Philadelphia's long local nightmare is over: The Eagles offense has taken its last snap of the 2025 season.
With their wild-card loss to San Francisco on Sunday night, Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley and the Eagles enter into an offseason rife with questions, namely about how to fix an offense that so often looked broken and stuck in the mud in 2025.
The simple answer to these questions is to move on from offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo. Not so fast, say Hurts and Co.
"It's too soon to think about that," the Eagles quarterback said Monday of a possible change at OC. "Like I said, I put my trust in (general manager) Howie (Roseman), (coach) Nick (Sirianni) and (owner) Mr. (Jeffrey) Lurie."
On Patullo's future calling plays in Philly, Barkley told The Athletic, "I think you have to point the finger at one person, that's what you guys have to do in your job. Somebody's got to catch the blame -- especially when we had the season we had the year before.
"Do I think that's fair? No, I don't think that's fair at all."
The Eagles weren't explosive on Sunday, but they fared better than they had over the course of the 2025 season. Philly had over 35 minutes in time of possession and had zero giveaways against San Francisco. Still, the Eagles struggled to move the ball in the second half and eventually fell, 23-19, becoming only the second team in the last 40 seasons with that level of ball control and security to lose at home in the playoffs, per NFL Research.
So capped a frustrating first season for Patullo as OC. In 2024, the Eagles under Kellen Moore ranked seventh in points scored and eighth in yards gained. After Moore jumped to coach New Orleans and Patullo took over, Philly's offense, with much of the same personnel, dropped to 19th and 24th, respectively.
After riding a 14-win regular season and division crown to a Super Bowl title last season, the repeat NFC East champion Eagles failed to get out of the opening weekend this go-around, prompting earlier-than-expected autopsy reports in Philadelphia.
"It was a challenging year," Hurts told reporters Monday. "Knew it wouldn't be easy. I knew it was going to be hard. … However you want to skin it, we didn't do enough. Obviously, going back to the drawing boards."
Asked what he wants to draw up with next year's offense, Hurts was straightforward.
"I just want to win," the Eagles signal-caller said. "You play the game to win championships. … Obviously that starts with having cohesiveness. ... Having a flow where everyone is on the same page and going out and doing it."
Whether that flow involves Patullo and/or star receiver A.J. Brown remains to be seen. The mercurial wideout had some tough runs of play this season, which culminated in Sunday's drop-filled performance. Brown, who was seen yelling with Sirianni on the broadcast, did not address reporters on Sunday.
Asked if Hurts wanted the WR back in Philly, the QB was complimentary but evasive.
"A.J. and I have talked. We're in a great place," Hurts said. "Maybe y'all can talk to him and ask."
After their second first-round exit in three years, Roseman and the Eagles will surely shuffle the deck chairs in the offseason. They have experience doing so. If they move on from Patullo, Philly would have its fifth offensive coordinator in as many years.
That sort of discontinuity wouldn't bother Hurts.
"The changes have not prevented us from the opportunity to go on championship runs," Hurts said. "With all the changes and all the things that have gone on and changed over time, we still found ourselves in the playoffs. … Competitively, I don't like the trend of wild card, big time, wild card, big time."
To get back to the big time, Philly will have to make changes, but where those fixes will come from aren't yet clear, to either fans or players.
"We're one day removed from it, one day removed at the end of the season," Barkley told The Athletic. "I know there's going to be a lot of questions and a lot of opinions, but, and I'm not just saying this because there's cameras and mics in my face -- it's how I operate -- before I go same with someone else, getting them better. I got to start myself, and I think we all need to do that."
