"Philly fans are great....It's the only place where you pull up on the bus and you've got the grandfather, the grandmother, the kids and the grandkids - everybody flicking you off. At other stadiums, they give you the thumbs-down. Here, they give you the middle finger.”
— Michael Strahan
"No one likes us, no one likes us, no one likes us, we don’t care, we’re from Philly, F—-ing Philly, No one likes us, we don’t care!”
- Jason Kelce with the best championship speech ever
Seems to me that the Girls were screaming that they had only given up 3 sacks all year going into yesterdays game-- this should be fun to watch........
It's Eckel I know, but it's mostly statistical and factual stuff, it isn't opinion as much and it certainly isn't more of the "sources tell me " crap
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Sack attack is on record pace
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
By MARK ECKEL
STAFF COLUMNIST
EAGLES NOTEBOOK
PHILADELPHIA -- Last year, through 16 painful games, the Eagles defense as a whole recorded 28 sacks.
The defensive linemen had 21 1/2 and the defensive ends had 15 1/2.
This year through five not-so- painful games, the Eagles defense as a whole has 23 sacks, just five less than a year ago.
The defensive linemen have 21 of the 23, just one-half less than last year, and the defensive ends have 15, again just one-half less than a year ago.
"Those guys are really playing well," Eagles head coach Andy Reid said of his defensive linemen yesterday at the NovaCare Complex. "I think it's a combination of things. (Coach) Pete Jenkins is doing a great job with them. Dar ren Howard has been a good addi tion. Darwin Walker is healthy. Mike Patterson and Trent Cole are a year older. J.T. (Juqua Thomas) has been in the system for a full year now."
Cole, the second-year player who was a fifth-round draft pick out of Cincinnati, leads the team with six sacks. Walker, who had three sacks in Sunday's win over Dallas, has four. Howard and Thomas have three sacks each.
At their current pace, the Eagles would finish the season with 73 sacks, which would crush the fran chise record of 62 set by Buddy Ryan's 1989 defense.
It could get tough this week against New Orleans, facing a Saints team that has allowed just six sacks in five games this season.
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