It feels like it’s a matter of when, and not if, the Eagles fire offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo.
If they don’t, there will be a riot at NovaCare that will make January 6th look like amateur hour.
But in the interest of keeping things real, and holding to the mantra that more than one thing can be true, how many offensive players had good seasons in 2025? How many played at the same level they did in 2024?
Not many.
And sure, it’s a chicken and egg kind of thing. Maybe they stunk because the offensive coordinator stunk, but consider...
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Good story idea here from Sully:
Yes, it is time to consider this. Who is the worst Kevin in Philly sports history? There are plenty of options.
The candidates:
He was good during his first Flyers season, led the team in playoff points, then didn’t do much in the ensuing three years. He possibly had his fingerprints all over the Cutter Gauthier situation, if you believe Anthony SanFilippo from the Snow the Goalie program.
Hayes denied that he had anything to do with Quitter Gauthier quitting on the Flyers, leaving us to choose sides between Ant and...
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By now you’ve probably figured out that the Eagles alternate between Super Bowl appearances and first round exits.
Since 2021, when Jalen Hurts became the starter:
There pattern here is obvious. You go to the Super Bowl, lose your offensive coordinator, hire a shit coordinator, then replace him with a good coordinator and...
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There’s been a lot of chatter about the final play from Sunday’s loss.
Jalen Hurts threw into triple coverage for Dallas Goedert as the Eagles pulled “four verticals” out of their high school playbook, a failed attempt to move sticks on 4th and 11 with seven San Francisco players defending four Birds.
Here’s the play itself, and a log of what was called on the final drive:
There was much of the same throughout that entire drive. A lot of 2×2 in 11 personnel, predictable routes that we’ve seen all season long.
Here’s the rest of that tweet from Kevin...
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It’s time to hand out awards, and the Eagles’ offensive MVP goes to Dallas Goedert, who caught four of his seven targets for 33 yards and a touchdown on Sunday evening. He also ran for a score on a goal line end-around, which was the most creative thing Kevin Patullo called all night.
Goedert was one of maybe three or four offensive players who had a good season.
Funny enough, he was the subject of trade rumors in the summer and only wound up staying after he took a pay cut, agreeing to a reworked contract at $10 million, down...
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Well, I can’t exactly say I’m surprised at how the Eagles’ season ended. Ultimately, the offense could not formulate a competent enough drive to extend the season that probably would have ended in Chicago next weekend anyway.
Remember when J.T. Realmuto said the Phillies had hoped to flip a switch offensively heading into the 2024 MLB Playoffs? Many of us hoped that’d be the same for the Eagles’ offense heading into their Wild Card game against the 49ers.
Once again, the offense scored a couple touchdowns and then completely turtled when it mattered the most. Blame Jake Elliott all you...
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It’s a given that Kevin Patullo is fired, right? You can’t keep him around for another year. The fans will revolt. There’s no way Jeffrey Lurie will sit there and watch that slop again.
Naturally, there’s a lot of chatter that the Birds should can Patullo and go get Mike McDaniel, who is interviewing for the Cleveland job:
For who? For what? To coach Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel? The Browns aren’t winning anything any time soon.
The job he should take is the Eagles’ offensive coordinator job. Think about it. He gets a Super Bowl-winning quarterback. He gets DeVonta...
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Here’s the sideline confrontation, or whatever you want to call it, between Nick Sirianni and A.J. Brown:
Sirianni: *“I was trying to get him off the field because we were trying to punt. That was really it. I love A.J. I think he knows how I feel about him. I have a special relationship with him. We probably went through every emotion you can possibly have together. We’ve laughed together, we’ve cried together, we’ve yelled at each other. We’re both emotional. I was trying to get him off the field and that happens in this game. It happens in this...
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A.J. Brown didn’t speak to reporters:
Probably for the best when taking our mental health into consideration, but it sure looks corny after you catch just three of your seven targets for 25 yards in a home playoff game. DeVonta Smith spoke to reporters. Always does. Brown, according to reporters, shook hands with some of his teammates before walking out the door.
There were two passes in the first half, one a deep shot that was tough for him to reel him, then a sideline go ball that hit him in the hands. Has A.J. Brown ever left his feet...
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If the Eagles were going to do anything in the playoffs this season, we all knew it would be on the strength of their defense, and not the offense.
Unfortunately, neither unit played great in a 23 to 19 home loss to end the year.
It’s hard to put too much of the blame on Vic Fangio’s unit, which picked off Brock Purdy twice and limited the San Francisco running game, but the normally-stout secondary gave up some bad explosive plays on Sunday evening. They were burned early and burned late by a 49ers team missing key weapons offensively, and...
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The Bills survived on Sunday with two tush pushes in a row:
It should not be lost on anybody that the tush push saved the Bills’ season. That’s after Sean McDermott cried about the play over the summer, then the Bills voted to ban, failed, and proceeded to run it anyway, more than any other team not named the Philadelphia Eagles .
So the blatant hypocrisy is one thing, then the fact that they needed it to save their bacon in Jacksonville is even better. You can’t write a more compelling script. The Chiefs were finally out of the way...
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You remember the viral video clip from the Eagles tailgating lots a few years back? It was the guy who did the “two years varsity” line from Invincible. Turns out he had emergency brain surgery recently and there’s now a fundraiser to help with the resulting costs:
A few years ago, many of you may recognize Tom Trampe from a Philadelphia Eagles hype video that went viral — “2 Years, Varsity!” That same larger-than-life spirit is exactly what’s carrying him through the fight of his life right now.
Recently, Tom underwent emergency brain surgery that quite literally...
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