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Doug Farrar and Greg Cosell

Why don’t the Eagles use more pre-snap motion to help Jalen Hurts?

The Philadelphia Eagles are one of four teams in the NFL with a 10-3 record, but they’ve lost two straight games, and to two of those other teams — the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys (The Baltimore Ravens are the other 10-3 team). Neither of those games were remotely close, and the Eagles have scored a grand total of two offensive touchdowns in those two contests.

There’s a lot wrong with an offense run by head coach Nick Sirianni and coordinated by Brian Johnson. The run game and the pass game are not as tied together by the quarterback run game with Jalen Hurts as it was last season. Hurts’ connections with his receivers have not been as consistent. The run game has not been as dynamic, and the coaches coming up with the plans have been less able to confound defenses with different wrinkles pre- and post-snap. The Eagles primarily use two personnel groups — 11 personnel 71% of the time, and 12 personnel 18% of the time.

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