{"id":85885,"date":"2022-10-03T18:54:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/different-games-different-heroes-for-a-deep-2022-eagles-team\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T18:54:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:54:05","slug":"different-games-different-heroes-for-a-deep-2022-eagles-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/different-games-different-heroes-for-a-deep-2022-eagles-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Different games, different heroes for a deep 2022 Eagles team"},"content":{"rendered":"
With each passing week, it’s becoming clearer this is a pretty special Eagles team.<\/p>\n
After a come-from-behind, grind-it-out 29-21 win over Doug Pederson’s Jacksonville Jaguars at soggy Lincoln Financial Field yesterday, the Birds found yet another way to win. In winning their first three games of the season, Nick Sirianni’s group hadn’t faced the kind of early adversity confronting them after the Jags took a blink-if-you-missed-it, 14-0 lead. <\/p>\n
But yesterday, with injuries to key players mounting, the temperatures in the 50s and the winds whipping, Jalen Hurts, his offensive mates and the defense ran roughshod over Jacksonville to the tune of 401 yards of total offense, including 204 on the ground against the no. 1 ranked run defense in the NFL. <\/p>\n
The Eagles are the league’s last undefeated team, and each week, different heroes have led the way.<\/p>\n
Their season-opening 38-35 win over the Lions in Detroit was their highest-scoring offensive performance of the season, with 455 yards of offense and an incredible 243 on the ground. It was Hurts’ best game running the football, 90 yards rushing on 17 attempts and a touchdown. But as much as anything else, it was the coming out party for AJ Brown, who hauled in 10 of 13 targets for 155 yards, including a 54-yard bomb.<\/p>\n
The defense struggled out of the gate with tackling issues, but did have one splash play, a Pick-6 from new No. 2 cornerbacks, James Bradberry.<\/p>\n
OFFENSE: AJ Brown, Jalen Hurts, Miles Sanders<\/strong><\/p>\n DEFENSE: James Bradberry <\/strong><\/p>\n The Jalen Hurts coming out party, Monday Night dominance of the Vikings surprised everyone and put the rest of the NFL on notice \u2014 this isn’t the same Hurts you’ve gotten to know so far.<\/p>\n His performance was breathtaking, completing balls all over the field to eight different receivers and throwing for 333 yards with one passing TDs and two more on the ground. Just five of his passes were n’t completed, one of them an interception that was n’t his fault. Four Birds receivers (Dallas Goedert, DeVonta Smith, Brown and Quez Watkins) were all over 69 yards. <\/p>\n Defensively, Jonathan Gannon’s crew bounced back from a rough Week 1 by dominating Kirk Cousins \u200b\u200band Justin Jefferson, with Darius Slay having the game of his life.<\/p>\n That goal line pick was the first of two he would have on the night, the second also in his own end zone, thwarting a Minnesota drive late in the 4th quarter. <\/p>\n OFFENSE: Jalen Hurts<\/strong><\/p>\n DEFENSE: Darius Slay<\/strong><\/p>\n Against the Lions, wideout DeVonta Smith was shut out. In Week 3, he was everywhere. Targeted 12 times, Smith caught 8 passes for 169 yards (154 in the first half) with a score as Hurts threw for another 340 yards and 3 TDs, as the Eagles went with a pass-heavy attack in their dominating 24-7 win over Washington. <\/p>\n Just look at some of these catches.<\/p>\n Brown once again found the end zone, with 85 yards on five catches. <\/p>\n Defensively, it was the defensive line’s time to shine, with nine sacks on Carson Wentz, seven of them coming without a blitz.<\/p>\n The Commanders’ OL and QB share blame for the sacks today (Sam Cosmi didn’t have his best game) … but here are all 9 of them if you want to relive that experience: pic.twitter.com\/8N2rOt3U35<\/a><\/p>\nWeek 2<\/h3>\n
Week 3<\/h3>\n
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