NFL Victory Of The Week: DeSean Jackson’s Punt Return Seals The Deal
Prilosec presents the NFL Victory of the Week. It had to be the Philadelphia Eagles shocking comeback from the dead to beat the New York Giants, 38-31.
Each week on SBNation.com we’ll have the NFL Victory of the Week, presented by Prilosec. The winning team is decided by conducting a poll on Tuesdays across all of the SB Nation NFL blogs throughout the 2010 season, with you -- the readers -- voting for the biggest win of each week.
This week's winner is the Philadelphia Eagles.
Was there ever any doubt this week about which team would get the Prilosec Victory of the Week? The Philadelphia Eagles were getting crushed by their division rival, the New York Giants. The two teams were battling for the NFC East lead and the Giants held a 31-10 lead with under nine minutes left in the fourth quarter. That's when Michael Vick and the Eagles went to work by scoring three straight touchdowns to tie the game. Then, the unthinkable happened. With roughly 13 seconds left to play, the Giants actually punted it to DeSean Jackson, who promptly returned it for a touchdown to give the Eagles an unbelievable come-from-behind victory.
Here’s what SB Nation’s Eagles blog, Bleeding Green Nation, had to say:
Michael Vick led the greatest comeback of his career and one of the great comebacks in Eagles history as the birds overcame a 21 point fourth quarter deficit to beat the Giants and claim first place in the NFC East. It's hard to even think of a superlative worthy of describing what Michael Vick did in the fourth quarter of this game, just like it's hard to think of one to capture the moment where DeSean Jackson returned the punt to ice it. I'm still in shock.
Over 10,700 SB Nation readers voted this week, and the final result wasn't even close. The Eagles/Giants game was the winner in a landslide with 67% of the vote (7,305 votes). Thanks to all SB Nation readers who participated.
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