Fans fly high with Eagle pride after victory over Patriots

On Sunday, he became the first Eagle ever with multiple punt return touchdowns in more than one season. Gang Green won the battle in the trenches and Ryan Fitzpatrick had another mistake-free football game, going 36 for 50, for 390 yards with a pair of touchdowns.

Darren Sproles returned a punt 83 yards for the Eagles’ second special teams touchdown, giving them a 21-point lead before the Patriots came charging back. “So you’re aware of that”. The Patriots have now dropped two straight games, blowing 14 point leads in both games.

“When they kicked that first one to us (early in the game), our special teams coach (Dave Fipp) came to me and said, ‘They’re going to give us one today, ‘” Sproles said.

The Patriots have lost more than two in a row only once in the Tom Brady era.

“Sort of had a chance there at the end”. “A comeback”, coach Bill Belichick said unenthusiastically. DeMarco Murray carried just eight times for 24 yards. The Pats were without almost their entire starting offiensive line, No. 2 running back Dion Lewis, starting slot receiver Julian Edelman and tight end Rob Gronkowski.

Brady completed 29 of 56 passes for 312 yards and three touchdowns, but also had his first multi-interception game since the Super Bowl. However, with the excellent field position, Sam Bradford’s offense put together a 59-yard touchdown drive, that began a run of 35 consecutive Eagles points. The team signed the 31-year-old Austin to a one-year, $2.3 million deal in the offseason.

The game was tied at 14 in the second half with the Patriots in possession.

“It has been insane thus far, after 12 weeks”.

Before the game, the 12-0 Panthers became the first team to clinch a playoff berth, when NFC South rival Atlanta lost.

“We’ve got to do a better job”. “We had Buffalo in a big game”.

New England’s defense didn’t lose them the game Sunday, but they didn’t win it either.

The message: “Just to have that belief”. And I think it really just speaks to how good of a football player Tom is and the fact that they have had a lot of moving pieces around him.

That’s what happened, and the rest of the Eagles echoed his message.

“Anybody who said our confidence was low was probably outside our building”, safety Malcolm Jenkins said after his 99-yard interception return was a key to the win. “He did a nice job but, again, we need to continue to see him progress”.

The Patriots took a 14-0 lead midway through the second quarter before Belichick decided on the ensuing kickoff to have former rugby star Nate Ebner drop-kick the ball off. It floated behind the first line of defenders, where the Eagles fielded it at the 41.

The Patriots, who have fallen outside the top-two teams in the ESPN NFL Power Rankings for the first time since Week 9 of last season, have quickly turned things around after losing streaks in the Bill Belichick/Tom Brady era. “They were prepared for everything we threw at them”. Brady’s 1-yard sneak with 3 minutes left made it 35-28. But he caught only 13 passes in 11 games and struggled to get in synch with quarterbacks Sam Bradford and Mark Sanchez. Eagles WR Miles Austin, who had just two catches in the previous five games, was inactive. Since then, only Chandler Jones has gotten his hands on the ball.

Kelly joked that it was all part of his plan “for them to drop it a couple times”. But as we all know and saw, (Sunday) he pulled some things out.