Philadelphia was among the four teams who had the earliest bye week of the 2024 NFL season, and Week 5 couldn’t get here fast enough for the Eagles.

Philadelphia reached its open date with a 2-2 record, sent into the bye by a 33-16 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sept. 29. Playing without injured wide receivers A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith and offensive tackle Lane Johnson, the Eagles totaled 227 yards, their fewest since a 28-22 loss to the Bucs on Oct. 14, 2021.

Beyond giving its injured players an extra week to return to health, the bye week allowed quarterback Jalen Hurts and coach Nick Sirianni to have “great moments” as Philadelphia looks ahead to 13 more regular-season games.

“I just took, like any other bye week, obviously, some time away from the building a little bit,” Hurts said, “but also really diving into some things, talking to my coaches and really having great moments with Nick. …

“I think this is probably, I’d say, one of the most efficient bye weeks I’ve been a part of in my career, just being able to, like I said, share those moments and talk through some things and build.”

Hurts declined to reveal what made the moments great, but the former Alabama signal-caller considered them beneficial to Philadelphia’s progress.

“We’re the two leaders of the team,” Hurts said. “And I’m happy and fortunate that we were able to come together in harmony and have the same goal in mind in trying to get this thing right. I got a ton of confidence in him, a ton of confidence in what he brings and everything he’s been able to accomplish. And just continue to press on on that.

“Everybody goes through different moments. Everybody experiences adversity. But we’ve experienced different levels of adversity together. And we’re excited for what’s to come.”

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Brown sustained a hamstring injury in the season-opening game and hasn’t played since. Johnson and Smith left the third game with concussions and missed the loss to Tampa Bay. And those were just the high-profile injuries for the Eagles in the first four weeks of the season while Philadelphia was getting its first game experience with the playbook of offensive coordinator Kellen Moore.

“I think both affect each other,” Hurts said. “I think it’s about living in the identity and being who we are and having a mentality of it’s about us. …

“It comes down to how we decide to play. And we have to trust in that. You know, we’ve just got to trust in that.”

An area that Hurts wants to clean up moving into the remainder of the season are his turnovers. Hurts is among the four NFL players who have lost three fumbles in 2024, and he also has thrown four interceptions.

“I think it starts with me in terms of us playing clean football,” Hurts said on Wednesday. “I touch the ball every play. There’s a ton of responsibility in that, and I love the position because of that and the opportunity to set the pace and set the tempo for everything else on the field. And so I’m just excited for that. We’re all excited for it. …

“Coach Sirianni talked about the details today, and I think that’s what it comes down to. From timing to communication, everyone being on the same page on the field in terms of what play is called and how we execute that play. Defining it, alleviating the gray in anything and saying, ‘Hey, this is exactly what we’re doing on this.’ And with the talent we have, we’re letting the talent take over when it’s time to.”

The Eagles return from the bye against another 2023 playoff team that has had a disappointing start to the 2024 campaign. After winning 11 games last season, the Cleveland Browns have a 1-4 record heading into the noon CDT Sunday game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

“We win as a team and we lose as a team,” Hurts said. “And we’re just going to continue to press forward. We’re always going to look back and say, ‘What could we have done better?’ You really start losing when you stop learning. And there hasn’t been a moment where we stopped learning. And so it’ll show at some point. Maybe not have shown right now or any time in these past four weeks, but it’ll show. You know, it’ll show. We just have to settle in, settle in, play our game, at the end of the day, control what we can and keep the main thing the main thing.”

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