Kevin Patullo is out as the Philadelphia Eagles’ offensive coordinator, the team announced.
“I have decided to make a change at offensive coordinator,” Nick Sirianni said in a statement on Tuesday, Jan. 13. “I met with Kevin today to discuss the difficult decision, as he is a great coach who has my utmost respect.
The move comes two days after the Eagles lost to the San Francisco 49ers in the Wild Card round, ending their season and their chance to repeat as Super Bowl champions.
Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reported Tuesday there’s a chance Patullo could remain on the Eagles’ coaching staff in a dimished role.
Patullo, promoted in February after four years as Nick Sirianni’s passing game coordinator, oversaw an offense that underachieved all year, finishing 20th in scoring, 24th in total yards 23rd in passing offense, 24th on third down and 18th in rushing yards.
The offense looked stale and predictable and was rarely productive in the second half. Although they both finished with over 1,000 yards, nothing came easily for A.J. Brown and Saquon Barkley, who both got off to slow starts and didn’t approach their performances of previous seasons.
The Eagles, with the 6th-highest offensive payroll in the NFL according to Spotrac, scored 19 or fewer points in their last seven games against playoff teams, including 19 in their disappointing wild-card loss to the underdog 49ers Sunday at the Linc.
The Eagles’ 20.9 offensive points per game this year matched their fewest since 2012, when they averaged just 17.5 in Andy Reid’s final season.
Patullo’s offense had a penchant for starting out games productively, then collapsing in the second half. They scored fewer than 20 points in nine of their last 14 games and failed to score a 2nd-half touchdown six times, including Sunday.
With only right guard Mekhi Becton gone from the lineup that ranked 7th in the NFL in scoring last year and 8th in total offense and then scored an NFL-record 145 points in the postseason on the way to a Super Bowl championship, the Eagles only scored more than 19 points once against a winning team and that was in Week 3 vs. the Rams.
After the Eagles’ home loss to the Bears in late November, Patullo’s Moorestown home was pelted with eggs.
Despite Patullo’s ineffectiveness as a play caller throughout the season, Nick Sirianni defended his play caller week after week, insisting the team’s offensive issues went beyond any one person.
Patullo and Sirianni have coached together since 2018 with the Colts, when Sirianni was offensive coordinator under Frank Reich and Patullo was receivers coach. When Sirianni replaced Doug Pederson as Eagles head coach in 2021, he brought Patullo with him.
But the Eagles never got going on offense and actually regressed during the season, averaging 24 points during the 4-0 start of the season but just 20.2 over the last 14 games, when the Eagles were 7-7.
Patullo’s dismissal continues a pattern of constant upheaval on Sirianni’s offensive coaching staff.
Whoever replaces Patullo will be Sirianni’s fifth offensive coordinator, following Shane Steichen in 2021 and 2022, Brian Johnson in 2023, Kellen Moore in 2024 and Patullo in 2025. He will be Jalen Hurts’ seventh play caller as a pro, including Pederson in 2020 and Sirianni the first half of 2021 plus Steichen, Johnson, Moore and Patullo.
That lack of stability is something Hurts has often lamented. Steichen is the only play caller he’s had for more than a year since high school and Patullo’s replacement will be the Eagles’ fifth offensive coordinator in five years.
Hurts’ performance this year is a big reason Patullo is no longer here. Hurts didn’t have a bad 2025 season but was rarely elite and threw for 185 or fewer yards an NFL-high nine times, most by an Eagles QB since Ron Jaworski in 1979. He passed for only 168 yards in the playoff loss to the 49ers and only rushed for 14 yards.
The 44-year-old Patullo attended Hillsborough High School in Somerset County, also the alma mater of former Phillie Joe Lis and long-time NFL receiver Ricky Proehl, now the Panthers’ WRs coach.
He played football at South Florida before starting his coaching career as a quality control assistant with the Chiefs in 2007. After stints with the Bills, Titans and Jets, he spent a year at Texas A&M before joining Reich with the Colts in 2018.
The game Sunday was the first in franchise history that the Eagles lost at home after leading by six or more points going into the fourth quarter. It was also the first playoff game they’ve lost at home after leading by at least three points going into the second half.
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