PREFERS TEMPLE'S OFFENSE TO PRINCETON'S
Well, who would have expected this?
Two weeks after losing to the lowly Oakland Raiders, the Eagles blew out the New York Giants, 40-17, at the Linc. This is the sixth time the Eagles have scored 40 or more against the Giants in 155 meetings and the first time snce a 47-34 win on Nov. 2, 1992. The 23-point margin of victory is the most lopsided Eagles win over New York since a 24-0 victory on Oct. 1, 1996 at the Vet.
“If I could explain it, I would be undefeated,” Reid said of the turnaround. “Sometimes it is just unexplainable.”
The Eagles won without Brian Westbrook in the lineup, but got a strong performance from LeSean McCoy and a long run from Leonard Weaver.
“We really weren’t sure about Brian as the week went on,” Reid said. “One day he was feeling pretty good, then he would wake up and not feel pretty good. We had Weaver there ready just in case. We thought we could mix it up there if Brian wasn’t able to go.”
Reid said Westbrook feels pretty good and did some cardio Friday to test himself following a concussion suffered Monday.
“I took the cautious route there,” Reid said. “I thought that was important too and that I didn’t force the issue.”
The Eagles improved to 5-2 and are tied with Dallas atop the NFC East. The Giants fell to 5-3 after a 5-0 start.
“When you play these NFC East teams, you are prepared for a heavyweight fight,” Reid said. “That’s the way our guys went about business.”
On the injury front, Chris Clemons has an AC sprain. “We’ll see how he does here,” Reid said. Chris Gocong suffered a quad contusion and hamstring strain on the same leg. Brodrick Bunkley missed some time with a strained knee but returned to the game.
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.
