"Immediately, I got up and told coach Reid to challenge" the initial ruling of an incomplete pass, Maclin said. "I forgot it was under 2 minutes" and the review would be automatic.
Someone asked if Maclin watched the numerous big-screen replays. "Of course I did," he said.
"I felt like I got both feet in. I wasn't going to change my mind, regardless . . . If you catch the ball, they're going to make the right call; that's why they've got video replay."
The Eagles, you might have heard, depend a lot on their younger players, sometimes more than is ideal. One side of that coin was the 14-point swing almost entirely authored by rookie safety Macho Harris, who put the Broncos back in a game they were getting blown out of with a key penalty and a fumble that led to Denver touchdowns.
The other side of the coin was Maclin, who saved the day and then didn't seem to quite get what all the fuss was about.
"Great throw, it was a better catch. A phenomenal catch," Reid said. "You think you see both feet in, but [side judge Don Carlsen, who ruled the pass incomplete] had a good angle on it, too. It was tough, because one foot came down, the other foot came up, and then went back down. That's a tough, tough call there. But that's why we have the replay, so it all worked out."
Donovan McNabb, straining to revive an offense that was unstoppable in the first half and unstartable most of the second, said he didn't know the first-round rookie had made the grab, on second-and-8 from the Broncos' 40, until he saw the replay.
