Eagles coach Reid's game management simply Maddening

Eagles coach Reid's game management simply Maddening
December 16
Philadelphia Daily News columnist Sam Donnellon
"HERE'S A question, and I'm only half-joking: If you took 10 kids who played "Madden'' on a regular basis and pitted them against Andy Reid, how many would win? Because every time I hear John Madden complain about people who don't play his video game correctly, or honestly, I wonder - well, what would he think about Reid's game management on most weekends?

Specifically, what would he have thought about it in the first half of last night's 30-10 victory over the Cleveland Browns?

Would he, after a completion put the ball on the Browns' 2-yard line with 35 seconds left in the first half last night,

allow 26 seconds to evaporate while getting his team to the line and running the ball, before calling his final timeout with 9 seconds remaining?

Would he emerge from that timeout and be called for an illegal formation?

Would he then "dial up'' a dangerous lob pass into the end zone off that timeout? One that resulted in an interception, a near-disastrous 98-yard return that looked eerily familiar to that pivotal play in Baltimore four games ago?

Come to think of it, would Madden approve of having a backup quarterback pass from the 1-yard line in that tight game against the Ravens?

See what I'm getting at?

You're supposed to learn from your

mistakes, right?

So why doesn't he?

I know, I know. On a night when the Birds manhandled Cleveland as if the Browns were a Pop Warner team, how can I fixate on this? But that's just the point. Smug, stubborn or stupid, the Eagles head coach can manage to make you scratch your head or pull on your hair even on a night like this, a night when his quarterback managed the game masterfully (mostly), when his star running back reinforced that he is the team's lifeblood, when the Eagles, as a team, executed well and treated the four-win Browns the way they should have treated the Bengals."
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