Eagles visit Bears at Soldier Field on Sunday Night Football

It's another edition of Sunday Night Football people and this week, we have a good ol' fashioned face-off between offense and defense.

Week 4 of the 2008-09 NFL football season continues at Soldier Field when the high-flying Philadelphia Eagles visit the Chicago Bears on Sunday night. The Eagles, with a healthy Donovan McNabb, are powered this year with one of the high-scoring offensive schemes in the league while the Bears, with all their problems at the QB position, don't have much of a choice but to try win games on defense.

However, as good as Philly's offense has become this season, taking on the Bears on Sunday Night Football without their solid running game may just be a big problem.

You see, Eagles runningback Brian Westbrook is questionable for this one because of the ankle injury he suffered against Pittsburgh last week and without a good running game to backup the quarterback, defensive teams (yes, like the Bears...) can have a field day throwing blitzes to the quarterback all game long.

STILL, the Philadelphia Eagles remain upbeat that they'll still be able to come up with a win over the Bears at Solider Field. After Tampa Bay had Brian Griese throwing 67 passes over that Bears defense en route to a 27-24 win for the Bucs, the Eagles believe McNabb can top that, or at least, do the same.

''Absolutely,'' Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb said, confident that he'll be able to break that Bears D like Griese did last week. ''I am going to go for 70, 75.''

For a quarterback probably coming into a game against the Chicago Bears without much of a choice but to throw it up in the air with a nonexistent running game, McNabb looked annoyingly arrogant.

Of course, we can't blame the guy. After all, he's having one heckuva' season after all the problems he had with injuries the last couple of years. McNabb has completed 70 of 105 passes for 838 yards, five TDs while only giving up one interception, good for a 102.8 passer rating.

Yes, the Donovan McNabb we knew that, together with Terrell Owens then, led the Eagles all the way to the Super Bowl a few years ago is now back and he has the entire city of Philadelphia thinking big again.

Of course, for Philly's sake, let's hope Brian Urlacher doesn't catch this guy standing around inside the pocket this Sunday.

Can the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Chicago Bears on Sunday Night Football? Bodog Sportsbook has the odds.

Philadelphia Eagles -3 (1.83)

Chicago Bears +3 (2.00)

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