{"id":702843,"date":"2026-01-25T01:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702843\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:46:14","slug":"report-eagles-had-interest-in-arthur-smith-before-he-took-ohio-state-offensive-coordinator-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702843\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Eagles had interest in Arthur Smith before he took Ohio State offensive coordinator job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Philadelphia Eagles had interest in former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith before he decided to accept the Ohio State offensive coordinator position, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DMRussini\/status\/2015210664273265050\" rel=\"nofollow\">NFL insider Dianna Russini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Smith \u201chad been having conversations\u201d with the Eagles and the Tennessee Titans (two teams with OC openings this offseason), according to her reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s unclear if the Eagles formally interviewed Smith. But it\u2019s not the first time the team has shown interest in him. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleedinggreennation.com\/2021\/1\/14\/22232243\/eagles-arthur-smith-interview-nfl-news-philadelphia-tennessee-titans-offensive-coordinator-coach-bgn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Eagles previously interviewed him for their head coach opening back in January 2021<\/a>. It was said at the time that the Eagles were \u201creally impressed\u201d by him. Smith landed with the Atlanta Falcons instead, where he went 7-10 for three straight seasons to be fired with a 21-30 overall record. Smith then spent two years as the Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Whether the Eagles actually wanted Smith to replace Kevin Patullo or not, it\u2019s all moot now because it\u2019s not happening. He\u2019s going to Ohio State to replace Brian Hartline (hired away as South Florida\u2019s new head coach), who succeeded Chip Kelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles had interest in former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith before he decided to accept&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,6,242,109,5406,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-702843","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-nfl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-news","14":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115953217897497120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702843","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=702843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}