The playoffs are approaching and Hard Knocks is still kicking after Week 18 of the NFL season.<\/p>\n
Here are some choice thoughts on the sixth episode of Hard Knocks: In-Season with the NFC East that aired on Tuesday evening on HBO and HBO Max:<\/p>\n
1. Nick Sirianni explained to his Eagles team early in the episode about resting some players, but reiterated, \u201cWe are going out there to win this f******g game.\u201d Sirianni gave the example of resting Jaelan Phillips, who, given his midseason trade from the Dolphins to the Birds, hadn\u2019t had a true bye week all season (spoiler: they didn\u2019t win the game).<\/p>\n
2. Sirianni said that he tries not to be superstitious on the sidelines, but the only time he considers it is when the Eagles need a big blocked kick. During the Rams game, Sirianni said to special teams coordinator Michael Clay, \u201cCan we block this?\u201d before that game-saving final play in the Eagles\u2019 victory. Sirianni said the same thing to Clay before the Eagles blocked an extra point in the Bills game a couple weeks back.<\/p>\n
3. It shouldn\u2019t have taken until episode 6 for everyone to see how great of a singer that Jordan Davis is.<\/p>\n
4, Washington\u2019s Bobby Wagner watched the film The Martian without sound? I don\u2019t think Ridley Scott and Matt Damon would appreciate that:<\/p>\n
5. The Eagles were concerned about balancing rest and attempting to win in Week 18 after another division title in this episode. The Cowboys were concerned about if Dak Prescott would be in a position to be the first Dallas quarterback to lead the league in passing yards. These franchises are not on the same plane of existence currently.<\/p>\n
6. There was a heavy Prescott focus in this episode, so let me put some of his career into context\u2026 if the Cowboys were the No. 1 seed in the NFC the next two seasons and won the Super Bowl both times, he would still have fewer playoff wins than Donovan McNabb.<\/p>\n
7. \u201cBobby Wagner is just five tackles away from 2,000 career tackles.\u201d Congrats? Are we pretending this is the equivalent of 3,000 hits in baseball?<\/p>\n
8. NFL Films did the Eagles\u2019 secondary a solid by not magnifying all the defensive penalties they had or Kelee Ringo\u2019s inexplicable goal line \u201cturn around\u201d move on Josh Johnson\u2019s touchdown run.<\/p>\n
9. I didn\u2019t really need to see Josh Harris. Thanks.<\/p>\n
10. \u201cIt\u2019s crunch time, bro,\u201d Davis said to Tyler Steen walking off the field following the Eagles\u2019 loss to the Commanders. It sure is, man!<\/p>\n
11. Finishing up with \u201cUnder the Pressure\u201d by Philly\u2019s own The War on Drugs at the end of the episode? I don\u2019t like it\u2026 I love it. Good vibes heading into the postseason!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The playoffs are approaching and Hard Knocks is still kicking after Week 18 of the NFL season. Here…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,5406],"class_list":{"0":"post-662299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115856352600515158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}