Not The Time To Panic

I hate to admit it, but I think Ray Didinger was right.  A couple of weeks before the season began, Eagles hall of fame analyst Ray Didinger predicted that the Eagles could possibly get off to a slow start.  With the shortened off season, lack of OTA's, and overall abundance of new players and personell, Didinger predicted that "there could be a couple of games early on in the season that leave you scratching your head in confusion." After just 3 weeks, myself and many other Eagles fans are certainly scratching our heads.

The Birds came out in week 1 against the Rams and took care of business.  But after a disappointing prime time loss to the Falcons and a heart breaking home opener defeat to the Giants, the Birds are 1-2 and far from the "Dream Team" that everyone expected.  But Ray Didinger's prediction wasn't entirely bad as he went on to say that the Eagles will get better and better as the year progresses.  He also said that he thinks the Eagles are definitely capable of making the playoffs and that when post season play rolls around the Eagles will be hot and firing on all cylinders.

Basically we just have to stick with the Birds during the early going.  There may be a few more frustrating losses, but the key will be to know that they will get better in the long run.  The only thing that has me completely baffled right now is this Eagles offense.  Although they had a shortened off season, Vick came in last year as a backup with little preparation and the Eagles offense hit the ground running.  While the makeup of the offensive line is different, the Eagles didn't add too many new pieces on offense so really there are no excuses.  The only explanation I can come up with is that right now Vick may be thinking too much as opposed to just going out there and playing.  He is overly concerned about the blitz, lack of protection, and getting injured and as a result he is not playing the loose and dangerous style of play that we are accustomed to seeing from him.  I really think that this is just a slow start and Mike Vick and the Eagles are going to turn it around sooner rather than later.