Philadelphia Eagles: Offense shows up in win, and so do the fans

The Philadelphia Eagles received a stiff test from the Washington Redskins, but they and their fans came back home winners after Sunday’s 37-27 victory.

The standings will show that the Philadelphia Eagles are 3-4 on the road this season, but you can hardly consider their victory over the Washington Redskins to have been a road game.

In front of a reported crowd of 63,246 where there were definitely more green shirts than red, the Eagles put up their season high in points, a number that was admittedly helped by Nigel Bradham‘s crazy, game-ending fumble return for a touchdown that contributing to a deceiving margin in the final score.

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Empty seats were prevalent as I settled into FedEx Field for my first time ever taking in an Eagles road game, but the strong Eagles’ contingent on hand was vocal for the entire game, truly making the stadium theirs as the Birds battled tooth and nail with a Redskins team that gave them just about everything they could handle.

It was a game that could have easily gone the other way.

But Carson Wentz, previously known as “the guy who can’t lead a comeback”, accomplished said feat for the second time in six days. And it’s made all the more amazing considering the offensive personnel at his disposal. Greg Ward, who caught the game-winning touchdown in the final minute, was the only wide receiver to even catch a pass.

With such limitations, it seems near-miraculous that the Eagles could win an important game. But win it they did, as Wentz found tight ends Zach Ertz and Dallas Goedert a combined ten times on the day.

And then there was Miles Sanders, who truly did some heavy lifting in what became his signature game to date as an NFL player. After putting up 172 yards from scrimmage, he is looking every bit the weapon that the much-maligned Howie Roseman seemingly envisioned him to be when selecting Sanders in the second round of this year’s draft.

You might even say that the offense played as well as you could reasonably expect them to, given the situation, Carson Wentz’s fumble issues aside. Thankfully, the Eagles only lost possession on one such loose ball, and their offense stayed on the field for 36:57 as they wore down the Redskins’ defense just enough to manage the game-winning drive.

It certainly wasn’t a flawless performance by any means for these Eagles, especially on the defensive front where they were gouged by several big plays.

But they should be proud of the character they showed and buoyed by the fact that they got the job done as they prepare for the Dallas Cowboys next week.

It would have been easy to overlook Washington entirely, but they didn’t. And neither did the thousands of rowdy Eagles fans who turned our nation’s capital into a little slice of Philadelphia on Sunday.

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I was glad to be a part of such a mob. I’ll have to get back to another road game at some point, so I can do my part to make sure that the Eagles are never homesick.

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