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Eagles lose TE Dallas Goedert to shoulder injury

Eagles TE Dallas Goedert was injured on a controversial play

This would be adding injury to insult in a twisted way.

The Philadelphia Eagles suffered their first loss Monday night. The defeat to the Washington Commanders also saw the NFC East leaders lose tight end Dallas Goedert.

The shoulder injury came on a second-half play when Goedert had his facemask grabbed, which the officials missed and didn’t call a penalty on Washington.

Goedert should be back before the season end but in the short run it adds more pressure to Jalen Hurts and his receiving corps.

Officials miss obvious facemask on Dallas Goedert ‘fumble’ in Eagles-Commanders game

The officials in the Eagles-Commanders game missed as blatant a face mask call as you’ll ever see on Dallas Goedert’s “fumble.”

With 9:14 left in Monday night’s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Commanders, Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts threw a short pass to tight end Dallas Goedert. Commanders linebacker Jamin Davis was all over the play… or, at the very least, Davis was all over Goedert’s facemask. Goedert lost the ball while his head was getting wrenched around, and after an original call that the runner was down by contact, that was reversed to a fumble.

As we said, what the officials missed was about as blatant a facemask call as you’ll ever see.

The Eagles should have retained the ball, but they didn’t, and the Commanders extended their lead to 26-21 on their subsequent drive with a 55-yard Joey Slye field goal.

Referee Alex Kemp’s postgame explanation was less than satisfactory.

The Eagles lost their undefeated status in a 32-21 loss, and that certainly didn’t help. Nor will the inevitable letter of apology they receive from the league this week.