Filed under: Eagles, Redskins, NFC East, NFL AnalysisPHILADELPHIA -- Donovan McNabb stood before his teammates with the game ball tucked after the Redskins beat the Eagles 17-12. McNabb was initially humble. He thanked the defense for its essential role. And then he offered to his teammates: The Eagles made a mistake when they let me go.
He was smirking when he said it -- but his teammates got it.
Just like they did when their coach, Mike Shanahan, addressed them last Monday.
"I asked them, 'Guys, have you ever been fired?' I told them I have. And then to have to go back to that place? Enough said. I didn't talk about it anymore for the rest of the week. It was a pressure game already. I didn't want to put that much more into it.''
Really? What's one more popped kernel on top of a bag of them overflowing? Why not embrace this pull-up-a-chair-game and let it rip?
The Redskins players did. The Eagles eventually got there. But it was the Redskins' start -- faster, quicker, harder, nastier -- that vaulted them into position to win here on Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field. It was their embracing of their new quarterback, who happens to be the Eagles old quarterback, that helped make this game significant and bountiful for them.
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