The first time rookie recruit Jalen Hurts faced the Dallas Cowboys in 2020 was 100 percent accurate and the Philadelphia Eagles won the game. Now, a little context. Rookie Ben DiNucci, a seventh-round recruit, threw a single pass, completing it for nine yards. Eagles to hit and featherless on their flight back to Philadelphia.
After taking a 14-3 lead in the first quarter and with relative ease, the Eagles failed to score the landing for the rest of the game. Their only additional problems came here in a second-quarter basket that led them to 17 problems, where he stayed while the Cowboys repressed and harassed Hurts and Philadelphia High School until they were stored through the stopwatch marking all zeros.
With that, the Eagles were pulled out of the playoffs and into the hands of their fiercest rivals.
“I think it’s a wonderful experience to be informed, a lot to be informed of this game,” Hurts said of the heartbreaking defeat, on the team’s website. “It’s anything I have to get away from, compare everything and be informed of. You have to go over there and play the games when the opportunity arises. “
Then the whole weight of guilt.
“It’s anything I fully own,” he added. ” These guys in me to pass do it and I take it very personally to do it, and today I failed. “
Hurts finished the day with two interceptions and two loose balls (one lost), and while the defeat is also attributable to him, not just him, the Eagles’ defense allowed two catchers from another hundred yards, Michael Gallup and Amari Cooper. as well as the first-round pick CeeDee Lamb to score a landing in the air and on the court. Ezekiel Elliott added 105 yards on the court on his return from injury and the Eagles allowed 512 total yards of offense through the Cowboys.
Interestingly, the Eagles moved away from what worked at the beginning of the game, the ground offensive that saw Hurts end up with 69 yards on the court, long before he canceled a developing advantage of the Cowboys. And when they did, players like defensive wing Randy Gregory controlled three forced getaways and the ease of moving the ball around the area they once enjoyed almost evaporated.
“We stagnate, ” said Hurts. ” Great opportunities to put problems on the board and we communicate about controlling what we can, and the opportunities are the best to go out and write down problems, so it’s a lot to be informed about – a lot to be informed of me and as a group.
“We’re leaving with this. “
The challenge is that any improvement will be significant in a time before 2021, with the exception of those looking to be a spoiler for the Washington football team in Week 17, a victory that could position the Cowboys they have gone through. humiliated in the playoffs.
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