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It’s Amusing to Hear 94 WIP Speculate that Bad Fan Behavior is Contributing to the Eagles’ Difficulty in Finding an Offensive Coordinator
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WIP back at it on a Thursday morning:
“We all get tagged with it. That’s ‘Philadelphia sports fans egged Kevin Patullo’s house.’ Every coordinator in football knows it. Every one. And you know who also knows it? The wives of the candidates. Because when the wives talk to the candidates, the men who are their husbands, it’s ‘okay we’ve got seven openings, maybe there’s four we’re interested in, honey let’s put together pros and cons, let’s put the ledger on a piece of paper.’ There’s pros here. Three guys in the last three years have gotten a head coaching job here. Two on offense, one on defense. There’s a lot of success here. A lot on the pro side of the ledger. But don’t kid yourself. Those kids that egged the house, that is a frickin’ setback in hiring a coordinator. The wives know the last guy’s house got egged. That’s tough, man. That’s tough for the dude who’s gonna be OC, tough for the wife.”
I haven’t seen the egging thing mentioned outside of Ross Tucker and now Joe DeCamara. It was brought up in a speculative kind of way, as though it’s lingering and contributing to the difficulty in landing a good candidate. Hypothetically speaking, yes, the egging was a negative, though it was widely condemned by the fan base, and Philadelphia has always been a more challenging environment than other NFL cities because the fans have a lot of passion and demand excellence, effort, and accountability. So a handful of douchebag kids deciding to cross the line probably doesn’t make the job much more difficult than it already was going to be. It’s really just optics icing poorly placed on top of an already-arduous cake.
If, however, we believe that the speculation has merit, and the fans deserve blame, it’s undeniably comical to hear it coming from 94 WIP, since the Eagles’ radio partner has spent the last three decades riling up the base with performative outrage and negativity, fostering idiocy through the Angelo Cataldi and Howard Eskin days and now into the modern era. Nobody has contributed more to the toxic Eagles fan ecosystem than the team’s radio partner, yet here comes Joe D to talk about “setbacks” as if his employer doesn’t attach rage bait to the fishing rod and cast it into the Philadelphia fan ocean on a daily basis.
I’m not saying WIP is directly responsible for inciting the egging, but they do, on a daily basis, take a gallon of gasoline and dump it on the Eagles fan fire, because it makes for successful radio. And the Eagles organization apparently has no issue with it.
We’re all trying to find the people who did this!
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com