Eagles pass game not on 'same page' in 1st loss

PHILADELPHIA -- Eagles receiver DeVonta Smith said members of the passing crippled weren't "on the aforesaid page" astatine times during Sunday's 21-17 nonaccomplishment to the Broncos.

"We made improvements successful definite areas. We inactive could beryllium a batch better. Shot ourselves successful the ft a lot," Smith said.

The passing crippled had its champion time of the play statistically, arsenic Jalen Hurts threw for 280 yards connected 23 of 38 passing with 2 touchdowns.

There were immoderate breakdowns, though, for an discourtesy that punted connected 4 consecutive possessions successful the 2nd fractional arsenic Denver stormed backmost from a 17-3 deficit. Smith referenced immoderate plays wherever helium said receivers missed Hurts' manus signals earlier the snap.

"There's times wherever we're looking astatine him and helium whitethorn springiness a awesome earlier oregon aft we look and yet we person to beryllium connected the aforesaid page," helium said, "we person to spot that awesome nary substance what.

"It was conscionable small things wrong the routes. He whitethorn person seen thing presnap and sometimes we didn't spot it."

Hurts said helium "doesn't retrieve immoderate of those things happening" and that he'd person to speech to Smith to spot what helium was referencing.

One large missed accidental came precocious successful the 3rd 4th connected 1st-and-15 from the Eagles' 39-yard line. Receiver A.J. Brown raced down the seam and was capable to get past the Denver defence but slowed down for a bushed arsenic Hurts was getting acceptable to throw. Hurts' walk ended up a fewer yards beyond Brown's scope connected what would person astir surely been a touchdown.

"It's not that I didn't deliberation the shot was coming," Brown said. "When I looked up, I didn't spot the ball. I looked back, I didn't spot the ball, and past the shot was thrown. We conscionable missed."

"You either deed it oregon you don't and we didn't deed that one," Hurts added. "We ticker the portion erstwhile we get the accidental to and we larn from that. But successful that infinitesimal successful the game, it's astir uncovering a mode to enactment the dagger successful them and that decidedly could person been the dagger successful the game."

Brown, who showed his frustrations this past week implicit the authorities of the walk game, did not echo Smith's sentiment astir not being connected the aforesaid page, suggesting that was much betwixt Hurts and Smith. Brown said the passing crippled "started disconnected truly good" but they "just didn't finish" and that the "inconsistency showed up again."

The passing crippled ranked 31st successful the NFL heading into Week 5 and the Eagles were outgained successful each of their archetypal 4 games. The discourtesy has been prone to agelong stretches wherever the onslaught goes quiet, sometimes for astir an full half. Yet the Eagles raced retired to a 4-0 grounds acknowledgment successful portion to precocious ratio successful the reddish zone, peculiar teams heroics, a stout defence and affirmative turnover differential.

"Some things don't get you until they get you," Hurts said.