Serious question, are there that many people saying it wasn't a hold? I haven't seen that here, or with any significance in r/eagles. Whether calling it was consistent with the way the game had been called to that point is the issue that I think is reasonable to discuss. Hell, when Cowboys fans are complaining about the call that ices the Eagles seasons it may merit some discussion.
Well if you're saying it shouldn't have been called you'd either have to be saying it wasn't a hold or essentially saying the they were getting away with holding the whole game, either way, arguing against it being called there shows their argument is fundamentally broken. Can't have it both ways. The dumbest part is if they hadn't called it the same non-Eagles fans would probably be bitching about it not having been called, showing they just want to piss and moan. Just like I told the stupid assholes complaining about the replacement refs that they'd always bitched about the refs, and they'd be bitching about the refs the same even when the "good" ones were brought back (and guess what, that's exactly what happened).
I'm not sure why you posit that like its evidence that it was the wrong call. We know Cowboys fans are idiots, seeing as how they're Cowboys fans, so their take on things doesn't matter. If they want to stop whining about pentalties maybe their team should play better if they want to actually win playoff games?
Honestly, the discussion we should be having is, are Cowboys fans worse than Eagles fans? I think that's true these days. Eagles fans are a faaar cry from even a decade ago. I have one co-worker who is an Eagles fan that tried arguing Wentz was a better QB than Mahomes (this was like maybe a year ago too, to give you an idea of how clueless he is), but outside of that, Eagles fans that I've met in real life have actually been pretty rational people that aren't assholes as depicted. Cowboys fans are worse than ever. I honestly can't think of a worse fanbase in the NFL now. Pats fans were insufferable while they were winning, but once they stopped winning, Pats fans have STFU (or rather fallen back to the baseline dumbfuck NFL fans as seen in this thread). I used to feel bad for Cowboys fans after stuff like the fumbled hold by Romo, but now I feel bad for Romo for having been stuck on that team.
Bieniemy is unofficially officially the new OC/AC for the Commanders.
I'm not even excited. I'm not saying it's not a good move but I've been burned so many times with "winning off the field" with this team and seen it flop so hard that I am just going to wait for results this time.
Well yeah, its the Commanders, there's zero reason to be excited about them. Even if it was a no brainer move, they'll almost certainly fuck it up because they're the Commanders.
Plus, its an odd move on its own and strongly hints at, well it being a typical Commanders move. Basically they're likely paying Bienemy head coach pay to be an OC, or have pretty much promised that he'll be the head coach, which considering they already have a head coach is probably not a good sign for the team. I don't doubt that they'll spin it as Rivera is totally on board and has no problem whatsoever and blah blah blah (and I could maybe even believe it, I'm sure Rivera would love not having to answer for the offense), but this is so typical of a Commanders move. I also really wonder what Bienemy could be thinking, as he has to know he's walking into a dysfunctional situation, whereas he had potential to take over for Andy if/when he retires.
This looks like how Herm Edwards tried running ASU by the way. And while you can go, "yeah but Herm Edwards" and the response would just be, "yeah but the Commanders/Snyder" because honestly I think Herm might be the smarter football mind there.
Not a good look all around. I don't think it was a smart move by Bienemy (just because going to any team run like that team is just going to cause you problems), it looks like the Commanders are still flinging shit ideas at the wall hoping something will stick at some point, and it shows the NFL clearly still has a racism problem.
Well EB will be motivated to show he doesn't need an MVP to win, so you'll have that going for you.
In general, I'd say any coach would need an MVP to prove they can win, as if you want to win anything meaningful then you're gonna have to do well enough that someone on your team is considered for MVP. Plus, considering how we saw Belicheck be shown that having an all time great QB is kinda important with regards to winning in the playoffs and competing for a Super Bowl, you have to be...not brilliant to walk away from an MVP (let alone what looks like a top 5 all time great QB), but some people think they have to prove themselves in weird ways.
Credit to him for I guess making a move to try and establish his own legacy. I personally am guessing he's just trading one legacy for another, letting another situation set his legacy and its very probably not going to go well for him and it'll let all those teams that passed on giving him a head coach position the argument to go "see he wasn't fit to be a head coach, it was Andy and Mahomes.....also, we're totally super not racist!"