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PHILADELPHIA -- Ryan Mathews helped the Philadelphia Eagles play keep away from Matt Ryan and Atlantas high-powered offense.After disappearing from the game plan the past two weeks, Mathews ran like a guy who was tired of watching from the sideline. He had a season-best 108 yards rushing and two touchdowns while the Eagles piled up 208 yards on the ground.The suddenly successful rushing attack allowed the Eagles to control time of possession by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, forcing the leagues top-scoring offense to be spectators for much of the day.The result was a 24-15 win over the Falcons on Sunday.We did what we needed to do to win, Mathews said. I know the linemen love run blocking. They played great. They did all they could to open up holes for us. We knew it was going to be a hard game. I said throughout the week if any of us got the ball, we were giving 100 percent.Mathews had just nine carries in the past two games while 33-year-old Darren Sproles took over as the featured back. But coach Doug Pederson made a point to establish the run behind Mathews right from the start.Mathews carried seven times for 34 yards on the first drive, taking it in from the 4 for a 7-0 lead. He had a 5-yard TD run in the fourth quarter and also scored the 2-point conversion.I had confidence in Ryan to get the job done, Pederson said. His size and strength paid off.Rookie Wendell Smallwood chipped in with 70 yards rushing on 13 carries. Sproles ran twice for 19 yards and caught eight passes for 57 yards.We stepped up when we needed to, Smallwood said. We needed to establish the run game and we did.The running backs made it easier on Carson Wentz and the offense was more balanced -- 39 pass calls, 37 run calls -- than its been in recent games.The backs did a great job and came up with hard, physical runs, center Jason Kelce said. Ryan had a great day. Even when we didnt block guys, he made guys miss.Wentz finished 25 of 36 for 231 yards. He connected six times with Jordan Matthews for 73 yards and six times with Zach Ertz for 55 yards.The run game was huge, Wentz said. It was good to get Ryan the ball, feed him the rock, and he was running angry. That makes my job easier.The Eagles (5-4) snapped a two-game losing streak and remained unbeaten at home in four games.When Ryan, Julio Jones and Co. were on the field, Philadelphias defense held them down. The Falcons came in averaging 33.9 points per game but didnt find the end zone until Ryan threw a 76-yard touchdown pass to Taylor Gabriel in the fourth quarter to give Atlanta (6-4) a 15-13 lead.Jones had 10 catches for 135 yards , but he couldnt make catches to extend drives twice down the stretch.---http://www.pro32.ap.org and -http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL---Follow Rob Maaddi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP-RobMaaddi Nike Free Clearance Sale .25 million option on reliever Jose Veras. Nike Free Discount . 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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- On a weekend when one of their all-time great quarterbacks will be celebrated and their current quarterback is expected to be a spectator, the Green Bay Packers are likely to play the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game with two undrafted, rookie, free-agent quarterbacks: Joe Callahan and Marquise Williams.Unless, of course, Brett Favre wants to take off his new gold jacket and don his now-retired, green-and-gold No. 4 for one more night.Brett Hundley, the Packers No. 2 quarterback, sat out his second straight practice Thursday night with an ankle injury, putting his status for Sundays game in doubt. And although Packers coach Mike McCarthy has not officially said whether two-time NFL MVP?Aaron Rodgers?will sit out Sundays game against the Indianapolis Colts, Rodgers was given the night off from practice Thursday, a telltale sign that he will not play.Last year, the Minnesota Vikings Teddy Bridgewater and the Pittsburgh Steelers Ben Roethlisberger did not play in the Hall of Fame Game, and Rodgers didnt sound like he was expecting to play when he spoke with reporters earlier in the week.If Im not playing -- and I havent played a ton in the preseason the last couple years -- Im on the headset, Im listening to the plays, Im helping [Hundley] out, and Ill be there for Joe and Marquise as well, Rodgers said. I stay dialed into the game.Ill enjoy some laughs when the defense is out there, but Ill be watching the game, for sure. When the guys from my room are out there playing, Im going to be involved in what theyre doing and talking to them when theyre coming off the side and making sure that theyre seeing the right things and feeling good about the progressions.If Rodgers sits out and Hundley cant go, Callahan would probably start, because he has worked as the No. 3 quarterback since signing with the Packers after the draft. Williams would then relieve him, having not joined the team until three weeks after Callahan in May.I think you have to be ready for the alternative, McCarthy said before practice. The two young quarterback were going to play a lot anyway going into it, and the game plan for offense will reflect that.Thats the way it goes.Calllahan, who is 6-foot-1, 216 pounds, had a record-setting career at Division III Wesley College, a liberal arts school in Dover, Delaware.dddddddddddd As a senior last season, he threw for 5,063 yards and 55 touchdowns en route to the Gagliardi Trophy, awarded to the best player in Division III. The Packers were the lone team to show interest in him before the draft.Im going to prepare for as many plays as they give me and make sure that I prepare as much as possible, Callahan said before Thursdays practice.Williams, a 6-foot-2, 220-pound quarterback, left North Carolina after having set more than 20 school records, including career rushing yards (2,458) and touchdowns (35) by a quarterback.Marquise has really picked up, and Joes done a very good job of improving, McCarthy said.Colts coach Chuck Pagano said Monday that he plans to play quarterback Andrew Luck and the rest of his healthy players, though Pagano hasnt said how long his starters will play. McCarthy said throughout the offseason that Hundley would get extended work during the Packers five preseason games, having been promoted after serving as the Packers No. 3 quarterback as a rookie last season behind Rodgers and Scott Tolzien, who now backs up Luck with the Colts.Hundley, a fifth-round pick from UCLA last year, was magnificent in preseason last summer, completing 45 of 65 passes for 630 yards with an NFL-best seven touchdown passes and a passer rating of 129.7, the second highest in the 2015 preseason.McCarthy said before practice that he and his staff would have their playing-time meeting Friday morning after getting the medical report from head athletic trainer Bryan Engel and team physician Dr. Pat McKenzie. But it looks as if itll be the Callahan and Williams Show on ESPN on Sunday night.First time, on national TV, so this will be pretty cool, Callahan said. Its exciting. I cant wait.Meanwhile, Packers running back Eddie Lacy, who dropped out of practice Wednesday night with an ankle injury, watched practice Thursday night. He appears unlikely to play as well. 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