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Kenny Pickett comes up just short: ‘I wanted that one bad’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Kenny Pickett gave the Eagles a chance to win, and that’s all you can really ask for.
He wasn’t great. He wasn’t elite. He certainly wasn’t Jalen Hurts.
But he went out and battled in his first game as an Eagle against the NFL’s 4th-ranked pass defense after not playing for more than a year and engineered six scoring drives.
It just wasn’t enough.
The Commanders came back from 14 points down to beat the Eagles 36-33 at the stadium formerly known as FedEx, delaying for now the Eagles clinching the NFC East.
“I’m focused on the outcome,” Pickett said. “I’m just sitting here frustrated. I wanted to get that one for our team. We’ve got to learn from it and move on.
“I’m honestly just sitting here just pissed off, man. Wanted to win that one bad, point blank.”
Pickett entered the game in the middle of the first quarter with the Eagles already up 7-0 after Hurts suffered a concussion. He was rusty, which is to be expected considering he hadn’t played significant snaps since Week 13 last year with the Steelers.
He threw a touchdown pass to A.J. Brown, got picked off deep in Eagles territory, converted a couple big fourth downs and on one of the game’s pivotal plays – a 3rd-and-5 on Washington’s 22-yard-line with 2:07 left and the Eagles up 30-28 – he threw a perfect pass past the sticks that DeVonta Smith dropped.
If he catches it? Ballgame.
“I’d have to go back and watch it, but there’s definitely plays that I want back, and I know that we want back as a team.,” Pickett said. “You have to give credit to them. They played really hard as well. It came down to the wire, but there’s things that change games long before you get to the end of the game. We’ve got to go back and look at those and see what we all can improve on and move on.”
Pickett suffered a rib injury along the way that had Tanner McKee warming up.
The Eagles still need a…
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Author : NBC Sports Philadelphia
Publish date : 2024-12-23 15:04:00
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