Kevin Patullo knew questions about the egging of his South Jersey home were coming and the Eagles offensive coordinator delivered thoughtful answers about it.
“Unfortunately, it happened,” Patullo said Wednesday during his weekly news conference with reporters at the team’s practice facility. “I’ve been here for five years now and it has been awesome. I mean this is such a unique place to coach and play. It’s very special. We’ve been to two NFC Championship games that we’ve won at Lincoln Financial Field, a Super Bowl, the parade … it is just an amazing atmosphere to be a coach and a player.”
Patullo came to the Eagles in 2021 along with head coach Nick Sirianni and the team has been to the playoffs every season while compiling a 62-27 record. Patullo spent his first four seasons with the Eagles in the role of pass-game coordinator and then was also an associate head coach in 2023 and 2024.
He has been an NFL assistant for 16 years with six different teams, but this is his first year as a play caller and the Eagles’ offense has struggled. Through 12 games, the Eagles are 24th in yards per game and 19th in points per game. The offense has failed to produce 300 yards in five of 12 games and has only put up 350 yards or more twice this season.
A season ago, the Eagles finished eighth in yards and seventh in points under offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, who is now the head coach of the New Orleans Saints.
“As coaches and players, we all know that part of our job is to handle criticism,” Patullo said. “And so it’s perfectly acceptable to sit up here and talk about what’s going on and how to fix it and what we’re going to do going forward. We know that. But when it involves your family, it obviously crosses the line and so that happened and at this point we just have to move on. We’re trying to win. That’s all we want to do is focus on. Whether it’s my family or whether it’s the team, all we’re trying to do is focus on this week. We’ve got a long week, which has been good because it gives us extra preparation and we want to go out to L.A. and beat the Chargers.”
Patullo said he has no problem dealing with the pressure that comes with his elevated position on the coaching staff.
“You know the pressure is there, but we all accept it because we ultimately want to be at the highest part of our coaching career and this is part of it,” Patullo said. “It’s a challenge, but it makes it fun and when you look back on it you hope you have more good than bad memories and when you go through a process like this, it defines you as a person in your career, but not as an individual and not as your family (sees you). It’s a great career that we’re in. We get to do something that very few people get to do.”
Despite the egging incident at his Moorestown home, Patullo said he has no intention of moving his family.
“Ultimately, you want to be able to separate the job from your family,” he said. “That line was crossed and it was an unfortunate incident and … us as a family we know we’ve got to stick together. To be honest, there are a lot of great people in the community. I have great neighbors and so many people have reached out to my wife and I and my family … and we just have to move on from it at this point. We’ve had a great experience here in Philadelphia and it’s a very special and unique place to work and I look forward to the games we have and finishing strong this season.”
