The touches that Kevin Patullo puts on the Eagles as the team's new offensive coordinator will become evident when the 2025 regular season begins, so if you are looking for clues on how things might be different, you will have to wait until then.
In the meantime, Patullo – the passing game coordinator since he and Head Coach Nick Sirianni arrived for the 2021 season – has the full attention of his offense as he takes his OC turn and the Eagles, a team full of returning starters on that side of the football, go through the process of gearing up for another run at it in the season ahead for a group that, we all saw it, did a lot of things right a season ago.
Patullo isn't here to reinvent the wheel. He and the offensive coaching staff are going to take what the Eagles do well – a lot, we know – and strive to be more efficient. They're going to anticipate what defenses will try to take away and come up with multiple counter moves to win that chess match. They're going to continue the evolution of an offense that now has its fourth offensive coordinator – Patullo follows Shane Steichen, Brian Johnson, and Kellen Moore – and its fifth playcaller – Sirianni, then Steichen, then Johnson, and Moore last year – since 2021.
"As far as different, you know we go through the process at the end of each year of examining what we do well, what we need to improve upon, and any trends or anything we can see that we can add to it," Patullo said on Wednesday, his first press conference since he was elevated to offensive coordinator when Moore left to become the head coach in New Orleans. "So I think, when you say 'different,' I think it's going to be, what do our players do best, like it's been, and from there we just expand upon it. I think we're really good at this, let's bring this to the table, and try this and see what we can take.
"When you look at our (coaching) staff as a whole, and we've added some new coaches, so they bring some other layers to it, too, in the knowledge and what they have in their backgrounds. As we go forward, as we build this thing together as a staff, you'll see some new wrinkles here and there, but moreso it's building upon what our players do best."