The Most Interesting Thing About The Eagles' Offensive Coaching Staff Is Who Else Is Here

New Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio will be operating with essentially an entirely new group of assistant coaches.

Under new offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, the changes on the offensive side of the ball won't be nearly as extensive.

We already knew that legendary offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland was staying, and we suspected that assistant head coach and passing game coordinator Kevin Patullo would stay based on Sirianni's comments at his press conference in January. But the Eagles announced Friday that wide receivers coach Aaron Moorehead, running backs coach and assistant head coach Jemal Singleton and tight ends coach Jason Michael will remain with the team in 2024.

Coordinator Brian Johnson, quarterbacks coach Alex Tanney, assistant offensive coach Roy Istvan and senior offensive assistant Marcus Brady will disappear from the offensive staff. Johnson is now the Commanders' passing game coordinator, Tanney is the Colts' passing game coordinator, Istvan Brown's assistant offensive line coach and the Brady Chargers' passing game coordinator.

The decision to keep Moorehead, Singleton and Michael sends a clear message that Howie Roseman and Nick Sirianni believe the problems on offense in the second half of the season were directly attributable to Johnson's playcalling and Sirianni's offensive structure, rather than anything else the position coaches did.

Moore will replace Johnson as offensive coordinator and play caller and he will run his own system, not Sirianni's.

This will be Stoutland's 12th year with the Eagles, three under Chip Kelly and five under Doug Pederson. Jason Kelce, Lane Johnson, Jason Peters, Evan Mathis, Brandon Brooks and Landon Dickerson have made a combined 23 Pro Bowls under Stoutland. In the 50 years before Stoutland came here, the Eagles' offensive linemen made a total of 21 Pro Bowls.

Singleton, hired in 2021, has coached different Pro Bowl running backs each of the last two years – Miles Sanders in 2022 and D'Andre Swift last year.

Moorehead, a holdover from Pederson's staff, coached AJ Brown and DeVonta Smith to consecutive seasons of at least 80 catches, 1,000 yards, seven touchdowns and 12.0 yards per catch. No other WR tandem in NFL history has achieved these numbers in consecutive seasons.

And Michael, also an original Sirianni hire in 2021, got as much out of Dallas Goedert and the other tight ends as could be expected.

Patullo, Sirianni's most trusted adviser, worked with Sirianni in Indianapolis from 2018 to 2020 and there never seemed to be a chance he would leave.

Also remaining is entry-level quality control coach Eric Dickerson (no relation to the famous coach).

The only additions to the offensive staff other than Moore are new quarterbacks coach Doug Nussmeier, who we learned earlier this month, and offensive assistant Kyle Valero.

Moore and Valero also spent time with the Lions and Cowboys. Valero was an assistant wide receivers coach for the Lions in 2012 and 2013 when Moore was quarterback, and he was an assistant WRs coach in Dallas when Moore played for the Cowboys from 2015-17. From 2018 to 2018, both were on the Cowboys' 2022 coaching staff under Jason Garrett and Mike McCarthy, Moore as OC and Valero in various positions. Valero began his coaching career as a student assistant under Bobby Bowden at Florida State University in 2008 (when Nigel Bradham was a freshman).

Additionally, TJ Paganetti is moving from assistant tight ends coach and running game specialist to assistant offensive line coach and running game specialist.

Paganetti, who coached under Chip Kelly at Oregon and joined Kelly's staff with the Eagles in 2013, has held seven different positions with the Eagles: offensive and quarterback analyst in 2013, offensive quality control and assistant offensive line in 2017 and 2018, assistant running backs in 2019, assistant running game coordinator and assistant running backs in 2020, offensive quality control in 2021 and 2022 and run game specialist and assistant tight ends last year. Paganetti returned to Oregon in 2015 and 2016.

Paganetti and Stoutland are the only remaining coaches from the Eagles' 2017 Super Bowl championship season.