The lack of explosive plays on offense

Eagles notebook: The lack of explosive plays on offense originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

As Eagles offensive coordinator Brian Johnson spoke this week about how to improve the offense, he talked about a few different areas of concern.

But he mentioned one first.

“For us, essentially, I think what we have to do is we have to create some more explosive plays,” Johnson said. “We have to.”

Nick Sirianni has his own way of defining explosive plays. He lumps together runs of 10+ yards and passes of 16+ yards. Based on those parameters, the Eagles are tied for 19th in the NFL with 101 explosive plays. They have 61 explosive passing plays and 40 explosive runs.

Here’s a complete look at explosive plays in the NFL leading into Week 16, passes + runs.

SFO: 88 + 61 = 149
MIA: 86 + 53 = 139
HOU: 92 + 44 = 136
BAL: 64 + 62 = 126
DET: 74 + 50 = 124
DAL: 80 + 41 = 121
BUF: 66 + 52 = 118
MIN: 81 + 35 = 116
WAS: 74 + 39 = 113
CHI: 53 + 60 = 113
ATL: 63 + 49 = 112
SEA: 71 + 37 = 108
LAR: 72 + 34 = 106
JAX: 69 + 34 = 103
KAN: 67 + 39 = 103
ARI: 51 + 52 = 103
TAM: 71 + 31 = 102
CLE: 58 + 44 = 102
NOR: 66 + 35 = 101
PHI: 61 + 40 = 101
DEN: 55 + 46 = 101
GNB: 71 + 29 = 100
LAC: 70 + 28 = 98
TEN: 64 + 33 = 97
IND: 57 + 37 = 94
PIT: 43 + 45 = 88
CIN: 56 + 32 = 88
NYG: 43 + 38 = 81
CAR: 41 + 40 = 81
LVR: 60 + 18 = 78
NYJ: 46 + 27 = 73
NWE: 48 + 24 = 72

Sometimes the Eagles have to simply take what a defensive gives them, though, instead of hunting for those big plays. Against the Seahawks, the Eagles started that game with back-to-back scoring drives of 15 and 16 plays.

“Yeah, that’s a line you definitely have to walk, right?” Johnson said. “I think the biggest thing is you want to try to create as many explosives as possible. And I think you definitely have to balance that because when you have to go on 12, 13, 14, 15 play drives to score, it just magnifies everything.

“The easiest way to score is to create big plays, so we’ve got to do a great job — I have to do a great job putting us in…

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Publish date : 2023-12-25 12:00:00

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