94WIP Morning Show host and former Eagles fullback Jon Ritchie went off on Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni for saying this week that, "Your numbers sometimes are what they say they are."
"Sadly that's true," Ritchie said making a guest appearance on the 94WIP Midday Show with Hugh Douglas and Joe Giglio.
"We know that in first and second down," Sirianni said this week. "You look at yardage and you look at points. We're in the top 10 in both of those for the second year in a row. You look at third down, I think we're number three in third down. You look at red zone, we're in the top 10 in red zone."
Well, Ritchie brough the numbers for himself, focusing on the last six weeks—a brutal 1-5 stretch for the Eagles.
"We've only scored 20.5 points per game over the last month and a half," Ritchie said. "Our points per game differential is almost 10 over the last month and a half, that happens to be the fourth most in the NFL. Our turnover differential is minus eight, which is the worst in the NFL. Our defense, we're 30th in points per game allowed—25, over 25 points per game allowed, that's an important stat guys. We're 31st in opponent third down percentage. Every team I've ever been on, they point to third down conversion percentage as a critical factor, a direct indicator of success whether you win or lose and we're 31st in stopping opponents on third down. 21 touchdowns against us in the last six weeks is the worst in the league. Takeaways we're tied with 23rd with 18. Sacks, we know about last year when we had 70 of them, this year we're 20th. We're 26th in yards per game allowed. Our offense, by the way, Jalen has a sub 90 quarterback rating in five of the last six games and we scored under 20 points in three of our last five games. We're only eighth in the NFL in rushing the football when I thought we should have been first with our talent! We fail constantly at blitz pick up. We get blitzed more than any other team in the league as a result. Jalen ranking 27th in the league when teams send blitzes of six or more. We watch him break the pocket consistently with pressure when only four are coming. It's driving me insane. I cannot believe Nick Sirianni went there, that he said you are what your numbers say you are because our numbers say you are horrendous and our coach has done a terrible, terrible job."
