Is it too early to call it Tank Holes?
It’s more than twelve hours ago that the Washington soccer team won the NFC East Division with a 20-14 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. The problem is that the Eagles had ten predecessors inactive for the game. To make matters worse, Eagles head coach Doug Pederson pulled Jalen Hurts, the starting quarterback, into the second half and selected him for backup Nate Sudfeld, who has not thrown a pass in the regular season since 2018.
At first glance, it looked like the Eagles were tanking the game. And therein lies the problem, because if the Eagles had won the game, the New York Giants would have won the division title.
Pederson stuck to his story in media interviews on Monday that Sudfeld gave the Eagles the best chance of winning. ES Pa reporter Sal Paolantonio, who has been treating the Eagles for years, does not buy Pederson’s apology and wants the NFL to do something about this mess, based on what he said Monday. The Dan Patrick Show.
Paolantonio: “If I was the NFL, if I was Roger Goodell, I would now put on my Kenesaw Mountain Landis pants and do a forensic investigation into what came down.
Patrick: “Are you serious?”
Paolantonio: “Completely. Two thousand percent. ”
For those of you unfamiliar with Kenesaw Mountain Landis, he was the commissioner of Major League Baseball for the Chicago Black Sox scandal and banned eight players for life after throwing the 1919 World Series.
Despite Paolantonio’s plea (‘I think it’s worth taking the time of the league to find out what happened’), chances are the NFL will do nothing. Per Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network:
The NFL’s long-standing position was that it was only the club’s decision about who he should play for, for a long time, and so on. Although the circumstances (Sunday) are unique, the #Eagles is not the first team to play backup in Week 17, and the league has historically not been involved.
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