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LANDOVER, Md. (AP) \u2014 The heated rivalry between the Eagles and Commanders<\/a> boiled over in the fourth quarter Saturday night, when three players were ejected after a fight broke out among several members of both teams in the aftermath of Saquon Barkley\u2019s 2-point conversion that increased Philadelphia\u2019s lead to 19 points with about 4 1\/2 minutes left.<\/p>\n

Two players on Washington\u2019s defense \u2014 lineman Javon Kinlaw and safety Quan Martin \u2014 and one Eagles player \u2014 offensive lineman Tyler Steen \u2014 were disqualified after being flagged for unnecessary roughness during the brawl in the 29-18 victory that allowed Philadelphia to clinch a second NFC East title in a row.<\/p>\n

There was some punching, a ton of pushing and shoving, and a lot of jawing, too, as the scrum spread across the grass. Six flags were thrown by officials as the chaos ensued.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess it was a theme. … The fans were fighting … and I guess it carried over to the game. It\u2019s chippy out there, and we have a lot of history with this team, especially since I\u2019ve been here,\u201d said Barkley, who gained 132 yards on 21 carries and scored a touchdown. \u201cThis team don\u2019t like us. It\u2019s just the truth. And we don\u2019t like them, either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commanders coach Dan Quinn didn\u2019t directly answer the question when he was asked at his postgame news conference whether it was disrespectful for the Eagles to go for 2 after the late TD in a lopsided game.<\/p>\n

But Quinn did issue something that sounded akin to a warning, noting that these NFC East rivals meet on Jan. 4 in Philadelphia to close the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that\u2019s how they want to get down, all good,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cWe\u2019ll play them again in two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Washington linebacker Bobby Wagner was asked a question about respect, too, this is what he had to say: \u201cIt is what it is, Bro. I don\u2019t care. Is it disrespectful? Maybe. But we\u2019ve still got to stop them. That\u2019s how I look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said he was not running up the score and considered his decision a simple case of numbers, preferring a 19-point lead to an 18-point edge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to make sure we went up that way, just in case. That was what our math told us in that particular case,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cIt\u2019s a division game. It\u2019s always back-and-forth. \u2026 That\u2019s the team we played in the NFC championship game last year. I know how badly they wanted to beat us. I know how badly we wanted to beat them. We\u2019ve always got to keep our cool in moments like that. But that\u2019s NFC East football. \u2026 They\u2019ve got tough guys. We\u2019ve got tough guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, when order was restored, and Wagner, Barkley and Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts spoke with each other on the field.<\/p>\n

Barkley said later Wagner made a point that the Eagles running back understood: \u201cHopefully you don\u2019t break your hand just to say you\u2019re a tough guy. It\u2019s not really worth it. And you lose a lot of money\u201d because of fines.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to be better. We\u2019ve got to be smarter,\u201d Barkley said. \u201cI\u2019ve got to be smarter. I shouldn\u2019t put myself in that situation. It\u2019s really not worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin understood why Eagles coach Nick Sirianni decided to go for 2 there. And like his teammate Wagner, McLaurin was not offended.<\/p>\n

\u201cEagles vs. Commanders, man. That\u2019s how it goes. … There\u2019s a lot of history, obviously. They were beating us. They\u2019re not going to throw in the towel. They\u2019re not going to take it easy on us. They were going for 2 to bury us. As a team, it\u2019s not like you\u2019re going to tell them, \u2018Don\u2019t go for 2.\u2019 We have to stop them,\u201d McLaurin said. \u201cI don\u2019t really take any bad blood from what they did, but you don\u2019t want to see the game get out of hand and guys possibly getting hurt. It comes with this rivalry between us and them. I don\u2019t think that will ever change, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANDOVER, Md. (AP) \u2014 The heated rivalry between the Eagles and Commanders boiled over in the fourth quarter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35561,35554,25557,4879,303,6108,35322,20577,4664,4663,1418,7393,7386,40,28,69,4538,71,70,35323,7113,726,35068,35321,7423,18022],"class_list":{"0":"post-67058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-bobby-wagner","9":"tag-dan-quinn","10":"tag-dc-wire","11":"tag-district-of-columbia","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jalen-hurts","14":"tag-javon-kinlaw","15":"tag-local-news-for-apple","16":"tag-maryland","17":"tag-md-state-wire","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-football","20":"tag-nick-sirianni","21":"tag-pa-state-wire","22":"tag-pennsylvania","23":"tag-philadelphia","24":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","25":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","26":"tag-philadelphia-news","27":"tag-quan-martin","28":"tag-saquon-barkley","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-terry-mclaurin","31":"tag-tyler-steen","32":"tag-virginia","33":"tag-washington-commanders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}