There was no hesitation. There was no question. There was no doubt.

Moro Ojomo knew the play. He barked out the play. And at a pivotal moment in the Eagles-Packers game Monday night at Lambeau, the Eagles’ defense got a stop because of Ojomo’s quick thinking.

“Football is such a game of communication,” Ojomo said at his locker Wednesday. “I don’t think people understand that.”

The Packers, trailing the Eagles 10-7 with 90 seconds left, had a 4th-and-1 on their own 44-yard-line.

As Jordan Love got ready to take the snap, you could hear on the broadcast Ojomo – lined up across from Packers left guard Sean Rhyan – screaming toward Jalen Carter to his left: 

“Inside zone this way, inside zone this way.”

So if it looked like the Eagles knew what was coming, it’s because they did.

It wasn’t lifting or studying film or practicing that allowed Ojomo to call out the Packers’ play.

It was good old-fashioned thinking.

“They had run a similar play earlier in the game on the touchdown drive that they had,” Ojomo said. “The quarterback came up, he said a word, they ran the play. 

“And then the same thing happened on the 4th-and-1. It was like déjà vu. It was a word. It was like a one-word play. And they did that exact thing. So I was like, ‘Hey guys, this is what’s coming.’ So I just wanted to let everybody know that he literally just had this play.”

Josh Jacobs appeared to run to the right instead of the left as a response to the Eagles knowing the play. But with the blocking still going to the left, the play was a disaster, and Jaelan Phillips and Jalen Carter blew it up for a four-yard loss. Jacobs also fumbled on the play, although that didn’t matter since it was fourth down.

“He knew what was coming,” Ojomo said of Carter. “It allows him to play faster.”

Jacobs told reporters after the game that he heard Ojomo calling out the play and knew it was doomed from the start.

“The clock was going down, we kind of snapped it fast — faster than we wanted to — and they made a play,” he said.

“I mean, they called it out. We called our play, they said, ‘Inside zone, coming right here.’ So I kind of didn’t want to run right there, you know? But yeah, that’s just how it played out.”

It was the biggest loss on a fourth down running play against the Eagles since 2016, when Kamu Grugier-Hill stuffed Duke Johnson for a six-yard loss in the second quarter of the Eagles’ 29-10 win over the Browns in the season opener. That was Carson Wentz’s first NFL game.

By the time the Packers got the ball back, there were only 27 seconds left and they were on their own 36-yard-line.

Their best chance to tie or win the game was eliminated by some quick thinking from a 24-year-old 7th-round pick who’s started five games in his career.

“When you don’t know what’s coming, there’s so many different things (that can happen),” he said. “I’ll bet if you asked all the quarterbacks or receivers if they knew they were getting man on this play and they knew exactly what (the defense) is doing, there’s a different sense of confidence that they’re gonna run their route with.

“It’s like a guy that’s swinging a baseball bat, and they know what pitch is coming. They’re going to swing a lot harder, more confidently.”

Ojomo is having a fantastic season, playing 43 snaps per game with four sacks, 5th-most among all NFL interior linemen. He also has eight QB hits and four tackles for loss, and Pro Football Focus ranks him eighth out of 97 interior linemen who’ve played at least 200 snaps. 

The Eagles were counting on him to help replace Milton Williams, who signed that four-year, $104 million contract with the Patriots, and he’s definitely done that. 

But maybe the biggest play he made so far this year wasn’t a play at all, it was a heads up to his teammates that allowed them to make a play that may have saved a game.

“I was so sure about it,” he said. “I knew that it was the exact same word.  It was like, ‘I literally just saw that, I don’t know, 13 plays before.’ So right when I heard it, I was like, ‘Guys, I know what’s going on, you know?’ 

“So it was pretty cool to have a situation like that happen. It’s little deflating I think when you know the opposition knows what’s going on.”