EAGLES 29 – BEARS 14
THIS was not a pretty win. Like last week, the Eagles broke the game open in the 3rd quarter, but unlike last week, the Defense played the entire game. This week it was the Offense who had trouble finding the stadium, as 20 of our 29 points didn’t come until after the half. K Caleb Sturgis (3/3 – 2/3) battling a leg ailment, missed an extra point that would have had the final score at 30 instead of 29.
On Offense we took a three field goal, 9 – 7 half-time lead into the locker room. Apparently someone made some adjustment somewhere, because our last three scores were all touchdowns. Two on the ground by RB Ryan Mathews (9 – 32 – 3.5 – 2 – 0), and one by TE Trey Burton (5 – 49 – 9.8 – 1), who finally broke his touchdown cherry. QB Carson Wentz (21/34 – 61.7% – 190 – 1 – 0) was an effective game manager, who’s numbers may have looked a little better if not for WR Jordan Matthews (6 – 71 – 11.8 – 0) losing a sure touchdown off of his fingertips.
Defensively we held the Bears to 64 yards rushing, on 18 attempts, for 3.6 yards per tote. We also harassed QB Jay Cutler (12/17 – 70.5% – 157 – 0 – 1) sacking him three times, picking him off, and getting a fumble from him; on the way to injuring and knocking him out of the game. If you’re counting, that’s two straight QB’s we forced off the field in just two weeks. Can you FEEL that?
Nigel Bradham kills a Bears drive
DE Brandon Graham got a sack in second straight game (4 – 1 – 0 – 0 ). OLB Nigel Bradham (1 – 0 – 1 – 0) killed a Bear’s drive with a leaping interception that he almost took back to the house. Also getting in on the turnovers was MLB Jordan Hicks (1 – 0 – 0 – 0) recovering a sack/fumble forced by rookie DT Destiny Vaeao (1 – 1 – 0 – 1), and CB Ron Brooks (5 – 0 – 0 – 0) recovering a fumble forced by DT Bennie Logan (1 – 0 – 0 – 1), whom I called out in this weeks Preview article. Between the forced fumble and the improved run play, I would say that Logan responded very well.
Hey, did you notice:
How easy it was to hear players cursing at each other out there. You could hear them yelling things like “That’s fuckin’ HOLDING!”
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