EAGLES NEWS

Eagles 38 Cowboys 24

It Was Over When......

Eagles cornerback Lito Sheppard intercepted a Drew Bledsoe pass in the endzone on 2nd and goal from the 3 with 16 seconds left in the game and raced 102 yards the other way for a score and an Eagles victory.

The Game Ball Goes To......

You guessed it, Lito Sheppard, who after missing the 1st 4 weeks of the season came back strong today, intercepting Drew Bledsoe twice late in the 4th quarter, both times deep in Eagles territory just as the Cowboys seemed primed to score.

The Stat of the Game is......

3, as in 3 points scored by the Cowboys offense in the 2nd half. After racking up 21 points and over 200 yards of offense in the 1st half the Cowboys managed just 3 points in the 2nd half while the Eagles racked up 21 points of their own. Another contributing stat is 21, as in just 21 yards receiving for Terrell Owens. This game was billed by many as T.O versus the Eagles and if that's really what it was then I'd say the Eagles won that one.

The Bottom Line is......

This was a huge win for the birds. Before today they had lost 7 consecutive games to divisional opponents, but this 1 game changes all that. With this win the Eagles have now proven to themselves and to their critics that they can still win the big ones and still deserve to be mentioned among the NFC's elite. I mean when you win a back and forth game like this in the fashion the Eagles did, you start to think that maybe this is your year and that good things are going to happen to you. Hopefully good things will continue to happen to the Eagles for the rest of the season.