After losing the way the Eagles did last week, you would think they would come out on fire Friday.

You would think the offense would finally dial-up better schemes and not be as predictable.

You would think— maybe, just maybe— they would have some momentum playing at the Linc to change the trajectory of their season. 

But it was the same old story as the Eagles lost 24-15 to the Chicago Bears. 

The Eagles (8-4) have lost two straight games, and now the issues are really showing. 

Sometimes you can be blinded to the many issues when you are winning, but now the struggles are clear.

And there are no excuses.

The season isn’t over, but I’m getting 2023 vibes. We may be witnessing another collapse. It’s just insane with the talent the Eagles have, but each week seems to be worse than the last. 

Can anything be done to save the season?

For starters, the Eagles can fire Kevin Patullo. 

Why is he still calling plays?

Saquon Barkley started the game with two carries, going for 5 yards on each. He only carried the ball 11 more times after. 

Why?

Chicago has a terrible run defense, and the Bears even had injuries at linebacker.

Run the ball more!! 

Patullo got away from the run , and Barkley couldn’t get going again. It’s absurd, and it’s every week.

The passing game looked horrible, and that’s on Hurts. He made some poor throws and missed open receivers. He made bad decisions. Hurts never turns the ball over, but he lost a fumble and threw an interception.

And that fumble was enormous. 

The Bears were leading 10-9, and Jalyx Hunt just made an interception to set up the Eagles at the Bears’ 36-yard-line. Barkley rushed for 15 yards, and it looked like the Eagles had life.

Two plays later, on third-and-1, the Eagles lined up for the tush push, their signature play that, for the most part, works, and Hurts fumbled. 

That was the turning point.

The Eagles most likely would have taken the lead there, either by way of a fuel goal or a touchdown. All hope was lost after Hurts’ fumble. 

The Bears went right down the field and scored to go up 17-9. After the Eagles went three-and-out again, Chicago extended its lead to 24-9.

Hurts’ fumble was so costly. He was bad this game, and the Eagles need him to be elite, and he’s nowhere near that right now. They cannot win with the way he played Friday. 

Right now, it’s fair to be extremely concerned with Hurts. He needs to get back to the level the Eagles need him at. 

The play calling is an issue, but the execution is just as bad. It’s a perfect storm between Patullo and the abysmal performance on the field. 

I don’t see this getting any better. 

The Eagles need a spark, but Nick Sirianni refuses to make a change with Patullo. He defends him. 

“We’re not changing the play caller. But we will evaluate everything,” Sirianni said Friday. “It’s never just about one person. You win as a team, you lose as a team and you try to evaluate everything win, lose or draw and get better from it.

The offense averaged 23.5 points per game through the first four games of the season. 

They now are averaging 19.4 over their last eight games.

The Eagles entered the game ranked 24th in yards (303.6 yards per game), 23rd in passing (193.2), 21st in rushing (110.5) and 18th in points (23.2 points per game).

It’s just dreadful and inexcusable. 

“I have confidence in the entire group. I know it will keep coming back to Kevin. If I thought it was one thing, I’d make those changes. Obviously it’s a lot of different things. I don’t think it’s Kevin,” Sirianni said.

Again, the season is far from over. But if nothing changes, and fast, this year is definitely over.

Well, any hopes for the top seed in the NFC is over. The Los Angeles Rams will be 10-2 when they beat the Carolina Panthers. The Bears are now a game above the Eagles, and they have the tiebreaker.

Two weeks, I bet we all thought the Eagles had the NFC East all wrapped up. Well, they are 8-4 and the Dallas Cowboys are 6-5-1. The Eagles should still win the division, but if they keep losing and playing like this, who knows. The Cowboys most likely won’t catch the Eagles, but looking ahead to the playoffs, they might lose in the Wild Card round.

The defense is trying its best, but they are out on the field so much with this lackluster offense.

The defense is making plays and giving the offense multiple opportunities.

The Bears held the ball for 39½ minutes. 

The defense never got a long breather, and it’s been that way for a month now. 

The offense had chances to score after the defense made stops, like on the first drive of the game they forced a turnover on downs.

Still, with all that being said, the defense was brutal Friday. 

The Bears were more physical and just pushed around the Eagles’ defense.

The defense allowed 281 rusting yards. D’Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai just had their way all day, and they can’t happen. 

The Bears converted 10 of 17 third downs and piled up 28 first downs and 425 total yards. 

That is just not good.

Vic Fangio is an amazing coach, but this wasn’t on coaching. The defense was just outplayed. 

And they were outplayed by a creative offense that had different looks, did some trick plays, mixed things up and kept the defense guessing.

Maybe Patullo needs to take a page out of Ben Johnson’s book. 

Everything just went south Friday, and things do not get any easier with the Los Angeles Chargers on deck. 

We will see what happens. 

The Eagles have over a week to get things figured out. I don’t have faith they will change anything, just because it’s been the same old things each week. There haven’t been any adjustments yet, so why would that change now?

But Sirianni isn’t dumb. He knows something has to happen, so let’s just hope something happens before next Monday.