Another offseason, another Eagles offensive coordinator change. After an inconsistent season, Philadelphia is moving on from OC Kevin Patullo, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports.
After a wild-card loss to a shorthanded 49ers team, it is certainly not surprising the Eagles are making another change. This marks the second time in three offseasons Nick Sirianni has pulled the plug on an OC. Patullo, though, has been with Sirianni since their days in Indianapolis. Promoted to OC in 2025, Patullo struggled to lead an offense with considerable talent.
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Sirianni may not be ready to remove Patullo from his staff entirely, however. It is possible the assistant stays on staff in a different role, NFL.com’s Mike Garafolo adds. It is not certain this happens, with Garafolo noting talks are upcoming about Sirianni and Patullo staying together. Patullo has coached with Sirianni since Frank Reich‘s 2018 arrival in Indianapolis.
“I have decided to make a make a change at offensive coordinator,” Sirianni said (via The Athletic’s Zach Berman). “I met with Kevin today to discuss the difficult decision, as he is a great coach who has my utmost respect. He has been integral to this team’s success over the last five years. Not only to the on-field product but behind the scenes as a valued leader for our players and organization. I have no doubt he will continue to have a successful coaching career.”
The Eagles will be searching for their fifth OC in the Sirianni era. Shane Steichen held the role for two seasons but joined the Colts as HC in 2023. Sirianni promoted QBs coach Brian Johnson to fill the role. Johnson struggled, and the Eagles collapsed in 2023. He ended up fired, leading to Kellen Moore coming in and reestablishing his stock. Moore did well enough during a dominant Eagles Super Bowl-winning season that he landed the Saints’ HC job. This led to Sirianni promoting Patullo from pass-game coordinator to OC. Like Johnson, this promotion did not yield consistently good results.
Rumblings about a potential change began weeks ago. Patullo memorably saw his house egged during a trying season in the OC role. Sirianni is an offense-oriented HC, but he has not called plays since giving the reins to Steichen midway through his rookie season in Philly. But Sirianni began to take a bigger role in the offense late in the season. Although the end result was not as bad as the 2023 nosedive, the Eagles could not find a spark ahead of a wild-card home loss.
Patullo, 44, had not called plays at any level previously. Save for a one-off stay at Texas A&M (2017), he has been in the NFL since 2007. The former Chiefs, Bills, Titans, Jets and Colts assistant had been the Eagles’ pass-game coordinator for four seasons. Sirianni promoted Johnson over Patullo in 2023 but opted to give the OC gig to his longtime coworker last year. The Eagles dropped from seventh to 19th in scoring offense and from eighth to 24th in yardage between the 2024 and ’25 seasons. Philly ranked 19th in EPA per drive. Like 2023, infighting emerged ahead of a playoff one-and-done.
While Lane Johnson‘s late-season absence proved pivotal, Patullo never seemed especially comfortable at the wheel. Saquon Barkley stayed healthy all season but fell well off his stratospheric 2024 pace, finishing with 1,140 rushing yards. The Eagles ranked 18th in rushing, completing that descent months after making Barkley the NFL’s first $20MM-per-year running back. Philly’s Jalen Hurts-led passing attack ranked 23rd. A.J. Brown grumbling took place once again, but unlike in 2024, the Eagles could not offset pass-game inconsistency with Barkley dominance to stabilize their offense.
Given the success Steichen and Moore achieved compared to Sirianni’s promoted OCs, it would stand to reason the next Eagles play-caller will come from outside the organization. Sirianni had been rumored to be on the hot seat when he fired Johnson, but after the 2024 Eagles zoomed to a Super Bowl title, the HC received an extension and is in no danger of losing his job now. But a key retooling measure is coming.
While Brown trade rumors figure to pick up again soon — as Sirianni and the team’s top wideout had a memorable run-in following a Brown drop in the 49ers matchup — the Eagles should still return plenty of talent on offense to make this job attractive.
If Eberflus had any competition for least surprising firing, here it is.
It’s official. The problem with the NFL is the OC’s. They are evil.
And the injuries. Ban them
Both
And the WR’s. You know Brown talks a big game and whines like an All Star but it sure looked to me in big games he dropped a heck of a lot of passes. Howie is a great talent evaluator but he dropped the ball a bit on the WR room I think. They were pretty one dimensional and when you can only do one thing on offense even Barkley wasn’t going very far.
The eagles are frauds but good on hurts for getting the town a ring
I think I’d credit Fangio or Barkley for that one, first.
And the o line in 2024/2025. Beasts when healthy!
Nonsense
Shocked!
Not
Hahaha! It was funny when you said “not” hahahahahaha
Burger Flipper
More like Hurts struggled to lead an offense that featured considerable talent.
Your opinion and analysis is notimportant
That last play call was the entire season in a nut shell. No imagination…everyone go deep….. It was the OC…the entire nation knows it except the Hurts haters
It was a bad school yard play. That drive summed up the season: underwhelming, unprepared, not good enough. But the sign were clear about this offense even with injuries to o lineman by week 6. For Sirianni not to step in and take the reins as a defending Super Bowl winner and repeat a version of 2023 allowing the same mistakes he made while watching a weak coordinator drive the team off a cliff. So as an Eagles fan, they had the loss to the Niners coming. Sirianni is as good as his coordinators. The Eagles have a really good professional defensive coordinator in Fangio. He’s a master at his craft and doesn’t seem to have HC fever. They need a Frank Reich type o coordinator that might have the same impact as Fangio and not taking an OC job to jump ship the following year. Why Hurts stopped running and keeping defenses on their heels, we’ll never be told. Was it his decision, was it the coaches decision? The reality is him not running enough kept the offense predictable and didn’t help Barkley have success this yr. It put the o line in a pass blocking situation which is different than run blocking which is more of delivering the punch rather than taking one. With injured o lineman, pass blocking takes more of a toll. With hurts holding the ball a bit long, that pass blocking becomes deadly for an unhealthy o line. When Hurts passes and runs effectively, he’s top 10. When he doesn’t, he’s bottom 10. AJ Brown has talent but he has lost a step and gets pushed to the outside on his routes. This put Hurts in a spot to be near perfect on throws bc Brown did not create space in his routes. He cried he wanted the ball and when it came to him, he didn’t make a play. He short armed routes worse than Ricky Waters and his route running was not sharp or tough enough.
Maybe Brown can read a book about that.
Hopefully he reads a book on leadership too bc as a captain, it’s not a good luck when you’re stinking it up on the field to get in a shouting match with the HC. The HC has his issues too, and strives to be a buddy motivator for the players. That’s why they love him and relate to him. Respect him? Well only if they get their way. He does not want to play call that’s like the owner of a plumbing company not wanting to do the work but collect the rate and have plumbers that work for him do the work and take the blame if it’s a bad job but if it’s a good job, he takes the credit. I believe the front office keeps him around bc he’s happy to be an NFL HC and controllable unlike Doug Pederson was. But guess what, he won and got fired three yrs after winning a title. But Sirianni will be given an adult/non buddy O coordinator and he’ll go on being a winning CEO head coach that guys like Mcvay, Patton, and others that call plays when the ship is headed for the iceberg will beat and out coach. His regular season record is on par with one of the best ever but he’s probably no better in some cases than Ricky Kotite.
Thankfully more of this is coming out now, especially with Hurts’ decision making all year, the whole lack of running or called roll outs thing, and especially about where the lack of calling deceptive motion and shifting really actually came from. Simply griping about playcalling is intellectually lazy. There’s much more, especially when it comes to the qb. If you did watch the games some people don’t understand what they were watching.
Right. Because Hurts was responsible for the run game being ineffective all year. It was
his fault his receivers dropped passes against SF. Stop
Hurts played like an all time great and has no strange flaws that he won’t get over and has no blame. I’m sorry, I just watched every game again and apologize.
What should stop is a religious zealousness toward any qb to make him blameless. It doesn’t get the team nor fandom anywhere.
Again more of his role regarding blame is slowly coming out and that’s a good thing.
Being intellectually lazy as opposed to fully honest?
Stop.
I never said he didn’t have his flaws. But spare me the whole “griping about the playcalling is intellectually lazy” narrative when it was blatantly obvious when the offense was so predictable, stale and ineffective. I watched the games too my guy
It was a collective failure. Players and coaching.
So youre actually agreeing with me.
I do. Just not about the griping of the playcalling.
I had a bad feeling going into the game. The issues that plagued this team since the Rams game showed up when it mattered most and it cost them
Here’s what I think we all should do. Look up Derrick Gunn’s article. Look up Aj Brown’s gripes. Then look up the recent Shady McCoy comments.
Of course griping of the playing is ok and important…. but there’s more to this whole thing and it’s not good.
@andymeyer- Incredibly dumb to focus on one game. Hurts played in 18 of them this season.
Focused on one game? I just used it as an example. Of course he played in all 18 games. Thanks captain obvious
And they were not the best. No real offensive consistency or flow. Hurts along with the. Is hung staff has to do a better job.
If he runs more the offer is more effective and less predictable. Also his running ability opens up the game more for running backs and receivers. Defenses played the Eagles this year and has an easier time against hurts bc he limited his effectiveness. Whether it was his decision or a coach’s design, it didn’t work. The guy is in his early 20s and too young to give up on his legs and not an elite enough passer to rely solely on his arm ability. So, yeah, he needs to get back to the old Jalen bc he’s really good when he’s that player. Everyone who watches the Eagles and loves the team wants him to succeed. It the fact that he has the tools and proven ability that when he doesn’t use his whole arsenal, it is frustrating.
This was a prime year to go back to back bc contracts are going to change this team in 2026. If the birds wanted to run it back in 2025, they needed to literally run it back.
His play calling was bland, predictable and clueless. He never made adjustments and squandered tremendous talent. This comes as a surprise to exactly no one.
If it were only so simple
I agree so why is Sirianni still around? Yes he won a Super Bowl but he fails to take charge when the OC is not getting the job done. It’s like every other year. This past 4 year window has a chance to be a dynasty in this era which is hard bc of free agency and the cap. This past season especially was probably the best shot any team since the patriots of going back to back. For me, this problem of offensive inconsistency began when Kellen Moore left for a HC job. Eagles front office should have paid him and maybe he would have stuck around. Would you rather be a HC on a bad team or a well paid, superior, Super Bowl winning OC on a great team. If he stuck around this year, he’d have gotten a better HC gig other than the Saints. Atlanta or Baltimore would be better spots with more talent for a Kellen Moore this offseason.
What took so long?? SMH
Shades of 2023 … even Stoutland had a tough year.
What I was shocked about is that 49ers have a porous pass rush all season long, questionable safety play on the deep ball and this OC did not call for any shot plays downfield. No seam routes, double moves on this secondary which is really young. Everything was a cloud of dust for them. Terrible game plan and execution against this defense. Deserved to be fired after that showing.
Brown couldnt get to a couple of deep shots. Should have tried to get it to Smith more.
Brown had the ball hit his hands on at least 2 of those. I’d argue he should have caught all 3 of them.
Agree they should have gone to Smith more though. He’s more clutch than AJ
In other words, Howie and Jeff told him to fire Patullo
Yes and they better be the ones hiring the next OV.
One week too late.
If Kellen Moore never left Eagles would of had a dynasty
Lol the offense was simplified for hurts under Moore. RPO RPO RPO
Too little too late.
Too little too late lmao
Too little too late x3
Thank goodness his reign of terror is over
Should have paid Moore 6M or more like Chip Kelly got… highest paid OC
Philly has something to have a parade over now
kingsbury
They need to restock that OL, but the play calling was definitely a problem (four verts on a got to have it play to end your season, SMH). Probably moving out of their window with this core of players because Barkley was clearly not the same, and they’ll need to replenish multiple offensive line spots.
Jalen Hurts will have his “eleventh” different OC in the last eleven years