Photo credit: Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports

Photo credit: Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports

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Let’s hit it!

 

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The roundup:

The body language of Chris Christie here is a lot less “elected official” and a lot more “creepy uncle”:

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But speaking of elected officials:

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Meanwhile, this is how many of us feel today, just a lot less handsome:

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But seriously there’s something really weird about Cooper sitting between Lurie and his wife.

It’s a lot of doom and gloom and the season is over — and I’m not saying that isn’t a rational and reasonable feeling — but it’s not over. As the Washington Post points out:

The Cowboys are in control. The Eagles need to win both of their remaining games (at Redskins, at Giants) and have the Dallas lose one of its final games (home vs. the Colts, at Redskins) to win the division title. Under such a scenario, Philadelphia would win the division because of a better record vs. NFC East teams.

It’s not impossible, but it’s also not ideal.

As for Mark Sanchez, the high has worn off and Reuben Frank thinks this is really all we could have expected:

I don’t know if you’re going to get a whole lot more from a backup than he’s given the Eagles since replacing Nick Foles, but the more he’s played, the more his limitations have shown, and that’s always the way it is with backups in any position. Sanchez just can’t get the ball down the field, and it’s just so hard to drive the length of the field when you aren’t getting chunk plays.

Sanchez said “I’m better than that” after the game, but the point is basically that he’s not.

Les Bowen is about ready to put a date of death on the season:

Maybe we’ll eventually conclude that the Eagles’ playoff hopes died when Nick Foles went down Nov. 2 at Houston. Maybe we’ll decide it went much deeper than that, that even after winning nine of its first 12 games, this team was smoke and mirrors, that the offensive and defensive lines were good enough to fool us about the rest.

Nick Fierro at the Morning Call looks ahead to next year, because “if they do somehow make the playoffs, which is highly improbable, there’s no way they threaten any team with a clue.”

Bradley Fletcher, who is one of only six cornerbacks who have been targeted more than 100 times this season and has allowed the most TDs (nine), is a total disaster. Why? Because it’s not like he’s even screwing up in the same ways every time. As defensive coordinator Billy Davis said, via Eliot Shorr-Parks

When asked after the game if Fletcher is making the same mistake, defensive coordinator Billy Davis gave an alarming answer.

“No they’re different ones,” Davis said. “The first one, he got beat on. I thought he looked too soon. He wasn’t in phase with the receiver, and the second one was just a throw and catch and he just got beat and the ball was perfectly thrown.”

Shhh NBA on ESPN, I can’t hear the important Trent Cole news:

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Apparently, one of the (former?) teen moms from MTV’s Teen Mom got ejected from the game last night.

This is probably the classiest thing in Xfinity Live!:

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Protestors in New York chant What do we want? Dead cops!

A lot of people took issue to my post criticizing protestors last week. In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have called them idiots in the headline, because it set a bad tone for the whole post that could’ve been easily misinterpreted. But when I wrote “I’ve literally seen some of the protesters on Twitter using the hashtag #SHUTITDOWN. Yeah, that’s a great idea. Stupid battle cries like that are nothing more than extremely liberal opportunists taking a justified protest and turning it into a farce” this is exactly what I meant. Stuff like this takes a justified protest and turns it into something entirely different. Chanting that you want dead cops is just about the most dangerous and inflammatory thing you could possibly parade through the streets yelling. No good comes out of something like this.

Sidney Crosby has the mumps and boy ain’t that a shame.

Nice little publicity stunt for the Phantoms, who wore Eagles-themed jerseys on SaturdayH/T to (@Banditmax)

A photo of a Lions fan ass-eating against a Chevy has to be the most Detroit photo ever.

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Eagles fans egged the Cowboys’ bus, and you know what? That’s cool. Because it happens everywhere.

Great call here on Jeremy Maclin for unsportsmanlike conduct, after he was shoved.

Whatever’s going on in Montgomery County right now is frightening.

Weird marketing thing from The Interview:

pic via (@chrislittman)

pic via (@chrislittman)

Gotta respect this move:

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Good thing Peter King isn’t being a huge cheerleader for the Cowboys and playing into the league’s desire for them to win the division:

Dallas. Imagine if the Cowboys had lost at Philadelphia. The loser of the NFC East showdown for first place would face a serious chance of not making the playoffs. Jerry Jones hasn’t re-signed coach Jason Garrett yet, and with Indianapolis and Andrew Luck coming to town this week, the Cowboys’ finishing 10-6 and out of the playoffs would have been a real possibility. (It’s still no lock that Dallas will make it, because finishing tied with Philadelphia at 11-5 would give the division to the Eagles on the basis of Philadelphia’s better division record.) It’s highly likely Garrett will continue in Dallas—Jones loves him and thinks he’s got the perfect temperament to be the long-term coach—but another crushing loss in a division title game for the fourth year in a row would have left ownership grasping for answers. Would Jones have considered a run at a Sean Payton or a Jim Harbaugh? Doubtful, but the 38-27 win, Garrett’s biggest in his five-year tenure, makes it likely Dallas will win the division and keep the Cowboys on the same track.

Nm.

Adrian Peterson claims Troy Vincent promised him an only two-game suspension. The league’s incompetence continues to amaze.

But it doesn’t really matter– they have a great product:

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Joe Buck rips Johnny Manziel during telecast of different game. Love Joe Buck. He’s so much better than than downer Al Michaels.

Joel Embiid was at the game and I took this picture all by myself:

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At least, I think it was him.

It took this Cowboys fan four minutes to get kicked out of the game after giving Eagles fans the finger and getting in the face of an Apex security guard:

Cockroach.

The Lakers had a weird plane party for Kobe Bryant.

Fan dressed as Cam Newtown in a car accident.

 

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