Philadelphia Eagles fans weren't always in love with the work former offensive coordinator Kellen Moore did with the roster he had last season.
No one could deny the results, though.
The team's run through Super Bowl LIX let Moore leave as one of the greatest play-callers in team history. Now, the organization is hoping for similar results with their new offensive play-caller in Kevin Patullo.
Previously serving as the team's passing game coordinator, Patullo has been prepped and ready to take over as the team's leader of offensive strategy to the point that head coach Nick Sirianni jokingly got jealous of the work he was doing last year.
"Kellen didn’t go anywhere without Kevin and Kevin didn’t go anywhere without Kellen," Sirianni joked at the NFL's annual meeting on Tuesday morning. "I was actually a little jealous about the relationship. I got iced out a little bit."
Sirianni being iced out certainly wasn't a bad thing. Philadelphia had one of the best rushing offenses in league history and just did enough through the air to be one of the top overall groups in the league.
For Patullo, though, the pressure is on to keep that consistency for another year.
“It’s rare when you have someone come into a staff and where him and I basically day to day was like a coaches clinic almost,” said Patullo earlier this offseason. “Like ‘Hey what did you do? What did you do?
“We’ll go back and forth. We’re teaching each other new things back and forth and formulating new ideas and philosophies. I think it was a lotta fun.”
Moore has become the head coach of the New Orleans Saints and left Philadelphia with a legacy of profound success. Due to his work with the former play-caller, though, Patullo believes he has learned enough to do the job well.
“I’ve learned so much from [Moore] and I think vice versa,” Patullo said. “When you look back at the offseason and just going through the process. What we did that was successful here and what he’s done [elsewhere]. Just teaching it back and forth and finding new ideas and new trends in the league."
