Eagles weather the storm, beat Cowboys 24-20 in opener that had everything
The Eagles opened the 2025 season by raising a Super Bowl banner and then immediately reminding everyone that September football is never smooth in South Philly.
Philly beat the Cowboys 24-20 on Thursday night, but it took blown chances by Dallas and a whole lot of chaos to get there.
CeeDee Lamb, usually automatic, turned into Nelson Agholor in crunch time. He dropped a perfect deep ball with under three minutes left that would’ve set Dallas up inside the red zone with a chance to steal the game.
Then on fourth down, Lamb had another shot at a big play but couldn’t make the grab. That was the Cowboys’ season opener in a nutshell.
Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley do enough
Offensively, Jalen Hurts looked sharp, scoring twice on the ground and setting up Saquon Barkley’s 10-yard TD late in the first half with a 51-yard strike to Jahan Dotson. Hurts shrugged like MJ after one of his scores, with Michael Jordan himself on the big screen for the flex. Jake Elliott added a 58-yarder to ice it.
Still, the Eagles were far from perfect.
A.J. Brown didn’t even see a target until the final two minutes, finishing with one lonely catch. Barkley punched in a score but was held to just 60 yards. The offense stalled out in the second half and gave Dallas every chance to hang around.
Jalen Hurts: 14 CAR | 62 YDS | 2 TDS
Saquon Barkley TD
Jake Elliott drilled a 58-yarder to ice it.
Welcome to #SpitGate
The biggest headline was Jalen Carter getting tossed before most fans even sat down. Carter spit at Dak Prescott after the opening kickoff, got flagged immediately, and was ejected. Fans booed, but even in Philly it’s tough to defend that kind of boneheaded move.
The #PrescottFiles are real, and this city’s newest conspiracy was born.
Then NBC dropped a bombshell late in the third quarter, showing footage that revealed Dak Prescott actually spitting first. Suddenly, Carter went from villain to “second spitter.”
The Prescott Files
Still, with the NFL cracking down on “sportsmanship,” don’t be shocked if a suspension is coming. Carter knows it too. He owned up after the game and admitted he hurt his team.
Jalen Carter spits himself right out of the Eagles opener against the Cowboys
Dallas hangs around, but not enough
The Cowboys didn’t roll over. Javonte Williams scored twice, Brandon Aubrey drilled a pair of long kicks, and Dak had the ball with under two minutes left. But when his 4th-and-3 throw fell incomplete, that was it.
Game over.
Lightning strikes (literally)
As if things weren’t bizarre enough, the game was delayed for over an hour in the third quarter because of lightning. The stoppage came right after Miles Sanders coughed up a fumble in the red zone, bailing the Eagles out of a potential disaster. Once play resumed, both defenses tightened, setting up the dramatic finish.
Sick Post-Fumble Recovery Celly…
Survive and advance
The Eagles escaped on a night when they looked far from dominant. Dallas didn’t have Micah Parsons, Lamb dropped the ball (literally), and Carter pulled the dumbest stunt possible. Yet the Birds still walked off 1-0, and at the end of the day, that’s all anyone will remember.
It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t clean, but it was a win over the Cowboys in Philly on banner night. That’s enough. Now the Eagles head to Kansas City for a Super Bowl rematch.
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