Sunday’s highly-anticipated matchup between the Buffalo Bills and the Philadelphia Eagles had no shortage of action. In the end, the mighty Eagles logged their fifth straight win to improve to 10-1 in the season. The Bills did all they could to try and take down Philadelphia but ultimately, their effort fell short, 37-34.
One particular sequence during Sunday’s battle that is now getting a lot of attention on social media centers around Bills safety Micah Hyde.
This high-octane contest needed an extra period to decide a winner. It was Eagles superstar quarterback Jalen Hurts who won the game with a 12-yard touchdown in overtime. However, a video has now surfaced showing how the Philly QB could have gotten hurt badly during the crucial play:
Looks like #Bills’ safety Micah Hyde (#23) goes for a slide tackle here.
Hopefully this gets more attention, because it is an extremely dirty play.#Eagles #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/Err1uNf3da
— James Nagle (@NagleNFL) November 27, 2023
The fans on social media just had to call Hyde out for what they believe was a blatant attempt to hurt the Eagles star QB:
This play is just as dirty…
A missed call from Week 9 doesn’t make the play above any less dirty.
— James Nagle (@NagleNFL) November 27, 2023
Tried to kill the MVP
— . (@c00zp) November 27, 2023
@micah_hyde thug
— سيد (@NolansBurner) November 27, 2023
I am just happy he missed Jalen
— Toni House (@tonilhouse) November 27, 2023
Not everyone saw it that way, though. A lot of other fans believe that Hyde was merely trying to avoid a collision with his own teammate, which left him with no other choice but to slide out:
Or he slid out to prevent himself from colliding with a teammate who was coming from another angle. Do better.
— Mr Papadabalos (@JMPendo) November 27, 2023
Do us all a favor and watch this a few 100 times more, he was about to smoke his teammate…came nowhere near Mr. Overrated. Yall good
— Gusser MC (@Mecampbell318) November 27, 2023
Nah. He’s trying not to crushed by his teammate bearing down on the ball and getting out of the way
— The Pizza Charlatan (@ryanschock24) November 27, 2023
I saw that too. But from the other angle it looked like he was getting down in order to avoid the contact from his teammate. I could be wrong. But the other angle makes it look a little different.
— GhostOfJoelBuchsbaum (@of_buchsbaum) November 27, 2023
Whatever the case might be, the most important part here is that no one got hurt. The league has earned a reputation for reviewing and acting retroactively on these types of plays, so it will be very interesting to see if they do anything about this partciular sequence.
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