Philadelphia Eagles 34, Green Bay Packers 27 - as it happened

The Eagles beat the Green Bay Packers, 34-27, in a dramatic and entertaining game Thursday night at Lambeau Field.

Carson Wentz was 16-of-27 for 160 yards and 3 touchdowns. Jordan Howard ran 15 times for 87 yards and 2 scores. Zach Ertz was the leading receiver with 7 catches for 65 yards.

All of that was enough to overcome prolific nights for Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers and wide receiver Davante Adams. Rodgers was 34-of-53 for 422 yards and 2 touchdowns, and Adams caught 10 passes for a total of 180 yards.

Unfortunately, the win was marred by Avonte Maddox suffering a gruesome head injury. He had to be carted off the field.

The Eagles are now 2-2 on the season. It was the Packers’ first loss of the season after a 3-0 start.

Here’s a look back at the game as it unfolded in our live blog.

Click here for the full game play by play, and click here for the box score.

Click here for full coverage of the game in our Eagles section.

With the Packers at the Eagles’ 3-yard line, Craig James — who had just come into the game to replace Avonte Maddox — and Malcolm Jenkins tipped a pass out of Marquez Valdes-Scantling’s reach in the end zone. It deflected into the hands of Nigel Bradham in the end zone, and he returned it to the 21.

Eagles 34, Packers 27 with 1:59 left. Here goes.

On 3rd and 8, Avonte Maddox broke up a pass intended for Jimmy Graham, but was flagged for pass interference. Aaron Rodgers then connected with Marquez Valdes-Scantling on a 17-yard pass play to take the Packers to the Eagles’ 18. That was followed by an 11-yard completion to Robert Tonyan on which Maddox took a nasty hit in the helmet from teammate Andrew Sendejo. Maddox had to be taken off the field on a stretcher, and the entire Eagles team and staff came on to the field. The crowd at Lambeau Field gave polite applause as Maddox was removed.

It was the sort of collision and moment that reminds you how brutal and violent football is.

Starting from their own 1, the Eagles gave Jordan Howard the ball on 3 straight carries. He got them 21 yards — 7, 10 and 4. Then Carson Wentz threw to Zach Ertz, who took the ball ahead for a first down.

Green Bay helped the Eagles down the field, as Dean Lowry committed a face mask penalty on the line of scrimmage while Miles Sanders was running for a short gain.

After 8 plays and 50 yards, the Eagles punted. The drive took 3 minutes, 58 seconds off the clock.

Meanwhile, Packers star wide receiver Davante Adams is questionable to return due to a toe injury. He has 10 catches for 180 yards so far tonight.

Eagles defensive lineman Fletcher Cox limped off the field, but returned.

The Eagles’ defense forced Aaron Rodgers to throw high on 4th and goal at the Eagles’ 1 yard-line, preserving a 34-27 lead with 9:00 to go in the 4th quarter.

It sure looked for a while like the Packers were going to score, though. Zach Brown gave the Packers 15 free yards along the way with an unnecessary roughness penalty, and Avonte Maddox was flagged for pass interference breaking up a throw from Aaron Rodgers to Allen Lazard in the end zone.

Green Bay chose not to kick the field goal. That was the smart move, all things considered, but the Eagles stood up for the stop.

Jordan Howard scored his third touchdown of the night, this time a bruising two-yard charge up the middle. He has carried the ball 11 times for just 62 yards tonight, but the yards have been plenty effective.

Make it three times that Kevin King has stopped Alshon Jeffery. This one was on 2nd and 10 at the Packers’ 34. The Eagles challenged for pass interference, and lost it. Which wasn’t too surprising, since the last one wasn’t called. And now the Eagles only have one timeout for the rest of the game.

On 3rd down, Jeffery finally beat King, made the catch and got a first down. The play ended the third quarter.

By the way, Miles Sanders opened the drive with a great 30-yard carry.

Aaron Rodgers showed again why he’s so good as he led the Packers to a touchdown and a 27-27 tie with 3:16 to go in the third quarter. He had a 14-yard run and completed four passes, including a 14-yarder to Jimmy Graham for a touchdown.

Kevin King broke up another pass intended for Alshon Jeffery, this time on 3rd and 5 at the Eagles’ 21. So the Eagles were forced to punt, and Cameron Johnston boomed a 51-yarder to the Packers’ 28.

Six plays, 76 yards, Carson Wentz going 5-of-6 and Jordan Howard taking the last pass 20 yards to the house. That was a real nice drive.

The two-point conversion attempt was not so nice. Alshon Jeffery looked to have Wentz’ pass caught, but Kevin King knocked it out of his hands at the last second.

The Packers challenged uncalled contact between Avonte Maddox and Marquez Valdes-Scantling as pass interference. Even some Eagles fans would probably have admited it looked the part. But the referees upheld the no-call, costing Green Bay a timeout and forcing them to punt.

On Amazon.com’s international broadcast feed, color analyst Tommy Smyth — yes, the same Tommy Smyth who’s the color analyst on Union games — compared it to soccer’s video assistant referees. Those of you who know me know I’m the soccer beat writer, and know this warmed my heart. (Disclaimer: I’ve known Tommy for many years, going back well before he started calling Union games.)

Smyth was calling a Union game this morning, by the way: the 2-1 win at the San Jose Earthquakes ended after 1 a.m. Eastern. Fortunately, he had enough time to get proper sleep.

There were some refereeing controveries in the Union game, too. They got bailed out twice by the replay booth, which overturned on-the-field calls that went against them.

(You knew that if I had an opportunity to sneak some of my own stuff in here, I’d take it...)

Eagles cornerback Sidney Jones is done for the night due to the hamstring injury he suffered in the first half.

Well, that was pretty entertaining. Probably too frustrating for Eagles fans unsatisfied with the defense, but Jordan Howard looks pretty good.

Carson Wentz is 8-of-13 for 63 yards. Aaron Rodgers is 16-of-22 for 241 yards. Green Bay’s Davante Adams is now up to 8 catches for 158 yards. Zach Ertz is the Eagles’ leading receiver with 4 catches for 41 yards.

Whatever the injury was, it didn’t keep Aaron Rodgers off the field for the Packers’ next drive. He threw a 30-yard pass to Geronimo Allison on 3rd and 6 at the 50-yard line, spiked the ball, then connected with Allison again with a 19-yard touchdown pass.

What a turn of events. Jordan Howard carried the ball on all four plays of the drive, barging his way into the end zone from close range to cap it off. Eagles 21, Packers 13 with 59 seconds to go in the half.

Derek Barnett made up some for his earlier bad hit by stripping the ball from Aaron Rodgers. Brandon Graham recovered the loose ball.

Rodgers then went to the bench holding his right wrist, which he appeared to injure coming down awkwardly on the turf.

Dallas Goedert caught a 3-yard rope of a touchdown pass from Carson Wentz, then celebrated in style by doing a Lambeau Leap into a group of Eagles fans who bought tickets in that end zone.

On 3rd and 1 at the Eagles’ 49, Carson Wentz dove for a first down and fumbled the ball away. It was taken back the other way for a touchdown by Green Bay’s Jaire Alexander. But it was blatantly clear on replays that Wentz was down before he lost the ball, and the call was reversed. The fireworks the Packers shot off went to waste.

Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams connected on a 40-yard pass play that started with Kamu Grugier-Hill being offside and ended with Rodney McLeod yanking Adams’ face mask.

As my colleague Ed Barkowitz would say: Good job, fellas.

Fortunately, the Eagles stopped the Packers from getting into the end zone again. But they didn’t stop Mason Crosby from kicking a 31-yard field goal to extend Green Bay’s lead to 13-7 with 8:24 to go in the 2nd quarter.

Carson Wentz threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Alshon Jeffery. It was initially called off for offensive pass interference on Zach Ertz, but Doug Pederson challenged the penalty call and won it. Rightly so, as Ertz was nowhere near Jeffery.

The drive started in explosive fashion as Miles Sanders returned the kickoff 66 yards from inside the end zone.

During the drive, Fox poked at the Eagles by pointing out that they’ve trailed by 10 or more points in every game they’ve played so far this season.

The Birds’ secondary finally did something useful, stopping two potential Aaron Rodgers touchdown passes. Mason Crosby then kicked a 30-yard field goal to put the Packers up 10-0 with 14:01 to go in the 2nd quarter.

Meanwhile, Sidney Jones has a hamstring injury. The Eagles said he is questionable to return.

Aaron Rodgers is 10-for-10 so far, and the Packers have 9 first downs to the Eagles’ 2.

Packers wide receiver Davante Adams has over 100 receiving yards in just the first quarter, and he cleared the century mark with 2:13 to go. One of his 6 catches so far was for 58 yards, but still, the Eagles haven’t been able to stop him.

My colleague EJ Smith is just the messenger, I promise...

Carson Wentz scrambled on 3rd and 9 near midfield, but only got 6 yards. So far, Wentz is 2-of-5 for 14 yards, and all 14 of those yards came on one completion to Zach Ertz.

Aaron Jones bullied his way into the end zone with a three-yard run that gave Green Bay a 7-0 lead. Les Bowen was not impressed:

To no one’s surprise, Aaron Rodgers set the score up with an inch-perfect pass to Davante Adams that Adams took off with and ran to the Eagles’ 7-yard line. It was a 58-yard play in total, the Packers’ longest play of the season so far. Two plays later, the Packers were in the end zone.

At the start of the drive. Derek Barnett landed a helmet-to-helmet hit on Green Bay’s Jamaal Williams that forced Williams to leave on a stretcher. Jeff McLane called it “a cheap shot”. Fletcher Cox gave him a few strong words on the sideline, and Barnett looked pretty remorseful afterward. The Packers announced that Williams has “feeling and movement in all of his extremities.”

The Packers won the toss and deferred, so the Eagles got the ball. The drive only lasted five plays before the Birds punted. Jordan Howard had an nice 19-yard run, but Carson Wentz threw two incomplete passes in the next three plays and that was that.

Fox’s Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long picked the Eagles to win on Fox’s TV broadcast. Tony Gonzalez and Michael Strahan picked the Packers. And for the record, the entire ESPN NFL panel of pickers has the Packers too.

Our staff predictions are here, including Vegas Vic’s advice on how you should bet the point spread and money line.

Sage advice from Paul Domowitch on Twitter:

Fox’s Charissa Thompson is out in one of the Lambeau parking lots with a Packers fan who’s grilling bratwursts. She offered some other fans a concoction she called “a Philly brat.” The fans of course turned it down.

Honestly, even as a Philadelphian I might have done the same, because I don’t even know what a “Philly brat” is. Isn’t a sausage with peppers and onions universally a good thing, whether it’s a bratwurst, an Italian sausage or something else?

Meanwhile, Alshon Jeffery is back on the field tonight, but DeSean Jackson is still out. Les Bowen has all the inactives here.

Here’s some more pregame reading to get you ready for kickoff:

— Jeff McLane talks to Eagles running backs coach Duce Staley, who has worked this week to cure Miles Sanders’ fumble-itis.

— Les Bowen writes that Alshon Jeffery’s return might help Zach Ertz.

— Paul Domowitch offers his scouting report of both teams, and the key matchups to watch.

— Marcus Hayes says Carson Wentz needs to be elite to snap the Eagles out of their two-game losing streak.

— Mike Sielski compares how the Eagles have built around Wentz to how the Packers have built around Aaron Rodgers.