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Cousins looks to Moody on the long pass on the out route but that was batted away by Maddox who got back and jarred it out of the hands of the WR. 

2nd and 10 from the PHI 41. 

Cousins on the play action and he pump faked before ending up getting sacked, but he had to pump fake because there was illegal contact on PHI down the field. 

1st and 10 from the PHI 41. 

Robinson broke another big run on the left side and he takes it 15 yards into Eagles territory. 

1st and 10 from the ATL 46. 

Robinson running downhill and he picks up 9 yards on the first down run. 

2nd and 1 from the ATL 39. 

Pass over the middle and Cousins finds McCloud in the middle of the zone and he moves the chains after a gain of 12 yards.

1st and 10 from the ATL 30. 

Cousins on the play action, and he had to get rid of it with pressure coming. He found Pitts but he is met at the line and dragged down for a short gain of 2. 

3rd and 6 from the ATL 18. 

ATL get the ball back from the 14 and McCloud gets the end around but he's pushed out of bounds after a gain of 2. 

2nd and 8 from the ATL 16. 

When you know that Hurts can run it, that opens up things down the field and Smith was the beneficiary on this pass to the back of the end zone. Eagles lead but it took 25 minutes to get on the board. 

We haven't seen much of this from Hurts over the last half season or so. His knee is back to 100% which means he's going to be using his legs more this season, and that is huge for the Eagles. He had three runs that went for nice yardage on that drive. 

Pass to the flat for Covey and he gets hogtied after a gain of 2. 

2nd and Goal from the 7. 

Hurts' pass to Goedert is incomplete and a flag flies for ineligible man down field. 

1st and Goal from the 9. 

Hurts takes it all on his own again after rolling out to the right side and he lowers his shoulder for a gain of 15 yards and a first down!

1st and 10 from the ATL 4. 

Hurts steps up in the pocket and takes off for a gain of 9 yards. 

3rd and 11 from the ATL 21. 

Toss to Barkley on the right side but that play was blown up by Bates for a five yard loss. 

2nd and 20 from the ATL 28. 

The offense stays on the field again on 4th down and Hurts works some magic as he escapes the pocket and bursts down field for a 23 yard gain! He got flagged for a delay of game after spiking the ball, but they keep the first down. 

1st and 15 from the ATL 23. 

Hurts finds Goederdt on the stop route but he is surrounded by defenders and brought down short of the marker. 

4th and 3 from the ATL 41. 

Barkley gets the handoff out of the shotgun and Judon chops him down for a loss of 2 yards. 

3rd and 12 from the 50. 

Hurts had a lot of time to look downfield but he ended up throwing it out of bounds. 

2nd and 10 from the ATL 48. 

Hurts with a nice pocket and he has time to find Smith on the left sideline for a gain of 19!

1st and 10 from the ATL 48. 

PHI get the ball back from the 30 down by three, and Barkley gets the handoff to the left side and he spins forward for a gain of 4. 

2nd and 6 from the PHI 34. 

FIELD GOAL!!!!

It's the Falcons who get on the board first with a Koo field goal from 39 yards out after an 8 play drive that got cut short at the 21. 

ATL lead 3-0 with 11:22 left in the first half. 

Cousins pump faked and tried to tuck it but he was swallowed up by Sweat after a gain of a yard. 

4th and 8 and the field goal unit comes on. 

ATL take a timeout on a big third down play. Their first with 12:08 to go in the first half. 

Robinson gets the handoff up the middle again and this time he is dropped after a gain of 2. 

3rd and 9 from the PHI 22. 

Robinson fumbled the football on the handoff and had to drop down and recover it for a loss of one. 

2nd and 11 from the PHI 24. 

Allgeier gets the handoff to the left side and he hits a hole hard for a gain of 15 yards and the Falcons are inside the 25. 

1st and 10 from the PHI 23. 

Cousins steps up in the pocket and finds Allgeier out of the backfield and he turns up field for a gain of 12 yards. 

1st and 10 from the PHI 38. 

Allgeier gets the handoff to start the quarter and he picks up 4 yards up the middle. 

2nd and 6 from the 50. 

WE ARE AT THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER STILL LOOKING FOR THE FIRST POINTS OF THE GAME. 

ATL get the ball back from their 27 and Cousins goes play action to start the drive and he finds London down the middle of the field for a gain of 19 yards on the final play of the quarter. 

1st and 10 from the ATL 46. 

Hurts was able to escape the pressure, and looked back to Smith on the sideline but that pass drifted out of bounds and the Eagles will punt. 

4th and 4 from the PHI 31. 

Out route for Smith and he makes the catch before getting popped for a five yard pitch and catch. 

3rd and 4 from the PHI 31. 

PHI get the ball from their 25 and Barkley gets stopped after a gain of one. That's the first time he didn't go for 9 or more. 

2nd and 9 from the PHI 26. 

Cousins looking for London on the out route but Mitchell pounced and jumped the pass. He had it in his hands but London did just enough to knock it out of his hands. 

4th and 4 and the Falcons punt again. 

Allgeier up the middle and Sweat takes him down after a short pick up of three. 

3rd and 4 from the ATL 31. 

Robinson with a run to the right side and this time he picks up 3 yards. 

2nd and 7 from the ATL 28. 

Robinson had some room to roam on the run to the left side and he makes a sweet move around a defender for a gain of 14 yards and a first down!

1st and 10 from the ATL 25. 

Robinson gets the handoff to the left side and he is dragged down after a gain of 2 yards. 

2nd and 8 from the ATL 11. 

TURNOVER ON DOWNS!!!

The offense comes back on the field and Hurts rolls right this time before looking to the endzone for Goderdt but that was broken up by Hughes!

ATL ball from the 9!

Hurts rolls to the left side and fires a pass to the corner of the endzone for Wilson but that was broken up by ATL.

4th and 4 from the 9 yard line and the Eagles kept the offense on the field but called a timeout. 

Gainwell gets it back from the shotgun handoff and gets cut down after a 2 yard gain. 

3rd and 4 from the ATL 9. 

Gainwell gets the handoff this time and he picks up 4 yards. 

2nd and 6 from the ATL 11. 

One more first down for Barkley who breaks a tackle and picks up 11 yards. 

1st and 10 from the ATL 15. 

Barkley with another big chunk after getting a huge hole and picks up 10 yards and a first down. 

1st and 10 from the ATL 26. 

Hurts rolls right and finds Calcaterra on the sideline for four yards and a first down. 

1st and 10 from the ATL 36. 

Bakley up the middle and he juked a defender out of his cleats before picking up another 9 yards. 

2nd and 1 from the ATL 40. 

Quick throw to the right flat for Dotson who sprints up field for a gain of 6 and a first down. 

1st and 10 from the ATL 49. 

PHI start their second drive from their 36 and Barkley breaks a run for 9 yards up the middle. 

2nd and 1 from the PHI 45. 

Cousins took a step up in the pocket and looks for Robinson breaking to the sideline right at the marker but he couldn't make the catch. 

4th and 4 and the Falcons will punt.

Short pass on the comeback route to London for a gain of 6. 

3rd and 4 on the ATL 26. 

Play action from Cousins and his pass over the middle is batted down at the line. 

2nd and 10 from the ATL 22. 

Robinson with another handoff up the middle and e moves the chains before getting crushed on a spin move after a gain of 7. 

1st and 10 from the ATL 22. 

The Falcons start their first drive from the 8 yard line and Robinson gets the handoff to the left side before cutting back and picking up 7 yards up the middle. 

2nd and 3 from the ATL 15. 

Designed run by Hurts out of the shotgun and he is bottled up for a a gain of three yards. 

4th and 6 from the ATL 48. 

Covey on the left side and he makes the short catch before getting pushed out of bounds after a gain of 5. 

3rd and 9 from the PHI 49. 

Hurts takes off and makes a sprint to the edge but he's pushed out of bounds after a short gain of a yard. 

2nd and 14 from the PHI 44. 

Play action out of the shotgun and Hurts finds Cover on the slant but it's coming back due to an ineligible man down field. 

1st and 15 from the PHI 43. 

The Eagles get the ball to begin the night and they will start their first drive from the PHI 33. 

Hurts finds Calcaterra over the middle right at the marker and he turns for a 15 yard pitch and catch. 

1st and 10 from the PHI 48. 

WE ARE UNDERWAY FROM PHILLY!!!

Calling on Barkley

With AJ Brown out, we can only imagine that we we will get an even heavier dose of Saquon Barkley tonight. What kind of numbers will he put up if he is set to see even more of the ball. 

Tonight's odds

The Eagles come in to tonight’s game as favorites, but maybe not by as much as you’d think. They are -5.5 against the Falcons with the Over/Under set at 45.5. 

The Eagles showed just how good this team can be in Sao Paolo last week. With the said, not having AJ Brown will make things a little more interesting if the Falcons defense comes out and plays like they did against the Steelers. 

I’m still taking the Eagles to win big. PHI win 27-14. 

Foles calls it quits

Former Philly QB Nick Foles signed with the Eagles today and then retired as an Eagles, brining a long career to an end. He was drafted by the Eagles but changed teams six times, last playing for the Colts in 2022. His best season came when he was a back up to Carson Wentz. He took over in Week 15 and led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl win in franchise history. He will go down as a Philly legend for the rest of time after bringing the city one of it’s most prized possessions since the Liberty Bell. 

HEAD TO HEAD

We have seen 37 Battle of the Birds dating all the way back to the 1960s. In those 37 games, the Eagles have won 21 lost 15 and tied once back in 1970. They haven’t played much over the last few years but since 2016 the Eagles are 4-1 including a playoff win on Philly’s way to the Super Bowl back in 2018. In the last game between these two teams, the Eagles laid a beat down on the Falcons beating them 32-6 in Atlanta. 

Falcons thin at WR

We can blame Kirk Cousins all we want for his subpar performance and the Falcons offense looking like they were stuck in the mud for the first 60 minutes of the season, but has Atlanta provided their QB with enough fire power at the WR position? With all due respect to Drake London and Darnell Mooney and Ray-Ray McCloud, there aren’t many people lining up to take any of those receivers in the first round of fantasy drafts. Mooney is the only one who has had a 1,000 yard season and that was once back in 2021. It was McCloud who led the team in receiving last week, catching four balls for 52 yard. 

NFL

The Tush Push debate: Is the play still legal and what are the new NFL rules about the brotherly shove?

Tush push disappearing?

There is a changing of the guard (or center rather) in Philly and that has hindered one of their secret weapons. Jason Kelce, the Eagles long time center retired after the end of last season and with him went the unshakeable, always defender Tush Push or Brotherly Shove. Whatever you call it, it may be a thing of the past. With Kelce out, it’s Cam Jurgens in, and Jurgens almost fumbled a snap to Hurts late in the game on what could have been a game winning Tush Push play. Last week the Eagles tried the Brother Shove four times with a success rate of 50%. 

Pitts homecoming

The Falcons Tight End is making a homecoming tonight has the Philly kid is back in the City of Brotherly Love tonight. After attracting attention from across the nation in high school Pitts signed with the Florida Gators where he was able to show just how dominant he could be even on a team that wasn’t very good. He was taken fourth overall by the Falcons, and was expected to be a big time piece of the puzzle to bring Atlanta back on the map, but QB problems have prevented Pitts from repeating a 1,000 yard season like he had his rookie year. He will no doubt have some family and friends at the Link tonight, and he’ll be looking to put on a show in his city. 

Brown out

While the Philly offense looked like it was in mid season form to start the season from Sao Paolo, there will be a big absence in wide receiver for Jalen Hurts. AJ Brown has been downgraded to out after experiencing from hamstring tightness on Friday. He sat out practice Saturday and was ruled out yesterday. Hurts has other options at WR, but you could see those two were clicking from the very start in this Kellen Moore offense in Week 1. Brown had 119 yards and a TD on 5 catches against the Packers last week. 

Time to panic?

It’s way too early in the season to panic, but if the Falcons don’t start to win soon there could be some alarm bells sounding around Mercedes Benz Stadium. This was one of those ALL-IN seasons for the Falcons who took a chance on some big summer deals hoping that they would be in a position to win now like the Rams did with Matthew Stafford a few years ago. Often times the ALL IN projects make a team good for a while but leave them in shambles in the aftermath. The way things have been going for the Falcons, they might stink now and stink later. Obviously they can calm the nerves of their fans with a primetime win in a tough venue from Philly. 

Penix sitting and waiting

If, and that’s a big if, the Cousins project doesn’t work out, there is a contingency plan. It may not have made Cousins very happy after singing with the Falcons, but Atlanta took Michael Penix Jr. out of the University of Washington with their first round pick in the draft. He played just one preseason game, but impressed with his arm and accuracy. It’s much too early to go scraping their $180 million man under center, but if Cousins continues to struggle many Atlanta fans who questioned the signing of Kirk in the first place will be wanting to see the rookie as the QB1. 

Cousins history 

It was one of the headlines of the offseason as the Atlanta Falcons laid out a staggering amount of money to a 36 year old quarterback who is coming off of an achilles injury that kept him out for the second half of last year. The $180 million contract did’t look like the best investment in the Falcons game against the Steelers, but it is still very early in the season. When healthy Cousins has shown he can run an offense like some of the best in the game. He has had 7 4,000 yard seasons and 8 seasons throwing 25 TDs or more while maintaining one of the best TD to INT ratios in the game. 

New coordinators in Philly

After last year’s late season collapse, the Eagles off loaded their offensive and defensive coordinators and brought in some fresh faces to try and revamp the image and the DNA of this team. Vic Fangio was brought in on the defensive end and Kellen Moore was named the offensive coordinator. None of the starters played in preseason so we didn’t get a glimpse of how things were looking in Philly but if Week 1 is any indication the offense looks like a well oiled machine. The defense still has some kinks to work out after giving up 29 points, but as long as Hurts, Barkley and the rest of the offense put up those kinds of numbers this is going to be a tough team to beat. 

Saquon and only

It was the signing of the offseason and it’s already paying dividends for the Philadelphia Eagles. The New York Giants weren’t willing to pay Saquon Barkley after splashing cash for their franchise QB Daniel Jones. The Eagles were right there in the waiting as Barkley parted ways with the Giants. He signed with NYG’s division rival and eternal enemy the Eagles, and now has Philly looking like one of the contenders in the NFC. If his debut is any indicator than watch out NFC and NFL. 

NFC Standings

After the second Sunday of the NFL season, the NFC provided us with a few surprises. Some teams that we thought were going to among the best in the league have already started to show vulnerabilities, while other teams we didn’t expect much from are undefeated and leading the division after the first couple weeks. Here is how the NFC is looking coming into this game. 

Last season: Eagles 

Eagles fans look away now. Philly started the season looking like one of the best teams in the league. They won their first five and rattled off 10 wins in 11 games to start the season, but somehow there was a lack of belief behind this team in the City of Brotherly Love. That cloud of doubt was well founded because the Eagles got smacked by the Niners in Week 13 to start the beginning of the end for the Eagles. They went from a guaranteed one seed in the NFC to a Wild Card team that just snuck into the playoffs after losing five of their last six and got demolished by the Bucs to bring their miserable collapse to an abrupt end in the first round of the playoffs. 

Last season: Falcons

The Falcons weren’t a good team last year, but that didn’t mean they didn’t have a chance to make the playoffs. With Desmond Ridder as their QB they won the first two games of the season and there was suddenly hope in ATL, but the joy wouldn’t last long. They would lose six of their next eight, but coming down to the final stretch of the season they still had a shot at the division title in an NFC South that was sub par to say the least. They lost four of their last five games, three of those Ls coming to division opponents including the lowly Panthers and missed out on the playoffs for a seventh straight season. 

Star watch: Falcons 

The Atlanta Falcons have floated in no mans land for the better part of the last decade as they continue to try to recover from their Super Bowl nightmare in 2016. Since then they have been to the playoffs only once, and that might be a problem that you can chalk up to personnel. Bijan Robinson is trying to change that narrative for the Falcons who have been one of the least exciting teams to watch over the last few seasons. Robinson is the spark plug out of the backfield and can do it on the ground or through the air. He is going to have to be Cousins best friend and biggest ally if the Falcons are going to have any sort of success this year.

Star watch: Eagles 

It wasn’t so long ago that Jalen Hurts was thought of as a primer QB in this league. The late season collapse last season seems to have erased our memory of a QB that put up record setting numbers in his first trip to the Super Bowl a few years ago. He’s got weapons all around him, and Barkley in the backfield is going to take some of the pressure off of him with a more balanced offensive attack. There is a long way to go between now and then, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Hurts back in the MVP conversation at the end of this season. 

Last game: Eagles

It was a shootout in Sao Paolo as the Eagles posted 34 points thanks to a monster debut from Saquon Barkley who scored three TDs in his first game in a Philly jersey. Despite the big game from their new RB, the Packers led for most of the first half. After the halftime break, Jalen Hurts hit AJ Brown on a 67 yard TD pass to take a lead that they would hang on to for the rest of the night. Hurts had 278 yards with 2 TDs and 2 INTs, Saquon had 109 rushing yards and two TD and another 23 yards and a TD receiving, and Brown finished the night with 119 yards as the Eagles held off the Packers for a Week 1 win. 

Last game: Falcons

It wasn’t the Falcons that fans envisioned when they heard the news that Kirk Cousins was coming to town. The offense only put up 230 yards, turned the ball over three times and scored just 10 points as the Steelers defense shut down this new look offense in Atlanta. Pittsburgh didn’t do much on the offensive end thanks partially because of their struggles at the QB position, but partially because of the Falcons defense. Unfortunately for Falcons fans, the offense was held to less than 30 yards in the second half and shut out as the Steelers won the game with six field goals. 

We are live from the Link

Hello everyone and welcome to Philly where this new look Eagles team gave an great first impression to their fans with a big win over a good Packers team in Sao Paolo last Friday. There were plenty of question surrounding this side after a disastrous end to last season, but after Week 1 the waters have calmed a bit in the City of Brotherly Love. Things are not as calm in Atlanta after the Falcons opening week performance against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Kirk Cousins and the offense looked underwhelming in their first game of the season and now things in the ATL have been turned upside down as people are already turning on their $180 million QB. 

Falcons vs. Eagles 

It’s a battle of the birds tonight from the City of Brotherly Love. Philadelphia return home flying high after a win in Sao Paolo to open the season and they welcome an Atlanta team that flat lined in Week 1 after making a big splash for an all-in season. It’s the Eagles hosting the Falcons on Monday Night Football and AS English will be with you all night providing live coverage, stats, highlights and analysis of tonight’s game from Lincoln Financial Field.