Everything on the scoresheet points to what should have been a very disappointing Eagles road loss to Washington...We lost Time of Possession and # of offensive plays run...two stats which can be very telling...but NOT today. Today we got creamed on the ground once again, this time to the tune of 210 rushing yards for the Redskins...Ladell Betts joined a parade of mediocre backs the Eagles front seven seemed committed to see playing in Honolulu in Feb. The matadors (as I now refer to them) weren't even in some the replays!!! They just showed Ladell chugging forward, with the legs of others players along the edges of the screen...until one of our safeties (who all played a good game) would mercifully enter the frame and make the tackle...
I thought stick'um was outlawed? I also thought it was usually DBs who used it to snag INTs...heck, it looked like the offensive linemen for the Redskins had jerseys coated in the stuff, because I didn't see one of our linemen break free all day. I wonder is someone from the secretly bathed the Eagles jerseys with negative particles while simultaneous apply a heavy coating of positive charged to the Redskins uniforms...Cause Walker, Rayburn, Howard, and Co sure looked like magnets to the Redskins' refrigerator size O-line this afternoon.
And you know what? I don't care...we escape with the W, liken it to thievery or whatever other manner of skullduggery you chose, but I will take it, and put it in the bank...it still doesn't make up for the Giants game or the game we blew against Tampon Bay but it'll have to do for now...
The Eagles now have a huge date in the Meadowlands next Sunday...hopefull they can recall how they built up a huge lead in Week 2 and then remember not to think the game is over at the of the 3rd qtr. I wouldn't mind seeing wittle Ewi get crunched three or four or eight times again.
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