During a break in play after Thursday’s opening kickoff, as Philadelphia’s medical personnel tended to an injured player, cameras caught Carter approaching the Cowboys’ huddle. Face mask-to-face mask with Dak Prescott, Carter appeared to spit on the Dallas quarterback.<\/p>\n
Officials quickly called an unsportsmanlike penalty on Carter, ejecting him before he ever played a snap. An Eagles staffer escorted him to the locker room.<\/p>\n
Left unanswered during the first half was what prompted Carter’s decision. Later in the game, however, footage emerged showing that Prescott had spit first in Carter’s direction, aimed toward the turf. <\/p>\n
Prescott said he simply spit straight ahead as he usually would, only for the saliva to land in the area near Carter, which raised the ire of the defenseman.<\/p>\n
Prescott said Carter asked, \u201cYou trying to spit on me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was insulting me,\u201d Prescott said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t spit on somebody. I\u2019m definitely not trying to spit on you. We\u2019re about to play a game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter apologized after the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a mistake that happened on my side. It won\u2019t happen again,\u201d Carter said. \u201cI feel bad for just my teammates and fans out there. I\u2019m doing it for them. I\u2019m doing it for my family, also. But the fans, they showed the most love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Losing Carter left a 300-pound hole in the defensive line. Though Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts earned a Wheaties box <\/a>appearance for his play last season, and Saquon Barkley produced a season like few other running backs in history, Carter was the underrated star of the championship season because of the wrecking-ball pressure he could apply all by himself. He was at his best during the postseason, including during the Super Bowl, <\/a>when the Eagles harassed Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes despite never calling a blitz. <\/p>\n Carter’s ejection was compounded by other losses to the line in the offseason. Defensive tackle Milton Williams left for New England, while pass rusher Josh Sweat departed for Arizona. <\/p>\n Those departures placed an even bigger spotlight on Carter to produce this season. Now, how he’ll fare won’t be known until Week 2. <\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just one play into Thursday’s opening game of the 2025 NFL season between the Philadelphia Eagles and the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-202373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115151867466168294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202373","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=202373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/250903-andrew-greif.jpg\")
<\/a>Andrew Greif<\/a><\/p>\n