“It was the best play I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Sirianni. “What I think is cool is that there will be kids all over the country and all over Philadelphia trying to make that play and talking about that play and simulating that play while they’re playing backyard football or pee-pee football. They’re not going to be able to do it; I think he is the only one in the world who can do it.
With the Eagles going through a third-and-6 early in the second quarter, Barkley took a snap from Jalen Hurts inside the flat, needed a take, and then gave a spin to Devin Lloyd that had Lloyd greedy in the breeze as he fell to the outfield. Barkley was just warming up. He then took a step so that his back was facing cornerback Jarrian Jones, widened and blindly jumped to Jones for the final five yards in what turned out to be a 14-yard gain.
The lovers present stood up and began to look at each other in an atmosphere of trauma.
“I have to give God credit, man. I’m not going to lie… I feel like God gave me the ability to play this position and gave me some instincts. Sometimes you have to let go and let God and your instincts take over “Barkley mentioned.
This wasn’t Barkley’s first time on this trip — he jumped back on an Iowa defender as a sophomore at Penn Atmosphere — but he said one “wasn’t that cool.” This one was once off the charts.
“Crazy,” receiver DeVonta Smith said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Barkley finished the game with 199 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns. He is only the second player in Eagles history to report more than 1,000 yards from scrimmage and more than eight touchdowns in eight games, joining LeSean McCoy, who was inducted into the Eagles’ Hall of State on Sunday.
Barkley wasn’t the only Eagle who dazzled against Jacksonville. With AJ Brown sidelined by a bruised knee suffered late in the first, Smith took advantage of the time and made a great one-handed catch in the back of the end zone for a 25-yard touchdown at midfield. of the last quarter that ended up being the most of the game.
Sirianni had a negative replacement due to the condition of Brown, who did not play games in the second half.
“It’s always difficult when he goes down because he’s a very dynamic player, a very important part of this team and this offense,” Smith said. “If he goes down, I feel like I have to step up. For me, I’m always up for the challenge.”
Fellow receiver Jahan Dotson had a circus catch, outrunning a defender and throwing the ball toward himself early in the third quarter for a 36-yard pass down the left sideline.
“I feel like there were three plays in that game: Dotson, Smitty and Saquon, plays that just make you say, ‘Wow, this is why I love watching football,'” Lane Johnson mentioned.
