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Hurts returns from injury, leads Eagles to No. 1 seed in NFC
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts walked into the Linc sporting a Michael Jordan “I’m Back” T-shirt from the previous Chicago Bulls’ star’s first unretirement.
Yeah, Hurts is again — and now, so are the Eagles as a Tremendous Bowl risk.
Hurts returned from a sprained proper shoulder and threw for 229 yards underneath a conservative sport plan, and the Philadelphia Eagles clinched the No. 1 seed within the NFC with a 22-16 win over the New York Giants on Sunday night time.
“It’s actually robust being out,′ Hurts stated. ”I used to be pushing myself to be obtainable and it wasn’t a straightforward factor.”
Hurts wasn’t requested to do a lot in opposition to New York’s B-team — with the Giants’ No. 6 seed already secured, they rested the majority of their beginning lineup — and he received with out the explosive performs, the head-first rushes on fourth down, the scrambles that flip into 20-yard beneficial properties, the kind of breakout performs that had outlined his season. They weren’t wanted.
His mere presence was the emotional increase the Eagles wanted after the stumbles every of the final two weeks.
The Eagles rebounded from two straight losses behind backup QB Gardner Minshew to clinch the NFC East, the highest spot within the convention and residential discipline all through the playoffs. The staff additionally will get a bye, yet another pivotal week of relaxation for Hurts.
Hurts obtained a roaring ovation and “MVP!” chants as he ran out of the tunnel throughout pregame introductions. The Eagles had clearly missed their QB, who had grown into an MVP front-runner till he was damage on a tough sort out in opposition to Chicago.
Hurts was 20-of-35 passing in a sport that had a preseason really feel — the Eagles have been just one of 5 within the purple zone — and performed your complete sport. The Eagles additionally earned the No. 1 seed within the 2017 season and received the Tremendous Bowl. They’ve 5-1 odds to win it this 12 months, per FanDuel Sportsbook, trailing solely Kansas Metropolis and Buffalo.
Hurts accomplished a 35-yard cross to A.J. Brown on the Eagles’ first play of the sport and confirmed no ill-effects from the sprained proper shoulder suffered three weeks in the past. The Eagles performed at half-speed in opposition to the Giants backups and refused to threat Hurts’ well being — they didn’t have a referred to as dashing play for him. The dynamic QB that ran for 747 yards and 13 touchdowns getting into the sport largely stayed within the pocket, the Eagles clearly cautious Hurts might take one other arduous hit on his shoulder.
“I do know he was hurting,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni stated. “He was hurting unhealthy.”
The Eagles didn’t get a lot offensively however actually didn’t should in opposition to a Giants (9-7-1) staff that had already secured the No. 6 seed within the NFC and rested the majority of their starters. Saquon Barkley and his 1,312 yards dashing took a seat. So did beginning QB Daniel Jones.
The Giants as a substitute handed over No. 2 QB Tyrod Taylor and began follow squad common Davis Webb.
Webb, in his first profession begin, rushed for a 14-yard landing within the fourth that made it 19-9. He tossed a 25-yard TD cross to Kenny Golladay late within the fourth that made it 22-16. He threw for 168 yards on 23-of-40 passing
Hurts, whose 35 whole touchdowns this season tied the franchise file set by Randall Cunningham in 1990, had a TD cross within the third quarter worn out due to a penalty after which threw his sixth interception of the season on the subsequent play.
This sport for the Eagles was all about stabilizing themselves and reclaiming the swagger and confidence that they had earlier this season as they steamrolled behind Hurts to a 13-1 file. Hurts doubtless wouldn’t have performed had the Eagles overwhelmed both Dallas or New Orleans in every of the final video games and clinched the No. 1 seed. As a substitute, it was the Eagles taking part in with all the things to lose whereas the nine-win Giants have been safe of their spot.
“It’s the NFL, so the fellows you’ve got on the staff, you’ve got confidence in,” Giants rookie coach Brian Daboll stated. “I assumed our guys competed all the way in which to the top.”
Jake Elliott kicked discipline targets of 32, 52 and 39 yards within the first half. Boston Scott ran for an 8-yard landing — a whopping 10 of his 17 profession TDs are in opposition to the Giants — and the Eagles took a 16-0 lead into halftime.
Elliott added discipline targets of 54 and 22 yards within the second half. Graham Gano kicked a 24-yarder within the third for the Giants.
RECORD DAY
Brown had 4 catches for 95 yards and completed with 1,496 for the staff’s season file. Mike Fast held the yards receiving mark of 1,409 in 1983 within the 16-game season.
“It means so much to go away my footprint on this group,” Brown stated. “There have been quite a lot of nice receivers earlier than me. For me to do it the primary 12 months, it means the world. I instructed Mike thanks for all the things he has accomplished for the sport.”
Fast is a radio analyst for the Eagles. “Simply as he instructed me earlier than the sport, he stated the primary cross goes to return to me and I’m going to interrupt your file,” he stated.
DeVonta Smith set the Eagles’ season file for receptions with 95 (and 1,196 yards receiving). He had seven receptions in opposition to the Giants. Irving Fryar had 88 catches in 1996.
The 14 wins are additionally essentially the most in a season for the Eagles.
UP NEXT
The Eagles benefit from the spoils of an off week.
The Giants head to Minnesota.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a revised nuclear doctrine on Tuesday stating that any attack on Russia supported by a country with nuclear power could be grounds for a nuclear response.
Putin signed the new policy on the 1,000th day of the war with Ukraine and the day after President Biden authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles to strike inside Russia.
The doctrine also states that Russia could respond to aggression against its ally Belarus with nuclear weapons, The Associated Press reported.
Though the doctrine doesn’t specify that Russia will definitely respond to such attacks with nuclear weapons, it does mention the “uncertainty of scale, time and place of possible use of nuclear deterrent” as key principles of deterrence.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a revised doctrine stating that an attack on Russia supported by a country with nuclear power could potentially trigger a nuclear response during a Nov. 18 meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
When asked if the updated doctrine comes in response to Biden’s decision to ease restrictions on how Ukraine can strike Russia, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the AP that the doctrine was published “in a timely manner.”
Peskov also said Putin told the government to update it earlier this year so that it’s “in line with the current situation” – the Russian president led a meeting in September to discuss these proposed revisions to the doctrine.
The Kremlin said the revision was published “in a timely manner” when asked if it was done in response to President Biden authorizing Ukraine to use U.S. long-range missiles in Russia. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque )
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Revealed in September, the doctrine now officially states that an attack on Russia by a nonnuclear power with the “participation or support of a nuclear power” will be seen as a “joint attack on the Russian Federation.”
A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is test-fired from the Plesetsk launchpad in northwestern Russia in October 2024. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
It also contains a broader range of conditions that would trigger the use of nuclear weapons, noting that they could be used in response to an air attack involving ballistic and cruise missiles, aircraft, drones and other flying vehicles.
The previous document threatened the use of Russia’s arsenal if “reliable information is received about the launch of ballistic missiles targeting the territory of Russia or its allies.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Two underwater fibre-optic communications cables running between Finland and Germany were discovered cut on Monday, an incident both countries said was under investigation.
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said that damage done to two underwater data transmission cables running between Germany and Finland was deliberate.
“No one believes that these cables were accidentally cut,” Pistorius said in remarks made on the sidelines of a meeting of EU defence ministers in Brussels.
“We also have to assume, without knowing it yet, that it is sabotage,” he declared, adding that neither Germany nor Finland yet knows who was responsible for damage.
Germany and Finland announced on Monday that they had discovered a severed fibre-optic undersea data cable between the two countries, and that an investigation into the incident is underway.
In a joint statement, they said they did not know who was responsible for the damage, but that the incident came at a time when “our European security is not only under threat from Russia‘s war of aggression against Ukraine, but also from hybrid warfare by malicious actors”.
Pistorius also pointed to so-called “hybrid actors” as being potentially responsible for the damage.
“We have to state, without knowing specifically who it came from, that it is a ‘hybrid’ action” Pistorius said — implying that Russia, often considered responsible for acts of “hybrid warfare”, could be at least in part to blame for the incident.
Both Germany and Finland said that it was important that “critical infrastructure” such as data cables can be safeguarded.
“The fact that such an incident immediately raises suspicions of intentional damage speaks volumes about the volatility of our times,” the two countries said in their joint statement.
Finnish state-controlled data services provider Cinia said the damage to the data cable, which runs almost 1,2000 kilometres from the Finnish capital Helsinki to the German port of Rostock, was detected on Monday.
The incident is not the first to involve damage to underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. On Sunday morning, a 218-kilometre internet link running between Lithuania and Swedish island of Gotland also lost service, according to a Swedish telecommunications company.
In 2022, Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea exploded, leading to several conspiracy theories around who could be responsible for the attack. Unconfirmed rumours have variously said that the US, Ukraine and Russia could have all played a role.
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