Nick Sirianni Seen Crying As Eagles Pull A 2022 Miracle At The Meadowlands & Beat The Colts!
INDIANAPOLIS — When Jalen Hurts saw the middle of the field open up, he tucked the ball and ran.
A few minutes later, the Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl quest was back in high gear, too.
Six days after Philly lost its first game of the season, Hurts scored on an 8-yard touchdown run with 1:20 to play, and the Eagles rallied for a 17-16 win over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday.
“[Coach] Nick [Sirianni] just kept telling me to be who I am,” Hurts said. “Some things weren’t going our way, but I felt there was never a doubt.
He certainly played fearlessly.
Hurts repeatedly kept the ball in his hands on short-yardage plays and delivered often — with a little help from teammates who sometimes literally pushed him past the first-down marker. And when the Eagles needed to make big plays, Hurts didn’t flinch.
The third-year quarterback went 18 of 25 with 190 yards through the air, throwing for one score early in the fourth quarter to cut the deficit to 13-10, before capping his 16-carry, 86-yard rushing day with the decisive score. It was the first time since 2010 — a span of 44 games — that Philadelphia (9-1) won after starting the fourth quarter down by double digits.
The Eagles won their seventh straight road game.
“You put the ball in the hands of players you need a big moment from,” Sirianni said. “Jalen took it from there.”
Indianapolis (4-6-1) never trailed until Hurts’ final run as interim coach Jeff Saturday fell to 1-1 since replacing the fired Frank Reich.
But while the Colts held Philadelphia to its lowest point total since a 13-7 loss to the New York Giants last Nov. 28, they struggled to contain Hurts.
Emotional day
As Sirianni entered the locker room, he was seen wiping tears from his eyes. It was Sirianni’s first game back in Indy since he left Reich’s staff to take the Philadelphia job following the 2020 season. Sirianni said he was touched by the reactions from the players he coached from 2018-20 — and the absence of Reich.
“It was good see some familiar faces to guys I coached,” he said. “But you don’t want to know what I think about him [Reich] not being here.”
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Eagles: Return home next Sunday to face Green Bay.
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