PHILADELPHIA — Philly fans often get a bad rap. Barely a week goes by without some lazy sportscaster bringing up “throwing snowballs at Santa” from 1968. But sometimes the rap sheet is earned.

Chants erupted at Lincoln Financial Field during the Black Friday loss to the Chicago Bears to fire offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo — harsh yet fair game — but later that night, a group of fans vandalized his home in New Jersey, pelting it with eggs and other objects while recording the incident on their phones, according to Moorestown police, who said the incident is still under investigation.

“As coaches and players, we all know that part of our job is to handle criticism,” Patullo said on Wednesday afternoon. “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 it crosses the line. That happened. And at this point, we just have to move on. We’re trying to win.

“That’s all we want to do is focus, whether it’s my family, whether it’s the team, all we’re trying to do together 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 L.A. and beat the Chargers.”

The rookie coordinator, 44 years old, has been under fire for a sputtering offense this season. Outside of the second half against the Rams in Week 3 and back-to-back complete wins against the Vikings and Giants in weeks 7 and 8 — just before the bye — the Birds have been out of sync.

They rank 23rd in passing yards (196.3 per game), 22nd in rushing (108.5), 24th in overall yards (304.8) and 19th in scoring (22.5 ppg) with a loaded roster that boasts the highest paid offense in the league.

However, three-fifths of the Pro Bowl offensive line has been decimated by injuries to right tackle Lane Johnson, center Cam Jurgens and left guard Landon Dickerson. But Patullo has been knocked for rudimentary, uncreative schemes — which were displayed in sharp contrast to Ben Johnson’s Bears, who featured a punishing, dual-threat running game built around developing quarterback Caleb Williams.

Still, the Eagles had a chance to win if Jalen Hurts hadn’t turned the ball over twice. He and DeVonta Smith weren’t on the same page, and he and A.J. Brown haven’t been on the same page most of the year. Even when Patullo is scheming guys open, players often aren’t executing.

But the OC, who has been at coach Nick Sirianni’s side since their days in Indianapolis, knows criticism comes with the territory.

“When you first start coaching, you know it’s always there, right?” Patullo said. “As you start to develop your career and you move up … you’ve got to learn from people. Nick does a great job with all of us as coaches, just preparing us for these kinds of moments. And different mentors you have. And so 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 working through that.

“This is part of it. It’s a challenge but it makes it fun. When you look back on it, you hope that you have more good than bad memories. And when you go through the process like this, it defines you as a person in your career, but not as an individual and not as your family. 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. And ultimately, it’s a great career that we’re in. We get to do something that very few people get to do.”

The Eagles (8-4), who got bullied by the Bears and are coming off a two-game skid, will be facing a physical Chargers team (8-4) that has won four of its last five. Quarterback Justin Herbert had surgery on his non-throwing hand but is expected to play.

The Chargers defense ranks third overall in yards per game (275.3) and 10th in points allowed (21.6).

“Unfortunately, (the incident) happened. I’ve been here for five years now and it’s been awesome. I mean, this is such a unique place to coach and play. It’s very special. We’ve been to two NFC Championship games, we’ve won at Lincoln Financial Field, a Super Bowl. The parade is just, it’s an amazing atmosphere to be a coach and a player.

“Us as a family, we know we have to stick together. To be honest, there’s a lot of great people in the community. I have great neighbors. There’s so many people who have reached out to my wife and I and our family.”

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It was uncharacteristic of the Birds’ defense to get pushed around like it did against Chicago. A problem may have been defensive tackle Jalen Carter’s shoulder, which has hampered him since training camp but may have been exacerbated recently.

“He does have a shoulder issue,” defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said. “He has been playing with it. Late in the game, he had a great play with it, but it’s definitely something there.”

Fangio didn’t make excuses for the unit’s overall poor performance: “They run the ball very well. I didn’t do a good enough job of preparing our squad for the quality and the diversity of their run game. We didn’t play the run and the blocks the way we had been playing.”

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