There was only one moment Sunday afternoon in a locker room filled with happy and relieved football players during which the gold-capped smile disappeared from the face of Eagles defensive tackle Tim Jernigan.
There were more than enough reasons for the smiles. After seven months of recovery from surgery to repair a career-threatening back injury, Jernigan had been on the field with his teammates once again. He played 20 snaps next to his buddy Fletcher Cox and felt just as good after the game as he had before it.
"Every play is a fight out there," Jernigan said.