The Philadelphia Eagles Offense Looks Boring and Broken. There Are No Easy Fixes.
The Eagles keep trying to run the same offense as last season, but it’s no longer working for Jalen Hurts and Co. Can they find a solution in time to make another Super Bowl run?
Something is wrong with the Philadelphia Eagles offense.
For the first 10 weeks of the season, nothing was wrong with the Eagles offense—or so it seemed. The Eagles were third in expected points added per drive overall. They were fourth in offensive success rate—their passing offense ranked 15th, but they were first in the run. With that pesky tush push in hand to always score in the red area, they were second only to the Dolphins in points per drive.
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Since Week 11, when they came back from the bye, they’ve been terribly average: 13th in success rate, 16th in EPA per drive, 16th in points per drive. If we look at just the past three games, with losses against the Cowboys, 49ers, and Seahawks: 11th in success rate, 17th in EPA per drive, and 22nd in points per drive.
The weird thing is that it’s not clear why this downturn happened. I don’t think it was any one event—their only offensive injury was to tight end Dallas Goedert, whom they lost for three weeks, and Jalen Hurts played through an illness on Monday night—and I don’t think that the sudden stop of the Eagles offense was actually all that sudden. In fact, it’s been brewing for quite some time.
The Eagles have legit schematic issues. There are pieces of their offense that are broken, and talented players like Hurts, Goedert, Jason Kelce, and A.J. Brown have been covering up those issues for a while. Accordingly, there aren’t quick fixes waiting around the corner for Philadelphia. Sure, they’ll play better when they’re facing the Giants defense twice in the final three weeks of the regular season. But the problems they need to fix if they want to be a serious NFC contender run deep.
