re not ready for Gibson, Goedert, or Carter to step in, you give the snaps to Perkins and a veteran like Aiken instead.

Shrug. Guess we’ll get more from Doug on that later.

6) Whiff

Remember how some Eagles fans used to call Asante Samuels Asante “Samuels” instead? Kind of like Alshon “Jefferies.”

Anyway, Ronald Darby paid homage to the former Eagle corner when he totally whiffed on what seemed like a rather straightforward tackle on the second Bucs touchdown:

Not a great effort.

HOWEVER –

Credit where it’s due. He did a really nice job later on Jacquizz Rodgers in the open field on that 3rd and 4 in the 4th quarter. I will try to give credit where I can if I’m gonna rag on a guy for something else.

Here’s Asante in all of his glory:

via GIPHY

7) Fumble?

It didn’t mean much at the time because the Eagles looked like they were cooked at halftime, but they lost a possession on the Nick Foles fumble that looked almost like a forward pass to me.

On the play, the ball travels about five yards forward as Foles gets cleaned out by Kwon Alexander coming unblocked through the line:

.@kwon knocks the ball out of Foles on this hit. Play ruled a fumble. pic.twitter.com/QVZKxzrYxg

— AllThingsBucs (@AllThingsTBbucs) September 16, 2018

Am I blind? Am I missing something here? Even if he’s being tackled that looks like forward motion from the arm and the ball clearly travels forward.

Maybe they just didn’t see anything that could conclusively overturn the ruling on the field. It’s hard to say if the ball is spinning out of his hand at or during the tackle, or if he still has control of it as his arm goes forward, but it definitely looks like his elbow is at least parallel with his body, which would suggest that he’s coming forward with it.

I don’t know. I really don’t know.

8) Doug’s best call?

Going for it on 4th and 1 in the second quarter, for sure.

I also didn’t have a problem with him going for it on 4th and 4 on the first drive of the second half? Why not? You’re down 20-7 at that point and you’re looking at a three and out to start off the quarter, so you might as well take the risk from midfield. You’re trying to get back into the game instead of punting to a team that can find the end zone with one deep ball.

I know a lot of people were talking about the clock management in the 4th quarter, but I honestly didn’t have a problem with Doug running the ball there. They saved three timeouts and still had the two-minute warning with Tampa starting their final drive at 2:41 on the clock. You still needed the defense to get a stop, and they didn’t get a stop, they allowed two first downs and committed a neutral zone infraction.

9) Doug’s worst call?

I didn’t like the 3rd and 11 draw play before halftime. That felt like something out of the old Andy Reid playbook. That’s not the aggressive Doug Pederson we saw in last season’s NFC divisional round game against Falcons.

Also wasn’t a big fan of the screen he called on the final drive of the second quarter, after the drive featuring the draw play. The Eagles had just connected with Ertz on a big play down the right sideline, then Doug went with a screen that lost five yards and forced the Eagles to burn their second timeout.

10) The Barber Brothers

I gotta be honest; I didn’t hear ALL of the broadcast because I went home to watch the game with family, so I didn’t entirely focus in on Kenny Albert, Ronde Barber, and Tiki Barber.

I did laugh when they tried to cut to Dean Blandino early on, which was derailed by technical difficulties. As a general rule, I think all Dean Blandino hits should be derailed by technical difficulties.

One thing I do like is that double box on reviews, where they play a commercial in the big box on the right while keeping the field camera in the small box on the left. It doesn’t necessarily add anything to the broadcast, but it keeps me attentive and makes more sense than cutting out entirely, which causes people to get up and walk to the fridge or whatever. It’s a way for them to shove another commercial into the game without totally ditching the action.

As far as Tiki’s outfit, he  kind of looked like a mix between fly fisherman and coal miner. I couldn’t really hear his hits, but Ronde I thought did fine. I didn’t sense much homerism from him, if any. He even said “maybe I was wrong” on the pass interference non-call against Agholor in the third quarter, so good on him for being cool and not attempting to bullshit us.

I also swear I heard one of the trio pronounce the word “Aliquippa” as Ali-queepa, which was weird, but I have context for that line. I also have no desire to re-watch Fitzpatrick slicing and dicing the Eagles like Joe Montana.

But we’re gonna have to to. The all-22 coaches film should show us why the Birds’ secondary struggled so much.

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