Florida St/Eagles Postgame

I have to apologize I didn’t even watch the Seminoles game due to attending a Philadelphia Flyers game which I rarely ever miss a going to since I have season tickets.  I am just going to go over what I have heard or read about the game against what my keys to the game were.  Hopefully in the future these scheduling conflicts will be minimal.

From what I can tell I missed a very good comeback from Florida St.  I personally have been waiting for Greg Carr to showcase his talents in his career but till this game has come up short (even though he did not score, big catches helped make the difference), maybe it was due to poor play calling, poor passes thrown to him, or just him not coming through when he had a chance.  As they say better late then never.

I am guessing the spreading out of the running game played it’s part against a usually solid defensive front 7 from Virginia Tech (FSU gained a total of 248 yards) and that they made enough plays when they had to in a effort to help the offense.  With the passing game it was basically all Ponder to Carr as they connected for 100 of the 159 yards Ponder had on the day.  

Not only did they shut down Taylor as he left the game with a ankle injury the samething happend to his replacement in Glennon.  Tech ended up bringing in somebody I never heard of in senior Cory Holt who is listed as a wide receiver.

All in all a solid win for FSU that now moves them up to 15th in the BCS although even being a Noles fan I am not sure they should be that high considering they have yet to really score that big win.

Fun Facts about this game:

FSU has won 13 of the last 14 against Va. Tech

Va. Tech has not won in Tallahassee in 34 years.

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Eagles the stronger bird in this one

 

Welcome back Mr. Westbrook oh how the offense does not run nearly as smooth when you are not in the lineup.  Despite as asortment of injuries he managed to have himself a career day on the ground in leading the Eagles past hometown boy Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons.

This was a game that for much of the first quarter and almost have the second it was a feeling out process till Ryan connected on a beautiful pass to White (whom if you listen and believe the Eagles wanted in the draft) on a 55 yard pass play to open up the scoring.  After that it was the Eagles turn via the quarterback draw and a Akers field goal to head into the half up by 3.

Third quarter was almost a repeat of the first quarter with only Brian Westbrook’s 16 yard touchdown run on the opening drive of the half. 

The 4th quarter is where the drama/fun happened.  After another failed attempt to punch a ball in 3 feet with the heaviest offensive live in the league the Eagles ended up settling for a 18 yard field goal to push the game out to a 20 - 7 advantage.   Shortly after that Ryan put together a very nice drive capping that off what looks like his favorite target in Roddy White (8 catches for 113 yards & 2 td). 

This was the turning point in the game a muffed or was it ???? punt from the Falcons Adam Jennings.  It was ruled by the refs I believe to have touched his foot (clearly did not) and recovered right away by Eagled Akeem Jordan at the Falcons 39 yard line.  Here was the tough part for Falcons fans to swallow they had no timeouts lefts to challenge the call leaving them able to do nothing about as they had to watch a 39 yard scamper by Westbrook to cap the scoring and the game.

Keys from the game:

The Philadelphia Eagles were not able to fully shut down Matt Ryan whom I was impressed by in his performace.  I was however please to see them hold Turner in check 58 yards on 17 carries.

If my memory serves me correctly but I don’t recall how often McNabb went over the middle but when Smith went down that pretty much killed any chance of them doing that.

Fun Facts:

Andy Reid is now 10 - 0 coming off a bye week as Philadelphia’s head coach.

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