Injuries add to Packers' struggles in wild-card loss to Eagles - ESPN

PHILADELPHIA — By the time it was over, the Green Bay Packers had lost their top two remaining receivers, a pair of offensive linemen and a starting defensive tackle.

The bigger problem was that it — their once-promising season — was over before they lost that quintet.

In what was largely the same kind of game the seventh-seeded Packers lost over and over during the regular season against the NFC's elite, their struggling offense combined with some shaky special teams doomed them again in Sunday's 22-10 wild-card loss to the second-seeded Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field.

Despite winning two more games this season, the feeling after Sunday's loss was far more deflating than last year, when the Packers won just nine regular-season games but finished by winning six of the last eight to make the postseason before losing in the final minute of the divisional round.

«I think it's tough to say right now after a loss,» Packers quarterback Jordan Love said of the difference between the two seasons. «I don't know if I'd say it's pointing down.»

The Packers trailed the Eagles 10-0 in the third quarter when receiver Romeo Doubs left because of a concussion. He fell hard in the end zone after a potential touchdown pass was broken up and never returned after being diagnosed with a concussion, his second of the season. The Packers capped that drive with a field goal, their first points coming with 5:46 left in the third quarter.

They already were without left guard Elgton Jenkins, who suffered a shoulder injury/stinger in the first quarter, and the Packers tried two replacements — first rookie Travis Glover and then Kadeem Telfort. Glover was pulled after getting called for three penalties, including two holds. Telfort