Jackson, Cooper expected Vick to spike ball on interception

On the last play of the Eagles' offensive season, two of the team's wide receivers - DeSean Jackson and Riley Cooper - thought Michael Vick was going to spike the ball and stop the clock rather than call a play on the run that resulted in an end-zone interception.

Here was the situation: After converting a third-and-10 with an 11-yard completion to Cooper, the Eagles were on the Green Bay 27-yard line. There was just under a minute to go and the clock was running. The Eagles trailed by 21-16.

Rather than stop the clock with a spike, Vick called a play on the fly: "All go." He ended up throwing to Cooper on the left side of the end zone, an ill-advised throw intercepted by the Packers' Tramon Williams.

"I just felt, the last couple of plays, we just kind of rushed it," Jackson said. "We didn't really have to rush it. We had 40 seconds, or whatever. We could have downed the ball and regrouped and just come back and not rushed it."

Cooper said it wasn't a big deal, but that he also thought Vick would have chosen to spike the ball and call a play.

"There was no huddle," Cooper said. "After I caught that slant, coming back, I thought he was going to spike the ball, stop the clock. But he didn't - not a big deal. He called 'all go' and that's what we ran. What happened, happened. It's over."

For his part, Vick didn't understand any confusion.

"Clock it for what?" he asked. "[You] take a shot downfield."

Vick finished the game after rolling an ankle. Jackson, who had two catches for 47 yards - and none until the fourth quarter - injured his left knee in the first half. It turned out to be a sprain.

"It was close to being jacked all the way up," he said. "When it first happened, I was very scared. I didn't think I was going to be able to come back into the game."

As for the offense's sputtering moments toward the end of the season, Jackson said, "It's frustrating, especially [with] the dynamic of our offense and what we're capable of doing. But we just haven't been able to put it together these past couple of games. As a team, we have to figure ways to still go out there and make plays and make things happen, no matter what the defenses are doing."