Eagles outlast the improved Falcons

McNabb was back to his scrambling self today

While I’m sure many Eagles fans will find fault with the fact that the Eagles didn’t cruise to an easy win over the former doormats of the NFC South but the truth (final score 27 – 14) is, the Falcons are actually a very good team. In fact, they may be as good as the Eagles and certainly not a team I’d want to face in the playoffs!

True, the Eagles should have put the game away with about 8 minutes left to go in the game by punching it into the end zone from about the half yard line, after 2 straight attempts, to make the score 24 – 7. But this edition of the Eagles can’t seem to make things easy on themselves, especially when it comes to scoring in the red zone.

They also could have made it easy on themselves by managing to get a first down while up 6 pts with about 3 minutes left. Instead, after gaining 8 yds on their first pass to TE Brent Celek, the Eagles couldn’t gain 2 yards and were forced to punt.

Fortunately for the Eagles, Adam Jennings muffed a punt (a questionable call) that was recovered on the Atlanta 37. Westbrook scored on a 39 yard TD run 2 plays later.