By Andrew Meyers
The Eagles were notoriously slow starters in 2018.
They scored just 41 points in the game’s opening quarter in 2018, one of the league’s lowest scores. In 2017, they scored a top-three 106 points. Pederson wants to get back to 2017 form and rid his offense of the slow starts from 2018.
In yesterday’s Ravens joint training camp press conference, Pederson emphasized getting faster to start games.
Pederson said, via the Eagles official website:
“Almost every day [I’ve tried to adjust starting faster] with the offense, really with the defense. Because, a lot of times you notice if we win the toss we defer, and our defense goes onto the field.
“We [start] fast with a three and out or at least getting a stop somewhere in that opening drive. I’ve emphasized that quite a bit this summer with our offense. And being kind of open minded but at the same time understanding we have to start faster. We scored 41 points in all of first quarters last year, that’s not good enough and that’s something we continue to talk about and address.”
