Donovan McNabb was hounded, harassed, flustered and frustrated for the first time this season. And somehow, the sad-sack Oakland Raiders made this happen. The Eagles, the NFL’s second-highest scoring team, failed to score a touchdown today against one of the NFL’s worst teams and stunningly lost 13-9 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. McNabb was sacked six times by a Raiders defense that came with heavy, unrelenting pressure. He led the Eagles to Oakland’s 44-yard-line with less than three minutes to play but his fourth-down pass to Jason Avant was errant. The Eagles rushed for just 67 yards against the same defense that allowed more than 200 rushing yards last Sunday to the Giants and …
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Awful in Oakland: Raiders stun Birds
At least the Eagles’ offensive and defensive players seemed to be in agreement about why they left the Oakland Coliseum late Sunday afternoon with one of the more shameful losses of coach Andy Reid’s tenure in Philadelphia.”When you lose, especially in this fashion, you can point your finger at a whole bunch of stuff,” running back Brian Westbrook said after the Eagles (3-2) failed to score a touchdown in a 13-9 loss to the Oakland Raiders, a team that had been publicly humiliated and ridiculed by the New York Giants seven days earlier.But Westbrook, despite his best game of the season, said the offense most deserved the blame for this blundering performance.”We didn’t run the ball good …
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Eagles fall to Oakland, 13-9
Remember that confident talk all last week from the Eagles about not taking the Oakland Raiders lightly, regardless of their record? Yeah, well . . . The Birds left the Bay Area last night still insisting they’d come in prepared and girded and focused and all that good stuff, they’d just somehow neglected to then reflect that in their play. The Black Hole ate their homework. Worst loss of the Andy Reid Era? Well, no. It wasn’t the NFC Championship Game, it wasn’t even a critical regular-season game. Silliest, most inexplicable loss? Much more likely. “The most disappointing ever,” offered cornerback Asante Samuel, who repeatedly tackled air, and took a terrible penalty that helped set the …
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Eagles suffer inexplicable loss to Raiders
Droves of empty seats and the hauntingly quiet backdrop of the legendary “Black Hole” revealed plenty about how the locals viewed their Oakland Raiders before kickoff. By the fourth quarter, as a synchronized chorus of “Eagles (stink)” thundered around the venue, it was clear those feelings had changed. And the Eagles couldn’t disagree. Although they threw plenty of praise and credit at Oakland’s schemes and wherewithal, the Eagles pinned the blame for their stunning 13-9 loss to the lowly Raiders squarely on themselves. “I could speak for myself, and I should speak for everybody, I’m embarrassed by the way we played out here,’ said Donovan McNabb, who was sacked six times and didn’t throw …
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‘Embarrassed’ McNabb, Eagles lose
He plays in a city that booed Mike Schmidt and Santa Claus, for goodness sake, and has seen his adopted hometown and infamous teammate Terrell Owens turn on him. Plus, he was at the epicenter of one of Rush Limbaugh’s many hot-button, race-related observations. (Remember? “The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.”) No doubt Donovan McNabb could have JaMarcus Russell sit at his knee and offer some sage advice on how to deal with the perils and pitfalls of being a struggling and unpopular NFL quarterback. Of course, the main goal of the five-time Pro Bowl player’s trip west today is for his Philadelphia Eagles to beat Russell and the Raiders. But that doesn’t mean …
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McNabb has advice for Russell: Keep your head up
Predicting football games is becoming too easy. Perhaps it’s time to move on to the bigger ground game. You know, like predicting earthquakes. Says here a 3.7-magnitude tremor will rattle the Bay Area. Kids will dive under tables and their dads will flip on the television expecting to see the Giants and A’s in the World Series. Nah, that could never happen, at least not again this week. Back to the Week 6 NFL picks: Eagles 37, Raiders 17: The Eagles (blitz!) come into the Oakland Coliseum (blitz!) with an obvious plan (blitz!) to make life more miserable (blitz!) for the Raiders’ league-worst offense (blitz!) in their latest “scrimmage” against a NFC East squad (blitz!). Tired of booing …
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Blitzing Eagles will shake, rattle Raiders
IT WASN’T THAT he spurned the Oakland Raiders, or necessarily would have spurned them had the opportunity arisen, Michael Vick said yesterday. Vick was responding to recent remarks by his NFL appointed mentor Tony Dungy, who said he advised Vick to stay away from the tumultuous Oakland situation. “When I got released from prison, I didn’t care where I would have played,” Vick said as the Eagles began preparations for Sunday’s game at Oakland. “It really didn’t come up. I think coach Dungy just wanted me to be in a place where I was going to be protected, and I just wouldn’t have a lot of pressure on me. I think that’s what he meant.” Vick said tossing him into the mix would not have been …
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Vick says Oakland ‘didn’t really come up’
Former NFL coach Tony Dungy said earlier this month that he advised Michael Vick against signing with the Raiders once the quarterback was released from prison and reinstated by commissioner Roger Goodell. On Wednesday, Vick addressed Dungy’s remarks and clarified the issue. “When I got released from prison, I didn’t care where I would have played,” Vick told Philadelphia media. “Coach Dungy wanted me to be in a place where I was going to be protected, and I just wouldn’t have a lot of pressure on me. That’s what he meant.” For the record, the Raiders never showed any interest in Vick, who eventually signed with the Eagles. Coach Tom Cable said he and the Raiders were content with their …
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Vick: No Oakland ill will
JEREMY MACLIN’S job is to make liars out of people. It is a task he approaches with seriousness and with sincerity.When he held out this summer in a rookie contract dispute, there was much tut-tutting in the land. (Truth in advertising: I tutted but didn’t tut-tut.) As the missed practices began to mount, from one to five to 10 to 15, the concerns were obvious enough, that he was only a kid, and the transition from a spread offense at Missouri to a West Coast offense in Philadelphia was going to be hard enough already, and et cetera.Well, what do you think now? Maclin was here for the exhibition games, for the runs of August, and that was plenty. Obviously.When they drafted Maclin in the …
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Eagles’ Maclin goes from holdout to breakout
The ax did not drop, but it did return and that seemed to be enough for the Eagles in their ho-hum 33-14 win over woeful Tampa Bay. Jeremiah Trotter made his déjà vu return to Lincoln Financial Field Sunday, and even though the middle linebacker recorded three uneventful tackles, he and the Eagles deemed the first game of his third stint in Philadelphia a success. “I had one missed tackle and I think I made one tackle,” said Trotter, also known as the Axman.” “I was joking with [Joe] Mays, ‘I think you made more plays than I did, and you didn’t even dress.’ I was talking to [Michael] Vick and he said that he felt like he was going to come off the streets and hit the ground running but …
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Trotter gets warm welcome but has quiet day
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