It was a cold and rainy night. In the City of Brother Love, Grady Mosher was itching to get into the game. The Philadelphia Eagles were playing in a playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys at home. Grady already had accumulated three tackles for losses with 10 solo tackles with three minutes to go in the third quarter, and the score was 10-7 and Dallas was in the lead. Their QB Jalen Hurts is driving the field and throws up a lob to Colton Woods for the 15-yard touchdown. The score for the game was now 14-10 at the end of the third quarter after the kick through the uprights. After that, Grady knew he had to play big if he wanted to lead his team to victory.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Cowboys drove all the way down the field and scored a touchdown, lifting them into the lead. The whole team had their heads down. Grady saw this and started yelling to his teammates, “It’s one score. We are here for a reason. Now let’s finish what we started!” The sideline erupted with cheers, and suddenly the offense sprinted to the field and looked more motivated than ever driving the field and scoring on the run with Deion Canady.
The score was now 17-21, and Dallas’s offense came out red hot, driving the ball all the way to the three-yard line. Grady lined up on the edge of the line awaiting the snap. As the quarterback hiked for the ball, Grady flew off the line, stripping the quarterback of the ball and carrying it all the way to the Eagles own 27-yard line. The crowd erupted, shaking what felt like the whole ground.
With one minute left in the game, the Eagles snapped the ball a few times, with all runs burning Dallas’s timeouts. Grady looked in awe as Jalen Hurts took the final snap, ultimately winning the game 21-17.
This victory that Grady helped make happen led the Eagles to now the Super Bowl to play the Buffalo Bills; he got offensive player of the week for his outstanding efforts with stats of 15 solo tackles, four tackles for loss, and a strip sack in which he took for 24 yards. There is only one tough struggle that Grady and Philadelphia have to face: the Buffalo Bills have a star running back that has rushed for over 1,000 yards on the season and 25 touchdowns. His name is Brenden Lindstrom, and he is coming off his best game yet with over 100 yards and two touchdowns. Will Grady and the Eagles rise to the task or will they crumble under Buffalo’s bone-crushing run game? Only time will tell.
