Because the Saints confirmed curiosity in a number of Eagles staffers for Kellen Moore‘s new OC, Philadelphia will defend one by way of promotion. Kevin Patullo will change Moore as OC, NFL.com’s Mike Garafolo reports.
A real Eagles OC search does not look to have transpired, pointing to the workforce’s confidence in Patullo. Whereas the Eagles’ final inner promotion at OC (changing Shane Steichen with Brian Johnson) failed, Patullo — rumored as a Saints OC option early in that search — will likely be known as upon to step in for Moore.
Patullo was one of Nick Sirianni‘s hires when he arrived in Philly in 2021. He has been the team’s pass-game coordinator for four seasons. Although he did not leapfrog Johnson to become OC once Steichen took the Colts’ head coach job in 2023, he will make the move up after an Eagles job search that never appeared to take shape.
The Eagles needed to have conducted an interview with at least one external minority to comply with the Rooney Rule, but they are not the only NFC power to move quickly on a candidate without having performed a thorough search. The Lions hired John Morton soon after losing Ben Johnson. Patullo will replace Moore, who rebuilt his stock after a down Chargers season. While Moore will walk into a Saints situation with plenty of questions, Patullo will take the keys to an offense that just stampeded past the Chiefs to win Super Bowl LIX.
Philly is expected to lose QBs coach Doug Nussmeier to the Saints, as Moore’s new OC, but they will not see both offensive staffers leave. Nussmeier also has much closer ties to Moore than the team, having worked with the ex-Cowboys QB in Dallas and Los Angeles. Patullo, 43, has come up through the coaching ranks under Sirianni and Frank Reich.
Reich hired Patullo as his wide receivers coach to start his Colts tenure in 2018, and he held that role for two years before transitioning to a pass-game specialist in 2020. Sirianni brought Patullo with him to Philly in 2021, immediately installing him as pass-game coordinator. Patullo worked under Steichen for two years, as the Eagles transitioned to a run-oriented attack midway through the 2021 season before seeing Jalen Hurts show great progress as a passer throughout an MVP-caliber 2022 season. After the Eagles took a step again in 2023, Moore, Patullo and Co. retooled the offense as soon as once more this previous season.
The Eagles didn’t ask Hurts to function as a passer on the extent he had in 2022 and ’23, with the Saquon Barkley signing reworking Philly’s floor assault. The workforce ran roughshod over the Commanders within the NFC championship sport, and though the Chiefs did effectively to attenuate Barkley, the Eagles acquired a pointy sport from Hurts in an MVP efficiency that included TD passes to A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith and a Tremendous Bowl QB document 72 dashing yards.
Regardless of the Eagles’ step again below Johnson in 2023, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jeff McLane indicates the workforce wished continuity for Hurts, who has educated in 4 offensive schemes over his first 5 seasons. Additionally transferring in faculty, Hurts has seen vital change on his teaching staffs in that span. Sirianni had Patullo pegged as his most popular Moore successor as soon as he came upon the Saints rent was imminent, McLane provides, lending to the non-search right here.
The 2025 season will mark Patullo’s first crack as a play-caller at any level, but McLane adds he was closely involved with that process under Moore. Still, this will be a notable storyline to follow in Philadelphia, as Moore carried five seasons of play-calling experience into last season. Sirianni gave up play-calling duties midway through the ’21 season and will not be expected to reclaim them, as this formula has now produced two Eagles Super Bowl berths and a runaway title.
Beyond the Patullo move, NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero adds the Eagles are planning to rent Parks Frazier to fill Patullo’s outdated job. Philly’s new pass-game coordinator is finest recognized for the half-season he spent as Jeff Saturday‘s Colts play-caller, as others turning the job down led to Indianapolis’ assistant QBs coach to take the function. Frazier, 33, labored for the 2-15 Panthers in 2023 (as pass-game coordinator) as for the Dolphins as an offensive assistant final season.
Whereas Frazier will step again right into a outstanding function, the Eagles have ensured continuity below Sirianni within the type of Patullo shifting up and acclaimed O-line coach Jeff Stoutland remaining in place as run-game coordinator. Frazier labored with Sirianni below Reich for 3 seasons in Indianapolis, although he topped out on the standard management degree throughout that point.
