New England Patriots vs. the Philadelphia Eagles a recap

The New England Patriots defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in what I would call a great game. The odds makers had the Pats at least a 24 point favorite. The Eagles backup quarterback A.J. Feeley threw an early interception on the third play of the game and the Patriots Assante Samuel ran it in for a touchdown.

At this point I thought the Pats were going to demolish the Eagles like they did against the Bills last Sunday when they won 56-10. The Pats kicked off to the Eagles after Samuels interception and the Eagles controlled the ball for almost the whole first quarter. The Pats did get the ball back after the Eagles scored to tie the game at 7-7 and the Eagles recovered an onside kick but to no avail. Heath Evans plunged in for a 1 yard touchdown to put the Pats up 14-7.

The Pats then kicked off and the Eagles went in on a nice pass play from A.J. Feeley to Greg Lewis for a 28 yard touchdown. 14-14.

The two teams battled back and forth and as we got close to the end of the game with the score 31-28 in favor of the Pats. The Eagles were marching down field and A.J. Feeley threw an ill advised interception to Assante Samuel again in the end zone to basically seal the game for the Pats. I was surprised he threw it to that receiver as opposed to someone coming across the middle as that type of play had worked for the Eagles most of the night. That was just plain old bad play calling.

The TV game announcers were saying that this is a blue print for other teams to use against the Pats. Yeah they lost and that is a blue print to use? Shouldn’t they use the Pats offensive and defensive schemes to use as a blueprint? I would wouldn’t you?

The Pats will be eating Humble Pie all week as Belichick will tell them they aren’t as good as they think and as people have been writing about them in the press and on blogs around the country.

The Pats will take the win and take what they did wrong and use it to defeat Baltimore next Monday Night.