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Clutch final drive saved Eagles after lackluster performance vs. Browns originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
It was the Eagles’ best drive of the day.
And they didn’t score.
With 3:57 left Sunday, after an impressive goal-line stand by the Eagles’ defense, Browns kicker Hopkins made a 31-yard field goal that reduced the Eagles’ lead to 20-16.
The Browns never got the ball again.
On a day when the offense sputtered much of the game, they came up huge when they had to.
The Eagles got the ball back on their own 24-yard-line with 3:48 left holding a four-point lead. They chipped away for six plays, gaining 20 yards, before ending the suspense on Jalen Hurts’ 40-yard strike to A.J. Brown – on an audible – down to the Browns’ 12-yard-line after the two-minute warning.
Ballgame.
“We’ve lost a couple of games in four minutes where we have given the ball back to the offense,” Nick Sirianni said. “We had the mindset of, ‘Hey, we’re going to end with this ball in our hands.’”
The drive began with a four-yard Saquon Barkley run and then Hurts scrambles of four and six yards to move the chains. Barkley picked up a yard on 1st-and-10 to give the Eagles a 2nd-and-9 on their own 39 at 2:14.
That’s when Hurts found Jahan Dotson of all people just past the sticks on the left sideline. Dotson – who had all of 25 receiving yards in the Eagles’ first four games – deftly dragged his left foot at the very last instant to make it a legal catch and give the Eagles a fresh set of downs and a first down just inside midfield.
The 10-yarder was Dotson’s longest reception since Howie Roseman traded a 3rd-round pick to the Commanders in August for the former 1st-rounb pick.
“Walking out at halftime, I told (Dotson) to just stay ready,” Hurts said. “Be ready. ‘I don’t know when it’s going to come, I don’t know how it’s going to look, I don’t know where it’s going to hit, but it’s going to come at some point, we’re going to need you.’ And he showed up,…
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Publish date : 2024-10-14 13:57:15
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