The point-scoring pattern of this game looked more like a rehearsed dance than a tooth and nail contest, which is what it had to be for both teams vying for an early advantage in the NFC East.
The Giants shut-out the Eagles in the first and last quarters and were shut-out themselves in the middle portion of the game, leading to a topsy-turvy, hard-to-predict rollercoaster of a clash that saw the unbelievably inept Eagles slide to 1-2.
For a brief period in the third and fourth quarters, the Eagles held a two-point lead – a lead that was blown to pieces as the Giants proceeded to rattle-off 15 unanswered points as the match reached a crescendo, drowning-out the pre-season gloating of Philly fans, who thought – understandably so – that their roster was too good for anything but a Superbowl victory.
In all honesty, it is, which makes their embarrassing opening to the season many assumed they would take by the scruff of the neck before wringing it for all it was worth, even more perplexing and downright frustrating.
I am not an Eagles fan, nor do I have any particular sympathies for the team, but I hate to watch talent under perform and so chronically fail to deliver. Andy Reid is the unluckiest man in Pro Football. To have taken his team to the brink on so many occasions, and to have built a unit for the ages in a shortened minefield of an off-season, the man deserves his due.
But the football Gods don’t want him to have it just yet. Maybe they never will…
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