Philadelphia Eagles: 5 ways to fix the offense over the bye week

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The Philadelphia Eagles need to start trying new things on offense.

Halfway through the 2020 season, and the Philadelphia Eagles have one of the worst offenses in all of football. They rank 28th in yards per play, 30th in scoring percentage, 29th in expected offense, and they only trail the Dallas Cowboys in terms of turnovers loss (17).

A lot of the team’s struggles can be attributed to Carson Wentz‘ poor play, but the simple truth is that an offense doesn’t get this bad without a handful of fundamental failures. The offensive line has been one of the worst in all of football due to injuries, the coaching staff is in disarray, and a whole starting lineup’s worth of “weapons” have gotten injured.

If the Eagles are going to flip the script during the second half of the season, they have to completely tear apart their playbook and start from scratch.

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Here are five things Doug Pederson could do to rejuvenate this mess of an offense:

Become a run first team.

During the glory days of the 2017 season, the Philadelphia Eagles were very much a “run first” football team. Sure, Wentz was playing at an MVP level at that time, but a lot of that was a result of teams being unable to keep up with their dominating ground game.

This opened up all sorts of room for Wentz to operate in when it came to throwing the ball downfield.

Currently, the Eagles O-Line is a disaster in terms of pass protection, but they’ve actually done an okay job run blocking.

Even with Miles Sanders hopefully set to return sooner rather than later, the Eagles honestly don’t have the personnel to lean on the run each and every week, hence their desire to stay away from it during the first half of the season. Elevating a guy like Elijah Holyfield or giving rookie RB Jason Huntley some extra reps could help, but this tactic is definitely easier said than done.

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