Does it matter if the Eagles are 'desperate'?

By Rich Tandler

Even before the Eagles lost to the Bills yesterday I was getting questions on Twitter about the possibility that the Redskins will be playing a desperate Eagles team next Sunday. Twitter friend @RedskinsST21 had a typical comment:

Desperate teams always scare me

I have never bought into the notion that desperate teams somehow play harder or better. If you need losing to get you motivated, you are in trouble anyway. The notion goes counter to the idea that success breeds success. Does failure breed success? I don’t think so.

And even if desperation could cause this Eagles team to play better wouldn’t that motivation kicked in already? Given the expectations in Philly, shouldn’t they have started to play better when the slipped to 1-2? Shouldn’t desperation mode really have kicked in when they were 1-3? If the theory held they should have played the game of their lives yesterday.

This does not mean that the Redskins are assured of winning on Sunday. The Eagles are a talented team and if they stop shooting themselves in the foot they can beat anyone in the league. But it won’t be because they are “desperate.”

 

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[shally]

reported elsewhere that the Eagles are considering bringing in a "consultant" to help Castillo with the defense.. Someone should ask Mike Nolan how that worked out for him when the Skins brought in Arnsparger to look things over for him.. Maybe Snyder can send Castillo a gallon of vanilla ice cream if we beat them this week ?

Seriously, when a team does that it smells of desperation and resonates poorly with the players.. They know what is going on. You have a sloppy group of players who are being poorly coached by a coordinator who has no business being a coordinator..The Redskins need to step up and weather what is surely going to be a first half where the Eagles throw everything they have at the Skins on Offense..If we can stay even with them, or slightly ahead I look forward to our team punishing them in the second half with a steady diet of runs over, around, and through them.
Simple, smash mouth running

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