EAGLES NEWS

The Mac Attack is back. For the second week in a row Donovan Mcnabb showcased the full set of skills that made him an elite Pro-Bowl QB up until 2 years ago when the Eagles lost the Super Bowl. It seems pretty clear now that he's finally full recovered from the knee injury that sidelined him last season. Kevin Kolb better get comfortable on the bench for a while. All told Mcnabb accounted for 300 of the Eagles 435 total yards(263 yards and 3 TDs passing, 37 yards rushing on 6 carries). He was not alone though, as Brian Westbrook rushed 17 times for 100 yards(surpassing the Eagles single season mark for total yards, previously Wilbert Montgomery's 2006) and Kevin Curtis and Reggie Brown, each caught 6 passes for a combined 151 yards and 2 TDs,(Curtis for 78 yards and 1 TD, Brown for 73 yards and 1 TD). As for the Eagles defense it allowed the Saints to rack up over 300 yards of offense, but as always it kept New Orleans out of the endzone when it mattered most. In fact with 8:52 to go in the 1st half the Saints scored their 2nd TD of the game, and from there on they would not score another. Four times the Saints were stopped deep in Eagles territory in 2nd half. Three of those four times, the Saints settled for field goals, but other time was yet another Eagles goal line stand that resulted in a turn over on downs. As for the game it was a thriller for a while, but once the Eagles got control they never relinquished it. Early in the 1st quarter Mcnabb fumbled the ball after a long run from scrimmage and Curtis recovered it in the end zone for a 7-0 Eagles lead. Two Aaron Stecker TD runs later and the Saints led 14-7. Then late in the quarter Correll Buckhalter ran it in from 20 yards out to tie it at 14, and Brown caught a 31 yard TD pass from Mcnabb for a 21-14 Eagles lead. In the 2nd quarter the two teams traded field goals for a 24-17 Eagles lead at the half. Late in the 3rd quarter following the aforementioned goal line stand, the Eagles marched the near length of the field, and Mcnabb fired a 9 yard TD pass to Greg Lewis for a 31-17 Eagles lead. In the 4th quarter Martin Grammatica hit a pair of field goals to cut the lead to 31-23, but with a little under 3 minutes to play yet another long Eagles drive, capped off by a 7 yard TD pass from Mcnabb to Curtis, followed by an interception by the rookie Linebacker Stewart Bradley, finally put it away for the Eagles as they won 38-23. So the Eagles improve to 7-8 overall, but unfortunately, it is too little too late, for this season, but it does give hope for next season.