First of all, whether you were at AA/12SD with me or at The O Files for that live blog, or just plain sat through that SNF game, congradulations, you are a man among men and you deserve to be saluted.
Secondly, wow. If Jay Cutler was not awful, that game would have been a route the other way. But somehow, someway, despite an early quick 10-0 start the Eagles fell asleep in the 2nd and 3rd quarter before waking up just in time to compete in a 4th quarter shoot out. By the way, whenever the Eagles jump up 10-0 like that, you can guarantee they will loll in the middle quarters of the game, allowing the other team to take the lead, although most of the time, the end result is a valiant fightback that falls short. Anyway, this time it was a shootout and the Eagles outdueled the Bears.
It's no secret that the big secret of the Eagles was DeSean Jackson. Once he was making plays, the Eagles offense was moving. People say that the Eagles offense relied on Westbrook making plays. Not anymore. It's DJax now. When he gets the ball, good things happen (unless he fumbles the ball or spikes it at the 1-yard line), when he is not getting the ball, the Eagles look like the Browns against any defense not from Detroit.
He got the ball in the 4th quarter. The Eagles won the game with a rare 4th quarter comeback. That's their first successful one in quite awhile although I still have not discovered their last under 2-minute victory. This TD came well before the 2-minute warning, the defense was just able to hold stout and in the end, knew that one of the very inevitable unavoidable truths will happen. Just like you can count on the sun rising every morning in the east, you can count on Jay Cutler throwing an interception in crucial prime time games.
It was not pretty, but it was a win. And now the Eagles will play the Washington Redskins next Sunday, which sadly, I will not be around for (sorry Al) except for maybe a comment here or there during commercial (I like watching the Eagles with my family sans distractions of a CPU). That should be a win, although with the way the Eagles have played down to some opponents (see 1st Redskins game despite the win and Raiders game), you never know.
Anyway, enough about the Eagles, instead, I will leave you with Devin Hester, with great aid of Dimitri Patterson, showing Jay Cutler how he really feels about his horrible passes.
Scorched in my retina forever. I wonder if this means that Devin Hester will get offered a role in Bubble Butt Barbeque 3?
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!
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