THE MOST significant moment of the Eagles' season so far occurred late Saturday night, when Sam Bradford strode through the short corridor from the locker room and bounded into the Lincoln Financial Field interview room, following a 40-17 preseason victory over Baltimore.
Bradford had taken two big hits in his 12-play, 14-snap debut as the team's starting quarterback, including one that drew a 15-yard, low-blow roughing penalty on the Ravens' Terrell Suggs. Yet Bradford emerged unscathed, and maybe more important, unflustered.
"You would have to ask him, but I think that was what he was trying to do," Bradford said, when asked if he thought Suggs went after his twice-repaired knee.