If I was nervous about the Eagles before, I’m flat-out worried now. The mark of a good team is that it wins the close games, which so far, the Eagles have been unable to do. Surprisingly, the problem is not that the offense can’t score points, it’s that the defense can’t hold a lead. In every game that they lost, the Eagles had a 4th-quarter lead. Granted, it’s mostly Donovan’s fault that Tampa Bay was even IN this game, but he (and Westbrook) did manage to get the Eagles the lead with 33 seconds left.
Then too, we’re talking about a 62-yard field goal. When a team makes a 60+ yard field goal, you just weren’t supposed to win that game. That’s pretty much all there is to it.
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