Things the Eagles Offense Doesn't Do
The 2025 Eagles offense is a testament to the fact that you cannot be proven to be terrible at something if you never even bother to try it.
The Eagles offense doesn’t do much.
It doesn’t score many points, at least by the standards of a mega-talented, playoff-caliber NFL offense: 22.3 per game, 19th in the league. Nor does it gain many yards: 311.2 per game, 24th in the NFL. Or sustain many drives, going three-and-out on a league-worst 29% of offensive series.
There is even more – or should I say even less – to the Eagles offense than those numbers suggest, however. The Eagles offense doesn’t appear to have any wrinkles. Or concepts. Or creativity. Or schematic diversity. Or, I dunno, “plays” as football fans have come to think of them.
Even if you are a dedicated Eagles fan who has been howling at your television, freebasing 94 WIP and demanding the heads of Nick Sirianni and coordinator Kevin Patullo on silver platters since September, you may be shocked to discover just how little the Eagles offense actually does.
Not Enough Screen Time
Take screen passes: a nutritious, tasty part of most functional college and pro football offenses. Screens punish pass rushers for teeing off. Screens get the ball to playmakers in space. They’re a useful counterpunch against an over-aggressive defense, which is why they are so common at all levels of competition.
The Eagles don’t use ‘em.
Here are the NFL teams that ran the fewest screen passes in 2025, along with their basic stats:
Fewest Screen Passes, 2025
Eagles: 28-of-29, 110 yards
Texans: 29-of-30, 133 yards
Patriots: 31-of-33, 243 yards
Colts: 29-of-33, 221 yards
Chargers: 30-of-33, 146 yards
As you can see, the Eagles not only run very few screens but are stunningly ineffective at running them. Their 3.8 yards per attempt was the lowest figure in the NFL in 2025, below the Raiders at 4.1.
Unsurprisingly, the Steelers were the NFL’s most screen happy team: 82-of-87 for 466 yards.
Screens come in two primary flavors: the traditional running back screen and the quick wide receiver screen. The two types of plays perform somewhat different functions in the offense. That doesn’t matter much to us, however, because the Eagles cannot really be bothered with either of them.
The Eagles have attempted 21 screens to players lined up at wide receiver, tight end or in the slot. Those plays have netted 92 yards. The Eagles tied for 26th in the NFL in attempts and tied for 27th in yards in this category.
The Eagles attempted just eight screens to players lined up at running back in 2025, completing 7-of-8 for 18 yards. The Rams, who went just 3-of-3 on running back screens, are the only team that uses this fundamental tactic less frequently, in part because they have so many other fundamental tactics which work well for them.
The Eagles have never been much of a screen-passing team under Sirianni or his various assistants. Saquon Barkley caught just six screens for 47 yards in the 2024 regular season. (Kenneth Gainwell caught just one.) There’s nothing wrong with de-emphasizing a strategy. Unless it happens to lots of strategies. And your team sometimes goes whole halves without completing a pass.
Roll Out the Rollouts; We’d Love a Barrel of Fun
Ah, the simple rollout. It can get a mobile quarterback like Jalen Hurts out on the perimeter. It can simplify reads and create easy completion opportunities. It can confound pass rushers, who must either chase the quarterback across the field or deal with a head-on double team. It complements play-action well. It can give receivers like A.J. Brown time to get open on deep over routes.
The Eagles don’t use it.
