just in:Brian Johnson’s offense is …

Last season the Eagles were playing basketball on grass. This season they’re playing a different version of basketball on grass, the football version of post up heavy basketball. The Predictable, repetitive, paint clogging, and infuriating. Watching Brian Johnson’s offense is like watching Joel Embiid and Al Horford share the court.

It starts with 12 personnel. Tahe Eagles are running way too many tight end sets. It’s handcuffing the offense.

In the past two games Jack Stoll has played 52% and 61% of snaps. Meanwhile, since catching a TD against the Bills in Week 11, Olamide Zaccheaus has played more than 27% of snaps just once, and been targeted just once. Julio Jones played a season high 71% of snaps against the Bills, since then: 14%, 24%, 32%, 27%, and then 41% against the Cardinal

Jack Stoll has only been targeted in four games, not once since Week 12. No offense to Jack Stoll, but the Eagles are playing a man down in the passing game. 39 tight ends have played at least 500 snaps this year, Stoll has the lowest target share among them at 1.4%. If his target rate tripled he’d be 37th of 39. Jack Stoll is just out there getting cardio.

Three of the motions were on the second possession. The first was moving Grant Calcaterra from inline to behind the center, then out wide to try to drag the outside defender with him on the 23 yard pass to Dallas Goedert. Nifty play, but the defender that moved with Calcaterra made the tackle. The second was to move Jack Stoll from out wide to in line on a run play. The third was on the first Julio Jones TD, D’Andre Swift motioned across the line then back. Then they used no motion until the 4th quarter.

In the 4th, on the play prior to the Dallas Goedert TD they motioned D’Andre Swift out of the backfield to create an empty set, but the play never got off due to a penalty. So they did the same thing again on the play that counted.

That’s it. Five times, one of which didn’t actually count. Correlation doesn’t equal causation, so don’t read too much into this, but the result of those four plays were a 23 yard gain, a 3 yard run, a 12 yard TD pass, and a 9 yard TD pass.