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Eagles come from behind and win again

The defense was brutal, the run game was non-existent, the offensive line is decimated, yet the Eagles still scored 37 points and defeated the team from Washington with a piece of shit owner and a racist name. Kinda makes you think karma could be real thing.

You can give a lot of credit for the victory to Foles, Maclin and Matthews for pulling this one out as well as the special teams. Polk returned a kick off for a TD and the future hall of famer, Cody Parkey, was 3 for 3 including a 51 yarder that ended up being the difference in the game. While the defense was awful, they did have a few moments. Malcolm Jenkins had another timely interception and the defense did a hold a few times in the second half including a huge stop on Washington's last possession to preserve the victory. It should be noted though most of those stops were because Cousins choked or his receivers screwed up because the defense was credited with zero sacks and zero hurries.

One major story that came from this game include the beating that Foles took while standing in the pocket as well as the crushing blindside cheap shot he received out of it from Washington's tuff guy nose tackle during a fake interception return. Jason Peters decided to do something about that and ended up getting kicked out of the game. This was both great and stupid. Great because it showed team unity, stupid because that left only 1 starter on the offensive line and 4 backups. Yet in the aftermath of the brawl they somehow drove down the field and scored a TD to take the lead for good. Either this Eagles offense truly is bordering on greatness or Washington really sucks.

A minor story is the clown D-Jax returned and was doing very little all day and nothing at all in the second half until Cary "Buttered Toast" Williams got torched for an 81 yard bomb. It didn't help that the perennially terrible Nate Allen got sucked up and provided no help and the pass rush let Cousins sit in the pocket for 10 seconds unmolested. When the game ended in defeat for Washington, Jackson ran a go route to the locker room and had no daps for his former boys. Typical.

Other notes:

• The cliche of blind refs was very apropos to this game. They missed stuff that was happening right in front of them. They were brutal.
• The receivers did most of the damage this week while the running backs, the screen game, and the tight ends did very little. I can't even remember a drop this game.
• The poor play of the defense is going to catch up with them vs. the good teams.
• The injury riddled offensive line is going to catch up with them vs. the good teams.
• The Eagles run game went where all the offensive line starters went.
• The funniest sound in sports is the "donk" off the goalpost on a fieldgoal, especially when it's the opponent doing it from 33 yards out.