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Roob’s Eagles Observations after a nightmare loss to Chargers – NBCSP And beyond Jalen, this offense is just such a mess right now. They had drives to the Chargers’ 12, 17, 21, 23, 26, 30, 36 that didn’t lead to touchdowns. That’s insane. That can’t happen. And that’s everything. That’s o-line. That’s quarterback. That’s play calling. That’s receivers. That’s seven drives inside the Chargers’ 36 that didn’t result in touchdowns. How can that even happen?
The Eagles moved the ball well at times – they did pile up 365 yards – but 19 points? Look at the Eagles’ last five point totals: 10-16-21-15-19. That’s 81 points in five games, their fewest in any five-game span since – get this – early in 2012, Andy Reid’s final season. And the 21 points – their biggest scoring output since the bye week – came in a game when they blew a 21-point lead. This offense is a disaster and I’m not going to rant about Kevin Patullo again and it’s important to remember that this is on Nick Sirianni as much as K.P. Worst offensive stretch in 13 years.
There are no fixes coming for the 2025 Eagles offense – BGN
They are a bottom-five offense in the NFL. If they were even just mediocre, they’d probably be 11-2 instead of 8-5. Jalen Hurts will take his lumps this week, and they’re all well deserved. He’s in a brutal slump, almost nothing was on time and, last night in particular, his decision making was brutal. But this isn’t a one-week thing. Not only did he throw four interceptions (one of which wasn’t his fault), he once again missed open receivers and, perhaps most alarmingly, refused to run the football. There were numerous times when nothing was open and Hurts could have taken off up the middle, only to dance around in the pocket and get flushed out, forcing an incompletion. There were few designed runs. In overtime, in sheer desperation, Hurts finally took off over the middle, stiff-armed a defender and got a huge first down, only to have his electric run brought back due to a holding penalty. We need to see more of that. All that being said, Hurts has a track record of being a very good quarterback, one who can take his skills to an elite level on the biggest stage. But, like a strikeout-prone big league power hitter, he’s in a slump that is absolutely killing the offense.
How Jalen Hurts, Eagles can fix the offense for the NFL playoffs – SB Nation
In their search for explosive plays Sirianni and Patullo looked underneath. They might want to turn their attention elsewhere. Yes, the efficiency has not been there on downfield throws this season. Hurts has an adjusted completion percentage of 40.4% on throws 20 yards or more downfield this year as charted by Pro Football Focus, ranking him 23rd in the league among qualified passers. But eight of his touchdown passes have come on such throws, almost half of his 19 touchdown tosses. Only Baker Mayfield has more touchdown passes on such throws. If you look at his last touchdown pass, a 33-yard completion with Brown, you can see the vision. Chicago has seven defenders in the box with a safety inside ten yards of the line of scrimmage as well. That gives Hurts a one-on-one opportunity with Brown along the left sideline, and the Eagles capitalize with this touchdown pass. Teams have been stacking the box to stop Barkley. The Eagles running back has faced eight or more defenders in the box 33.1% of the time this season, via NextGen Stats, compared to 20.6% from a season ago. On those runs he is averaging just 2.3 yards per carry, a big dip from the 4.5 yard per carry average against lighter boxes. If teams are going to keep those extra defenders in the box, the Eagles have to punish them. Again, the efficiency might not be there. But attacking downfield, rather than over the middle, might be where the Eagles want to focus. And throwing underneath and/or over-the-middle against a stacked box is that much tougher.
Bowen: No magic turnaround is coming, it’s going to take an offseason, and big changes, to fix the Eagles’ offense – PHLY
I’m going to repeat what I’ve said here before, because I think it’s important to remember, as people lose their minds and demand wholesale trades and firings: For most teams, this is more or less what happens the year after winning a Super Bowl. The mental and physical toll is enormous. It’s incredibly galling in this instance, though, because most of the talent the Eagles lost in the offseason was on defense, and that unit has rebounded. The defense is fully capable of getting back to the Super Bowl, if the offense could just get its head out of its hindquarters. But it can’t. And at this point, it almost certainly won’t. I said there were no more magic buttons to push, but actually there is one that the hardiest optimists will cling to – looks like there is a chance Lane Johnson hobbles out to play right tackle again this week, until the next injury or reinjury. Kudos to Lane, but, this does not excite me. As many others have noted, this Eagles meltdown does look like the 2023 collapse, but there was a talent issue on defense in 2023 that limited what that team could accomplish, before everything else fell apart. There is no talent issue with the 2025 Eagles. When you watch some other team hoist the trophy in February, rest assured, that team will not be a team the Eagles were incapable of beating. And that’s really gonna sting.
How to fix the Chiefs’ offense and why the Jaguars are legit – ESPN
We shouldn’t ring any sort of referendum on Hurts as a quarterback off a four-interception game. I said the same thing about his opponent on Monday night, Justin Herbert, when he threw four picks against the Texans in the Chargers’ most recent embarrassing playoff loss. Four-pick games are super aberrative and not predictive of future interception tomfoolery. But as the Eagles once again spiral the drain of a lost season and seemingly inevitable coordinator change, it’s worth remembering that the best thing Hurts does as a passer is avoid interceptions. It’s what made him a calm and clutch captain of a Super Bowl offense last season. Such a play style needs to be coupled with an elite defense (the Eagles’ is pretty good) and an elite running game (not so great this season). When Hurts can’t do what he does best, and he’s asked to make more tight-window throws over the intermediate areas of the field, things can nosedive in Philadelphia very quickly.
Eagles QB Jalen Hurts points finger at himself: ‘I didn’t play well enough’ – The Athletic
Jalen Hurts did not want to use “we.” He made sure to emphasize “I.” “The ‘we’ — I look at it, it’s ‘I’,” Hurts said after the first four-interception game of his career. “It starts with me, how I play, how I lead, and my ability to go out there and figure it out. There’s no excuses.” It’s common to explain away a loss as a collective defeat. Hurts was intentional about his word choice after the Eagles’ 22-19 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, which included an interception on the final play of the game while driving with a chance to win. This was an “I’ game. Hurts threw four interceptions and fumbled once. He even committed two turnovers on the same play, something that had not occurred in modern football history. There were also drops that sullied splendid opportunities. There were penalties that negated critical plays. But Hurts did not rationalize his performance based on those realities. Rather, he thought his evening required him to look in the mirror. “I have to find a way to win,” Hurts said, accentuating the subject in the sentence.
A.J. Brown ‘wasn’t great when it mattered’ as key drops doom the Eagles in loss to Chargers – Inquirer
“He just made a play,” Brown said. “That one hurt the most because we’ve been setting things up all game and he made a play. That one hurt me. I’m more than capable of making those plays. Jalen trusts me in any situation. I made some plays, but I wasn’t great when it mattered.” And so the Eagles, and Brown, are going “back to the drawing board,” Brown said. They have now gone five consecutive games without topping 21 points. It is the first time in the Nick Sirianni era that has happened and a first for any Eagles team since 2005. An impotent offense has been the story of the season, and while there were small flashes Monday, it was more of the same. “It’s the same thing every week,” DeVonta Smith said. “Do something good, shoot ourselves in the foot. Nobody is doing nothing to stop us. We’re stopping ourselves every time, putting ourselves back behind the sticks. We get something going and we just do some dumb s—.”
NFC Hierarchy/Obituary: Week 15 edition – PhillyVoice
A big part of the offensive philosophy and identity was built on the quarterback being a weapon as a runner. Opposing defenses had to respect it, and because of that, he also put Barkley in favorable positions to break off long runs, like he did all season long. For example, later in the game against the Rams, here’s another zone read. Verse is purposely left unblocked and he respects the possibility of Hurts keeping the ball. Hurts gives to Barkley, and Verse is now eliminated from the play by the threat of a Hurts keeper. The Eagles get hat-on-hat blocking across the board up front, including a pancake by Mekhi Becton, and all Barkley has to do is beat the safety for a 62-yard TD run. That’s all pretty basic stuff. There’s nothing that’s all that creative or groundbreaking schematically. In 2025, the threat of Hurts as a runner is not part of the offensive identity the way that it has been since he became the starter in 2021. Opposing defenses don’t fear it, and when the Eagles try to go back to it on rare occasions, it’s not as effective because it’s not who they sought out to be this season, and it’s far from the well-oiled machine it once was. (It also doesn’t help that the offensive line isn’t playing like it did in 2024, though the shift in identity is likely part of that.) As we have mentioned here over the past couple of weeks, it’s my understanding that Hurts does not want a lot of designed quarterback runs in the game plan. And I think that what we’re finding out this season is that if this major strength of his game is being put to waste, then he kind of is what the keyboard jabronis said he is.
Eagles-Chargers on ‘Monday Night Football’: What We Learned from Los Angeles’ 22-19 win – NFL.com
Simple is good for the Eagles. For most of the 2025 season, Philadelphia’s offense has appeared clogged. There have been moments of unrestrained flow, sure, but they’ve been far too rare and the total product has been vastly underwhelming. The same was true throughout most of Monday night’s contest, save for a few key spots that reminded folks of this team’s talent pool and collective potential, such as when a hurried huddle break into the tush push jumbo formation resulted in a toss to Saquon Barkley for a 52-yard touchdown run, only his third run of 20-plus yards this season (for context, Barkley had 17 such runs last year). When the Eagles needed a first down in the final minutes of regulation, offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo dialed up a quick slant to A.J. Brown for an invigorating gain. On third-and-16 in overtime, Jalen Hurts dropped and fired a bullet to DeVonta Smith for a crucial first down, a remarkable throw on an otherwise ugly night for the quarterback. In these moments, the Eagles make it look easy but only after making most of the game look unnecessarily difficult. Patullo has rightfully come under fire for failing to extract even average levels of production from this talented group. Perhaps Monday night will serve as a lesson to him that simple approaches are good enough, or at least are a good starting point to finally extract this unit from the muck. Oh, and add some urgency into the stew; it seems to be the only time the Eagles play instinctively and thus, effectively.
Eagles Lose to the Chargers in OT – Iggles Blitz
Jalen Hurts had a nightmare game, going 21-40-240 with 4 INTs and a lost fumble. He had been brilliant at protecting the ball until recently and now he’s become a turnover machine. Ugh. This loss is on the whole team. Hurts had a bad night, but got plenty of help. AJ Brown dropped 3 passes. One of them could have been the game-winning TD. Another drop was picked off. Jake Elliott missed a FG for the third week in a row. The OL again had a sloppy night. One holding call negated a TD pass. Quinyon Mitchell had a PI late in regulation that kept the Chargers drive alive.
Spadaro: 6 takeaways from the Eagles’ overtime loss to the Chargers – PE.com
Philadelphia’s defense played lights out. The front dominated the line of scrimmage, sacking quarterback Justin Herbert a career-high seven times and pressuring him on 68 percent of his dropbacks, a tremendous number. Jaelan Phillips, Jordan Davis (1.5 sacks), Moro Ojomo, Byron Young (1.5 sacks), Nolan Smith, Jalyx Hunt (2.5 sacks) – they all won big time up front. Zack Baun and Nakobe Dean were excellent in the blitz game. The Eagles gave up some costly ground yards – Herbert, playing with a cast on his broken left hand, had 66 yards on 10 carries and he came up big late in the fourth quarter and in overtime with his legs. Omarion Hampton had a big 18-yard run in OT. Other than that, the defense was lights out. Truly dominating at the line of scrimmage.
PFF grades from Chargers-Eagles: Donte Jackson authors elite performance vs. PHI – Bolts From The Blue
Worst: OG Mekhi Becton – 31.8, TE Oronde Gadsden II – 43.3, OT Bobby Hart – 44.6, QB Justin Herbert – 45.4, OT Trey Pipkins – 47.8. At one point while the game was still going on, Pro Football Focus’ live grading had Becton’s pass block grade at one point as low as 0.3. That’s….almost an impossibly bad number to hit, but luckily for him the final number wasn’t as bad. As of Tuesday morning, his final pass block grade was an improved…13.7. Both Becton and Hart allowed eight total pressures to the Eagles with Becton also allowing a sack. Herbert completed less than half of his passes, but it was nearly impossible for him to have a dropback that did not result in a pressure.
The stakes will be very high for the Eagles on Sunday – PFT
Bottom line? That goofy positivity rabbit could yield a gathering of Grinches, if the 2025 late-season Eagles don’t start playing less like the 2023 late-season Eagles and more like the 2024 late-season Eagles. It’s a no-win situation. Even with a blowout win, plenty of Philly fans will fear that losses are looming at Buffalo and in either of the upcoming games against the Commanders. The risk of blowing the NFC East to the Cowboys is real, and things could get really ugly if the Eagles fail to do to the Raiders what the Raiders did to the Eagles in Super Bowl XV.
Las Vegas Raiders’ offense stalls from start – Silver And Black Pride
There has been plenty of problems for the Las Vegas Raiders; offense this season in which Greg Olson has replaced the fired Chip Kelly as the interim offensive coordinator. The same issues have bothered the Raiders under Olson as well. They just can’t start games well. That was a problem, once again, for the Raiders Sunday against the Denver Broncos. The Raiders had just 76 yards of total offense in the first half. It was the fourth time in 13 games that Las Vegas was held under 90 yards of offense in the first half.
Cowboys playoff picture: How Dallas wins NFC East following Eagles MNF loss – Blogging The Boys
The Dallas Cowboys lost to the Detroit Lions on Thursday night, but they were able to pick up some help on Monday night to make it hurt a little bit less. Shout out to the Los Angeles Chargers for beating the Philadelphia Eagles. Seriously. This is huge. It took overtime, but it happened! The Cowboys’ loss to Detroit coupled with the little bit of help (being generous) they received across the rest of Week 14 made their hopes of a Wild Card spot seem all the more improbable. There is a strong argument to be made that the most probable path left for Dallas is as the NFC East winner and that potential reality became more possible thanks to the Chargers beating Philly. In order for the Cowboys to win the NFC East at this point they have to win out and pick up two more Eagles losses.
Washington’s shutout loss to Minnesota removed any short-term optimism had for their final five-game stretch – Hogs Haven
The Washington Commanders were blanked by the Minnesota Vikings 31-0. Their 31-point shutout loss is by far their worst loss of the season, and it comes at a time when Washington exuded so much optimism after a close loss to the then 9-2 Denver Broncos. Terry McLaurin and Deebo Samuel looked electric at times, Zach Ertz hauled in ten receptions, the offensive line looked amazing, Treylon Burks went viral with an incredible touchdown catch, and to top it off, Jayden Daniels was cleared to play against the Minnesota Vikings. The staff, media, and most fans were very interested in seeing how the offense could look with that unit finally appearing fully healthy. The Vikings obliterated any and all optimism that people may have had for the remainder of the season. Adding insult to injury, it appears that Zach Ertz may have been lost for the season due to a knee injury. The Commanders failed to pass for 100 yards on the day, and between Jayden Daniels and Marcus Mariota, each threw one interception. While the run game showed plenty of life against the Vikings, they only rushed the ball 17 times between Chris Rodriguez and Jacory Croskey-Merritt.
5 reasons to watch the NY Giants for the remainder of the 2025 season – Big Blue View
Speaking of winning games down the stretch, the Giants currently possess the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. We have reached the point where any game that the team wins is going to anger a big swath of the fan base that believes draft position is more meaningful than late-season victories. The Athletic’s NFL Playoff Simulator currently gives the Giants a 9% chance of having the No. 1 overall pick at season’s end. ESPN’s Football Power Index projects that the Giants will end up with the fifth overall pick. The Pro Football and Sports Network Playoff Simulator gives the Giants a 23.7% chance at the No. 1 pick, second behind the Las Vegas Raiders at 30.6%. The bad news for fans who don’t want to see the Giants win games the rest of the way is that the combined 16-35-1 record of their final four opponents, a .317 winning percentage, gives them the second-easiest remaining schedule of any team in the NFL. The Giants are actually favored this week against the Washington Commanders, and it seems there is a good chance they will win a couple more games before the seasons ends.
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