NFL season opens with defending champ Eagles edging Cowboys in game with hour-long lightning-related delay

Philadelphia – Jalen Hurts rushed to two affected for the champion of Super Bowl Philadelphia Eagles, who lost his star defender at temperature spit on Dak Prescottthen resisted a rare delay in time and needed a late stop to Beat Dallas Cowboys 24-20 early Friday In a crazy start of the NFL season.

With a last chance to return, Prescott launched an incomplete pass in fourth and 3 years with 1:54 to play to send what remained of a crowd of eagles lightened in a frenzy.

The game ended at 12:18 p.m.

He was delayed by 65 minutes due to lightning in the region. The Eagles led 24-20 with 4:44 to do in the third quarter when the gamn was arrested – and that is how it ended.

The injuries have exhausted a defense without micah parsons on TD races of 4 and 8 yards – no legal push necessary. Saquon Barkley also ran for a score of 10 yards, even if its final total of 60 meters was tiny compared to the last season, when it exceeded 2,000 yards.

Houte punctuated a score by throwing the ball into the stands and raising his shoulders a bit like his friend and mentor, Michael Jordan, who received a nice ovation when he was shown on the big screen.

“I think our discipline was not there at the start of the game,” said Hurts. “An excellent job by our defense to be able to fight and respond. The guys intervened and filled these roles. We entered this game by speaking of discipline and concentration, and we will let it say the same things.”

Hurts, Barkley and the rest of the Eagles passed a pre-match ceremony where the team increased its 2024 championship banner Inside the locker room, according to the wishes of coach Nick Sirianni.

“It’s a new team. It’s a new trip. We were tested tonight,” said Hurts. “We know how they are when Dak is back and they have everything team. We have played better football, but it’s always good to say that and find a way to win.”

Jalen Carter returned directly inside only a few moments after the banner’s statement.

Prescott and Carter exchanged words after the start of opening, and Carter spit on the Prescott jersey before backing down. Prescott quickly signaled to a neighboring official who threw the flag and sent a Carter packaging. The fans have hooked while Carter was slowly walking away, the defensive tackle off -contest holding his helmet in his hands behind his back.

Carter could go towards a heavy financial penalty, if not worse, in the first major test of the increased accent of the NFL this season on the sporting spirit.

The ejection has been the fastest of a game since 2005, when the former Eagles secondary, Jeremiah Trotter Sr.

Always one of the most nasty division rivalries in the NFL, the game was full of skirmishes and an almost greater roughness penalty at the end of the third against the Eagles who put the cowboys in a position to take the lead.

However, Dallas, the Miles Sanders, escaped the ball at 10 and the Super Bowl champions recovered. Prescott produced a touched economy diving plate on the Quinon Mitchell corner half on the game.

It would take a while until the Eagles have recovered the ball, thanks to the delay.

The scores of Hurts and Barkley made Eagles the first defending champions of the Super Bowl to mark a touch on the first three records of the season from Green Bay in 2011. Jake Elliott put the final touch with a goal on the field of 58 yards.

Javonte Williams achieved a pair of 1 -rod points – the first to open the driving after Carter was ejected – and Brandon Aubrey launched goals on the field of 41 and 53 yards.

The offensive line of Eagles Landon Dickerson left with a back injury.

Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer lost his head coach debut. It was promoted to the attacking coordinator to be the 10th coach in the history of the franchise.

Dallas plays his home opening match against the Giants.

Has anyone say the revenge of the Super Bowl? The Eagles go to Kansas City seven months after a game of 40-22 in New Orleans.