It has been a long week for Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo. Not only did his offense struggle in the team’s 24-15 loss to the Bears last Friday, but unfortunately, according to Moorestown Police, Patullo’s home was pelted with eggs early Saturday morning.
On Wednesday, the first-year offensive coordinator addressed the incident.
“At this point, we’re ready to focus on winning the game,” he said. “Unfortunately, it happened. I’ve been here for five years now, and it’s 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 we’ve won at Lincoln Financial Field, a Super Bowl. The parade is just, it’s an amazing atmosphere to be a coach and a player.
“And as coaches and players, we all know that part of our job is to handle criticism. It’s perfectly acceptable to sit up here and talk about what’s going on, how to fix it, what we’re going to do going forward, and we know that. But when it involves your family, obviously, it crosses the line. That happened, and at this point, we’ve just got to move on. We’re trying to win. That’s all we want to do is focus, whether it’s my family, whether it’s the team, all we’re trying to do together is focus on this week.”
Look, the Eagles’ offense has struggled this season; they are near the bottom of the league in many offensive categories, and a lot of the fingers are being pointed at Patullo. There’s a lot of pressure being an offensive coordinator in the NFL, and Patullo knows that comes with the job.
“You know that the pressure’s there, but we all accept it because we ultimately want to be at the highest part of our coaching career and continue to work through that,” Patullo said. “This is part of it. It’s a challenge, but it makes it fun. When you look back on it, you hope that you have more good than bad memories. And when you go through the process like this, it defines you as a person in your career but not as an individual, not as your family.
“I think when you look at the big picture, it’s just a piece of who we all are as coaches, who I am, who my family is, and ultimately, it’s fine. It’s a great career that we’re in. We get to do something that very few people get to do. I mean, we’re one of 32, I am, Nick(Sirianni) is, we all are in the world. When you look at it that way, we’re very fortunate, and it’s exciting. There’s nothing better than winning a game in our stadium. There’s nothing better than going on the road and winning a game in front of all these Eagles fans. It’s very unique, and it’s fun.”
Criticism of Patullo and his offense is acceptable, but vandalism of any kind is not. Plain and simple.
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