While any idiot can say “Hey let’s sign every high-priced Free Agent on the market”. THE 12 focuses on what we can do with what we already have, to fix or improve our team.
ONE person caused us to lose the Super Bowl. It wasn’t the fumble by QB Jalen Hurts. It wasn’t RB Miles Sanders. It wasn’t even the Defense giving up 31 points. The reason we lost the Super Bowl, was Greg Delimitros, V.P. of Equipment Management.
If you recall, the field at State Farm Stadium was a soggy, slippery mess. As a result, our Defense with it’s voracious pass rush, couldn’t get any pressure on the QB. Eagles OLB Haason Reddick couldn’t run down QB Patrick Mahomes, despite Mahomes playing with a gimpy ankle. Yet no one discusses that! People just shrugged and moved on.
Folks! A Defense that had given up just 14 points in the playoffs, and just 50 combined in it’s last four games, suddenly coughed up 31. All because we couldn’t do proper CLEAT MANAGEMENT. Half of the Eagles team didn’t get to play it’s game that day, due to a simple equipment problem. You have no idea how much this eats at me.
The announcers talked about both teams slipping early in the game. You could see both teams discussing it at points. However, it was the Chiefs who did a superior job of managing the field conditions, and it was enough to give them a 3 point victory. THREE POINTS!
They say it’s a poor workman who blames his tools. I agree with that. Understand, it’s not our cleats I’m blaming. I’m blaming Greg Delimitrios for not being able to manage the problem, and make the proper adjustment. I’m blaming the workman, not the tools.
He needs to get his shit together this year. You would have thought that rainy, sloppy Jacksonville game would have been a great lesson, well prior to the Super Bowl. However, you have to be paying attention to learn. You have to be dialed in. Seems like Greg wasn’t. Even if Greg doesn’t learn, I have. Prior to the playoffs, I WILL be on the call-in shows, putting this out there.
This year we’re going to be dressed for success.
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