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Packers vs. Eagles score, live updates: Philadelphia hosts Green Bay in wild-card NFC playoff matchup
- This kickoff return wasn’t as bad, but there was a penalty, so the Packers start inside their own 20-yard-line after a holding flag on the Nixon return.
- This is just too easy, folks. There isn’t an NFL quarterback on any roster who wouldn’t have been able to find an open receiver on this play. It’s Dotson’s first touchdown in an Eagles uniform, and with less than two minutes gone in the first quarter, Eagles lead 7-0.
- Mr. 2K on the first play from scrimmage for 16 yards and this start is exactly what the Eagles wanted.
- Eagles recover, and will start BOTH halves with the ball! Oren Burks knocked it out of Ke’Sean Nixon’s hands and the Eagles take over at the Green Bay 28-yard-line and a MASSIVE advantage, if they can convert this into points.
- The good news for Green Bay is that there couldn’t be more time to recover from this turnover.
- The Eagles’ signal-caller was knocked out of a Week 16 loss to the Commanders — Philadelphia’s only loss in its last 13 games, and it came on a last-second touchdown on the road — but is back after clearing concussion protocol heading into the wild-card round.
- Hurts has established himself as one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL over the last several years, and in the 15-and-change games he played this season he threw for 2,903 yards on a 68.7% completion rate with 18 touchdowns and, perhaps more importantly, just five interceptions. He also finished fifth in the NFL in rushing touchdowns with 14.
- In the 92 seasons that the Eagles have been in the NFL — Green Bay has been around 104 seasons — 99 players have played for both teams. Standing atop that mountain of players — which includes stars like Seth Joyner, Ty Detmer, and James Lofton, one super-duper star inner-circle Hall of Famer.
- Reggie White had 124 of his 198 career sacks win an Eagles uniform and 68.5 sacks — and his lone Super Bowl ring — with the Packers.
- Not much wind expected under partly cloudy skies at Lincoln Financial Field for the Eagles and Packers. Sunset in Philadelphia is set for right around 5 p.m. ET, so the lights will be on for a nighttime finish in the City of Brotherly Love.
- Philadelphia is 2-1 all-time in the postseason against Green Bay, with the lone Packer win coming in the the 2010-11 NFC Wild Card round. Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes in that game, and it was the start of a Green Bay march to a Super Bowl victory as a wild-card team. The Eagles won the 1960 NFL Championship game over Green Bay at the beginning of what would become a Packers dynasty — the team went on to win five championships in the 60s, including the first two Super Bowls.
- Perhaps the most famous play in the teams’ playoff history came in a Philadelphia win in the 2003-04 playoffs on a 4th and 26 — a legendary play in Philadelphia sports history. Donovan McNabb hit Freddie Mitchell to keep a late drive alive that allowed Philly to get a game-tying field goal and eventually win the game.
