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ued with a pitiful 63 yards passing, not to mention an interception and a fumble that both led to the first two Seattle scores.

shootout win, Hoyingmania struck the city of Philadelphia.

No. 7 jerseys were leaping off shelves like hotcakes.

Paul Moser

The Philadelphia sports fan in all his schizophrenic glory will soon change its tune concerning Bobby Hoying, the once-procJaimed "golden boy" of the franchise.

Following a horrible performance this past Sunday, I'd say its safe to assume that the lovefest with Hoying is nearing an end.

His sub-par preseason play and first team offense futility contin-

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Hoying finished the afternoon completing just nine of 23 passes for 63 yards and an interception. The interception in question would have to be the worst thrown ball of Hoying's short career.

Although this may be a typical game for a rookie starting his first opening day of his career, Philadelphia isn't 'exactly the type of city that can tolerate digression. Hoying looked nothing like the promising young quarterback that was the lone bright spot in an otherwise dismal season last year.

In fact, there has been no sign of that promising young quarterback all season.

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Comparisons soon arose. Hoying was labeled as the next great one. In fact, Hoyingmania remained strong all the way to training camp, but the promising young quarterback got lost between the moon and Philadelphia, or I think that's how the song goes.

Hoying has only one touchdown pass in six games thus far this season and his only touchdown pass came on a busted preseason play.

It is only a matter of time before the boo birds come around to Hoying. But can anyone blame them?

In Hoying's defense, he was sacked nine times and knocked down numerous other times. Not to mention, a number of his passes were dropped, namely two by Irving Fryar and what could have been a spectacular touchdown pass to Freddie Solomon.

It's evident that Hoying has little faith in his receivers. This lack of faith turned into indecision which forced Hoying to hold onto the ball for that extra two seconds which, more often than not, lead to an incompletion, sack or interception.

Hoying did not throw a confident pass all game long. That was as evident as the amount of empty seats in the Vet during the fourth quarter.

Hoying, however, should not and will not take all the blame for this loss, but as it is with every starting quarterback in the league, you get too much praise when the team wins and too much blame when the team loses.

Unfortunately for Hoying the Eagles left everything in the lockerroom. In fact, they left everything in the dumpsters outside of Veterans Stadium.

The only thing that stood out more than the Seattle Seahawks in this game was the amount of depressing banners were found all over the stadium. My personal favorite read, "Unlike the bible, the Eagles don't have a prayer."

If Hoying is to have a prayer at becoming a good starting quarterback in this league he is going to have to regain that confidence that he had last year.

If that does not happen this could be a long season for Bobby Hoying and the Boo birds.

PaulMoseris a semormajoringin English/ communicationandis oneof Loquitur's sportseditors.Hereceived a S500finefor streakingatSunday'sgame.

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