Found September 21, 2008 on All Things Philly Sports: Yardbarker Blogger Network
Talk about a completely different game from the Monday Night shootout in Dallas. The Eagles and Steelers played an old fashioned, defense-first football in a low scoring slugfest that the Eagles won 15-6. The Eagles defense was the story of the game, putting a ton of pressure on Ben Roethlisberger and shutting down Willie Parker and the Steelers running game. Unfortunately for the Eagles, while they did win the game, they may have lost their best player in the process. The Steelers offense, considered one of the better in the league, managed only 191 yards through the air and 33 on the ground. The Eagles blitzed constantly, something we didn't see in the Dallas game, and got to the quarterback repeatedly, as they sacked Roethlisberger 8 times, forced him to fumble twice and picked off one of his passes. The Eagles offense also wasn't able to get too many points on the board, but they put together a few solid drives early in the game to get out to a lead and never looked back...
11 Comments:
  • Nice win, let's keep our finger crossed that Westbrook is ok!!
  • No ligament/tendon damage. Listed as day-to-day. Not ruled out for Chicago game. That's huge.

    http://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/Westbrook_Injury_Update_We_can_all_take_a_deep_breath/336522
  • Yeah. I say it all the time. Westbrook is like the LeBron James of the NFL. All eyes on him all the time and he spreads the field and helps create opportunities for other players.

    You saw how stagnant out O looked without Brian Westbrook....we can't afford to lose him.

    Great to see our D just smother Big Ben Roethlisberger.......our D is golden!!!!
  • How about Sav Rocca today, too? He helped the Eagles dominate the field position game
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  • I DON'T WANT TO lose BWest, but I have to say, if we lose him for a week or 2 we should be OK. We seem to be ok for the next 4-5 weeks.
  • Agreed. If there was ever a stretch where he could sit out and the Birds would be ok, it would be the next 5 weeks: @ Chicago, vs. Redskins, @ San Fran, vs. Falcons and then the bye week.
  • its ok guys, its only a strained ankle. nice W though, go birds!
  • bwest will be fine if hes out im guessin it should be like 2 weeks at the moast if the mri is positive.... we need him but we dont want him to rush back either
  • Absolutly!
  • Glad to see Baskett getting in there and grabbing some catches.
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