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The Eagles are going to the NFC Championship Game, but good god almighty was this an atrocious play:
RAMS FORCE THE SAFETY ON JALEN HURTS
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— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 19, 2025
You always try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Maybe Jalen couldn’t see very well there. He’s playing in the snow and we’re sitting on our fat butts at home.
But the Eagles are calling a passing play with a five-step drop on 2nd and 6, already backed up near their own goal line, after Hurts was rolled up during a sack and had to visit the medical tent. You can’t hand it off there? Throw something short? And what’s Hurts trying to do anyway? You’ve got LA #92 beating a double team, great play by him, but Jalen’s got a dump off to his left and a wide-open tight end leaking out for an easy check down and he doesn’t throw the ball at all.
Said Nick Sirianni:
“On that particular play, again, I’ll have to watch the tape. It looked like we got some leakage in the middle, and they covered it pretty good. I didn’t think there was anywhere to go with the football right there, but we’ve got to find a way to get out of that. But they covered it well. Sometimes in these situations you have to — we live to see another day, but we’ll do everything we can do to fix the issues that happened today. But sometimes the issues, just like I said to the team this week, are just good plays from the opponent. The further you get along in this, the more it’s going to be, ‘Hey, the opponent made a really good play and how do you embrace the adversity?’ I think our guys did a really good job. We give up the safety and then the defense finds a way to – Jalen (Carter) knocks the ball out, Isaiah (Rodgers) almost takes it for a touchdown. We found a way to recover after that. Jake (Elliot) did a good job kicking that ball off; now they’ve got it to the 35, but under those conditions, that was good by our kickoff team.”
Uhh okay. Good plays from the opponent, sure. Credit where it’s due. The quarterback also just stood there and took a safety instead of going to Barkley or Goedert, or throwing the ball into the 2nd row. Thankfully Jalen Carter was there to save everyone’s butt on the ensuing LA drive.
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