The sport was removed from over however the Eagles ended it anyway.

When the Buccaneers scored a landing and added a 2-point conversion early within the fourth quarter on Monday night time, the sport wasn’t out of attain. They have been down 14 factors — not a simple comeback however removed from unattainable.

But they by no means bought the ball again once more.

The Eagles bought the ball from their very own 25 yard line with 9:22 left within the sport and went on a 15-play, 68-yard drive to bleed the clock fully and finish the sport with a 25-11 win.

“Man, it was pretty crazy, that 9-minute drive — 9 minuted and 22 seconds, I think we got on there,” Eagles tight finish Dallas Goedert stated. “I don’t think anybody thought that we were going to end the game with the ball in our hands. That’s kind of a ridiculously long drive.”

This was the longest game-ending drive within the NFL for the reason that Saints went on a 15-play drive in 10:25 to complete off Washington 43-19 in 2018.

And this was the Eagles’ longest-game ending drive since they performed the Chargers in Week 4 of the 2017 season on the StubHub Center in entrance of 25,000 individuals on the soccer stadium. That sport ended with a 13-play, 59-yard drive in 6:44 to clinch a 26-24 win.

Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni was on the dropping aspect of that one. He was the receivers coach for the Chargers in 2017.

“It was nice to be on the other side of that for sure,” Sirianni stated. “Great job by the O-line, by Kenny (Gainwell), by Jalen (Hurts), massive third-down conversion by A.J. (Brown) and Jalen. Dallas (Goedert) had a pair catches in that.

“So, it was being able to run and pass in this scenario. Leaning more on the run, but good job by everybody.”

Sirianni at all times stresses situational soccer and this was a giant win in that class. Of these 15 performs, 10 have been runs and 5 have been passes, together with a Third-and-13 conversion on the eighth play of the drive.

The ProFootballReference drive finder dates again to the 2001 season and that is the second-longest game-ending drive the Eagles have had in that span. The longest was a 9:32 drive to complete off the Packers 27-13 in November of 2013.

“We went out there knowing we were going to use the clock, snap the ball when the shot clock was pretty low,” Goedert stated. “You know, it just turned into a 4-minute drive late. O-line did a great job, Jalen did a great job. We ran the ball, passed the ball, everybody stayed in bounds. It was good situational ball by us and it’s always good to end the game with the ball in your hands.”

Here’s an entire recap of the 15-play drive:

1. (1-10, PHI 25) Gainwell up center for 1
2. (2-9, PHI 26) Hurts go center to Goedert for 11, first down
3. (1-10, PHI 37) Gainwell up center for six
4. (2-4, PHI 43) Gainwell up center for 3
5. (3-1, PHI 46) Hurts up center for two, first down
6. (1-10, PHI 48) Gainwell left deal with -3
7. (2-13, PHI 45) Hurts go incomplete deep proper to Gainwell
8. (3-13, PHI 45) Hurts go quick left to Brown for 25, first down
9. (1-10, TB 30) Gainwell up center for six
10. (2-4, TB 24) Gainwell up center for no acquire
11. (3-4, TB 24) Hurts go quick proper to Smith for five, first down
12. (1-10, TB 19) Hurts left finish for two
13. (2-8, TB 17) Gainwell up center for two
14. (3-6, TB 15) Gainwell up center for two
15. (4-2, TB 11 Hurts go quick Brown for 7, first down

“I know that is depleting for an opposing team to hold the ball for that long and run it like we did and be efficient and convert on 1st downs and whatnot,” Hurts stated. 

“Obviously, I’d like to not be in a 4-minute situation at the end of the game and just open it up earlier but we executed well when we had to in that situation.”

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