Hopefully, when the game was called and Doug Pederson gave his post-game speech, Philadelphia Eagles tight end Alex Ellis got a game ball.
Well, you probably thought the way the game unfolded in the first half of the Philadelphia Eagles‘ third preseason game that you’d never hear this, but for a game that doesn’t count, ‘The Birds’ left with some positives, even if the game was called in the third quarter due to some bad weather. One of those positives came in the form of fourth-year tight end Alex Ellis.
Since entering the league in 2016 as an undrafted free agent, he’s been on the rosters of five NFL teams. Honestly, if he’s going to make someone’s roster in 2019, he’s probably going to have to join a sixth. He won’t make be one of the final 53 men Philly takes into the regular season, but that doesn’t mean he can’t make some memories and some tape for the fans and himself.
For the die-hard Philadelphia Eagles fan, Week 3 of 2019’s preseason will always be one that they remember. It started slow. At times it was boring, but in the third quarter, newly-signed veteran quarterback Josh McCown would heat up, and Alex Ellis would provide three of the games’ best plays (in three straight plays).
He scored Philly’s second touchdown of the night, a nine-yard strike from McCown. He threw a key block on the two-point conversion to allow Josh Adams to walk into the end zone, and then, playing on special teams, he made the tackle on the ensuing kickoff.
Philly, at that point, had all the momentum at that point and had the game continued, the Eagles probably would have come back to completely erase a 26-0 halftime deficit and break the Baltimore Ravens‘ long preseason winning streak. Wait. Do they have those?
Well, anyway, seeing the reserves battle back in the second half was a treat. We’ll never know how this one would have played out. We don’t know what Doug Pederson said to the team afterward, but we do know this. Alex Ellis better have gotten a game ball.