The Birds traveled to Fedex field for a divisional showdown with the Washington Redskins tonight as they looked to rebound from last week's loss to the Raiders. Fortunately, the Redskins are playing even worse right now than the Raiders had been and simply didn't have the confidence in themselves to beat the Eagles tonight. A dominant performance by the Eagles' defense and a spectacular game on offense for Desean Jackson also contributed heavily to an 27-17 Eagles' victory. The defense had Redskin QB Jason Campbell running for his life all day, sacking him 6 times and forcing him into 2 of the 4 Redskin turnovers on the night. Clinton Portis and the Redskins' running game was also held in check with just 68 yards, including only 43 by Portis. So it was up to Campbell to carry the load for the Skins on offense and he could not. Newly added linebacker Will Weatherspoon intercepted Campbell for the turnover # 1 and returned it 9 yards for a TD. Later Weatherspoon stripped Campbell and Quintin Mikell recoverd the fumble to set up a David Aker's field goal from 47 yards out. Later Antwan Randle El muffed a punt for turnover # 3 to set up a 44 yard Akers field goal. So the standouts on defense for the Eagles this week were Trent Cole with 2 sacks, and Witherspoon who had quite a debut with the Birds, with an interception, a fumble recovery, and a sack. As for the offense, it was all Desean Jackson, who took an end around on the Eagles first drive of the game and raced 67 yards for a TD. Later Jackson hauled in a 57 yard TD pass from Donovan Mcnabb, to account for all 14 points generated by the Eagle's offense. All in all it was just an ok night for the Eagles' offense which accumulated just 262 yards to go along with those 14 points. They did rush for a solid 122 yards, made all the more impressive by the fact that Brian Westbrook went down early in the game with a concussion, but hopefully he'll be all right. The Eagles' passing game tonight though left something to be desired, but it was good enough for the win and that's really all that matters. Ultimately the Eagles did not play great tonight, they simply played good and that was enough against the struggling the Redskins, but they'll have to pick it up next week against the NY Giants in a showdown for 1st place in the NFC East.
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Im not sure what I would have done if the Eagles lost to the lowly Redskins after that crappy defeat to the Raiders. Even though they did win they still sucked and thats not going to work against New York so they better pick it up.
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