Bad News

We get rising star linebacker Mychal Kendricks back but lose our defensive captian DeMeco Ryans for the year with right achilles injury. Nick Foles is out for about 6-8 weeks with a broken collarbone. Also G Todd Herremans has a bicep injury.

Injured Players:
Todd Herremans- Biceps
DeMeco Ryans- Right Achilles
Nick Foles- Broken Collarbone
Chris Prosinski- Elbow
Evan Mathis- Sprained left MCL
Allen Barbre- Right Ankle
Najee Goode- Torn pectorals
Travis Long- Torn left ACL

We need the players that are healthy to come together because we have a big game against the Panthers coming up.

Sanchez to the rescue

On Sunday we had the task of going up against the Texans. With J.J. Watt on their front line this wasn't gonna be a walk in the park. We opened up our offensive drive with a with a 3 and out but the defense quickly returned the favor to the Texans. 2nd drive ended up with Foles throwing a bomb to J-Mac for 59 yards. Defense holds it down to force a punt but Foles gives the ball right back when he throws a pick 6. Back on offense at the end of the 1st quarter Foles gets smashed and won't come back into the game because of a broken collar bone. We all begin to worry as Mark Sanchez takes the field. With a calm, cool swag Mark comes on the field and throws a bomb to J-Mac for 52 yards. A couple plays later Sanchez throws a nice pass to Jordan Matthews for 11 yards. Sanchez's first passing TD as an Eagle. Back on offense Sanchez throws a nice pass to Josh Huff but Huff lets it hit his hands and the defender grabs it. It's Sanchez's first interception in his new uniform, I don't like those kind of interceptions when it's the recievers fault. That shouldn't be labeled as the QBs fault. With the Texans on offense Fitzpatrick finds his star running back on a wheel route for a 56 yard TD. We manage to put up a FG before halftime so the score is 17-14 in our favor. In the 3rd quarter we have a good offensive drive that ends up in a Chris Polk 8 yard TD to put us on top 24-14. Texans star running back Foster hurts his ankle and is done for the day, there were a lot of injures this game. Back on O Sanchez throws a pick and this one is his fault 100% a miscommunication between him and Cooper. With the Texans moving down the field in the redzone DeMeco Ryans comes up with an interception but drops the ball and falls to the ground with an achilles injury. We will miss his great playing, but that quickly turned into a Texans TD to put the score at 24-21. On O again we have a great drive that ends up in another TD pass from Sanchez to J-Mac. That would wrap the game up and give us the victory.

*Side Notes*
Covered in next blog

Final Score 31-21 Eagles Victory
Passing Leader: Mark Sanchez- 15/22 202 Yards 2 Touchdowns 2 Interceptions
Rushing Leader: LeSean McCoy- 24 Touches 117 Yards 0 Touchdowns
Receiving Leader: Jeremy Maclin- 6 Catches 158 Yards 2 Touchdowns
Tackle Leader: Mychal Kendricks- 5 Tackles
Sack Leader *3 Tied with 1 sack*: Mychal Kendricks, Connor Barwin, Brandon Graham