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Edge rusher Jaelan Phillips called getting traded to the Eagles the greatest thing that’s ever happened to him and he made General Manager Howie Roseman look smart for acquiring him in Green Bay on Monday night.

Phillips punctuated his Eagles debut by stuffing Packers running back Josh Jacobs on a fourth-and-1 with 90 seconds left in the game. The stop helped seal a 10-7 road win for his new team and it was part of an effort that head coach Nick Sirianni called "very disruptive" in his postgame press conference.

Phillips had six tackles, two quarterback hits, a tackle for loss and a fumble recovery in a memorable first outing with his new team.

"He loves football. He loves working," Sirianni said. "You can just see the way he was running around at practice, his motor is constantly, constantly running, just pushing to get better. It was a really big impact that he made tonight for his first game as an Eagle."

In his own postgame comments, Phillips said he "just wanted to earn the respect of my teammates and the coaches and the fans and everybody." He accomplished that on Monday night and he'll get a chance to play in front of the home crowd for the first time against the Lions on Sunday night in Week 11.

Packers center Elgton Jenkins appears to have suffered a serious ankle injury in Monday night's loss to the Eagles.

Jenkins was carted to the locker room at the end of the first half after Packers quarterback Jordan Love rolled onto his lower left leg while being sacked. The Packers ruled Jenkins out of the game with an ankle injury, and afterward coach Matt LaFleur sounded pessimistic about Jenkins' prognosis.

"It doesn't sound promising," LaFleur said.

X-rays revealed a fracture in Jenkins' lower leg, according to ESPN.

A 2019 second-round pick of the Packers, Jenkins is a very versatile lineman who can play anywhere along the offensive line. He has one year remaining on his four-year, $68 million contract.

The Packers lost to the Eagles 10-7 on Monday night, and any time a team loses by that score, a coach is going to point to his offense as the problem. Packers coach Matt LaFleur was no exception.

"Our defense was outstanding. Unfortunately, just too many mistakes offensively to overcome it," LaFleur said after the game. "You hold good football teams to 10 points you should win the football game, but obviously we didn't do enough offensively. We've got a short week. We can't feel sorry for ourselves. We've got to figure it out, come back and do better."

Asked what has gone wrong offensively, LaFleur said it's been "very choppy," and if he knew why the offense wasn't playing better he would have fixed it.

The offense needs to fix something. The Packers have three losses this season, by scores of 13-10 to the Browns, 16-13 to the Panthers and now 10-7 to the Eagles. LaFleur acknowledged that he needs to coach the Packers better.

"You score seven points in this league, you're probably not going to win many games," LaFleur said. "We have to do a much better job, and it always starts with myself."