Kevin Patullo is going to be fired, but is that enough to fix the Eagles on offense?

We are all waiting for Kevin Patullo to be fired. after the Eagles watched their season die at home in a 23-19 Wild Card loss to the 49ers, and now we’re about to do the annual postmortem where everyone pretends the answer is complicated.

It isn’t. The offense was the problem all season, it was the problem again when it mattered most, and the Eagles are going to “fix” it the only way they realistically can. Kevin Patullo is getting fired.

There’s no mystery here.

Nick Sirianni did the usual coach dance after the loss, saying there will be time to evaluate everyone. He didn’t want to go person-by-person at the podium, and that’s fine. But the non-answer is the answer.

When a coach is protecting the room right after an elimination game, he’s not going to announce someone’s fate on the spot. The decision happens in the cold light of the next morning, and this one is already written.

What exactly are they evaluating? We’ve been evaluating it since October.

This offense was simple, predictable, and never properly sequenced, and it failed in January the same way it failed all year. You can talk about execution, sure, but execution isn’t some random weather event.

If the same mistakes keep happening for months, that’s coaching, that’s structure, that’s identity. The Eagles didn’t have one.

Eagles players tried to defend him after last night’s loss. Jordan Mailata called it “unfair” to put it all on Patullo and pointed to execution up front. Landon Dickerson talked about how everyone shares blame but the outside world always picks one guy anyway.

Jalen Hurts said it’s tough to single out one person and everyone has to improve. That’s what good teammates do in public, especially right after your season ends. But being defended by your guys doesn’t change the reality of the league. Coordinators get judged on results, and this was a results business with no results.

Jalen Hurts knew the Eagles were cooked at the end of the game

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The context makes it even more damning.

The Eagles ran it back with most of their core, and the biggest change was at coordinator after Kellen Moore left for a head coaching job.

When the offense regresses and never finds a second gear, the OC is going to wear it. That’s not “scapegoating.” That’s literally how the NFL works when a team isn’t firing its Super Bowl-winning head coach and isn’t moving on from its franchise quarterback.

The lever they can pull is Kevin Patullo, and they’re going to pull it. Hard.

Kevin Patullo is as good as gone but here’s where it gets tricky…

Kevin Patullo might not be the only issue. Sirianni owns this too. He promoted him. He watched the offense stall. He never found the counterpunch but Sirianni has equity and a ring, and Jeffrey Lurie isn’t hitting the nuclear button after one bad year.

So the Eagles are going to do what contenders always do in this spot. They’re going to change the offensive coordinator, sell it as a reset, and try to rebuild the unit’s identity before next season starts.

The bigger question is the one nobody wants to deal with yet. If Kevin Patullo is gone, is that enough? Or is the offense broken in ways a new play-caller can’t magically fix?

We’ll get there. For now, the first move is obvious. This season ended with the offense faceplanting, and the Eagles are not bringing back the guy who led it.

It’s not even a question.

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