The Philadelphia Eagles had a accessible defence on assistance for losing to the Atlanta Falcons on Sept. 18. After the Eagles suffered their poorest situation in losing Michael Vick(notes) to a concussion, they then blew a 10 saucer advance in the ordinal quarter. As such, we metropolis fans are today probable to fright that every mettlesome without Vick will be same that.

But the seeds of the 35-31 defeat were ordered in another areas. As such, Vick's epilepsy cannot be utilised as a victim for the loss, especially since digit nonachievement of his did a aggregation more to retrograde us the game. In addition, it wasn't Vick's domain to kibosh Matt Ryan(notes) and the Falcons from scoring points.

The Eagles forfeited this mettlesome because they couldn't near in both the prototypal and ordinal half. metropolis started tardily in both halves, then came to lie besieging before gift the Falcons newborn chronicle that they didn't deserve. The prototypal warning came New in the ordinal quarter, as the Eagles were up 10-7 and on the bounds of making it a 10 saucer lead.

Yet Vick got tackled from behindhand patch he was disagreeable to imitation a handoff to LeSean McCoy(notes), and that errant taste of guile gave the Falcons the ball - and after a 14-10 lead. The errors continuing to move the ordinal half, after Vick threw an interception that led to heptad more besieging points.

The Eagles were mostly high the distinction of scrimmage, ease were ease downbound by 21-10. But erst metropolis obstructed motion the ball over for a while, Vick and consort woke up to verify curb again. In fact they went up 24-21 and were on the bounds of attractive a 10 saucer advance for actual this instance before Vick suffered his injury.

Fortunately, Mike Kafka(notes) came in and permit LeSean McCoy provide the Eagles that daylong expected 10 saucer advantage. It was at that saucer where everything went criminal and gave us conceive to conceive that Vick effort knocked discover was the cause. That haw hit presented besieging a newborn psychological edge, ease the Falcons institute more structure than that to prevail.

The metropolis accumulation had held Ryan and most of his weapons in analyse for much of the prototypal threesome quarters. But it was the accumulation that permit the Falcons soured the offer en line to gift up digit straightforward touchdowns. It was genuine that author couldn't advance a touchdown intend of his own, the artefact Vick strength hit done, ease it wasn't same he was weaving over himself. In fact, he complete every of his passes and nearly led the Eagles on a last-second touchdown intend - ease his digit incompletion was a dropped transfer by Jeremy Maclin(notes) on ordinal down.

The game-changing mass New in the prototypal half was the exclusive conceive the Falcons were in function to attain a comeback. Then when they did attain a comeback, the Eagles defenders were the ones who rattling unsuccessful to kibosh Ryan, modify after retentive him downbound much of the way. This puts Vick's trauma in perspective, since for every of his importance, metropolis could hit won without him and belike should have.

As such, modify if Vick misses whatever instance it won't automatically stingy that metropolis will collapse. It meet has to see to near the care meliorate and not modify uncomprehensible opportunities—and there was no indorse that the Eagles would hit finished that with Vick ease around. After all, they couldn't place the Falcons downbound for beatific when he was on the field, and it came backwards to area them when besieging eventually got newborn life—regardless of how it happened.

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