DID YOU NOTICE?

* The noise level in the Metrodome wasn't anywhere close to what it had been for previous Eagles-Vikings games. Might have had something to do with the 3-9-1 record the Vikings brought into the game.

* The bad angle by safety Patrick Chung on Matt Cassel's 57-yard touchdown pass to Greg Jennings.

* Fletcher Cox hit Cassel's arm before he threw the scoring pass to Jennings. But Cassel managed to hang on to the ball and get it away.

* Two of the four sacks on Nick Foles occurred in the red zone. Foles had been sacked in the red zone just twice going into the game.

* Foles had an impressive, 17-yard completion to DeSean Jackson early in second quarter. What was impressive about it was that linebacker Audie Cole was rushing unblocked right at Foles. He knew he was going to take a vicious hit, but never flinched and made an accurate throw.

* DeSean Jackson lined up in the backfield a number of times. He ran a wheel route on a 20-yard completion in the second quarter.

* The illegal peel-back block by Foles that cost the Eagles a touchdown in the second quarter.

* Trent Cole's bad-awful drive in the second quarter. He had a neutral-zone infraction on a second-and-10 and then missed a tackle in the backfield on Cordarrelle Patterson on his 12-yard run on second-and-8 at the Philadelphia 24.

* How close two different Vikings defenders came to tackling McCoy from behind on his 22-yard screen on the Eagles' final scoring drive of the first half. He motored away from both of them.

* The nice job Foles did of escaping a rush and getting a strong, accurate throw to Jackson on a 21-yard completion late in the first half.

The Eagles lined up Jackson in the backfield and running back Chris Polk wide on a 6-yard pass to Jackson on their final possession of the first half.

* Vikings corner Shaun Prater played Foles' underthrown pass to Jackson in the third quarter better than Jackson did. Jackson didn't make much of an attempt to knock down the pass and prevent an interception.

BY THE NUMBERS

* When Blair Walsh missed a 55-yard field goal attempt on the Vikings' first possession, it marked the ninth straight game that the Eagles have not allowed any points to an opponent on their first possession of the game.

* For the eleventh time in 14 games, the Eagles failed to score on their first possession.

*Nick Foles has had five games with three or more touchdown passes this season. That's one shy of the club record of six set by Norm Snead in 1967.

Foles has a 125.1 passer rating in his last six games. That's the highest six-game rating ever by an Eagles quarterback, surpassing 116.0 by Donovan McNabb in 2004.

* DeSean Jackson had a career-high 10 catches against the Packers. He also was targeted a career-high 16 times. He has been targeted 117 times this season and has 75 catches for a career-high 64.1 percent target-to-catch rate.

* Foles was 6-for-9 for 151 yards on third down against the Vikings, but also was sacked twice on third down. That equaled the number of times he had been sacked on third down this season.

* The Vikings converted five of six red-zone opportunities against the Eagles into touchdowns. The Eagles had given up just four touchdowns in 15 previous red-zone challenges.

* The Eagles committed nine penalties yesterday. It's just the second time in the last nine games that they've committed more than eight penalties in a game (nine vs. Dallas).

* The Eagles had just one turnover. They've turned it over just three times in the last six games. Twelve of their 16 giveaways have come in losses — five vs. the Chiefs, three against the Cowboys, three against the Giants and one against the Vikings.

* Twenty of the Eagles' 42 touchdown drives have been four plays or less.

* The Eagles collected 450-plus yards for the fifth time this season (475). It's the fifth time this season they've done it, tying the franchise record set in 1951 and 1963.

*The Eagles became the fifth team in NFL history to register 400 yards in 11 games.

* DeSean Jackson (1,275 receiving yards) and LeSean McCoy (1,343 rushing yards) became the Eagles' first-ever 1,200-yard rushing and receiving tandem.



