Adrian Fedkiw
With the Philadelphia Eagles out of playoff contention and playing the role of spoiler, why not go for the two-point conversion?
It just didn’t go their way as Carson Wentz’s pass intended for Jordan Matthews was tipped at the line of scrimmage by C.J. Mosley and harmlessly fell incomplete to preserve a 27-26 win for the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday afternoon. The two-pointer came right after Wentz scrambled for a 4-yard touchdown.
HE DOES IT ON HIS OWN pic.twitter.com/XXiPA0uY9S
— Nick Piccone (@nickpiccone) December 18, 2016
Philly had been 4-of-5 on two-point conversions prior to that attempt.
Eagles head coach Doug Pederson stated that his mind was up the whole way to go for two.
If we scored, we were going to try to win the game. We were going for the win.
It’s something Philadelphia hasn’t been doing recently as it lost for the ninth time in its last 11 games.
Our chances in overtime are less than 50 percent, being underdogs. If you look it up, it’s less than 50 percent,” Pederson said again. And then after a long pause. “And they have a great kicker (Justin Tucker).
Pederson also explained why he called a pass after running the ball successfully for a two-point try early with Ryan Mathews, who ran for 128 yards on 20 carries, but wasn’t in on the play.
Eagles go for two, and they get it! Take the lead, 11-10. pic.twitter.com/gRXcx6yCRm
— Nick Piccone (@nickpiccone) December 18, 2016
The chance of scoring throwing it there is better than running it .We anticipated them going with zero coverage and a blitz. That’s what we got and we had the one-on-one match-up we wanted. Carson went to Jordan and give their guy credit for making a play. But that was the right call for that defense.
It’s tough to nitpick the play-call, I would’ve just preferred a run-pass option off a bootleg to the right using Wentz’s legs.