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Peters 'just reacted' to hit on Foles that touched off scrum

One of Chip Kelly's favorite sayings is that he wants his players to play with emotion, but not let emotion play with them. He'll probably be reminding Jason Peters of that pretty soon.

Philadelphia Eagles' Jason Peters, right, and Washington Redskins'
Chris Baker, left, tussle after a fourth-quarter play as line judge Darryll Lewis tries to break it up during an NFL football game Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, in Philadelphia. Both players were ejected. Philadelphia won 37-34. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, David Maialetti)
Philadelphia Eagles' Jason Peters, right, and Washington Redskins' Chris Baker, left, tussle after a fourth-quarter play as line judge Darryll Lewis tries to break it up during an NFL football game Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, in Philadelphia. Both players were ejected. Philadelphia won 37-34. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, David Maialetti)Read more

One of Chip Kelly's favorite sayings is that he wants his players to play with emotion, but not let emotion play with them. He'll probably be reminding Jason Peters of that pretty soon.

"I'm sure I'll talk to him tomorrow and face the consequences then," Peters said.

The left tackle was ejected in the fourth quarter Sunday when he retaliated against Washington nose tackle Chris Baker for a block that blindsided quarterback Nick Foles as the teams reacted to an apparent interception.

Peters punched Baker, and that set off a large scrum near the Redskins sideline that took the officials several minutes to control and then sort out. Both players were ejected, and in the case of Peters, that left an already tattered offensive line in total disarray. He expects to hear about that.

"He hit Foles, cheap-shotted him, and I wasn't having it," Peters said. "I just reacted. I shouldn't have did what I did, but I was just trying to protect my quarterback. I really wasn't thinking. I saw him hit him, and I just reacted."

The score was tied at 27 at that point, and the Eagles appeared to generate some momentum after the fight. With the interception ruled an incomplete pass on review, Foles got up to continue a drive that finished with a touchdown pass to Maclin, and the Eagles were ahead the rest of the game.

"I wasn't trying to hurt my team, and I was just hoping we would win," Peters said. "But that was a cheap shot, taking on the smallest guy on the field. He tried to hurt him."

For his part, Baker wasn't sure what he did wrong. He said he felt Foles was moving toward where the return was developing - which Foles was - and felt he had a right to block the quarterback.

"I didn't look to see if it was a quarterback or not. All I saw was someone going to pursue the ball, and I got my head in front and I leveled my shoulder, which is a legal football move," Baker said. "Then I get punched on the face on the sideline, and the next thing I know I'm ejected for making a block, I guess."

It was a little more than just that, even if Baker doesn't want to admit it.

"I didn't even really hit him hard. I just hit him with my shoulder, and he happened to fall," Baker said.

Both ejected players will be fined by the league, and it is possible their teams could add something on top of that, but Peters said he probably would not have been able to react differently.

"We teach, and everybody knows you've got to control your emotions, but boys will be boys," offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur said. "We all understand how things happen sometimes."