By FRANK WARD
DailyPhiladelphian.com Editor
For those of us — myself included — who lambasted Jorrick Calvin for running around the end zone for no apparent reason during Sunday night’s win over the Cowboys, we may have to eat our words.
Seems that Calvin was simply following coach’s orders.
On his weekly radio show on WIP (which ended a couple of hours ago and we’re only now getting this posted as we just got home from running an errand for the wife who’s busy studying for her nursing exam), Andy Reid said he ordered Calvin to run around in the end zone. He said that the Cowboys had not had many kickoffs returned and their coverage unit rarely ran down to the end zone. Reid said he had enough of that. He was going to force them to finish the play.
So, he told Calvin to run in order to make the Cowboys coverage guys expend their energy by running all the way to the end zone. The personal foul, however, was not part of the plan.
Reid’s explanation makes sense and it’s a gamesmanship thing. Get in the Cowboys heads, make them run a little more. We are seeing a new Reid this year — a guy who’s aggressive and isn’t worried about pissing people off. From complaining about hits on his QB, to going for it on fourth down early in a game, to this. We like the new Reid.
As far as Calvin goes, he wasn’t trying to run time off the clock. So, Eagles Nation, we all owe him a big apology for ripping him on that last night.
