A.J. Brown: Promoting Kevin Patullo to OC was a ‘great hire'

[time2rock]

A.J. Brown: Promoting Kevin Patullo to OC was a ‘great hire'

Eagles star wideout A.J. Brown explains why he thinks promoting Kevin Patullo to OC was a "great hire."

By Dave Zangaro • Published February 21, 2025

 

The Eagles will have a new offensive coordinator in 2025 but it won’t be a completely new face. And that’s a good thing, according to A.J. Brown.

The star receiver was on NFL Network’s The Insiders and gave his stamp of approval to the Eagles’ decision to promote Kevin Patullo to offensive coordinator.

"I truly feel like it’s a great hire,” Brown said. "He already has been involved in everything. Him, Kellen and Nick basically called the plays already. It’s a great hire. He’s already familiar with us. We have a great relationship. 

"And he knows what we need to work on because he’s been there and he’s been there for a while. And, like I said, he’s already been a part of all the situations and the conversations and everything. So I think it’s a great hire.”

The full A.J. Brown interview on the new OC, the changes to come, off-season plans and Febreze. pic.twitter.com/t2CNwjPMun

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Patullo, 43, has been the Eagles’ passing game coordinator for the last four seasons (and associate head coach for the last two) and has been Nick Sirianni’s right-hand man for his entire time in Philadelphia. Patullo will now be the Eagles’ fourth offensive coordinator under Sirianni in five years. Patullo replaces Kellen Moore, who is now the New Orleans’ Saints head coach.

Brown said he already has a strong relationship with Patullo, whom he calls "KP.”

In 2024, the Eagles had the No. 7 scoring offense and the No. 8 offense in total yards in the regular season. But they peaked at the right time and scored 95 points combined in the NFC Championship Game and the Super Bowl.

The Eagles are coming of a 40-22 win over the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, so promoting Patullo will offer a sense of stability after a magical season. But Brown is already thinking ahead to 2025 and he knows simply trying to run it back won’t be good enough.

"For our fans, they need to understand that everything has to change,” Brown said. "I know we just won but it has to change. We have to get better and we have to do things different.”

https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/aj-brown-kevin-patullo-offensive-coordinator-kellen-moore-nick-sirianni/650696/

[UK_EaglesFan89]

I wasn’t a big fan of the move when it was announced. I’m still not entirely convinced by it. But I’m learning that in the NFL you have to wait and see how these things pan out. You can have an opinion of course but who knows whether it will work out.

The reason I didn’t / don’t love the move is purely because I’m not sure what Patullo can bring to the offense that’s new. And to me you need to be in front and stay in front. It’s why things didn’t go well in 2018 because we didn’t change things. It is partly why I think we struggled last year because we didn’t change or tweak enough. But I hope I’m wrong and clearly some of the players are on board with this.

[time2rock]

1 minute ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

The reason I didn’t / don’t love the move is purely because I’m not sure what Patullo can bring to the offense that’s new. And to me you need to be in front and stay in front. It’s why things didn’t go well in 2018 because we didn’t change things. It is partly why I think we struggled last year because we didn’t change or tweak enough. But I hope I’m wrong and clearly some of the players are on board with this.

Same reason why I wanted someone from the outside, to bring in fresh new ideas so that we can implement some new wrinkles into the offense (similar to Moore using more motion ... that was a huge addition).  We will have a bullseye on our backs now and teams will have all offseason to figure out how to better defend against us.  Gotta stay ahead.  But ... our options were also limited since we were the last team standing.  Tough situation to be in but happy for the outcome ().

[UK_EaglesFan89]

2 minutes ago, time2rock said:

Same reason why I wanted someone from the outside, to bring in fresh new ideas so that we can implement some new wrinkles into the offense (similar to Moore using more motion ... that was a huge addition).  We will have a bullseye on our backs now and teams will have all offseason to figure out how to better defend against us.  Gotta stay ahead.  But ... our options were also limited since we were the last team standing.  Tough situation to be in but happy for the outcome ().

I think there’s still an opportunity to bring in fresh eyes as the QB coach role is still open right? So I still hope they bring in someone that can add to this offense (and obviously help Hurts continue to grow). But yeah we were in a tough spot given our options were limited.