■BLEM. REFEREE: HEADS IT IS, YOU WON THE TOSS. TURN AROUND, PLEASE. WASHINGTON WON THE TOSS AND ELECTED TO RECEIVE. GOOD LUCK. BRENT: UNLIKE WHAT WE'VE LL, DICK, NOD OUT F THIS ■■ E ON THE COIN FLIP. MARK RYPIEN AND THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS WILL HAVE THE BALL TO START THIS GAME. IN CASE YOU'VE JUST JOINED US, THE WIND IS NOT GOING TO BE A FACTOR HERE IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THIS GAME. THEY'LL PLAY IT ON OTTER OFFICIAL TURF. AND THERE IS JOE GIBBS, THE HEAD COACH OF THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS, . IN THE PLOFRZ, HE IS 11-3. AND THREE SEASONS AGO, HE WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPER BOWL IN SAN DIEGO WHERE THE REDSKINS BURIED THE DENVER BRONCOS. ON THE OTHER SIDE, THE CONTROVERSIAL ONE, BUDDY RYAN, LOOKING FOR HIS FIRST VICTORY AS A HEAD COACH. HE WAS BEATEN HERE IN AN UPSET BY THE LOS ANGELES RAMS A YEAR AGO AND THEN TWO SEASONS AGO, IT IS WIDELY BEEN RUMORED THAT THEY LOST TO THE CHICAGO BEARS. I SAY RUMORED BECAUSE MOST OF US DIDN'T SEE THE GAME. IT WAS PLAYED IN THAT FOG IN SOLDIER FIELD. BRENT: HE'LL BRING IT OUT FROM THE THREE. MITCHELL TO THE 19-YARD LINE. MARK RYPIEN, A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS BORN IN CANAD GREW UP IN WASHINGTON, PLAYED AT WASHINGTON STATE. HE WILL LEAD OUT THE FAMILIAR ONE-BACK TACK OF THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS. ■■ BRENT: FROM THE I FORMATION, THEY RUN RIGHT AT MIKE PITTS, NUMBER 74. HE BRINGS BYNER DOWN. BRT: ON SECOND DOWN, NER AGAIN. SHORT OF THE FIRST DOWN. BRENT: RYPIEN'S FIRST PASS FOR A FIRST DOWN GOZ NUMBER DI: JEFF FISHER, THE DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR FOR TH PHILADELPHIA EAGLES SAYS IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE EAGLES TO COME OUT AND HOLD THEIR EARLY SERIES TO A MIMUM, KEEP IT DOWN BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BE ABLE TO EVALUATE WHAT THE REDSKINS' GAME PLAN IS IN THE FIRST COUPLE OF SERIES, THEN MAKE THEIR ADJUSTMENTS. BRENT: BYNER CRACKS OUT TO THE 36-YARD LINE BEFORE JOYNER, WITH HELP, CAN BRING HIM DOWN. DICK: YOU'LL NOTE THEY USE A LOT OF MOVEMENT. THE REDSKINS LIKE TO DISGUISE -- THEY LIKE TO DISGUISE WHAT THEY'RE DOING. BUT YOU DON'T VE TO DISGUI MUCH WHEN YOU HAVE 66, JACO, TURNING OUT BIG WHITE, NNING UP INSE. THEY EXPECT THE LINEBACKER TO FILL THE HOLE INSIDE REGGIE.■■ BRENT: AGAIN, IT'S BYNER. HE WILL BE SHORT OF THE FIRST DOWN, MAKING HIS WAY TO THE I CAN'T RECALL, AS THE REDSKIN OFFENSE TRIED TO DOMINATE THEENSE HERE IN THE EARLY GOING AND GET A FEEL WHAT IT'S LIKE AGAINST THIS EAGLE DEFENSE WITHOUT JEROME BROWN IN THE STARTING LINEUP. DICK: JOE GIBBS SAID THEY DON'T PLAN TO USE MANY TIGHT ■T. THEY PLAN TO STAY SPREAD OUT AND TRY TO KEEP THE DEFENSE SPREAD, BECAUSE THE DEFENSE IS SO DISCIPLINEED. BRENT: IT'S SANDERS ACROSS MID FIELD TO THE 41-YARD LINE. DICK: YOU CAN SEE HE CAME IN MOTION, SANDERS DID, HE CAME IN MOTION RIGHT HERE, MOVED IN THERE, CAME BACK AND THEN WORKED UNDERNEATH. HERE HE COMES. NOW WATCH HIM COME BACK OUTSIDE. HE'S JUST THINKING FIRST DOWN. HE SHAKES AND BREAKS, HE GETS THE BALL, HITS IT IS SEAM. NOW HE BECOMES A RUNNING BACK. BRENT: THE REDSNS SRM INTO EAGLE TERRITORY, BUT ON FIRST DOWN, NOT MUCH GOING, AS AGAIN, NUMBER 74, MIKE PITTS, ALONG WITH 52, JESSIE SMALL, BROUGHT BYNER DOWN. DICK: LOOK FOR THE DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR TO COME WITH SOME KIND OF RED DOG, INCLUDING LINEBACKERS UP INSIDE, TO STOP THE RUNNING GAME, THROW THEM FOR A LOSS, OR AT LEAST KEEP THEM RIGHT AT THE POINT OF ATTACK. BRENT: DELAY ACTION. BYNER. AND THIS IS GOING TO LEAVE THE REDSKINS IN THIRD AND LONG AT THE 4O-YARD LINE. AND REGGIE WHITE, NUMBER 32, WAS THERE. DICK: THE REDSNS ARE VERY GOOD THIRD AND LONG FOOTBALL TEAM. THEY'RE THE SECOND BEST IN THE NFL. SO YOU CAN EXPECT THEM -- YOU CAN EXPECT THE EAGLES TO REALLY GIVE THEM RESPECT. BRENT: UNDER PRESSURE, INCOMPLETE. DICK: THAT WAS WES HOPKINS, NUMBER 48, FREE SAFETY, LINEBACKER-TYPE PERSONNEL COMING UP INSIDE. HE GOT THE PRESSURE ON THEM. YOU' SEE THE INSIDE RUSH, 48, TOP OF YOUR SCREEN COMING IN THERE. NO ONE PICKS HIM UP. SEE EVERYBODY IS OCCUPIED. MORE PEOPLE RUSHING THAN PEOPLE TO PROTECT WITH. OVERLOAD RUSH SITUATION. BRENT: A FAIR CATCH IS MADE AT THE 13-YARD LINE. BRENT: NOW ACLAIMED IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ALL-AROUND GH.Y IN THGAME, RANDALL BRENT: THEY PUSH TO SHERMAN. RUN OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE FAR SIDE BY ANDREW COLLINS, THE ROOKIE FROM PENN STATE. BRENT: COMPLETE TO THE 22-YARD LINE TO SHERMAN COMING OUT OF THBACKFIELD WITH THEIR FIRST PASS. BRENT: JACKSON IS OUT O BOUNDS AT THE 12-YARD LINE. MARTIN MAYHEW GETTING HIM OUT OF BOUNDS. A 65-YARD GAIN . DICK: MONTE COLEMAN, NUMBER 51, WAS LOCKED ON TO KEITH JACKSON, 88. THE ONE THING RANDALL DID HERE IS SIT IN THE POCKET. HE DIDN'FLUSH EARLY. YOU CAN SEE THE BALL WAS THROWN EYE TO THE OUTSIDE. THE SAFETY COMES OVER TO MAKE THE PLAY. HE'S A BIG GUY. YOU REALLY HAVE TO GET YOUR PADS INTO HIM. THEY DON'T DO THAT. BRENT: HE EAGLES HAVE CALLED A TIME-OUT. THEY CAME TO THE LINE AND DID NOT LIKE WHAT THEY SAW DEFENSIVELY. SO CUNNINGHAM WILL COME OVER TO THE SIDELINES AND CONFER WITH THE COACHING STAFF. BREN BUDDY RA THAN AFIVE-YARD PENALTY BECAUSE THE CLOCK WAS ABOUT TO RUN OUT. AND THE EAGLES WERE NOT GOING TO GET THE SNAP IN TIME. SO INSTEAD OF THEPENALTY, CUNNINGHAM USED A TIME-OUT. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM HANDS OFF TO SHERMAN, WHO IS BATTERED AT THE 1O-YARD LINE. NEON MANDELA,UMBER 91, IN THERE DEFENSIVELY. DICK INSIDE THE 1O-YARD LINE, THEY'VE BEEN VERY EFFICIENT. THE BEST THING ABOUT IT, THOUGH, IS 31 TIMES THEY'VE SCORED A TOUCHDOWN. 15 FIELD GOALS. BRENT: INCOMPLETE FOR RICKY SANDERS, THE RUNNING BACK WHO HAD SLIPPED OUT. DICK: GOOD PRESSURE ON HIM. HAD A THROW GOING BACK. TIMMY JOHNSON, NUMBE78, GOT IN THERE. BREN KENNY JACKSON OFF THE EAGLES' SIDELINE WITH THE PLAY. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM SLIPS AND IS DOWN AT THE 2O-YARD LINE. THE EAGLES WILL HAVE TO SETTLE FOR A FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT. DICK: HE WENT BACK TO SET, HE PLANTED THAT RIGHT FOOT, IT WENT RIGHT OUT FROM UNDERNEATH HIM. NOTHING HE COULD DO. I'VE SEEN THAT HAPPEN MANY TIMES ON THIS ASTROTURF. BUDDY DOESN'T LIKE ATNE. HERE IT IS FROM A REVERSE ANGLE. YOU CAN SEE HE TAKES THE SHOT-GUN SNAP. HIS FOOT WENT RIGHT OUT FROM UNDER HIM. HE HAD NO PRAYER. BRENT: THE FIELD GOAL IS GOOD AND THE EAGLES SCORE FIRST. SO A PASS TO KEITH JACKSON SETS UP THE FIELD GOAL. IT'S BRENT: HOWARD COMES UP AND MAKES HIS WAY TO IT IS 28-YARD LINE, WHERE THE REDSKINS WILL HAVE A FIRST AND 1O. KEN ROSE MAKING THE STOP FOR THE KICKING TEAM. DICK: LOOK FOR THE REDSKINS TO BURY THEIR FORMATION PACKAGES HERE EARLY IN THE BALL GAME. THEY'RE PLAYING CAT AND MOUSE WITH THE EAGLE DEFENSE. THEY SEE WHAT THE EAGLE DEFENSE DOES. BRENT: THEY'LL RUN BYNER BEHIND THE LEFT SIDEOF THE OFFENSIVE LINE, WHERE REGGIE WHITE MAKES THE STOP. DICK: EVERY TIME IN MY COACHING EXPERIENCE TT I PLAYED A PLAYER THAT HAD BEEN HURT AND HE THOUGHT HE WAS -- HE THOUGHT HE WAS OKAY AND HE WENT AHEAD AND PLAYED, THE GAME WAS ALL OVER, THEY FOUND OUT HE WASN'T OKAY AND HE SHOULDN'T HAVE PRAYED IT. PLAYERS WANT TO PLAY IN THESE GAMES. THERE HE IS NUMBER 99 BEING WORKED ON THEREBY 63. BRENT: BYNER AGAIN TRYING TO SWING OUTSIDE. ■■MMONS HAD A SHOT AT HIM. BATTLESHIS WAY BACK OUT TO THE. IT'SNG TO BE THIRD AND LONG AGAIN. DICK: YOU'RE GOING TO SEE HERE THAT THEY'VE GOT PENETRATION IN THE RUNNING LANES AS THEY PULLED THOSE GUARDS, LOCKED ■■ DOWN. HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY HELP. HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY HELP THERE. THERE HE IS. WATCH THE GUARD TACKLES DOWN. THEY'VE GOT HIM BACK IN THE BACKFIELD. HE KEEPS GOING FOR THE SIDELINE. BRENT: RYPIEN UNDER FIRE ALSO SLIPS. HE STILL GETS IT OFF, BUT IT IS INCOMPLETE. AND THE REDSKINS ARE FORCED TO PUNT. AND BOTHQUARTERBACKS NOW HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH THEIR FOING IN THE EARLY GOING. AND BYR IS HURT. BYNER IS GEING HELP LEAVING THE FIELD FROM ONE OF HIS TEAMMATES, LIMPING OFF. DICK ANOTHER GUY COMING OFF. BOTH QUARTERBACKS NOW GOING BACK TO PLANT, PLABT THAT BACK FOOT AND IT SLIDES OUT FROM UNDER THEM. BRENT: HARRIS RETURNS TO THE 37-YARD LINE. THAT'S A 14-YARD RETURN ON A 48-YARD PUNT. PHILADELPHIA LEADING BY A FIELD GOAL. BRENT: JOYNER BEING TENDED TO ON THE OTHER SIDELINE. MEWHILE,OWABOUT BYNER'S INJURY. DICK: HERE'S BYNER RIGHT HERE, NUMBER 21. HE LIMPED OFF. HE LIMPED OFF THE FIELD. YOU'LL SEE HE GETS TRAPPED, ONE OF HIS OWN OFFENSIVE LINEMEN, I THINK, FALL ON THE BACK LEFT OF HIS LEG. RIGHT THERE. HE GETS UP PLIFRPING. BRENT: SHERMAN BREAKS FREE AT MID FIELD. HE SPINS TO THE 41-YARD LINE. A SPLENDID 23-YARD RUN BY HEATH SHERMAN, WHO CAME OUT BEHIND HIS OFFENSIVE LINE. BRENT: ON FIRST DOWN, IT IS SHERMAN AGAIN, THIS TIME TO THE 39. BRENT: OVER THE MIDDLE. INCOMPLETE AT THE 2O-YARD LINE. HE WANTED FRED BARTT, THE ROOKIE FROM ARKANSAS STATE, AND ALVIN WALTON, NUMBER 4O, WAS THERE DEFENSIVELY FOR THE SKINS. DICK: RANDALL CUNNINGHAM THROWS THESE SEAM PASSES BEAUTIFULLY. HE HAS A MUCH BETTER TOUCH THAN GIVEN CREDIT FOR, BUT VERY GOOD COVERAGE RIGHT THERE. YOU CAN SEE THE LITTLE GUY, DAELL GREEN, LEAPING UP IN THERE. HE GETS HELP FROM THE SAFETY TO FINISH IT OFF. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM THROWS TO BYARS, AND THE EAGLES WILL HAVE TO PUNT IT AWAY. DICK: ON THIRD DOWN, YOU CAN LOOK FOR THE EAGLES TO TRY AND GET IT TO THAT GUY, BYARS. 81 RECEPTIONS THIS YEAR. THEY CALL HIM A RUNNING BACK, BUT HE REALLY ISN'T A RUNNING BACK. HE'S MORE OF AN H-BACK. WHEN HE GETS BANGED UP, THE COACHES SAY THEY HAVE TO SEND THREE DIFFERENT PLAYERS INTO THE GAME TO FILL THE ROLES THAT HE FILLS THROUGHOUT THE GAME PLAN. DICK: GOOD PUNT, NICE JOB. BRENT: COMING UP, THE ROAD TO THE SUPER BOWL CONTINUES ON ABC. BRENT: BYNER OVER ON THE SIDELINE WITH THAT SPRAINED ANKLE. DICK: HE'S BEEN A VERY DURABLE PLAYER THIS YEAR. HE'S REALLY COME ON STRONG, AS WE'VE SAID, IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEASON. BRENT: FIRST DOWN, THE THROW IS COMPLETE FOR SHORT YARDAGE. DICK: HE THROWS OUT THERE IN FRONT OF ERIC ALLEN, JUST A LITTLE HITCH. THEY LIKE TT LITTLE PITCH RATHER THAN A SHORT OUT. IN THE HITCH, IT GIVES THE QUICK RECEIVERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHAKE A GUY, BREAK IT, MOVE UP INSIDE. BUT ERIC ALLEN WOULDN'TAL TROUGH. BRENT: GARY CLARK IS INTO THIS GAME. HE'S A MAN THAT ALMOST EVERYBODY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL SAYS IF THE REDSKINS ARE TO COME UP WITH A BIG PASSING PLAY, IT WOULD BE GARY CLARK. BRENT: CLARK TRIES TO BREAK OUT, BUT IT'S INCOMPLETE AT MID FIELD. SMITH, THE ROOKIE, BEING TESTED. DICK: WHAUN THEY DID, THEY LINED UP THREE PEOPLE ALL IN THE SAME AREA OF THE FIELD, CROSSED TWO OF THEM, CROSSED TWO OF THEM, AND THEN SENT CLARK DEEP. LOOK AT THAT. HE DARN NEAR HAD THAT. I DON'T THINK THE DEFENDER TOUCHED THE FOOTBALL OR DEFENDED. ENT:IETHVER THE MILE FORT DO. DICK: YOU KNOW, THEY AREN'T GOING TO BLOCK REGGIE WHITE BY THEMSELVES. THE TACKLE HAD HIM FOR A WHILE, THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HERE COMES SOMEONE TO HELP HIM. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BLOCK REGGIE WHITE WITH ONE PERSON VERY OFTEN. BRENT: GARY CLARK HAS NOW BEEN THE TARGET FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE PASSES. BRENT: GERALD RIGGS THE BALL CARRIER. HE BREAKS OUT FOR A COUPLE OF YARDS. DICK: GERALD RIGGS HAS HAD SOME BIG SEASONS. THREE MES ER1,000. HE RAN REAL WELAST WEEK AGAINST BUFFALO. HE'S BEEN INJURED. HE'S HAD AN ARCH FOOT PROBLEM. HE THAT PROBLEM LAST YEAR AND IT REOCCURRED THIS YEAR. BUT WHEN THIS GUY IS ON AND HEALTHY, HE'S A HORSE. ENT: DELAY ACTION RIGGS TOTHE 29-YARD LINE. DICK: YOU WON'T SEE THE TRUE EAGLE 46 DEFENSE VERY MUCH TODAY WITH REGGIE WHITE ON THE NOSE, BECAUSE THE REDSKINS HAVE DONE A REAL GOOD JOB OF AUDIBLEING AND RUNNING THEIR COUNTER GAP PLAY OPPOSITE THE STRENGTH. AND IT'S HURT THEM. SO JEFF FIER SA THEY'RE RUNNG A RIATION OF TH BUT NOT THE TRUE 46. BRENT: RYPIEN STRAIGHT BACK. INCOMPLETE. DICK: HE SLIPPED AGAIN. BRENT: A PENALTY FLAG WAS THROWN ON THE FAR SIDE. DICK: RYPIEN AS HE SET UP THAT TIME SLIPPED AGAIN. THESE GUYS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A WAY AT HALF TIME, THINK ABOUT TRYING A DIFFERENT PAIR OF SHOES, BECAUSE HE'S SLIPPING AGAIN. REFEREE: NUMBER 79, OFFENSE, WAS LINEED UP TOO FAR OFF THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. PENALTY REFUSED. FOURTH DOWN. DICK: WHEN THEY GET UP IN THEIR STANCE, AND THEY MOVE UP AND BACK, THEY'RE NOT ON THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE ANY MORE. BRENT: THIS IS HARRIS, THE RETURN MAN, OUT TO THE 36-YARD LINE. THE EAGLES, WHO LEAD IT 3-0, WILL HAVE A FIRST AND 1O AFTER THE NINE-YARD RETURN. DICK: TAKE A LOOK AND I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT IN REGARD TO RYPIEN DROPPINGACK. WATCH HIM SET THAT BACK FOOT. SEE HOTHATIPPED OUT BOY, WHEN YOU'RE A QUARTERBACK AND YOU RELY ON STOPPING ON THAT BACK FOOT TO RESET, GAIN YOUR BALANCE AND GET THE POWER OFF THAT BACK FOOT, WHEN THAT HAPPENS, THAT REALLY, REALLY SHAKES YOU. HARD TO THROW ACCURATELY. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM UNDER PRESSURE FIRES TO CKSON O THE 4O-YARD LINE. THAT WAS NUMBER 88, KEITH JACKSON. IT WAS A 66-YARD RECEPTION TO JACKSON, THAT SET UP THE EAGLES' FIELD GOAL, THE ONLY SCORE IN THE GAME. DICK: WHAT THE REDSKINS DO IS A REAL GOOD JOB OF JAMMING AS LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. THEY DN'T WANT TO GO TO THE RIGHT. WATCH HIM JAM RIGHT HERE. BRENT: EARNEST BYNER HAVING THAT SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE TAPED. THE WORD FROM THE BENCH IS HE'S EXPECTED TO RETURN. ENT: SHERMAN OUT TO THE 43-YARD LINE. BRENT: ON THIRD DOWN, CUNNINGHAM ROWS INCOMPLETE. HE WANTED JACKSON, AND HE WAS SHORT OF HIS TARGET. CK: REAL GOOD REORGANIZATION BY THE DSKISTAFF. TH GOT SET UP, BOOM, HOSE YS GAME IN. THEY HAD THR NKEL DEFE INON TTHIRD DOW JT THEY WA. BREN AA RESULTTHE EAGL WILL PUNT IT AWAY AGAIN. DARRELL GREEN GOES BACK DEEP. BRENT: DARRELL GREEN FAIR CATCHES THIS ONE. DICK: HE WASN'T TOO EXCITED ABOUT IT, I DON'T THINK. BRENT: IT'S EARLY. BRENT: THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS WITH A FIRST AND 1O OR THEIR OWN 29-YARD LINE TRAILING BY A FIELD GOAL. DICK: THE REDSKINS WANT TO RUN THE BALL WELL ENOUGH TO FORCE THE EAGLES TO COMMIT LINEBACKERS TO STOP THE RUN TO GET BETTER ONE-ON-ONE PASSING SITUATIONS ON THE SAME DOWNS. BRENT: RIGGS THE BALL CARRIER. AND HE WAS HIT BY NUMBER 48, WES HOPKINS, THE SAFETY MAN BRINGING HIM DOWN. DICK: YOU'LL TAKE A LOOK A JEROME BROWN NOW. THERE HE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SCREEN. THAT'S RALEIGH MCKENZIE JUST KNOCKING HIM OFF THE BALL A LITTLE BIT. HE'S FAVORING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER RIGHT NOW. BRENT: A GREAT PLAY BY SETH JOYNER. THE EAGLES HAVE RECOVERETH FUMBLE. DICK: THEY RAN THE DEFENSIVE LINE -- THEY RAN A DEFENSIVE LINE STUNT, OKAY, MEANING TWO LINEMEN CROSSCHARGED. ACTUALLY, THAT BL WASN'T KNOCKED OUT, IT JUST CAME OUT. I BELIEVE GERALD RIGGS, AS EXPERIENCE THE AS HE IS, WOULD ALLOW THAT RIGHT ELBOW TO GET OUT AWAY FROM THE BODY. NO EXCUSE FOR THAT. HE'S GOT TO KEEP IT LOCKED IN TIGHT. BRENT: JOYNER WAS COMING FROM BEHIND, AND WES HOPKINS RECOVERED THE FUMBLE. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM HITS JACKSON TO E 1O-YA LINE FOR A FIRST DOWN FOR PHILADELPHIA. ALVIN WALTON THERE FENSIVELY. 16 MORE YARDS. DICK: UP THERE BUMP AND RUN. HE'S GOING TO SHAKE HIM RIGHT NOW, HE'S GOING TO GIVE A SHAKE THERE. WATCH HIM GO BACK UNDERNEATH HIM. HERE HE GOES, NOW HE LOOKS FOR THE BALL TO THE INSIDE. HE'S GOT A STRONG SAFETY COVERING A G TIGHT END THAT CAN N LIKE A WIDE RECEIVER. BRENT: SHERMAN IS UP TO THE SIX-YARD LINE. DICK YOU CAN LOOK FOR THEM IN POWER UNNG TUATIONS TO RUN UP BEHIND RGIE SINGLETA AT 28APODS THEY LIKE TO RUN TO THE RIGHT SIDE. THEY FEEL HE'S THE MOST AGGRESSIVE RUN BLOCKER WITHIN THAT GROUP. BRENT: ONE THING THE OFFENSIVE COACHES OF THE EAGLES WERE GOING TO WATCH IS THPURSUIT FROM THE BACKSIDE AGAINST CUNNINGHAM. BRT:HERMAN WILL RUN. NOT MUCH THERE. THEY GET TO THE FIVE-YARD LINE. AND IT WL BE THIRD DOWN FOR PHILADELPHIA. DICK: SHERMAN HAS REALLY ADDED A DIMENSION. HEOME ON, THREE 100-YARD GAMESINA ROW. HE ADDED THE DIMENSION OF NOT HAVING TO PLAY BLOCK PERFECTLY. HE FINDS THE DAYLIGHT. THE EAGLES HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB WHEN THEY'VE -- WITH THE OFFENSE WHEN THE DEFENSE HAS TAKEN IT AWAY. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM FIRING THE LEFT T. WILL BE INCOMPLETE. IT WILL NOW BE FOURTH DOWN AND FOUR FOR THE FIRST DOWN, FIVE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN. DICK: THEY'RE GIVING RANDALL AN AWFUL LOT OF TIME BACK THERE. THEY'VE GOT A FIVE-MAN RUSH. YOU CAN SEE WHY HE'S NOT FINDING A LANE TO RUSH THROUGH. THE DEFENSIVE -- DEFENSE HAS MAINTAINED REAL GOOD DISCIPLINE. DICK: THEY CALLED DEFENSIVE HOLDING THERE, BRENT. I DIDN'T SEE A FLAG GO DOWN ON THE FIELD. BRENT: IT WAS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THEND ZONE. DICK: FIRST DOWN ON THE THREE. BRENT: THIS WILL GIVE THE EAGLES A FIRST AND GOAL AS THE RESULT OF THE HOLDING. BRENT: SLIPPED AGAIN. HEATH SHERMAN MAKING A CUT INSIDE THE FIVE. DICK: THEY MUST HAVE VASELINE ON THIS SURFACE. BRENT: THE HOLDING CALL WAS AGAINST MARTIN MAYHEW, THE #■ CORNERBACK, ON THE LEFT SIDE. HE WAS GUILTY OF THE HOLD, GIVING THE EAGLES THE FIRST AND GOAL. DICK: NORMALLY THEY DON'T CALL SOMETHING TOTALLY AWAY FROM THE DIRECTION OF THE THROW. MARTIN MAYHEW WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FIELD. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM THROWI OUT OF THE BACK OF THE END ZONE. AND IT WILL BE THIRD AND GOAL, AS THE EAES CON TO HAVE TROUBLE TRYING SCO INSIDE THE 2O. THE TARGET THAT FINAL WAS MICKEY SHULER. DICK: GOOD DISCIPLINE BY THE REDSKINS. LINEBACKER COVERAGE WAS EXCELLENT BY THE BACKS OUT OF THE BACKFIELD. RICH KOTITE IN THMIDDLE OF YOUR SCREEN. HE SAYS WE ARE NOT GOING TO PLAY THIS PASSIVELY. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM TRYING GET AWAY FROM MANN. AND HE'S WISTLEEDDO AT THE 1OARD LINE. THBALL IS DOWN AT E -YARD LINE, AS BINUMBER 71, CHARLENN, O S MADE SO NY FINE DEFENSIVE PLAYS FOR THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS THROUGHOUT HIS GREAT CAREER, MAKES ANOTHER ONE. DICK: YOU CAN SEE THE PRESSURE RIGHT HERE. NOBODY PICKED HIM UP. NORMALLY A GUARD OR CENTER WOULD PICK HIM UP. THE CEER'S GOING OUT BACKSIDE. HE WAS PICKED UP LATE BUT IT WAS TOO LATE. BRENT: RUZEK ADDS HIS SECOND FIELD GO, THIS ONE A -YARDER. DICK: HERE'S T HOLDING CALL. CALVIN WILLIAMS GOES IN MOTION. MAYHEW TRIES BEAT HIM UNDERNEATH. MAYHEW HOOKS HIM WITH HIS LEFT ARM. THE OFFICIAL BACK IN THE END ZONE SEES IT AND THROWS THE FLAG. BRENT: THIS IS BOWLES. DICK GOOD TACKLE. KEN ROSE, NUMBER 55, AND NUMBER 54, A GOOD JOB OF COVERING THE KICK. THAT WAS A GOOD KICK TO COVER BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE AIR. IT HUNG UP THERE, AND THAT ALLOWS THE COVERAGE TO GET UNDERNEATH. BRENT: EARNEST BYNER ■RETURNS TO THE BACKFIELD FOR THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS. BRT: INTERCEPTED ERI O THE -YARD LINE. THE SECOND TURNOVER BY HE REDSNS. DICK: THEY'RE THEY ARE,UMP ANN-PEOVAGE. COME WNOUTSID NOW. THE LL IS UNDERTHROWN. THRECEIVER KEEPS GOING. ERIC ALLEN SLOWS DOWN AND GOES UP TO GET AT ITS HIGHEST POINT. NOW HE BECOMES A RUNNING BACK. ERIC ALLEN ON AN INTERCEPTION, HIS FOURTH BALL OF THE YEAR. BRENT: ON THE REDSKINS LAST TWO PLAYS WERE TURNOVERS. DICK: MARK RYPIEN IS ANT AN INTERCEPTION THROWER. HE HAS THROWN MORE RECENTLY. BRENT: SHERMAN BOUNCES BACK TO THE OUTSIDE AND HE IS BROUGHT DOWN BY MANUSKY. DICK THEYE SLIPPING AROUND OUT THERE. CHARLES MANN, NUMBER 71, GOT GOOD PENETRATION OUT THERE AND MADE HIM BOUNCE TO THE OUTSIDE. THEY DIDN'T WANT TO RUN OUT THERE. TAKE A LOOK AT CHARLES MANN, NUMBER 71, AS HE CREATS HAVOC. ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN. THERE'S A DOWNBLOCK BY JACKSON. HE GOT GOOD PENETRATION BUT COULDN'T GET INSIDE. BRENT: ON THE PLAY FAKE UNDER PRESSURE, BROUGHT DOWN, A GREAT DEFENSIVE PLAY BY TIM JOHNSON, NUMBER 78.■■■■ DICK: SEE WHAT HAPPENS THERE, ONE OF THE RUNNINGBACKS GOT THE GUARD IN TECHNIQUE TO MAKE THE BLOCK. YOU'LL SEE RIGHT HERE THE OFFENSIVE GUARD RIGHT HERE AND THE TACKLE RIGHT HERE. YOU'LL NOTE AS HE PASSES -- WATCH THE RUNNING BACK IN THE BACK. HE KNOCKS THE GUARD OFF HIS BLOCK, ALLOWS THAT PENETRATION. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM DOWN THE NEAR SIDE INCOMPLE. HE EXPEED CALVIN WILLIAMS TO BREAK BACK TOWARD THE SIDELINES. A MISCOMMUNICATION. AND JEFF FEAGLES WILL PUNT IT AWAY. BRENT: GREEN CUTS BACK AND GOES DOWN AT THE 31-YARD LINE AND OUT OF BOUNDS. BRENT: TO THE 3-YARD LINE. BYRON EVANS BRINGING HIM DOWN. DICK: THAT'S THE DESIGNED CUTBACK, START RIGHT AND THEN COME ON BACK. AND THEY'RE USING THE H-BACK TO COME ACROSS AND TRY TO BLOCK THE DEFENSIVE END OR THE FIRST MAN THAT SHOWS. THEY RAN IS REAL WELL AGAINST BUFFALO LAST WEEK. BRENT: OVER THE MIDDLE. A GREAT DEFENSIVE PLAY BY JOYNER AGAIN. HE HAS MADE TWO PLAYS. HE HAS CAUSED A FUMBLE AND NOW HE BREAKS UP A PASS. A MAN WHO HAS BEEN DENIED AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO THE PRO BOWL AND PROBABLY DESERVED IT. ONE OF THE MOST UNHERLDED LINEBACKERS IN THE GAME. >> BUDDY RYAN REALLY RESPECTS THIS GUY, BECAUSE HE STAYS ON THE FIELD ALL THE TI. YOU'LL SEE THE ANGLE. HE'S THROWING A DELAY PATTERN BACK UNDERNEATH. BRENT: RYPIEN HAS MONK WHO IS DOWN AT THE 39-YARD LINE, WITH SMITH BRINGING HIM DOWN. GREAT PASS PROTECTION BY THE OFFENSIVE LINE. DICK: WHEN YOU'RE GIVEN THAT KIND OF TIME -WHEN YOU GIVE HIM THIS KIND OF TIME, YOU'RE ASKING FOR TROUBLE. YOU'LL SEE HE SET UP THERE. NOBODY IN HIS FACE. BEAUTIFUL THROWING LANE. A COMEBACK PATTERN THERE. NOW A POOR TACKLE BY IZEL JENKINS, NUMBER 46. YOU HAVE TO GET YOUR PADS INTO IT TO MAKE THOSE TACKLES. BRENT: RYPIEN THROWS TO BYNER ON THE NEAR SIDE. AND BYNER IS TO THE 15-YARD LINE. AND THAT WAS REGGIE WHITE WHO TOOK THE PADS TO RYPIEN ON THE THROW, BUT IT WAS A GOOD PASS. DICK: THAT'S A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE'KE BEEN LOOKING FOR THE EAGLES TO DO. ACTION AWAY. NOW HE COMES OUT ON HE BOOTLEG. HE WANTED TO GET THE WALTO WARBAH. LEFT SPICD OTHE HE THROWS ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE BACK WHERE HE FAKED TO. AND HERE'S BYNER VING UP FIELD. BRENT: TOUCHDOWN! IT WAS ART MONK, 16 YARDS. DICK HERE'S ART MONK. HE WALIEPD UP INSIDTIGHT. THERE HE IS, ERIC ALLEN TAKING HIM BACK TO THE INSIDE. THERE WAS PLAY ACTION THAT ELIMINATED THE LINEBACKER. YOU SEE HOPKINS TRIES TAKE HIM ON. THAT'S NOT EVEN LEGAL DOWN THERE. THEY SHOULD HAVE CALLED PASS INTERFERENCE DOWN THERE. DEFENSIVE HOLDING. THEN HE GOES SUBPOENA AND GETS IT. BRENT: CHIP LOHMILLER PUTS WASHINGTON AHEAD FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS AFTERNOON.■■ BRENT: LOHMILLER KICKS IT OUT OF THE BACK OF THE END ■■ZONE. IT WILL COME OUT TO THE 2O-YARD LINE. DICK HERE'S ART MONK RIGHT HERE. YOU SEE HIM LINED UPTIGHT. OFF THE PLAY-ACTION FAKE IN HERE. THAT THROWS THE LINEBACKERS. THERE'S THE GUARD PULLING, THERE'S THE FAKE TO THE BACK. NOW HE GETS THE SEAM THERE. ONE-ON-ONE COVERAGE. HOPKINS, THE FREE SAFETY TRIED TO HIT HIM AS HE WENT BY. HE DIDN'T MAKE IT. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM HANDS TO SHERMAN ON FIRST DOWN. HE'S TO THE 23-YARD LINE. MANUSKY, GREG MANUSKY, NUMBER 91, MIDDLE LINEBACKER OUT OF COLGATE, AGAIN IN THERE DEFENSIVELY FOR THE REDSKINS. HE WILL GO OFF ON THE FAR SIDE. THEY'LL MAKE A SUBSTITUTION. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM GOES UNDERNEATH THE COVERAGE TO SHERMAN, WHO PICKS UP THE FIRST DOWN. DICK: YOU FAKE TO ONE BACK AND HE FAKES AND COMES OUTS -- MANY TIMES IN THE TWO TIGHT ENDS, TWO WIDE-OUT FORMATIONS, THEY ARE AUDIBLEING THE DIRECTION THE WAY THEY WILL GO BASED ON THE SECONDARY ALIGNMENT, GOING AWAY FROM THE STRENGTH OF THE SECONDARY. BRENT: SHERMAN THE BALL CARRIER INTO THE HEART OF THE DEFENSE. MANUSKY, WHO IS BACK ON FIRST DOWN, AND NOW AFTER MAKING THE STOP, HE WILL LEAVE AND GUEP GUEP ■■GUEP WILL COME BACK IN THE GAME, ALONG WITH MONTE COLEMAN. OPD THE NO-HUDDLE SCHEME. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM IS DOWN AT THE 41-YARD LINE. WHAT HE DOES BETTER THAN MOST. A PENALTY FLAG IS NOW BEING THROWN BACK AT THE 4O-YARD LINE. AND IT'S GOING TO GO AGAINST WASHINGTON. DI: I THINK YL G GOT IN AN ARGUMENT WITH SOMEBODY HE FELT WAS HOLDING HIM. HE TOOK A LITTLE SHOT AT HIM. THE OFFICIALS SAW IT. 15 YARDS. BOY, I'LL TELL YOU, ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO IN A PLAYOFF GAME -- REFEREE: PERSONAL FOUL, 77, DEFENSE. 15 YARDS FROM THE END OF THE RUN. FIRST DOWN. DICK: -- IS TO CONTROL YOUR INTENSITY TO HELP YOU PLAY BETTER. THAT'S A STUPID MOVE. HERE'S RANDALL RIGHT HERE. THIS IS WHAT HE DOES SO WELL. HE'S FORCED UP INSIDE. A MAN ALMOST GETS HIM. THEY HAVEN'T DECIDED WHERE HE HAS TO GO. NO ONE IN THE HOLE THERE, NO ONE IS SPYING ON HIM IN THAT SITUATION. BOY, NOBODY DOES IT ANY BETTER THAN THIS GUY DOES IT. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM'S GOING TO GO OUT OF BOUNDS ON THE FAR DE, TURNEDO UPFIELD. AND HERE'S ALSO A HOLDING CALL IN THE MIDDLE. DICK: THE REDSKINS RIGHT AWAY ME BACK WITH A FIVE-MAN RUSH FILLING UP THOSE SCRAMBLE LANES, THE RUSH LANES THAT THE QUARTER BACK HAS. BRENT: SO THERE E A COUPLE OF PENALTIES ON THIS PLAY. DICK: THEY'LL TAKE THE HOLD REFEREE: WE HAVMULTIE FOULS AGAINST THE OFFENSE. ILLEGAMOTION. PENALTY REFUSED. OFFENSIVE HOLDING, WILL BE ACPTED, NUMBER 69. 1O YARDS. REPLAY FIRST DOWN. BRENT: THE REFEREE EXPLAINING IT TO THE CROWD AND YOU AT HOME. DICK: NUMBER 69, AT'S BRU COLLIE. HE'S BEEN IN SOME BIG ONES. HE HA'T BEEN 100% HEALTH FOR SOME TIME. BRLVIN WAON GOT IT IN THE AI WAIN BALL. THE EAGLES' FIRST TURNOVER OF THE GAME. AND DARRYL GRANT WAS THE MAN WHO GOT A PAW ON HIM AND KNOCKED FREE. DICK: DARRYL GRANT JUST RIGHTED HIMSELF FROM THE 15-YARD PERSONAL FOUL. YOU'LL SEE THIS FROM THE REVEE ANGLE HI. DIRECT HANDOFF. NOW IT'S COMING TOWARD US TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN. BYARS IS GOING TO KICK OUT. HE'S LEADING. NOW HERE HE IS, HE'S GOT IT TUCKED AWAY NICELY. AND GRANT JUST STRIPS IT. THERE'S THE BALL IN THE AIR. IT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU WANT TO JUMP AND GET, DOESN'T IT, BRENT? BRENT: EASY NOW. BRENT: MIDDLETON IN MOTION LEADS BYNER. AND BYNER CRACKS HIS WAY TO THE 36 RUNNING HARD. REGGIE WHITE GETS THE TACKLE. DICK: THE REDSKINS CONSTANTLY CHANGE THE LOOK OF THE FORMATION THEY SHOW YOU INITIALLY. THEY SHOW YOU A LOOK AND THEN PRIOR TO THE SNAP THEY'RE EITHER GOING TO SHIFT OR THEY'RE GOING TO GO IN MOTION. AND THEY LIKE TO CHANGE THE FORMATION STRENGTH FROM RIGHT TO LEFT R USE MOVEMENT TO DO THAT. BRENT: SANDERS COMING AROUND TRYING GET THE FIRST DOWN. HE COULD NOT. EXCELLENT TALE DOWN THERE BY NUMBER 48, WES PKINS. HOPKINS AGAIN TURIN N OUTSTANDING GAME DEFENSIVELY, AS WE HIT THE TWO-MINUTE WARNING HERE IN THE FIRST HALF. BRENT: 290-POUND LA LA LA, NUMBER 79, GOING TO THE PRO BOWL FROM THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS REPRESENTING THE NFC. WE KNOW HE'S DOING AN OUTSTANDING JOB, BECAUSE IN MOST ONE-ON-ONE BLOCKING SITUATIONS, HE'S MATCHED AGAINST ED SIMMONS, NUMBER -- CLYDE SIMMONS, NUMBER 96. BRENT: RYPIEN TRYING TO HIT THE HOT RECEIVER, AS THEY TAKE RYPIEN DOWN. ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES RE TODAY THEY CAME WITH FORCE. DICK: THAT WAS WES HOPKINS RIGHT THERE. NOBODY PICKED HIM UP. HE WANTED TO GO TO A HOT RECEIVER, MEANING A RECEIVER THAT READS THAT AND THEN ADJUSTS HIS PATTERN ACCORDINGLY. AND RYPIEN, HE'S UPSET. WES HOPKINS, HE'S NOT UPSET, HE LIKED IT. JUST LOOK INSIDE, HE SAID, JUST LOOK INSIDE AND YOU'LL EAT THE FOOTBALL. BRENT: HARRIS FAIR CATCHS IT AT THE 17-YARD LINE. 44-YARD PUNT FOR GOODBURN. HE'S THE SECOND PUNTER EMPLOYED THIS YEAR BY COACH JOE GIBBS. AND NOW IT WILL BE RANDALL CUNNINGHAM. ANY WORD FROM THE EAGLE BENCH ON THEIR OFFENSIVE LINE? DICK: THEY SAY SALT IS NOT INJURED. HE'S ALL RIGHT. LET'S SEE WHO'S IN THERE RIGHT NOW. SOLT HAD TWO KNEE OPERATIONS AND MISSED SOME GAMES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. COLLIE IS IN THERE RIGHT NOW. THEY LIKE COLLIE BECAUSE HE PULLS WELL. LET'S SEE IF THEY'LL USE HIM IN SOME KIND OF PLAY WHERE HE'S OUT LEADING THE RUNNING BACK. ENT: CUNNINGHAM GOES LONG. IT'S INTERCEPTED AT MID FIELD. HE UNDERTHREW HIS WIDE RECEIVER. AND DARRELL GREEN MADE THE INTERCEPTION. DICK: I'LL TELL YOU WHY HE UNDERTHREW. DARRELL GREEN REALLY GAVE IT TO RANDALL. THEY GAVE HIM TOO MUCH TIME INITIALLY, ANDAS RANDALL TOLD US YESTERDAY, I'M NOT GOING TO SCRAMBLE, I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET THE BALL DOWNFIELD. SHOT GUN FORMATION. SCHAD, NUMBER 79, YOU SEE HIM ON THE LEFT. HE WAS HOLDING THE BALL. WATCH THIS SHOT. THAT'S 280 POUNDS. GOOD INTERCEPTION BY DARRELL GREEN. HERE'S THE HIT. TAKE A LOOK. CAN YOU PICTURE BEING HIT BY 29? BRENT: BYNER BREAKS FREE TO THE 4O, AND OUT OF BOUNDS STOPPIHE CLOCK AT THE 35-YARD LINE. ANDRE WATERS GETTING HIM OUT OF BOUNDS AFTER A 15-YARD GAIN. JUST ONE POINT TO MAKE ABOUT THE INTERCEPTION BEFORE WE LET IT GO, AND THAT WAS THE SPEED OF FRED BARNETT. HE HAD BUSTED FREE OF GREEN. BUT IT WAS GRANT WHO GOT THE BALL. DICK: EVANS RIGHT HERE IS LOCKED ON TO THE RUNNING BACK. BRENT: BYNER DOWN AT THE 18-YARD LINE. TREMENDOUS EFFORT THAT TIME BY RYPIEN, WHO WAS UNDER A HEAVY BLITZ FROM SETH. DICK: THAT WAS ALMOST IN THE GRASS. HE GAVE A LITTLE ALA RANDALL CUNNINGHAM. HE DUCKED UNDER THE PRESSURE. AND I DON'T THINK HE'S REALLY KNOWN FOR. THIS A BIG, STRONG GUY. 3WO-S> I CAN, NUMBER 53 COMING OUT THERE TO BLOCK. HE GETS RIGHT OUT UNDERNTH. THAT WAS CLOSE TO BEING IN THE CONGRESS. VERY CLOSE. I'VE SEEN LESS CALLED. BRENT: THAT COMPLETION CERTAINLY PUTS THE REDSKINS IN FIELD GOAL TERRITORY. BUT THEY STILL HAVE ONE MINUTE EIGHT SECONDS TO WORK WITH. AND NOW, ON JOE GIBBS' MIND, IS TRYING TO GET ANOTHER TOUCHDOWN. THEY FELL BEHIND PHILADELPHIA BY A PAIR OF FIELD GOALS AFTER THE EAGLES FAILED TO STICK IT INTO THE END ZONE. THEN THE REDSKINS CAME BACK AND GOT A SCORING PASS TO ART MONK. AND LOHMILLER'S EXTRA POINT MADE IT 7-6. NOW FOLLOWING A CUNNINGHAM INTERCEPTION, THE REDSKINS HAVE MARCHED BACK INSIDE THE 2O-YARD LINE. WHAT WASHINGTON DID BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE FIRST HALF IS MAINTAIN ITS POISE AFTER TURNING THE BALL OVER. BRENT: TOUCHDOWN, PHILADELPHIA!■■ DICK: TWOPT TAKE A LOOK AT THAT, BRENT. THE FIELD MIGHT HAVE CAUSED THE FUMBLE. AND I'M SURE THEY'RE REVIEWING IT RIGHT NOW. CAN YOU IMAGINE IF THAT'S REVERSED? TAKE A LOOK AT THE FUMBLE RIGHT HERE. YOU CAN SEE HE'S GOT IT TUCKED UNDER HIS LEFT ARM. IT'S STILL IN HIS ARMS, STILL IN HIS ARMS. IT'S NOT A FUMBLE. IT'S NOT A FUMBLE. IT'S NOT A FUMBLE. IT NOT A IF YOU MEAN BILL. THE FIELD CAUSED THE FUMBLE ON THAT SHOT. THAT ONE SHOULDN'T BE CALLED A FUMBLE. WE'RE TAKING A LOOK NOW FROM A HIGHER ANGLE TOOK LOOKING DOWN. THE BALL'S STILL IN THERE, THE BALL'S STILL IN HIS HANDS. THE FIELD CAUSED THE FUMBLE. IT IS NOT A FUMBLE. HERE'S ANOTHER SHOT. HEY, WE'RE GETTING ALL THESE PRETTY SHOTS. BALL STILL IN TIGHT, BALL STILL IN TIGHT,LBOW HITS. REFEREE: THE OFFICIALS ON THE FIELD RULED A TUMBLE AND A TOUCHDOWN. IT'S BEING REVIEWED BY REPLAY. BRENT: IT WAS BEING REVIEWED BY REPLAY. IMMEDIATELY EXPLAINING THAT IT WAS CALLED A TOUCHDOWN THE FIELD AND AS SOON AS THE PLAY OCCURRED, IT WAS IMMEDIATELY BEING REVIEWED BY THE REVIEWER. AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE SITUATIONS WHERE NOW WE'RE IN THE PLAYOFFS WHERE IT BECOMES EVER SO CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT. IT'S AT THIS POINT WHERE YOU'RE ALMOST TEMPTED TO SAY TAKE AS MUCH TIME AS YOU NEED, JUST GET IT RIGHT. DICK: WE SAW IT THREE DIFFERENT WAYS, HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU NEED. ALL YOU NEED TO SAY IS HEY, IT'S NOT A FUMBLE. HERE'S THE WHOLE PLAY AGAIN FOR THE FIFTH TIME. IT SHOULDN'T TAKE THIS LONG TO MAKE THAT DECISION. HERE IT IS. HE'S GOT LOCKED UP. THERE IT IS, HIS LEFT ARM. REFEREE: THE OFFICIALS ON THE FIELD RULED IF YOU MEAN DEL AND THE TOUCHDOWN. HOWEVER, HOWEVER, THE PLAY HAS BEEN REVERSED. THE KNEE WAS DOWN AND CONTRACT WAS CAUSED BY CONTRACT WITH THE GROUND. HE'S DOWN BY CONTRACT. DICK: LADIES A GENTLEMEN, WE'LL SHOW YOU THIS ONE MORE TIME SO YOU KNOW WHY THEY HAVE INSTANT REPLAY. THE BALL IS STILL IN HIS HANDS, STILL IN HIS HANDS, THE ELBOW HITS THE TURF. THE BALL NOW COMES OUTRIGHT THERE. HE IS DOWN. THAT'S A GOOD RULE. THAT'S WHY THEY -- A GROUND CANNOT CAUSE THE FUMBLE. BUDDY KNOWS THAT. I'LL TELL YOU THIS, IF YOU'RE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT CALL, YOU HATE IT. BRENT: BUDDY RYAN COLDING PREDICTING AND TRYING TO PUT THE THOUGHT IN EARNEST BYNER'S MIND SAID THEE DAYS AGO HE WOULD FUMBLE THREE TIMES. SO MANY THINGS HAD TO GO THROUGH BYNER'S MIND WHEN HE WENT OFF THE FIELD ON THAT FAR SIDE. DICK: HE WAS THINKING "WHAT DOES THAT LITTLE IRISHMAN KNOW ABOUT ME?" BRENT: NOW, WHAT A DRAMATIC TURNAROUND IN THIS GAME. INSTEAD OF THE EAGLES LEADING IT 13-7, THE REDSKINS STILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SCORE A TOUCHDOWN. THEY'VE GOT 48 SECONDS TO GO. DICK: PLUS BEN SMITH'S TIRED. THAT WAS A LONG RUN. BRENT: NOW THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS WILL HAVE A FIRST AND GOAL , THE BALL IS AT THE EAGLES' SIX-YARD LINE, 48 SECONDS LEFT ON THE CLOCK IN THIS HALF. TWO-TIME-OUTS REMAINING FOR THE REDSKINS. REFEREE: THE REPLAY OFFICIAL REVERSED THE CALL. HE WAS DOWN BY CONTRACT. WE'RE PLACING THE BALL ON THE SIX-YARD LINE. FIRST AND GOAL. DICK: IT DOESN'SOUND LIKE THAT GUY LIKED THAT DECISION. THAT'■ WHAT MAKES INSTANT REPLAY WORTHWHILE. IF YOU GET BEAT PHYSICALLY BY THE RULES OF THE GAME. BRENT: RYPIEN THROWING COMPLETE. OUT OF BOUNDS INSIDE THE FIVE-YARD LINE. THAT TIME HE WENT TO BYNER AGAIN COMING OUT OF THE BACKFIELD. ERIC ALLEN THERE DEFENSIVELY. DICK: THEY'RE REALLY RNING A PICK. THEY'RE LINING UP IN A TIGHT FORMATION AND THEN RUNNING IT BACK OUT OF THE BACKFIELD. THE TWO RECEIVERS OUTSIDE ARE COMING BACK IN. THE SAME ONE HE FUMBLED ON. TWO PEOPLE ARE GOING IN PUSHING THE DEFENSE RIGHT HERE. HERE'S THE WIDE OPEN RECEIVER RIGHT THERE, THE DEFENDER CHASING SIDE OUT. BRENT: SECOND DOWN AND GOAL. BYNER SHORT OF THE GOAL LINE. MIKE PITTS, NUMBER 74. THE FIRST TO HIT HIM. DICK: THEY'VE GOT THINK ABOUT A TIME-OUT. YEAH, THEY DID IT RIGHT HERE. BRENT: WITH 24 SECONDS LEFT. OF COURSE, THE DRAMA ON THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON IS JUST BEGINNING. BRENT: 24 SECONDS TO GO IN THE FIRST HALF. WASHINGTON LEADING PHILADELPHIA 7-6. INSTANT REPLAY WITH A REVERSAL KEPT THE EAGLES FROM TAKING AN APPARENT LEAD INTO THE LOCKER ROOM AT THE INTERMISSION. DICK: YOU CAN SEE THAT THE REDSKINS DO A PRETTY GOOD JOB IN THIS SITUATION. BRENT: A GREAT STOP. AGAIN IT IS JOYNER. DICK: BOY, IS HE A PLAYER. THEY'VE GOT TO GO FIELD GOAL NOW. YOU KNOW, HE JUST JUMPED OVER THE TOP OF OFFENSIVE LINEMEN. YOLL SEE BYNER RIGHT HERE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN. HE HAD JUMPED OVER THE TOP OF OFFENSIVE LINEMEN. HE CAME IN THERE. TAKE A LOOK FROM THE END ZONE. WATCH IT. THEY TRY TO CUT HIM LOW. HE JUMPS OVER, JACOBY, NUMBER 66. HE JUMPED OVER THE TOP OF HIM. YOU HAVE TO JUMP HIGH TO GET OVER THE TOP OF A 300-POUNDER, DON'T YOU. BRENT: JOIN JOIN IN THE FIRST HALF, FIVE TACKLES, ONE FORCED FUMBLE AND A PASS BROKEN UP OVER THE MIDDLE. DICK: A GUY LIKE JOYNER DOESN'T MAKE THE PRO BOWL AND AS A COACH, YOU START ABOUT THAT HE OUGHT TO BE A PRO BOWLER, AND THE MANAGEMENT COULD GET MAD AT YOU. BEUSE THNE HE DOESN'T MAKE THE PRO BOWLER BUT THE AGENTS ARE SAYING HEY, HE OUGHT TO GET PAID LIKE A PRO BOWLER. BRENT: BYNER IS CONFERRING WITH SOME OF THE OFFENSIVE LINEMEN.■■ BRENT: AND HE PUTS WASHINGTON AHEAD 1O-6. AND THE CROWD WILL VOICE ITS DISPLEASURE AT THE OFFICIALS WHEN THEY HEAD FOR THE LOCKER ROOM HERE AT HALF-TIME. DICK: WHAT THE EAGLES HAVE TO DO NOW COMING OFF HALF-TIME IS TO NOT ALLOW THE REVERSAL OF THAT FUMBLE TOUCHDOWN TO BOTHER THEM EMOTIONLY. BRENT: BACK AT VETERANS STADIUM IN PHILADELPHIA. WASHINGTON LEADING THE EAGLES BY A SCORE OF 1O-6. IN THE MINDS AND HEARTS OF SO MANY EAGLE BOOSTERS, THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE AHEAD 13-7. BUT AN INSTANT REPLAY REVERSAL TOOK AWAY AN APPARENT TOUCHDOWN BY BEN SMITH, WHO DID JUST A FABULOUS JOB OF FORCING A FUMBLE, PICKING IT UP AND THEN WEAVING HIS WAY DOWN FIELD. BUT ALL FOR NOT. DICK: YOU TOO MADE A MISTAKE. HE DIDN'T FUMBLE, THE GROUND FORCED THE FUMBLE. BRENT: THIS IS THOMAS SANDERS. AND SANDERS IS OUT TO THE 24-YARD LINE. I WANT TO TAKE ONE MORE LOOK FROM START TO FINISH. RYPIEN IS GOING TO DELIVER THE PASS, BYNER GOT INSIDE THE 1O. THERE'S THE YOUNG MAN DELIVERING THE TACKLE. THE GROUND CAUSING THE FUMBLE, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. BUT NOW WATCH WHAT SMITH DOES. DICK: HE BECOMES A RUNNING BACK. HE'S EXCITED. AND THIS GUY CAN REALLY RUN, REALLY A GOOD FOOTBALL PLAYER. HE WILL BE ON MOST OF THE ALL-ROOKIE FOOTBALL TEAMS AS A CORNERBACK. A FINE PLAYER. WILL EVENTUALLY END UP BEING A FREE SAFETY. THE BIG THING AGAIN IS FOR THE EAGLES NOT TO GET EMOTIONALLY DOWN. BRENT: HERE IN PHILADELPHIA. THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS WITH A 10-6 LEAD OVER THE EAGLES -FL COMING UP NEXT -- MIAMI HOSTING THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS. TO GET MORE ON THAT, LET'S SEND YOU DOWN TO FRANK GIFFORD. FRANK? FRANK: THANK YOU. KANSAS CITY FINISHED SECOND BEHIND THE RAIDERS IN THE AFC WEST. MIAMI FINISHED BEHIND BUFFALO IN THE AFC EAST. AS YOU LOOK AT JOE ROBBIE STADIUM, A LITTLE TRICKLING OF FANS STARTING TO ARRIVE. WE'RE HERE ALONG WITH AL MICHAELS AND DAN DIERDORF. WE TALKED AT OPENING OF OUR TELECAST TODAY ABOUT HOW MEMORABLE THESE NAMES ARE TO THE AFC AND TO THE AFL, THE KANSAS CHIEFS AND MIAMI FOLLOW DOLPHINS. YET THEY HAVE MET ONLY ONCE IN THE PLAYOFFS. IT GOES BACK TO CHRISTMAS DAY. THE MIAMI DOLPHINS WON IT. THEY WENT AHEAD TO LOSE SUPER BOWL VI TO THE DALLAS COWBOYS. THE ONE CONSTANT WAS DON SHULA. THE TWO QUARTERBACKS LENNY DAWSON WAS QUARTERBACKING AT THE TIME FOR 9 CHIEFS AND BOB GRIESE THREW FOR OVER 25O YARDS. DAN RINO HEADED FOR THE HALL OF FAME. BUT STEVE DEBERG, A VERY COMPELLING STORY. AL IN 197 -- HE E. HE WILL BE 37 IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. HE WENT TO SAN JOSE STATE. THE KAU BOYS PICKED HIM IN THE 10TH ROUND. HE WAS RELEASED. THE 49ERS PICKED HIM UP ON WAVERS. HIS CAREER DIDN'T LAST LONG BECAUSE THEYBROUGHT JOE MONTANA IN. THAT SENT DEBERG IN. THAT SENT DEBERG DOWN TO TAMPA. THEY DRAFTED TESTAVERDE. EST SENT ON TO KANSAS CITY. HERE NECESSARY HIS 14TH SEASON HAVING BAY FAR HIS BEST SEASON, A CAREER YEAR WITH AN INCREDIBLE 23 TOUCHDOWN PASSES AND ONLY FOUR INTERSEPGSZ. YOU TALK ABOUT TOUGH. HERE IS A GUY TWO WEEKS WHO SUFFERS A COMPOUND FRACTURE OF THE SMALL FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND. HE HAS THREE PINS INSERTED IN THAT HAND. HE PROTECTS IT WITH A BAND OJ. DAN, AS FAR AS DAN MARINO IS CONCERNED, HERE IS A GUY WE THOUGHT WOULD SPEND HIS ENTIRE CAREER IN THE PLAYOFFS. HE GETS THERE ON HIS FIRST THREE SEASONS. HE'S BACK FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE AFTER THE 1985 CAMPAIGN. DAN: I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CAN BLAME THAT DOUBT ON DAN MARINO. BECAUSE NONE OF THE LUSTER IS GONE FROM HIS STAR. THE FINEST QUARTERBACK THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE HAS EVER SEEN. THE GOLDEN ARM OF DAN MARINO. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW HIS QUICK RELEASE MATCHES UP AGAINST DERRICK THOMAS. DAN MARINO JUST HAD HIS EIGHTH SEASON OF 2O OR MORE PASSES. HIS CAREER TO THIS YEAR, ONE <u>OF </u> INTERCEPTED. THIS YEAR ONE OF EVERY 48. HE HAS BECOME MORE PATIENT. HE IS GOING TO THE SHORTER ROUTE. THUS HE HAS BECOME A MORE EFFECTIVE QUARTERBACK. FRANK: COMING UP, THE SECOND HALF OF OUR LDCARD DOUE HEADER.■■ BRENT: BACK AT THE VET WITH WASHINGTON LEADING PHILADELPHIA. I'M BRENT MUSBURGER. MICE TO HAVE YOU WITH US ON THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. SOME FIREWORKS IN THAT FIRST HALF OF THE GAME. THE EAGLES JUMPED AHEAD WITH A COUPLE OF FIELD GOALS, BUT THE MISSED OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NFL HAVE A TENDENCY TO COME BACK AN BITE YOU. DICK: TWO GOOD DEFENSIVE TEAMS STRUGGLING. ART AMONG CAME UP WITH THE FIRST TOUCHDOWN. BRENT: IT WAS MARK RYPIEN WHO LEAD THE REDSKINS DOWN WITH WITH TWO GOOD PASSES. THEN THIS SCORING PLAY. DICK: THEY TOOK OUT UNDERNEATH COVERAGE. HOPKINS TRIED TO GIVE THEM A BELL THERE. HE MOVES BACK INSIDE TO SLICE AROUND. TOO MUCH TIME GIVEN TO THE QUARTERBACK. TOLLOW ALL THIS TO HAPPENDOWN FIELD. TOUCHDOWN. HERE IS THE FUMBLE PLAY, BRENT. HERE IT IS. ERIC BYNER. HE HAS THE BALL UNDEHIS RIGHT ARM. IT GOES DOWN. YOU'LL SEE HOPKINS, 48, PASS IN FRONT OF HIM. YOU'LL SEE THE BALL STILL THERE. WHEN HE HIT THE TURF, THE BALL CAME OUT. THE INSTANT REPLAY OFFICIAL CALLED IT CORRECTLY. BRENT: LEER IS THE HIT. AND AGAIN, DICK VERMEIL SAYING RIGHT AWAY THAT HE WAS DOWN. SHOULD HAVE BEEN WHISTLED DEAD RIGHT THERE. BUT IT WAS A SPECTACULAR PLAY BY THIS YOUNG MAN, WHO SCOOPED THE BALL UP AND THEN DASHED FOR THE TOUCHDOWN THAT WASN'T GOING TO BE. DICK: THE OFFICIAL RIGHT THERE CALLED IT A FUMBLE RIGHT NOW. SO THEY HAD TO OVERRULE HIS FUMBLE CALL. EVERYBODY IS EXCITED. AS I SAID BEFORE, THE BIG THING THE EAGLES CAN'T DO NOW IS TO ALLOW THAT TO EMOTIONALLY DRAIN THEM, SORT OF TAKE AWAY FROM THE EDGE. BRENT: LEER IS THE FIELD GOAL AND LET'S SEE IF IT DIDN'T SURE CRUSH THAT UPRIGHT. IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO. DICK: IT IS GOING YOUR WAY WHEN THAT HAPPENS. IS GOING YOUR WAY. BRENT: WAS INDEED GOING THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS' WAY. WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK IN CHECK IN WITH LYNN SWANN. BRENT: AT HALF TIME. LET'S CHECK IN WITH LYNN SWANN. LYNN: JUST AFTER THE GAME, I TALKED TO ONE OF THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS S. COACHES. HE FELT THEY ARE EXTREMELY LUCKY TO BE IN THIS GAME AT AUFM THEY WANTED TO STOP THE BIG PLAYS THAT THE OFFENSE OF THE EAGLES HAD GOTTEN IN THE FIRST HALF. BYNER ALMOST FUMBLEED THAT FOOTBALL. IT PROBABLY JOGED HIS MEMORY A LITTLE BIT. HE HAS TO BE THINKING ABOUT IT THE. WHEN WE SPOKE TO COACH GIBBS YESTERDAY, HE SAID THAT BYNER IS THE MAN WHO KPWRAUT US TO THIS FOOTBALL GAME. REGARDLESS OF HOW HE PLAYS, WE WILL HAVE HIM IN HERE. BRENT: ANOTHER THING THE EAGLES MIGHT BE THINKING ABOUT IS THEIR ROOKIE WIDE RECEIVERS HAVE BEEN SHUT OUT IN THE FIRST HALF.■ BRENT: SET TO BEGIN THE SECOND HALF OF THE. THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES WILL RECEIVE LOHMILLER'S KICK. IT WAS HIS FIELD GOAL THAT MADE IT 10-6 AT INTERMISSION. BRENT: PENALTY MARKER COMES FLYING. A PENALTY FLAG HAS BEEN THROWN. REFEREE GENE BARTH. WE GET THIS PENALTY SORTED OUT HERE FIRST. REFEREE: ILLEGAL BLOCK IN THE BACK ON NUMBER 85 DURING THE RUN BACK. HALF THE DISTANCE TO THE GOAL LINE. FIRST DOWN. BRENT: GENE BARTH STRAIGHTENS THAT OUT. THE BALL IS TAKEN BACK INSIDE THE EAGLES' 10-YARD LINE. NFC WILDCARD GAME FEATURING THE REDSKINS AND THE EEGSLESS ARE BEING BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE BUDWEISER FAMILY OF BEERS. BRENT: A FIRST DOWN. ALVIN WALTON MAKING THE STOP A LOOK AT NUMBERS FROM THE FIRST HALF. BRENT: HE HAD ONE 25-YARD RUN IN THE FIRST HALF. DICK: I THINK WE WILL SEE MORE OF RANDALL CUNNINGHAM RUNNING IN THE SECOND HALF. YOU ONLY HAVE A HALF TO PLAIFMT YOU ARE BEHIND. THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN KEEP PLAYING NEXT WEEK IS TO TAKE SOME CHANCES AND TURN IT LOOSE A BIT. BRENT: CLOSE TO A FIRST DOWN. MIGHT HAVE BEEN JUST A LITTLE SHORT. TIM JOHNSON, 78, GETTING THE JOB DONE DEFENSIVELY. DICK: DID A REAL NICE JOB OF COMING INSIDEOUT ON THAT PLAY. WARNER TURNED BACK UP AND THERE HE WAS. JOHNSON HAS BEEN A FACTOR IN HERE. HE HAD 26 STARTS IN PITTSBURGH. THEN WAS TRADED TO THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS. THAT WAS A GOOD TRADE. BRENT: SMER MAN DIDN'T MAKE IT. GOOD PENETRATION. DICK: CURT GO VEE IS DOING THE LINEBACKER'S JOB. HE JUST JUMPS UP OVER THE TOP. BRENT: JEFF FEAGLES TO PUNT. DICK: IT'S WASHINGTON'S DAY. DICK: YOU SEE BRIAN MITCHELL FEELING THAT PUNT. HE DROPS IT AND IT HITS HIS KNEE. WATCH THIS -- JACKSON SWINGS HIS RIGHT ARM IN THERE AND PUSHES IT RIGHT BACK UP INTO HIS STOMACH. BRENT: JOYNER CUTS HIM OFF AND WHITE COMES IN TO CLEAN UP ON THE HIT. DICK: HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE CALLED JOYNER'S NAME? HE'S A GOOD FOOTBALL PLAYER. HE DESERVES THE PRAISE THAT BUDDY RYAN AND THE OTHER COACHES GIVE HIM. LOOK AT THE ARMS ON HIM. WORKING INSIDE OUT THERE. RON MIDDLETON'S GOT HIM. HE JUST KEEPS GOOD LEVERAGE AND KEEPS HIS OUTSIDE ARM FREE. BRENT: RYPIEN WANTED MONK WHO WAS WIDE OPEN, AND OVERTHREW HIM. DICK: RYPIEN SAW THE RUSH COMING AND DIDN'T RELAX ENOUGH TO THROW A SIMPLE COMPLETE PASS THAT TIME. THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A COMPLETED PASS. BRENT: INCOMPLETE. AND A GREAT SECOND EFFORT BY THE DEFENSIVE PLAYER THAT TIME , WILLIAM FRIZZELL. HE GOT BACK ON THE BALL, WHICH AFTER IT WAS BATTED IN THE AIR, MIGHT HAVE BEEN CAUGHT. IZEL JENKINS THERE FIRST. AND THEN IT'S FRIZZELL'S EFFORT. DICK: HE THROWS THE BALL AND GETS IT OUT THERE. THERE'S NO PASS INTERFERENCE ONCE THE BALL'S BEEN BATTED AROUND. FRIZZELL COMES BACK IN THERE. HE KNOWS THE BALL'S STILL IN THE AIR. HERE COMES FRIZZELL. BRENT: FIELDED AT THE 45 BY HARRIS. BROUGHT DOWN AT THE 47-YARD LINE. ONLY A THREE-YARD RETURN ON A 32-YARDER. AND A PENTY FLAG THROWN BACK AT THE 4O I CAN'T RECALL. IN FACT, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THEM, ONE ON EACH SIDE OF THE FIELD RIGHT NOW. REFEREE: NUMBER 91 ON THE KICKING TEAM WAS DOWNFIELD ILLEGALLY. PENALTY REFUSED. FIRST DOWN. BRENT: THEY HAD THAT REVERSAL IN THE FIRST HALF. BUT THERE WAS ONE THAT WASN'T TURNED AROUND. BRENT: THE VET RAN GENE BARTH REFEREE. ONE OF THE BEST. HE WAS IN ANOTHER ■■ CONTROVERSIAL GAME. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM AGAIN RUNNING OUT OF TROUBLE AND GETTING BACK TO THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. PRESSURE FROM THE WASHINGTON DEFENSE AND WALTON MAKING THE TACKLE. DICK: YOU CAN SEE, I THINK, THAT THEY'RE GOING TO FREE HIM UP A LITTLE BIT, MOVE HIM AROUND, THAT ■TIME NOT STRAIGHT BACK. GOING TO GET HIM OUTSIDE THE RUSH A LITTLE BIT ON A SHORT ROLL. NOTHING THERE. HE GOES AHEAD AND RUNS IT. HE IS SO DANGEROUS WHEN HE RUNS THE FOOTBALL. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM BACK. COMPLETE AND INSIDE THE 35-YARD LINE. AND THAT'S HIS TIGHT END AGAIN. SO IT IS EITHER MR. JACKSON, WHERE HE DOESN'T GET DOWNFIELD. DICK: THEY ■HAVE A LINEBACKER ON HIM RIGHT NOW. ANDRE COLLINS, NUMBER 55, IS BACKED UP BY THE SAFETY. YOU'LL SEE THE SAFETY COME IN FROM THE LEFT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN RIGHT THERE COMING IN LATE. HE DIDN'T QUITE GET THERE. BRENT: FUMBLE. THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS WITH TIM JOHNSON LEADING THE WAY, FORCE A TURNOVER. DICK: I THINK THEY NEED TAKE A LOOK AT THAT ONE. OF COURSE, THEY REVIEW EVERYTHING THAT IS QUESTIONABLE. BUT THAT MAY FALL INTO THE SAME CATEGORY. GOOD INSIDE PENETRATION. GOOD INSIDE PENETRATION BY THE DEFENSIVE LINE. YOU SEE THE BALL IN THERE. NO, THAT IS A FUMBLE ALL THE WAY. ANDRE COLLINS, NUMBER 55, KNOCKED IT OUT WITH HIS RIGHT HAND. BRENT: AND THEN THE ROOKIE FROM PENN STATE WENT AFTER IT AND MADE THE RECOVERY FOR WASHINGTON. DICK DECK HE'S HAD AN OUTSTANDING YEAR. IT'S THE FIRST TIME FOR THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS IN YEARS THAT A ROOKIE LINEBACKER HAS STARTED ALL 16 GAMES. REFEREE: THE OFFICIALS ON THE FIELD RULE FUMBLE. AFTER REVIEW BY THE REPLAY OFFICIAL, THE CALL STANDS. FIRST DOWN. BRENT: SO THE REDSKINS WITH THE BALL COMING OUT FROM THEIR OWN 45-YARD LINE. DICK: ANDRE COLLINS, ONE OF 19 CHILDREN. YOU LEARN TO TAKE THE BALL AWAY FROM 19 JUST TO GET TO THE TABLE. BRENT: BYNER THE BALL CARRIER. TO THE 49. DICK: THAT'S AGAIN THAT WING-BACK TRAP. THEY'RE TRYING TO GET BACK OVER TO THE LEFT. IF YOU START THE DEFENSE MOVING LEFT THEN CUT BACK BEHIND THAT WING-BACK BLOCK. I DIDN'T EXPECT THE BALL TO BE TURNED OVER THIS MANY TIMES. DID YOU, BRENT? BRENT:. NO BUT IT'S SO UNPREDICT. BRENT: RYPIEN COMING TO THE NEAR SIDE. TOO HIGH FOR MONK. HE WAS WELL COVERED. DICK: THE BALL WAS TIPPED. I'M WANT SURE O GOT IT. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN PITTS. BUT SM-K TIPPED THAT FOOTBALL. THEY DID A HALF ROLL. INSTEAD OF GOING STRAIGHT BACK AGAIN MOVING AWAY FROM THE PRESSURE. AGAIN, IT WAS SETH JOYNER, I THINK THAT'S CORRECT GOT. YOU SEE REGGIE WHITE THERE. THERE'S JOYNER, NUMBER 59. HE JUST TIPPED THE BALL ENOUGH TO BREAK IT. SEE, IT'S NOT SPIRALING LIKE IT SHOULD.■■ BRENT: DOWN IT IS MIDDLE, SANDERS WAS OPEN. DICK: THAT'S ONE THING, THE EAGLES HAVE HAD REAL TROUBLE WITH TIGHT PASSING FORMATIONS. EVERY TIME THEY'VE BEEN IN THEM, I WOULD EXPECT THE REDSKINS TO COME OUT IN TIGHT PASSING FORMATIONS, RUN THOSE CROSSING PATTERNS AND GO THAT WAY. BRENT: THIS WAS A TOUCHDOWN. DICK: HE WAS OPEN. HE WAS WIDE OPEN. THIS SHOULD BE A TOUCHDOWN. THERE'S SANDERS. JUST OFF THE FINGER TIPS. BRENT: TERRIFIC PUNT BY GOODBURN. DOWNED AT THE SIX-YARD LINE. WHAT A SENSATIONAL PUNT BY KELLY GOODBURN OUT OF EMPORIA STATE. BRENT: THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES ARE 94 YARDS AWAY. AND ONE OMINOUS NOTE, THEY HAVE TNED OVER THREE TIMES IN THEIR LAST 1O PLAYS. BREN BRENNAN THON TONY CHECKING IN AT RUNNING BACK. HE REPLACED SHERMAN. DICK: WHEN I WAS TALKING ABOUT TIGHT FORMATION. YOU'LL SEE THE RECEIVER COME OFF. HERE HE GOES. SEE CROSSING PATTERNS. EACH TIME THEY'VE USED A FORMATION SIMILAR TO THIS, THEY HAVE TURNED A RECEIVER LOOSE. THAT LOOKS CLOSE ENOUGH TO CATCH. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM FROM THE END ZONE STEPS AWAY FROM PRESSURE AND BRINGS IT TO THE OTHER SIDE ALONG WITH ANDRE COLLINS. MANN AND COLLINS GANG UP ON RANDALL CUNNINGHAM. IT'S BEEN TOUGH GOING AGAINST THE WASHINGTON DEFENSE. THAT'S THE FOURTH SACK OF CUNNINGHAM. DICK: THE CORNERS HAVE BEEN DOING A GOOD JOB OF TAKING AWAY THE WIDE RECEIVERS. AND THE CORNERS HAVE A REAL PROBLEM, BECAUSE THEY COVER TIGHT MAN-TO-MAN, AND WHEN HE SCRAMBLES, THE RECEIVER CAN SEE HIM SCRAMBLE BUT THE CORNERS CAN'T. AND THAT WAS A REAL CONCERN OF BOLT WASHINGTON REDSKIN CORNERS. BRENT: A COUPLE OF YARDS ON THE PLAY. THE CROWD NOT LIKING THE PLAY CALL OF THAT SITUATION. MONTE COLEMAN, NUMBER 51, STEPPING IN. DICK: NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT CALL. IF YOU'RE A GOOD DEFENSIVE FOOTBALL TEAM, DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES, PUNT THE FOOTBALL AND PLAY GOOD DEFENSE. THEIR OFFENSIVE LINE HAS BEEN INCONSISTENT ALL YEAR. BRENT: MITCHELL FROM THE 4O IS INS PUNTER HAS TO COME UP WITH A GREAT PUNT, NOT A LOUSY PUNT. BRENT: THE OWNER ON THE RIGHT HAS A DECISION TO MA. THAT'S HIS GENERAL MANAGER SEATED NEXT TO HIM IN THEBOX HERE AT THE V. FAN VOTING IN FAVOR OF KEEPING BUDDY RYAN REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS TODAY. HIS FIVE-YEAR CONTRACT IS COMING TO AN END. AND REMEMBER WHEN HE CAME INTO PHILADELPHIA, HE SAID IN FIVE YEARS WE'LL GO TO THE BIG DANCE. WELL, TO GET TO THAT BIG DANCE, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO RALLY HERE FIRST AGAINST THWASHGTON REDSKINS. BRENT: MARK RYPIEN HANDING TO EARNEST BYNER. HE SLAMS AHEAD FOR A YARD OR TWO. CLYDE SIMMONS, NUMBER 96, GETTING CREDIT FOR THE TACKLE. DICK: JEROME BROWN DID A SUPERB JOB THAT TIME. HE'S PLAYING WITH SOME PAIN. HE CAME DOWN THE BACKSIDE REAL WELL AND COLLAPSED IT. BRENT: BYNER HAS GOT A FIRST DOWN INSIDE THE 2O-YARD LINE. WELL-EXECUTED PLAY. FORMATIONS. SEE THEY'RE TURNING PEOPLE ■ LOOSE. NO ONE EVEN COVERED HIM. THAT'S A MISTAKE. THAT'S NOT GETTING BEAT PHYSICALLY, THAT'S GETTING BEAT MENTALLY. BRENT: FIRST AND 1O. THE BALL IS GOING TO BE SPOTTED AT THE EAGLES' 18-YARD LINE. BRENT: AGAIN BYNER WITH A BIG HOLE ON THE RIGHT SIDE. HE MAKES HIS WAY INSIDE THE 1O-YARD LINE. DICK: IF THEY GET IN THAT TIGHT FORMATION AGAIN DOWN HERE AND CROSS THOSE PEOPLE. THEY EITHEHAVE TO GO INTO A FORMATION COVERAGEWISE WHERE THEY CAN SWITCH PEOPLE OR JUST GO ZONE ON THEM. BUT THEY CAN'T TURN PEOPLE LOOSE LIKE THAT. HERE'S A GOOD BYNER CUTBACK. SHAKE AND BAKE AND GET UPFIELD LIKE THAT. BRENT: BYNER BOUNCES OUTSIDE. BATTLING TOWARD THE GOAL LINE. VERY CLOSE. WES HOPKINS BRINGING HIM DOWN. IT WILL BE A FIRST AND GOAL FOR WASHINGTON. DICK: GOOD BLOCKING AT THE POINT OF ATTACK. YOU'LL SEE THE WINGBACK HERE TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN. DIRECT HAND-ON, NOTHING FANCY. MIDDLETON, A BIG MAN ON JOYNER, 58. NOW THE SPEED TO ACCELERATE OUTSIDE AND A WIDE RECEIVER GETTING A TURNOUT BLOCK ON ERIC ALLEN, NUMBER 21. EVERYBODY DOING WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO. BRENT: MIDDLETON AND WARBAH ARE THE TWO TIGHT ENDS. THERE WAS A SUBSTITUTION PROBLEM, AND THE CLOCK HAD COME DOWN TO SEVEN SECONDS. SO RYPIEN CALLED A TIME-OUT. A REMINDER THAT THE WINTER TOUR WARMS UP. BRENT: HERE THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS THREATENING AGAIN. FIRST AND GOAL AT THE TWO-YARD LINE. THE EAGLES LET SOME OPPORTUNITIES GET AWAY WITH THEM EARLY. DICK: EARLY IN THE GAME. THEY WERE MOVING THE BALL AND GETTING THE BALL TO JACKSON, BUT THEY DIDN'T TAKE ADVANTAGE TWICE. NOT MANY PEOPLE, IF ANYBODY IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, DOES ANYBODY BETTER THAN JOE GIBBS. AND BUDDY HAS ALSO DONE A GOOD JOB HERE. HE HAS DRAFTED REAL WELL. BRENT: THIS TIME IT WAS RIGGS GETTING THE CALL. SHORT OF THE END ZONE. AND IT WILL BE SECOND AND GOAL. DICK: THEY MAKE IT REALLY TOUGH DOWN THAT. EVANS, NUMBER 5 IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SCREEN, HE IS RELY PHYSICAL. THE REDSKINS INSIDE THE 2O, ONE TOUCHDOWN, ONE FIELD GOAL. THEY WOULD SURE LIKE TO GET MORE THAN A FIELD GOAL OUT OF HERE, AND THIS IS AN OBVIOUS SITUATION. BRENT: RYPIEN ON A FAKE TO RIGGS THROWS LOW. IT'S TOO LOW. HAD JACKSON FOR A FRACTION OF A SECOND AND THREW LOW. DICK: YOU CAN SEE WHAT ACTION AWAY FROM THE POINT OF ATTACK ES FOR THE DEFENSE. SEE HE'S GOING ACTION LEFT NOW HE COMES BACK OUT RIGHT. DEFENSE ALL THERE. HERE HE COMES OFF A LITTLE DELAY MOVE. HE THROWS IT A LITTLE BIT TOO LOW FOR THRECEIVER TO HANG ON TO IT. GOOD CALL, THOUGH, VERY GOOD CALL. ALL THEY NEEDED TO DO WAS EXECUTE. BRENT: RYPIEN IS 1-6 THIS HALF. BRENT: INCOMPLETE. AND A TERRIFIC DEFENSIVE PLAY BY THE ROOKIE BEN SMITH. : BEN SMITH ON GARY CLARK JUST TRYING A LITTLE SLANT-IN PATTERN. GOOD DEFENSE BY BEN SMITH. NORMALLY GOING TO PL■Y YOU INSIDE. YOU DON'T WANT TO GIVE THEM THE INSIDE MOVE. HE TRIES TO TAKE IT A LITTLE WAY. OH, HE'S HOLDING HIM. OH, GOSH. OH, MY GOSH. SEND SOME GLASSES DOWN TO THE OFFICIALS DOWN THERE. HE GOT AWAY WITH IT. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. BRENT: LOHMILLER'S HAMMERS THE FIELD GOAL. BUT THE EAGLES STAY VERMUCH ALIVE. BRENT: BOTH TEAMS HAVE HAD DIFFICUL SCORING TOUCHDOWNS. DICK: BEN SMITH DOWN THERE GOT AWAY WITH HOLDING. HE HAD THE LONG FUMBLE PLAY CALLED BACK. MAYBE IT JUST SORT OF BALANCED OUT. NEITHER TEAM IS DOING A GREAT JOB OF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THEIR OPPORTUNITIES DOWN INSIDE THE 2O. BRENT: MARK RYPIEN WAS LIMPING JUST A BIT WHETHER HE CAME TO THE LINE THAT TIME. LET'S SEE IF WE CAN PICK UP -- HE MIGHT HAVE SLIGHTLY INJURED HIMSELF. DICK: HE'S COMING BACK OUT. REMEMBER HE'S HAD A KNEE PROBLEM. HERE HE IS OUT THERE. HE CAME DOWN ON HIS ANKLE. BRENT: SANDE HIT HARD SHORT OF THE 2O-YARD LINE. AND THAT WAS RAVIN CALDWELL. AND JIM MCMAHON TROTS ON TO THE FIELD. THIS WAS ONE OF THOSE KEY PICKUPS BY THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES THIS YEAR. THE VETERAN MCMAHON WILL NOW GET A SERIES IN PLACE OF RANDALL CUNNINGHAM. DICK: RANDALL USUAL TAKES 100% OF THE SNAPS. BUT MCMAHON IS SO SHARP, HE CAN GO IN AND RUN THE OFFENSE. BUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH RANDALL. WHY TAKE HIM OUT? RANDALL CUNNINGHAM CAN MAKE A BIG PLAY ON THE NEXT SERIES. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO. WHAT'S WRONG WITH HIM? BRENT: CUNNINGHAM ON THE BENCH. WE'LL GET A CHECK FROM DOWNSTAIRS. BRENT: MCMAHON THROWS INCOMPLETE BEHIND BYARS. HE WAS UNDER HEAVY PRESSURE THAT TIME. WILB MARSHALL WAS ó■MONG THE WASHINGTON DEFENSIVELAYERS CLOSE NOT GUILTY ON MCMAHON. DICK: I NDER IF TAKING A QUARTERBACK OF THE STATURE OF CUNNINGHAM OUT OF THE BALL GAME, WHAT THAT DOES TO THE MORALE OF THE OFFENSIVE FOOTBALL TEAM N. BIGGEST GAME THEY'RE GOING TO PLAY IN, ALL OF A SUDDEN THE BIGGEST GUY, THE GUY THAT TOOK THEM THERE, HE ISN'T EVEN IN THERE. BRENT: THE WORD FROM THE WASHINGTON SIDELINE IS THAT RYPIEN INJURED AN ANKLE IN THE FIRST HALF. BRENT: MCMAHON THROWS INCOMPLETE. AND THEY STILL CAN'T GET THE ROOKIE WIDEOUTS INVOLVED, AS DARRELL GREEN STEPS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ED BARNETT AND KNOCKS THE BALL INCOMPLETE. DICK: HERE'S RANDALL.■ BRENT: SO RANDALL CUNNINGHAM, FORCED TO WATCH, AS JIM MCMAHON REPLACES HIM. AND JEFF FEAGLESS -- YOU COULD SEE DARRELL GREEN IN FRONT OF BARNETT. BRENT: MITCHELL FROM THE 45 TO THE 35. THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS WITH A SEVEN-POINT LEAD. AND THE ONE THING THAT THE DEFENSIVE UNIT HAS TO FEEL VERY POSITIVE ABOUT RIGHT NOW IS THAT AT LEAST FOR THE TIME BEING THEY ARE NOT LOOKING AT RANDALL CUNNINGHAM. TH DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT CUNNINGHAM BREAKING OUT AND RUNNING FOR 15, 2O YARDS, AS LONG AS JIM MCMAHON STAYS IN THE GAME. AND THE WORD FROM THE EAGLE BENCH IS THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH CUNNINGHAM. COACH RYAN JUST ELECTED TO PUT MCMAHON INTO THE GAME. DICK: BOY, THAT'S TOUGH. I MEAN, THAT'S TOUGH FOR ME TO UNDSTAND. BRENT: ON THE DELAY, BYN GETTING CLOSE TO MID FIELD. PITTS MAKING THE STOP, NUMBER 74. DICK: THAT'S THAT GOOD SOLID COUNTERGAP PLAY. THEY'VE RUN THAT FROM EVERY FORMATION THEY HAVE IN THE BOOK. THEY'RE DOING A LOT OF AUDIBLING IN THE PLAY IN RECENT YEARS AND RUNNING IT AWAY FROM THE STRENGTHS OF THE DEFENSES. BRENT: BYNER GETS TO MID FIELD. IT WILL BE THIRD DOWN AND FIVE. REGGIE WHITE THERE DEFENSIVELY. DICK: I THINK YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL OFFENSIVELY FROM A REDSKINS STANDPOINT OF GETTING TOO CONSERVATIVE. THEY'VE ONLY GOT A SEVEN-POINT LEAD. YOU'VE GOT GUYS LIKE BIG REGGIE THERE. DON BUROUGH ON THE LEFT CALLING THE SIGNALS. BREN CLARK IS OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE FIVE-YARD LINE. AN INTERESTING FORMATION, AS THEY STACKED THEM. DICK: SAME ONE, SAME FORMATION. THEY HAVET■ADJUSTED TO IT YET. THEY'RE EITHER GOING TO HAVE TO GO TO COMBINATION COVERAGE OR LOCK ON ■■MAN-TO-MAN AND STAY ON IT OR JUST DROP OFF AND PLAY NE. BUT ON'T TURN SOMEBODY LOOSE THAT. TIME THE DENDERAS TURNED ALL THE WAY ALONG. THE REDSKINS E TAKING MOMENT ITEM. HERE'S HOPKINS RIGHT THERE IN THE FACE. THEY HAD TO BE MAN-TO-MAN. THEY JUST BEAT MAN-TO-MAN VERAGE RIGHT HERE. AND MR. CLARK WAS THE GUY THEY TOLD US LAST NIGHT WOULD BE THE GUY TT WOULD MAKE THE BIG PLAY. BRENT: INCOMPLETE. WIDE OPEN AGAINST SMITH THAT TIME. MANAGED TO TURN ON CLARK. DICK: SEE WHAT THEY DO ALSO IN THIGHS TIGHT AREAS WITH THAT TYPE OF FORMATION, ALL IN TYPE, THEY TE THE TWO INSIDE GUYS -- SOMEONE WOULD BE PLAYING THE INSIDE GUY MAN-TO-MAN, THE OUTSIDE GUYS COME IN AND RUN INTO THE COVERAGE GUYS. IT'S A PICK. IT IS ACTUALLY NOT A LEGAL IT ISN'T CALLED VERY OFTEN. BRENT: THEY WENT AWAFROM THE VETERAN, ERIC ALLEN,HO WAS THE CORNER ON THERIGHT SIDE. BRENT: RYPIEN GETS LOOSE. WITH A DIVING CATCH, A TOUCHDOWN FOR WASHINGTON! GARY CLARK MAKES A DIVING CATCH, AS RYPIEN'S ANKLE OBVIOUSLY BOTHERING HIM. DICK: YOU'LL SEE A ROOKIE, NUMBER 26, LOOKING BACK INTO THE BALL. THE QUARTEACK WENT AWAY. HE HAS NO IDEA WHERE E RECEIVER IS. ROOKIE MISTAKE. YOU CAN'T DO THAT. YOU'RE IN MAN-TO-MAN COVERAGE, YOU BETTER NOT BE LOOKING BACK INTO THE BACKFIELD. BRENT: BEN SMITH WAS JUST BEATEN FOR A TOUCHDOWN BY THE VETERAN, GARY CLARK. EXPERIEN SIN TL. CK: HERE'S RYPIEN. IFOU'LL NOTICE, HE MAKES THIS THROW, HE'S OUTSIDE REGGIE WHITE. WATCH HIM START LIMPING. THAT ANKLE BOTHERING HIM. DON'T COME DOWN ON IT TOO HARD. I FEEL THE EAGLES SINKING A LITTLE BIT. THE REDSKINS A DRAING THEM. EMOTIONALLY. BOY, LL TELL YOU, YOU'VE GOT A LONG TIME TO PLAY. BRENT: THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK AFTER THAT MONDAY NIGHT WAR IN HERE OF BODY BAGS BEING NEEDED BY THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS TO CARRY ALL THEIR INJURED PLAYERS BACK TO WASHINGTON. THE KIND OF THING THAT YOU DON'T FORGET IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE. AND IT HELPS YOU FOCUS IN JU A LITTLE BIT MORE WHEN YOU GET A SHOT AT A REMATCH. YEHAVING S-SD THAT, THE EAGLES HAD PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FIRST HALF, AND RANDALL CUNNINGHAM COULD NOT GET THE EAGLES INTO THE END ZONE. BRENT: FUMBLE. DICK: THEY'RE GOING IN THE TANK. BRT: THIS TIME, THOUGH, THEY GET IT BACK. WE COME TO THE END OF THE THIRD QUARTER. DICK DUCK RE'S SANDERS, NUMBER , ON THAT KICK-OFF RETURN. NOTICE THAT HE HAS THE BALL REALLY LOOSE OUT AWAY FROM HIS BODY. THERE HE GS IT DRAWN INSIDE. AND THEN CALDWELL, NUMBER 5O, STICKS HIS HAND IN THERE AND KNOCKS IT OUT. NOW IT'S LIVE. I CAN'T SEE WHO GETS IT UNDERNEATH THERE. YOU'VE GOT TUCK THAT BALL IN TIGHT. BRENT: ON FIRST DOWN, HE THROWS TO BYARS, HIS FIRST CATCH OF THDAY. DICK: THE REDSKINS HE BEEN DOING A GOOD JOB ON BYARS AND THOSE GUYS BY JAMMING THEM AS THEY COME OUT AND KNOCKING THEM OFF THEIR PASS. THEY HAVEN'T BEEN GETTING OUT OF THE BACK FIELD CLEANLY. GOOD COACHING BY THE LINEBACKER COACH OF THE REDSKINS. BRENT: TONY COULD NOT GET IT. THERE IS A PENALTY MARKER DOWN ON THE PLAY. BRENT: A HOLDING CALL WILL BE MARCHED OFF AGAINST PHILADELPHIA. DURING THE SEASON, BYARS AND THE TWO ROOKIE WIDEOUTS, WILLIAMS AND BARNETT, CAUGHT 154 PASSES. TODAY, ONLY ONE CATCH, THAT ONE BY BYARS. BRENT: CUNNINGM STEPS AWAY FROM TROUBLE. TO THE 25. SHORT OF THE FIRST DOWN. DICK: ALEXANDER, W BACK IN THERE PLAYING CENTER, CAME ■■ INTO THE BALL GAME BANGED UP IS DOWN NOW FARING -- FAVORING THAT KNEE, IS DOWN ON THE 1O-YARD LINE. HE WANTED TO COME BACK AND PLAY AND HE CAN'T DO IT. HE'S UPSET ABOUT IT. BRENT: SO ALEXANDER WILL BE REPLACED BY BEN TAMBURELL BRENT: DAVID ALEXANDER, WANTING TO BADLY TO FINISH THIS GAME UP, HAS BEEN FORCED TO THE SIDELINE. TAM TAM TAM NOW CENTERING. THIS IS A BIG PLAY. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM FROM THE SHOT GUN WILL THROW. INCOMPLETE. GREEN DID IT AGAIN. GREEN IS SHUTTING OUT FRED BARNETT. HE'S ALL OVER HIM. DICK YOU KNOW IASKED GREEN ABOUT BARNETT, AND HE SAYS YOU KNOW, COACH, I DIDN'T GAIN THE STATUS AND CREDIBILITY I HAVE AS A CORNER BY NOT RESPECTING THE PEOPLE I PLAY. I RESPECT HIM. HE'S A FINE YOUNG RECEIVER, BUT I HAVE A BOOK ON HIM. BRENT: OUT TO THE 39. NOW THE SKINS STAFF WANTS TO GO TO WORK ON THE CLOCK. THE WORD IS THAT ALEXANDER PROBABLY WILL NOT RETURN TODAY. NOW WASHINGTON AND THE SITUATION ON THE CLOCK. DICK: WASHINGTON I THINK WOULD MAKE A MISTAKE TO TRY TO RUN THE BALL THREE TIMES AND THREE TIMES AND THREE TIMES FOR THE FIRST DOWN. I'VE SEEN THE EAGLES MANY, MANY TIMES AND THEY'RE SO EXPLOSIVE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER, HAVING SCORED 118 POINTS. RANDALL CAN LIGHT IT UP. BRENT: IT WILL BE SECOND AND LONG. JESSIE SMALL, NUMBER 52. DICK: THEY REALLY LIKE HIM HERE IN TOWN. A SECOND-ROUND PICK A YEAR AGO. WHEN BUDDY DRAFTED HIM HE SAID "HE'S MY OUTSIDE LINEBACKER. HE'LL START AS A ROOKIE." HE STARTED THIS YEAR. HE MADE 72 TACKLES. A GOOD MOVER. BRENT: RYPIEN -- INCOMPLETE. DICK: THAT'S ONE WAY TO DEFENSE THAT FORMATION. GOOD PRESSURE THAT TIME BY CLYDE SIMMONS. HARD, INSIDE RUSH. THEY JUST KEPT ON COMING. THEY HAD A STUNT. CLYDE SIMMONS JUST KEPT COMING. HE HASN'T HAD THE YEAR HE HAD LAST YEAR, ONLY HAVING 7 2 SACKS THIS YEAR, 15 1/2 LAST YEAR. HE'S BEEN HURT. BUT NO EXCUSES MADE BY CLYDE SIMMONS. HE SAYS "THAT'S ALL PART OF FOOTBALL." BRENT: GOING LONG FOR IT AL SANDERS DIVI, BUHE DROPPED IT AT THE 2O-YARD LINE. DICKTHAT WAS CLOSE TO SIX POINTS. ART MONK WAS TURNED LOOSE COMPLETELY. NOBODY COVERED HIM. IF THEY WOD HAVE SEEN HIM, HECOULD HAVE CAUGHT IT AND WALKED FOR 2O YARDS BEFORE A DEFENDER WOULD HAVE BEEN AROUND HIM. THAT'S THAT SAME FORMATION, SAME TYPE OF COMBINATION. HERE IT IS. LAID RIGHT OUT IN FRONT. SIMILAR TO THE ONE HE COULDN'T HOLD ON TO BEFORE. THAT BALL SHOULD HAVE BEEN CAUGHT. HE NORMALLY MAKES THAT CATCH. BRENT: HARRIS DOWN AT THE 21-YARD LINE. 12:29 TO GO HERE IN REGULATION.tw BRENT: CUNNINGHAM ■THROWING COMPLETE. JUST SHORT OF THE FIRST DOWN. CALVIN WILLIAMS MAKING HIS FIRST CATCH OF TGAME. THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MEASURE FOR THE FIRST DOWN. DICK: THE EAGLES, 1O CONSECUTIVE POSSESSIONS WITHOUT SCORING. THE LONGEST STREAK OF THE SEASON. THE LAST ONE WAS AGAINST THE REDSKINS. YOU COULD TELL YESTERDAY IN TALKING WITH EAGLE PLAYERS THAT THEY RESPECT THE REDSKIN PLAYERS, EVEN THOUGH THEY GOT OUT AND REALLYTROUNCED THEM A FEW WEEKS AGO. BRENT: AND DEPORJ ALLEN ■DID A GREAT JOB DEFENSIVELY FOR THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS.■■ DICK ALL THE COACHES OF THE REDSKINS HE DONE A REAL GOD JOB TODAY. THE EAGLE DEFENSE REALLY HASN'T DONE TOO POORLY, IT'S JUST THE OFFENSE PUTS THEM BACK ON THE FIELD TOO QUICKLY. BRENT: SECOND AND INCHES. OBVIOUSLY IN THE NFL, THAT'S A FREE SHOT FOR THE QUARTERBACK, IF HE WANTS TO TAKE. BRENT: BUYERS WILL RUN FOR THE FIRST DOWN. IT'S FIRST AND 1O FOR PHILADELPHIA EAGLES, AND THAT WAS THOMAS SANDERS, NUMBER 45, BEING USED AS THE RUNNING BACK BEFORE MAYHEW OUGHT HIM DOWN. DICK: A REAL GOOD JOB OF DOUBLE-TEAMING AT THE POINT ATTACK. NO HUDDLE.■■ BRENT: CUNNINGHAM OVER THE MIDDLE TO SANDERS. SANDERS MAKES HIS WAY TO THE 48. ANDRE COLLINS, THE ROOKIE, BRINGING HIM DOWN. BRENT: FIRST DOWN TO SANDERS. SANDERS TO THE 44-YARD LINE. WILBER MARSHALL MAKES THE HIT. AND THE EAGLES ARE STARTING TO MOVE THE BALL WITHOUT THE HUDDLE. BRENT: KUN HITS BYARS AGAIN. IT'S ABOUT A NINE OR 1O-YARD GAIN ON FIRST DOWN. VERY CLOSE A FIRST DOWN. TODD BOWLES, THE CORNER GETS HIM THERE. AND THE EAGLES ARE FINALLY GETTING INTO AN OFFENSIVE RHYTHM THERE. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM STEPS AWAY FROM THE PRESSURE. A PENALTY MARKER HAS BEEN THROWN ON THIS PLAY. RANDALL WAS FORCED OUT AT THE 23. BUT THERE WAS A PENALTY MARKER. DICK: I THINK WE HAVE A HOLDING PENALTY. THEY'RE STOPPING THEMSELVES. BUDDY SEEMS PRETTY CALM OBSERVING ALL THAT. REFEREE. HOLDING, 69, OFFENSE. 1O-YARD PENALTY. REPLAY, FIRST DOWN. DICK 69, BRUCE POLLY, ROOKIE. BRENT: JOE GIBBS COACHING STAFF HAS DONE A SPECTACULAR JOB ON THE FIELD IN PLAYOFF GAMES. DICK: YOU CAN SEE ON THE FAR RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN, HE'S GOT HIM BY THE JERSEY TRYING PREVENT HIM FROM GETTING TO THE QUARTERBACK. BRENT: SANDERS DROPPED THAT ONE. DICK: HAD A SCREEN PASS GOING ON OUT THERE. BRENT: JOE GIBBS TWICE IN THE LAST FEW YEARS HAS TAKEN THE REDSKINS INTO CHICAGO AND UPSET THE BEARS AS SPURNED DOGS. HERE TODAYE SKINS CAME IN A FOUR-POINT UNDERDOG. AND IN THE PLAYOFFS, HE HAS WON 11 GAMES AND LOST ONLY THREE. DICK: WHAUN JOE SAID TO ME LAST NIGHT, HE SAID" THIS IS GOING TO BE A HECK OF A GAME. HE SAID I WISH I COULD JUST WATCH IT." BRENT: IN THE END ZONE, IT'S INCOMPLETE. DICK: RANDALL COULD HAVE RUN THAT TIME FOR A LONG WAYS. BRENT: HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO FOR THE FIRST DOWN. IT WAS 2O YARDS TO GO. AND BARNETT WAS THE WIDE RECEIVER. DICK: THERE'S BARNETT THE TOP LEFT-HAND SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN. GREEN COVERING HIM OUTSIDE. THEY'RE JUST RUNNING DOWN THE SIDELINE. THREE TIMES THE FASTEST MAN IN THE NFL. BARNETT GOT A STEP ON HIM. HE'S GOING TO JUMP, JUMP, JUMP -- THOSE PLAYS ARE ALWAYS CLOSE. TODD BOWLES, NUMBER 23, THE FREE SAFETY COMES OVER AND GETS THE BALL. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM AGAIN UNDER PRESSURE WILL TRY TO RUN FOR IT THIS TIME. SHORT OF THE FIRST DOWN. A BIG DECISION HERE WITH 9:24 TO GO AND DOWN BY 14. DICK: WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO PUT THE BALL NOW? A 48-YARD FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT. THEY COULD TRY A FIELD GOAL. BRENT: THE BALL IS AT THE 31. DICK: HE'S MADE THEM FROM THAT DISTANCE. NINE MINUTES TO GO. BRENT: NOT EVEN HESITATING. THEY'RE GOING TO GO FOR IT ON FOURTH DOWN. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM WAS UNDER PRESSURE. INCOMPLETE. AND IT WAS MANN WHO GOT IN TO CUNNINGHAM. DICK: JACKSON THOUGHT HE WAS INTERFERED WITH. THIS WAS AN ALLEY OOP-TYPE THING. THEY JUST THREW UP HIGH. HE WAS UNDER GOOD PRESSURE. JACKSON NUMBER 88 HOOKED ON MAN-TO-MAN RIGHT THERE. NOW WATCH, HE'S DOING A LITTLE BIT OF PUSHING AROUND THERE TOO. USING HIS LEFT HAND. THEN HE THINKS HE'S INTERFERED WITH. THAT'S A GOOD PLAY. BUT YOU'VE GOT TO ACT, YOU'VE GOT TRY TO GET THE CALL. A.J. JOHNSON WORKING ON HIM PRETTY GOOD, NUMBER 47. BRENT: RIGGS GETS THE CALL. IS OUT TO THE 31-YARD LINE. JESSIE SMALL IS THERE. DICK THAT COUNTERGAP, THEY LOVE THAT PLAY. THEY'VE CALLED JESSIE SMALL A NUMBER OF TIMES TODAY. I GET BACK IN THE TIGHT FORMATION AND RUN THOSE CROSSING PATTERNS AGAIN. JESSIE SMALL, NOT THE BIGGEST LINEBACKER, BUT BOY HE CAN MOVE. BRENT: RIGGS WOULDN'T STOP UNTIL HE GETS THE FIRST DOWN. WASHINGTON NOW VERY MUCH IN CONTROL OF THIS PLAYOFF GAME. 7:4O TO GO. DICK THEY RAN THAT COUNTER GAP. NOBODY RUNS IT LIKE THEY DO, AS WELL. A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE NFL DON'T RUN IT. THEY SAY THEY CAN'T MAKE IT GO ANY LONGER, THE DEFENSES HAVE CAUGHT UP WITH THEM. BRENT: RYPIEN HANDING TO RIGGS. AND RIGGS IS OUT AGAIN ACROSS MID FIELD. THE OFFENSIVE LINE OF THE SKINS CONTINUING TO EXERT ITSELF NOW. DICK: THE EAGLES HAVE GOT TO GET INTO THEIR BLITZ PACKAGE. COME ON, GO AFTER THEM. GET IN AND GET IN THE BACKFIELD. BRING THE LINEBACKERS IN. BRING THOSE SAFETIES. THEY'VE BEEN KNOWN FOR THAT ALL YEAR. BRENT: LACHEY DOING AN EXCELLENT JOM ON SIP SIP. JACOBY, BOS BOS IN THE CENTER. THAT'S THE CLOCK WINDING DOWN. YOU'LL SEE THAT THE REDSKINS WILL BRING IT ON DOWN WITHIN FIVE SECONDS. BRENT: RIGGS BREAKS OUT FROM A BIG HOLE, AND HE'S ACROSS THE 35-YARD LINE. DICK: THE DEFENSE IS REALLY START TO GO PURSUE, THEY OVERPURSUE. IT'S A TRAP OUTSIDE, . YOU'LL SEE THIS NOW, LOW ANGLE. YOU BE THE LINEBACKER. THE GUARD PULLS AROUND AND GETS ON EVANS. HERE COMES RIGGS UP A GIANT HOLE IN THERE. YEAH, I THINK ANYBODY CAN RUN THROUGH THAT ONE. BRENT: AGAIN IT IS RIGGS. DICK: PEOPLE ARE SAYING REGGIE WHITE HASN'T HAD THE YEAR HE'S HAD IN THE PAST WITH ONLY 15 SACKS. IN YEARS HE HAD 21, HE HAD 18. BUT PEOPLE DOUBLE HIM ALL THE TIME. BECAUSE PEOPLE -- YOU KNOW, HOW MANY GREAT TACKLES HAS HE PLAYED AGAINST. HE PLAYS AGAINST BETTER PEOPLE MORE OFTEN THAN -- TWO GOOD GAMES AGAINST THE GIANTS, TWO GOOD GAMES AGAINST THESE GUYS. BETTER OFFENSIVE LINES. BRENT: RIGGS IS HIT BEHIND THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE BY WHITE. DICK: THERE HE IS, WE JUST TALKED ABOUT HIM. HE IS SO QUICK. BRUCE SMITH WAS CLAIMING THAT HE IS BETTER BECAUSE HE SACKS MORE. BUT REGGIE SAYS I TAKE PRIDE IN THE FACT THAT WE'RE THE NUMBER ONE TEAM AGAINST THE RUN IN THE NFL. AND THAT'S OUR FIRST RESPONSIBILITY. RUSHING THE PASS CERTIFICATE SECOND. I ASKED BUDDY ABOUT BRUCE'S COMMENTED. HE SAID, YOU KNOW, IF BRUCE SMITH IS BETTER THAN REGGIE WHITE, THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW AGAINST HIM. BRENT: WELL, IT WAS BODY BAGS FOR THE REDSKINS THE LAST TIME, WHO KNOWS, MAYBE IT WILL BE A PINE BOX FOR BUDDY AFTER THIS ONE, WITH ALL THE TALK AND SPECULATION IN PHILADELPHIA. BRENT: RYPIEN TO BYNER, WHO CHECKED BACK IN THE GAME. FOURTH DOWN. DICK THAT'S A NICE LITTLE OFFENSIVE PACKAGE THEY CAME UP WITH, THAT FORMATION. JOE GIBBS AND HIS OFFENSIVE COACHES DO A GOOD JOB OF THAT. BRENT: ASK THE PROFESSIONALS WHO THEY WOULD SELECT AS A MAN TO WIN ONE GAME AS A HEAD COACH, AND THERE ARE MANY AROUND THE LEAGUE WHO WOULD SAY JOE GIBBS. BRENT: THE EAGLE OFFENSE HAS BEEN SOMETIMEYED ALL AFTERNOON. THEY'LL TAKE THE PENALTY AND GET THE GAME CLOCK DOWN TO 3:11. WHO KNOWS, THEY MAY LOOK BACK ON THIS AS THE GAME THAT SAVED INSTANT REPLAY. TOWARD THE END OF THE FIRST HALF -- REFEREE: DELAY OF GAME, FIVE-YARD PENALTY. STILL FIRST DOWN. BREN BRENNAN APPARENT EAGLE TOUCHDOWN WAS REVERSED BECAUSE IT WAS RULED LEGITIMATELY THAT THE RECEIVER, EARNEST BYNER H-RX GONE DOWN AND WAS DOWN BEFORE HE TURNED THE BALL OVER TO BEN SMITH. BUT THAT HAD BEEN A CTICAL PLAY. BRENT: FAIR CATCH AT THE 11. BRENT: IN PHILADELPHIA, THE REDSKINS WITH A 2O-6 LEAD. THE SKINS JUST TOOK 5:28 OFF THE CLOCK BEFORE THEY PUNTED IT BACK TO RANDALL CUNNINGHAM. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM FIRING COMPLETE. COLLINS MAKING THE STOP ON SANDERS, WHO HAD SLIPPED OUT OF THE BACKFIELD. AND IT WILL BE SECOND AND SHORT. BRENT: INSIDE HAND-O FROM THE FIRSTDOWN. THE CROWD WON'T LIKE THAT PLAY. DICK: I'VE HEARD BOOING BEFORE, BUT MUCH LOUDER. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM FORCED OUT ON THE RUN. AND COLEMAN IN HOT PURSUIT GETTING HIM OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 49. THE CLOCK IS STOPPED WITH 2:2O. A 24-YARD RUN. NOW HE NEEDS TO LAUNCH ONE OF HIS ROCKETS RIGHT HERE. IF HE CAN GET ONE OF HIS WIDE OUTS OPEN DEEP. BARNETT HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY DARRELL GREEN. JUST A SPECTACULAR JOB BY THE WASHINGTON DEFENSE. A YEAR AGO, HE WAS A FAVORITE AGAINST THE LOS ANGELES RAMS, AND THEY WERE BEATEN UP AND THUS UPSET BY THE LOS ANGELES RAMS. BRENT: HERE'S THE PASS TO SANDERS. TO THE 46-YARD LINE. MONTCOLEMAN, NUMBER 51, WAS THERE. DICK: THE REDSKINS FOOTS BALL TEAM IS HEALTHIER NOW. BRENT: DOWN CUNNINGHAM GOES. NUMBER 78, TIM JOHNSON, WHO HAS PLAYED A TERRIFIC GAME AT DEFENSIVE TACKLE TODAY. DICK: THE WEAKNESS OF THE EAGLES' OFFENSIVE LINE HAS REALLY BEEN DEMONSTRATED TODAY. BRENT: ON THIRD DOWN, INCOMPLETE. AND THE EAGLES COMING UP FOR WHAT MIGHT BE THEIR LAST PLAY OF THE SEASON. AND THE LAST TIME CUNNINGHAM AND THE EAGLES WERE HELD WITHOUT A TOUCHDOWN WAS WEEK 1O OF 1989. THAT WAS AGAINST WASHINGTON. JOE GIBBS AND THE REDSKINS BEAT THEM 1O-3. BRENT: ON THE GROUND. KEITH BYARS WAS ON THE GROUND. THERE WAS TALK IN PHILADELPHIA ALL WEEK, AS THE FANS POUR OUT OF HERE, ABOUT HOW THE PLAYERS WERE GOING TO TRY TO WIN THIS ONE TO SAVE BUDDY'S JOB. AND THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS AT ATHLETICS WHO DON'T THINK THAT'S A VERY GOOD SOURCE OF MOTIVIATION. DICK: THE ONLY GOOD KIND OF MOTIVIATION IS THAT THAT COMES FROM WITHIN. ARTIFICIAL SOURCES OF MOTIVIATION NEVER WORK. AND I DON'T BLAME THE PLAYERS FOR MAKING THOSE KIND OF COMMENTS, BECAUSE THEY DO RALLY AROUND BUDDY AND THEY LIKE HIM. BUT I DON'T THINK THIS BALL GAME IS THE BALL GAME THAT'S GOING TO DECIDE WHAT THEY DO WITH BUDDY RYAN. LET'S SEE WHAT WE HAVE HERE. BRENT: CUNNINGHAM HAD HIS WIDE MEN COVERED DEEP AGAIN. AND THAT WAS A STRANGE CALL. BRENT: RIGGS WILL BURN A FEW MORE SECONDS OFF THAT CLOCK AT A MINUTE AND A HALF. AND THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS ARE GOING TO BEAT THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES IN PHILADELPHIA. AND THERE IS RICHY PETTIBONE WITH GRANT, ONE OF HIS STANDOUT DEFENSIVE LINEMEN. OF COURSE RIGHT AFTER THIS GAME, WE'LL DEMEK WITH FRANK GIFFORD, AND THEN YOU'LL BE SEEING THE MIAMI DOLPHINS AND THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS. YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT GAME. DICK: I THINK THEY MATCH UP REAL WELL AGAINST THE MIAMI DOLPHINS. THE DOLPHINS WITH THE SPEEDY RECEIVERS, AND KANSAS CITY WITH REAL FINE CORNERS. IT'S GOING TO BE A GOOD ONE. BRENT: WASHINGTON FELL BEHIND BY TWO FIELD GOALS HERE THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE SCORING A TOUCHDOWN PART TO ART MONK. THE EXTRA POINT PUT THEM UP 7-6. THEN THE BIG PLAY -- AND WE'LL REVIEW IT IN OUR POST-GAME SHOW -- LYNN SWANN DOWNSTAIRS WILL BE ABLE TO GET SOME REACTION FROM THE PARTICIPANTS IN THAT BIG PLAY, WHICH WAS TURNED AROUND. AND SO JOE GIBBS WILL MOVE HIS RECORD TO 12-3. HE'S UP THERE WITH THE LEGENDS. DICK: HE'S UP THERE WITH THE GOOD ONES. AN EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT FOOTBALL COACH. MR. BARNETT, HE'S DEJECTED. DARRELL GREEN WITH A BIG SMILE. RANDALL, HE'S HAD BETTER DAYS. JACKSON, HE'S HAD BETTER DAYS. BRENT: JACKSON'S BEST PASS RECEPTION CAME IN THE FIRST QUARTER. EARLY ON, THE EAGLES COULD NOT SCORE INSIDE THE 2O-YARD LINE. THEY HAD TWO OPPORTUNITIES WHETHER THEY WERE DOWN THERE, AND BOTH TIMES THEY SETTLED FOR FIELD GOALS. WASHINGTON TURNED THE BALL OVER TWICE EARLY. THEN IT WAS THE EAGLES WHO STARTED TURNING OVER. REFEREE: A 4O-SECOND TIME-OUT. BRENT: AND FOR MARK RYPIEN AS A QUARTERBACK, WHEN RYPIEN WAS BEING BOOED AT HOME AS HE WAS A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, IT'S TO HIS ADVANTAGE TO COME ON THE ROAD FOR A PLAYOFF GAME. IF THEY WERE BEHIND AT HOME, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A LITTLE HARD. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A LITTLE MORE RELAXING FOR RYPIEN TO COME IN HERE TODAY. THEY DIDN'T PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO HIM. DICK: I DON'T THINK PEOPLE REALIZE HOW GOOD THIS YOUNG MAN MARK RYPIEN IS. IN HIS CAREER, HE THROWS A TOUCHDOWN PASS EVERY 18 PASS ATTEMPTS. THAT'S NUMBER TWO IN THE NFL AMONG ACTIVE QUARTERBACKS. AND REMEMBER, HE THROWS 1O -- ONE EVERY 1O IN COMPLETIONS. BRENT: THEY'LL PUNT IT BACK TO THE EAGLES. AND IT'S DOWN AT THE 2O-YARD LINE. WE WANT TO THANK OUR CREW HERE TODAY. THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF ABC'S NFL FOOTBALL IS GEOFFREY MASON. BRENT: THIS GAME IS GOING TO END IN A DISAPPOINTING FASHION FOR THE EAGLES. AND FOR WASHINGTON, THEIR FOLKS COULDN'T BE HAPPIER. BRENT: JOE GIBBS HAS TO BE SO HAPPY ABOUT WHAT'S TRANSEXPIRED HERE TODAY. DICK: HE WAS TOTALLY CONCERNED LAST NIGHT. I MEAN, HE WAS INTO IT. BRENT: SANDERS TURNED IN SOME POSITIVE PLAYS COME OFF THE EAGLE BENCH. 14 MORE YARDS. SO THIS LITTLE WILL BE RENEWED NEXT SEASON. DICK: THAT'S BYNER LIMPING OFF ON THAT ANKLE. HE MAY NOT BE READY NEXT WEEK. THEY USUALLY GET WORSE AS IT COOLS OFF. BRENT: WASHINGTON ADVANCES TO THE SECOND ROUND. THEY WILL PLAY EITHER CHICAGO OR NEW ORLEANS. JOE GIBBS WITH A BIG ONE. JACK KENT COOKE DELIGHTED UPSTAIRS. AND A DISAPPOINTMENT FOR BUDDY RYAN WHO HAS NOW GONE 0-3 AS A PLAYOFF COACH WITH THE EAGLES. OUR NEXT GAME WILL MATCH THE MIAMI DOLPHINS AND THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS DOWN IN JOE
