Eagles vs. Colts: Twitter Reaction and Full Postgame Quotes

By coming back from a 14-point second-half deficit to win for the second week in a row, the Philadelphia Eagles made NFL history with their 30-27 road victory over the Indianapolis Colts.

Say what you want about the Eagles two games into the 2014 campaign. Quarterback Nick Foles hasn’t been sharp. His wide receivers are dropping passes left and right. The offensive line has been hampered by injuries. At the end of the day, though, Philadelphia has outscored opponents 58-10 in the third and fourth quarters so far this season.

While some observers may find only the flaws in the Eagles’ current winning streak, LeSean McCoy believes these types of games could define the team. The All-Pro back spoke about “the fight” during his postgame press conference, carried live on Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia.

“It’s good to come back and win, because every game isn’t going to be great,” McCoy said. “There’s going to be times when we need to come back. I think those are championship teams, teams that fight at the end and win. Every game shouldn’t be like that, and we don’t plan to, but we need to have that fight to get back on point sometimes.”

Hall of Fame sportswriter Ray Didinger agreed, and he’s seen some ugly wins in his decades-long career of covering the Birds. If you don’t value a win in Indianapolis against a quarterback like Andrew Luck, regardless of what it looked like, you’re really underestimating the competition in the NFL.

Of course, even McCoy had to admit the Eagles couldn’t have done it without Darren Sproles, the other half of the club’s backfield tandem. In his second game in midnight green, Sproles racked up 178 total yards from scrimmage, including a career-high 152 through the air, plus punched in a 19-yard run for a touchdown.

McCoy was far from alone in his praise for Sproles, who already has 263 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns in ’14. After the big receiving game, head coach Chip Kelly joked that’s what the front office traded a fifth-round pick for after reiterating all offseason Sproles is a running back first, while Foles added he knew the versatile back could do that from passing to him in video games.

As good as Sproles was, the Eagles don’t escape without two other big plays.

First, there was safety Malcolm Jenkins’ fourth-quarter interception, the effects of which were twofold. Firs, the offseason free-agent addition prevented the Colts from kicking a field goal to take an almost insurmountable 10-point lead late in the contest. Second, it set up a five-play, 76-yard Eagles drive to tie the score at 27 with 3:25 to play.

Of course, Jenkins’ pick was not without controversy. Officials may have missed an illegal contact penalty against cornerback Brandon Boykin that arguably caused T.Y. Hilton to fall down on his route—though in all honesty, it looked like the Colts wideout might’ve gone down on his own.

Either way, Boykin knew where to deflect the disappointment and outrage of Colts fans—and a few players in the home-team locker room, apparently.

You can’t ignore the massive contribution from place-kicker Cody Parkey, either. Acquired from the Colts in an August trade for camp body David Fluellen, Parkey drilled the 36-yard game-winning field goal, one of three he made in the W.

Afterwards, the irony was not lost on the rookie kicker.

So, what do you make of a team that’s come back to win its first two games of the season in cardiac fashion? Well, for one, credit coach Kelly’s sports science program, which has his team in peak physical conditioning.

The Colts defense appeared to be worn down from Philadelphia’s up-tempo offense by late in the first half already. Afterward, Kelly mentioned “period 22,” a reference to the Eagles' practices that are broken up into 25 periods.

As for the players inside the Eagles’ locker room, clearly they believe despite having to scratch and claw to reach 2-0. Cornerback Cary Williams echoed McCoy’s comments from earlier about these wins potentially showing the makings of a championship-caliber squad when speaking to Eliot Shorr-Parks for NJ.com.

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We are resilient," Eagles cornerback Cary Williams said. "We can come back."

And now, after their 30-27 win over the Indianapolis Colts on Monday night, Williams said the Eagles are one more thing as well.

"We're contenders.

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