{"id":706751,"date":"2026-01-26T16:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/706751\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:44:18","slug":"report-eagles-interviewed-former-dolphins-offensive-coordinator-frank-smith-for-open-oc-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/706751\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Eagles interviewed former Dolphins offensive coordinator Frank Smith for open OC job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Eagles have interviewed former Miami Dolphins offensive coordinator Frank Smith for their open offensive coordinator job, per a report from NFL Network.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was the Dolphins&#8217; offensive coordinator for the last four seasons, before they cleaned house following the 2025 season. Smith&#8217;s resume:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Miami (Ohio) (2004\u20132005):\u00a0Graduate assistant<br \/>\u2022\u00a0Butler (2006):\u00a0Offensive line coach<br \/>\u2022 Butler (2007\u20132009):\u00a0Offensive coordinator &amp; offensive line coach<br \/>\u2022 New Orleans Saints (2010\u20132014):\u00a0Assistant offensive line coach<br \/>\u2022 Chicago Bears (2015\u20132017):\u00a0Tight ends coach<br \/>\u2022 Oakland \/ Las Vegas Raiders (2018\u20132020):\u00a0Tight ends coach<br \/>\u2022 Los Angeles Chargers (2021):\u00a0Run game coordinator &amp; offensive line coach<br \/>\u2022 Miami Dolphins (2022\u20132025):\u00a0Offensive coordinator<\/p>\n<p>Smith was an offensive lineman in college, and was actually Ben Roethlisberger&#8217;s center at Miami Ohio. As you can see above, he also coached offensive lines, and seemed to be more geared toward the run game.<\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s NFL ranks the four years he was the Dolphins&#8217; offensive coordinator:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Frank SmithPoints\u00a0Yards\u00a02022\u00a01162023\u00a0212024\u00a022182025\u00a02526<\/p>\n<p>Smith was the Dolphins&#8217; OC for one good season, followed by a dominant one, before Tua Tagovailoa regressed and the offense fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in Miami then head coach Mike McDaniel called plays, not Smith.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that the Eagles have shown interest in three Dolphins coaches this offseason &#8212; McDaniel, passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik, and now Smith.<\/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 former Miami Dolphins offensive coordinator Frank Smith for their open offensive coordinator job,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,25,7,22679,216,251,2087,6,242],"class_list":{"0":"post-706751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-frank-smith","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-dolphins","14":"tag-miamidolphins","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-philadelphia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115962411058181402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706751","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=706751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}