Eagles’ Fans Sound the Alarm: Eagles’ Offense in Desperate Need of a Fix
The 11-2 Eagles are a difficult team to talk about substantively.
By the Jalen Hurts rules of keeping the main thing the main thing, a .846 winning percentage, nine consecutive wins, and a fourth straight postseason berth confirm this is a good football team.
It’s good enough to beat almost everyone in the NFL during the regular season. However, the expectations are what they are in Philadelphia, and beating Carolina on Dec. 8 without style points isn’t winning many over anyone other than the minority of fans who believe pointing out 108 passing yards in the modern NFL isn’t exactly killing it is some kind of heresy.
Rewind a week and Jalen Hurts threw for a similarly dismal 118 yards at Baltimore, and the Eagles also won.
You’re not supposed to be able to do that but Philadelphia is shaking up conventional wisdom on the foundation of Saquon Barkey’s historic season, coupled with a top-tier defense. and Hurts’ unique ability to pull out the horseshoe of three or four backbreaking plays no matter how poor the rest of his game is going.
The whole offensive system with the Eagles is the exact opposite of what was advertised and planned when Kellen Moore was hired to modernize and evolve that side of the football with motion and better route concepts.
“I think it’s no secret that we weren’t up to our standard in that area yesterday,” head coach Nick Sirianni said of the passing game against the Panthers during his Monday presser. “So it’s just going back to work”
The Eagles only had 83 net passing yards against Carolina as Hurts struggled to distribute the football to open receivers on time.
At one point Brown was seen throwing his helmet in frustration and the star receiver was very short with reporters after the game.
Brown was hardly the only frustrated player, though, and Sirianni went into damage-control mode.
“What I do know – I love that guys care,” the coach spun. “They care about how they perform, they care about us meeting our standard, and that just leads into getting better.”
Injured vet Brandon Graham threw some lighter fluid on the issue Monday night while appearing on the Eagles’ flagship radio station, intimating the relationship between Hurts and Brown — once very good friends — is fractured.
