There’s nothing sweeter than an early-morning NFL game that goes down to the wire and leads you right into the afternoon kickoff.
The Jacksonville Jaguars and Philadelphia Eagles blessed us with that on Sunday. The game, while mostly sloppy from the start, saw the Jaguars and Eagles trade scores in the fourth quarter. Trevor Lawrence found Parker Washington on fourth down to take the lead with 3:20 left in the game. Then, Eagles kicker Jake Elliott gave Philly a one-point lead with eight seconds left.
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Philadelphia, for whatever reason, thought it was a good idea to boot the ball to a Jaguars returner instead of kicking it into the end zone and hoping Lawrence could chuck up a prayer to win the game. Ameer Abdullah broke away from Philadelphia’s special teams and got the ball across midfield and into Eagles territory with one second left.
Jaguars kicker Cam Little nailed a game-winning 57-yard field goal. Jacksonville took home the 19-17 victory and moved to 4-1 on the season.
Little immediately ran back toward the opposite end zone and taunted some of the Eagles fans who lined the barrier. Little’s kick probably would have been good from about 70 yards. His teammates lifted him up in celebration.
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The Eagles fell to 2-3 with the loss.
The game was chaotic from the beginning. Jaguars rookie returner Josh Cameron thought he had a 90-yard kickoff return touchdown from the jump. It would have been the first kickoff-return TD in the NFL this year. Offsetting penalties nullified the return.
On the same play, Eagles linebacker Jeremiah Trotter Jr. and Jaguars blocker Bryan Thomas Jr. got into a scuffle and were kicked out of the game. It certainly was a “crackers” start to the game, as OutKick’s Armando Salguero wrote this morning.
Despite having 13 penalties for 100 yards, Jacksonville was able to escape London with the dub.