{"id":684895,"date":"2026-01-17T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/684895\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:00:18","slug":"report-eagles-interview-giants-interim-head-coach-mike-kafka-for-open-offensive-coordinator-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/684895\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Eagles interview Giants interim head coach Mike Kafka for open offensive coordinator job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Eagles have interviewed New York Giants interim head coach Mike Kafka for their open offensive coordinator position, according to a report from ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Kafka is a former quarterback who was selected by the Eagles in the fourth round of the 2010 draft. He bounced around with seven different teams in six seasons before turning to a career in coaching. His coaching resume:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Northwestern (2016):\u00a0Graduate assistant<br \/>\u2022 Kansas City Chiefs (2017):\u00a0Offensive quality control coach<br \/>\u2022 Kansas City Chiefs (2018\u20132019):\u00a0Quarterbacks coach<br \/>\u2022 Kansas City Chiefs (2020\u20132021):\u00a0Quarterbacks coach &amp; passing game coordinator<br \/>\u2022 New York Giants (2022\u20132023):\u00a0Offensive coordinator<br \/>\u2022 New York Giants (2024\u20132025):\u00a0Assistant head coach &amp; offensive coordinator<br \/>\u2022 New York Giants (2025):\u00a0Interim head coach<\/p>\n<p>Kafka&#8217;s first year as the Chiefs&#8217; quarterbacks coach aligned with Patrick Mahomes&#8217; first full season as Kansas City&#8217;s starter, when Mahomes threw for 50 TDs and took home the first of his two MVP awards.<\/p>\n<p>Kafka was able to parlay his success in Kansas City into an offensive coordinator position with the Giants, where he had the following NFL ranks in points and yards:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Giants offensePoints\u00a0Yards\u00a02022\u00a015\u00a018\u00a02023\u00a030\u00a029\u00a02024\u00a031\u00a030\u00a02025\u00a017\u00a013\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those are not great rankings, obviously, though it is worth noting that Kafka was calling plays for Brian Daboll&#8217;s offense \u2013 and that in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/giants-head-coach-brian-daboll-to-take-over-play-calling-role-in-2024-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daboll took play calling away from Kafka<\/a> for the season, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46157629\/mike-kafka-giants-play-caller-brian-daboll-says\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gave it back for the start of 2025<\/a>. After Daboll was fired in-season, Kafka was promoted to interim head coach. He had a 2-5, with both wins coming against teams that weren&#8217;t trying to win.<\/p>\n<p>Kafka was mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/nfl-coach-rumors-news-analysis-best-candidates-eagles-offensive-coordinator-replace-fired-oc-kevin-patullo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our preview of potential Eagles offensive coordinators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Jimmy &amp; PhillyVoice on Twitter: <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimmyKempski\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@JimmyKempski<\/a> | <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thephillyvoice\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">thePhillyVoice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phillyvoicesports\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PhillyVoice Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/feed\/channel\/jimmy-kempski\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jimmy&#8217;s RSS feed<\/a> to your feed reader<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles have interviewed New York Giants interim head coach Mike Kafka for their open offensive coordinator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,11946,6,242,109,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-684895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-mike-kafka","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","14":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115912220726389894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684895","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=684895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}