The Green Bay Packers dropped to 5-3-1 with a 10-7 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night. Combined with last week’s disappointing 16-13 loss to the Carolina Panthers, Matt LaFleur’s team has now lost back-to-back home games for the first time in his seven-year coaching tenure.
The Packers played excellent defensively, but the offense didn’t score until the fourth quarter, and it’s hard to win games in the NFL scoring only seven total points. Over the last two games, the Packers have only 20 points. And through 10 weeks, the Packers have only five wins, and the difficult part of the schedule is still ahead.
Here’s the good, the bad and the ugly coming out of Monday night’s 10-7 loss to the Eagles:
The Good
The defense, again: Incredibly, the Packers gave up 26 combined points to the Panthers and Eagles and lost both home games. On Monday night, Jeff Hafley’s group kept the Eagles to just 10 points, 13 first downs and 294 yards across 60 plays. Although the Eagles scored a fourth quarter touchdown after converting a 3rd-and-7 to go up 10-0, the Packers got stops on third down to force a late punt and then on fourth down to give the offense one last chance. Giving up only 16 points and 10 points at home in consecutive weeks should mean victories. The Eagles averaged just 4.9 yards per play and got only 60 rushing yards on 22 carries from Saquon Barkley, but the Packers squandered another terrific defensive performance. This was Green Bay’s third loss of 2025 when allowing 16 or fewer points (at CLE, vs. CAR, vs. PHI).
The Bad
Jordan Love and the passing game: The Packers quarterback averaged only 4.9 yards per attempt and 8.8 yards per completion, completed only two passes over 20 yards on 36 total attempts and took three sacks, including a strip-sack resulting in a turnover in Eagles territory. The Packers passing game also had at least three drops, including a crucial drop from Bo Melton on fourth down. The offensive line didn’t protect well, Love didn’t see the field well and Packers pass-catchers failed in a few key spots.
Elgton Jenkins injury: The veteran center went down with an ankle/lower leg injury in the second quarter and will likely miss significant time moving forward. The Packers replaced him with Sean Rhyan, a backup at guard who is in a contract year and will now get a chance to audition for the center job going into next season. Injuries have been a constant for the Packers’ inconsistent and disappointing offensive line in 2025.
The Ugly
The 4th-and-1: The fans inside Lambeau Field knew it was coming. Spectators watching on television around the world knew it was coming. And even the Eagles front knew it was coming. On the broadcast mic, Eagles defensive lineman Moro Ojomo was heard yelling pre-snap, “Inside zone this way, inside zone this way!” and sure enough, the Packers ran inside zone and Josh Jacobs was stuffed for a loss. The doomed play was essentially the dagger. With a conversion, the Packers would have had the ball near midfield with a chance to tie or even take the lead in regulation. Instead, the Eagles guessed the play, blew it up and took over the ball on the game’s biggest play.
The 64-yard FG attempt: Brandon McManus came up short on his first try from 64 yards, which was negated by a timeout, and then missed short and way wide left on his live kick with two seconds to go and the Packers down three. McManus, who is coming off a right quad injury, didn’t have the leg for the kick. A Hail Mary was a low percentage play, but so was the kick attempt. Would Lucas Havrisik have had enough leg to come close from 64? We’ll never know.
This article originally appeared on Packers Wire: Good, bad and ugly from Packers’ 10-7 loss to Eagles in Week 10
Reporting by Zach Kruse, Packers Wire / Packers Wire
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