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Red-zone ineptitude dooms Eagles

November 16th, 2009

Southern California cities are infamous for late-arriving, fair-weathered sports crowds. It only seems appropriate that the Eagles on Sunday were spectators for almost three quarters before finally showing up to Qualcomm Stadium. They settled for field goals on their first three trips inside the San Diego 10-yard line, let LaDainian Tomlinson rediscover his youth and dug themselves into a hole so deep that even a furious fourth-quarter comeback wasn’t enough. It all amounted to another narrow-margin loss, a 31-23 defeat at Qualcomm Stadium that dropped them to 5-4, their exact same record at this point last season. “You can’t get into the red zone three times early and not be able to punch …

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Red-zone ineptitude dooms Eagles

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