We\u2019re at the tail end of the 2025 NFL regular season, where aggregate statistics have their highest validity. That\u2019s great for articles like these as I can say certain things with greater confidence. I can safely say that the Buffalo Bills\u2019 defense hasn\u2019t been a shutdown unit this year.<\/p>\n
However, when the Bills suit up this Sunday they won\u2019t be tasked with taking on elite competition. The Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 offense in 2025 is the definition of average.<\/p>\n
No seriously, the Eagles are almost perfectly average<\/p>\n
This season I\u2019ve been looking through stats more than film review for my opponent previews, searching for some sort of nugget of intrigue. Some teams make me dig more than others. I\u2019m about to drop a table of information on you as I tend to do. Please note the bottom line of text as it was the thing that immediately jumped out at me.<\/p>\n
When it comes to points per game, the Eagles are a mere 0.1 away from the perfect average of 23.2 points per game. This is of course so close to perfectly average we may as well treat it as such. There are three other teams the same distance away from the mean but none exactly at it. Put differently, the Eagles are as close to perfectly average as it gets (and they\u2019re really dang close).<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not the only metric where they\u2019re thoroughly average, either. In yards per play, they\u2019re only one-hundredth of a yard away from perfect average. That puts them ranked 16th in the league. Again, you can\u2019t find a better definition of average.<\/p>\n
There is some variation between pass and rush splits. Shockingly, the rushing game steers toward the bad side of average, and the passing yards per play on the right side of average. In league rankings they\u2019re 22nd and 11th respectively. Per my rule-of-four ranking system, both of those fall within the average clusters (middle 16 teams).<\/p>\n
Making things weird however is the most significant anomaly to the idea of average. Both of the Eagles\u2019 red zone percentage and goal-to-go percentage are elite, ranking first and third respectively. What this means is that they\u2019re lethal when they reach the red zone or closer, but more frequently ineffective from further out.<\/p>\n
Long-time readers know how much I love per-drive stats, and things aren\u2019t really any different for Philadelphia in that regard. Their 2.08 points per drive ranks 19th in the league. They\u2019re 0.05 points per drive from perfect average.<\/p>\n
Their 30 yards per drive is 1.3 yards less than league average and ranks 22nd. They score on 35.9% of drives. That\u2019s ranked 25th in the league and per my rule of four, that falls just outside of the average cluster \u2014 and in the bad category.<\/p>\n
Add it all up and it paints a story that\u2019s pertinent to the Bills. The Eagles are the rare team that thrives when the field is compressed. Keep Philly backed up and win the field position battle, and the data suggests they\u2019ll struggle to sustain drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re at the tail end of the 2025 NFL regular season, where aggregate statistics have their highest validity.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27904,37375,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-71227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-buffalo-bills-analysis","tag-buffalo-bills-opinion","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71227","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=71227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}