The Philadelphia Eagles and the San Diego Charges face off this Sunday at Lincoln Field in Philadelphia for Week 2 of the NFL season, where the Chargers will try to overcome a late-game collapse to the Houston Texans in Week 1. The heavily favored Eagles, meanwhile, will hope to replicate the overwhelming success of coach Chip Kelly's Blur offense in the first half of their Monday night opener against the Redskins. Philadelphia fans have their fingers crossed that their team can use Sunday to stake out a turnaround from last year's dismal season.
The Eagles blew away the Washington Redskins in the first half of Monday night's game, when they lead at one point by a huge margin of 33-7, but perhaps having winded themselves, they let the Skins get back into it in the second half on the strength of RBIII's playmaking, and in the end narrowly pulled out a 33-27 victory. The big question in Week 2 will no doubt be what Chip Kelly's will yield for Philadelphia: can the Birds keep up that savage kind of speed for a whole game and score for all four quarters? Some NFL veterans have their doubts about it. Green Bay wide receiver Jordy Nelson told ESPN that Eagles quarterback Michael Vick was taking too many hits in the pocket.
"Just watching the game from the outside, you could already see Vick struggling getting off the field every once in a while," Nelson said. "The guys are a little older in the league, so they could start breaking down." Chip Kelly is betting Vick and other star players who missed significant time last season with injuries - DeSean Jackson and LeSean McCoy - can avoid being injured. He appears certain that they won't get winded. "I know our team is in shape," Kelly told ESPN. "I know how we train. We're very specific in how we do that. We can keep up what we're doing right now because we've been doing this since April. If you're going to wait until the week before we play to say we need to get some extra sprinting in, it's probably too late."
Chargers' fans, on the other hand, will have to hope that their team's Week 1 collapse didn't get into their heads. San Diego led by 21 points early in the third quarter of their matchup against the Texans, but when Houston mounted a serious rally in the fourth, their offense had no response: it failed to gain a first down on a single one of the final five drives of the game, and the Texans came back to steal it 31-28.
Those who elect to catch the game on television can tune in to the NFL Network at 1 p.m. EST on Sunday, September 15. If you're watching it on an online live stream, you can visit NFL.com or follow this link.
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