The Eagles are on to the Divisional Round!
The No. 2-seeded Eagles defeated the No. 7-seeded Packers 22-10 behind four takeaways from the special teams and defense to move on to the next round of the playoffs.
"That's a great football team, and the reason it was hard, and the reason it didn't look perfect – we have a lot to clean up, is one, it's never perfect, but that's a good football team," Head Coach Nick Sirianni said after the game.
Here's how it happened:
First Quarter
- FUMBLE! Oren Burks laid a massive hit on Keisean Nixon on the opening kickoff return and Jeremiah Trotter Jr. recovered the ball at the Green Bay 28.
- "I turned around and I was already celebrating and saw that Trotter got on it as well," Burks said. "It was just kind of in the flow of the game, so, just tried to make a big play.
"That was just the mindset. In the playoffs, nobody's going to give you anything, you have to go and take it. I feel like that play from the jump just exemplifies what it's going to take to take the ball away."
- TOUCHDOWN! Hurts stood in the pocket with time and delivered a strike in the back of the end zone to Jahan Dotson to open the scoring. It was Dotson's first touchdown catch as an Eagle since being traded to Philadelphia just before Week 1. (Eagles 7 – Packers 0)
- "It was a great job by him just staying alive and working the back of the end zone," Hurts said. "Jahan just kind of plays his role. Coach gives very specific roles to what guys are expected to do, and he's just kind of been there when his numbers called, when his opportunities there, he makes a play, and so he's been doing great."
- SACK! Nolan Smith got right into the backfield to blow up the Packers' 3rd-and-3 for a loss of 11 and force a punt with 6:10 remaining in the quarter.
- FIELD GOAL! After an 11-play, 57-yard drive, the Eagles settled for a 31-yard field goal from Jake Elliott to extend the lead to 10 with 19 seconds remaining in the quarter. (Eagles 10 – Packers 0)
Second Quarter
- INTERCEPTION! Darius "Big Play" Slay got in front of a deep pass intended for Dontayvion Wicks and picked off Jordan Love to give the Eagles the ball at their own 22 to open up the quarter. It was the first playoff interception of the 12-year veteran's career.
- Slay went to the locker room with six minutes remaining in the half with an elbow injury and would be questionable to return. Isaiah Rodgers would come in for him. Nakobe Dean was injured with 5:32 remaining and would be replaced by Burks. Dean would be ruled OUT for the game with a knee injury. Slay would return with 3:08 left in the half.
- The Packers got into Eagles territory after beginning the drive at their own 43 thanks to a 20-yard punt return from Jayden Reed. The Philadelphia defense held strong, as Green Bay's Brandon McManus, who kicked in college at Lincoln Financial Field with the Temple Owls, missed a 38-yard field goal to keep it a 10-0 game with 5:05 left in the half.
- INTERCEPTION! After nearly getting one on the play before, Zack Baun intercepted Love's pass in Philadelphia territory and returned it to the Green Bay 45 for a return of 16 yards with 44 seconds left in the first half.
- "Just trusting my cover responsibility and kind of playing free within the system to steal a backside dig. It's been one of my dreams – I have a list of dream interceptions that I'd like to make, and that was one of them," Baun said. "Not the playoffs, not who I got it against, just the situation and the coverage and the play that it was against."
Third Quarter
- The Packers found some life after Love found Wicks for a gain of 29 yards on a deep ball to get to the Philadelphia 30 with 8:17 to go in the quarter. After Quinyon Mitchell was called for pass interference on 3rd-and-13, the Packers moved up to the Eagles' 9-yard line. After another red zone stop for the Philadelphia defense, McManus knocked in a 26-yard field goal to put the Packers on the board. (Eagles 10 – Packers 3)
- TOUCHDOWN! Hurts found DeVonta Smith for a gain of 28 yards to get the Eagles into Green Bay territory before finding Goedert for a 24-yard catch and run which included a series of stiff arms on cornerback Carrington Valentine as he went into the end zone. Elliott, however, missed the extra point. (Eagles 16 – Packers 3)
- "Nobody is as violent and as physical as Dallas Goedert with the ball in his hands," Sirianni said. "Our toughness and our physicality were on display on that play. Dallas is a physical player, and that was a big time play."
Fourth Quarter
- The Packers opened the final quarter at the Philadelphia 1-yard line after a 31-yard run from Josh Jacobs. On the following play, Jacobs punched it in for the Packers' first touchdown of the day. (Eagles 16 – Packers 10)
- FIELD GOAL! After getting into the red zone, multiple holding penalties backed up the Eagles to the Green Bay 26. The Eagles got back to the Packers' 12, where Elliott knocked in a 30-yard field goal. (Eagles 19 – Packers 10)
- TURNOVER ON DOWNS! Trailing by nine with 5:03 remaining, the Packers went for it on 4th-and-3 from their own 41 as Love's pass went incomplete as Malik Heath could not stay in bounds after the catch.
- FIELD GOAL! Elliott put through a 32-yard kick to extend the lead with 3:12 remaining. (Eagles 22 – Packers 10)
- SACK! Smith picked up his second sack of the day, getting to Love for a loss of 3yards at the Green Bay 27.
- "Nolan has just continued to get better. Nolan, I gave him a game ball in there because of just his effort. I love Nolan Smith," Sirianni said.
- INTERCEPTION! Mitchell picked off his first pass of the year on a deep ball in the end zone to all but seal the win for the Eagles with 1:51 remaining.
- "It felt good. All night, I was just competing. I had a couple fouls called on me. Had a PI. Just tried to stay the course and compete.It means a lot. Just trying to help the team win," Mitchell said about his first career interception.
– Written by Liam Wichser
These two teams opened the regular season in historic fashion, with the Eagles beating the Green Bay Packers by a score of 34-29 in the NFL's first game in South America. It'll be another historic clash between two of the league's premier franchises for the right to advance in the NFC playoffs. It's the fourth time these two teams have met in the postseason, with all of them being hosted by the Eagles.

QB Jalen Hurts

CB Kelee Ringo and S Tristin McCollum

T Lane Johnson

QB Jalen Hurts

RB Saquon Barkley

TE Dallas Goedert, RB Saquon Barkley, and WR Jahan Dotson

WR Jahan Dotson

OLB Josh Sweat

TE Dallas Goedert and WR Jahan Dotson

WR A.J. Brown

DT Milton Williams, OLB Nolan Smith Jr., LB Zack Baun, and LB Nakobe Dean

LB Nakobe Dean

OLB Nolan Smith Jr.

K Jake Elliott and DT Jordan Davis

CB Darius Slay Jr.

S C.J. Gardner-Johnson, CB Darius Slay Jr., and S Reed Blankenship

OLB Josh Sweat, DT Milton Williams, and DT Jalen Carter

Head Coach Nick Sirianni

LB Zack Baun and OLB Jalyx Hunt

LB Zack Baun, OLB Nolan Smith Jr, LB Oren Burks, S Reed Blankenship, and CB Darius Slay

TE Dallas Goedert and WR A.J. Brown

TE Dallas Goedert

TE Dallas Goedert and WR A.J. Brown

DT Milton Williams and OLB Nolan Smith Jr.

Head Coach Nick Sirianni

OLB Nolan Smith Jr.

P Braden Mann and K Jake Elliott

CB Isaiah Rodgers, CB Big Play Slay, CB Quinyon Mitchell, and S Reed Blankenship

CB Quinyon Mitchell and LB Zack Baun