Well That Was Fun

Facing one of the league's best passing offenses with a banged-up secondary, the Eagles took care of business by dropping 56 points on the Lions in a game that proved Donovan McNabb and the rest of the Eagles' offense would be just fine this year, thank you very much.

The defense also did its job, providing just enough resistance to get off the field and give the Eagles' offense chances to score.  You can't get too excited about giving up 436 yards passing, but when you match that with only 38 rushing yards, nine sacks and two forced turnovers, it's not terrible.  Particularly because they did it without Dawk and Lito. 

Beyond that, I mean, really, what else is there to say?  You want my honest reaction to the game today -- here it was:

"SWEEEEEEEETYYYYYYYYEAAAAAAAAAHHH
HHHHHHHHHDDDDDDOOOOOOONNNNNNNIIIIIIIE
EEEEEEEEE'SSSSSSSSSSSSSBAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHSSSSSSSSSSSSSWWWWW
WWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT
TTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

As for that "OOHHHH," it came on the one negative moment of the day.  I'm not sure why Westbrook was still being asked to carry the load so late in the game, and of course, it came back to bite the Eagles, as he left the game with banged up ribs.  There's a reason the Eagles carry three running backs (four if you count Reno) on the roster.  If you can't ease up on Westbrook's workload when you have a three TD lead, when are you going to do it?

But there's no point in dwelling on that now.  On the day the franchise celebrated its 75th anniversary, the team scored more points that it had in over 50 years. 

Maybe that'll shut the rest of the league up for awhile.

The Eagles are back, baby.

Comments

[BleedingGreenNation]

Not counting playoffs... because the 96 Eagles hung 58 on these same Lions in the wildcard round of the playoffs.

[BleedingGreenNation]

It looks like this week's Poz update might not be so rosy... He's out for the year.