EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. \u2014 In the 13th season of his Hall of Fame career, Lane Johnson isn\u2019t afraid to be honest.<\/p>\n
After the Eagles\u2019 embarrassing 34-17 loss to the Giants at MetLife Stadium, Johnson revealed some truths about the Eagles\u2019 inconsistent, inefficient and stagnant offense.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, there\u2019s flashes but flashes don\u2019t score points,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIt\u2019s about consistency, it\u2019s about once a big play hits, let\u2019s keep going until we finish. We have spurts but nothing consistent enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Entering this season, the Eagles returned 10 of 11 starters on offense from their Super Bowl LIX roster. And even without starting left guard Landon Dickerson on Thursday night, the Eagles have way too much talent on that side of the ball for their offense to look like like it did.<\/p>\n
And the Eagles\u2019 longest-tenured player knows it.<\/p>\n
\u201cOffensively, we\u2019re frustrated,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI feel like we have a lot of ability but we\u2019re not producing like we want to.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are moments where the Eagles\u2019 offense does look good. In fact, they scored touchdowns on back-to-back drives of 70+ yards in the first half on Thursday night. And then they didn\u2019t score again.<\/p>\n
The Eagles were able to get Thursday night started with back-to-back explosive runs (18 yards and 13 yards) from Saquon Barkley, who then had just 27 yards on 10 carries after that. The one thing the Eagles could always lean on in 2024 was their dynamic rushing attack, and that just hasn\u2019t been there in 2025.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s wrong with the run game?<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI don\u2019t know. I feel like I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re predictable but it seems a lot harder than it needs to be. Maybe moving forward, just have a little more variety, hitting the perimeter some and doing a little bit more of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
And without that run game, it\u2019s making the Eagles\u2019 offense way more predictable as a whole. The run opened up everything else for the Eagles last year.<\/p>\n
What they\u2019re left with in 2025, without that elite rushing attack, is an offense that often looks disjointed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like a lot of what we did last year was run play action and it kind of fed off each other and the defense had a real hard time guessing what it was going to be,\u201d Johnson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like the last two weeks, you know what it is. You know when the pass is coming, you know when the run is coming. It all starts with us collectively as an offense. And moving forward, we gotta do a better job of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Head coach Nick Sirianni on Thursday night was asked about the notion that the Eagles\u2019 offense has become predictable, especially in the run game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there were some good moments in the run game today,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cGot ourselves behind the sticks a little bit in the second half on some of the runs there. So we’ll look at everything right there. We know we have the guys up front to be able to do that. Obviously, we’ve got to do a good job putting them in positions to succeed, and then we’ve got to go execute.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ll look at everything. Running a bunch of different types of schemes, but we’ll look at everything to see what we’re doing well and treat this like a bye week here this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Eagles have yet to put together a complete game offensively this season. In the last few weeks, their offensive output has really dried up in second halves. Back in Week 3, the Eagles scored 26 points in the second half to win in comeback fashion against the Rams.<\/p>\n
In the three games since then? The Eagles have scored just 14 second-half points. And they were shut out by the Giants in the second half at MetLife on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can game plan all you want,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cBut when you get in a game, a lot of it is about making those adjustments on the sideline. You can game plan all you want but really we have to make adjustments, we have to play better. We\u2019re not efficient in any phase.\u201d<\/p>\n
After playing on Thursday Night Football, the Eagles will have a few extra days before they start preparing to face the Vikings on the road in Week 7. Sirianni and first-year offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo are going to have to work hard at the self-scout during this mini bye week.<\/p>\n
Johnson said the Eagles have to identify the areas where they\u2019re inefficient and see if they are giving away any keys to the defense about what they\u2019re doing. If they are being too predictable, they have to change it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Johnson said they have to keep defenses guessing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating, but we have a lot of season ahead of us,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cConfident with the guys in this room and how we work to get it fixed and to make games not so hard on ourselves, make it more fluid. I feel like we\u2019ve been very stagnant offensively. We put the defense in a bind really the last two, three weeks. It\u2019s frustrating, but as professionals, we got to try to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. \u2014 In the 13th season of his Hall of Fame career, Lane Johnson isn\u2019t afraid…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":291867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,81149,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-291866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-eagles-blog","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115349740909116371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}