CHICAGO — The Eagles put in an embarrassing performance against the Chicago Bears on primetime for their first loss of the season.

Here are five instant takeaways from the the 27-7 loss at Soldier Field:

Black Monday

There was plenty of talk about the drubbing the Bears gave the Eagles defense on Black Friday in the lead-up to this game and the potential for this rematch to serve as a meaningful measuring stick for this year’s group.

It turned out to be a harsh rubric.

Chicago head coach Ben Johnson didn’t author the same ground-dominant game plan he brought to Lincoln Financial Field, but the Bears imposed their will nonetheless. Even with third-stringer Case Keenum at quarterback, a 38-year-old starting his first game since the 2023 season.

They were balanced, they were creative, and for most of the second half, they were ruthless. Keenum finished 24-for-34 for 247, two passing touchdowns and another on the ground. He found Kalif Raymond on a deep crossing route that the Eagles left completely uncovered to take a decisive lead at the end of the third quarter, a play that proved emblematic for the type of night it was for Vic Fangio’s group going up against a scheme that often left them searching for answers after chunk gains and stifled against the run game.

The performance ranks 35th out of the 42 games the Eagles have played with Fangio as defensive coordinator in EPA per drive. It’s tied for 38th in success rate, ironically worse than the Eagles’ loss to Johnson’s Bears on Black Friday last year.

It may have felt worse, too.

Second half woes

Jalen Hurts using every tenth of a second in the first half to surge into the end zone turned out to be the death rattle for the Eagles offense in Chicago.

The glimmer of hope gave way to a second-half of utter stagnation. The Eagles managed just one first down in four drives in the third quarter and had just three in the second half overall. Nick Sirianni made a head-scratching decision to take a delay of game penalty at fourth-and-1 from the Eagles’ 49 with the intention to send the punt unit out. Three minutes later, he left the offense on the field for Hurts to toss a costly interception to former Eagles linebacker T.J. Edwards with the offense facing fourth-and-5.

Barkley’s bright spot

Saquon Barkley was the lone bright spot, but even that flickered in the throes of the third quarter. He had 82 rushing yards on 15 carries, but the Eagles early-down woes from the first two games of the season persisted.

Hurts finished 16-for-25 for 153 yards and a pick. Andy Dalton also tossed an interception (more on that in a moment) and Tank Bigsby lost a fumble in the first half, pushing the Eagles to minus-7 in the turnover differential on the season.

Hurts takes a shot

The first half ended with Hurts hastily getting the Eagles offense back to the line after a completion to DeVonta Smith got them to the one-yard line and making a call he’d been empowered to make.

Clock it with one second remaining for the field-goal unit, or call his own number.

Most would guess what happened next. Hurts surged into the end zone just before time expired and just before Eagles coach Nick Sirianni explained that the offense practices those scenarios and that it is indeed Hurts who decides which play to call in the heat of the moment.

It was a fitting amount of agency from Hurts, who was ordered to exit the game earlier in the quarter after taking a late, hard hit along the sideline from Bears linebacker D’Marco Jackson. Hurts went into the medical tent with the concussion spotter and was peering out of the tent as Andy Dalton tossed a red-zone interception moments before he was cleared to come back into the game. Hurts was visibly frustrated by the time it took for the spotter to clear him, somewhat understandable considering the league official left the tent to rewatch the clip of him getting hit a few minutes before Hurts seemed to actually get clearance to return.

Hurts was precise and decisive on the final drive of the first half, but it proved to be the final moment of excellence from him and the rest of the Eagles offense.

A word on the Makai Lemon swing pass …

Humor me for a moment, if you can.

I am not an Eagles fan. I cover the team objectively and impartially. I grew up a fan of the team, but since taking a job covering the Eagles I have checked that fandom at the door and do my best to give balanced and fair coverage without the subjectivity that is natural when you have a rooting interest. I don’t cheer when they score. I don’t swear when they lose. I haven’t bought a jersey in over a decade and won’t wear any Eagles gear even in my personal life.

And that is why I think it holds even more weight when I say that the swing passes to Makai Lemon are driving me crazy.

The Eagles have force-fed the ball to Lemon on these passes in each of the first three games of his career and they’ve consistently gone for negative yards. On Monday night, the three-yard loss to Lemon resulted in a series of events that buried the team. The Eagles failed to convert on the third-and-12 that followed and the Bears scored on their ensuing drive to take a 20-7 lead midway through the third quarter.

The issue with the swing passes to Lemon are aplenty. The Eagles don’t have the perimeter blockers at receiver or tight end to give the first-round rookie space to operate, and Lemon isn’t the type of gadget player that can create that space for himself. The worst part is probably the situations in which the Eagles call them, though. New Eagles offensive coordinator Sean Mannion has typically called them in an effort to get into manageable third downs, but each of these calls have set them up in third-and-long instead.

Enough.