Hurts so good in clutch moments

PHILADELPHIA ❯❯ A.J. Brown saw more than a spark out of Jalen Hurts.

Brown saw Hurts bring the heat, with the Eagles needing to channel the bigplay, clutch-in-crunch time machine that powered them to the Super Bowl.

“That fire,” Brown said. “He woke up a little today.”

Hurts threw for 319 yards and hit Brown for two scores, and Jake Elliott kicked a 54yard field goal in overtime to lift Philadelphia to a 3431 win over the Washington Commanders Sunday for its second straight 4-0 start.

Elliott also kicked field goals of 41, 47 and 36 yards before hitting the winner.

“My whole career has kind of been a roller coaster in terms of being in different and unique and unprecedented moments, which you may call pressure and stormy and that fire,” Hurts said. “But that's what I was born in. I feel like it's a unique feeling being in those situations because you work so hard and you prepare so hard, and you go through so much to put yourself in a position where you're comfortable in those moments.”

Hurts hit Brown for a 28yard TD with 1:28 left for a 31-24 lead. Instead of killing the clock and trying for a winning field goal, the Eagles left enough time for Sam Howell to lead Washington to the tying score.

Brown was flagged for taunting on his TD, giving the Commanders (2-2) a boost. Washington started on the Eagles' 36 and tied it when Howell hit Jahan Dotson for a 10-yard TD as time expired.

Coach Ron Rivera went for the extra point and the tie on the road, a call that sent them knotted 31-all into OT.

The Commanders did nothing with the ball in OT. Hurts then converted a fourth-down sneak that pushed the Eagles to Washington's 48-yard line and helped set up the winning kick.