Eagles Let a Victory Slip Away, 27-24 : NFC: Jacke kicks two field goals for Packers, one on final play, after Philadelphia fumbles twice in final minutes.

Randall Cunningham was back and had the Philadelphia Eagles on the verge of victory when they dropped the ball . . . twice.

The Eagles lost two fumbles in the final five minutes Sunday, and the Green Bay Packers got two field goals from Chris Jacke, including a 41-yarder on the game’s final play for a 27-24 victory.

“The ball hadn’t been bouncing our way for a few years, and it finally did today,” said linebacker Johnny Holland, who recovered Herschel Walker’s fumble at the Eagle 23 with 43 seconds to play.

“Our defense did the job. I think Don Davey stopped the run, and the ball was rolling on the ground and I was fortunate enough to fall on it. We had to get the turnover on defense.”

The Eagles (6-4), with Cunningham back after a one-game benching, stunned Green Bay (4-6) with two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to erase a 21-10 deficit.

Heath Sherman went 75 yards with a screen pass from Cunningham for one touchdown, and consecutive pass-interference calls against Terrell Buckley and Roland Mitchell totaling 83 yards set up a two-yard touchdown run by Walker that gave Philadelphia a 24-21 lead with 5:45 to play.

Philadelphia’s Byron Evans intercepted a pass by Green Bay’s Brett Favre, who played most of the game with a separated left shoulder, and the Eagles were at the Packer 20 with a chance to seal the victory with a little more than five minutes to play.

But Sherman fumbled at the Green Bay 12, and LeRoy Butler recovered and returned to the 27. Favre connected on a 34-yard pass play to Sterling Sharpe and moved the Packers into position for Jacke’s game-tying 31-yard field goal with 1:31 to play.

“I was more nervous on the first one because the ball was half on the new grass and half on the old grass (of the baseball infield at County Stadium),” Jacke said. “(On the second kick) in the back of my mind, I knew even if I missed it, we’d still get to go to overtime.”

Sherman said he thought his knee touched the ground before he lost the ball.

“I think I was down,” Sherman said. “I ran through the hole and someone caught my foot and the ball squirted out.”

Walker wouldn’t talk about his fumble after the game.

“This is not the time to point fingers at Herschel Walker,” Cunningham said. “He played a great game. He didn’t lose this game. He went out and did all he could. It was an unfortunate situation, a great play by the defensive player.”

The Packers took a 21-10 lead when Favre hit Darrell Thompson with a three-yard scoring pass with 10:37 to play before the Eagles rallied behind Cunningham, who completed 14 of 23 passes for 169 yards.

Favre, who hurt his shoulder early in the game, completed 23 of 33 passes for 275 yards, hitting Sharpe seven times for 116 yards and Jackie Harris eight for 98 as the Packers moved the ball all day against the NFL’s fourth-ranked defense.

The Eagles trailed, 14-3, at halftime, but got untracked on their first series of third quarter, moving 77 yards in nine plays for a touchdown, which came on Sherman’s 17-yard run up the middle.

Favre, using short passes to offset the Eagles’ strong pass rush, completed all 11 he threw in the first half, including a five-yard touchdown throw to Sharpe on the second play of the second quarter to put the Packers ahead, 7-3.