Eagles continue undefeated season

Jalen Hurts (Thomson200, Wikimedia Commons)

The Philadelphia Eagles remain the only undefeated team in the National Football League. On Thursday, the Eagles defeated the Houston Texans 29-17 to improve to a record of eight wins and zero losses.

Quarterback Jalen Hurts of Houston, Texas went to his hometown city and and completed 21 of 27 passes for 243 yards and two touchdowns, along with nine rushes for 23 yards. The touchdown passes were to tight end Dallas Goedert of Britton, South Dakota and wide receiver A.J. Brown of Starkville, Mississippi. Goedert’s touchdown catch was for four yards, and Brown’s catch was for 17 yards, with both coming in the second half. Goedert had eight catches for 100 yards, and Brown had four catches for 59 yards. It appears Goedert is feeling comfortably as the clear number one tight end in Philadelphia after splitting duties with Zach Ertz for almost four seasons.

At running back, Miles Sanders of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Kenneth Gainwell of Yazoo City, Mississippi both had first half touchdowns. Sanders had a two-yard first quarter major score and Gainwell had a four-yard second quarter major score. Sanders had 17 rushes for 93 yards, and Gainwell had four rushes for 22 yards, and three catches for 16 yards.

What we are seeing from Hurts in recent weeks is a focus on throwing the football. He now has eight touchdown passes in three games, after only having five touchdown passes in four games to start the year. Hurts is also running less. He only has 60 rushing yards in his last three games (averaging 20 rushing yards per game) after having 266 rushing yards in his first five games (averaging 53.2 rushing yards per game). All of Hurts’s six rushing touchdowns to begin the 2022 NFL season were in Philadelphia’s first five games.

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