It has been the ongoing storyline that has dominated the Eagles' offseason: Will A. be traded, and what team would be an appropriate trading partner?But there has been something looming even larger than does not get broached nowhere near as much as it should: The stability of the Eagles' offensive Eagles paid a price for winning Super Bowl LIXa beat up offensive line that opened holes for Saquon Barkley's NFLrecord 2024 season for most rushing yards in a single season with 2, meant playing more games, taking more punishment, and having less time to recover and rebuild from the previous is the cost the NFL exacts for , the Eagles' offensive line deteriorated in tackle Jordan Mailata, left guard Landon Dickerson, and center Cam Jurgens had poor seasonsby their to Pro Football Focus, the Eagles went from the No.1 offensive line in football in 2024 to No.7 in went from the No.1 left tackle in the NFL to from a 95.8 grade to 88.1, Dickerson took the most precipitous fall, going from No.9 to No.30 79.2 dropped to 67.5, Jurgens fell from No.13 to No.19 67.1 dropped to 66.0 and future Hall of Famer, right tackle Lane Johnson, went No.7 to No.18 85.4 dropped to 77.4.A major reason for their demise is that Johnson, who will turn 3in May, Dickerson and Jurgens all played hurt last suffered a Lisfranc ligament sprain in his left foot during the November 16, 2025, game against the Detroit Lions, forcing him to miss seven games and taking just 450 snaps, the fewest snaps he took since the 2020 season, when he took 404 snaps in a season derailed by an ankle injury playing in just seven 36, how much longer can Johnson be counted on or expected to play 12 games or more in a season?Dickerson was contemplating retirement this offseason, after taking a careerlow 83snaps in 2025 https://www.detroitfootballshop.com/collections/teddy-bridgewater-jersey, down for the secondstraight year 2023: 1, 046; 2024: 99after battling a meniscus injury in training camp and with back and ankle problems in went from 1, 068 snaps in 2024 to a careerlow 801 in 2025 recovering from offseason back went public recently on a podcast explaining that he had a herniated disk in the 2024 Super Bowl playoff run and then went further to say the disc broke off and wrapped around his sciatic nerve in his lower pain was so great, Jurgens said, he could barely says he feels fine there are issues problems that could scuttle the upcoming 202season.t was not a good group last year, they did not play well, NFL Network expert Brian Baldinger had a lot to do with the offensive line will be their biggest question in 's see what they do under new offensive coordinator Sean had problems last year and that was because the offensive line had the offensive is a bigger issue than trading A. will be a lot of changes and let's see how quickly that they can get healthy and has brought in new offensive line coach Chris Kuper, who is replacing the Eagles' beloved, legendary offensive line coach Jeff will try to incorporate the zone blocking system he played in Denver under the late Alex Gibbs Chris Smith Jersey, who died in 2021 and was known for his innovative schemes with the Denver Broncos under head coach Mike 's a finesse scheme that requires offensive linemen to be responsible for an area rather than a 's a scheme that relies on the cohesion of the was oldschool, beat the man in front of Eagles won the 2024 Super Bowl by basically bullying and running over other teams, blowing them off the ball and creating gaping holes for was a demanding, physical brand of power was also physically taxing on the offensive one, I think A. will be back, and this past Eagles' season was about the offensive line playing hurt the whole year, said Barrett Brooks, one of the stalwarts on NBC Philadelphia's Eagles Postgame Live show, and who is as locked in to the Eagles as is their bigger threeandout, threeandout, threeandout, that influences the whole inability to score directly impacted the magic number in the NFL is you can score more than 17 and can hold your opponents to less than 17 points, you will win most of your Eagles' offensive line last year was held together by bubble gum and duct just could not block anyone. believe they will be back.I believe they will be back and are good enough to challenge Gibbs is the father of the zone blocking scheme, and that's how Terrell Davis had his stressed that it would take time to absorb Mannion and Kuper's was stubborn and did not like 's offense cannot be run with Stoutland's blocking 's scheme could keep the offensive line , the Eagles were able to run motion under Jason Kelce, who compensated for Jalen Hurts and knew where the call MIKE linebacker was when defenses switched the number count on motion is a reason why Kevin Patullo ran basic stuff last season, because Jurgens and Hurts sometimes could not pick that may have been blamed for more than he was actually responsible of the Eagles' offensive inefficiency may have been Hurts going off 's offense will also require Hurts to be under center more and put his back to the field on playaction plays, something Hurts does not like 'll see if that changes under also likes to throw in open windows if a receiver is absolutely open, not timing routes hitting receivers in stride, which is something A. likes in his Mahomes said early last season that interceptions are good, t means you are willing to take chances, in tight windows, which Mahomes has a penchant for and Hurts does 's offense will also require Hurts to be under center more and put his back to the field on playaction plays https://www.detroitfootballshop.com/collections/damone-clark-jersey, something Hurts may not be too fond of 'll also likes to throw in open windows if a receiver is absolutely open, not timing routes hitting receivers in stride, which is something A. likes in his Eagles held teams last season to 19.3 points a game, which was in the NFL behind No.1 Super Bowl champion Seattle, which gave up an average of 16.9 points a game, the only team in the NFL to allow less than 17 points a game last the Eagles' seven losses, including their seasonending defeat at Lincoln Financial Field to the San Francisco 49ers, the Eagles averaged 17.8 points a , something interesting is in the Eagles' Super Bowl 2024 season, they led the NFL in time of possession, averaging 32 minutes, 21 seconds a year, that figure dropped to 12th, averaging 30:1TOP a game, a drop of 2 minutes, six seconds from 2024, the Eagles were No. in thirddown conversion rate 40.28%.In 2025, they were No.24, with a 36.73% thirddown conversion of those drops start up front with the offensive line.
