The Eagles Examiner, Week 3: The Yellow and Blue Bandwagon Is Accepting Reservations
Nobody puts Five in a corner: Donovan McNabb unveiled football’s largest middle finger toward those who lambasted him last week: 21/26 passing, 381 yards, 4 touchdowns. Most columnists were certain that the McNabb of old was gone. Perhaps he just needed to remove that clumsy knee brace to regain his old form, both physically and mentally. Is it too soon to proclaim him fully healed? Enjoy the silence, as it’ll be right back to screaming and second-guessing next Monday morning should McNabb revert to gimpy insignificance against the Giants on Sunday night. For now, though, he’s unstoppable.
White receivers have to do a little bit extra: Kevin Curtis does his best Greg Garrity impersonation, stealing the hearts of the blue-collar green-bleeders. Brian Westbrook pinballed off of defenders one too many times yesterday. He should never have to practice again if he’s going to survive the whole season. The Eagles are lifeless without him.
Who needs defense on days like this: The Eagles defense needed to do very little yesterday except play deep and attempt to keep the Lions’s 14 receivers from getting behind them for most of the second half. Plenty of chaos-causing for Lions quarterback Jon Kitna (Brodrick Bunkley, you’re a changed man) and a timely interception by Sean Considine proved to be enough to hold off a chuck-happy Lions offense. Still … Kitna threw for 446 yards, but did so with the Eagles relaxing in prevent defense for most of the day and with a Joselio Hanson secondary.
Gå Örnen! I’m not 100 percent convinced the yellow and blue uniforms didn’t have something to do with this output. Should the Eagles make the playoffs, trotting out those pee-and-it’s-a-boy!-colored beauties one more time doesn’t seem like the worst idea in the world.
That’s just Eagles fans being … Eagles fans: The boos were inevitable. But was it really necessary to cheer so loudly for Kevin Kolb? Probably not. Careful what you wish for: For all we know, he could be the next Bobby Hoying.