#317: An apparent tank job ends the season on an embarrassing note

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Eagles season ends with Jalen Hurts being benched.

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0:00.0	The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions.
0:07.0	Eagles fans everywhere.
0:10.0	This is for you.
0:12.0	Let the celebration begin.
0:16.1	Oh, that was a pretty fitting end
0:17.9	to the Eagles 2020 season when you stay rude.
0:21.6	Yeah, I really can't imagine a more fitting way to end one of the ugliest
0:26.4	seasons in an eagle's history really it was certainly certainly deserving of the
0:31.8	season they've had.
0:33.6	Yes, it was ultimately the Eagles lose 20 to 14
0:38.1	to the Washington football team.
0:39.5	They fall to 4-11 and 1 on the season.
0:42.6	They clinched the number 6 pick in the NFL draft.
0:46.2	And I guess we have to start with the game itself
0:48.4	and the decision to pull Jaylin Hertz in the second half and put in a
0:57.0	Sudfeld. Doug Pearson says he wasn't tanking. I think we all kind of
1:02.1	understand the situation in this game and I think the Eagles
1:06.8	kind of thought that it would be a little bit different but they were tanking.
1:14.0	Yeah, and you know, I don't mind not playing older veterans or guys with injuries that
1:21.5	normally wouldn't keep them out of the game.
1:24.4	But that was embarrassing.
1:25.9	That was over the line.
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