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Saquon Barkley was called upon to present successful a large spot.
The Philadelphia Eagles moving backmost lined up adjacent to backmost Jalen Hurts successful the shotgun enactment with little than 5 minutes to play successful the divisional circular playoff crippled connected Sunday. Hurts looked implicit astatine Barkley, hardly seeing done the snowstorm that plagued Lincoln Financial Field. The superstar jock looked backmost astatine his backmost and said, "I got this."
Barkley took the handoff and ran similar helium was changeable retired of a cannon. He deed the hole, avoided a tackle and ran for a 78-yard touchdown. He knew helium would people from astir 30 yards out.
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The Eagles’ faithful cheered arsenic they watched their squad bent connected against the Los Angeles Rams for the remainder of the crippled and win, 28-22.
Barkley, who was going to beryllium the driving unit of the discourtesy with the upwind taking a crook for the worse, ran for a grounds 205 yards connected 26 carries. He had 2 touchdowns successful the game, including a 62-yard people in the archetypal quarter.
"The elements were great, but the ambiance was adjacent better," Barkley told NBC aft the game. "Our fans are amazing. It was a adjacent one, but that’s playoff football, and astatine the extremity of the day, we got the occupation done."
Rams backmost Matthew Stafford gave Los Angeles everything it had successful the last minutes. A 10-play, 70-yard thrust aft Barkley scored successful the 4th fourth led to a touchdown walk to Coby Parkinson. It brought the crippled to wrong 1 score.
The Rams got a halt and were capable to get the shot backmost for 1 last drive. Stafford got Los Angeles down the tract acknowledgment to an unthinkable drawback from Puka Nacua.
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But the Eagles’ defence held beardown and forced an incompletion connected 4th down to unit a turnover and solidify the game.
Philadelphia’s defence came up big. Aside from the halt connected the last Rams drive, they forced 2 fumbles that led to Eagles tract goals. Six points proved to beryllium the quality successful the game.
Hurts was 15-of-20 with 128 passing yards and 70 rushing yards. He had a 44-yard rushing touchdown to commencement the crippled but got banged up successful the 2nd 4th that stymied his quality to tally for the remainder of the game.
Stafford was 26-of-44 with 324 passing yards and 2 touchdown passes. He was sacked 5 times, including connected the last thrust that enactment much unit connected them to get the archetypal down.
Philadelphia moves to the NFC Championship Game to look the Washington Commanders adjacent Sunday.
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