NEVER TAKES A DAY OFF
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.
Paul Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982. He has spent most of his 27 years at 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 came to the Daily News from the Fort Worth (Tx.) Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually wa s boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose two sports coats to blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley, a University of Oklahoma grad and very dangerous to be around following a Sooner loss, have been married 29 years and have raised 2 terrific daughters – Allison, 26, a lawyer and graduate of Boston University School of Law; and Amy, 23, who graduated from Clemson and works in marketing and sales for a professional baseball team.
