Los Philadelphia Eagles They seem to begin to pick up the pace in the 2023 season, after two weeks of some hesitation and now, in their third presentation, they clearly beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 25-11, at the start of Monday Night Football in week 3.
Both teams came in undefeated tonight, but Philly’s exhibition brought the Bucs back to reality, led by Baker Mayfield and showing that they will be a team that at most aspires to a wild card ticket in the season, although they are doing well.
Although the Eagles did not produce a mountain of points, they did play solidly on both sides of the line of scrimmage, with a solid running attack, which exceeded 200 yards, with 130 of D’Andre Swift, including a 29-yard scamper.
While on defense, he sacked two Baker Mayfield, they forced a fumble, intercepted it another time and also forced a safety. While the kicker Jake Elliott He went perfect on three field goal attempts.
The only detail to attend to for the NFC champions was that Jalen Hurts He was intercepted twice.
The Eagles with just enough on the scoreboard, but with clear dominance in the trenches
In the first half, Philly scored a touchdown until the second quarter, on a Jalen Hurts bomb to Olamide Zaccheaus from 34 yards, to make the game 10-3. At halftime, they finished 13-3.
But at the start of the second half they opened the lead to 17, with a run of Jalen Hurts of a yard, after crossing the field in almost 6 minutes.
The teams then traded handoffs: first Mayfield was intercepted, almost immediately Hurts returned the courtesy, but in his own end zone, Rondell White was sacked in his own end zone and then the Eagles expanded to 22-3.
Elliott then connected on another field goal to make it 25-3 and in the fourth quarter, the Bucs finally put together a successful offensive drive, which ended with a one-yard pass to Mike Evans.
In the end, they just moved the ball by gaining first downs to run out the clock.
For the Eagles, Hurts finished 22 of 36 passing for 273 yards, with one touchdown and two interceptions, in addition to a rushing touchdown. D’Andre Swift had 130 yards on 16 carries and AJ Brown had nine receptions for 131 yards
For the Bucs, Baker Mayfield was 15 of 25 for 146 yards with a touchdown and an interception. On the ground, they were able to simply gain 41 yards, while through the air, Mike Evans had five receptions for 60 yards and a score.
2023-09-26 02:20:00
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