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Eagles Coach Stands By His Offensive Coordinator

The Philadelphia EAgles' embattled OC is going anywhere despite an offense that hasn't been consistent enough in the first 12 weeks of the season.
Sep 28, 2025; Tampa, Florida, USA; Philadelphia Eagles offensive coach Kevin Patullo communicates with quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) during a timeout in the second quarter against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images
Sep 28, 2025; Tampa, Florida, USA; Philadelphia Eagles offensive coach Kevin Patullo communicates with quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) during a timeout in the second quarter against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images | Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images

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PHILADELPHIA – Kevin Patullo is staying. The Eagles’ embattled offensive coordinator, the orchestrator of an offense that has scored seven points or less in an entire half in eight of the team’s 11 games this season, will remain in place.

Head coach Nick Sirianni said on Monday afternoon that he isn’t considering replacing his first-year OC after the offense was shutout in the second half, which allowed the Cowboys to score 24 unanswered points in a 24-21 win on Sunday.

The Eagles abandoned the run in the game, rushing the ball just 18 times for 63 net yards. Sauquon Barkley had just 10 runs for 22 yards.

“As coaches, we’re always looking for answers, and we’re never into assigning blame,” said Sirianni. “It’s just looking for answers. I think what sometimes can happen is, like, it’s just this. Well, it’s not just that. It’s every piece of the puzzle, coaching, playing, execution, scheme, everything. We have to be better in all those aspects.”

The coach went one step further in his unwavering support of Patullo. He said the OC did a good job on Sunday.

Nick Sirianni Said His OC Did A Good Job Against Dallas

Nick Siriann
Nov 23, 2025; Arlington, Texas, USA; Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni looks on before the game against the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images | Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images

“I thought Kevin did a good job of calling it,” said Sirianni. “Obviously, he’s gonna want plays back just like every player and myself. We all want plays back. When you’re going through it like that, that’s what you’re always looking at. It’s never in football just one thing, even though you’re always trying to find answers.”

Remember, Sirianni and Patullo are good friends. They came to Philadelphia together in 2021, but had known each other previously. You'd hate for that to play a role in any decision, but that's unlikely with general manager Howie Roseman and ownerJeffrey Lurie collaborating with the head coach on any decisions.

There are just six weeks left in the season, and the Eagles are 8-3 despite a clunky offense that doesn’t seem to do anything well and hasn't done much well over the first 12 weeks of the year. Their next chance comes up quickly – Friday at home against a Chicago Bears team that leads the league at plus-16 in turnover ratio. By comparison, the Eagles are sixth in the league at plus-six.

After the Bears, the rest of the Eagles’ schedule looks like this:

-at the Chargers

-home vs. the Raiders

-at the Commanders

-at the Bills

-home vs. the Commanders

“I feel like we got the right people, as players, as coaches that have had success, and we’re all searching for answers to make it more consistent,” said Siranni. “There are some good things, obviously there are some not so good things, and we have to find things that we can really hang our hat on and then the complements that come off of that. When we talk about identity we always want to be play tough, detailed, together, that’s never changing, but the way you play each individual game, obviously, can change.

“So, it can’t just be, hey, we gotta run it better, hey, we gotta pass it better, or hey, we gotta play action better because at some point in each of these games that we have left, and really all that we’re focused on is this next one, it will have to be a little bit of everything to reach the goals that we want to reach.”

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Ed Kracz
ED KRACZ

Ed Kracz has been covering the Eagles full-time for over a decade and has written about Philadelphia sports since 1996. He wrote about the Phillies in the 2008 and 2009 World Series, the Flyers in their 2010 Stanely Cup playoff run to the finals, and was in Minnesota when the Eagles secured their first-ever Super Bowl win in 2017. Ed has received multiple writing awards as a sports journalist, including several top-five finishes in the Associated Press Sports Editors awards.

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