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Defense rests for Eagles

DETROIT - Bill Davis has spent three years trying to build a competitive defense, only to watch it implode twice in the last five days.

For the second game in a row, a quarterback threw five touchdown passes against the Eagles. For the second game in a row, the Eagles gave up 45 points.

Neither of those two things ever has happened in the 83 seasons in franchise history. That it has happened now, just when Davis thought the pieces finally were starting to fall together with his unit, has left him as dumbfounded as he's ever been in his career.