Although he may not show it publicly, Andy Reid is just as mad about the direction of this team as you are.

"I guess he felt his normal mild-mannered self wasn't working," linebacker Omar Gaither said. "With Coach Reid, when the volume goes up and he starts turning red, you start paying a little more attention."

I bet you do. Reid lit into the team Wednesday at the morning meeting and let everyone know that not only was the season on the line, there were jobs on the line. Unspoken, of course, is that his will eventually be one of them if this sort of play keeps up. Long before he goes, however, a whole lot of players who disappoint him will find the door.

After Reid's tirade, Brian Dawins held a players only meeting to further drive home the point. It should be interesting to see if there are any lineup changes this weekend in Baltimore and if this reaming Reid gave the team has any effect.

It's no secret that Andy Reid runs the Eagles offense. He calls the plays. Reid performs the duties that the offensive coordinator of most teams does.

Now that doesn't mean Marty Mornhinweg is just a hollow figurehead... I'm sure he has input and Reid does respect his opinion, but there's no doubt that Andy is in control. So when the local media asks Marty questions about the offense, you can help but wonder if Marty agreeing with critics is his way of criticizing his boss.

Was five carries in the first half enough to justify the extent to which the Eagles abandoned the run in Cincinnati (18 runs, 60 called passes)?

   "No," Mornhinweg said. "You make a good point. You're right. It's not enough."

   Mornhinweg was asked if it would make sense to play Correll Buckhalter more, with Brian Westbrook banged up.

  "You're right," he said. "It does make sense."

In 2006, when Marty was publicly given the playcalling duties down the stretch we all saw how the team relied on the run more heavily. In those final 5 or 6 games where Marty took over, the Eagles ran the ball over 20 or 30 times in all but that final meaningless game against Atlanta when the starters rested. When Marty was offensive coordinator in San Francisco, he had the #1 rushing attack in the NFL.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but when I read Marty's short responses to reporters questions about the run game, it took it as "Yeah, I know... what do you want me to do about it?"

A little over a week ago we held our first poll to determine Andy Reid's approval rating and only 17% of Eagles fans approved of his job performance and felt the team was headed in the right direction.

Has the tie with Bengals helped? What kind of confidence do fans have as we head down to Baltimore?

Poll ends Sunday

Guess what Eagles player didn't know a game could end in a tie until he was in a tie game? Brian Dawkins. (Eaglesville)

Hey look yet another Eagles blogger that wonders why all the controversy this week is about McNabb and not Reid. ESPN, comment? (Depressed Fan)

An in depth look at the play of Broderick Bunkley so far this season. (Iggles Blog)

Tony Romo picks up homeless men and takes them to movie theaters... then he tells his PR team to announce that he doesn't want publicity for it. (Poor Sports)

Does Sports Illustrated know there are ties in the NFL? (Bounty Bowl)

The Eagles fancast boys lament the Bengals tie. (Eagles Fancast)

One Eagles blogger has posted his wishlist, which seems to involve getting rid of everyone. (Bleed Eagles Green)

Apparently some Redskins fans have a burning hatred for Philadelphia. Our reaction? Indifference. (700 Level)

HHR compares the relationship of Donovan McNabb and Andy to Reid to the Neeleys on Food Network. Yes, I watch Food network. (Hugging Harold Reynolds)

A kid getting a ball thrown at his face really hard at really close range. Nuff said. (With Leather)

Megan Fox walked in public and was photographed doing so... Obviously this is a big deal for me. (WWTDD)

Hines Ward, who actually played in the last tie in the NFL, says he didn't know a game could end in a tie.

"No, I didn't know," Ward said. "I thought we were the last team to do it when we played the Falcons. I thought we just played it until you have a winner or something. It's kind of weird now that you can still tie ballgames."

Ben Roethlisberger guessed that half the league didn't know.

"I think people are making too big a deal and are being too hard on Donovan because you'd be surprised, I bet at least 50 percent of the league didn't know that at the time," Roethlisberger said. "You'd be real surprised. I think people just assume that the quarterback should know it all and that everyone should know that stuff and it's not necessarily true because who ever thinks about that stuff?"

I guess everyone is thinking about it now Ben...

I want to go back to something Ward said however. "It's kind of weird now that you can still tie ballgames." It really is. I wonder if the NFL will visit this issue after the season? Is there any real reason for a tie to be possible? Obviously it's so rare that teams go through an overtime period without scoring(twice in the last 6 years), so how rare would it be for them to go two quarters? It would be nearly impossible.

Why not just eliminate the tie and play untl there's a winner? I can't see how anyone would have an issue with that.

Since Andy Studebaker was signed by the Chiefs, a spot on the Eagles' practice opened up. Today it was filled by DT Babatunde Oshinowo, who spent time in the Washington and Cleveland organizations

His actuall full name is Babatunde Oluwasegun Temitope Oluwakorede Adisa Oshinowo, Jr

That's 59 letters if you're counting. People call him "Baba" for short.

Marcus Hayes wrote a really great article about Broderick Bunkley and what effect losing has on him. After the game against the Bengals where the defense was dominant and got 8 sacks Bunkley sat at his locker, with his head in his hands distraught over the the fact that he didn't play better. This is in a game where the opponent rushed for less than 60 yards and the QB sacked 8 times. After the Giants game, Bunk was inconsolable.

"One sack? I'm very disappointed," Bunkley said after the Eagles left Eli Manning virtually clean in the Eagles' Nov. 8 loss to the Giants.

Bunkley paused as he cut off the tape that held the gauze from the IVs he took in the third quarter to stave off further cramping and dehydration, a speed bump from which he returned. Blood had soaked through the gauze under the tape.

"I've waited for this game since February. To get to Eli," he said. "And I didn't."

That pretty much nobody else did, either, supplied him little solace.

"These guys are like my family," Bunkley said, "and when I don't play as well as I think I should, I feel like I let down my family."

It's great to hear that some guys take losing as tough as us fans do.

Raven's coach John Harbaugh spent 10 years here in Philadelphia most of which was as coach of the special teams. He was asked if facing his old boss and mentor will be special for him.

"I know you say, 'Well, that's what he's going to say.' Now, competitively, you're going against your brothers. It means something. It's exciting. There's a little bit of something at stake, and it'll be fun before the game. But when the game starts, it's going to be our players playing against their players, and whoever plays the best is going to win. It wouldn't be much of a showdown between me and Coach Reid out there. I think I'd be able to cover him, and he'd probably be able to block me. That'd be my guess."

Harbaugh says it will be awkard to face the Eagles and Reid.

"It's an awkward situation," Harbaugh said. "I'm still an Eagles fan. On any other Sunday, I want them to win. My wife and I root for them.

"The other side of the coin, though, is you want to make a good showing, a good impression. You want to go out and do well and show him that he taught you well. I want to win. But not just because it's the Eagles. Because we're trying to make the playoffs."

Studebaker was a 7th round pick of the Eagles this year who signed to their practice squad after training camp. Today he signed with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Eureka High grad Andy Studebaker has a new NFL home. The Kansas City Chiefs have signed Studebaker off of the Philadelphia Eagles practice squad. 

Studebaker will make his Chiefs debut Sunday at home against Buffalo. 

Studebaker worked out with Kansas City prior to the 2008 NFL Draft.  Now, he's a Chiefs player.

Studebaker will now be on the Chiefs active roster for the remainder of the season.