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With beloved, and highly respected offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland leaving, with highly respected defensive backs coach Christian Parker leaving to be the defensive coordinator of the Dallas Cowboys, with many highly attractive possibilities as offensive coordinator turning the Eagles down, with a cracked offensive line, with Lane Johnson contemplating retirement, and the Wild Cardround ouster from the playoffs, are they signs this window of Eagles’ success is about to close?It looks like Eagles finished in 2025, winning doublefigure games for the fourthstraight season, which is the third time in franchise history the Eagles have done that behind the fiveyear runs of Andy Reid’s 20002004 teams and Buddy RyanRich Kotite’s 19881992 makes this fouryear run unique was that it was the most victories that the Eagles had ever won in a fouryear span 50including two Super Bowls, winning one, over Reid’s 20002003 4or 20012004 teams, or Ryan’s 19881991 41 or 19891992 42 2025 season was not aesthetically Eagles won more on a talented defense than offense, and apparently, coaching in 2025, finishing 24th overall in offense, averaging 3.2 yards a game, and 23rd in passing, averaging 194.3 yards a game, while defensively they held opponents to an average of less than one touchdown passing a game, and 19.1 points a game, which was fifth overall in the NFL, only surpassed by four playoff teams, including Super Bowlbound Seattle and New Eagles also won in 2025 despite Wednesday, Stoutland, a prideful, stubborn, brilliant man, a bit on the egotistical side who has earned it, announced he was leaving the Eagles after 13 seasons: hiladelphia, I’ve decided my time coaching with the Eagles has come to an end, he wrote on social I arrived here in 2013, I did not know what I was signing up for.I quickly learned what this city more importantly, what it gives past 13 years have been the great privilege of my coaching career.I didn’t just work here, I became one of Stoutland never thanked the Eagles, who also released a statement: he Philadelphia Eagles thank Jeff Stoutland for his legendary contributions to the game of football at the college and professional ‘s influence throughout football is immense, having helped countless players reach their true potential, including many who went on to earn AllPro honors and some who developed into future Hall of Fame passion for the development of young players set the bar not only for our organization but for the entire National Football is hard to fathom another coach investing more personally and professionally in their players than Jeff ‘s departure leaves a large fissure in the cracked walls of the NovaCare was made public that Stoutland was demoted as the run game coordinator possibly as early as Week 7, after the Giants’ 3417 debacle that dropped the Eagles to 42, with head coach Nick Sirianni playing more of a role in the did not NFL and major college sources said the 63yearold Stoutland, who is based in the south, will not have any problem immediately finding a the Eagles will be respectful enough, you would assume, to allow him out of the remainder of his contract to pursue other coaching timing of Stoutland’s departure is interesting.A week after it became public that Stoutland had been demoted during the 2025 season, the Eagles suddenly landed their new offensive coordinator, 33yearold Sean Mannion, who then went on to hire Ryan Mahaffey, who will now be the Eagles’ new run game coordinator and tight ends to numerous reports, Stoutland was offered a job as part of Mannion’s new declined, quite possibly because he felt betrayed by the way Sirianni and former offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo began making changes without Stoutland’s input a third of the way into last is how it works with most NFL teams: The offensive coordinator calls the offense, with input from the run coordinator, which many times is the offensive line coach or tight end’s Mannion come in and tell the Eagles he would take the OC job if given absolute say in how the Eagles’ offense will be run in 2026? Quite the season on Tuesday mornings, the run coordinator comes in and lines up the type of running plays he likes for the next offensive coordinator takes those suggestions and incorporates the ones he likes into the overall game of the respect Stoutland has earned, the Eagles may have run most of what he the time Mannion was hired, and with Stoutland being demoted, the revered coach may have had one foot out of the NovaCare Complex teams work with rarely with the complexities of today’s NFL’s offenses does an offensive coordinator take total control of the running game and the passing is simply too much bandwidth to deal plans are front loaded in the games are usually coordinated by the offensive line coach andor tight ends presents a new gaping hole the Eagles will need to fill in 202with Stoutland Eagles have larger problems looming, besides Stoutland’s is a franchise under Howie Roseman that is very good at building towards successthough is not as good at sustaining the Eagles won the Super Bowl in 2017, the NovaCare Complex was filled with everyone from Eagles’ owner Jeff Lurie on down taking credit for the Super Bowl was not e did it, and more so did it, behind the 2024, the Eagles won the Super Bowl on motto: ou can’t be great without the greatness of others. It was a talented Ife Adeyi Jersey, starstudded offense that had everyone willing to give up pieces of their game, heir numbers, for the greater goodwinning the Super , again, created unreal expectations in 2025 that a new offensive coordinator with 17 years of NFL experience yet never called plays before in an NFL game, could handle a quarterback in Jalen Hurts, who was unwilling to run and create, as he did in 2024, and unwilling to work under began to build, numerous sources said, between what Hurts wanted and what Patullo was offensive line, toutland’s baby, began showing wear from winning the Super Cam Jurgens’ balky back caused him to look awful in tackle Jordan Mailata admitted he had an off season, while right tackle Lane Johnson played with a hyphened last name the latter part of 2025, ane Johnsonquestionable, after suffering a Lisfranc foot sprain during the Eagles’ November 16, 2025, game against the Detroit Barkley went from 378 touches in 2024 to 317 touches in 2025, appearing less explosive, and was also hit often behind the line of scrimmage, because of a diminished, wounded offensive end Dallas Goedert, safety Reed Blankenship, linebacker Nakobe Dean, edge rusher Jaelan Phillips, punter Braden Mann, and veteran defensive lineman Brandon Graham, who proved he could still play, are all free agents.A. wants now not only has to rebuild the Eagles’ offensive line, but he also has to find a capable offensive line coach who his linemen can trust, because they will not get anyone nearly as good as New York Giants will be much improved under John Dallas defense will be much improved under will be much improved with a healthy Jayden Eagles just completed a fouryear run of 10 wins or better, winning 50 games and a Super was the best fouryear span in franchise empire cracks are in the ‘s exodus just happens to be the latest brick to fall.
