"MICHAEL VICK said yesterday the feeling on the Eagles' sideline Sunday wasn't despair, as the Giants took leads of 24-3 and 31-10. It wasn't unbribled optimism, but it wasn't despair.

"Guys didn't really have their heads down. It wasn't really like the game was over," the quarterback said during his weekly appearance on the Tony Mercurio Show on ESPN 94.3 in Virginia Beach, Va. "It was more so of 'How did we get in this position? How did it even get to this point?' We couldn't understand that. We couldn't grasp that, at the time.

"All we could think about was to make it right, try to do the right things to put ourselves back in the position to compete through the rest of the game."

Vick led the Eagles to three touchdowns in a span of 6 minutes, 19 seconds, then DeSean Jackson ran a punt back 65 yards for a touchdown as time expired, allowing the Eagles to complete the most amazing comeback in the 78-year history of their franchise - Sunday's 38-31 victory over the host Giants.

Vick recalled leading the Falcons back against the Steelers in 2002, down 17 points in the fourth quarter, netting a 34-34 tie. But even that didn't match Sunday.

"Being down three scores, we all know it's tough. With the short amount of time, the margin for error is very slim," Vick said.

Vick acknowledged he was thinking about what plays the Eagles might use in overtime when "I turned around and [saw] the punt in the air. It was a very low punt, low trajectory on it, it was a line drive straight to DeSean. I said to myself, 'This could be good.' Because if he catches it, he could put us in a position where we could actually get a field goal."

The comeback, Vick said, "made everybody a believer, never to give up.""