will we ever win?

Eh

The defense was good, the offense was weak. Colt McCoy came into this game completing 70% of his passes and lit up the Packers in week 1, but he looked mediocre vs. the Eagles. Early it seemed that the Browns could just hand it off to Hillis and they'd gain 5 yards a play, but I guess the Browns wanted to give McCoy the work instead. So the Eagles applied pressure and covered really well in both the secondary and underneath via the linebackers. As a result the first team defense shut out the Browns first team offense.

The Eagles first team offense looked poor. Vick was getting crushed almost every pass play until mid second quarter. The right side of the line + center when they weren't getting beat, looked befuddled. It didn't help that Vick held the ball too long at times. The most success the Eagles had was with running plays to the left. Eventually the line got its act together and kept Celek in to help block and Vick then had some time. But even then it took until the last 5 minutes of the half to complete a pass to a wide receiver. Everything before that was short passes to McCoy. Despite all that the Eagles scored 17 points - but thank a special teams muffed punt recovery and the Samuel interception for giving the offense a short field.

The most notable play in the second half came on the Browns first TD. Reid challenged the play even though all scores are now automatically reviewed if there is the slightest question. Because he challenged and wasn't allowed to, he received a 15 yard unsportsmanlike penalty AND it wiped out the automatic review and the play was automatically ruled a TD. Better Reid make this huge gaffe in the 4th quarter of a meaningless preseason game up 24-7 than during a real game.

Other notes:

• Eagles started the game with some trickery - they ran a running play.
• Rookie Danny Watkins looked pretty bad early in the game.
• Specials teams blocked a FG for the second game in a row.
• LeSean McCoy was the player of the first half and looks completely ready to start the season.
• Vick was blitzed and threw a ball up for grabs and was picked but it was nullified by a totally bogus roughing the passer call.
• Vick played somewhat poorly, but the ETN made excuses for him.
• Patterson got a sack on his return from the AVN seizure and a nice ovation from the fans.
• Coleman made some nice tackles.
• Both Chaney and Matthews were good in coverage. Matthews looked better overall, but still doesn't shed blocks well.
• How come in those lame commercials where the old version of some dude (it's always a dude) goes back in time and tells the young version to prudently invest with Lincoln Financial doesn't just give out the winners for the next 10 Super Bowls or something instead?