"It just seems like there are some types of adversity we can never get over," Brown said. "As a team, as players, you have to make it happen. We haven't been making it happen."
Brian Westbrook, hobbled again by ankle and knee injuries (14 carries for 39 yards, two catches for minus-5 yards), was asked if he thought this was the end of the McNabb era.
"That's not for me to judge," said Westbrook, who had to play more than he might have expected, after Correll Buckhalter went down in the first half with an MCL injury. Reid elected not to activate his other running back, Lorenzo Booker, who was acquired last April to be a significant cog. "Donovan McNabb has been our leader for a long time, and he has done so much for our team. I'll always be supportive of him as a friend and a player."
Right tackle Jon Runyan, who arrived in 2000 as a free agent, was asked if he had ever seen this team more lost.
"Obviously not," Runyan said. He and Thomas will end the season without contracts for 2009, at 35 and 34, respectively. Brian Dawkins, also 35, is in the same situation.
"You never know," Runyan said, when asked about his Eagles tenure, and eras ending. "You just have to go out and play and see what happens. As far as I know, history says you don't stay at the top forever . . . Eventually, it's going to happen. You don't want it to happen while you're there, but eventually, it will." *
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