I’m not one to put a lot of stock in preseason NFL games. Except for this: At some point during these meaningless practice affairs for which the owners charge regular-season prices, you’d like your first team offense and defense to play well.
That means seeing your offense - in this instance with Mike Vick at the command - march down the field crisply and deposit the ball in the other team’s end zone.
The Eagles game vs. the Patriots tonight is important for that reason. Vick banged his thumb in the first game vs. the Steelers and basically didn’t show a thing.
So Vick needs to show something tonight. Because the Eagles are for some reason playing two games this week, they’re in Cleveland Friday night - it will not be what is usually the most important preseason game. That's what the third preseason game is usually tabbed as, a preview of the regular season opener. Not this year. It's also in part because the Eagles play the Browns in a few weeksin the regulard season and neither team will be showing much for the other team to use in their regular season game plan.
Instead that designation will be slapped on tonight’s contest.
The Eagles need to show us something vs. the Patriots.
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