EAGLES NEWS

For the second week in a row, it wasn' t pretty but against the winless Dolphins the Eagles did just enough to win, clinching their first back-to-back wins of the season. On offense the key contributors were as usual Brian Westbrook with 32 carries for 148 yards, and A.J Feeley with 13 completions out of 19 pass attempts for 116 yards and a TD(Mcnabb went down late in the 2nd quarter with a knee sprain, but chances are he'll be back next week against the Pats). On defense the Eagles simply played well as a whole, keeping the Dolphins offense out of the endzone, and limiting it to just 186 yards. Initially, the winless Dolphins actually led 7-0 on an 84 yard punt return by Ted Ginn early in the second quarter. After 3 consecutive turnovers in the redzone, the Eagles finally got on the board late in the 2nd quarter as David Akers booted a 34 yard field goal to cut the lead to 7-3 at the half. The Eagles then opened the second half with a long drive capped off by an 8 yard Touchdown plunge by Correll Buckhalter for a 10-7 Eagles lead. It stayed that way until the Eagles opened the 4th quarter with another long time consuming drive, capped off by Feeley's 4 yard TD pass to Jason Avant, for a 17-7 Eagles lead. Later after the Eagles held the fins on the 4 downs at the Eagles 1 yard line, Feeley and the offense ran out the clock for win. So the Eagles improve to 5-5 overall, just 1 game out of the final playoff spot in the NFC. They're chances of getting that spot are still pretty slim though, as the brutal final stretch of games to finish their season can attest.