Doug’s five worst decisions

Believing Agholor could start: We all know how that went. If not for the negative fallout surrounding Josh Huff’s brush with the law, leading to his release, the Eagles would have been better off with him than Agholor. Two-point play call versus the Ravens: Not the decision to go for two points, which was aggressive. No, it was the choice of plays. Wentz’s pass over the middle to Matthews was low and tipped incomplete. Rolling Wentz out and using his athleticism to score or throw against an obvious blitz would have given the Birds a better chance to win than the quick pass. Oh, and Ryan Mathews should have been on the field in any event. Challenging the incompletion against the Packers: The challenges were all over the place this season. In this game Pederson won a challenge wiping out a twoyard gain, the Birds trailing 17-13 in the third quarter. But it was his second and final challenge, stripping him of the ability to challenge for a quarter and change. It’s worse than burning a timeout. Pederson conceded the next day he’d probably like a doover. Over-aggressive on fourth down versus the Giants: Pederson painted himself into a corner with his pre-game speech, telling players he was going to “be aggressive.” It was knee-jerk reaction to playing it safe in an overtime loss the previous week to the Cowboys. The players didn’t get the message as they were 1-for-4 in fourth downs on the day. That included blowing two chances in the red zone that would have resulted in easy field goals in what became a five-point defeat. Calling the doublereverse with Carson Wentz blocking: Do we need to remind you that Wentz was fresh off an examination for a concussion in the last game against the Giants? Or that later, The Franchise told reporters he got his bell rung a little? Cleared or not, there’s no reason to risk the future. Especially against a Giants team that almost always beats itself playing the Eagles.