SCORES TWICE AFTER A PUCK TO THE FACE
You know how athletes like to cite how positive and supportive St. Louis fans are?
I'm kind of wondering how that's going right now.
Granted, under the Arch, they're probably all about the Cardinals this afternoon and are barely aware their NFL team is playing, but for the people in St. Louis who do care, this had to be devastating.
The line was that with all those injured guys, like Orlando Pace, back in the lineup, the Rams were much better than last year's 3-13 team. After watching them for a couple hours today, I beg to differ. This team looks awful, and in saying that, I'm not trying to dminish what the Eagles have done in building a 38-0 early fourth-quarter lead. The Eagles are going to be good this year, it seems. Even if their wideouts aren't running around unescorted all season, this defense is for real, I think.
And DeSean Jackson is everything you've ever imagined in a rookie wideout/punt returner, and more. As of this posting he has six catches for 106 yards, and a 60-yard punt return to his credit. If you know of an Eagles rookie who debuted with this kind of impact, please shoot me an e-mail, because I can't come up with one.
Donovan McNabb donned the visor with 8:55 left in the game, after completing 21 of 33 passes for 361 yards and three touchdowns, the best opening-day performance of his life. The Birds entered the fourth quarter with 428 net yards, to the Rams' 109.
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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