The 15th round of the National Football League (NFL) ended with a surprise on Monday. The Seattle Seahawks beat the Philadelphia Eagles 20:17 at home and thus preserved their play-off chance. The match winner for Seattle was “Notnagel” Drew Lock, who showed strong nerves in the finish and once led his team across the field into the Eagles end zone.
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Lock, who only found out on game day that he would be allowed to step in as quarterback again for the ailing Geno Smith, directed the Seahawks over 92 yards to victory in the final phase. A 29-yard pass to youngster Jaxon Smith-Njigba was the crowning achievement 28 seconds before the end of regular time. Shortly afterwards, Julian Love secured Seattle’s seventh win of the season by intercepting a pass from Eagles playmaker Jalen Hurts. Before that, the Seahawks had lost four of five games.
“This feels so good. It’s been a long time,” Lock said with moist eyes in a TV interview on ESPN. He will remember the decisive touchdown “for the rest of my life.” “All this time you ask yourself whether you still have what it takes, whether you’re still the right person. “That means a lot,” said the 27-year-old, who came to the Seahawks in 2022 as part of the trade between Seattle and the Denver Broncos for superstar Russell Wilson, but only plays second fiddle there.
Eagles slip
While Seattle returned to the race for a wild card spot with a record of seven wins and seven losses, the Philadelphia Eagles, who had already qualified for the play-offs, suffered a setback. The loss on the West Coast was the third in a row for the runners-up.
With their fourth defeat of the season, the Eagles slipped back to second place in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) behind the Dallas Cowboys. In the overall NFC standings, the San Francisco 49ers took first place, which means a bye in the first play-off round.
This time, quarterback Jalen Hurts became a tragic figure from the Eagles’ perspective. The young star, weakened by an illness, scored both of Philadelphia’s touchdowns, but made his first of two valuable interceptions when the score was 17:13 in the fourth quarter. “We had several opportunities to pull away, but we couldn’t,” Hurts said. The 25-year-old also took responsibility for the failure of the Eagles offense in the last three games: “I didn’t do my job well enough.”
National Football League
Week 15
Donnerstag, December 14: Las Vegas LA Chargers 63:21 Same: Cincinnati Minnesota 27:24 nV Indianapolis Pittsburgh 30:13 Detroit Denver 42:17 Sunn, December 17: Carolina Atlanta 9:7 Cleveland Chicago 8:30 p.m. 17 Green Bay Tampa Bay 20:34 Miami NY Jets 30:0 New England Kansas City 17:27 New Orleans NY Giants 24:6 Tennessee Houston 16:19 nV Arizona San Francisco 8:45 LA Rams Washington 28:20 Buffalo Dallas 10 Jacksonville Baltimore 7:23 Montag, Dec. 18: Seattle Philadelphia 8:17 p.m
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