Making Our Grades

November 24, 2008|by Paul Domowitch

Report Card on the Eagles-Ravens game:

RUSHING OFFENSE: Maybe the Eagles should think about going to the "Wildcat" formation full-time. DeSean Jackson's direct-snap 12-yard run was pretty much the one and only highlight of an inept rushing effort that gained just 61 yards in the first 3 quarters.

Grade: F

PASSING OFFENSE: Between the two of them, Donovan McNabb and Kevin Kolb coughed the ball up 5 times (4 interceptions and a lost fumble) and averaged an embarrassing 3.22 yards per attempt. Kolb's fourth-quarter interception which Ed Reed returned 108 yards for a touchdown killed any remote hope the Eagles may have had of a comeback.

Grade: F

RUN DEFENSE: Ravens rushed for 110 yards, but 28 of those came on a meaningless late-fourth quarter run. Eagles held the Ravens to one double-digit run and 4 rushing first downs in the first 3 quarters when this still was a game.

Grade: B-plus

PASS DEFENSE: Joe Flacco completed just 12 of 26 passes, but threw for 2 TDs, including a 53-yard back-breaker to Mark Clayton early in the fourth quarter. Lito Sheppard failed to get inside leverage on Clayton on a slant route and he took it to the house. For the third time in the last 4 games, the Eagles failed to record an interception.

Grade: D

SPECIAL TEAMS: Quintin Demps accounted for the Eagles' only points with a 100-yard kickoff return. But most of the rest of the special teams news was bad, including a blocked punt for a safety, an 18-yard punt return by the Ravens' Yamon Figurs that set up a Matt Stover field goal and an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on the Eagles bench early in the third quarter that negated a 56-yard Sav Rocca punt.

Grade: D

OVERALL: An Eagles offense that had turned the ball over just 8 times in the first 7 games, has forked it over 11 times in the last 3. An offense that converted just 3 of 18 third-down opportunities last week against the Bengals, cashed in just 3 of 13 against the Ravens.

Grade: F

 

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