1/23/2024 0 Comments Redskins and eagles scoreVick was 9 of 9 for 229 yards, three TD’s and a perfect 158.3 rating through the first play of the second quarter. The Eagles put the Redskins in a hole they couldn’t get out of. But McNabb was 17 of 31 for 295 yards on the evening. And he did it the hard way as rookie Kurt Coleman and Dimitri Patterson picked McNabb off. He completed 9 of 16 attempts for 206 yards, two TD’s and a 101 rating. After a rough start McNabb wasn’t bad in the first half, either. Newly acquired Eagles running back Jerome Harrison rushed for 111 yards. Vick threw for 391 yards, four TD’s and a 150.7 rating on the night. The 88-yard scoring pass to DeSean Jackson was a career-best for both, and the Eagles’ longest play from scrimmage to start a game. Vick let the Redskins and McNabb know it would be a long night when he threw over their deep cover-2 zone on the first snap of the game. He also had six rushes for 66 yards for the Eagles, who piled up 425 yards from scrimmage. Vick connected on 14 of 18 attempts for 264 yards, three touchdowns and a perfect 158.3 passer rating in the first half alone. Both are 6-3 overall and 1-1 in the division. Oh, and try to stay healthy the rest of the evening because the game next Sunday against the New York Giants is for first place. There wasn’t much for Big Red to say at the intermission, the Eagles in charge of a 45-14 cushion, other than they would be kicking off to start the second half. But our game plan was phenomenal.” It was so one-sided the Eagles not only led, 42-14, with three minutes left in the second quarter Andy Reid had all three of his timeouts. We were planning on coming out and playing four quarters of tough football, hard-nosed football and pulling it out at the end. “You never know when you’re going to go into a game and dominate. “It might look easy but it’s hard,” Vick said. With 592 yards from scrimmage, they established another record. The record of 64 was established in 1934 against the Cincinnati Red Legs. It was the second-most points the Eagles scored in a game. Only the rain slowed Vick, Jackson, Jeremy Maclin and the Eagles, who set record after record in a 59-28 victory over the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field. It gave us the momentum to go out there all night and keep scoring points.” While McNabb was thinking about the $41 million Vick was getting 45 points and the win basically in just the first half. “We wanted to start the tempo out right and that big play helped us out the whole game. “That was huge especially with the little altercation we got into before that,” Jackson said. ![]() Right then the Skins knew they were in deep trouble. The 88-yard touchdown was the longest play for both Vick and Jackson and the Eagles’ longest gain ever on the first play from scrimmage. That made it even worse.” On the first snap of the game Eagles quarterback Michael Vick went up top to Jackson, who ran right past the 2-deep look that slowed down the Eagles in the previous meeting. And we were ready to go from the beginning. “We’re sleeping giants, you know what I mean? You fire us up, man. But like I said I got into an altercation and we were ready to do whatever we needed to do to go out there and get them.” “That fired us up,” Eagles safety Quintin Mikell said. Sometimes I think some fools out there take football a little bit too serious and at the end of the day we’re human beings and have to have respect for a lot of people. “I’m not going to get into who said it or what they said. “There were some disrespectful things that were being said,” Jackson said. Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson said he was “disrespected” by the guy his teammates identified as Skins safety LaRon Landry. The Redskins also foolishly stirred the pot at the end of the pre-game warm-ups. ![]() After beating the Eagles earlier this season at the Linc he crowed to his new mates his old team got rid of “the wrong guy.” Not coincidentally McNabb threw three interceptions and was booed on at least that many occasions by Redskins fans who cheered the end of the first quarter, as the Eagles held a 35-0 lead. McNabb already had offended his ex-teammates. First the Redskins signed Donovan McNabb, who was benched late in his last start, to a five-year, $78 million contract with $41 million guaranteed. But the Washington Redskins chipped in anyway, and the Eagles responded with a 59-28 win at FedEx Field that was easier than playing Madden 11. ![]() – The Eagles didn’t need any help working up a healthy hate for their opponent Monday night.
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