PHILADELPHIA -- This was like a playoff game for former Eagles running back LeSean McCoy and he played like it.

McCoy, who is 0-3 in the real postseason, lost this one, too, a 23-20 setback to the Eagles, in a game he told his Buffalo Bills teammates all week he had to win.

He didn't. Just as he fell in the postseason as an Eagle to the Cowboys in 2009, the Packers in 2010, and the Saints in 2013. In those three games, McCoy, the Eagles' all-time leading rusher, averaged less than 50 yards per game and scored all of one touchdown.

In Sunday's game, McCoy carried 20 times for just 74 yards, an average of 3.7 yards per carry and caught four passes for 35 yards. He had one good run, a 24-yarder that set up a Buffalo field goal. His second-best run came when he bolted off the field as the clock hit 0:00. That's also the closest he came to either end zone.

McCoy, the first person to the Bills' locker room, opened the door and threw his helmet violently into the room. It was better than most of the Bills' quarterback Tyrod Taylor's throws on the day.

As a group of 20, or so, reporters doubled to 40 around McCoy's locker, the running back emerged from the shower room, got dressed, stood up, looked over the assembled group and said, "I don't got nothing to say.''

Which technically meant he did have something to say, but the only double negative for McCoy on Sunday, was he did nothing and his team lost.

All week McCoy talked. He went on two Philadelphia-area radio stations and continued his disdain for Eagles head coach Chip Kelly, who had the audacity to trade him (maybe Chip went over those playoff games, too). He did a conference call with the Eagles media and spoke openly to Buffalo-area reporters.

But things didn't go his way, as they often don't in "big'' games, so he sulked. He ran off the field, threw his helmet the way a spoiled nine-year-old would his bat after striking out in a Pee-Wee Little League game.

And then refused to talk, refused to give his former teammates credit for the win, or explain what went wrong for his team.

Yup, just like a playoff game. Something McCoy won't win again this season because Sunday's loss just about killed his team's chances for making the postseason.

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