Eagles CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie Loses Cool On Sideline In Loss Vs. Bears

Eagles cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie lost his cool on the sideline Monday night, pointing at teammates, having a heated talk with defensive coordinator Juan Castillo and stalking away to kneel by himself. His rant came in the fourth quarter and was the latest and most visible example of how the speedy cornerback has failed to find a good fit on his new team. Rodgers-Cromartie was victimized over and over again by the Bears, including on one early play when he appeared to give up as Earl Bennett caught a pass and continued running for a 14-yard gain, the Eagles safeties stopping him instead of Rodgers-Cromartie. When he came to the sideline in the fourth quarter, Rodgers-Cromartie was confronted by Castillo, appeared to point to his secondary teammates on on the bench, then moved away from them. Nnamdi Asomugha and then Andy Reid came to calm him down. "I got frustrated on a play that I should have known was coming and instead I did something else, so you know I kind of went off. (Shoot), I was mad, it was in the heat of the moment, (stuff) is going to happen." Asked if it was a blown assignment, Rodgers-Cromartie said, "it was a blown assignment, frustrated the way the night was going, all that tied into it." On the play that he appeared to stop playing, he explained: "I tapped the ball and when I tapped it I felt the ball hit my hands so I thought I knocked it down, but evidently it tapped it into his hands and I didn’t realize it until he was tackled."

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

 

Someone has to show some fire...lol.

 

Young's going off at Seifert back in 1994 during a 40-8 thrashing by the Eagles fired up the team and propelled them to a 5th Superbowl run... On the other hand, TWO's blow up on Knapp didnt motivate so much.

Perhaps the Eagles should have just stuck with Samuel and Awesomewahh

 

He lost his cool because he realized his butt was getting OWNED this game and basically every snap he has played this season.

This guy is freaking worthless right now.

 

pretty much an even up trade so far ?

 

Meh, we still got a 2nd round pick so we'll see how we heck that up first.

Get rid of Samuel and play Nnamdi and DRC man all freaking game. We aren't blitzing anyway so I don't understand why we are playing so much FREAKING ZONE. Samuel has got his butt handed to him way too many times this year.

 

Ahahahahaahaahahaahahahaha.

 

Good to see some fire. Now if he just transfers it to the field we'll be fine. I still don't understand that when Jim Johnson died the blitzing scheme died with it. The Eagles revolutionized the blitz in the NFL and created SO many different looks, we've just completely stopped doing it. We have the personnel that would be fantastic with the blitz. We have DB's who can play great man coverage in the secondary and wouldn't screw the blitz coverage and our LB's are somewhat undersized and speedy and fit a blitzing scheme perfectly.

 

he's pissed because he sees the same stupid freaking bullcrap game planning/calling/execution that the fans do.

oh but we cant be negative because we'll hurt avant's feelings.

freaking bunch of softy snitches.

 

DRC played like a little snitch. He needs to point the finger at himself before anyone else. I was so pissed when he didn't attempt to tackle Bennett after he got beat.

 

beyond mccoy & celek this team is hard to like.

 

Please don't make excuses for DRC's play. The dude is worse than freaking Matt Ware ever was right now.

 

So as to not completely go off on a tangent in this thread...

http://gridironfans.com/forums/nfc-discussion/128627-official-eagles-team-thread-52.html#post1378453

 

i'm not, i was pointing out the irony of his little rant.

 

this is awesome