NASHVILLE — Carson Wentz exceeded expectations in his second game back from knee surgery. Wentz took more than a dozen hits, dodged and rambled away from aggressive pursuers, and threw for 348 yards and a couple of touchdowns. He gave the Eagles the long-strike capability they so sorely lacked through the first three weeks of the season.
And they lost anyway, 26-23 in overtime, to the host Tennessee Titans, on a sunny, beautiful afternoon on the banks of the Cumberland River, an afternoon of game-changing penalties and mind-bending mistakes. On Sunday, anyhow, the loss of safety Rodney McLeod for the season to a knee injury loomed as a huge blow to an Eagles defense that seems to look for and find ways to lose away from Lincoln Financial Field.