Offense seeks a bounce-back season in 2021 - PhiladelphiaEagles.com

Everything is on hold until the Eagles hire a new head coach – except it's not really that way. The Eagles have a roster to upgrade, starting with an offense that underperformed in a points-scoring record season in the NFL. And make no mistake, fixing the offense and raising it back to a top, top level – which we haven't seen since 2017 – could go a long way toward determining just fast this team gets back into the deep-into-the-playoffs picture.

"I put a heavy emphasis on wanting to have an elite offense, and I feel like defense has variables, variations throughout the year," Chairman & CEO Jeffrey Lurie said last Monday at the press conference announcing the decision to move on from Head Coach Doug Pederson. "But if you want to be a dominant team, you need to be a top offensive unit."

With that in mind, and understanding that a lot of the offense's bounce back will be determined by the next head coach and the staff he puts in place, how much of what the Eagles have on the roster suggests that they can take a significant step forward in 2021? Quite a lot, actually.

At quarterback, the Eagles have two players with great talent. Carson Wentz regressed in 2020, we all know. The Eagles clearly think he can be fixed, and Lurie emphasized that point on Monday.

"Carson, to us, to me, and to I think virtually everybody in our organization, is a quarterback that his first four years was in many ways elite and comparable to some of the great quarterbacks' first four years in the league," Lurie said. "Fifth year, obviously not satisfactory, for whatever reasons. There are probably multiple reasons for that. The way I look at it is we have an asset and we have a talent.

"He's a great guy and he wants nothing but to win big and win Lombardi Trophies for Philadelphia. This guy is tireless. He has his heart in the right place and he's really dedicated offseason, on-season – he's just what you want. It behooves us as a team with a new coach, a new coaching staff, to be able to really get him back to that elite progression where he was capable of, and at the same time, understand that there have been many quarterbacks in their fourth and fifth year … if you trace this, you can come up with many, many quarterbacks that have a single year where it's just, whoa, the touchdown-to-interception ratio is not what you want. And we're talking some great ones, like Peyton (Manning) and Ben (Roethlisberger) and guys like that.

"So I take sort of a more, probably a longer view of this was not the best season for our offense, it was a poor season, and we also had a poor season from Carson in terms of what he's been able to show in the past. Very fixable and I fully expect him to realize his potential."

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