Eagles

Report: Eagles Haven’t Actually Offered Anybody the Offensive Coordinator Job

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Jan 28th, 2026 · 10:22 AM EST

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Jeff McLane at the Inquirer:

The #Eagles didn’t offer Brian Daboll the OC job, nor have they yet to officially offer the job to anyone, per sources, but he was a top target, went through a formal interview process, and had support from key individuals in the organization.

He told the Eagles that he was… https://t.co/uqH2Y7mzh4

— Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) January 27, 2026

“He told the Eagles that he was pursuing other opportunities. They continued on with their process. Doesn’t mean they won’t find a suitable replacement, but they are now two weeks removed from Kevin Patullo’s ouster.”

The semantics are always interesting. You get these tidbits here and there about the Eagles talking to candidates, maybe bringing them into the building, or doing a Zoom call, whatever. Then a guy like Brian Daboll or Mike McDaniel links up with another team and the knee-jerk reaction is to just assume they spurned the Eagles or turned them down.

Either way, if Daboll was a “top target,” the takeaway remains mostly the same, that the Birds failed to land one of their primary candidates. So the narrative will continue to be spun that people don’t want this job, when, in fact, Daboll probably just liked the idea of coaching Cam Ward and working with Robert Saleh in a lower-pressure environment where expectations weren’t going to be as high. That Tennessee gig offers different benefits than the Eagles job. People act like this is a binary thing where a job is either good or it sucks, when it’s more like that exercise with the napkin where you write down the positives and negatives of an opportunity and then compare before making a decision.

Going back to January of 2024, the Eagles lost to the Bucs on the 15th. Brian Johnson was officially fired on the 23rd and the first Kellen Moore reports hit the timeline on the 27th. It’s currently January 28th, 2026, so the timeline really is not much different from the last time this happened. The main factor that’s unique this time around is the volume of jobs that are open, both head coach and coordinator, and that’s going to make the process for every team a little more convoluted that it normally is. It is a strong market for the employees and not necessarily the employers.