Eagles coach Doug Pederson isn't happy about a pivotal call that went against his team during the final minutes of Philadelphia's 24-23 loss to the Lions on Sunday.

With just under three minutes left in the a game that the Eagles were leading 23-21, running back Ryan Mathews took a handoff from his own 45-yard line and proceeded to fumble the ball.

Once the ball hit the turf, there was complete chaos for several seconds before Detroit's Tyrunn Walker was able to fall on the ball, a recovery that eventually led to the Lions' game-winning field goal.

Pederson's problem with the play is that he says Walker's recovery shouldn't have counted.

According to the Eagles coach, the ball bounced off of Eagles lineman Jason Kelce while Kelce's body was out of bounds. If that in fact did happen, then the Eagles would've retained possession.

"It's a dead ball out of bounds. That's the rule," Pederson said on Monday, via the Eagles official website. "That was one of the things I wanted to make sure this morning that I was correct and accurate in that ruling. It's just one of those things. But we can't cough the ball up."

Here's a look at the play from one angle. The ball is underneath Kelce while Kelce is out of bounds in the picture. It's hard to say definitively if the ball is touching him, but if it is, then the refs definitely made the wrong call. By rule if Kelce is out of bounds and the ball touches him, then the ball is out of bounds and it becomes a dead ball.

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Does the football actually touch Jason Kelce? NFL/Fox

On Monday, Pederson sounded 100 percent sure that the ball touched Kelce, and that's basically because it's hard to imagine the ball being under Kelce like that without him putting a millimeter of his body on it.

"Jon Ferrari [Eagles Manager of Football Compliance], who is very versed on the rules, he and I talked about it," Pederson said. "We actually discussed it during the game because these situations come up throughout the league, and we see video of this kind of stuff all the time. You know, it's something that -- obviously it's a turnover so it's a booth situation [and] booth review, and it's out of our hands."

Here's one more angle, where the ball is sitting just above Kelce's ankle.

According to Pederson, the ref told him that Kelce didn't touch the ball.

"It was not touched. It wasn't touched by us," the Eagles coach said of the ref's explanation.

Even though Pederson says the refs got the call wrong, he's not blaming his team's loss on the game's officiating crew.

"Well, we'll send a few clips in from this game. But again, that's not why we lost this football game," Pederson said.

That part is definitely correct. Even if the Eagles would've recovered the fumble, they still would've had to convert a fourth-and-1, and that's if they even went for it. The Eagles also might've punted since they were up by two with about 2:30 left in the game.