Maybe the point needed to be made so emphatically that Eagles coach Andy Reid didn’t begin his postgame press conference Sunday with his typical line of “injuries,” followed by a throat clearing. It had become an almost Pavlov dog-like reaction because Reid had started every single press conference the same way. Yet this time, Reid opened with: “Any win in the National Football League is a good win.” Even if it’s a 27-24 come-from-behind mistake-fest against the ghost of the already sad-sack Washington Redskins, who were without their top two running backs, their All-Pro tight end, their $100 million defensive lineman, and their all-pro defensive back. That came a week after a similar …
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Eagles rally, but jury’s out
There’s an old gambler’s adage about how it’s better to be lucky than good. I doubt that Andy Reid spends much time in Atlantic City, but he and the Eagles sure have rolled the dice a lot lately without crapping out.If you’re wondering what the first question was in Reid’s news conference after the Birds squeaked out a 27-24 win over the Redskins – their second-straight close call against a mediocre opponent – you obviously didn’t see the opening kickoff. The Eagles won the toss and elected to defer until the second half. Right-thinking football fans everywhere expected the Birds to kick it deep. And why not? Washington has an offense (25th overall in the NFL) that’s uglier than this …
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Fates still smiling on Eagles
It’s easy to get caught up in lauding the Redskins for not having quit on the season after injuries and near-offensive implosion, for bucking up against the Broncos, for staying with division rivals on the road until the end the past two weeks, for managing to put points on the board, for the character-laden defense flat-out digging in at times. But to portray what happened in Philadelphia Sunday afternoon as anything more than a 3-8 team finding ways to lose games it should have won is going too far. Too far toward buying into the dreaded notion of “moral victories,” too far, really, toward sappy catchphrases that solid and steady organizations won’t tolerate. Because those organizations …
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‘Moral victories’ aren’t worth measuring
Jason Campbell hadn’t yet lost consciousness. That sudden blackness, courtesy of Eagles defensive end Juqua Parker, would swallow him a second later. And he had not yet lost feeling in his left arm. All he knew was that the hundredths of a second in a collapsing pocket were down to an even smaller number. On fourth and one with 1 minute 9 seconds to play and the Redskins behind 27-24, he had to throw the blasted football. So he aimed for Santana Moss, flashing open beyond the first-down sticks, and, just as the Parker Building fell on him, he fired his pass. Like everything about this Redskins season, 3-8 and spiraling down, as well as much of Campbell’s career with the team, his best …
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The hits just keep on coming
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan will not play in Sunday’s game against Philadelphia Eagles, coach Mike Smith said Monday afternoon. Ryan experienced a turf toe injury early in Sunday’s victory against Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Smith said Ryan will spend this week rehabilitating the injury and would not offer a forecast beyond that.
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Smith says Ryan won’t play vs. Eagles
Moments after his team had fallen behind by eight early in the fourth quarter, Donovan McNabb gathered the offense, looked his young playmakers in the eyes and told them exactly what they needed to hear. It didn’t matter if his most prolific weapon was sitting on the bench or if the offense still hadn’t picked up a first down in the second half. He told them he had confidence in them. He told them they’d win. The exact manner in which McNabb phrased this message stayed inside the huddle, but the Lincoln Financial Field crowd observed its effect Sunday: The Eagles scored 11 consecutive points in the final 11 minutes and 42 seconds to sink the upset-minded Redskins 27-24. The win gave them …
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Eagles make a gritty comeback
For the second straight Sunday, the Eagles came from behind to squeak out a victory in the fourth quarter. This time, they did it without their most prolific offensive weapon. Donovan McNabb led the offense to 11 unanswered points in the final 11:42, while wide receiver DeSean Jackson was sidelined as the Eagles inched past the reeling Redskins 27-24 for their third two-game win streak of the season. David Akers’ 32-yard field goal with one minute, 48 seconds to play untied a 24-24 game. The Eagles (7-4) had trailed 24-16 before McNabb marched them 90 yards in 10 plays. The reason In the absence of Jackson, who sustained a third-quarter concussion, receivers Jason Avant and Jeremy Maclin …
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Veteran rallies Eagles
At the end of their latest game in which they simply were not good enough, the Washington Redskins again watched in disappointment as another NFC East opponent, this time the Philadelphia Eagles, rallied late for a victory. Philadelphia made the key plays in the fourth quarter Sunday afternoon in a 27-24 win at Lincoln Financial Field that included many familiar scenes for the Redskins, who would prefer better endings for themselves. “We have these games until, like, the end of the third, the fourth quarter, and then you see what happens,” free safety LaRon Landry said. “You keep seeing the same thing, we keep talking about, but I don’t know what it is. Just finish it up.” Finishing well, …
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Same slip, different day
His voice pained and his gait slowed, quarterback Jason Campbell slowly stepped to the lectern and tried to differentiate between the physical wounds and the emotional ones. “It’s definitely frustrating in a lot of ways,” Campbell said after the Redskins’ latest loss, a 27-24 heartbreaker to the Eagles. “Just the way we lose.” They lose painfully and ache in just about every way possible. On the team’s last offensive play of the game — a fourth-and-one incompletion on the Redskins’ final desperation drive — Campbell was wrapped up by Philadelphia’s Juqua Parker, then spun around and slammed to the ground. Campbell said he crashed onto his head, blacked out for a second, lost his breath …
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Offense shows signs of life despite injuries
In the locker room, with another loss only a few minutes old, there was no snarl left on London Fletcher’s face. He still had some grass on his jaw, blades from the Lincoln Financial Field turf that had not yet been washed off. Eye black smudged his cheeks. A giant bandage pinned ice to his right knee, and he endured the same routine he had endured 194 previous times in the NFL, yanking the tape from his joints, heading to the shower. For the 96th time, Fletcher went through this routine after a loss, this one 27-24 to the Philadelphia Eagles. And before the eye black was gone, before his burgundy uniform pants were exchanged for jeans, the 34-year-old middle linebacker of the Washington …
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Year after year, Fletcher proves size doesn’t matter on defense
Unable to hold a fourth-quarter lead for the second straight week, the Washington Redskins on Sunday clinched another nonwinning season with their 27-24 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field. The Eagles outscored the Redskins 11-0 in the final quarter, the winning points coming on David Akers’ 32-yard field goal with 1:48 remaining. The Redskins gained only 9 yards on their final drive and gave up the ball on downs with 1:05 remaining. Quarterback Jason Campbell was shaken up when spiked to the turf by Eagles pass rusher Juqua Parker. The Redskins (3-8) eclipsed 20 points for only the second time this year. With the game tied at 24, Philadelphia started at its 20-yard …
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Redskins give it away again
Jim Zorn can’t win for trying. Last week, Zorn was criticized for eschewing another shot at the end zone and attempting a field goal with 15 seconds remaining before halftime and his Washington Redskins leading the NFC East-leading Cowboys by three points in Dallas. So on Sunday, Zorn dialed up three straight pass plays when the Redskins, clinging to a 14-13 lead over the heavily favored Philadelphia Eagles, got the ball back at their own 35-yard line with two timeouts and 42 seconds left in the half. Jason Campbell’s first two throws gained 7 yards, but the third was picked off by Asante Samuel and returned 17 yards to the Washington 28. The Eagles kicked a field goal three plays later to …
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Zorn’s Catch-22 results in a pick
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