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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Jaelan Phillips could consciousness the antithetic mentality that a defending champion exudes arsenic soon arsenic the Philadelphia Eagles added him astatine the commercialized deadline.
Phillips wasted nary clip doing his portion to lend to the Eagles’ rubric defense.
In his archetypal crippled with the Eagles since they acquired him from the Miami Dolphins, Phillips made 2 of the biggest plays of the crippled to assistance Philadelphia outlast the Green Bay Packers 10-7 connected Monday night.
“The biggest happening I noticed was conscionable nary panic,” Phillips said. “The full full time, determination was conscionable utmost assurance connected some sides of the ball. It felt truly bully to beryllium successful that environment."
Phillips recovered a fumble by Jordan Love to thwart a Green Bay scoring accidental successful the last infinitesimal of the archetypal fractional and helped marque a fourth-and-1 halt precocious successful the 4th quarter.
“He loves football,” Eagles manager Nick Sirianni said. “He loves working. You could conscionable spot it, the mode helium was moving astir successful practice. His centrifugal is constantly, perpetually running.”
Jalen Hurts threw a 36-yard walk to DeVonta Smith with 10:35 remaining for Philadelphia’s lone touchdown, giving the Eagles a 10-0 lead. Green Bay's lone touchdown came connected Josh Jacobs’ 6-yard tally with 5:49 left.
Brandon McManus' effort astatine a game-tying, 64-yard tract extremity arsenic clip expired fell respective yards short.
“We knew it was going to beryllium a four-quarter fistfight,” Packers manager Matt LaFleur said. “I thought our defence was outstanding, and unfortunately, conscionable excessively galore mistakes offensively to flooded it.”
Green Bay's 2nd consecutive nonaccomplishment dropped the Packers (5-3-1) to 3rd spot successful the NFC North, down Detroit and Chicago. The Packers, who had the NFC’s champion grounds earlier their 16-13 loss to Carolina connected Nov. 2, would person the conference’s seventh and last playoff effect if the regular play ended now.
A antiaircraft conflict that featured the archetypal halftime necktie of the play had a superior deficiency of large plays until the Eagles (7-2) delivered a one-two punch aboriginal successful the 4th quarter.
Philadelphia led 3-0 and faced third-and-7 from its ain 23 erstwhile Saquon Barkley caught a walk 5 yards down the enactment of scrimmage, made a rotation determination past cornerback Carrington Valentine and burst upfield for a 41-yard gain.
On the adjacent play, Smith made a leaping drawback successful the extremity portion implicit information Evan Williams.
“We person immense sparks," said Barkley, who was constricted to 60 yards connected 22 carries. "With the benignant of endowment we person connected this discourtesy and connected this team, 2 to 3 plays, it’s conscionable crazy. (In) 2 to 3 plays, we tin spell downfield and score.”
After cutting the pb to 10-7, the Packers had a mates much opportunities successful the closing minutes.
One thrust ended erstwhile Jacobs fumbled portion getting stuffed connected fourth-and-1 from Green Bay’s 44 with 1 1/2 minutes remaining. Phillips and Reed Blankenship teamed up connected the stop.
Green Bay had 1 past accidental with 27 seconds near from its ain 36 aft the Eagles threw a agelong incompletion connected fourth-and-6 alternatively than punting oregon attempting a agelong tract extremity into the wind.
An 18-yard completion from Love to Bo Melton got the Packers beyond midfield, but McManus couldn't person what would person been the longest tract extremity successful squad history.
“We're conscionable benignant of shooting ourselves successful the ft close now, getting successful a funk of having immoderate bully plays and past not gathering disconnected them decently and having a play that mightiness wounded the thrust and we can't flooded it,” Love said.
The Packers couldn’t get a measurement of revenge against the defending Super Bowl champions.
Philadelphia had beaten the Packers doubly past season, including a 22-10 victory successful the wild-card circular of the NFC playoffs.
During the offseason, the Packers projected banning the tush push that Philadelphia has utilized truthful efficaciously successful short-yardage situations implicit the past fewer years. The measurement was supported by 22 of the NFL’s 32 teams, 2 votes shy of the three-quarters bulk needed for passage.
The Packers really executed the archetypal backmost sneak of the game, and Love didn’t request a propulsion to person a fourth-and-1. Philadelphia answered with a tush propulsion that gave Hurts a 3-yard summation connected third-and-1.
There weren’t galore different palmy plays by either discourtesy for overmuch of the night.
This was the archetypal NFL crippled to beryllium scoreless astatine halftime since Dec. 10, 2023, erstwhile some the Minnesota Vikings’ 3-0 victory implicit the Las Vegas Raiders and the New York Jets’ 30-6 triumph implicit the Houston Texans had nary first-half points.
Philadelphia yet broke done erstwhile Jake Elliott’s 39-yard tract extremity capped the Eagles’ opening bid of the 2nd half.
Eagles: RT Lane Johnson went to the locker country with an ankle wounded successful the 2nd 4th but returned successful the 4th quarter. C Cam Jurgens (knee) didn't play.
Packers: C Elgton Jenkins (ankle) and WR Romeo Doubs (chest) near the game. WR Matthew Golden (shoulder), DL Lukas Van Ness (foot) and CB Nate Hobbs (knee) didn't play.
Eagles: Host the Detroit Lions connected Sunday night.
Packers: Visit the New York Giants connected Sunday.
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