Saquon Barkley and Lane Johnson Reveal What Must Change for Eagles' Offense

With a veteran-led team like the Philadelphia Eagles, there really isn't much excuse for them to play the kind of football they have over the past 12 months. 

While Philadelphia won a boatload of games last season, I don't think any fan would disagree that it just didn't look that great. 

Ultimately, the Eagles are winning games, even this season at 2-1, but it doesn't feel like they're that impressive. Something has to change, and that was on full display Monday night. Instead of changing for the better, we saw the Eagles struggle on both sides of the ball. 

The offense wasn't able to get anything going; the team committed 10 penalties, threw two interceptions, and had a fumble lost. 

Many of these issues were self-inflicted, as Lane Johnson and Saquon Barkley recently said, adding that if they're going to take a step forward on offense, it will be because of self-reflection and an understanding that things have to change.

“You go look at the tape, there’s some things we did well,” Johnson said, per NBCS Philly. “But when it comes to self-sabotage, we did that a lot today. That’s on us. But if we can move forward and capitalize on the stuff that we did improve on tonight and avoid the costly mistakes, then hopefully we’ll get a different outcome.”

“Be honest with each other,” Barkley said. “Accountability. When we’re watching film, when we’re talking about it, be truthful with each other. We have an old enough team and guys who are able to accept accountability. It’s all of us. We all have to own it and got to do a better job.

After an offseason of questions about what things will look like on offense, Philadelphia hasn't answered any of them to start the year. I'm not surprised there are some offensive struggles to start the year, but I didn't expect them to look this bad against the Bears.

Chicago is more of an offensive team, so for it to come out and play the way it did on defense against Philadelphia is not a promising sign at all.