Rodgers tosses 2 TDs, Packers beat Eagles 27-13

“He’s grown as a quarterback since the start of 2008, and grown as a person all the way through”. Instead of 2nd-and-8 on the Eagles’ 37, it was 2nd-and-10 on the 39.

Next Sunday sees the Packers welcome Houston to Green Bay for Week 13, while the Eagles travel to Cincinnati. Instead Wentz threw a ball right to Jordan Matthews’s back shoulder along the sideline and the Eagles methodically drove into field goal range, ran out nearly all of the clock and cut it to 14-10. “It was fun to see those guys as their confidence grew”. A line that kept Rodgers clean all night, the receivers who kept moving the sticks, and the running backs who kept protecting the ball. The rookie QB was inconsistent and made a costly mistake for the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Eagles defense didn’t respond to Pederson’s “challenge”, as the Packers converted a third down two plays later and capped the drive with a touchdown to extend their lead to 24-13. I definitely think I’m that kind of running back that gets better and starts to wear them down. One great Jordan Hicks play aside, there was nothing of the sort. However, Wentz and the offense soon cooled off, producing a punt, a field goal and an interception on Eagles’ next three drives.

The Eagles also scratched guard Brandon Brooks, who was hospitalized with an undisclosed illness.

The work wasn’t done, though. He was whistled for a third late hit on a quarterback on third down when he appeared to hit Rodgers under the chin after what would have been an incomplete pass.

The real hope lay on the defensive side of the ball, but a unit that surrendered just 9.5 points per game at home coming in allowed the Packers to convert 71 percent of their third-down opportunities – the highest rate by any team this season per ESPN Stats & Information – en route to a 27-point night.

Rookie Bryce Treggs started at wide receiver in place of Agholor, who was coming off a hard game in which his penalty cost the Eagles a touchdown.

Rodgers went to, who else, Nelson again down the sideline for 21 yards, and that was all she wrote. The Eagles tied the game when Wentz scrambled to his right and dove over for a 1-yard TD with 3:40 left in the opening period.

As a team, the Eagles did not record a sack. “I can’t tell”, McCarthy said after the game. “So we gotta start being better in that area”.

– “The money that they put into the front seven, the money that they put into these two defensive ends [Jason Pierre-Paul and Olivier Vernon] has greatly impacted this defense, greatly impacted the team and they’re showing up every week”. “Early on we drove down and scored a touchdown”. Jalen Mills got some reps in both the first and second half as the Eagles’ outside corner opposite of Carroll in place of McKelvin. “You look at the effort. It’s important to give your O-linemen playing against this D-line a chance to set their pads and get going and get after them”.

“It was close and that’s how they called it”, Cox said.

Green Bay gave up at least 30 points in each of its previous four games, including 89 in the last two.

There are some quarterbacks in the National Football League who are capable of rushing for as many touchdowns as they throw.

Before we get to what happened to the offense after the opening drive and what happened to the defense all game and what’s happened to this team after its 3-0 start, we’ll open with what happened to Nelson Agholor.

“I’m proud of this football team”, McCarthy said. “Whatever the coaches want me to do, I am here”.