by David ElfinFiled under: Eagles, Redskins, NFC East
With the New York Giants' Steve Smith sidelined at least this week with a partially torn pectoral muscle suffered during Thursday's practice, it's a cinch that come Monday, Philadelphia will have the NFC's top tandem of wideouts when it comes to receiving yardage. But against Washington in Week 4, DeSean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin combined for just 34 yards on four catches as the Redskins upset the host Eagles 17-12."I don't think we could have played too much better," said Carlos Rogers, who combined with fellow starting cornerback DeAngelo Hall to keep Jackson and Maclin in check. "We had a good game plan going into it. I don't think no other teams have played them as good as we did. It was just being physical with them guys.
"We know they want to run down the field and catch long balls. Every week you see them on the highlight shows catching deep balls. We got jams on 'em and our D-line did a real good job of pressuring the quarterback, making him scramble, making him take the checkdowns (to running back LeSean McCoy, who caught 12 passes)."
Rogers and Hall certainly frustrated the younger Eagles receivers, who have combined for 56 catches, 976 yards and 10 touchdowns in Philadelphia's seven other games, one and a half of which Jackson missed with a concussion.
"It almost felt like being on a punt team, being vised-double by two players, that's what they almost were doing to me last game," Jackson told The Philadelphia Daily News.
Rogers predicts that when the teams get together again on Monday at Washington, the Eagles "gonna try run stacks, try to get some movement to keep us from jammin' 'em, but we don't care where they're at, we're gonna put our hands on 'em."
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