Well it wasn't pretty, especially the first ½, but the Eagles managed to come up with a win today here in a rainy Philadelphia. QB Donovan McNabb had to leave the game midway through the second half and was out for the remainder of the game. Early reports indicate an ankle injury. Backup Quarterback, A.J. Feeley, did a pretty good job filling in for the remainder of the game, completing 13/19 passes for 116 yards, with one touchdown and one interception. McNabb however had one of the shittiest games he has had in a long time, completing 3/13 passes, for 34 yards, and throwing two costly interception, both in the red zone, and no where near any green jersey's.
The star of today's game however was running back Brian Westbrook, who, had a career game today. Rusihing the ball 32 times for, 148 yards, although his receiving game was way off today, catching only one pass for zero yards.
Major props need to go out to the defenses who played a heck of a game, allowing no touchdowns, and holding the Dolphins offense to just under 200 yards of net offense, and keeping newly promoted quarterback John Beck to 109 yards, on 9/22 in passing.
The Eagles special teams were the big goats today, giving up the only touchdown, on a second quarter 87 yard punt return by Ted Ginn, which was probably the only spark the Dolphins showed today.
Should be interesting to see how this McNabb injury plays out. They travel to New England next week for a Sunday night showdown, against of the as of this post, are still undefeated.
Although it was an ugly win, it gets the Eagles to .500, and still keeps their slim playoff chance alive.
McNabb's injury was probably the spark the Eagles needed to get their momentum on.
--gfo
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