Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley each rush for 3 TDs to help Eagles rout Commanders for Super Bowl berth
Barkley dashed 60 yards for a touchdown on Philadelphia’s first play and finished with 118 yards and three scores, Hurts rushed for three TDs and the Eagles soared into the Super Bowl with a 55-23 win.
PHILADELPHIA — Saquon Barkley dashed 60 yards for a touchdown on Philadelphia’s first play and finished with 118 yards and three scores, Jalen Hurts rushed for three TDs and the Eagles soared into the Super Bowl with a 55-23 win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday.
Hurts and the Eagles are in the Super Bowl for the second time in three seasons, and this time Barkley is along for the ride. The Eagles will play either the Buffalo Bills or former Eagles coach Andy Reid’s Kansas City Chiefs.
The 55 points are the most any team has scored in a conference championship game since the 1970 merger.
Sports world reacts to Eagles clinching Super Bowl LIX berth
The Philadelphia Eagles are on to Super Bowl LIX after defeating the Washington Commanders 55-23 in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday.
The Eagles were led by 118 rushing yards and three touchdowns from Saquon Barkley, while quarterback Jalen Hurts had 246 passing yards and a touchdown — plus three scores on the ground. Philadelphia — who also forced four turnovers — had 55 points, the most in any conference championship game since the 1970 merger, according to ESPN Research.
The win prompted reactions from around the sports world. New York Knicks stars Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns led the way, trolling their teammate Josh Hart multiple times.
Noted Eagles fans, Brunson and Towns poked fun at Hart, a Commanders fan, as the game neared its end. Hart trolled the Knicks guard and center after Washington came back to beat Philadelphia 36-33 in Week 16.
Here are more of the reactions to the Eagles victory over the Commanders.
He was not presiding over the Commanders’ rebuild, already on the cusp of a stunning turnaround, the kind of rise that Snyder lived for in a previous life: from 4-13 in 2023 to what would eventually be a 12-5 regular season and an underdog playoff run, culminating in an NFC Championship Game appearance Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles.
But now Snyder is a ghost: The new-look Commanders are not only led by first-time general manager Adam Peters, new head coach Dan Quinn and sensational rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels, but they also have a new ownership group, led by Josh Harris and his Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment.
At the London dinner, Snyder, 60, was polite, if not subdued, and did things the associates had come to expect, such as ordering almost everything on the menu. Snyder said that he was enjoying a quiet existence, mostly in London. Life was better for his family, far from the controversies that had engulfed him and the team the past several years. Talk inevitably turned to the improving Commanders, already off to a strong start. When one associate returned to the United States, a colleague asked him the question that’s been on the minds of many fans and league executives:
What’s it like for Snyder, for years the most hated owner in sports, to watch the Commanders succeed without him?
