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RUSHING OFFENSE: There was DeSean Jackson’s 67-yard touchdown run on an end-around, and there was, well, that was about it. LeSean McCoy and Brian Westbrook rushed for just 32 yards on 12 carries in the first three quarters. Grade: C-minus
PASSING OFFENSE: Not one of Donovan McNabb’s better days. For the second game in a row, he wasn’t sharp. Even his long touchdown pass to Jackson was an underthrown ball. Grade: C
RUN DEFENSE: The Eagles’ front seven dominated the Redskins’ offensive line and held Clinton Portis to 3.1 yards a carry. Eagles have given up just one rushing touchdown all season. Grade: A-plus
PASS DEFENSE: Going to the blitz early and often, the Eagles pressured Jason Campbell all night. They sacked him six times — four in the first three quarters — and gave up just one completion of more than 18 yards. Grade: A-minus
SPECIAL TEAMS: David Akers, who missed 43- and 47-yard field-goal attempts last week, booted 44- and 47-yarders against the Redskins. Eagles’ kickoff coverage unit didn’t do a very good job on ‘Skins’ Rock Cartwright. He averaged 26.8 yards per attempt and a 42-yard return kick-started Washington’s first scoring drive. Grade: B-minus
OVERALL: The Eagles’ opportunistic defense collected three more takeaways that produced 13 of their 27 points. But with the exception of two big plays by DeSean Jackson, the offense was relatively silent. Grade: B
Les
Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News
since 2002.
Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les
only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no
penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite
what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News
from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much
lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their
two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
and follow
him on Twitter.
Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with the paper covering the
Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a
selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre
and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
him on Twitter.
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