Kevin Patullo On Loss to Chicago Bears

Kevin Patullo On Loss to Chicago Bears

[Music] How’s it going? Can you uh run us through the the two-point conversion and seemed like maybe there was a a little confusion on that play? Yeah. So, when you have two-point conversions, you know, you’re pretty much looking at they have two ways of doing it. They could say, “Hey, we’re going to go all out pressure. We need, you know, max zones.” And so, when you design those kind of plays, uh you want to make sure you’re in the best of both worlds. And unfortunately, we had a little bit of a miscommunication on that play. Um, and so that’s where we got to continue to work through. We had we had a few too many of those. And we know that’s part of all of us as coaches, as players, that’s everybody. So, we got to make sure we’re on the same page so those things don’t happen anymore. You mentioned the miscommunications and J mentioned not being on the same page with Dvonte on that that one play. Um, you know, where’s the breakdown in in miscommunication? Um, in particular, those types of plays when it’s a choice route. So sometimes on on those kind of plays, right, it’s a matter of just making sure they’re seeing the same thing, right? We try to do the best we can as coaches and players, putting everybody in those those moments, whether it’s in the classroom, in walkthrough, on the practice field, uh because it is important. You can’t simulate everything, you know, in the heat of battle because ultimately those, you know, everybody on the field, you know, they’re human, so you’re processing at a fast rate. The clock’s going and you’re seeing you’re trying to make hand gestures and try to get everybody on the same page. So when things like that happen, uh, you got to go back to where was the breakdown? Did we cover it? Has it been talked about enough? And ultimately, it was just a mistake. And that’s what’s hard. It’s hard to it’s hard to have those. And it’s hard when those happen because the guys, you know, whether it’s coaches, players, we all take them um to heart. And and it’s disappointing because we knew we missed one. But we also got to learn from it. We’ve had a few too many of those and we know that. But we as we go, we got to continue to push through that so those don’t happen. We can be on the same page. And if it does, why did it happen? Okay, there could be a human error and then we got to move on. Kevin, in light of the incident at your house, how’s the week been? You know, at this point, right, we’re ready to focus in winning the game. Um, you know, unfortunately, it happened. You know, I’ve been here for for 5 years now, and it’s been awesome. I mean, this is such a unique place to coach and play. It’s very special. We we’ve been to, you know, two NFC Championship games. We’ve won at Lincoln Financial, a Super Bowl. The parade is just it’s an amazing atmosphere to be a coach and a player. And as coaches and players, we all know that part of our job is to handle criticism. And so it’s perfectly acceptable to sit up here and talk about what’s going on, how to fix it, what we’re going to do going forward. And we know that. But when it involves your family, obviously crosses the line. And so that happened. And at this point, you know, we just got to move on. We’re trying to win. That’s all we want to do is focus. you know, whether it’s my family, whether it’s the team, all we’re trying to do together is is focus on this week. We’ve got a long week, which has been good to have an extra day of preparation and go out to LA and be the Chargers. Being in that chair, how have you learned to deal with the criticism that comes with it? You know, when you first start coaching, you know, uh it’s always there, right? And as you start to develop your career and you move up and you move up and you move up, uh you got to learn from people. You know, Nick Nick does a great job with all of us as coaches just preparing us for these kind of moments and different mentors you have. And so, you know, you know, the pressure is there, but we all accept it because we ultimately want to be at the highest part of our coaching career and continue to working through that. And this is part of it. Uh it’s a challenge, but it makes it fun. And when you look back on it, you hope that you have more good than bad memories. and and when you when you go through the process like this, you know, it defines you as a person uh in your career, but not as an individual, not as your family. So, I think when you when you look at the big picture, it’s just a piece of who we all are as coaches, who I am, who my family is. Um, and and ultimately, you know, it’s fine. It’s a great career that we’re in. You know, we get to do something that very few people get to do. I mean, we’re one of 32. I am, Nick is, we all are. though in the world. And when you look at it that way, uh we’re we’re very we’re very fortunate and it’s exciting. There’s nothing better than winning a game in our stadium. There’s nothing better than going on the road winning a game in front of all these Eagle fans, you know, and so it’s very unique and it’s fun. Terms of the offense, Nick was saying that we evaluate everything. It’s every area that we need to improve on, but what was over the weekend? What was your role in evaluating everything? and you know just in terms of what to improve on in every area. What hasn’t worked that you thought would? So really we’ve had a couple of these little like mini buy things now and I think I talked about this before. We’ve done a good job and and Nick’s obviously heavily involved and he’s been you know every year of just self-evaluating and seeing what trends are, where we’re at with things, what we need to improve on, whether it’s coaches, players, scheme, um every little detail like that. So, I think these are these are good assessments for us to to work through and we’re all involved. And that’s what’s kind of cool. He he’s not just somebody that says, “This is what I want. This is how it has to be done.” It’s all of us, you know, together working through this as an offensive staff, you know, with him. And and every coach has a big role in it. And so when you when you process through information, uh, you’ve got to decide, is this something that is, you know, a schematic issue? Is it a execution issue? What is it? And then what are we doing well? and then what do we have coming up down the line, whether it’s defensive schematic issues or things we know that we know need to improve upon. So, it’s it’s a lot of stuff. It’s a lot of information, but I think it was very beneficial to go through that the last couple days and and you have to be honest with yourself. You can’t just be like, well, what we could have did this if this would have happened, but that’s not how it works. So, we want to fix it and we’re trying to fix it and that’s what’s encouraging that we found good ways. The other the other side of that, you mentioned the full staff. Obviously, we talk to you and Nick a lot of times for a reason, but you know, you know, what what is what is the collaboration like with the full staff? Like, how do you utilize them? Where do they fit in in kind of their their roles in re leading up to the game? So, really everybody uh just in general, we we we meet a lot together as an offensive staff. You know, we were just up in there right now going through, you know, protection meetings and things like that. So, it’s important um to do everything together so that we’re all on the same page and everybody has a voice. There’s really not one person that you can say that can’t contribute in any conversation. And that’s what’s important to having a good staff. And I think Nick promotes that and he’s done a good job of that throughout the years. No matter what our staff has looked like, uh, whoever’s been the coordinator was myself or Shane or, you know, Kellen, we’re all in this together and we all have to talk through these things because when we get out there on game day, the communication has to be at premium. The other side of that coin of having that extra time has been the short weeks, which correct have not been as successful. Is there any theme that you guys have seen with that? Not so much cuz previously we we’ve been pretty good in those spots. So, I wouldn’t say that’s been anything. We have not changed, you know, as far as how we’ve done things with the scheduling and the walkthroughs and the reps and installations. Um, and and that’s that’s something we’re going to continue to evaluate because we have obviously another one the following week when we get the Raiders. So, there hasn’t been anything specific that’s come up. when it comes to what does it mean to what does it mean to you when uh you know Nick repeatedly says you know you’re going to say the play call that he has your back basically I mean how how important is that for you to hear I think when you go back to just when him and I got here together we have a strong working relationship and uh I know he trusts me and I trust him so I think it goes back and forth to where you know he puts all us as coaches in in spots to where we can be successful and that’s that’s what’s important and and it it does say a lot and I he knows that we’re going to do everything as a staff that we need to do to get the win and get the job done and continue to improve. And so I think just, you know, him having confidence in all of us together, you know, really says a lot. Asked you a few times this year about Jaylen’s running. Um, is there a reason why he’s not running as frequently and then when you see your most productive drive happened when he ran? Is that something you want to tap into now? I think, you know, we’ve talked about this before. I think as we go forward, you know, he he’s going to continue to be a part of the offense and some of these design runs, and we just have to pick and choose when they’re available um and and when they present themselves, and sometimes they do in moments, and he’s done it the last couple weeks, and we just got to continue to lean into that. How how much of the playbook is being utilized on a week- toeek basis? As far as the overall playbook, I think when you look at it, there’s certain things that uh we we generally like to do uh from week to week and there’s other ways we’re we’re trying to find new things to try to help create explosives or do different things. So, I think when you look at the overall game plan depending on what the defense presents and depending on uh what we think we can we can put in in that amount of time, it varies. Um, you know, the call sheet obviously throughout the the years has kind of been similar as far as the volume numbers. Uh, and it just depends on whether or not it materializes in the game. Uh, unfortunately the other day we didn’t have a lot of plays in the first half the way it went. So in the second half we had to throw it more and it got a little bit different. And it’s been a funny year as far as that kind of stuff. Like it’s the game flows has been just different. Uh, you know, we don’t haven’t been in a lot of normal flows. only a few times like the Giants game, the Vikings where we’ve had a consistent flow where plays are just kind of coming off the ball. And how much are the fact that certain concepts obviously the crossing routes, digs, stuff that that haven’t been as prevalent, is that um related to Jaylen and what he’s comfortable doing or what you guys think that he is best at doing? I think if it presents itself that week, we usually have it in and it’s just whether or not we get to it in the game. What adjustments uh have you seen from defenses recently when it comes to the QB sneak? So there there’s not like a huge thing that’s going on. Uh we’ve kind of tinkered with different things and we will continue to kind of explore and experiment with different ways to get that done. Uh sometimes it just it’s just luck of the draw. You know, the other day was just unfortunate uh that the ball popped out. Uh we got we’ve gotten pretty good movement uh in the last couple weeks on it. We just got to continue to work through it. U Nick has said you’re still calling plays. in terms of the way that you approach that role in the game planning of it, any of the responsibilities that you do or maybe delegate, have you changed any of those things? No. No, I’m still calling the police. The uh the incident, did it leave you shaken? I mean, if it was my house and my family, I’d be scared. I’d be angry. And I would take measures to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Were you scared? Were you angry? And have you taken measures to make sure it doesn’t happen again? um you know when you talk about what had happened I mean ultimately you know like like you said you want to be able to separate your job from your family and you know we talked about it before I said it before you know that line was crossed and it was an unfortunate incident and that that’s the the part of it that that happened and you know us as a family we know we we got to stick together and to be honest there’s a lot of great people in the community I have great neighbors there’s so many people have reached out to my wife and I and our family and so you know it’s not anything or one specific person. It happened and we just got to move on from it. At this point, there’s no you’re not uncomfortable being there. You’re not uncomfortable, you know, being in that neighborhood. You’re not you’re not uncomfortable with sort of continuing things as they are. I mean, no, we’ve had a great experience here. And that’s what kind I was alluding to earlier. We’ve had a great experience here in Philadelphia and it’s a very special, unique place, you know, to work. And I continue I look forward to, you know, all the more games we have and finishing strong in the season. Some have suggested um maybe there would be some benefit to you moving up to the to the booth to call plays. Do you see any any validity in that or why is it still beneficial to be on the field? Yeah, I think the communication to players is important. I’ve been on since I’ve been here uh in 21, I’ve been on the field uh every every time and I think there’s there’s a lot of communication with players, coaches on the field, making sure adjustments are done correctly. You know, conversations I have with Jaylen, with the O line, with the receivers are that are very important. and I’ve been on the field for a long long time. I don’t think I’ve been in the box since like maybe 2011 as a coach. Uh so it’s been a while. Uh and I think just the relationship I have with the guys and the communication has been good and we just got to continue to improve in other areas and we’ll be all right. Thanks. Thanks guys. I do.

Watch Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo speak to the media about their loss to the Chicago Bears, what it is like to address the offensive issues, and his approach to solving the problems.

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