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RUSHING OFFENSE: LeSean McCoy and Leonard Weaver combined for 120 yards on 23 carries. Weaver picked up a big first down on a fourth-and-1 on the Eagles’ first touchdown drive and set up Eldra Buckley’s game-tying TD with a 12-yard run. Grade: B-plus
PASSING OFFENSE: With his team trailing by eight, Donovan McNabb engineered a pair of fourth-quarter scoring drives, completing five of six passes for 116 yards, including back-to-back 46- and 21-yard strikes to Jason Avant and a 35-yarder to Jeremy Maclin that put the Eagles in range for David Akers’ game-winning field goal. Grade: B-plus
RUN DEFENSE: Eagles held the Redskins to 38 yards on 14 carries in the second half, and came up with two big stops on running back Marcus Mason early in the fourth quarter when the Redskins had the ball inside the Philadelphia 10. Just two of Washington’s 25 rushing attempts went for more than 7 yards, none longer than 13. Grade: B-plus
PASS DEFENSE: The Eagles became just the second team in the last seven games to give up multiple TD passes to Jason Campbell. But Asante Samuel had two second-quarter interceptions that set up a pair of Akers field goals.
Grade: C-plus
SPECIAL TEAMS: David Akers made all four of his field-goal attempts and DeSean Jackson had a 29-yard punt return that kick-started the Eagles’ first touchdown drive. But the Eagles screwed up a game-opening onside-kick attempt that gift-wrapped the Redskins’ first score and gave up 27- and 35-yard kickoff returns. Three of the Eagles’ seven penalties also were on their special teams. Grade: B-minus
OVERALL: Very little about this game was pretty. Not the defense’s difficulty stopping the Redskins on third down (they were 8-for-17). Not the Eagles’ one touchdown on four trips inside the Washington 20. But for the second straight week, they rallied in the fourth quarter to win a game they easily could have lost. Grade: B
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To read Andy Reid's postgame comments, click here.
To read Les Bowen's in-game commentary, click here.
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
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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
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