10 Things We Learned From the Eagles Game: Week 17

1. Jerome Harrison is a very legitimate backup running back.

18 carries for 99 yards in the season finale. Not bad for a player who averaged over seven yards per touch so far this season. Harrison sure doesn't get the ball a lot, but when he does, he is very productive. He averaged 6.0 yards per carry this season. Even if you take away his phenomenal 50-yard touchdown run, he topped five yards per carry. This guy is a playmaker. Too bad Andy Reid doesn't use him.

2. Chad Hall might be a sleeper pick at receiver in the postseason.

The Eagles' fifth-string receiver caught six passes for 84 yards and a touchdown against the Cowboys. He also rushed once for two yards and returned three punts for 31 yards. He isn't ever going to be the Eagles' first-choice, but he may catch two or three passes per game in the playoffs. So far he's produced when called upon.

3. The Eagles' backup offensive linemen are a joke.

Austin Howard. Reggie Wells. King Dunlap. Nick Cole. And Max Jean-Gilles. Let's just say that I would not go to far with these men. They do nothing on the offensive line but take up space. They should be embarrassed to call themselves professional athletes.

4. Gerard Lawson appears to be a solid returner.

Two returns for 48 yards. A 28-yard return and a 20-yard return. The sample size is very small, but the results work for me. The newest Eagles player had five kick returns for just 43 yards for Cleveland last season (how is that possible? seriously, how??) but will likely be the Eagles' go-to-guy in the postseason. If he can average 20 yards per return and hold onto the football, I'm happy.

5. DeMarcus Ware might be the biggest Eagle-killer in the last few years.

Ware was incredible, especially in the last few minutes of the second half. For the game, he tallied three sacks and scored a touchdown on a 17-yard fumble recovery. He also scored a touchdown against the Eagles in 2006, also on a fumble recovery. He has 9.5 sacks in 11 career games against the Eagles.

6. ...Besides Jason Witten.

Witten is going to be a Hall of Famer one day and his production against the Eagles is one of the biggest reasons why. In 15 career games against the Eagles (slightly less than one full season), Witten has 87 catches for 1026 yards and seven touchdowns. He scored the game-winning touchdown in the final minute against the Eagles on Sunday. Yeah, it was against the second-string defense, but this is a player who the Eagles have been unable to stop for years and years.

7. Kevin Kolb may be a decent quarterback, but without any playmakers, he's a nobody.

Kolb has had a few impressive moments throughout his career, but don't expect him to do anything without playmakers. Without the Eagles' top two receivers (or tight end or running back or offensive line) on Sunday, Kolb could do nothing right. He threw three interceptions and looked brutal on an attempt at a last-second game-winning drive.

8. The Eagles' biggest problem going into the postseason is right cornerback.

Asante Samuel is a playmaking stud. Maybe the Eagles could just clone him before next week. If not, it's up to Dimitri Patterson, Joselio Hanson, Trevard Lindley, or Brandon Hughes to stop the quality receivers of the Green Bay Packers. This is the biggest weakness on the team right now, and I could easily see it costing the team a win this weekend.

9. The Eagles will go as far as Michael Vick takes them...

This is Vick's team. When he's healthy and producing, he is absolutely unstoppable. Vick could have played Pittsburgh's Steel Curtain or Dallas's Doomsday Defense in that epic Monday Night thriller against the Redskins or in the last eight minutes against the New York Giants, and the results would have been the same. Points, points, and more points. But when Vick is off, like against the Vikings, the Eagles just aren't going anywhere.

10. Because the defense isn't going to help at all.

The defense for the Philadelphia Eagles allowed 377 points this year, ranking them 21st in the league. They allowed more points than Andy Reid coached team except for the 2005 Eagles (and if you take out all the defensive touchdowns allowed by Mike McMahon, the '10 Eagles are worse). They allowed more than 24 points in 11 games this season. Their 31 passing touchdowns is more than any Super Bowl champion has ever allowed, and the red zone defense is among the worst in the history of the NFL. The only positive is the number of turnovers produced by the defense: 34, one of the best totals in the NFL.