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So, the Eagles were victorious this week over the Minnesota Purple Jesuses, by a score of 23 to 16. Just goes to show how much Minnesota sucks, Brad Childress can't even beat a team he coached for seven years. Still, I'm not sure how the hell the Vikings put up 16 points when Adrian Peterson only put up 70 yards and they had to use their second and third quarterbacks, rejects from our Eagles and the NY Jest for this game. This doth not bode well for the defense's future. Kudos, however, to Trent Cole for a rare semblance of pass rush this week, with two (2!) sacks and to Reggie Brown for finally fucking getting open on a route.

After a much unnoticed hiatus, we're back following NFL week 8. And by we I mean me. And by hiatus I mean barely working and playing a crapload of Madden 06. Sure, I thought about buying Madden 08, but I have a kick ass Eagles franchise going on its 15th year in 06, so I'm not about to ditch it. In actual NFL news, the Eagles suffered a crippling loss to the Bears this week. You just know your defense is screwed when Brian Griese is torching you to the tune of 27/41 for 322 yards, 1 touchdown and zero interceptions, and can't be stopped when he's 97 yards from the endzone with 1 minute and 52 seconds left, and down by four points. The third Eagles game this year that's left me feeling sick. Go birds.

Week 4. Suckage.

Seriously though, that was as sorry an outing I've seen the birds give in quite a while. Years maybe Especially coming off the slaughter of the Lions last week, I expected better. And it wasn't just Justice either, I think three of Umenyiora's sacks didn't even involve him. Just a wreck of a game, and the real kick in the nuts is that looking at the scoreboard it seemed thing was winnable right up till the end, but the whole time you knew there wasn't going to be a comeback. Just to mention a couple other things that are sure to bite us in the ass going forward, a couple questions for coach Reid:
1- Can we turn down the penalties? Please, just a little, maybe?
2- Can we find someone that can cover Plexico Burress. He catches a TD every freaking time he plays us, usually on some Randy Moss-type jump ball. So lets just get someone in the secondary over 5'10" and cover him, how about that?
Good thing we have a bye next week. And the NY Jest the week after that.