With eight receptions for 148 yards, wide receiver DeVonta Smith provided a starkly contrasting performance to the rest of Philadelphia’s offense in the Eagles’ 32-9 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC playoffs on Monday night.

But Smith wishes he had one more catch and 17 more yards on those totals.

Trailing 25-12 after making a field goal with 12:02 to play, Philadelphia took the three points off the scoreboard to accept a defensive-offside penalty on the kick.

That left the Eagles facing fourth-and-5 at the Tampa Bay 17-yard line, and quarterback Jalen Hurts threw the football for Smith in the end zone. A breakup by Buccaneers cornerback Carlton Davis essentially ended the Eagles’ season.

“I went to (coach) Nick (Sirianni),” Smith said. “I told him to get me the ball. I just got to go make the play.”

Philadelphia lost to Tampa Bay in the postseason after beating the Bucs 25-11 during the regular season. In that Sept. 25 game, the Eagles ran for 201 yards and passed for 271. On Monday night, Philadelphia’s offense produced 276 yards, with only 42 coming on the ground.

“They just sent a lot of pressure at us,” Smith said. “That’s all it was. Couldn’t run the ball because they were sending pressure. I know that’s the first thing everybody will say: Why we didn’t run the ball? You can’t run the ball against blitz-zero. They just did a good job of taking away the run and forcing us to make plays on the outside. We made a lot of them, but we missed some, too. …

“Everything we wanted to do tonight, it was there. Sometimes we executed well, sometimes we didn’t. We knew what they were going to do. We were prepared for it. It was just sometimes we missed.”

After playing in Super Bowl LVII to cap last season and winning 10 of their first 11 games this season, the Eagles bowed out in the first round with their sixth loss in the past seven games.

“It’s small stuff – small, very fixable stuff,” Smith said of Philadelphia’s freefall. “… It’s very frustrating, especially when you have the talent, you have the right mindset, you have the right things going. Like I said, just small details you’re missing.”

But Philadelphia now will have to find those details in the offseason.

“We got a long time,” Smith said when asked if the Eagles could regain their winning touch via offseason work. “Right now, I don’t have an answer for you. We got a long time. I’m pretty sure nobody’s going to be thinking about any football anytime soon. We’ll see when we get there.”

Smith’s most productive game of the season came with Philadelphia’s other 1,000-yard receiver, A.J. Brown, sidelined by a knee injury.

Smith recorded the 11th 100-yard receiving playoff performance for an Alabama alumnus and his second in a row. Smith had seven receptions for 100 yards in the Eagles’ 38-35 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII to end the 2022 season.

Smith’s 148 yards on Monday night rank behind two Julio Jones’ performances on the Alabama postseason list. The former Foley High School star had 11 receptions for 182 yards and two touchdowns in the Atlanta Falcons’ 28-24 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Jan. 20, 2013, and nine receptions for 180 yards and two touchdowns in the Falcons’ 44-21 victory over the Green Bay Packers on Jan. 22, 2017.

In the three seasons since he joined the Eagles as the 10th pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, Smith has 240 receptions for 3,178 yards and 19 touchdowns in 50 regular-season games.

No players in franchise history have had more receptions or more receiving yards than Smith in their first three seasons. Smith surpassed former Madison Academy standout Jordan Matthews’ 225 receptions from 2014 through 2016 and DeSean Jackson’s 3,124 yards from 2008 through 2010.

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