The Philadelphia Eagles have named Kevin Patullo as their next offensive coordinator, the team announced Wednesday. Patullo has served as the Eagles passing game coordinator since 2021 and replaces Kellen Moore, who left the franchise after to take the.
For the past two seasons, Patullo also held the title of associate head coach. As offensive coordinator, Patullo will work with a group led by running back Saquon Barkley, quarterback and Super Bowl LIX MVP Jalen Hurts, and wide receivers A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith. Last season under Moore, the Eagles ranked second in rushing yards, seventh in points and eighth in total offense. Prior to joining the Philadelphia staff, Patullo worked with current Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni as part of the coaching staff with the Indianapolis Colts from 2018-20. Patullo was a wide receivers coach and pass game specialist during his three seasons in Indianapolis. He’s also had coaching stints with the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, Tennessee Titans and New York Jets. How will this internal OC hire be different than ’23? Days before the Eagles played in Super Bowl LIX, Sirianni was asked a critical question. Had his experience from the previous year shaped his thinking about whether his offensive coordinator needed to be an external or internal hire? Sirianni rebuffed the question. Every situation is different, he said. The franchise was focused on other things, he said. Namely, the second Super Bowl appearance under Sirianni that they’d eventually win.
Of course, it was at the time a question for the future. Even if “the future” was only just a week beyond Philadelphia’s second-ever Super Bowl title. By the time the massive crowd at the city’s parade dissipated, Moore was days gone — head coach of the New Orleans Saints. He’d boosted his stock as a title-winning OC in his one and only year on Sirianni’s staff. He’d ascended to head-coach caliber by helping turn around an offensive system that soured in 2023. Moore was the external hire that repaired the faulty wiring left over from the internal hire who’d been fired the previous cycle. It can’t be helped that Patullo’s promotion calls to mind what Sirianni decided to do after Super Bowl LVII. Back then, after a gutting loss to the Chiefs, after then-OC Shane Steichen accepted the head-coaching job with the Colts, Sirianni promoted former quarterbacks coach Brian Johnson in the name of continuity.
Everything would be the same, Sirianni insisted at the time — almost defiantly. Steichen may be gone, but any offensive ideas that’d made the Eagles contenders would remain. At first, it seemed the 2023 season would indeed be a repeat of their previous success. But a 10-1 start devolved into a 1-6 collapse and an exit in the wild card round, in part due to the dysfunctions and predictability of an offensive system that grew stale with Johnson’s hands on the wheel but Sirianni’s hand on the ignition. By the end, Sirianni was forced to admit the offense needed a spark, an outside influence to add spice to a system he said grew stale. Moore was the catalyst to an Eagles offense that even Moore had never run. They ran the ball not only more than Moore had ever done in his history; they ran more than any Eagles team since 1978. Sirianni and Moore together blended their concepts into a playbook that turned the pass-happy NFL on its head — culminating in a pathway to a Super Bowl title perhaps no other team has the players to replicate. And Patullo was indeed there the entire time. When speaking to The Athletic in the week leading up to Super Bowl LIX, Patullo recalled being a part of Sirianni and Moore’s initial collaboration in building out the playbook. He called it a months-long “coaching clinic” — a day-after-day session of the braintrust sharing their past knowledge, pooling it with the group, then fitting a new plan to the players on the roster. Perhaps that experience gives Patullo a line of sight Johnson never had. Patullo was there in 2023. He’s been around Sirianni longer than any other staff member — dating back to their time together on Frank Reich’s staff with the Colts. When asked about Patullo ahead of Super Bowl LIX, Sirianni said there were few things as a head coach he did without first asking Patullo for his counsel. Patullo had a front row seat to the pitfalls. Perhaps, he can avoid the latency that doomed the Eagles in 2023. But Patullo lacks vital experience. He’s never been an offensive coordinator. It’s likely that Patullo will be in charge of calling plays. Sirianni has been a CEO-type coach since handing the reins to Steichen — although he was still heavily involved in game plan meetings with Johnson, less so with Moore. It will be notable how involved Sirianni will be in offensive operations with who is essentially his right-hand man. — Brooks Kubena, Eagles beat writer
What’s next for Philadelphia’s staff?
How will they fill out the remainder of the staff, with former quarterbacks coach Doug Nussmeier reportedly set to join Moore in New Orleans? Will those be external hires — the influx of ideas they lacked two cycles ago? Already, the Eagles are expected to hire Parks Frazier to replace Patullo’s role as passing game coordinator, . Frazier, an offensive assistant for the Miami Dolphins last season, also worked on Reich’s Colts staff with Sirianni and Patullo — both as an assistant to the head coach and working offensive quality control, before eventually being promoted to assistant quarterbacks coach and and interim offensive coordinator after Sirianni’s departure. Of course, there are positives to continuity. Beyond right guard Mekhi Becton, whose contract is about to expire, the entire starting offensive lineup is scheduled to return in 2025. Many of the concepts that fueled their Super Bowl LIX title will again be used in the campaign to be repeat champions. But, of course, Sirianni and Patullo must be prepared to adapt, to diversify their game to keep the league’s defenses on their toes. Such is the cycle for a franchise that employs a CEO-style head coach. Sirianni’s success will always lead to other teams poaching his staff, and the consistency of his success will depend on the success-rate of his succession plans. Patullo will be Sirianni’s fourth OC in five years. How much has Sirianni learned from his past hires? Will an internal hire be the right move this time? Further still, Patullo will be Hurts’ sixth play-caller in six years. Can Patullo, who’s never held such a position before, maximize a Super Bowl MVP around a talent-laden roster? — Kubena Required reading
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