Grade: F
RUN DEFENSE: While Cedric Benson isn't Brandon Jacobs and the Bengals' offensive line bears no resemblance to the blue-and-white one that manhandled the Eagles' last week, the bottom line is they held the Bengals to a puny 1.9 yards per carry, though Benson's 13-yard third-quarter run set up a Shayne Graham field goal.
Grade: A
PASS DEFENSE: Eagles sacked Ryan Fitzpatrick 8 times, but he completed 66 percent of his passes and didn't throw an interception. T.J. Houshmandzadeh caught 12 passes for 149 yards, including a 26-yard second-quarter TD on an Eagles blitz.
Grade: C-minus
SPECIAL TEAMS: None of Sav Rocca's last 5 punts in the fourth quarter and overtime traveled farther than 37 yards. Three, including a 17-yarder, went out of bounds. Another was returned 22 yards. David Akers made both of his field goal attempts. DeSean Jackson had a pair of 15- and 16-yard punt returns.
&nbs p; Grade: C
OVERALL: The Eagles converted just 3 of 18 third-down opportunities against a Bengals team that was 31st in the league in third-down defense. They converted just 1 of 4 third- and fourth-and-one chances and most of their players, including the quarterback, admitted that didn't realize there was only one overtime period in the NFL.
Grade: F