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So much Eagles ugliness in this debacle

To pick one moment that encapsulates the Eagles' 45-17 loss Sunday to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is akin to reaching down the garbage disposal after your wedding ring has slipped off. No matter what you extract first, it will be repugnant.

You could pick any of rookie Jameis Winston's five touchdown passes -- the most that any quarterback has thrown in one game against the Eagles since the NFL and AFL merged in 1970. Perhaps, of those five, the fourth would be most appropriate. It came late in the first half, 14 yards to running back Charles Sims, and in its unfolding, it was a perfect symbol for the afternoon's events: Winston heaving the ball half-blind toward the right corner of the end zone, Sims tracking it as if he were Willie Mays chasing Vic Wertz's fly ball in '54, linebacker Mychal Kendricks a step behind him, cornerback Byron Maxwell in position to break up the play .