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Read on for a recap of the game. Up next for Philadelphia is an away game against the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving. So here are our predictions for the Eagles’ tenth game of the season.
Now, the biggest question heading into the Week 11 matchup is how will Mark Sanchez perform at starting quarterback position in his first start of the 2015 National Football League regular season. I’d be taking the Eagles in this contest if it was under a touchdown. Great run after the catch by Huff on the play. And then there’s QB Jameis Winston, who has rushed for four scores. Tampa might as well not move until the ball is already caught in front of them. However, that alone is not an indication as to which team wins this one especially with the fact that Winston’s emergence seems to provide a new lease of life for Tampa Bay that looked like a team in disarray earlier in the season. Eagles punter Donnie Jones had a punt blocked for the second time last week. A few players later, Winston hit Evans on the fade route in the end zone for a game-tying touchdown. Jacquies Smith recovered but was stripped by Zach Ertz and Philadelphia got the ball back at its 14. He threw a crucial end-zone interception with less than five minutes to play. “It would be great to win two in a row, great to get to.500”.
The Eagles didn’t give up.
The second half was mostly consolidation for the Bucs, who produced a 15-play, 80-yard, 10-minute drive to start the first half and effectively put the game out of reach. Matt Tobin had a good block on the play. If he’s still just working with Sims and Evans, this game may be a much harder contest for them. It has dropped 21 passes and the TEs and RBs have picked up the slack. Winston became the third quarterback since the merger to pass for five touchdowns against the Eagles, joining Eli Manning and Joe Montana. With Winston and Sanchez playing quarterback nearly anything is possible. To no surprise, it was intercepted.
It’s Sanchez’s first start against the Buccaneers. The Buccaneers added another field goal to make the score 17-9 at halftime. However, theories haven’t worked too well when trying to evaluate Chip Kelly’s squad this season. They’ll get a Tampa Bay secondary who has allowed a 72% completion rate, 7.1 yards per pass attempt, and is the 5th worst team on the road to opposing passing games.
Winston completed several big-time throws and dominated on third down, converting three of four to engineer a couple of touchdown drives giving the visitors a 14-7 advantage.