The Philadelphia Eagles are wasting no time reshaping their offense after a disappointing postseason exit. The Eagles have already fired their offensive coordinator, Kevin Patullo, and the hunt for his successor is now in full swing. But with Eagles’ head coach Nick Sirianni potentially looking for his fifth OC in six seasons, a new prospect from Miami has quickly entered the mix.

“Eagles requested to interview Dolphins senior passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik for their offensive coordinator position,” NFL insider Adam Schefter reported via X on January 18.

Bobby Slowik brings an intriguing résumé to Philadelphia as a 13-year NFL coaching veteran. He already has two seasons of experience as an OC with the Houston Texans before he joined the Miami Dolphins in January 2025 as their senior passing game coordinator. 

The 38-year-old started his coaching career as a defensive assistant with the Washington Commanders from 2011 to 2013. There, Slowik worked under Mike Shanahan on a staff that included Matt LaFleur, Mike McDaniel, Kyle Shanahan, and Sean McVay, who are now some of the NFL’s brightest offensive thinkers. 

Bobby Slowik later joined the San Francisco 49ers as a defensive quality control coach from 2017 to 2018. But Slowik, a former college wide receiver, soon switched to the offensive side of things. As such, the 49ers made Slowik their offensive assistant from 2019 to 2020 and then promoted him to offensive pass game specialist in 2021.

The Texans then hired Bobby Slowik as their OC before the 2023 season, and the early results were impressive. In his first year, Houston ranked second in pass plays of 25-plus yards (41) and seventh in the NFL in yards per game (245.5). More importantly, Slowik played a huge role in developing Houston’s quarterback C.J. Stroud from his rookie season.

In 2023, C.J. Stroud threw for 4,108 yards, 23 touchdowns, and just five interceptions, finishing with a passer rating of 100.8. Stroud also led the league in passing yards per game (273.9). In 2024, which was Slowik’s second season as an OC, the Texans reached the Divisional Round, and Stroud recorded 3,727 yards and 20 touchdowns. Over those two seasons under Slowik, Stroud set franchise records with 655 completions and 7,835 passing yards and became the first QB in Houston to win two playoff games. 

But there was also a downturn in 2024, as Houston’s offense took a noticeable step back. Houston saw a dip in points per game from 22.2 to 21.9 and yards per game from 342.4 to 319.7, and Slowik paid the price. The Texans fired him, and he landed in Miami under Mike McDaniel in 2025. And while earlier this month, McDaniel was fired from Miami, he has also emerged as a potential candidate in the Eagles’ search for a new OC. 

“You’re looking to continue to evolve as an offense, and I’m looking to bring in the guy that’s going to best help us do that,” Sirianni said to the media on January 15. “I think that there are many different ways to be successful on offense and everybody has different styles, everybody has different players, and there’s many different ways to be successful.”

Nick Sirianni made it clear he wants change with the Eagles’ offense, so it looks like he has begun an expansive search for a new OC. Before Slowik’s name popped up, the Eagles were linked to former Commanders OC Kliff Kingsbury, New York Giants OC Mike Kafka, former Giants head coach Brian Daboll, Atlanta Falcons OC Zac Robinson, Indianapolis Colts OC Jim Bob Cooter, Ole Miss OC Charlie Weis Jr, and McDaniel. That wide search might also be a sign that Philly knows this decision can’t be another miss following Patullo’s not-so-quiet exit.

Kevin Patullo assigns the blame for the Eagles’ failures to Jalen Hurts’ offense

Kevin Patullo had been with the Eagles since 2021, but this past season marked a dramatic offensive collapse with him as the OC. From 2022 onward, Philly had consistently ranked in the top 10 in both points and total yards. But this year, the Eagles’ offense finished 24th in the league. And after his dismissal, Patullo didn’t hesitate to shift the blame for the failure to Eagles’ QB Jalen Hurts and his offense. Recently, NFL legend Richard Sherman revealed some of the behind-the-scenes frustrations of Patullo with the Eagles.

“Fitz [Ryan Fitzpatrick] is good friends with Kevin Pattulo, so he reached out, and he’s [Patullo’s] like, ‘People are just so hard on me, and it’s not my fault, and they don’t understand the inner workings,’” Richard Sherman said on the SZN podcast on January 8.

Richard Sherman tried to process Kevin Patullo’s side of the story but ended up torching the Eagles’ offense with a brutal analogy, comparing it to “a Ferrari car that you watched win a lot of races the year before… but it’s got a Toyota Corolla engine in it now.”

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That comparison points to the centre of why Patullo took so much heat this season. Yes, the Eagles had locker-room drama, but they had similar noise last year and still won the Super Bowl. So how did a roster in Philadelphia with that much talent fall that far this season?

Kevin Patullo took over as OC in 2025 after serving as pass game coordinator. He inherited an offense that ranked 25th in passing yards in 2021 and helped lift it to ninth in 2022. But then came the slide: 16th in 2023 and a shocking 29th in 2024. That kind of drop-off is hard to ignore. But as Sherman put it, the common denominator behind all that mess in the Eagles’ offense is obvious.

“Kevin, we get it, but when you’re the offensive coordinator, with great power comes great responsibility, burden, and accountability,” he added.

Moreover, Sherman made it clear that Kevin Patullo has to own his part in the Eagles’ offensive failures. While Patullo isn’t the only reason the Eagles struggled, he was undeniably one of them. And despite all the noise, the franchise isn’t moving on from Jalen Hurts. Instead, the Eagles are searching for yet another play-caller for Hurts, his seventh OC in seven seasons.