Great Game

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That was great in every aspect of the game.

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KUDOS to the O-Line. They came together real well today. This is the best pass rush we have faced all year, and we contained them. Pettiti looked GREAT against Kearse. I tip my hat to these guys. You win games in the trenches, they mauled Philly. When we play our best football, we are real good. Consistancy has been our issue.

WR/TE
- Crayton, the kid is special. Great 1 handed catch. Nice work on the returns. I get a little bit worried with his fumbles.
- Terry Glenn..how great has he been this year. He almost had 3 big TD's except the bobbled one. The guy was working Shepphard all day.
-Key came up big a couple times.
-Witten got involved early on, and I think that opened up alot for the other guys.
-Great blocking by Campbell as usual, run and pass. I loved Pettit's work today, but some of the credit of containing Kearse has to be given to Dan Campbell

RB
- Thompson showed alot of promise. He isn't all that elusive though. He seems to get taken down 1 on 1 alot. He needs to hold onto the football.
- Jones, looked like he has his swagger back. I don't care about numbers, he looked good today.
- A-Train was average. I think Parcells knows what he can do, so he decided to give Thompson some work. I would never have thought we would be giving mop up duties to players against Philly.

QB
- Bledsoe, again, I thoguht he would be effective, but he's been better than I could have imagined.
- Just the fact that w a healthy Bledsoe, Romo takes the knee. Haven't seen a QB in for mop up duty in a while. And against PhillY!?!? Great!

DL
- We got good pressure on McNabb all day. I said it, and so did alot of others, if we get to McNabb, we have a chance. He never got into a rythm
- Ratliff, Spears in on the sack on McNabb when we chased him down. It's nice to see that 3 of our draft picks, Canty played pretty well too, are out there producing.
-Glover and Ferguson shut down the running game real well.
-Ellis has his moments today too.
Our D Line played really well, props to teh trench warriors.

LB
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no Dat scared me. Shanle and Brady James held down the inside.
-Burnett made some nice plays on ST. That play he knifed through the Eagles line and tripped up Westbrook was great. If he can stay healthy, we've got something there for sure.
- Brady James, wow. He played well today. He's starting to be a force out there
- Shanle is a find and a half. He sniffed out the screen to Westbrook, but the hold (which was called) stopped him from blowing up the play. Very impressed

Secondary
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Williams was lighting it up.
- You keep philly to 108 total yards, and Owens to 3 catches, Nuff said.
- Glenn covered Owens real nice on that deep pass.
- We didn't really hear much from Newman except for the sack. When your corners arent being talked about, their doing their job.

ST
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Crayton finally showed us why we are lining him up back there. Love it.
- COrtez, youve made it another week.


Props to the Linemen, both sides of the ball.

Defense, way to tackle. Didn't see Westbrook or any Eagles doing much with the ball. I think the biggest play we gave up was that over the middle one to TO.

Payton, you finally called a great game. If we played to conservatively, we werent going to win. I loved going for the end zone on 1st down and getting those points we missed out on.

Zimmer, thank you for not dropping a soft zone after we had the lead. You kept McNabb running and hurtin all day. This defense is good when we dictate what's going on. Please continue to do this. Lets get some payback on Eli for last year.

Let's play with this type of fire against NYG, and maybe some of the people who wanted to throw the season out after we were 2-2 ( You know who you are) will shut up. Lets see what you have to say about this team now? Defense still too soft? Jones not running on point. Bledsoe still a liability?

Im going to soak this one in. It feels great to beat up on Philly. I also wont forget that they've had our number for the past couple years. Im not ready to dump the cooler over Parcells head just yet, a la Washington after they beat us.

It's gonna be a good week. Dallas kicks the crap out of Philly, and Oregon is ranked again.

Cheers
 

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I was impressed at how it was a great game in all three phases. The special teams came up big. Crayton was tearing it up on the returns.
 

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Iz in agreeance with the lot of yous. This team showed what it is capable of. I will give Philly the fact that McNabb was banged up. But we completely made a guy who was banged up the last couple weeks, yet managed to throw for over 300 yards, a non factor. We also took out one of the better backs in the league, and arguably the best pass catching back. TO, well he had 50 yards, but he was a non factor too.

Philly didn't seem to get any pressure on Bledsoe all day.

Hate on Zimmer and Payton all you want, both were a step ahead of the Eagles all day. Payton especially. Jim Johnson is one of the top defensive minds in the game, and Payton had his number all day. Again, I can't get over the fact that we dictated the pace of the game.

I think the turning point in the game, and hopefully of the season, was that 4th and goal. We missed our chance to take a 14-0 lead. The defense came out and made sure to keep up the intensity, god I loved that play Burnett made on Westbrook here. Shed the block and made the play. Going straight for the dagger in the heart on 1st down was great. Eagles were thinking we'd come out running, 1 on 1, and Glenn had his way with Shepphard again.

I'm exctatic about this win. I will gloat. But I won't go too far with it. Because just like the tough losses we've taken, it's a new week. Well, I might let this one sink in a little bit longer. But NYG are next
 

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didnt seem that bad. I think it was the fact that it was a great opportunity to give TT some carries. When you're up 20 points in the 4th quarter, and your playing like we were, I see no reason to put JOnes in there. I could care less if he breaks 100yards against Philly or not. Parcells isnt going to just pound the guy and put wear on him if he doesnt have to. Lets have him healthy against NYG, cuz we will need him when the score is 0-0 with 15:00 left in teh 1st quarter, rather than 30-10 with 11:00 left in the 4th
 
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