Two weeks ago, the Philadelphia Eagles were the only 10-win team in the NFL. Now there are three in the NFC – the Eagles and the teams that have beaten them in their past two games.

After losing to the San Francisco 49ers 42-19 on Dec. 3, Philadelphia lost to the Dallas Cowboys 33-13 on Sunday night.

The Eagles hadn’t lost back-to-back games with Jalen Hurts as their starting quarterback since Oct. 14 and 24, 2021. Now Philadelphia, Dallas and San Francisco are 10-3 with four weeks remaining in the regular season and the chase for the No. 1 seed in the conference, which comes with a first-round playoff bye.

“Obviously, everything is about winning and finding ways to do so,” Hurts said after Sunday night’s setback. “But you don’t win without losing. …

“You don’t win without some type of adversity. And that’s just the name of it. We’d love to come out here and be perfect, but perfection is only an illusion. It’s about challenging yourself, learning from your mistakes and being better. And we all have to be better, and that starts with me. That starts with me as a quarterback. That starts with me as a leader – the tone that I set – so I embrace that challenge.”

Dallas had three touchdowns and a field goal to show for its four first-half possessions to put Philadelphia on the mat early. Even though they moved the football, the Eagles ended up with two field goals and a lost fumble at the Cowboys 21 to show for their three full first-half series.

“I think it’s a lesson,” Hurts said. “I think they’re all lessons. We learn more about ourselves. We learn more about what we need to improve on. We just need to capitalize on this moment because it is an opportunity for us. We’ve played some really good football teams all year, and we’ve been challenged and stretched out in a ton of different ways and so we just have to continue to grow from all of those experiences win, lose or draw. That’s what this game is about. The moment you stop learning is the moment you should probably hang it up and leave it alone.”

Against Dallas, Hurts completed 18-of-27 passes for 197 yards with no touchdowns and no interceptions and ran for 30 yards on five carries. Hurts had his second game this season without a touchdown pass. But in the first, he ran for two touchdowns, so Sunday night’s game was the former Alabama standout’s first without accounting for a score in 2023.

Hurts also had one of Philadelphia’s three lost fumbles. Dallas recovered Hurts’ fumble at the Cowboys 21-yard line to end the Eagles’ second possession. In the second half, wide receivers A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith lost fumbles at the Dallas 37 and 12, respectively.

Philadelphia also got stopped on downs at the Dallas 29-yard line in the fourth quarter and was penalized 10 times for 95 yards.

“As relentless as a team we are, I always believe we always have an opportunity,” Hurts said. “But we have to help ourselves with protecting the ball, we have to help ourselves with being efficient in the red zone and taking advantage of our opportunities in all three phases.”

Over their past five games, the Eagles have played the Cowboys twice along with the 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills. To get ready for the postseason and the defense of its NFC championship, Philadelphia finishes the season with a four-game stretch against teams with losing records.

The Eagles will try to get back on track starting on the road against the Seattle Seahawks on Dec. 18 in the Week 15 Monday night game. That will leave two games against the New York Giants sandwiching a contest against the Arizona Cardinals on Philadelphia’s regular-season schedule.

“There’s a number of things when you think about why isn’t something operating in the fashion that maybe we expect it to or may expect it to,” Hurts said. “It’s just all about controlling the things that we can. You want to be disciplined. You want to operate in a high manner. You want to eliminate penalties, and, obviously, produce points, get stops and turnovers and do things like that.

“This is something we’re going through, not necessarily stuck in, and that’s something I believe. We have to be able to learn from it, and we will. It’s an eagerness to just continue to press on.”

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