will we ever win?

Bearly

You could trace the trend of the defenses' inability hold a lead or make stops late in games to get the ball back to the game vs. Chicago back in 2007 when they let a bad, Brian Griese led Bear's offense go 97 yards in 2 minutes with zero timeouts to win the game. The same situation presented itself tonight, but this time the defense came through. The Bears converted one fourth down to extend their drive but then some guy named Tracy White deflected a Cutler pass up in the air and Sean Jones was finally able to hold onto an interception to seal the 24-20 win.

Even though this was a competitive game and back and forth, this was still a poorly played game. Watching the Bears is like watching the Eagles and vice versa. Both teams play the same mistake laden crap football where the simplest things become the most monumental struggles. Maybe the only team worse than the Eagles and McNabb in the redzone is the Bears and Cutler. Every stupid or drive killing penalty by one team was matched by the other. While Cutler was missing TDs with overthrows, the Eagles were keeping the Bears in the game with turnovers. To summarize the struggles of both teams, in the fourth after McCoy fumbled it setting up the Bears for a field goal that was then blocked, Al Michaels sounded disgusted calling the play and Chris Collingsworth just laughed. A laugh that said to me, "Damn, these teams are pathetic."

But the Eagles did come through in the end with a long drive to win and even converted a third and short late to help run some time off the clock. But let's face it, the Bears are a bad team and the Eagles struggled to beat them.

Other notes:

• What's up with Reid? With the game on the line he RAN the ball and kept feeding it to the ROOKIE, McCoy even after he fumbled. In fact, there was 32 passes to 30 runs. Amazing.
• Unamazing is by sticking with the run the Eagles used it to win the game.
• I could be wrong, but there wasn't one penalty on a kick return.
• Before the game Merrill Reese predicted Vick would have a big play.
• The hole for Vick was so big though that Reid could have moseyed through it.
• Loved the stupid penalty later in the game when Vick came in before McNabb left.
• Quentin Mikell, please learn how to catch, we'd all appreciate it and you'd have a touchdown.
• Tackling by the defense was good, then poor, then good again.
• Very nice play for the Avant touchdown. I don't think they've used that before.
• Nice punt return by Jackson. Bad fumble by Jackson on the next play. But then great play on the long bomb for a TD.
• Not only does Dungy look like a vampire, his head is shaped just like a football.
• During the Patriots vs. Jets game this afternoon the Jets blew up a Patriots screen and Brady immediately threw the ball into the feet of the running back to end the play. I was watching with BDB and commented that was something McNabb would never do. Then McNabb proved me right TWICE in this game.
• For all the talk about how bad Chicago's offensive line was the Eagles only got one sack.
• Cutler was terrible, but only gave up 1 interception.
• One thing Westbrook almost never did despite touching the ball a million times was fumble the ball. McCoy needs to learn that skill if he is going to replace him.

The Eagles won, but is anyone excited?