{"id":47511,"date":"2025-11-29T08:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47511\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T08:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:40:19","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-booed-in-loss-to-chicago-bears-whos-to-blame-kevin-patullo-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47511\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles booed in loss to Chicago Bears: Who’s to blame? Kevin Patullo, more"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> were booed time and time again on Friday, and it\u2019s hard to blame those at Lincoln Financial Field for letting their frustrations fly.<\/p>\n

The Eagles lost again in ugly fashion, this time to the Chicago Bears, 24-15, on Friday. <\/p>\n

It was Philadelphia\u2019s second loss in the last five days. The Eagles (8-4) blew a 21-0 lead and collapsed in an embarrassing loss to the Dallas Cowboys. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s who and what was to blame for the Eagles\u2019 latest deflating defeat. <\/p>\n

Kevin Patullo<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how the Eagles continue this season with Patullo as the play-caller. The first-year offensive coordinator has been the subject of fans\u2019 ire all season long, and it\u2019s been justified. But on Friday in particular, Patullo\u2019s lack of play-calling chops was on full display opposite Bears head coach and play-caller Ben Johnson, who had Chicago in rhythm and on schedule.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia, meanwhile, was a mess. After failing to score on eight consecutive drives to close the Cowboys loss, the Eagles went six straight drives without a touchdown to start Friday\u2019s game. They had four three-and-outs, adding to their NFL-leading tally. At halftime, they had two first downs and 83 yards to Chicago\u2019s 16 first downs and 222 yards. <\/p>\n

It was an ugly offensive performance, worthy of every last boo at the Linc. <\/p>\n

Nick Sirianni<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Patullo is Sirianni\u2019s guy. Sirianni is the one who hired him, and he\u2019s the one who has refused to hand off play-calling duties to someone else. Sirianni also has a say in what this Eagles\u2019 offense looks like in the game-planning portion of the week. He deserves just as much blame as Patullo, if not more, for how this offense has performed through 12 games. <\/p>\n

Jalen Hurts<\/p>\n

This was Hurts\u2019 worst performance of the season. The scrutinized quarterback completed 19 of 34 passes for 230 yards \u2014 and that stat line looks far better thanks to garbage time against Chicago\u2019s prevent defense. Hurts missed open receivers. He threw a bad interception, heaving up a prayer only for it to be picked off by former Eagles safety Kevin Byard. And he fumbled on a tush push, allowing Nahshon Wright to come in from the side and punch it free. <\/p>\n

The tush push fumble was particularly brutal. The Eagles had the ball, down 10-9, in Chicago territory after a Jalyx Hunt interception. But instead of capitalizing and taking a lead \u2014 with a field goal or a touchdown \u2014 Hurts gave the ball away. Sloppy and inexcusable.<\/p>\n

Run game <\/p>\n

Another game, another ho-hum rushing day from the Eagles\u2019 offense. Saquon Barkley was limited to 56 yards on 13 carries. Take out the 15-yard run he had, and Barkley managed only 3.4 yards per carry. The Eagles had 87 total rushing yards on 17 carries, which was boosted by a 23-yard designed run by Hurts. Take that out, and the Eagles managed 4.0 yards per carry. Tank Bigsby didn\u2019t get a touch. The line didn\u2019t block well enough. Rinse and repeat. <\/p>\n

Run defense<\/p>\n

Every time the Bears threw the ball they were giving a gift to the Eagles\u2019 defense. Because Chicago was running it down their throats. D\u2019Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai gashed the Birds for 255 combined rushing yards on 40 carries, averaging 6.4 yards per attempt. That\u2019s by far the most rushing yards Philadelphia has given up in the Vic Fangio era. <\/p>\n

The Eagles had a few stops at or behind the line of scrimmage. But for the most part, the front was either being blown off the ball or being trapped out of the play, giving Swift and Monangai plenty of room to operate. And on a windy day when both passing games struggled, that was the difference. The Bears could run the ball, and the Eagles could not. <\/p>\n

Ex-Eagles stars return to haunt their old team in Bears\u2019 24-15 win, and to give them a \u2018wink\u2019<\/a>Nov. 28, 2025, 8:52p.m.Will the Eagles make a major coaching change after Bears loss?<\/a>Nov. 28, 2025, 8:03p.m.Eagles offense sputters again, defense can\u2019t stop rushing attack in ugly loss to Bears | What now?<\/a>Nov. 28, 2025, 6:11p.m.Chicago Bears run all over Eagles in 24-15 win | Updates recap<\/a>Nov. 28, 2025, 2:03p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The Philadelphia Eagles were booed time and time again on Friday, and it\u2019s hard to blame…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4988,4064,6108,7397,7386,69,71,70,7113],"class_list":{"0":"post-47511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-jalen-hurts","11":"tag-kevin-patullo","12":"tag-nick-sirianni","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","15":"tag-philadelphia-news","16":"tag-saquon-barkley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}