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‘I own it:’ Jalen Hurts explains yet another interception originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
If Saquon Barkley hadn’t dropped that pass, Jalen Hurts wouldn’t have thrown that interception.
Because the game would have been over and that drive never would have happened and that pass never would have been thrown.
But it did. And he did.
It happened with 27 seconds left in a game the Eagles should have won, but for the sixth straight game Hurts threw an interception.
After Barkley’s drop Monday night and the Falcons’ effortless 70-yard go-ahead touchdown drive, the Eagles got the ball back at their own 30-yard-line with 34 seconds left with one timeout left.
Not ideal, but realistically, they needed about 27 or 28 yards to get into the outer limits of Jake Elliott’s range. Elliott is 4-for-4 in his career from 58 yards and out, and he’s one of five kickers in NFL history to make multiple field goals from at least 61 yards – the game-winner vs. the Giants in 2017 and another last year vs. the Vikings.
Twenty-seven yards would get the ball to the Falcons’ 43 and give Elliott a shot at another 61-yarder.
Hurts picked up 13 quick yards to the Eagles’ 43 on a completion to Dallas Goedert, and the Eagles called their second timeout with 27 seconds left.
Just 14 yards away now.
But instead of chipping away at the Atlanta defense, Hurts went for broke and again threw into coverage, trying to force a ball to DeVonta Smith at the Falcons’ 32-yard-line. Smith had no chance to make the catch and Jessie Bates, the Falcons’ Pro Bowl safety, snagged the interception.
Ballgame.
“Yeah, just, honestly, trying to give a guy a shot to make a play,” Hurts said Wednesday. “In that situation, the game, I think, just looking back on it, (considering) the time we had, the opportunity we had, maybe didn’t have to be as aggressive there. But we’re trying to take a shot down the field in that area. And didn’t connect.”
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Author : NBC Sports Philadelphia
Publish date : 2024-09-19 13:19:23
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