Eagles take care of business late, sink Dolphins
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[October 23, 2023]
Jalen Hurts threw for two touchdowns and ran for a third on
Sunday night as the Philadelphia Eagles pulled away from the visiting
Miami Dolphins in the second half for a 31-17 win.
Hurts, who was 23-of-31 passing for 279 yards and an interception,
snapped a 17-17 tie with a 14-yard scoring strike to A.J. Brown with 15
seconds left in the third quarter. Brown, who ran through an attempted
tackle around the 10-yard line, caught 10 passes for 137 yards.
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Oct 22, 2023; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Eagles
quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) and quarterback Marcus Mariota (8) in the
tunnel before game against the Miami Dolphins at Lincoln Financial
Field. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports |
Philadelphia (6-1) put the game away with a
13-play, 83-yard drive that came after Darius Slay intercepted
Tua Tagovailoa at the Eagles 1. Kenneth Gainwell administered
the lethal blow with a 3-yard scoring run at the 4:46 mark of
the fourth quarter.
Tagovailoa completed 23 of 32 passes for 216 yards with a
touchdown and an interception, while Tyreek Hill had 11 catches
for 88 yards and a score. But Miami (5-2) was outgained 355-244
and ran into penalty problems, collecting 10 flags for 70 yards.
The Eagles weren't penalized.
The Dolphins tied the game at 17 when Jerome Baker picked off
Hurts and dashed 22 yards for a touchdown. That provided the
only points of the second half for a team that entered Sunday
averaging a league-high 37.2 points per game.
In a highly anticipated meeting of high-scoring offenses, it
took both teams over a quarter to find something that worked.
Philadelphia got a 24-yard field goal from Jake Elliott on its
first drive and Miami responded with a 40-yarder from Jason
Sanders, seven plays after Hurts was strip-sacked at the Eagles
22.
Philadelphia found the end zone with 11:25 left in the first
half when Hurts connected with Dallas Goedert for a 19-yard
touchdown, then made it 17-3 on Hurts' 1-yard scoring run at the
3:10 mark of the second quarter.
At that point, the Dolphins finally clicked into gear.
Tagovailoa led a 72-yard drive that culminated in his 27-yard TD
strike to Hill with 39 seconds remaining, enabling Miami to head
to the locker room down by just seven points.
--Field Level Media
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