The 2025 Philadelphia Eagles are officially broken, and the vitriol has been pointed in one painfully obvious direction.
Nick Sirianni officially has another crisis on his hands. Philadelphia’s offense has been a shell of itself all season, and Thursday night’s embarrassing performance against the last-place New York Giants qualifies as a breaking point.
The Eagles will have 10 days to get ready for their Week 7 road game against Minnesota, but that feels like the least of their problems right now. Fans are demanding change at offensive coordinator, as first-year play caller Kevin Patullo has inspired zero confidence that things will get turned around in short order; very much the opposite, actually.
Firing Patullo might momentarily appease the masses, but it would only get the Eagles so far. The team’s best in-house options either have no prior NFL experience, or are cut from the Sirianni coaching tree. Sirianni may no longer call the plays, but his fingerprints will be all over the Eagles’ offense, whether its Kellen Moore, Patullo or some interim coach in the OC role.
Patullo is definitely part of the problem, but so is the head coach, the quarterback, and every one of the Eagles’ 10 returning offensive starters from last year’s Super Bowl championship team.
Assigning a scapegoat won’t solve anything, and star running back Saquon Barkley said as much Thursday with some post-game comments Eagles fans need to hear.
Saquon Barkley said the ugly truth out loud about Philadelphia Eagles’ landlocked offense
Barkley’s arrival in 2024 free agency changed everything for the Eagles’ offense.
Over the second half of that season, opposing teams knew Philly’s pounding run game was coming and were still powerless to stop it. In the snow against the Los Angeles Rams in the Divisional Round, the Eagles rushed for 285 yards and three touchdowns. On their first play from scrimmage in the NFC Championship, Barkley ripped off a 60-yard score against the waffling Washington Commanders.
Were those plays elaborately schemed or well-timed by the play caller? Or were the Eagles executing and performing at such a high level, it didn’t really matter which run play was called?
For Barkley, Philly’s 2024 success was a mindset, and he seemed to challenge his teammates postgame to look past the current coaching struggles — and instead look straight in the mirror.
“Last year, do you think we were predictable? I mean everyone knew we were running the ball, and we still got it off. So I think we also have to get back to that attitude, to that mindset, of not really giving a (expletive) what people are trying to do.”
Saquon Barkley was asked if the offense was too predictable
— Eliot Shorr-Parks (@EliotShorrParks) October 10, 2025
Says last year they were predicable because everyone knew they were going to run the ball and they still executed
“We gotta get back to that mindset…not giving a fuck what (the defense) is trying to do” pic.twitter.com/8da1kDPAO4
Eagles fans had every right to lay awake in bed sending “Fire Patullo!” tweets into the ether on Thursday night. Philly’s new OC has done nothing to ease concerns or justify keeping his job through six games.
But at some point, the players have to take some accountability for their performance on the field. The QB is holding the ball longer, running less, and has already taken 18 sacks. The receivers are demonstrating brutal body language on a drive-by-drive basis. The offensive line looks like it aged 10 years overnight. The most dynamic player in the NFL suddenly can’t find room to run and is constantly meeting defenders in the backfield.
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This whole thing feels like a giant mess, and one simple move like firing the offensive coordinator on Monday won’t come close to cleaning it up.