Eagles' Marshall starts slow, then gains ground

BALTIMORE - Byron Marshall hadn't played in a football game since August, and early on in Sunday's 27-26 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, you could tell.

Marshall seemed paralyzed by indecision, waiting for blocks to develop that weren't coming. He lost 6 yards, total, on his second through fourth carries, after gaining 3 on his first, Marshall thrown into a late-second-quarter scoring drive after Kenjon Barner went down with a hamstring injury on a 10-yard swing pass.

"Not hesitant, I just felt like I was trying to do too much," said Marshall, who later reeled off 10- and 12-yard runs on a drive that ended with a 27-yard Caleb Sturgis field goal, early in the fourth quarter. "Trying to make a…