Black death for Eagles
Raiders 13, Eagles 9
Black death for Eagles
Rich Hofmann, Daily News Sports Columnist
It was a nightmare in the Black Hole. The Eagles were beaten and they were beaten up by the Oakland Raiders, 13-9. They are now 3-2 and they are entirely open to questioning -- about just about everything.
Yes, it was that bad.
It is hard to believe that the simple loss of left tackle Jason Peters could lead to such a terrible tumbling of the dominoes for the Eagles, but that is all of the available evidence at this point. Peter went down with a knee injury in the first quarter and was replaced by King Dunlap. The Eagles were already leaky up front and it became a flood after that. It was fair in the middle of the second quarter to wonder if McNabb was going to finish the game on his feet. By the end, he was sacked six times.
But there were questions everywhere.
David Akers missed two field goals, of 43 and 47 yards.
Jeremiah Trotter, trying to make a comeback at middle linebacker after being out of the game for more than a year, was tortured and abused on an 86-yard touchdown to Raiders tight end Zach Miller. And he was beaten on a 12-yard pass to Gary Russell at the 2-minute warning, a huge play.
McNabb, killed by the pressure, still probably held the ball too long a couple of times -- but, then again, he was desperate to make some kind of play, any kind of play, just to try to get this thing jump-started.
Oh, and his receivers weren’t open much all day.
And the defense gave up a raft of the kind of plays that people worried about all season, plays by the tight end and the running backs, plays in the middle of the field.
Other than that, it was a nice trip.
WORST Eagles loss of the Andy Reid era. No running game. No pass protection. No heart. No contract extension.— TripleOption- Lets go Phillies.— Gmanonskis
- P-H-I-L-L-I-E-S...Phillies, Phillies, Phillies.— zdog
- Totally embarrassing— BennGleck:)
- Eagles stink! Reid has to go!!— igglegreen
- I'm trying not to over-react. Trying. Really, really hard.
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- you failed to mention that mcnabb pulled a chris webber. he is hands down the worst 2-minute QB i've ever seen. no urgency, no awareness. let the kolb era begin.— jazztafari
- I guess Rush was right about McNabb he isnt that good.— rgreen72
- Who cares! This happens every year, did this really surprise anyone. I just dont care anymore, this is what happens year in and year out. They have a clunker, then play .500 for 6 games, then get streaky and maybe sneak into the playoffs and then get outcoached and plays. The definition of insanity is watching the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Donovn is the anti-Peyton, good quarterback but when was the last time he put a team on his back and carried them to a victory Peyton does, Eli does, Brady does, not McnotClutch— zonaindie2
- Didn't see the game..was the pocket collapsing around McNabb or was he getting flushed and throwing on the run?— Joe Funk
- Chump team; chump coach.— ijj
- McChoke does it again. Worse than the Bengals game last year. He is terrible, forgetting he was out of timeouts. Play Kolb please fatboy.— phillyjeffsr
- Wow asante samuel is soo good.. i love his tackling!!!!— alexg114
