The Eagles offense is bad and with this much talent, that shouldn’t be possible

For weeks, the conversation kept circling A.J. Brown’s targets like that was the magic solve to unlock the Philadelphia Eagles offense. Get Brown involved again and the machine would start humming. It was a simple answer for sure, but unfortunately, it wasn’t a real one.

The Eagles beat the Lions on Sunday Night Football, but nobody watching walked away thinking the offense looked like a Super Bowl unit. The wind was a factor, sure, but the performances go way beyond weather. This offense is flat-out bad right now.

ESPN’s Tim McManus summed it up nicely. He said Jalen Hurts played in tough conditions, receivers dropped balls, and even with 11 targets for A.J. Brown, nothing resembling rhythm showed up. The defense won that game. The offense simply existed long enough not to lose it.

It’s not a slump anymore. This is what they are right now.

Look at the last two weeks:

• 10 points, 294 yards, 13 first downs vs Green Bay
• 16 points, 272 yards, 16 first downs vs Detroit

Two straight wins while scoring 16 or fewer points for only the third time in franchise history and the second time since 1950 scoring 26 or fewer points in a two-game span. This offense has more blue-chip talent than any Eagles offense since 2017 with Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, Saquon Barkley, and Dallas Goedert. Sure, its all protected by a banged-up but even that unit is still loaded.

Here’s the problem. The names aren’t putting up the numbers.

• 25th in yards
• 28th in first downs
• 29th on third down
• 22nd in scoring

Last year: 8th, 6th, 10th, 7th. That is not regression. That is collapse.

The Jalen Hurts Offensive Coordinator Problem

At some point, the conversation has to acknowledge something nobody in the national media seems interested in discussing. Jalen Hurts has never had offensive continuity. Not in college. Not in the NFL. Every year it’s a new voice, a new system, a new learning curve. Here is the list.

Alabama
2016 – Lane Kiffin
2017 – Brian Daboll
2018 – Mike Locksley

Oklahoma
2019 – Lincoln Riley

Philadelphia Eagles
2020 – Doug Pederson
2021 – Nick Sirianni
2021-22 – Shane Steichen
2023 – Brian Johnson
2024 – Kellen Moore
2025 – Kevin Patullo

The fact Jalen Hurts has accomplished everything he has in his career so far despite having a different play caller every year of his career honestly isn’t talked about nearly enough…

This is insane. Testament to who Hurts is & how hard he works. Dude is a winner. Period. pic.twitter.com/AJ7RZeXmbf

— Josh Reynolds (@JoshReynolds24) November 17, 2025

That’s ten seasons with ten different offensive coordinators or primary play-callers. There is not a single elite quarterback in the NFL who has dealt with that level of system instability.

Nobody is saying Kevin Patullo is the only problem, but at some point, we all have to admit he is not getting the job done. Hurts has had flashes, but an offense this talented should not look like it is held together with tape and apologetic press conferences.

Hurts is not above criticism but the idea that a quarterback can reset his entire offensive language every 12 months and look like peak efficiency is unrealistic.

The run game is broken and the Tush Push is no longer automatic

Saquon Barkley had defenders in his lap before he reached the line of scrimmage. The Tush Push failed on back-to-back attempts. The offensive line looks out of sync and, without Lane Johnson, it is only going to get more complicated.

The Detroit Lions voted “yes” to keep the Tush Push in the game. Instead of complaining, the rest of the league should just learn how to stop it and then embrace that

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— Noah Bieniek (Bee-Nick) (@NoahB77_) November 17, 2025

4th & 1: pic.twitter.com/4IkB9i4qiT

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) November 17, 2025

The players are saying the same thing we see…

Saquon Barkley: “We didn’t play good enough. We all have plays we could have made. We make mistakes. Too many penalties. We have to do a better job.”

Jalen Hurts: “We have to score points. We have to be more efficient. Nothing takes precedence over winning, but we have work to do.”

A.J. Brown Last Week: “The defense has been a Band-Aid over the offense’s problems.”

The trend is moving in the wrong direction

First four games: 25.0 points per game (12th in NFL)
Since then: 18.7 points per game

Clearly we are going backward, not forward. Outside of the Giants rematch, they have not scored more than 21 offensive points since Week 4.

Yes, the defenses were tough. Now the excuses run out.

Packers, Lions, Broncos, Chiefs, Bucs, Vikings: all top-10 defenses. Fair context, but next up is the Cowboys defense ranked 31st and a Bears defense ranked 27th. If this offense does not show real life against these two, it is no longer a debate. It is a diagnosis.

The defense can carry them, but why should it have to?

Maybe the Eagles can win a Super Bowl with one of the worst offenses in the NFL. Maybe the defense can drag this team to February. That is a miserable way to live when you have this much talent.

Things need to be fixed because if this offense keeps wasting this defense, we are going to talk about 2025 the same way we talk about 2022 and 2023 where the Eagles had so much talent and not enough answers.

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