With 1:46 left in Sunday’s loss to the Jets, the Eagles trailed New York 20-14 after Breece Hall’s eight-yard touchdown run.
Philadelphia had one final drive to try to take the lead from their own 25-yard line. Jalen Hurts’ pass to A.J. Brown was thrown high and incomplete on first down. On the second down, Hurts’ pass to DeVonta Smith fell incomplete, and on third down, Hurts completed a two-yard pass to Smith. Finally, on fourth and eight, Hurts long pass to Smith fell incomplete, and the game was over.
The Eagles would suffer their first loss of the season.
On Monday, Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni discussed what went wrong on that final drive.
“Again, it’s always going to be — they’re sinking out underneath stuff, forcing you to check it down, forcing you to go the long way down the field,” Sirianni said.
“The one we had, the first one to [WR] A.J. [Brown], I’m actually probably more glad that that wasn’t complete, so it takes a hit off A.J., stops the clock. The second one got a little bit of pressure off that right edge on that particular play. The third one we completed underneath to [WR] DeVonta [Smith] similar to the A.J. one.
“Then the fourth one on fourth down, you know, hey, they’re sinking out underneath everything and had everything kind of in front of them where we had to go past the sticks in that one. We didn’t want to check it down in that situation, being fourth and 7 or 8.
“So again, it was a little bit of a situation of the game. Like always, we’re going to say we want maybe a call back here and there, and there is an execution thing you want back here and there.
“You win as a team and lose as a team. We’re all in it together. There wasn’t one thing I could say. I just tried to explain to you every single play, but there wasn’t anything I can say this was the case. Again, when it’s not going right, it’s going to be hard to say it’s all on one thing. In that case, it wasn’t. It was on a bunch of different things.”
The Eagles’ offense struggled on Sunday, especially in the second half when they went scoreless.
