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CHICAGO (CBS) ― Primetime is turning into a nightmare for the Bears, who are now 0-4 under the lights. Jay Cutler saved his lone pick against the Philadelphia Eagles for the worst time, and the Bears ended up losing 24-20.

Mt. Carmel High School alum Donovan McNabb threw for 244 yards against his hometown team, LeSean McCoy scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 10-yard run following Antonio Dixon's block of a field goal attempt, and the Eagles came away with a 24-20 victory over the struggling Bears on Sunday night.

The Bears were leading 20-17 when Dixon blocked a 48-yard field goal by Robbie Gould with 11 minutes left. McNabb then led the Eagles (6-4) on a 62-yard touchdown drive that McCoy capped with a neat 10-yard run, sending Chicago to its fifth loss in six games and delivering another big hit to its playoff hopes.

Barring a big run, the Bears (4-6) will miss the postseason for the third straight season -- certainly not what they expected when they made that big offseason trade with Denver for Jay Cutler.

The Bears had high hopes after that deal, but after a 3-1 start, all the optimism is gone.

Cutler, who came into the game with a league-leading 17 interceptions, did not get picked off until the final minute. Tracy White tipped a pass, Sean Jones came away with the ball near midfield, and that sealed the loss for the Bears.

It also allowed the Eagles to exhale after they fell 31-23 to San Diego and 20-16 to Dallas the previous two weeks, putting them in what McNabb said was a must-win situation.

The veteran quarterback was 23 of 32, and DeSean Jackson caught eight of those passes for 107 yards to lead Philadelphia to the win even though star running back Brian Westbrook missed the game with a concussion.

McNabb's effort included a 48-yard touchdown pass to Jackson over the middle to give Philadelphia a 17-12 lead with just under six minutes left in the third.

Cutler responded by leading the Bears to their first TD in more than six quarters, lofting a 15-yard pass to Kellen Davis to cap a 55-yard drive, and then firing to Matt Forte for the 2-point conversion and a 20-17 lead with 2:52 left in the third, but the Bears couldn't hold it.

Cutler, who had 12 interceptions in the previous five games, completed 24 of 43 passes for 171 yards. The Bears also got three forced fumbles from Charles Tillman and a 72-yard run from Khalil Bell, who moved up from the practice squad after Garrett Wolfe went on injured reserve with a kidney injury.

The Eagles' Michael Vick took a direct snap and broke through the middle for a 34-yard run -- his longest since returning to the league -- on the game's first possession, leading to a 25-yard field goal by David Akers.

McNabb then made it 10-0 on their next possession when he threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to fellow Chicagoan Jason Avant. That capped a 76-yard drive in which the Bears committed two penalties -- a 15-yarder for a facemask against McNabb and also an offside -- and heard more boos from their restless fans.

Cutler did little to win them over in the early going, forcing passes into double coverage and overthrowing Greg Olsen and Devin Hester on possible touchdown passes. He nearly got intercepted on the first possession, but Philadelphia's Quintin Mikell couldn't hang onto the ball.

And after McNabb connected with Avant, the Bears had to settle for a 45-yard field goal by Gould in the opening seconds of the second quarter when Cutler missed Olsen and Hester on back-to-back deep passes along the right sideline.

The Bears again failed to reach the end zone after Bell's 72-yard run put the ball on the 10. Instead, they settled for a 28-yarder by Gould about five minutes into the quarter, and he kicked another 28-yarder with 13 seconds left in the half to make it a one-point game.

And with just over a minute remaining, Cutler threw an incomplete pass to Devin Hester. As he was tackled by Eagles cornerback Dimitri Patterson, Hester's pants came down, exposing his bottom to a national audience.

CBS 2's Megan Mawicke and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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