{"id":90317,"date":"2026-01-18T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90317\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:04:11","slug":"special-teams-coordinator-michael-clay-returning-to-eagles-on-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90317\/","title":{"rendered":"Special teams coordinator Michael Clay returning to Eagles on new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clay sticking with the Eagles was not a foregone conclusion following Philadelphia&#8217;s disappointing wild-card exit from the playoffs, although outside <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jake-elliott\/\" title=\"Jake Elliott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Elliott<\/a>&#8216;s individual struggles, special teams was certainly not causing problems for the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the defense, the unit often helped keep the Eagles in position to win, with the most obvious example being a narrow Week 3 victory over the Rams in which Clay&#8217;s group blocked a field goal on each of Los Angeles&#8217; final two possessions. After the second such block, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jordan-davis\/\" title=\"Jordan Davis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Davis<\/a> took his own batted ball all the way back for a 61-yard touchdown as time expired.<\/p>\n<p>Such success was part of the reason Clay drew interest from other organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneers notably interviewed Clay for their vacancy at special teams coordinator after receiving permission from the Eagles, but Tampa Bay will now have to look elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Clay remains an Eagle, meaning Philly will only have to work on filling one coordinator position for now after telling Kevin Patullo it would be <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/eagles-announce-kevin-patullo-will-no-longer-be-offensive-coordinator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">making a change at OC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clay sticking with the Eagles was not a foregone conclusion following Philadelphia&#8217;s disappointing wild-card exit from the playoffs,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3265,139,3266,69,4538,71,70],"class_list":["post-90317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90317","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=90317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}