The Philadelphia Eagles are locked in a battle to start their Super Bowl defense, leading the San Francisco 49ers, 13-10, at halftime of their wild card matchup.<\/p>\n
The 49ers opened the scoring with a quick scoring drive fueled by Demarcus Robinson’s 58-yard catch. He also capped the drive with a 5-yard catch. He beat All-Pro cornerback Quinyon Mitchell on both plays, and Brock Purdy put it on the money both times.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia’s much-maligned offense responded with a 10-play, 63-yard touchdown drive of its own, with Dallas Goedert taking an end-around in for a 1-yard score.<\/p>\n
The Eagles’ next drive ended with a turnover on downs, but the defense forced a three-and-out. Philadelphia then embarked on yet another lengthy scoring drive, this time 16 plays and 94 yards across nine minutes — the team’s longest postseason touchdown drive by time of possession on record (since 2001). It was again Goedert finding the end zone, this time on a 9-yard pass from Jalen Hurts.<\/p>\n
Goedert joined Ricky Watters as the only Eagles with a rushing touchdown and a receiving touchdown in the same playoff game.<\/p>\n
The 49ers have hung tough, though, even amid another devastating injury: George Kittle is out for the game after being carted off with an Achilles injury. On the very next play, Purdy ripped a 45-yard pass to Jauan Jennings, leading to a field goal. The visitors even had one more chance right before halftime, but poor clock management prevented them from getting close enough for a field goal attempt: Purdy fumbled the ball out of bounds with one second left, leading to a run off and the clock expiring.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia will get the ball out of halftime looking to extend its lead; stick with us for analysis below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles are locked in a battle to start their Super Bowl defense, leading the San Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42153,42156,42151,42157,42149,42155,42148,42152,42154,42150,1418,69,4538,71,70,19587],"class_list":["post-84159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-49ers-eagles-game","tag-49ers-eagles-highlights","tag-49ers-eagles-live-score","tag-49ers-eagles-recap","tag-49ers-eagles-score","tag-49ers-eagles-updates","tag-49ers-vs-eagles-live","tag-eagles-49ers-live","tag-eagles-49ers-live-score","tag-eagles-49ers-score","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84159","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=84159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}