The Eagles didn’t waste time moving on from Kevin Patullo at offensive coordinator, but as the coaches and players echoed throughout the back-half of the season, the struggles weren’t the result of just
one person. Howie Roseman and Nick Sirianni met with reporters to cap off the 2025 season and spoke about Jalen Hurts’ role in their issues.
“Sirianni: Throughout the year, there were a lot of questions on Kevin, and like I’ve said to you guys, we all had a hand in our offense this year. Good, bad, you name it, we all had a hand in it. That’s every coach, every player, myself obviously at the front of that list.
Again, I love Jalen Hurts. I love everything that he brings to the table. Every time you step on the field, you feel very confident that you can win any game that you’re going to play when you have him as your quarterback. He has shown that to this organization, to myself, to Howie, to the city, that he’s a winner and he is able to do many different things at a very high level. But again, whether it was winning the games or whether it was us not playing up to our [standard] on offense, we all have our hands in that.”
Roseman shared similar sentiments, saying that everyone within the organization needs to look within and see what they can do better. The GM lamented that it was a disappointing season, but now they have an opportunity to evaluate the issues as a whole, rather than looking at things week-to-week in-season.
“Roseman: I think what Coach has said, we have won a lot of games with Jalen as our quarterback. We’ve won a world championship with him as an MVP in that game, so I think obviously he’s done a tremendous job as our starting quarterback.”
The head coach later also defended Hurts and his willingness to do new or different things depending on whoever they bring in as a coordinator or coach – as reports earlier in the season suggested the QB restricted the offense due to his preferences.
“Sirianni: I think you saw this year that he’s open to do a bunch. We were under-center probably more than we have been. Different motions, different things like that. Here’s what I’ll say, Jalen always wants to do– Jalen’s proved this to everybody, that he’ll do whatever it takes to win football games. Sometimes that’s throwing it a bunch, sometimes that’s running it a bunch, sometimes it’s him handing it off a bunch. He’ll do whatever it takes to win. All I’ve ever felt from Jalen and all [I’ve] ever [known] from Jalen is that the man will do anything he can do to win football games. He pushes himself to do new things. He pushes himself to excel at the things that he has already done so well, and he’s proven to everybody year-in, year-out, all he cares about is winning and all he cares about is being able to hold that trophy up at the end of the year.”
Suggestions that Hurts wasn’t willing to be coached seemed in stark contrast to everything the QB has shown since he’s been in the NFL. As the son of a high school football coach, Hurts’ desire to improve and learn is well-documented, so to think he would suddenly put limitations on what he was willing to do, didn’t add up.
Sirianni also said that they will get insight from Hurts throughout the process to hire a new offensive coordinator, and while the head coach will ultimately make that decision, he’d be remiss not to include the QB.
