{"id":152453,"date":"2026-02-12T03:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152453\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:09:17","slug":"kevin-patullo-hired-as-miami-dolphins-pass-game-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152453\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Patullo hired as Miami Dolphins pass-game coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Feb. 11, 2026, 5:17 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Kevin Patullo era is officially over in Philadelphia as the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\" data-autotag=\"c1b3a094-e294-4a77-b1b2-dbdbd5bfa2c5\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Eagles<\/a>&#8216; assistant coach will take his talents to the AFC East. <a href=\"http:\/\/theeagleswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/eagles\/2026\/01\/13\/kevin-patullo-fired-philadelphia-eagles-news-nick-sirianni\/88148868007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After being retained on the Eagles staff<\/a>, Mike Garafalo is reporting that Kevin Patullo will depart Philadelphia and join the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" data-autotag=\"22ef43a4-dc5a-43ce-87cd-912a7e348a81\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Dolphins<\/a> as Miami&#8217;s pass-game coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A Davie, Florida native, Patullo will join <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=83224X1595658&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fnfl%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F47663777%2Fmiami-dolphins-hire-jeff-hafley-head-coach-faq-means&amp;xcust=SC1-SEAG&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Ftheeagleswire.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2Feagles%2F2026%2F02%2F11%2Fkevin-patullo-hired-as-miami-dolphins-pass-game-coordinator%2F88632126007%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-v-afl=\"\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">new head coach Jeff Hafley<\/a>&#8216;s staff in Miami, where he&#8217;ll work under newly promoted <a href=\"http:\/\/theeagleswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/eagles\/2026\/01\/24\/bobby-slowik-hired-dolphins-eagles-offensive-coordinator-candidate\/88339775007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After a disastrous first season at the helm, the Philadelphia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theeagleswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/eagles\/2026\/01\/13\/kevin-patullo-demoted\/88164845007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eagles fired Patullo as offensive coordinator<\/a> in a move that&#8217;s been expected for months. It wasn&#8217;t the disastrous 2023 meltdown, which saw the Birds lose 6-7 down the stretch, including a blowout loss to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Buccaneers<\/a>\u00a0in the wild card round. Still, the frustrations were similar for an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Eagles<\/a>\u00a0offense that can&#8217;t avoid sputtering after any first-half success. Sunday perfectly encompassed every frustrating analysis of the Eagles&#8217; offensive scheme. After a first quarter that saw Philadelphia amass over 100 total yards, the Eagles only managed 119 yards and 6 points in the second half, ending what should be a one-and-done experiment with Kevin Patullo as the team&#8217;s offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In the Wild Card loss to San Francisco, \u00a0the Eagles&#8217; offense had 19 first downs, but were 5-16 on third downs, 3-5 on fourth downs, for 307 total yards, 167 yards passing, 140 yards rushing, and 2-3 in the red zone while holding the football for 11 more minutes (35:39-24:21).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">An offense that ranked in the top 10 in key offensive categories last season regressed to one of the league&#8217;s worst in those same categories.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Feb. 11, 2026, 5:17 p.m. ET The Kevin Patullo era is officially over in Philadelphia as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,123,125,124,4347,73589,73590,298,9446,2577,442,307,4346,1756,300,2052,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-152453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-sstssportsnfleagles","14":"tag-sstsneagles","15":"tag-tagamerican-football","16":"tag-tagbirds","17":"tag-tagmiami-dolphins","18":"tag-tagnfl-hub","19":"tag-tagoverall-negative","20":"tag-tagphiladelphia","21":"tag-tagphiladelphia-eagles","22":"tag-tagsports-news","23":"tag-tagtampa-bay-buccaneers","24":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}