What we have this morning is Eagles 27, Redskins 17, an NFC East opener the 4-2 Birds thought they had to win, after last week's embarrassing loss at Oakland. They won, though their quarterback looked erratic and their two top weapons emerged with dents, beating a team that dropped to 2-5, with offensive consultant Sherm Lewis calling the plays for dead-coach-walking Jim Zorn. Didn't look as if play selection was the Redskins' problem.

It was a night when Donovan McNabb, misfires and all, became the fourth player in NFL history with 30,000 passing yards, 200 touchdown passes, 3,000 rushing yards and 20 rushing TDs in a career, joining John Elway, Fran Tarkenton and Steve Young.

Jackson scored two electric, amazing touchdowns. Witherspoon scored another, and the Birds sacked Jason Campbell an even half-dozen times.

Though he called the offense "hit and miss," coach Andy Reid said, "I'm trying to feel like we just won a game," when asked whether he thought the offense could have done better.

Westbrook went down on the Eagles' second series, on an inside run to the left. At the end of a 5-yard gain, he was leaning forward, when his helmet struck the knee of Redskins linebacker London Fletcher. Westbrook seemed to have been knocked out; he let go of the ball and lay flat on his back, motionless, as medical personnel surrounded him, with 7 minutes, 3 seconds left in the first quarter.

Players from both teams gathered around. Eventually, they were all shooed to the sidelines, except for Westbrook's brother, Redskins reserve corner Byron, who stood next to Reid. Westbrook began moving his legs and ultimately walked off to the locker room, supported at each arm.

Byron Westbrook left the game soon afterward with a knee injury.

Reid said Westbrook looked "out pretty cold to me."

"By the time I got to him, he was waking up," Reid said.

"That was scary," safety Quintin Mikell said, "because when he was down, he wasn't moving at all . . . I was glad to see him moving his legs [eventually]. It looked bad. But now he's OK."

Reid said Brian Westbrook will undergo tests to determine the extent of his injury.

"We're not going to put him out there if he's at risk," Reid said.

It took the Eagles all of 1:54 to surpass last week's touchdown total. After two Westbrook runs and a 6-yard pass to Brent Celek for a first down, McNabb faked inside to Westbrook and handed to Jackson for an end-around. Sixty-seven yards down the left sideline later, it was 7-0. Jackson outran LaRon Landry and DeAngelo Hall, and Jeremy Maclin walled off Carlos Rogers, the only other 'Skin in sight.

It was the longest Eagles touchdown run since Westbrook went 71 yards at San Francisco on Sept. 24, 2006.

Defenses might be different, but the tip drill is the same everywhere. Witherspoon, who became an Eagle a week ago in a trade with St. Louis, demonstrated this late in the first quarter, when Mikell got his left hand up in front of a Campbell pass and deflected it into the air. Witherspoon ran under the blooper at the 'Skins' 9 and had a clear path to the end zone. It was the second TD of his 8-year NFL career.

Mikell and Witherspoon switched roles on the ensuing Washington possession. Campbell scrambled and was tomahawked from behind by Witherspoon, and fumbled to Mikell.

"This is exactly what I want to bring to this team; this is who I want to be," Witherspoon said.

David Akers eventually converted a 47-yard field goal for a 17-0 Eagles lead, with 13:26 left in the second quarter.

That was right about the time it was announced that tight end Chris Cooley, the top weapon in the Washington passing arsenal, was out with an ankle injury.

The Redskins briefly got back in the game, though. Rock Cartwright ran Akers' kickoff back 42 yards, then 15 more got tacked on for a Macho Harris rollblock - which we'd love to tell you all about, but ESPN declined to show any replay whatsoever. Washington got the ball on the Birds' 45 and found the end zone in eight plays, culminating in a 2-yard Campbell pass to Devin Thomas against blown coverage.

Washington should have been down for the count when Antwaan Randle El muffed a Sav Rocca punt and Sean Jones recovered at the Redskins' 25, but the Eagles lost a yard on three snaps, the last being a McNabb pass into the ground. McNabb completed six of his first eight passes for 57 yards. His next five passes gained a total of 4 yards.

The sixth pass in that sequence was a doozy, though - 57 yards on third-and-22, Jackson incredibly behind everybody, able to wait for a hanger to float down, then jet into the end zone. Rogers thought Jackson was going inside, and was lost; safety Chris Horton couldn't get back in time to stop the TD that made it 27-7, on the first play following the 2-minute warning. It was McNabb's 200th TD pass.

The last Eagle to have a 50-plus-yard receiving TD and 50-plus-yard rushing TD in the same game was Bosh Pritchard (75-yard reception, 77-yard rush) on Oct. 23, 1949, against Washington.

Jackson injured his right foot on that play. He returned for the second half with the foot heavily wrapped, but played sparingly.

Reid said Jackson should be able to play against the Giants.

Jackson, who referred to it as an ankle injury, not a foot injury, said, "I'm not here to talk about that right now; we don't know yet, we'll see."

The Redskins made it 27-10 on a 47-yard field goal with a second left in the half, and they scored the only points of the second half on a 1-yard Fred Davis TD reception with 1:38 remaining.

Birdseed

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