PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The slumping Eagles are on the brink of becoming the collapsing Eagles.<\/p>\n
Seem familiar?<\/p>\n
Eagles fans \u2014 and certainly coach Nick Sirianni and the players still around \u2014 can almost gag when they remember the 2023 season.<\/p>\n
The Eagles were coming off a Super Bowl trip (like this year), started 10-1 (this year’s Eagles were 8-2) before a massive meltdown nearly cost Sirianni his job. The Eagles spiraled with five losses in their last six games and were promptly bounced in their first playoff game.<\/p>\n
Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown and Sirianni are here again, this time facing two straight, soul-sucking losses that could derail the stretch run and have fed-up Eagles fans in front of a national streaming audience chanting \u201cFire Kevin!\u201d in throaty yells for the team to dump embattled offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo.<\/p>\n
You know, like in 2023 when Sirianni stripped defensive coordinator Sean Desai of his play-calling duties in a desperate, last-ditch effort to salvage the season.<\/p>\n
The move didn’t work for the Eagles in 2023. It smacked of panic and made the sky-is-falling feeling from the outside penetrate the locker room.<\/p>\n
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Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni stands on the sidelines during the second half of an NFL football game, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, in Philadelphia. Credit: AP\/Matt Slocum<\/p>\n
Sirianni has tried to keep his cool this time around and gave Patullo his second vote of confidence in five days after the Chicago Bears flexed their offensive muscle and beat the Eagles 24-15 on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all have a part in it. Kevin has a part of it. I have a part of it,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cAll the coaches have a part of it. All the players have a part of it. Again, you win and lose as a team. It\u2019s never on one thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Usually.<\/p>\n
Except there is one thing that has doomed the Eagles \u2014 at least, pretty much the one thing that matters \u2014 and that is a dysfunctional offense.<\/p>\n
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Philadelphia Eagles fans react negatively during the second half of an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, in Philadelphia. Credit: AP\/Matt Slocum<\/p>\n
The Eagles (8-4) have scored 10, 16, 21 and 15 points since the bye week and have scored 24 points or less in eight of 12 games.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s not ideal,\u201d Hurts said.<\/p>\n
Hurts had a costly fumble \u2014 on a tush push, of all plays \u2014 and an interception. The Super Bowl MVP, Hurts hasn’t come close to playing at an elite level this season. It raised the question, is Patullo really not that astute at play-calling or is he hampered at how he can use the playbook because of Hurts’ shortcomings?<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish I could tell you this is exactly what it is, and this is hard,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy to be successful, stay successful, so we have to, again, do it collectively.\u201d<\/p>\n
What’s working<\/p>\n
Not much. Not now.<\/p>\n
What needs help<\/p>\n
The tush push. The once unstoppable play (beloved in Philly; much maligned elsewhere) has become easier of late for defenses to solve.<\/p>\n
Hurts scored the Eagles\u2019 lone touchdown two weeks ago in Green Bay on the normally reliable short-yardage play, but the Eagles failed on their other five sneak attempts. Against the Bears, Hurts fumbled on the tush push and the Bears recovered and scored a touchdown.<\/p>\n
Have opposing defenses finally figured out how to defend the tush push?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s becoming tougher and tougher,” Hurts said. “But ultimately, me holding onto the ball, that\u2019s something I can control.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stock up<\/p>\n
Would you believe A.J. Brown?<\/p>\n
Brown publicly griped and cryptically posted over his unhappiness with his role \u2014 under the guise of wanting to contribute more \u2014 when his numbers were down and the Eagles were 8-2.<\/p>\n
Brown’s numbers have skyrocketed the last two games with 18 combined catches for 242 yards. Against the Bears, Brown became the first Eagles player with 10-plus catches for 125-plus yards and two-plus TDs since Zach Ertz in 2018 against Dallas.<\/p>\n
Better stats. Worse win-loss record. The Eagles are 0-2 since Brown got his catches.<\/p>\n
Stock down<\/p>\n
Pick a defender, any defender.<\/p>\n
Zack Baun and Nakobe Dean were totally overmatched over the middle in a game where D\u2019Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai each rushed for more than 100 yards \u2014 the first Bears teammates to hit that mark in one game since 1985 \u2014 and Chicago bullied their way toward 281 yards on the ground.<\/p>\n
Injuries<\/p>\n
The Eagles escaped without any major injuries.<\/p>\n
Key number<\/p>\n
.400. That’s the Eagles’ winning percentage against the remaining five teams on the schedule. Only the Chargers and Buffalo Bills (both 7-4) have winning records. The Commanders (who they play twice) and the Raiders have a combined five wins.<\/p>\n
Next steps<\/p>\n
Fix the offense before the Dec. 8 game at the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The slumping Eagles are on the brink of becoming the collapsing Eagles. Seem familiar? Eagles fans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24103,4923,1418,69,4538,71,70,5342],"class_list":["post-47679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-chicago-bears","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}