Quarterback Jalen Hurts threw a 55-yard pass to wide receiver DeVonta Smith, then tossed a 5-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dallas Goedert on the next snap. With 3:06 left in the first half, the Philadelphia Eagles were off the canvas and back in the fight against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an NFC first-round playoff game on Monday night.

When Tampa Bay was offside on the extra point, Philadelphia coach Nick Sirianni took the point off the board to go for 2 from the 1-yard line.

Why wouldn’t he? The Eagles had the seemingly unstoppable Brotherly Shove, their mass-attack quarterback sneak that sends Hurts with a pair of pushers up the middle.

Except the Buccaneers stopped the play to keep a seven-point lead.

That’s how bad the end of the 2023 season was for Philadelphia: Even the Brotherly Shove didn’t work, and the Eagles went on to a 32-9 loss.

Philadelphia won the NFC championship last season and, after a 38-35 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII, started the 2023 campaign by winning 10 of its first 11 games.

But after December arrived, the Eagles won only once in seven games.

“I’m very appreciative of this group,” Hurts said after Monday night’s loss. “I’m very appreciative of everything we’ve been through and fought through. Obviously, we took a turn there and things didn’t end the way we wanted. But it’s simply not our turn. It’s not turn. We got a taste of it last year winning the conference championship and having an opportunity to play in our Super Bowl, and it wasn’t our turn then. …

“It’s not our turn. We’ve had the opportunities. We’ve had the crumbs. We’ve had everything to our disposal, but it wasn’t our turn. I can accept that. And I think we can accept that knowing that the sun will rise tomorrow, and there’ll be another opportunity to attack it.”

The former Alabama QB said he thought the Eagles’ swoon gave the team “a ton to learn from.”

“I told those guys in there, as crazy as it is, you have to be able to use it for your advantage and find a positive out of this negative,” Hurts said. “Turn that negative into a positive somehow. …

“In this league you have to find ways to win in a ton of different ways. And I felt like for a time there, we were doing that at a high level. We were winning a lot of games, but we weren’t playing to the level we thought we should be playing to. And then kind of got in a hole in the back end and really couldn’t pick ourselves out of it, so I think a time of self-reflection in the offseason, for sure, diving deep into that with the guys, just reassessing everything and growing from it.

“Like I said, my No. 1 message is just to use every moment as an opportunity to learn and grow. It may not show now, but it’ll show.”

Hurts played after dislocating the middle finger of his throwing hand in Philadelphia’s previous game.

“That’s no excuse not to do what we wanted to do out there on the field and the consistency we wanted,” Hurts said. “So was it an issue? Yeah, I said that long ago. But, obviously, it’s about the results. We didn’t get the results we want.”

The Eagles’ offense did have consistency on Monday night – just not the kind it wanted. Philadelphia went 0-for-9 on third down and 0-for-2 on fourth down.

The one third down the Philadelphia offensive converted was wiped out by an offensive pass interference penalty, and a defensive pass interference penalty was the only time the Eagles had a third down become a first down during the game.

Hurts completed 25-of-35 passes for 250 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions against Tampa Bay. But on third- and fourth-down throws, with the Buccaneers blitzing at every opportunity, Hurts went 4-of-9 for 30 yards. In addition to the two pass-interference penalties, those snaps also included a sack and a safety, when Hurts was called for intentional grounding while in the end zone.

The Buccaneers capitalized on that after the free kick with a 56-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Baker Mayfield to wide receiver Trey Palmer to grab a 25-9 lead with 1:19 left in the third quarter.

“We couldn’t get out of the rut we were in,” Philadelphia coach Nick Sirianni said. “And that’s all of us. We’ll all have to look ourselves in the mirror and accept that and just find answers, find solutions. But obviously when you start 10-1 and then you get into what happened for us – the expectations were high. Expectations were even higher when we started off 10-1. And we fell into a skid, so I’ll look at everything.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.