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Weekly Birds Coverage D The Inquirer | MONDAY, SEPT.24, 2018 |PHILLY.COM|C Woods turns back clock in a big win. D9 Sunday is Game Day Game Day Preview EAGLES 20, COLTS16 • All the coverage packaged as a center • Stories/interviews from our coverage team spread in the Sunday Inquirer • Thorough analysis and position-by- Hold Your Horses • Package includes Zach Berman’s in-depth position matchups analysis, Jeff McLane’s column, and game • The rosters and stats you need breakdown and stats Birds Eye View Podcast Our weekly Eagles podcast will be expanded this year to include a rotation of our Eagles coverage team. During the last Eagles season, the podcasts had Eagles QB Carson Wentz throwshis first passofthe season in the first quarter against the Colts. He passed for255 yardswith aTDand an interception. YONG KIM /Staff Photographer 8,529 users and 10,813 listens. We’ll be ClutchBarnett ‘D’makes sure actively promoting the podcast this year steps up again Wentz’sreturn tosavegame is ahappy one with a full-scale print, digital, and social By ZachBerman Derek Barnett is 22. He is just 22. There were STAFF WRITER three players, just three, on the Eagles’ 53-man arson Wentz was the last player introduced, roster Sunday who are younger than he is: Josh emerging through billows of smoke with an Adams, Jordan Mailata, and Josh Sweat. Of the C ovation nine months in themaking. But five players the Eagles selected in this year’sNFL when the Eagles’ 20-16 win over the Indianapolis advertising campaign, driving readers draft, just two are younger than Barnett. It feels Colts was determinedonSunday,Wentz re- as if he should be older.Hejoined the Eagles in mained in asimilar position to Week 1. He April 2017, when they picked Derek Barnett trips up Colts quarterback Andrew Luck on the play watched from the sideline while the defense him in that draft’sfirst round, thatsealed the Eagles’ victory. YONG KIM /Staff Photographer provedclutch withanothergame-savingstop yet it feels as if he’sbeen here near the end zone. longer.Maybe it’sbecause you Wentz’sreturn to the lineup received top billing to listen on Philly.com or download the keep hearing his name in those on Sunday.The defensemade sure the Philadel- moments that matter most. FivePages on the Eagles’ Win phia crowd was rewarded for sitting through a In last season’sNFC Champi- yDavid Murphy: Closingout victories has steady rain to see the Eagles advance to 2-1. onship Game,itwas Barnett become atrademark forthe Eagles. D3 “Good football teams find ways to win,” Eagles who sacked Case Keenum on a yTheBirds’ defense comes up big in the coach Doug Pederson said. “In tight, close ball podcast in the iTunes store. MIKE SIELSKI key third down in the second redzone. D3 games, we’ve been able to figure it out and win. "@MikeSielski quarter,forcing afumble and a ySafety RodneyMcLeod exits with aknee That’satribute to the guys in the locker room.” turnover that stopped the Minne- injury. D5 They found away because the defense kept the sota Vikingsfrom scoring a yJeff McLane: CarsonWentz and the Eagles grind out a Colts out of the end zone on four of five red zone game-tying touchdown. In Super Bowl LII, it was 17-playdrivetowin the game. D6 trips. The most memorable came when the Colts Barnett who, after Brandon Graham knocked the yTheup-down drill. D6 were 4yards from the end zone on fourth down football from TomBrady’shands late in the yWith JayAjayi and Darren Sproles out, three running with 1minute, 19 seconds remaining in the game. fourth quarter,saw the ball bounce off the U.S. backs pick up the slack forthe Eagles. D7 It was comparable to the Eagles’ Week 1win, See DEFENSE on D5 See EAGLES on D4 DAVE HAKSTOL, PART 2: SIXERS: GuardMarkelle Fultz PHILLIES: AaronNola UNION: Substitutes come up MORE Ahockey coach’searly days in says he “can’t wait”for the surpasses 200 innings, but the big in a2-0 victory over COVERAGE Sioux City, Iowa. D2 season to getstarted. D7 Phils getswept in Atlanta. D9 Sporting Kansas City. D12 Early Bird Newsletter Bettor’s Guide Column The Day After Launched in 2017, the Early Birds • An entertaining and informative column on • Coverage of all the game’s action minutes newsletter has more than 15,000 Philly Betting by Ed Barkowitz both online after it happens on Philly.com and all over subscribers – and keeps growing. Running and in print our pages in the Inquirer and Daily News five days a week during the season, we • Staff picks against the spread of all the next morning. launched the newsletter early this season NFL games • Day-after game features include What to cover all of the training camp and pre- • An expanded Vegas Vic analysis and look I Learned (McLane) and 5 Reasons the season action and are actively promoting Eagles Won/Lost (Paul Domowitch) it to reach new subscribers. at all the odds and prop bets • All the numbers an experienced (or first- time) bettor would need Want to know how to get your brand in the game? Contact: Lyn Klein Kirlin at [email protected] .