LANDOVER, Md. — The Eagles are who we thought they were.

A 27-10 loss to the Washington Commanders added insult to injury for a season simultaneously feels like it’s already over and like it will never end.

Here are five quick takeaways from the ugly showing at Northwest Stadium:

The new rock bottom

There was a sequence of events midway through the fourth quarter that felt like the lowest point of what has already been a season of lows.

Facing fourth-and-4 from the Commanders’ 13-yard line and trailing by six, Nick Sirianni left the offense on the field only for Markel Bell to be called for a false start as the play-clock expired. Sending out the field goal unit resulted in an illegal formation penalty on Jordan Mailata, not lined up on the line of scrimmage, that negated a made field goal from Jake Elliott.

And the icing on the cake: Elliott doinked the re-try off the left upright, keeping the Eagles down six in the latter stages of a game riddled with mental mistakes and sloppy play.

The Eagles weren’t detailed in this game. Many fans would argue they weren’t tough or together, either.

What isn’t up for debate is that this new nadir the Eagles find themselves in is an unfamiliar one by just about any measure. No more comparisons to 2021 when they also found themselves 2-5 and very, very little hope that there’s any turnaround on the horizon for this season.

The trade deadline in nine days looms large. A turbulent October has given way to surrendered November.

Two-minute drilled

A little more on the game-management side of this game before we dive into specific players and plays: For a second week in a row, the Eagles failed to capitalize on the two-for-one opportunity at the end of the first half thanks to a series of head-scractching decisions.

The offense got the ball with just under two minutes remaining in the second quarter and two timeouts and faced third-and-2 after two quick completions by Tanner McKee. From there, things unraveled quite quickly, starting with an incomplete pass to Makai Lemon on — you guessed it — a fade route.

The Eagles punted with one minute left on the clock courtesy of the incomplete pass, and the Commanders responded with a 27-yard punt return and a five-play, 29-yard drive to get a field goal.

And to add insult to literal injury, the coaching staff trotted Saquon Barkley out for the final give-up rushing attempt of the half despite the star running back missing long stretches of the game to get stretched out by trainers combatting the hamstring and back injury he entered the evening with.

Brutal.

Mixed McKee

This was an uneven game for Tanner McKee.

The backup quarterback had stretches where he seemed more settled operating Sean Mannion’s system and there were even some glimpses of an identity forming with him under center on the Eagles’ opening series. He found Saquon Barkley for a chunk gain thanks to a well-designed pass play to Barkley on a wheel route out of a “spinner-series” play-action fake out of the backfield. He also managed a well-layered throw to Makai Lemon on a deep crossing route.

That was the good. The bad came mostly from McKee navigating muddy pockets. He can be absolved for a handful of errant throws with things collapsing around him and a steadier-than-ideal number of unblocked rushers making things complicated. But with the Eagles on the edge of field-goal range late in the third quarter, McKee not only took a sack in a clear “can’t take a sack here” scenario, he lost the ball as well.

Overall, McKee finished 18-for-28 with 139 yards, one interception and one lost fumble. One week after seemingly making some progress, this was about as ugly as it’s been for McKee in another peformance mostly defined by mistakes.

Pressure’s on

Any evaluation of McKee should also be coupled with a look at the Eagles offensive line and those aforementioned unblocked rushers.

McKee was sacked four times and faced plenty of hectic pockets as a result of a shaky protection plan against the Commanders’ blitz-happy defensive coordinator Daronte Jones. Even with Landon Dickerson and Drew Kendall both in the lineup and able to sort out protection calls, the group looked unprepared too often against Washington’s creative pressure looks.

The woes affected the run game as well, especially with the Eagles keeping Barkley on a pitch count that seemingly resulted in the defense keying in on him when he was on the field. Barkley ran for 30 yards on 13 carries. The Eagles managed just 86 rushing yards overall with Elijah Mitchell in relief duty for the long stretches Barkley spent getting worked on by trainers between carries.

No response

One week removed from an embarrassing showing against the Dallas Cowboys, the Eagles’ defensive front wasn’t much better against Washington.

The Commanders run game wasn’t as dominant as Dallas’, but the lack of consistent pass rush reared its ugly head once again as Jayden Daniels reeled off a handful of downfield passes and important scrambles to do just enough to bury the Eagles.

The secondary may have been the bigger culprit for the defensive struggles. Kenny Moore took a bad angle on Stefon Diggs’ eight-yard touchdown catch, and even Quinyon Mitchell surrendered a 53-yard completion after biting on a double move from Washington receiver Treylon Burks.