The Eagles New Look Offense Could Look VERY Different Next Season

Greg Olsen joined The Rich Eisen Show to break down what may be the most significant offensive overhaul in the league this offseason. The Philadelphia Eagles.

Rich laid out the moves. The Eagles drafted wide receiver Mai Lemon. They traded for Dontayvion Wicks. They signed Hollywood Brown. Sean Manion is the new offensive coordinator. The math on the roster all but confirms AJ Brown is on his way out.

Olsen, who knows the receiver-led offense from his playing days, started with the system change.

The Manion tree, he said, comes from the Shanahan and LaFleur lineage. That means under-center play action. Quarterbacks turning their backs to the defense. Boot action. Crossers off of run looks. It is a different visual identity than what Jalen Hurts has run in Philadelphia, where shotgun, RPOs and quarterback reads have been the operating system.

The move under center, Olsen explained, is a tradeoff. You lose the threat of the quarterback as a designed runner the moment his back is to the line. For most of Hurts' career that threat has been the foundation. But the Eagles have already shown they are pulling back on his rushing volume. The protect-the-quarterback math now aligns with the system change.

"I think visually it might look a little bit different," Olsen said. "And then obviously that ties in with a little bit of a different run game with Saquon, and there's a lot of residual impacts when you make radical changes in the presentation of your system."

The through-line is Saquon Barkley. A Shanahan-style under-center run game with a back of his caliber is the kind of change that ripples through every other concept in the playbook.

Then Rich pushed Olsen on the AJ Brown question. The Eagles, by every available signal, are letting one of the best receivers in football walk.

Olsen did not pretend to love it.

"I've always been of the mindset of like you better have a really good plan in place before you just letting great players go out the door. And AJ Brown is a fantastic wide receiver in the NFL. They've had a hard time building that passing game around his strengths over long periods of time."

He pointed to his own playing career as the reference point. Olsen got to play with Steve Smith. Players of that caliber, he said, change games. They warp coverages. They are not interchangeable.

The counterargument, Olsen continued, is Howie Roseman. The Eagles general manager has earned the benefit of the doubt as one of the top two personnel evaluators in the entire league. Drafting Lemon in the first round and acquiring Wicks in free agency before moving on from Brown signals there is a coherent plan.

"If anyone's earned the right to make these decisions and I have the trust that it's going to work out, it's Howie Roseman."

The Eagles, in other words, are betting that addition by subtraction works when the personnel architect making the call has the track record. Rich left the segment with the same takeaway. Philadelphia in 2026 is going to look different on Sundays. The question is whether different is better.