Eagles vs Redskins (Week 6)

The Eagles turned things around in the first half of their first division match up but that shouldn't be surprising.  The Redskins were still the redskins, on the path to another subpar season with Rex Grossman at the controls.  The Eagles had their best game stuffing the run easily of the season, thanks mostly to the play of their defensive tackles holding at the point of attack.

Grossman was often throwing off his back foot or with terrible footwork leading to poorly accurate balls getting intercepted 4 times, 3 by the safety Coleman.

The Eagles offense rolled in the first half to a 20-3 lead but again struggle to put points on the board in the 2nd half. Vick left the game in the 3rd quarter but did return only after Vince Young had a sack and interception on consecutive plays.

The skins were not able to consistently able to run the ball in this game, benched Grossman in favor of John Beck who managed to cut the lead to 7 late in the fourth quarter on a scramble for a TD. However LeSean McCoy who is easily the Eagles most impressive offensive player, his ability to stop and change directions is rare.

The Eagles win 20-13 heading into the bye week.

To sum up what I've seen, Vick holds the ball far too long, struggles identifying pressure in his pre-snap reads. Defensively, their tackles especially do not hold the point well selling out their linebackers on running plays, then add in the extremely wide alignments with their ends doesn't help matters.

Outside of one game which is the exception to the rule, they haven't been able to put points on the scoreboard in the fourth quarter.

Next up is their first match up with the Dallas Cowboys...