E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!! Birds - Commanders NFC Championship game thread
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Eagles grades by position after crushing Commanders in NFC Championship Game
Here are our position grades after the Eagles crushed the Commanders in the NFC Championship Game.
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Roob's Observations: Old-fashioned beatdown of Commanders sends Eagles to Super Bowl
The Eagles made a mockery of their highly-anticipated NFC Championship Game matchup against the Commanders with a 55-23 win.
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I don’t think Jalen Hurts will ever silence his critics
A win in two weeks would do that for him. Also, I’m glad people have stopped saying that his arm strength isn’t NFL caliber.
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Exactly.... His super bowl performance 2 years ago was amazing. Even Mahomes said Hurts should be the MVP of the Super Bowl but for some it will never be enough.
Handing out 10 awards from the Eagles-Commanders NFC Championship Game
There may never be a more enjoyable Eagles win in your life.
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Game ball, three stars, and snap count analysis: NFC Championship Game, Eagles vs. Commanders
The Eagles' dominant win over the Commanders to advance to the Super Bowl was a collective effort.
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‘The toughest guys I know:' How Landon Dickerson and Cam Jurgens gutted it out
Neither one should have been playing Sunday but Landon Dickerson and Cam Jurgens gutted it out in the NFC Championship win over the Commanders.
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‘We've had this feeling before' — Eagles even hungrier for a Super Bowl win
The Eagles were enjoying the celebration on Sunday night but they’re still one win shy of their ultimate goal.
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Confident Zack Baun leads Eagles to huge NFC Championship Game win
On one hand, it all seems pretty unbelievable. There was Zack Baun on Sunday night, in the Eagles’ locker room, wearing his gray NFC Champions t-shirt and posing with the George Halas Trophy as he gets ready to lead the Eagles’ No. 1 defense to the Super Bowl after an All-Pro and Defensive...
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Who else learned that the officials can grant a TD to a team after repeated infractions by the defense? Crazy rule.
So, who gets credit for the TD (sports bettors want to know)?
Can the offense refuse? The defense could do this to force the TD and get the ball back without running clock.
So, who gets credit for the TD (sports bettors want to know)?
Can the offense refuse? The defense could do this to force the TD and get the ball back without running clock.
All good questions. I had never heard about that rule before.
It is a crazy rule. I had heard of it, but as it's never been called/awarded, I've never seen it applied. (I did post a nice article about it earlier in this thread.)
Good question as to who gets credit for the TD.
Also a good point about how a defense could use it to force a TD to get the ball back.
My buddy and I were texting about another issue with that sequence. Hurts could have been seriously injured. The Commander landed on his back the 1st time he came flying over, and nearly did the same the 2nd time. I'm not sure what the tweak should be in the rules, but a team should not be able to get an advantage to that degree (injure a star on the other team) but blatantly violating a rule, with nothing more than a PF being called (and as the ref said, they warned the Commanders after that it could be called on the next instance after the individual had done it 2 times, so doing it once on purpose and injuring a player isn't currently a PF?).
Good point on the injury potential. Almost gets into unnecessary roughness territory.
Unhappy with the call or unhappy that your player was putting players at risk of injury?
The only other time I know of that the rule was used in football was in the 1954 Cotton Bowl. A player for Rice was clear running down the sideline for a TD, and an Alabama player came off the sideline and tackled him. The referees awarded a TD on the play.
There was talk that it potentially could have been called against the Steelers a few years ago in a game where a kick (or maybe it was punt) returner was coming down the sideline and Tomlin almost made contact with him.
Dude, where did you pull that from? Impressive. I wonder if that rule was in place in 1954 (or the refs just went with a logical decision) and if it still exists in college football today. I'm kind of surprised it hasn't happened again. {EDIT: Funny, I'm listening to the Gill Alexander show and they just brought this up. Maybe it's going around Twitter}.
I do recall the Tomlin play. I remember it being very suspect. Like, he was way out in the sideline white and looking the other way.
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I remembered it was the 1954 Cotton Bowl and it was Rice/Alabama, but I had to go back and edit my post because I messed up which team it was that did it. My wife will tell you that I have a photographic memory when it comes to random crap, sports facts, 90s music, etc...but you'll probably have to remind me 4 times to do a load of laundry or call someone on their birthday.
The NCAA rule today falls under Unsportsmanlike Conduct and states...
Unsportsmanlike conduct. The referee may take any action they consider equitable, which includes directing that the down be repeated, including assessing a 15-yard penalty, awarding a score, or suspending or forfeiting the game
The latter. You had to ask? This was pretty bush league, I had to turn away back to my math problems to get my head straight.