**Saquon Barkley: 'We're going to respond'**
In a tie game during the fourth quarter, the Eagles had the ball in field goal range when Jalen Hurts dumped a pass down to Saquon Barkley. Barkley didn't see a defender coming behind him, and the ball got punched free for the Eagles' first turnover of the game.
It was a critical play as the Eagles' four-game winning streak was snapped in a 24-21 loss to the Cowboys in Dallas.
"I just let the team down in that moment," Barkley said after the game. "So that one is going to sting. But being in this profession, you're going to make plays and you're going to have mistakes. You just got to respond. Go back to the drawing board. We got a short week, and I just got to get right for the team."
Barkley was held to just 22 yards on 10 carries against Dallas. The Cowboys kept the Eagles' rush attack in check with Jalen Hurts finishing as the leading rusher. The longest rush for Philadelphia was just 8 yards.
Barkley took accountability for the running game's struggles after the game but is looking ahead to how he can improve next week.
"I'm a big believer that the run game starts with me and ends with me," he said. "So I'm in a little funk right now. I've had funks like this before. Just got to break it. And the only way I know how is by flushing this, working my butt off, and getting ready for my next opportunity. ... Just didn't play good. Didn't play even close to good, to be honest. But I'm a big boy. I'm a man at the end of the day. I'm going to own it and get ready for next week."
While Barkley took the blame for the loss, there were a lot of opportunities for the Eagles that led to the loss in Dallas. The Eagles had their chances and weren't able to capitalize in key moments.
"A lot of confidence in how Saquon will respond to whatever he holds himself accountable to," Hurts said. "So, he's taking a bat for that, but that's not all him. There's a lot of opportunities in the game to not even be in that situation. So I can't put that on him. As a competitor, I know how he is, I know where he is, and I know how he will work moving forward. And I think that would be infectious to the rest of us. At the end of the day, it is about having the right example, as I said, we are all willing to learn from the things that we do, come together, and move forward."
The Eagles are 8-3 after Sunday's loss, and they have a short week before facing the Chicago Bears (8-3) on Black Friday. Barkley is confident Philadelphia will be able to bounce back from the difficult loss and get back into the win column.
"I kind of know how we're going to respond," he said. "I know the team that we have. It's not our first time losing. (We) played a great team. They made a lot of moves. It was a different team. That was not the same team we played Week 1. We knew that. They played with a lot of emotion. I feel like the team that we have, we're going to respond. We have Chicago, so just get ready for them."