By Michael Eisen
October 23, 2016

LONDON – Given the events of Sunday afternoon in Twickenham Stadium, a more appropriate dateline for this story would be LANDON.

The Eagles rebounded from their two-game losing streak with an ugly, turnover filled 21-10 win over the previously undefeated Minnesota Vikings at Lincoln Financial Field.
The Eagles (4-2) moved to within a game of the idle NFC East-leading Dallas Cowboys (5-1) who are on their bye week.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Grant Haley (Atlanta, Ga.) returned a field goal blocked by Marcus Allen (Upper Marlboro, Md.) 60 yards for the game-winning touchdown, as Penn State erased a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter to defeat No. 2 Ohio State, 24-21, Saturday night in front of a Penn State White Out crowd of 107,280 in Beaver Stadium. The Buckeyes had won 78 straight games when leading by 14 or more points in the fourth quarter.

During the pregame show Penn States Blue Band Flag’s were blowing directly from right to left. There was no hint of the awesome Northeastern Fall weather slowing down. Shortly after kickoff it started to rain. The evening provided a few things Ohio State simply may not have needed or wanted for their first road loss in 21 games. First of all the fans, I can vouch for this, a night game at Happy Valley is to be avoided at all costs by an on the road visitor. Pennsylvanians don’t care about the weather, most fans are college students and alumni but many more are blue collar workers on their day off, give them an entire day of tailgating with hype and you will have a colosseum of chaos. The second may be Penn State’s defense. One that I had left for dead against Michigan and saw some signs of life from during the Minnesota game all told they came back to life when they were needed. The offense had some sparks of their own.

In addition to suffering their second consecutive loss of the still-young season to the Washington Redskins last week, the Eagles most likely lost starting defensive tackle Bennie Logan fore at least one game.
Logan has not practice this week and it looks more and more like third-year tackle Beau Allen will tapped by Pederson to start this week when the Birds (3-2) take on Sam Bradford and the undefeated Minnesota Vikings at the Linc (FOX 1 p.m. 94.1 FM WIP).

Rookies making an impact; Lee among league leaders in tackles

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; Oct. 12, 2016 – A total of 28 Penn State football alumni are populating the active rosters of 20 National Football League teams. The Nittany Lions annually are among the top 20 programs nationally in producing players in the NFL. Each week throughout the year, GoPSUsports.com will provide updates on the exploits of these former Nittany Lion greats.

The Washington Redskins Media Relations staff issued a note release with lots of information about their well-earned win over the Philadelphia Eagles. There are about 41 notes in this release. And despite rushing for 230 yards (493 total) and holding a highly regarded defensive line that included Fletcher Cox to zero sacks, not one offensive lineman’s name made their release. On the Defensive line. only end Ricky Jean Francois made the report. #norespect
From Footballstories to Redskins fans – your lines:
Starting offensive line: Trent Williams, Shawn Lauvao, Spencer Long, Brandon Scherff, Morgan Moses.
Starting defensive line: Ricky Jean Francois, Ziggy Hood, Chris Baker plus backups Cullen Jenkins, Matt Ioannidis, Anthony Lanier

The Eagles only touchdowns came on special teams and defense. Despite a bad day of the offense, the Eagles were in the game against the Washington Redskins until the last drive.

Early in the season, Odell Beckham, Jr. was generating attention for penalties and confrontations with cornerbacks. Now he’s back to doing what he does best, making big plays when the Giants must have them and thrilling fans in the stadium and television viewers around the country.

The Bloom is off the rose.
No one really believed the Eagles, with their rookie head coach and quarterback were going to roll through the 2016 schedule the way they did the first three weeks when the Birds jumped out to a 3-0 record.