Interesting read on Johnson and the Eagles offense this year.
Key takeaways:
- Very similar statistical performance this year and last in PPG (28.18 this year and 27.55 last year), Yards per play (5.4/5.8) and 3rd down % (47.3/47.2)
- After all the justifiable complaints about Red Zone, we are now 5th in RZ conversion (62.8%)
- We went 10 for 10 in the RZ against Cowboys, Chiefs and Bills
- He comes off as self-aware and confident in the quotes, and even has a great line about his mom telling him he’s going to give her a heart attack with these crazy finishes.
I do not have the time to do it right now, but it would be interesting to see the number of big plays on actual calls by Johnson vs audibles at the line by Hurts/broken plays where Hurts makes a play. Example in the Chiefs game there were a bunch of questionable calls before we got the big play to Smith down to the goalline, Sirianni straight up said this was an audible by Hurts at the line. We had a bunch of questionable playcalling in the Bills game then we got the big play on the TD throw to Zaccheaus which was on a broken play.