Week 4 vs PHI - notes: 2nd half

Halftime show:

• Do we believe Romo's "aw shucks" routine? It's remarkably believable.
• I'm not sure it's possible for me to care any less about high school football, which means I won't be purchasing a Toyota truck.
• "How do you take a 14-2 team..." Easy shot, KO, but a good point. And LT2 looks like he should be on suicide watch.
• What the hell is Brett Favre doing?

3rd Quarter:

• McNabb is getting his ass kicked big-time. Do I have to start saying nice things about Steve Spag? Not if mocking him is working.
• Aside: No matter what happens to you this week, keep saying "At least I'm not a Mets fan." Unless you are a Mets fan, in which case you're in for a long couple of weeks.
• Madden points out that Eli stopped the Eagles from running his INT in for a TD.
• Ouch. Kearse pounds Ward. BUT a facemask erases that. Whoo-hoo! Why isn't The Cough smiling? Maybe he'd rather be bowling.
• Philly has 83 yards of offense, and 85 yards of penalties, sayeth the sage Al Michaels. Shit, that sucks. For them.
• Punt downed at the 1 yard line. TAKE THAT PHILLY!
  
• Osi has 4 sacks, and almost has a 5th.
• What? Nothing? After that great field position? Not even a field goal?
• Feagles pops some Geritol and kicks it inside the 5 again. We mock the elderly, but that's only because we're jealous of their wisdom.
• Wendy's: It's Better Than Helium. Weirdest ad campaign ever.
• Do you think Blockbuster paid a lot of money to get the exclusive rental rights to '1408'?
• Cameron Diaz actually looked excited that she was picked out by the camera. And damn, she looks good.
• If the Giants defense plays well again tonight, they'll be erecting statues to Steve Spag, and Strahan will be strutting around town like he's the greatest player on the planet.
• Tony Hunt busts through for a first down.
• Spagnuolo (maybe I need to spell his name right) likes to jump around, and it gets the players excited. So sayeth our sideline reporter.
  
• Kiwanuka sacks McNabb. This is getting scary. He may not survive the night.
• Nice illustration of how Kiwa should be playing the position that he, you know, always played.
• Here's a nice stat for ya:
  

  NET YARDS PASSING	-28
  Times Sacked (Number-Yards)	8 - 39
  Gross Yards Passing	11

  McNabb, that's you...
• Shockey catches the ball and runs with it! After catching the ball! He ran! This guy is right - this could be the end of the world...
• Pass interference on PHI. Even I could've called that one. Toomah!
• OK, I got up to get a drink and it's 4th and goal. What the hell happened? Dammit. Give the ball to Droughns or something.
  
• You gotta love Madden. (Seriously, not mocking him this time.) "That's just a bad play." Burress behind the line of scrimmage? Yeah, I think it's safe to say that
  
• Hey, somebody makes a field goal. At least now we know we're not watching a college game.
• "And McNabb. Drops. The ball." Al sounded a little shell shocked. Actually, McNabb bumped into one of his own players. OK, that's sort of funny. Eli actually looks a little pained watching that happen.
  
• LAME challenge, but I guess Reid has to try to keep the game within reach. Buckhalter (was that him?) looked like he could've gotten the ball back if he'd fallen on it.
• Ruling on the field stands. HEY NOW!
• Tynes hits the upright on the extra point. No comment.
• OK, I'll comment. Isn't this guy a professional kicker? What the hell else is he doing? Missing a field goal, OK. You should make those, but whatever. Extra point? How do you miss that?
• First down by Buckhalter, but a nice hard hit takes him down.

4th Quarter:

• Uh-oh. Favre next week on Sunday night. Madden better get his adjectives ready.
• Jill Wagner, the Mercury model, is way hot.
• 9th sack on McNabb. He's gonna need more surgery. Or something.
• 53 yard field goal attempt by Akers is.... good. Helps me more than the Eagles, since I get 5 fantasy points. My opponent has Randy Moss, though, so I'm pretty much screwed.
• Interesting that Droughns is returning punts and not much else. Last week he punched in two TDs, but that doesn't seem to matter.
• It's funny, Buckhalter is doing a decent job filling in for Westbrook (14 carries, 86 yards) but it doesn't matter. Michaels is right, it's like the Eagles have had all the life sucked out of them.
• 11 sacks! 5 by Osi! Holy shit.
• There's time left in this game but the Giants do look good. Or McNabb looks bad. That's always a possibility.
• Is there a danger that they might run Ward into the ground? Or are they thinking Jacobs will likely be back next week so we can run this guy as hard as we want to this week?
• That's it! Philly needs to wear the fruity uniforms again. (Ambiguously Gay Eagles. Heh heh heh.)
  
• Sam Madison is hurt, but he's playing. Not to wish ill on the guy, but maybe Tynes could get hurt instead? OK, bad karma. Still...
• McNabb sneaks it across for a first down. This is why the Giants patting themselves on the back makes me nervous. They suddenly look like there's 17 seconds left rather than 4:17.
• I think that's three first downs in a row. Hey, guys, the game isn't that close. And don't let Buckhalter score or I'll really feel like a moron for dropping him. Oh, and then it'll be a close game.
• THERE we go. Justin Tuck brings 'em down behind the line. What's wrong, is he hurt? Nothing serious, we don't think.
  
• Could the Eagles O-line be this bad? Could the Giants defense be this good?
• Reggie Brown gets a TD... BUT McNabb was over the line of scrimmage. Wow. Isn't that the kind of mistake high school players make? He was beyond it, but not by much, so maybe we'll give him a pass. No pun intended.
• 4th and 18 and they have to go for it. That's it for Akers' field goals.
• Osi gets another sack but he doesn't look so good, health wise I mean. 12 sacks for the team, ties an NFL record. Donovan, you can throw up now, nobody would blame you.
• Michaels gives credit to Westbrook, but Buckhalter did a fine job filling in. Maybe the other receivers didn't get open, but the D just beat McNabb down. As the season goes on, we'll see if it's just that the other teams sucked or if this defense is for real.
• And there's Droughns, doing mop up work.
• That's it! 16-3. Osi breaks the single game sack record with 6, and we were right about him not looking healthy; he needed an IV of "superman juice" (his words - um....) to get back in the game. Watching him talk to Kramer after the game makes you realize that Strahan doesn't have to act like such a dick.