"I got up the field and turned around, and there was a guy chasing [Westbrook]," Runyan said. "The guys that usually chase the play are the ones that make it, because if the back has to make somebody miss upfield, he usually gets hit from behind.
"I just turned around and tried to block him."
Runyan had explained on Friday that he can run without pain now, but pushing on someone is painful. As a right offensive tackle, Runyan has a job that entails a fair amount of pushing.
"I saw it coming for about four steps. I'm just looking, I'm like, 'This is gonna hurt, this is gonna hurt.' I thought he saw me; apparently, he didn't," Runyan said.
Griffin eventually saw the sky, after his facemask made contact with Runyan's left shoulder and he stopped abruptly, on the wrong end of a Runyan check that would have made Derian Hatcher proud.
Turned out it didn't hurt a bit, Runyan said.
"That was one of the ones kind of like when you swing a golf club and you hit the 'sweet spot' and you don't feel it," he said. "That's how it ended up. I didn't think it was going to end up that way, but it did."
Center Jamaal Jackson was a witness to the blow-up.
"He just met the guy right there. I didn't see the rest of it; I just saw legs up in the air," Jackson said.
Like everyone else in green, Runyan was frustrated at the hole the Eagles dug yesterday, at the way they even gave the ball back after their defense finally forced a fumble in the fourth quarter.
"You get the opportunity to come back, and you give it right back to 'em," Runyan said. "It's frustrating, but it's kind of a good thing to be able to overcome that kind of stuff and be able to come out with a victory . . . Bad things happen and you don't let it bury you, you come out swinging. I think that's what everybody did today."
