The Philadelphia Eagles kicked a go-ahead field goal with 8 seconds left in London.
And they lost.
That is how things have been going for the Eagles these days.
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The Jaguars pulled off an improbable 19-17 victory on Cam Little’s 57-yard field goal as time expired at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday.
The Eagles have lost three in a row and are 2-3 for the first time since 2021.
Jalen Hurts had led a late-game drive to set up Jake Elliott’s 48-yard field goal, giving the Eagles a 17-16 lead.
All they had to do was finish off the final 8 seconds, but the ensuing kickoff was kept inbounds and Ameer Abdullah returned it 53 yards, leaving 1 second on the clock.
Enough time for Little to send it through the uprights.
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni did not sugarcoat it.
“I didn’t make the right decision, and it cost us the game,” he said. “There’s no other way around it. There’s nothing really else to say about that. It’s just I didn’t do my job good enough in that situation.”
Sirianni fielded several questions about the fateful kickoff, owning the loss.
“There’s really nothing else to say. I didn’t make the decision — the right decision in that situation,” he said. “They returned it to where they returned it, and then they made a kick. You know, credit to them on that. Again, bad job by me.”
In some ways, Sunday’s game had seemed a tough task for the Eagles. They only arrived in London on Saturday and were undermanned.
They played without injured leading rusher Saquon Barkley and his backup, Tank Bigsby, who was placed on injured reserve this past week. They were missing wide receiver DeVonta Smith and had a patchwork offensive line after the retirement of Lane Johnson and the trade of Cam Jurgens.
The Eagles rushed for only 22 yards but Hurts kept them in contention by spreading the ball around to multiple receivers and converting on 6 of 15 third down attempts — a week after going 0 for 12 on third down.
Hurts completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards and one touchdown. His 62-yard touchdown pass to Darius Cooper gave Philly a 14-7 lead in the second quarter.
However, he missed open receivers.
“We didn’t perform well enough. I didn’t perform well enough, and that obviously starts with me,” Hurts said. “I’ll be thinking about all the different things that ultimately I could have done. I always use them as learning lessons, so I think that’s what’s great. We’ve got to learn from it.”
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