{"id":838455,"date":"2026-03-28T05:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/838455\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T05:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:32:23","slug":"jeff-stoutland-sets-the-record-straight-on-philly-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/838455\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Stoutland sets the record straight on Philly exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

When news broke that Jeff Stoutland would no longer be a member of the Philadelphia Eagles’ coaching staff<\/a>, it marked a true end of an era for one of the longest-tenured assistants in Philly history.<\/p>\n

Initially joining the Birds under Chip Kelly after a successful tenure at Alabama, Stoutland outlasted both his first boss and his predecessor, Doug Pederson, before being promoted to run-game coordinator under Nick Sirianni. Stoutland helped to turn Jordan Mailata from an oversized rugby player into a Pro Bowl left tackle<\/a>, established Philly as the best offensive line in football, and even played a major role in Saquon Barkley’s 2024 season, which will go down as the best individual run in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Talking about his exit to Nick Foles<\/a> on his The SZN podcast, Stout revealed when he knew it was time to close down Stoutland University, as, after over 40 years coaching, he simply knew it was time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done this for a very long time, as I\u2019ve said, 30 years in college, 13 years in the NFL, so a lot of players will ask me along the way, \u2018Hey coach, can we talk?\u2019 or whatever. And they have the thought of maybe not playing football in college any longer, or if a guy is thinking about retiring in the National Football League. So I\u2019ve had these conversations with players. I always say, \u2018Look, I can\u2019t tell you what you should do or are going to do. I have no idea. That\u2019s not right for me to say that.\u2019 But I always say this: \u2018I think there\u2019s some point in your life where you know. You kind of just know.’ I think I reached that point,\u201d Stoutland said via John Clark.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in a position where a lot of things changed, things were happening, things had taken place. And I\u2019m like, \u2018Wait a second, this is what I talked to the other players about all the time.’ I just felt like it was that time. I haven\u2019t looked back since. I know there\u2019s things that I\u2019ll miss, but I know there\u2019s going to be some exciting things going forward, and opportunities and challenges, and that\u2019s kind of what I\u2019m all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will the Eagles miss Stoutland in 2026? Most certainly so. Even if Mannion is looking to change things up in the trenches under new offensive coordinator Sean Mannion, embracing more power concepts to go with an increased focus on wide outside runs of the tackles, Stoutland is one of the very best teachers to ever coach the offensive line, and leaves very big shoes for Chris Kuper to fill in the role moving forward.<\/p>\n

When news broke that Jeff Stoutland would no longer be a member of the Philadelphia Eagles’ coaching staff, it marked a true end of an era for one of the longest-tenured assistants in Philly history. Initially joining the Birds under Chip Kelly after a successful tenure at Alabama, Stoutland outlasted both his first boss and his predecessor, Doug Pederson, before being promoted to run-game coordinator under Nick Sirianni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When news broke that Jeff Stoutland would no longer be a member of the Philadelphia Eagles’ coaching staff,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,6,5341,242,109,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-838455","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-nick-foles","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","14":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116305169655801727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838455","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=838455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}