With the game on the line, Kevin Patullo called a pop warner passing play and Eagles season ends in predictable fashion

Our worst fears were finally realized on Sunday. Kevin Patullo, Nick Sirianni, and everyone involved with the Eagles offense failed — flat out. If there’s one word to describe the 2025 Eagles, it’s predictable. Predictable play-calling. Predictable scheme. Predictable downfall. All of it.

We all knew deep down this is how the season was going to end. I still talked my shit. I told people I believed this team could legitimately repeat. I was lying — not just to the people I was trash-talking, but to myself.

Even with the piss-poor offensive performance against the Niners, the Eagles still had a chance to win it at the end. And fittingly, everything that’s plagued this offense all season came to a head on that final drive. Crucial drops from star players. Zero ability to scheme up an easy layup for the skill guys. From a coaching standpoint, it was a disaster — and it doomed the Birds.

It was a failure from the top down. And while A.J. Brown, Jalen Hurts, and the offensive line deserve their share of the blame, this starts and ends with Kevin Patullo. Case in point: the final play of the season.

Fourth-and-11. Season on the line. And Kevin Patullo went right back to his bread and butter. Two-by-two set. Outside guys running verticals. Inside guys running 10-yard digs directly into each other. Predictable play call. Predictable outcome.

Kevin Patullo, be gone

Awful.

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— Eagles Fan Central (@PhilaFanCentral) January 12, 2026

You wouldn’t call that play in Madden. You wouldn’t call it in almost any situation — let alone on the biggest snap of the year. And yet, here we are, watching Kevin Patullo do it.

This offensive coaching staff has nothing. What does Kevin Patullo specialize in? Getting the ball to Dallas Goedert near the goal line? Congrats. Anyone with half a brain cell knows tight ends are useful in the red zone.

They brought absolutely nothing to the table all season. And yeah, I know the players need to play better too. But players can’t keep bailing out bad scheme and awful play-calling every single week.

I’m mad at A.J. Brown as well, but I also understand exactly where he’s coming from. He pretty much called this earlier in the year: “You can’t keep slapping a Band-Aid over that and expect to win late in the year and think you’re going to go to that at the end of the year. It’s not going to fucking happen.”

And he was right.

A.J. Brown in November: "You can't keep slapping a Band-Aid over that and expect to win late in the year and think you're going to go to that at the end of the year. It's not going to f—ing happen."

He was right.

— Zach Berman (@ZBerm) January 12, 2026

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Ask yourself this: would you want to be here if you were A.J. Brown? Would you want to work for incompetent bosses who consistently put you in positions to fail, then ask you to bail them out? You wouldn’t. No one would.

And while Kevin Patullo is the obvious scapegoat — and will be fired — this falls squarely on Nick Sirianni. I don’t care that you were late to the party and couldn’t land a big-name offensive coordinator last offseason. You got comfortable and handed the job to your buddy as a nepotism promotion. We constantly hear Sirianni preach about improvement, about not settling, about looking in the mirror and holding yourself accountable. Then he turns around, hires from within, makes the same mistake he’s already been reprimanded for, and watches the season fall apart.

At no point during this entire waste of a season did Sirianni try to get better. At no point did he seriously try to fix what was so obviously broken. We thought the midseason bye would help. Instead, the offense got worse, averaging 17 points per game after the bye.

Not only did Sirianni and Kevin Patullo waste prime years of Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, and DeVonta Smith — they wasted a Super Bowl–caliber defense. If you’re Vic Fangio, what are you thinking right now? A great defense is useless without even a remotely competent offense.

This season was a complete disaster. And if you’re not an Eagles fan, I get why you’d think I’m being spoiled or hyperbolic. You don’t expect greatness every single year. Maybe that’s on me for expecting more than I got. Or maybe we’ve all been right the entire time and Nick Sirianni just isn’t cut out for this.

The Super Bowl bought him some time. But when you make the same mistake twice — hiring an unqualified friend from within — it becomes almost impossible to defend.

You want this offense to get more creative? We all know what has to happen. I just don’t know if Jeffrey Lurie has the balls to do it. Only time will tell.