Dallas Cowboys' Shutout of Philadelphia Eagles Wipes Away David Akers' Record

I was listening to WIP-610 AM last week leading up to the regular season NFL finale between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys, and I heard something interesting.

David Akers, who had 139 points following the Denver Broncos victory, needed just one point to score 140 or more points in consecutive seasons.

A bag of shells, as me and my friends used to say, when faced with something incredibly easy.

Point after touchdown is all he needs.

And then it happened.

Jan. 3, 2010, the Dallas Cowboys shut out the Philadelphia Eagles, 24-0 in Dallas.

Akers had a chance as he set up for a 53-yard field goal early in the third quarter. Akers had the distance, but missed it wide left. It looked pretty close, but clearly missed.

It was not until I saw the replay how close it was. In slow motion, the ball is hooking right in through the cross bars then at the last second missed left.

"You could see the shadow of the ball through the uprights," I heard a caller say on WIP today.

Before you think I start a familiar Philadelphia chant of what could have been, I am here to say that the Eagles fully and completely got their butts kicked by the Cowboys.

As I was watching the game with my friends and when the Cowboys looked as if they would score again early in the game (before the Eagles interception), a friend said, "The Eagles are going to lose this game, 41-10."

It became apparent by the end of the third quarter that the Eagles would get shut out.

Just weird for the fifth highest scoring team in the NFL to get shutout, but again the Cowboys shut the Redskins out, 17-0, the week before.

So what? A meaningless stats in an awful blowout.

But consider what it would have meant if Akers' kick did not veer off.

Akers scored 144 last year and 139 this year.

The only player with consecutive 140-point seasons is running back Priest Holmes, who scored 144 in 2002 and 162 in 2003 with the Chiefs.

Mike Vanderjagt, who scored 145 points in 1999 and 157 in 2003 for the Colts, is the only kicker who’s had two 140-point seasons at any point in his career.

And I don't think that Akers will score 140 points two years in a row in what is the back end of his career.

Shame.

The way the Eagles played Sunday, we might be rehashing the postseason sooner than Eagles BR writers would have hoped.