Sports Kirk Cousins led a flawless final-minute force for Atlanta and related with Drake London for a 7-yard landing with 34 seconds left to present the Falcons a 22-21 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night.
Saquon Barkley dropped a snappy pass that stopped the clock with 1:46 left and compelled the Eagles to resolve for a arena goal as an different of a sport-sealing first down. That was lots of time for Cousins — especially in opposition to an Eagles protection playing relaxed coverage with a nonexistent pass streak.
“I let my crew down this day,” Barkley mentioned after the game. “Mustn’t private put my protection in that squawk. I create that bag, the game’s over.”
Barkley mentioned he wasn’t bowled over by the choice to pass in that quick-yardage distress and “thought it was a huge play name” from Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore.
“These games attain down to about a performs and it hurts reasonably more whereas you is seemingly to be the one making errors on these performs,” Barkley mentioned.
The 36-yr-oldschool ragged, playing his second sport since tearing his Achilles tendon final Oct. 29 whereas playing for Minnesota, shook off an uneven effort and hit Darnell Mooney for 21 and 26 yards on consecutive performs at some stage within the final force.
Cousins discovered London on a snappy pass to his factual for the tying ranking, and Younghoe Koo put Atlanta (1-1) on top with a forty eight-yard extra level after London was flagged for unsportsmanlike behavior.
Jalen Hurts had his final pass intercepted by Jessie Bates III to seal Atlanta’s fetch and activate a wild celebration on the sideline.
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The Eagles (1-1) went forward on Hurts’ 1-yard tush push ranking with 6:47 left. Barkley accomplished with 95 yards on 22 carries in his dwelling debut for Philadelphia, however his descend supplied the Falcons with some hope.
And then Cousins started playing just like the QB Atlanta thought it was getting when it signed him to a four-yr, $180 million contract.
The Associated Press and FOX Sports actions’ Ralph Vacciano contributed to this file.
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