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Eagles coach Doug Pederson 'had so much confidence' on Jake Elliott 61-yard field goal

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Here are some highlights from Eagles head coach Doug Pederson, kicker Jake Elliott and quarterback Carson Wentz’s postgame press conferences.

Doug Pederson

On Jake Elliott’s game-winning field goal:

Quite honestly, I had so much confidence standing there, calmness. I had just watched him kick a couple kickoffs extremely deep into the end zone. It was pretty awesome. Sounded like a cannon off his foot. Great snap, great hold, the protection was there. Yeah, awesome. Awesome, awesome, awesome.

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With time and only one timeout, we were trying to get as close as we could, but we felt that if we were outside of that, about where we were, we were going to at least attempt it.