5. The Eagles moved the ball properly all the recreation, despite the fact that it took them till the fourth quarter to place their first factors on the board. Hurts threw an interception in the long run zone. He fumbled the ball away on the New Orleans 46-yard line later within the first half. The Eagles went for it on fourth down twice once they have been in discipline objective place and did not convert, and early within the fourth quarter, they wanted a giant play. They received it from Barkley, who burst by a gap between the tackles and outran the New Orleans protection for a 65-yard landing to offer the Eagles the lead, lastly. Chunk performs – the Eagles are searching for them any manner they’ll get them and Barkley delivered. He completed with 147 yards and the 2 touchdowns on 17 carries.
“The sport wasn’t going our manner, however we simply by no means, by no means gave up,” Barkley mentioned. We simply stored trusting one another, stored grinding. We see our teammate (Smith) go down with a late hit, which I imagine, and we rallied. We rallied behind him to go on the market and grind out for Smitty. All phases, particularly protection, performed lights out and we discovered a technique to win.”
6. This was a recreation of attrition and a few younger gamers stepped up on the offensive line. Proper sort out Lane Johnson (concussion) and proper guard Mekhi Becton (finger) left the sport within the first half, and Fred Johnson stepped in at proper sort out and Tyler Steen changed Becton at proper guard and each greater than held their very own. Credit score goes to each gamers and to the teaching workers for getting each gamers able to go, and now the Eagles know much more about their depth alongside the offensive line. Actually, the Eagles by no means skipped a beat there. The depth alongside the offensive line confirmed and that’s nice to know transferring ahead.
“Subsequent-up mentality,” Goedert mentioned. “We misplaced a few O-linemen earlier than halftime and Fred and Steen performed unimaginable. Fred had an amazing block on Saquon’s lengthy landing run, with the ability to minimize the man off, we have been capable of hit a spot. That simply exhibits how good our teaching workers is and the way a lot we imagine in all people. It does not matter who’s in there, it is next-man-up mentality, and it is all we received, it is all we’d like, so simply shoutout to all people that was capable of step up. Parris (Campbell) made some huge performs after we wanted him. It actually takes a crew. It does not at all times go the best way individuals need it to, however when their quantity’s known as, it appears they’re capable of do what they should do.”
7. An enormous shoutout to Hurts, who made some errors (two turnovers) however then was nice within the fourth quarter with a number of strain on him and backups all through the offense. Hurts accomplished 29 of 38 passes for 311 yards and he gained one other 25 yards on the bottom. The Eagles rolled up 460 complete yards of offense in opposition to a really robust New Orleans protection.
“This man is a freakin’ winner,” Sirianni mentioned of Hurts. “He gained at Alabama. He gained at Oklahoma. He is been successful right here again and again and again and again. You realize what, we are the Philadelphia Eagles, so we perceive that we will get criticism, however this dude’s a freaking winner. Jalen Hurts is a winner and he gained right this moment.”
“It is a crew effort that is full belief on all people’s half,” Hurts mentioned. “I am simply proud that we realized from the state of affairs final week. … Everyone stepped up right this moment. Everyone stepped up right this moment and we responded to adversity. We communicated properly and there was by no means a doubt.”