Quarterbacks grow with experience and that extends beyond the playing field.<\/p>\n
So just like Jalen Hurts uses his memory bank to improve on third downs or in the 2-minute offense, he\u2019s similarly leaning on his experience amid yet another offensive coordinator switch in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s helping.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I\u2019m better at it,\u201d Hurts said on Tuesday as the Eagles wrapped up their spring practices. \u201cIt\u2019s been every year, so I think it\u2019s just been a progression over time. In a way, an evolution. You bank information, you take in stuff and you\u2019re really just learning from your mistakes. You\u2019re learning from your successes as well. You\u2019re learning from all of your experiences.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere isn\u2019t really anything I can\u2019t lean on and say I\u2019ve experienced one way or another when it comes to change or a system or an approach. I think Kevin (Patullo) has a unique way of looking at that. Coach has a unique way of looking at that. I\u2019m excited to see what we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patullo was promoted this spring to the offensive coordinator position after being the Eagles\u2019 passing game coordinator the past four years. He\u2019s the fourth different offensive coordinator in five years under Nick Sirianni and he\u2019s going to become the sixth different play caller in Hurts\u2019 six years in the NFL and with the Eagles.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a lot of turnover. And as much as Hurts has publicly yearned for more stability at that position, all of those previous experiences \u2014 some good, some bad \u2014 have informed how he\u2019s handling this one.<\/p>\n
While Hurts went through plenty of change during his college career at Alabama and then Oklahoma, even if you just limit it to his NFL career, he\u2019s seen a lot. His rookie season was with Doug Pederson and Press Taylor. Then Nick Sirianni came to town with Shane Steichen, who lasted two years in that position before leaving for Indianapolis. Then a year of Brian Johnson. Then a year of Kellen Moore. And now he\u2019s looking at Patullo in that role in 2025.<\/p>\n
And that doesn\u2019t even account for all the quarterbacks coaches he\u2019s had in his first five years too. New QBs coach Scot Loeffler is his fifth.<\/p>\n
Of course, Sirianni and Hurts have taken pieces from all the coaches who have come and gone over the previous four years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a dynamic of that, that kind of already exists,\u201d Hurts said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of if it gets called in a game. Coach (Patullo) has always had a say and played a role. Obviously, he\u2019s in a different seat now so he gets the final word, he\u2019s in charge of the offense. I think he\u2019s been doing a great job of that and what we\u2019ve been able to do on the other side of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a dynamic of adaptability that you have to be able to have and find success regardless of what the leadership looks like, what the voice is, who\u2019s in the quarterback room coaching me or who\u2019s out there calling plays. That\u2019s really where I put my energy at, trying to decode these things and kind of figure it out on my terms a little bit. Find a way to make it go.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Eagles\u2019 offense last year was obviously good enough for the team to win 14 games and go on a playoff run that ended with a parade on Broad Street. But there are still plenty of things they can improve.<\/p>\n
While the Eagles\u2019 finished the regular season with the NFL\u2019s No. 2-ranked rushing offense, they were ranked 29th in passing offense. Of course, the pass game did show up when the Eagles needed it to in the playoffs. And as the Eagles prepare for this upcoming season, they know teams are going to react in an attempt to slow down Saquon Barkley. \u201cPick your poison,\u201d Hurts said.<\/p>\n
Even though some things will obviously change with the offense, Hurts and Sirianni remain and their fingerprints are still going to be all over what we see on the field in 2025. That\u2019s not necessarily a bad thing. The starting quarterback should have a say.<\/p>\n
One benefit with an internal promotion is that there\u2019s no get-to-know-you phase. Hurts and Patullo have already been working together; it\u2019s just in a different capacity now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see Kevin pushing those guys out there, being able to get those guys going, whether it’s a high five to him or hey \u2018get your butt going,\u2019 because he has that relationship with the guys that he’s been building,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cHe’s always been a guy that has had strong relationships in the building. That’s a strong point of his as well, and that’s suiting him very well right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The offensive coordinator job in Philadelphia is an important one because Sirianni gave up play-calling in his first season as head coach back in 2021 and hasn\u2019t taken back those reins since. He thinks this system works better.<\/p>\n
While much of the work is done in preparation during the week, there\u2019s still a skill to actually calling the plays on Sundays. It\u2019s an area where the Eagles suspect Patullo will excel.<\/p>\n
But we won\u2019t really know until Sept. 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cNah, too soon. Too soon,\u201d Hurts said. \u201cHe\u2019s been a great leader in what he\u2019s been asked to do. I feel he has a great command and that will only grow over time. We\u2019ll get later down the road and we\u2019ll see how sequencing is. Lot of teams around the league run very similar plays. It\u2019s a matter of how you teach the details in the play and how you sequence it as you call a game. So he\u2019ll find that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterbacks grow with experience and that extends beyond the playing field. So just like Jalen Hurts uses his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,4904,7,6,242,109,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-129114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-eagles-blog","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","14":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}