SÃO PAULO — The sphere situations have been a serious speaking level after the Philadelphia Eagles’ 34-29 win over the Inexperienced Bay Packers on Friday evening.
Numerous gamers misplaced their footing through the recreation and later attributed it to the slick floor at Enviornment Corinthians, which is generally a soccer stadium. For the Eagles, it stirred some not-so-great current reminiscences.
“It form of jogged my memory of the Tremendous Bowl turf,” stated tight finish Dallas Goedert, referencing the floor in Arizona when the Eagles misplaced to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs in Tremendous Bowl LVII.
“I imply, y’all noticed on the market that it was form of tough to get traction,” Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts stated. “Undoubtedly difficult on that discipline. It is not the kind of discipline we’re used to taking part in on. We have had that sort of discipline earlier than. They needed to play on it as properly. I am simply glad that we discovered a solution to determine it out as a workforce, overcome it.”
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Eagles working again Saquon Barkley was one of many first to lose his footing, leading to a 5-yard loss on his first carry in an Eagles uniform. After the collection, he went to the sideline and instructed his teammates they wanted to change to longer, seven-stud cleats.
The change labored out fairly properly for Barkley, who went on to hurry for over 100 yards and completed with three complete touchdowns.
“It is a type of fields the place the highest simply got here off fairly simple,” offensive deal with Lane Johnson stated. “That is what they make studs for. That is why we pack ’em. They are not comfy, however they’re helpful.”
Having discovered from the previous, some gamers made the transfer earlier than the sport.
“I ran a route full velocity after we did the walkthrough [Thursday], slipped, and I stated, ‘I am not going to make the identical mistake twice, I will seven studs,'” Goedert stated.
The Packers have been feeling the consequences as properly. Coach Matt LaFleur instructed a sideline reporter through the recreation that “it has been an issue for certain.”
“I imply, there have been some instances the place I used to be slipping,” Packers security Xavier McKinney stated. “It was a bit of slippery. Totally different than clearly what I am form of used to. It is simply one other circumstance. Clearly, each discipline goes to be totally different. We acquired to have the ability to, regardless of the circumstance, nonetheless do our jobs and do it at a excessive degree.”
Not everybody was as diplomatic. Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James took to social media and wrote: “Man this discipline sucks!!!”
It wasn’t for lack of effort. Eagles head groundskeeper Tony Leonard labored with NFL discipline director Nick Pappas “for months” upfront of the sport, Philadelphia assistant common supervisor Jon Ferrari stated final week, to get the situations good for an NFL recreation.
“It is a soccer pitch, however it’s been form of retrofitted,” Ferrari stated, “so it is in nice form.”