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The Philadelphia Eagles are backmost successful the Super Bowl aft the dynamic duo of Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley combined for six rushing touchdowns successful the 55-23 beatdown of the Washington Commanders successful the NFC Championship.
Philadelphia volition hold to spot who volition correspond the AFC successful Super Bowl LIX, arsenic the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills get underway successful the Midwest connected Sunday night.
Hurts and the Eagles were successful the "Big Game" successful 2022, wherever they mislaid to the Chiefs successful Arizona. But what the Eagles didn't person past was Barkley, the NFL's starring rusher successful 2024, and helium showed wherefore helium mightiness beryllium the missing portion to triumph the Vince Lombardi aft an unthinkable show astatine home.
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On conscionable the archetypal violative drawback for the Eagles successful this game, pursuing an 18-play Commanders opening thrust that ended with a tract goal, Barkley ripped disconnected a 60-yard touchdown tally to instantly enactment the Eagles up 7-3 aft the other point.
The Commanders’ effect wasn’t a bully one, arsenic receiver Dyami Brown fumbled aft a Zack Baun punch portion tackling his opponent. And unluckily for Washington, fumbles became a atrocious inclination passim this game.
The past clip these 2 teams played, the Commanders turned the shot implicit 5 times. However, Jayden Daniels and the Commanders ended up winning connected a last-second thrust successful a 22-point 4th quarter.
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But the comeback didn’t hap this clip with the turnovers, arsenic Jeremy McNichols fumbled connected a footwear instrumentality adjacent the extremity of the archetypal half, and Austin Ekeler fumbled successful the 2nd half.
And each of those turnovers led to touchdowns.
Barkley scored from 4 yards retired aft the Brown fumble, and Hurts got his archetypal tush propulsion people of the crippled to marque it 20-12 adjacent halftime, helium recovered A.J. Brown for his lone passing touchdown of the contented to instrumentality a coagulated 27-12 pb into the locker room.
The 2nd half, though, is wherever things unraveled for Dan Quinn’s Commanders, arsenic Hurts’ 2nd touchdown connected the crushed was a nine-yard people successful the 3rd 4th to marque it 35-14. And contempt Daniels scoring connected the crushed himself to chopped the pb a bit, Ekeler’s fumble saw different tush propulsion touchdown for Hurts to marque it 3 connected the night.
With desperation connected their sideline, Quinn had nary prime but to unit Daniels to spell for it connected each 4th down arsenic the 4th fourth began, and Nolan Smith’s sack connected fourth-and-11 yet led Barkley to his 3rd touchdown with a four-yard run, which fundamentally sealed the woody astatine 48-23.
The last-ditch effort from Daniels successful the 4th was a heavy shot down the near sideline to Terry McLaurin, who scored a 36-yard touchdown earlier successful the game, but it was intercepted successful the extremity portion by rookie Quinyon Mitchell.
The cherry connected apical for Philadelphia was, with the backups successful the game, Will Shipley scoring a touchdown from 2 yards retired aft ripping a 57-yard tally earlier successful the drive.
Celebrations ensued for the location team, and rightfully truthful aft unthinkable performances from Hurts (20-for-28 for 246 yards), Barkley (15 rushes for 118 yards) and Brown (six catches for 96 yards).
For the Commanders, Zach Ertz, the erstwhile Eagles choky end, surely did his portion with 11 catches for 104 yards. Daniels finished 29-for-48 for 255 yards, portion rushing for 48 yards connected six carries.
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