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Every NFL Game Has Two Halves — The Team that Wins the Second Half Wins the Game.
Admittedly — an ugly 3–0 is much, much better than a beautiful 0–3. For the Eagles — whose Sunday opening half performance saw only 33 yards of total offense and no receptions for star receiver A.J. Brown — things were not looking good at halftime. They looked even bleaker when Rams Running Back Kyren Williams took a ten-yard pass from Matthew Stafford into the end zone to bring the score to 26–7.
Then the real game started. The result would be the eighth greatest comeback in Eagles franchise history — the largest ever at the Linc — outscoring Los Angeles 26–0.
In the third quarter — Dallas Goedert grabbed a 33-yard touchdown pass from Jalen Hurts after a 79-yard drive. Then the Eagles scored again on a nine-yard connection from Hurts to A.J. Brown.
After both teams traded possessions including a couple of fourth down attempts that were not converted and a Jalen Carter blocked field goal and subsequent taunting penalty — the Eagles drove 91 yards on 17 plays when Jalen Hurts connected with Devonta Smith on 4th and Goal to put the Eagles up 27–26 with 1:48 left in the game.
The Rams then drove down the field — setting up a 44-yard field goal attempt by Los Angeles kicker Joshua Karty. Once again the Eagles got a great push up the middle and Jordan Davis blocked the attempt and returned it for a touchdown as time expired.
The irony is that the Eagles defense was successful in holding the Rams to four field goals in the first half instead of touchdowns. The most important of those two attempts for the Rams— were both blocked by the Eagles.
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Michael Thomas Leibrandt
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