SEATTLE − The sickness that Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts was feeling in the two days before the Eagles played the Seahawks was no match for the sickness the entire team felt after it.

That's because after two days of speculation on Hurts' playing status, or on the surprising decision to take play-calling duties away from defensive coordinator Sean Desai, the Eagles were left with the same nauseating feeling for a third straight week.

Only this one was more painful as Seahawks backup quarterback Drew Lock led a 92-yard, game-winning touchdown drive over the final two minutes, capping it with a 29-yard touchdown pass to Jaxon Smith-Njigba with 28 seconds left, sending the Eagles to a 20-17 loss Monday night.

That was the only time the Eagles (10-4) trailed in the game. More importantly, they missed a chance to take a one-game lead over the Cowboys for first place in the NFC East, and to move back into a tie with San Francisco for the top spot in the NFC.

"This one hurts, it hurts bad," Hurts said. "It hurts bad just knowing the opportunities that we left out there."

About his illness, Hurts said "It's really irrelevant at this point. We (didn’t) play good enough. I didn't play good enough."

Hurts was just as responsible for those missed opportunities as anyone. He threw both of his interceptions in the fourth quarter, the first coming with 8:08 left, with the Eagles leading 17-13 and a the Seattle 45, methodically working the ball down the field, hoping to put the game out of reach.

That's when Hurts tried throwing into the end zone for Quez Watkins. But safety Julian Love cut in front of Watkins and picked off the underthrown pass. Even though the Seahawks punted the ball back to the Eagles, it was clearly a missed chance to put the game away.

Eagles coach Nick Sirianni suggested after the game that Watkins should have tried to break up the play.

"We can't allow an interception like that also," Sirianni said. "I'm not saying, you know, Quez got to do everything he can to break that thing up, but we'll take opportunities one-on-one with safeties. Sometimes, too, when you're running full speed − to defend Quez − when you're running full speed this way, and you're trying to come back to the football, it's hard to always plant your outside foot in the ground and run through contact and try to gain a pass interference there."

The Seahawks got one last chance from 8 yard line with 1:52 left.

The Eagles, with senior defensive assistant Matt Patricia calling the defensive plays (Desai still holds the title of defensive coordinator), couldn't stop the Seahawks when it mattered most. Just like they couldn't the previous two games with Desai calling the plays.

Sirianni, speaking for the first time since the change was made, said that it was his decision.

"I made the decision," he said. "I did what I thought I needed to do in the best interest of the football team. We made some adjustments there. Didn't feel like we were playing and coaching well enough on defense, so I made an adjustment."

And still, the result didn't change.

On that final drive, the Seahawks faced a 3rd-and 10 from their own 37. Lock threw deep down the sideline to DK Metcalf for 34 yards to get the ball to the Eagles' 29. Then the Seahawks faced another 3rd-and-10 when Smith-Njigba beat James Bradberry on the touchdown pass.

Bradberry said he was playing at the first-down marker on Smith-Njigba, not wanting to give up a first down.

Bradberry was asked what could he have done differently?

"Nothing really," he said. "(Smith-Njigba) just ran past me because I was sitting at the sticks."

It seemed so promising early on.

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Hurts showed everyone on the very first play of the game that his illness wasn't going to bother him. He took off and picked up 13 yards.

Hurts kept moving the ball down the field, leading the Eagles on a 15-play drive that used up 8 minutes, 29 seconds. He capped the drive with a 3-yard TD run. Hurts went 5-for-5 for 39 yards passing on the drive.

The Eagles had another long drive through most of the second quarter, this time taking up 8:26. But they had to settle for a field goal after getting a 3rd-and-1 from the Seahawks' 3. The Eagles were lined up for a "tush push" when center Jason Kelce was called for a false start.

Hurts then threw incomplete on third down and the Eagles settled for Jake Elliott's 26-yard field goal.

Still, the 10-0 lead was the Eagles' largest since they led the Cowboys by 11 points on Nov. 5. They even took a 10-3 halftime lead. It was their first lead at intermission since Oct. 22 against Miami, a span of eight games.

But Patricia's magic on defense didn't last.

The Seahawks took the opening kickoff of the second half and marched down the field just like opposing offenses had done for the previous several games.

This time, Kenneth Walker's 23-yard touchdown run, helped by some shoddy tackling, enabled the Seahawks to tie the game at 10-10 with 10:05 left in the third quarter.

Hurts and the Eagles answered with another sustained drive with Hurts' 1-yard TD giving them a 17-10 lead with 4:43 left in the third quarter.

And then the Eagles fell apart.

"I think we’re running out of chances," defensive tackle Fletcher Cox said. "I think we got a couple of games left. Obviously, we’re in the playoffs, but we’re looking at the bigger picture. I think now we gotta focus on being a better team on the road.

"We didn’t play good the last two weeks. We didn’t close the game out. As the leader of this team, as the leader of this defense, I just gotta keep pushing everybody, keep everybody positive, and not single anybody out."

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