EAGLES NEWS

The Eagles played their 2nd preseason game tonight in Indianapolis against Peyton Manning and the Colts. The Eagles ultimately dropped to 0-2 in the preseason, falling 23-15 after failing to recover an onsides kick with about 30 seconds to play, but that really doesn't mean much. As he always has, Manning picked apart the Eagles starting secondary completing 10 of 14 passes for 167 yards and 2 TDs. Donovan Mcnabb played well too completing 5 of 7 passes for 77 yards and a 39 yd td pass to Desean Jackson, but that was about the only positive for the Birds tonight in a mistake filled game. All told the Birds committed 12 penalties, or at least 12 that were accepted, there were probably 12 more that weren't, for a total of 87 yards. The Eagles also fumbled 4 times, and lost 2 of them, leading to 6 Colts' points. Honestly it seemed like every time it looked like the Eagles were about to do something positive, a penalty or a turnover got in the way. The fact that they were even able to pull within a score at the end show how well coached the Eagles are. The Eagles o-line, now without 4 of 5 starters really struggled all night and committed most of the penalties, but you just have to hope they'll be healthy by the time the season starts. While the first string defense struggled for the Birds, the backups actually looked just fine and there is still plenty of time for Sean Mcdermott to get things figured out on D. Ultimately the team has plenty of time to fix the mistakes they made tonight, and it's probably good they happened now and not in the regular season. One other interesting thing to see in this game was the play of QB Adam Dimichele, former starting QB at Temple. With Kevin Kolb still out with an injury and Vick not eligible to play tonight, Dimichele stepped in as the Birds 3rd string QB and actually looked pretty good completing 14 of 22 passes for 130 Yds and a TD plus a 2 point conversion. This will probably be the only time he'll get to play for the Eagles at all, with Vick debuting on Thursday, but hopefully what he did on the field tonight will be enough for another team to take a chance on him. If not then I feel fortunate to have seen his only NFL TD pass. Go Owls!