{"id":84586,"date":"2026-01-12T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84586\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:52:11","slug":"eagles-kevin-patullo-is-in-danger-of-getting-fired-soon-are-there-any-reasons-to-keep-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84586\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles’ Kevin Patullo is in danger of getting fired soon. Are there any reasons to keep him?"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo\u2019s job<\/a> appears to be in jeopardy following Sunday\u2019s playoff loss, despite players rallying to his defense<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the Eagles\u2019 offensive issues finally caught up to them in their 23-19 wild-card round loss to the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> at Lincoln Financial Field.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s playoff loss exemplified the Eagles\u2019 season-long offensive struggles: The offense played well in the first half and sputtered in the second. In the final two quarters on Sunday, they scored no touchdowns, punted three times, settled for two field goals and only gained 119 total yards. <\/p>\n

With 43 seconds left, the Eagles<\/a> had one last shot, but quarterback Jalen Hurts<\/a>‘ fourth-and-11 pass to tight end Dallas Goedert<\/a> was broken up. <\/p>\n

In the locker room after the game, the players blamed themselves for the loss and season-long offensive struggles, shielding Patullo from criticism.<\/p>\n

But no matter what they say in his defense, it likely won\u2019t stop his firing. In the coming days or weeks, the Eagles will likely move on from Patullo and search for their fifth new offensive coordinator in the last six years.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the stuff is on us as players,\u201d Eagles wide receiver DeVonta Smith said. \u201cIt works hand in hand. We have to all pick each other up. We have to pick him up. He has to pick us up. I feel like he called a great offense the whole year. We just didn\u2019t execute well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKevin\u2019s been great,\u201d Eagles left guard Landon Dickerson also said in Patullo\u2019s defense. \u201cI mean, he\u2019s been with us for five years now. I think he\u2019s done a tremendous job. Obviously, it\u2019s kind of the first time he\u2019s been put in this position, but I think he handled it extremely well, and it\u2019s all about growing and getting better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dating back to their time together on the Colts\u2019 staff in 2018, Patullo has served as Eagles coach Nick Sirianni\u2019s right-hand man<\/a>. But at the end of the day, it\u2019s a result-driven business \u2014 and Patullo didn\u2019t produce good enough results to stick around. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be time to evaluate everybody\u2019s performance,\u201d Sirianni said during his post-game press conference. \u201cRight now, I feel for all our guys in the locker room, all the players, all the coaches, the front office, everybody that works so hard, the fans that come out and support us, Mr. [Chairman\/CEO Jeffrey] Lurie. I feel for all of us, all of them, and there\u2019ll be time to evaluate everything coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n

On paper, the Eagles had one of the most talented offenses in the NFL entering this season, but it never came to fruition. The offensive line regressed, wide receiver A.J. Brown had a down year and Hurts was inconsistent at times. <\/p>\n

While this made Patullo\u2019s job more difficult, he never found solutions. The Eagles finished the year ranked 24th in total offense, 23rd in passing, 18th in rushing, 19th in scoring and near the bottom of many other offensive categories. That is a disappointing result considering most of the team\u2019s money is tied up in the offense.<\/p>\n

Throughout the season, the Eagles struggled to adjust in the second half of games and have been too conservative in key moments \u2014 issues that have stood out to players.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, obviously you feel it,\u201d right tackle Fred Johnson said about the offense\u2019s conservative nature. \u201cYou are out there in the game. That\u2019s what happened. Like I said, they had a good answer (to what we were doing).\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson said Patullo has \u201cimproved over the year, but that\u2019s about it\u201d when asked why the team should have confidence in Patullo if he returns next season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s too deep of a question. I can\u2019t answer that,\u201d Eagles left tackle Jordan Mailata said when asked the same question.<\/p>\n

Patullo called plays for the first time at any level this season, so it was unfair to expect great things out of him. <\/p>\n

The Eagles hoped his experience as the pass game coordinator and his knowledge of the scheme would help him have immediate success, but it became clear early on that he wasn\u2019t ready for the role. <\/p>\n

Patullo, 44, could be a good coordinator at some point during his career, but he needs to gain more experience, and the Eagles probably won\u2019t be the team that gives it to him.<\/p>\n

The Eagles will try to replace Patullo with an experienced coordinator. <\/p>\n

If Sirianni\u2019s scheme remains in place, the offense could continue to struggle, as its concepts and designs have become too easy to defend. <\/p>\n

\u201cCan\u2019t point nobody out,\u201d Smith said about the offense\u2019s problems this season. \u201cWe didn\u2019t execute offensively as a whole, whether it was one misassignment or things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo\u2019s job appears to be in jeopardy following Sunday\u2019s playoff loss, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11195,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-84586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-nflraw25","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}