Just find a buddy and have him or her stand a few feet behind you. Then, grab a Nerf football, close your eyes and flip it over your shoulder.

No peeking allowed. Cheating takes away from the drama.

"We've got all kinds of fakes," Eagles kicker David Akers said. "We just experiment with stuff, see what works."

The same team that began the season in Dallas with an onside kick that worked used a successful fake field goal play late in the first half of their 33-14 victory over the Arizona Cardinals Sunday at Sun Devil Stadium.

Leading, 10-0, the Eagles (4-3) shunned a 50-yard field goal attempt from Akers, who hasn't missed this year.

The Eagles' Darnell Autry did a solid job filling in for the injured Duce Staley.(AP)

Who knows what Akers and holder Koy Detmer called the play in the huddle since it has no name.

How about "No Look In Your Face," or "Gotcha?"

"One of the first two weeks of the season, Coach Harbaugh (special teams coach John Harbaugh) and I were looking at some old film and were looking at Michael Husted do it for Tampa Bay," Akers said. "Then, a few weeks ago, Koy (holder Koy Detmer) and I went out there and threw the fake in against our defense in practice, and it worked."

Akers thought it would work against the Cardinals because they are a "big corner rush team."

The Cardinals come hard from both corners to try to block the kick. So, when Akers caught Detmer's pitch, no defender was near him as he headed around the left corner.

"My first thought was, 'Don't drop the ball,'" said Akers, whose last carry was on a fake punt in high school.

Detmer said they never fumbled in practice. "He's got good hands," said Detmer, the Eagles backup quarterback. "He's got good speed, too."

Akers, who is much smaller than the 5-foot-10, 200 pounds he's listed as in the Eagles' media guide said, "I don't have blazing speed, but I can run 4.6 (in the 40-yard dash)."

Quarterback Donovan McNabb didn't believe him. "You liar," McNabb told him.

No matter how slow Akers runs, he went for 15 yards and a first down before being caught by Cardinals safety Pat Tillman.

"We were all surprised," Tillman said. "You don't see that stuff very often. When you see it, you have to react (quickly), and we didn't."

Akers' run gave the Eagles a first down on the Cardinals' 17 with two minutes left in the first half. Then, on the next play, the Eagles tried another trick play.

Halfback Brian Mitchell ran right and then threw back left to a wide-open McNabb, who could have walked into the end zone had he not dropped it.

"It was a short throw," McNabb said, laughing.

Two plays later, McNabb scored on a 3-yard run to turn a 10-point game into a 17-0 halftime lead. He then rubbed it in the Cardinals face, shooting a fadeaway jumper with the football over the goal post.

McNabb's celebration, for which he wasn't penalized, must have inspired Cardinals wide receiver David Boston, who was called for taunting Eagles defensive backs Bobby Taylor and Brian Taylor on a 70-yard touchdown in the third quarter.

Boston, the eighth pick overall in 1999, didn't even wait until he got in the end zone before pointing back at the Eagles duo, apparently forgetting his team trailed, 24-0.

"I thought it was a bad play on my behalf," said Boston, who cost his team a 15-yard penalty on the ensuing kickoff. "I have a lot of respect for the game and my opponent and shouldn't have done that."

Cardinals Coach Vince Tobin, whose team dropped to 2-4, said Boston has been told "many, many times" that "there's no place for that in the National Football League."

"Whether it's called youthful exuberance or whatever, it's just something you can't have happen on your football team," Tobin said. "It shows a total disrespect for the game."

Cardinals quarterback Jake Plummer said offensive coordinator Marc Trestman scolded Boston earlier in the season for trying to show up a San Francisco defensive back on a touchdown.

"Marc told him, 'We don't need that B.S. That's crap,'" Plummer said..."You don't have to tell somebody you beat them. They know when they get beat. But David is young. In a way, you like that attitude in him, but you wish he could contain it. He has to learn from it.

"I want to have a team that goes out and kicks the other team's ass and doesn't say a word, just lets them sit there and take it."

The Eagles know that Akers is going to be a celebrity this week in Philadelphia for the team's second-longest run of the game.

Akers says he has no plans to race a horse or try to outrun a locomotive.

"If I got in the end zone, I had a planned celebration," he said. "I won't tell you what it is. Maybe I'll get to use it some time."

He won't ask Boston for any tips.