The Eagles left London with the kind of loss that sticks to a team. They needed a clean win in Week 5 to steady a week full of noise, but instead they walked out at 2-3 after blowing a late chance to beat the Jaguars.
Philadelphia actually put itself in position to win. After kicking what should have been the decisive field goal with seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Eagles still found a way to lose in a matter of seconds. That makes this one feel less like a simple bad break and more like a full-team unraveling.
The offense never really got going, and the line had plenty to do with that. The Eagles managed only 232 total yards, which extends their three-game stretch of offensive trouble. They still haven’t topped 300 total yards since Week 2 against the Titans.
The ground game never found any rhythm, either. With Saquon Barkley and Tank Bigsby absent, Philadelphia totaled just 22 rushing yards. Dameon Pierce led the way on the ground with 11 carries for 14 yards, and Jalen Hurts wasn’t used as a runner in any meaningful way, finishing with two carries for two yards.
Hurts’ passing line looked shaky too. He went 21-of-40 for 220 yards and a touchdown, and the numbers look even rougher when you strip away his biggest throw of the day. Remove the 62-yard completion to Darius Cooper, and Hurts was left with 156 passing yards.
There’s blame to spread around on that side of the ball, but the line made everything harder. The pressure, the miscues, the lack of balance - it all added up to an offense that kept giving away chances.
And that’s the other brutal part of this loss: the Eagles had plenty of openings to seize control. They led for most of the game after putting up 14 points in the second quarter, and a stop at the end of the first half gave them a one-score cushion going into the break. From that point on, they were sitting on an opportunity to put the game away, and they never grabbed it.
Jacksonville helped. The Jaguars were flagged 13 times for 100 yards, including multiple penalties on the same drive when the Eagles did get a stop.
But Philadelphia didn’t exactly clean things up on its end, either. The Eagles had seven penalties for 43 yards, and those mistakes fed into the sloppy offensive performance.
Even with all that, the game was still there to be won. Jacksonville had DaVon Hamilton working at long snapper after the starter was injured, and the Jaguars even missed an extra point because of it. That’s the kind of opening a contender is supposed to punish.
Instead, the Eagles left the door open until the final seconds.
And that’s why this loss lands so hard on Nick Sirianni and the coaching staff. Philadelphia had just hit a clutch 48-yard field goal to go ahead, then kicked off with less than 10 seconds left.
The decision to kick it short of the end zone backfired in the worst way. Ameer Abdullah brought the return into field goal range, and Cam Little finished the job for Jacksonville.
Sirianni said after the game that it was a huge mistake. He’s right about that.
But this one goes beyond a postgame admission. The Eagles had a win in their hands and handed the Jaguars one last shot, and that shot ended the game.
Now the question is whether this becomes more than just another bad loss. For an Eagles team that looked like it was already wobbling, London may end up feeling like the moment things really started to come apart.
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