{"id":202145,"date":"2025-09-05T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202145\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:14:14","slug":"eagles-jalen-carter-ejected-six-seconds-into-opener-vs-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202145\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles’ Jalen Carter ejected six seconds into opener vs. Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jalen Carter\u2019s first game of the Eagles\u2019 new season was over before the first defensive snap.<\/p>\n

With Philadelphia trainers addressing an injury after the opening kickoff, Carter, the star defensive lineman, walked up to Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and proceeded to spit on his chest.<\/p>\n

Carter received an unsportsmanlike penalty and was ejected just six seconds into Philadelphia\u2019s 24-20 win<\/a>, with Eagles chief security officer Dom \u201cBig Dom\u201d DiSandro escorting him off the field as the NBC broadcast reacted in shock at how the first game of the NFL season began.<\/p>\n

When addressing reporters postgame, Carter vowed that it won\u2019t happen again.<\/p>\n

\"JalenJalen Carter appeared to spit on Dallas QB Dak Prescott, earning an ejection just six seconds into the season-opener. NBC<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoa, whoa,\u201d NBC play-by-broadcaster Mike Tirico said, before later adding, \u201cFirst of all, I got no idea what he\u2019s thinking, and second, this is massive in terms of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the best player they have on their defense and about 80 percent of what we were gonna talk about on this broadcast,\u201d NBC analyst Cris Collinsworth said. \u201cBecause to beat the Philadelphia Eagles, you have to double-team Jalen Carter. If you don\u2019t, you don\u2019t get your offense started. Now you take off that one player on the defense that you had to focus your attention on, and it\u2019s almost like Micah Parsons now gone from the Cowboys \u2014 same impact now with Jalen Carter gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Referee Shawn Smith told a pool reporter that an official observed Carter spitting on Prescott, describing it as a \u201cdisqualifiable foul\u201d because it\u2019s a \u201cnon-football act.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard the refs talking,\u201d Carter said when asked if he expected to get ejected after the incident, \u201cand I heard them say this is a toss-able offense, something like that. So that\u2019s when I knew.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the game was about to resume following a lightning delay<\/a>, the broadcast then showed Prescott appearing to spit in the general direction of Carter prior to the Eagles star spitting on Prescott\u2019s chest.<\/p>\n

Prescott also smiled in the direction of Carter after spitting.<\/p>\n

\"PhiladelphiaJalen Carter walks off the field after being ejected during the Eagles-Cowboys game Sept. 4. AP<\/p>\n

After just two NFL seasons, Carter, the No. 9 overall pick in 2023, has already established himself as one of the league\u2019s best defenders \u2014 collecting 4.5 sacks and 42 tackles while making the Pro Bowl last year for the defending Super Bowl champions.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019ll need to wait to start contributing to Vic Fangio\u2019s defense in 2025.<\/p>\n

The chaotic opening sequence started with Eagles fullback Ben VanSumeren sustaining a knee injury while defending the kickoff, and while trainers examined him on the field \u2014 before he was eventually carted off \u2014 Carter approached a cluster of Dallas players and appeared to say something to Prescott.<\/p>\n

While the words that the pair of stars exchanged remains unclear, Carter spit in Prescott\u2019s direction, prompting an official to throw the flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Carter\u2019s first game of the Eagles\u2019 new season was over before the first defensive snap. With Philadelphia…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8998,1232,1105,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-202145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115151402838755699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}