Game Recap: Falcons vs. Eagles

Eagles football is back at Lincoln Financial Field!

The Eagles played host to the Falcons for a Monday Night Football battle of the birds. The team came into the game 1-0 after taking down the Packers 34-29 in Brazil in Week 1.

After a back-and-forth battle, the Falcons came away victorious 22-21.

“They made a couple more plays than we did down the stretch. We made some plays, they made more. That’s on all of us, it starts with coaching and goes to the players, we’re all responsible for the loss,” Head Coach Nick Sirianni said.

“It’s a good learning lesson for us, that’s how we go about it and I feel like that was a good learning lesson for us. As a good team, we have to make sure that we don’t let opportunity slip because that’s what happened,” Brandon Graham said after the game. “We have a good team here, we’re building, and got to get hot at the right time. I think if people keep believing and not buy into all the other stuff then I think we will be good.”

• Braden Mann pinned the Falcons at their own 8-yard line after the Eagles were stopped on their opening drive of the game. After a 5-yard completion to Britain Covey, Jalen Hurts was brought down after a 3-yard run on 3rd-and-9.
• After a pair of 7-yard runs by Bijan Robinson, the Eagles’ defense stopped the Falcons after Nakobe Dean helped force an incompletion intended for Robinson on 3rd-and-4.
• Saquon Barkley made his presence felt in his first game at home as an Eagle, juking his way all over the field and making defenders miss. Barkley had four carries for 39 yards on the Eagles’ second drive, which ended in a failed 4th-and-4 attempt from the Falcons’ 9-yard line.
• “We were getting into a good groove, coach was dialing it up. Offensive line was laying it on those guys,” Barkley said.
• The defensive battle continued late into the first, as Quinyon Mitchell nearly held onto what would’ve been his first-career interception on 3rd-and-4 with 2:06 remaining in the quarter. The first quarter came to a scoreless end as both teams tried to figure each other out.