![]() Once he left the field, he didn’t return and the reports out of the Green Bay medical staff is that Rodgers suffered an oblique injury. Philly combined for 363 yards, with Hurts leading the way with 157 yards on the ground.Īaron Rodgers was injured late in the first half, but didn’t head to the sideline until the third quarter. Instead of quick, three or four play drives, the Eagles built up scoring drives of 11 plays, 14 plays and 10 plays in the second half. ![]() The Eagles and their run game turned it on in the second half as Hurts, Sanders and Gainwell seemed like they were averaging 8-10 yards on each of their runs. The game changed when Jalen Hurts marched the Eagles down the field and scored a TD right before the halftime break, when he found Quez Watson on a 30 yard touchdown pass with just seconds remaining in the first half. Rodgers hit Aaron Jones in the back of the end zone to tie the game up at 20-20 mid way through he second quarter. On the first play of the second quarter, Miles Sanders gave the lead back to the Eagles on a two yard TD run, but Quay Walker assisted the GB offenses’ efforts when he scooped up an AJ Brown fumble and took it 63 yards to set up the Packer counter punch. Green Bay and Philadelphia would go blow for blow in the first half as the Packers were able to hang with the Eagles high powered run game. The Packers got a rare defensive stop on the next possession when they turned the Eagles over on downs inside their own half of the field, and the Packers would go on to take their first and only lead with a Randall Cobb 11 yard touchdown catch to make it 14-13 in the first quarter. Matt LeFleur’s team punched back with a quick strike TD drive led by Aaron Rodgers and finished off by AJ Dillon. Plenty of points in first two quartersĪaron Rodgers threw his first of two interceptions on the Packers first drive, and the Eagles would jump on the QB’s mistake and make it a 13-0 just three plays later. Kenneth Gainwell scored the first touchdown of the night, and it didn’t take the Eagles long to put the next TD on the board. Hurts had two 20+ yard runs on third down to march Philly down the field and set up the opening touchdown. Hurts and the Eagles hit the ground running, from the start. On Sunday they ran 30 more plays than the Green Bay Packers while out gaining them 500-342. With the wind howling and Nick Siriani and the Eagles knew the run game was going to help them control the pace of the game while keeping Aaron Rodgers on the sideline. It was a soggy lead up to the game in Philly and even though rain stopped falling, weather conditions didn’t improve once kickoff time came around. ![]() After a shootout in the first half, the Eagles took control of the game by running the ball and wearing down the Packers defense down in the second half. The score line was much closer that the game would have suggested. They were in need of a dominant performance like the one they had on Sunday. Philadelphia came into the game having scored just 14 points last week against the Colts and lost to the Commanders the week before. ![]() Jalen Hurts and the rest of the Eagles ran for a grand total of 363 yard in the 40-33 victory. The Philadelphia Eagles ran wild against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday Night at Lincoln Financial Field to become the first team with double digit wins this season.
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