Parks Frazier has been the Eagles’ quarterbacks coach for just a few months but he was their passing game coordinator last season. So he has been around Jalen Hurts for a while now.

And he really enjoys working with him.

“It’s awesome,” Frazier said this week. “He is as dedicated to winning and wants to do whatever it takes to win more than any quarterback I’ve been around. He is phenomenal in the room, has really good questions, always wanting more. He is a sponge. So he’s been great.”

The Eagles this offseason had a major shakeup to their offensive coaching staff when they hired Sean Mannion as their new offensive coordinator and then hired Josh Grizzard to be their passing game coordinator. One of the ripples of the massive shuffle was that Frazier was moved from his previous post as passing game coordinator to quarterbacks coach for the 2026 season.

That means working with Hurts 1-on-1 daily. 

The 27-year-old Hurts is driven. And it can take a lot to coach a player with that kind of drive. Frazier said he’s embracing that responsibility.

“I think it just takes a lot of effort on your part,” Frazier said. “I personally enjoy working with players like that. They’re going to push you to be your best. But like we talk about, that’s just kind of the dynamic of the role. We work in the NFL. It’s the highest class for our sport and I wouldn’t want it any other way. It pushes you to be your best and you’re constantly making sure you’re out in front of things and you have good answers and you have really good, strong whys behind everything. That’s really the biggest thing.”

Hurts wants to know the why. 

That’s an important part of being his coach. There’s no doubt that Hurts can be headstrong but that quality is often viewed positively when things are going well. So for all the reporting you’ve seen that some feel Hurts isn’t very coachable, Frazier would disagree.

And for what it’s worth, so does Frazier’s predecessor Scot Loeffler, who told the Toledo Blade that he loved working with Hurts. Loeffler called Hurts “super coachable” based on his experience last season. 

Frazier, 34, joined the Eagles last year after a season with the Dolphins as an offensive assistant in 2024 and a season with the Panthers as a passing game coordinator in 2023. Before then, Frazier was with the Colts from 2018-22 in various roles, eventually taking over as interim offensive coordinator after Frank Reich was fired and replaced by Jeff Saturday.

It was in Indianapolis where Frazier crossed paths with Nick Sirianni. The two were on the staff together from 2018-2020 before Sirianni took the head coaching job in Philadelphia.

Even though a lot of the offensive coaching staff was turned over this offseason as Mannion takes control as the Eagles’ offensive coordinator, the Eagles clearly liked Frazier because they kept him. It doesn’t hurt that he has spent some time in a Shanahan-based scheme before too.

“Even though you’re running a new system,” Sirianni said earlier this offseason, “there’s a lot of things that you have to translate and you have to say, ‘Hey, do we want to keep these words the same or these words the same for there to be less learning for the players?’ They got to learn a scheme. So how have we done this in the past? He’s a good bridge, I guess, to say within that.”

When asked about the biggest difference from his role last year as passing game coordinator to his role this year as quarterbacks coach, Frazier first mentioned “direct communication” with Hurts.

There are other quarterbacks in the room, of course, and it’s Frazier’s job to coach Andy Dalton, Tanner McKee and rookie Cole Payton as well.

But ultimately, Hurts is the starting quarterback. And there’s a lot riding on his season and how he acclimates to the new offense the Eagles are going to run this season.

“Just like anybody, it’s starting from the ground up,” Frazier said. “You learn terminology, you learn what is my role in the offense, what are the most critical things for me in my position. Like I just said about Jalen, he is willing to do anything. He takes whatever is in front of him and he attacks it. That’s what he’s doing right now and he’s doing it well.”