Everyone knows this is not true
The 256th game of the NFL season, played in the first hour on NBC, is usually a good appetizer for the playoffs. Last year, the 49ers beat the Seahawks in the Sunday night football showcase to win the NFC West and get the home field advantage in the playoffs. This year, he let everyone look with a sour taste in his mouth.
The Giants, after defeating the Cowboys earlier in the day, 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 a lot, but their coach didn’t.
Early in the fourth quarter, Doug Pederson gave the hook to Jalen Hurts and put Nate Sudfeld, third career runner-up, in the quarterback game. Sudfeld was terrible and the Eagles lost without a fight.
After the match, Pederson explained his decision.
“Yeah, I was training to win,” Pederson said. “Yes, that was my only decision. Obviously, Nate has been here for four years and felt he deserved the opportunity to get some details.
“Listen, if there’s anything you think I wasn’t trying to win the game, [Zach] Ertz is here, Brandon Graham is there, Darius Slay is there. All of our best guys are still on the field at the end. We were going to win the game. “
The beneficial interpretation of this quote is that Pederson thought he could give Sudfeld a chance to play while trying to win the game. Everything the national television audience saw from Sudfeld should make it clear that there was no way it could be true. The match ended at the moment Sudfeld entered the field. Pederson is right: the pair of star players who weren’t idle stayed in the game, but in the most important position on the field, the Eagles played a guy who looked as ineffective and outdated as the Cowboys QB. Ben DiNucci was against Philadelphia earlier this season.
The uncharitable interpretation is that Pederson was lying on his ass when he claimed the Eagles were trying to win the game. Pederson may point to the presence of Ertz, Graham and Slay as proof that he had not completely given up the game, but there is simply no way to square it with his decision to put Sudfeld at the forefront of the foul. While Hurts easily played his worst game of the season, it’s ridiculous to suggest that the Eagles were more likely to win with him on the bench.
Pederson added Monday morning that he was also trying to evaluate some of the players below the depth chart.
If the goal was to assess the future of the Eagles quarterbacks, then Hurts should have played the entire game. The most important decision the team will have to make this offseason is whether Hurts will continue to be the starter and make Carson Wentz the most expensive backup in the league. Every additional Hurts make, especially in a game where he was fighting an elite defensive line, helps make that decision easier.
Nor is it the university, where a bench heater acts in the last game of the season as a reward for having worked over the years. Unless you’re a playoff team unable to improve your standings, players want to win every game of the regular season. The only other time Sudfeld saw extended play action was in the final game of the 2017 season, when the Eagles 13–2 rested against Nick Foles against the Cowboys after gaining the field advantage. local.
Giants players and fans (myself included) are understandably upset that the Eagles ’lack of effort ended up deciding the division race. (The Giants could also have taken their fate out of the hands of the Eagles by winning more than six games.) Fans of the other 30 non-Washington NFL teams should also be upset for the Eagles to turn the game into a mockery and that Pederson had the gall to claim that it was not a farce.
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