“I Didn’t Like It” - Rich Eisen on Eagles’ Decision to Throw on 3rd Down Late in MNF Loss to Falcons

Rich Eisen and the guys react to Kirk Cousins leading the Atlanta Falcons on a last-minute scoring drive for a Monday Night Football win over the Philadelphia Eagles.

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[JustSomeGuy]

I wouldn't have even bothered kicking the FG at the end. I'm going for the 1st down on 3rd and 4th down. That deep in the other teams zone. Run the ball twice. drain the clock. Even if you don't get it you are still only a 1 score game (3 vs 6) and they are on their goal line which is really difficult.

[youngkim]

its amazing that Sirianni still doesn't understand the situation even now

[pennstatefan]

Saquon took the high road and noted that it was his fault for not converting the pass, when it was called; however, he had in total only 3-4 rushes out of 22 total rushes that went for negative yards. So, why not run it with Saquon on 3rd and 3 and make the Falcons stop him. “The box was crowded”, wasn’t it crowded on that 2pt conversion, that Saquon powered through for success.

This is the second week in a row, where the Eagles play calling could have ended the game with Saquon running it, and they chose differently. Last week, he could have had a 4th TD, but settled for a FG after a mistimed/fumbled “Brotherly Shove”, making 5 instead of 9. This week, he apparently (according to Siranni and Moore), can’t get 3 yds, when he had been getting 5+ yds on majority of his rushes.

Is this a precursor for things to come, where they could ice the game with Saquon and his power and decide otherwise to make things more “interesting” instead of winning the game?

The defense needs to be better prepped for rushing (with Kamara next) and more disciplined in the secondary!

[stevedub]

If he caught it.... "great call "

[marvinshenk]

The biggest critique I have for passing to Saquan is that it stops the clock if he drops it. If they ran it and didn't get it, the clock would have run down another 39 seconds before Philly kicks the FG, leaving ATL with about 1:03 to score a TD to win. An extra 40 seconds means the play calling is a lot more open because ATL could use the middle of the field a couple times as well as the edges to drive down for the TD.

[zay]

This topic overshadows the 3 points we didn’t take early

[raymondhoagland]

Sirianni wasn't flapping his wings last night !!

[jeffreysmith]

Eagles take the field goal in the first quarter instead of going for a TD on fourth down on their first drive, then they are up 9 points with 1:46 to go, game over.

[TT-wxtg]

Siriani has the chess pieces but he ain't got the intellect

[totallylegitrealguy]

Forget second guessing. The strategy made no sense, regardless of the potential success of that pass. In a time-critical moment like that, you *have* to account for the very real possibility of the play failing.

Run the ball, and you either seal it with a first down, or you burn significant clock to take a field goal or make another attempt to seal it on fourth down. You get these same options with a pass, but you also introduce the potential of spotting the Falcons a free timeout by having it go incomplete in scenario where time is the biggest factor. That's why it was the wrong call, regardless of how open Saquon was. The play *should* have worked, but that doesn't excuse the situational mismanagement of attempting that pass in the first place.

[Matttaylor]

Media acting like Philly dominated all night and blew a huge lead at the end. There were 6 lead changes. Falcons never should've put themselves in that position. Falcons looked good too last night. Philly never came close to dominanting.

[michaelmeckfessel]

Your way more relaxed when there’s more time. Run the ball twice. Barkley should of caught it but he shouldn’t of been in that position. But he should of caught it.

[youngkim]

Sirianni should be fired for that horrendous decision... you just don't risk stopping the clock

[mrmacross]

The legendary QBs of the game, like Brady and Rogers, throw in that situation. Hurts isn't there yet, but if you believe in your QB you can make that call. Failure to execute will make any decision look bad.

[markwarren]

I fully understand that complaining about that call, to throw a pass instead of to run the ball and thus the clock, is the main topic to discuss. However, no one is discussing about the defense NOT stopping them from driving down the field to score. All off season all one heard was what a great hire Vic Fangio was. Well, let me tell you, being a Denver Bronco fan and going through him being their head coach this was a constant problem with him. I don't know how many games the Broncos lost late in the 4th quarter by letting the opposing team drive down the field to score. It's his soft pass defense and never blitz strategy that kills in those situations. Despite this reapedly happening he is too stubborn to change his philosophy.

[philipmclaughlin]

All I know is Im starting my RBs on my Fantasy team against there defense because it stinks

[seanisnotreal]

if we kicked the FG on 4th down in the first quarter, we wouldn't need to have this convo....hell Rich, if Rogers didn't get hurt last year, he would've won the Super Bowl for the jets.

[torizino]

The coach said he called it because Atlanta was giving it to him. They did. The pass was perfect. The MILLIANARE SUPERSTAR should have caught it. Would have been game over. Stop this blaming the coach.

[bigtimetimmyjim]

"No sir, I didn't like it."--Mr. Horse

[TheKarmicRepairCo]

The most important outcome they should have been trying to achieve was to keep the clock running, and the only guarantee of that is to run the ball!
So what if Atlanta is expecting you to run. Fake them out a little, do the best you can, RUN the ball, and keep the time running down. DUH