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Kinda Hard to Evaluate Jeff Stoutland’s Job Performance When 60% of the Starting Offensive Line Wasn’t Healthy
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Let’s get it back to the Eagles with this Jeff McLane report:
“From what I understand, at some point last season, (run game coordinator) was pretty much taken away from him. I don’t know if that’s because he wasn’t getting the job done or they just decided ‘okay we’re better at doing this.’ And talking to people in the building, people close to him, people in the room with him, the players, I don’t think Stoutland was anywhere near chiefly responsible for the woes on the offensive line…”
Yeah, well Landon Dickerson and Cam Jurgens weren’t fully healthy at any point during the season. Lane Johnson played 10 games. Jordan Mailata wasn’t nearly as good as he was the year prior. And Tyler Steen did fine in pass protection while not exactly opening up Mekhi Becton-sized holes at right guard. Dallas Goedert and Grant Calcaterra and all of these dudes were completely whiffing on blocks and I don’t think they simply forgot how to play football considering that 2024 under Jeff Stoutland and Kellen Moore featured the best Eagles running offense in the history of the franchise.
That being said, if you’re bringing in a new offensive coordinator, they likely wanna do their thing, as Jeff talks about in the clip. They wanna coordinate their own run game or maybe hire their own guy. Nothing unnatural about that. But it just feels on the surface like an overcorrection to limit Stoutland in 2026 considering that we’re only one crap season removed from a team that ran the ball for 3800 yards and 40 touchdowns en route to a Super Bowl victory. Why would we jump off that entirely? Classic overreaction. Give these guys a chance to get healthy and give it one more go before pulling the plug.
Let’s give Stoutland University another go. If we need to drop out after this year, and enroll at DeVry, so be it.
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