We’re nearly halfway through the season and the same problem that plagued the Eagles offense in 2018 is still around in 2019: they’re really bad at starting games.
But how bad are they really? Let’s look at it from a different angle, and take the scoring out of the picture for a moment. Scoring is the end result, and end results aren’t always indicative of the quality of a process. Let’s look at yards per play, which tells us something about the process. There is noise in this stat, but good offenses do well with it and bad ones don’t.