The Philadelphia Eagles scored about five fewer points and gained 56 fewer yards per game in the 2025 season than they did in the 2024 campaign. If that doesn’t seem like much of a difference, it was big enough to drop Philadelphia from seventh in points scored and eighth in yards gained last season to 19th and 24th, respectively, this season.
Last season’s Eagles also scored an NFL postseason record 145 points in four victories, including Super Bowl LIX. This season, Philadelphia had 19 in a four-point loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the NFC playoffs on Sunday.
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Besides a one-and-done playoff appearance, the result was another change at offensive coordinator/play-caller in Philadelphia. After one season on the job, Kevin Patullo has been relieved of those duties.
But the drop-off in production did not spark any public concern about quarterback Jalen Hurts from the Eagles’ brain trust of general manager Howie Roseman and coach Nick Sirianni, who both professed faith in the former Alabama QB during their end-of-season press conference on Thursday.
“We all had a hand in our offense this year — good, bad, you name it,” Sirianni said. “We all had a hand in it, and that’s every coach, every player, myself obviously at the front of that list. But, again, I love Jalen Hurts. I love everything that he brings to the table. Every time you step on the field, you feel very confident you can win any game that you’re going to play when you have him as your quarterback, and he’s shown that to this organization, to myself, to Howie, to the city that he’s a winner. And he is able to do many different things at a very high level.
“But again anything, whether it was winning the games or whether it was us not playing up to our performance on offense, we all have our hands in that.”
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Roseman expressed similar sentiments.
“We have won a lot of games with Jalen as our quarterback,” Roseman said. “We’ve won a world championship with him as an MVP in that game, and so I think, obviously, he’s done a tremendous job as our starting quarterback.”
For Hurts, whoever runs the Philadelphia offense in 2026 will be his seventh play-caller in his seventh NFL season.
“Jalen’s proved this to everybody that he’ll do whatever it takes to win football games,” Sirianni said. “And sometimes that’s throwing it a bunch, sometimes that’s running it a bunch, sometimes it’s him handing it off a bunch. And he’ll do whatever it takes to win. All I’ve ever felt from Jalen and all I ever know from Jalen is that the man will do anything he can do to win football games. And he pushes himself to do new things, he pushes himself to excel at the things that he has already done so well, and he’s proven to everybody year in, year out that all he cares about is winning and all he cares about is being able to hold that trophy up at the end of the year.”
When he spoke to reporters this week as the Eagles cleaned out their lockers, Hurts said he hoped the Philadelphia offense would find a “home base” in the 2026 season.
“I want to win,” Hurts said. “You play the game to win championships. You play the game to play for championships and put yourself in those opportunities to win championships. And so, obviously, that starts with having cohesiveness and great sequencing and having a flow where you know everyone’s on the same page and going out there and doing that. And so I think that’s been the humbling thing for me as a leader. I’ve been able to learn more about myself, more about my team and more about what it takes and what it demands of a quarterback and just growing throughout my time. And so those are the things that I relish in and I take great pride in and, like everything that I’ve experienced to this point in my career, is something I’ll be able to learn from and be better from.”
Hurts’ passing stats weren’t much different in 2025 than his recent seasons. He reached a career high with 25 touchdown passes, and his interception rate remained low at 1.3 percent. Hurts dropped from fifth in passing-efficiency rating in 2024 to 12th in 2025 among NFL quarterbacks with a slightly lower completion percentage and a drop in the average gain per pass from 8.0 yards to 7.1.
But even with that drop, Hurts had 40 completions of at least 20 yards that produced 1,286 yards and nine touchdowns in 2025 after having 43 for 1,298 yards and seven touchdowns during the 2024 regular season.
The biggest statistical difference for Hurts came in his rushing numbers. With 105 carries for 421 yards and eight touchdowns, Hurts had his least productive season on the ground since he became Philadelphia’s starting quarterback in 2021.
“It was a challenging year,” Hurts said. “Knew it wouldn’t be easy. I knew it was going to be hard, and it was something I definitely embraced as the year went on. It just wasn’t enough, so however you want to skin it, we didn’t do enough. And so, obviously, going back to the drawing board.”
After the Eagles lost a first-round playoff game to end the 2021 season, Philadelphia went to the Super Bowl for the 2022 season. After the Eagles bowed out of the playoffs in the first round in the 2023 season, Philadelphia won the Super Bowl for the 2024 season.
Hurts doesn’t like the yo-yoing, but he expects another positive response to a disappointing result.
“It is a pain that I know will inflict something better,” Hurts said. “… I hate that it ended this way, but I know we’ll be better from it.”