Les Bowen: Further review: The bottom line - We've seen this play from Eagles before

* While we're strolling down memory lane, remember Jason Avant, the clutch slot receiver? Maybe he should e-mail Donovan McNabb and cc Andy Reid, to make sure they know he's still here. But then, if the Birds had been throwing quick slants to Avant on Sunday, they wouldn't have had time for all those pressured, 60-yard, third-down incompletions to Jeremy Maclin.

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Who knew?

Extra point

Two eyebrow-raising Eagles personnel moves this season: bringing in Michael Vick and signing Jeremiah Trotter. So far, net gain is nada.

With Trot, we're just going to have to hope that this is more about jumping into the NFL in the middle of a season after nearly 2 years away, than it is about not being able to play anymore. If Trotter really just can't do it in 2009, that's going to embarrass one of the franchise's all-time warriors, but it ought to embarrass Reid even more, for putting the man out there.

The Vick thing gets more inexplicable every week. Originally, it seemed the Eagles had some interesting ideas on how to use him that might really help in the red zone, once the kinks were ironed out. But since Donovan McNabb came back two games ago, Vick has been an afterthought. Against the Raiders, a half-baked afterthought, judging from the two times he was on the field - a 4-yard loss on an end-around, then a crucial timeout burned when nobody seemed clear on what the plan was, with Vick lined up next to McNabb. For this, the Eagles needed to make themselves targets of animal-rights picketers everywhere they go?

Maybe 2 months from now, Big Red will have the last laugh, as Charlie often does. Not seeing that right now, though.