EAGLES NEWS

Well, it wasn't pretty but the Eagles returned from their bye week with a victory over the Jets. Kevin Curtis streaked to a 75 year old touchdown reception early in the 1st quarter, for the only touchdown of the day for either team. Donovan Mcnabb also had a pretty good day, completing 22 of his 35 passes, for 278 yards and a touchdown, and Brian Westbrook chipped in with 120 yards rushing on 20 carries. As for the Eagles' defense it bent several times against the Jets offense allowing 267 total yards, but it never broke, as the Jets went all day long without getting the ball across the goal line, and that proved to be the difference. The Eagles led early 7-3 on curtis' touchdown, than after missing two field goals earlier, David Akers drilled a 22 yard field goal, to increase the lead to 10-3. The Jets Mike Nugent added a field goal of his own later in the period and it was 10-6 at the half. Two more Aker's field goals in the 3rd quarter upped the Eagles lead to 16-6. Midway through the 4th quarter Nugent converted another field goal for the Jets to cut the lead to 16-9. Then, with just over a minute to play Donovan Mcnabb was intercepted deep inside his own territory. The Jets drove down to a 4th and 1 from the Eagles' 4 yard line and seemed on their way to tieing up at 17. However, the Jets inexplicably went for the touchdown, instead of the firstdown and Sheldon Brown batted away Chad Pennington's attempt at a touchdown pass. The Eagles took over on downs from there, and a couple long runs by Westbrook later, and they had won 16-9. So the Eagles save their season for now, and improve to 2-3. If truly hope to turn things around, and reach the playoffs though, they'll have to play better, particularly in the red zone, than they did today.