Sunday, November 16, 2008
EAGLES NEWS
The Eagles traveled to Cincinnati to face the hapless 1-8 Bengals today, looking to rebound after another Sunday night heartbreaker. Despite performing poorly in short yardage situations once again they almost did so, but thanks to a totally inept offense late in the game when it really counted, they found themselves finishing in a tie with the Bengals, the first such fiasco since 2002. While he did throw for 339 yards and a TD, Mcnabb was also intercepted 3 times and lost a fumble, contributing 10 of the Bengals 13 points. Brian WestBrook also had another sub par game for his standards with just 71 combined yards and it seems clear at this point that he is not back at a 100% yet. The Eagles defense on the other hand had another big day and are the main reason the game ended in a tie and not a loss. Ryan FiztPatrick was sacked 8 times, the Bengal running game was held to just 56 yards, and the Bengals scored just 13 points, zero after the 3rd quarter. Normally that would be more than good enough for a win, but not today. Early in the 2nd quarter Mcnabb committed hist first turnover, fumbling the ball away deep in Eagle's territory. Fortunately the Eagle defense held strong and forced a Shane Graham field goal for a 3-0 lead. The Eagles answered a few minutes later after a long drive with an Akers field goal to knot it at 3. FitzPatrick then directed a quick drive late in the quarter following a Mcnabb interception, that ended with a 26 yd pass from Fitzpatrick to T.J Houshmanzedah for a 10-3 lead. Early in the 3rd quarter Graham kicked another field goal for a 13-3 lead. Mcnabb answered a few plays later with a 4 yd TD pass to L.J Smith to cut it to 13-10. Then late in the 4th quarter the Birds appeared poised to take lead and pull out the win, but on 4th and 1 from the 10 Andy Reid elected to kick the field goal, tying it at 13. The Eagles had a couple opportunities to drive for the winning field goal in regulation but failed so the game went into overtime. There the Eagles offense still could not find any rhythm. Finally with 15 seconds left the Bengals got in range for the winning field goal, but Shane Graham missed from 47 yards out. Then Mcnabb's desperation heave fell incomplete one play later and the two teams settled for a tie. So the Eagles move to 5-4-1 overall and remain on the outside looking in to the playoff picture. They will just about have to win the remainder of their games to reach the playoffs at this point and it is doubtful that they will be able to do so.
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2 comments:
Well uh it certainly isn't a loss but not winning over the Bengals is embarassing; lets just keep it at that
- to ph1llysports
yes it is very embarassing so lets never speak of it again
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