Eagles Week 17 Recap: Who Cares

On to the bullets of this pre-season game meaningless Week 17 football game.

•  The Dallas Cowboys played their healthy available starters.  The Philadelphia Eagles played all of their back-ups.  The Cowboys only won 14-13.  Yeah.
• What is there to take from this game?  Not much, really.  Only four regular starters (Maclin, Jean-Gilles, Patterson, and Fokou) saw any amount of time at all in this game.  Maclin played the first two series because Andy wanted to get him to 1,000 yards on the season (mission failed) and after that, the WR corps was all Chad Hall and Riley Cooper.
• Max Jean-Gillies was the only Eagle player to get injured.  It is unknown whether or not he will play on Sunday
• What to take from this game:  Stephen McGee is no Tony Romo, the Cowboys outside of DeMarcus Ware really are terrible, and the Eagles back-ups gave the Cowboys starters some stiff competition.
• Some people will say that the Eagles are limping into the playoffs with two straight losses.  My answer to that is 18 of the 22 Eagles that will start on Sunday were not on the field at all for tonight's game.  This game was irrelevant, the Eagles knew that, Andy Reid knew that, and the Eagles prepared for this game by recycling last month's and studying film on the Packers, Giants, and Buccaneers.
• If nothing else, this game showed that the Eagles should not be afraid to use Jerome Harrison during meaningful games.  Harrison used to be a starter in Cleveland last year and could probably start for some teams today.  If Andy Reid used him appropriately, he could and LeSean McCoy could make a legitimate 1-2 punch.
• The Eagles will host the Green Bay Packers Sunday at 4:30 ET.  The Packers are a team strengths match-up perfectly with the Eagles weaknesses.  The way I see it, if this game is a passing shootout, Green Bay will win.  The Eagles best offense and defense in this game will be LeSean McCoy.  The Eagles need to give him a huge workload in this game.  Not only do the Eagles need to run the ball to neutralize Green Bay's stellar pass defense, but they need to do so to control the clock, the tempo, and to keep Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay offense off the field.
• Lastly because the less said about this dull meaningless game the better, here is the win probability chart. (advancednflstats.com)