Eagles vs. Giants:
Game Of The Year?
Eagles 45 Giants 38
-83 Total Points Scored
-886 Total Yards
-11 Total Touchdowns, 5 passing
-4 TD’s that went for 60+ yards, including a punt return and DEF score.
-Trick plays, a two point conversion, blocked XP, Turnovers, and so much more…
Weekend too short? Stuck holiday shopping on a Sunday? Either way, Sunday evening usually means an easy going night around the tube, searching for something good on. For us NFL freaks, it means fantasy football playoffs and being glued to the T.V., screaming for big plays, high scores, and touchdowns…and the Eagles at Giants game delivered.
Regardless of the winner of this game, the entertainment factor was huge, Al Davis “Huuuge”. The Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants were playing playoff football in December, and in my opinion get the nod for the best NFL game of the year thus far. This will be the one they replay all summer, this will be the one that Eagles fans hang their hat on, this is the one that sees dollar signs with the ratings for NBC.
After a quick start, the Philadelphia Eagles found themselves with a 14 point lead that they carried for most of the game, but the Giants refused to give up. In fact on paper the G-Men had 512 total yards in tonight’s grudge match, but mistakes were costly. Eli and company couldn’t overcome a few miscues from the first half and played catch-up football for most of the game. Their biggest brain fart was punting the ball to Eagles WR DeSean Jackson, a young but talented lethal weapon for the Boo-Birds. D-Jack had a 72 yard punt return for a score along with 172 receiving yards and a touchdown that came from a bomb pass that hushed the New York crowd after a productive offensive drive.
The Giants will hang their heads low after this loss, but they really shouldn’t. New York had the ability to move the ball up and down the field with ease, and were very impressive despite falling short in the end. Eli Manning was a hair shy of 400 passing yards and had 3 nice TD passes in a smart, productive game. The local media of course will not focus on that, and instead will have catchy headlines like “Slip and Slide” or “Butter Fingers” for an embarrassing fumble and turnover that came from Eli sliding head first and losing the ball.
Turnovers were a major factor, but the nail in the coffin had to be the Eagles 91 yard touchdown drive that ate up 7 plus minutes of the clock, which included zero third downs and was capped off by a McNabb two point conversion.
quick example, but the Eagles will come to mind for quite some time now. Philadelphia wasn’t just looking past the Oakland Raiders to the Redskins match-up, the Birds were preparing to face all three of their divisional opponents in a row, and they fell asleep at the wheel on the road in what should have been an easy “gimme win”. It stings even harder when a team like the New York Jets makes the same cross country trip to Oakland, only to blow the doors off the Silver and Black with a power running game.
Kolb himself on the other hand is rather confident that he will do fine on game day and believes he has a more firm grip on the offense now and at game time. “I think I pressed too much, I tried to show everyone I was ready, you can’t press as a quarterback. That’s in the forefront of my mind: relax and play smooth. Let the guys we have out there make plays.”
Posted on Philly.com and the Philadelphia Eagles message board- “Who has time for football, when you’re an aspiring super producer!” was the comment listed with 4 videos of Pro bowl Eagles guard screwing around on his computer in his basement. The videos are all of the “Big Kid” writing songs on his computer and describing them in detail. In one of the videos Shawn goes on to describe his passions in life: “For me, it’s God, family, then music…………” Eagle fans are a little confused, as football was never mentioned.
