The Eagles promoted Kevin Patullo to their offensive coordinator position on Wednesday and they’re moving quickly to fill his former spot on head coach Nick Sirianni’s staff.
Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that they will hire Parks Frazier as their pass game coordinator.
Frazier was an offensive assistant with the Dolphins in 2024 and he was the pass game coordinator for the Panthers in 2023. He spent the previous five seasons with the Colts and finished out his time in Indianapolis as the team’s interim offensive coordinator.
Patullo will be the Eagles’ fourth offensive coordinator in the last four seasons and he’ll work with Frazier to ensure the transition doesn’t dirupt the offense’s effectiveness in 2025.
Andy Dalton will be back with the Panthers in 2025.
A pending free agent, Dalton signed a two-year deal with Carolina on Tuesday, the club announced.
Dalton, 37, has been with the Panthers for the last two seasons. He started five games for the franchise in 2024, but Bryce Young’s improvement kept Dalton on the bench after he recovered from an injury suffered in a car accident.
Dalton completed 66.3 percent of his passes for 989 yards with seven touchdowns and six interceptions in 2024.
Per Adam Schefter of ESPN, Dalton’s new contract is worth $8 million with $6 million guaranteed. It has a maximum value of $10 million.
Dalton’s relationship with Young was likely a factor in him re-signing with Carolina, as the two are reportedly close.
A Bengals second-round pick back in 2011, Dalton has started 168 games for Cincinnati, Dallas, Chicago, New Orleans, and Carolina. He’s completed 63 percent of his career passes for 39,500 yards with 253 touchdowns and 150 interceptions.
The Panthers are making a change at the top of their strength and conditioning department.
Joseph Person of TheAthletic.com reports that they have parted ways with strength and conditioning coach Jeremy Scott. They are set to hire Vikings director of performance Josh Hingst to take over the role.
Hingst spent the last four seasons with the Vikings. He was the strength and conditioning coach for the Eagles from 2013-2020 and worked for both the Jaguars and the University of Nebraska before heading to Philadelphia.
Scott joined the Panthers in 2020 when Matt Rhule took over as their head coach. He also worked with Rhule at Baylor and Temple before joining him in Carolina.
Marty Hurney no longer is a member of the Commanders’ front office, Ben Standig of TheAthletic.com reports.
Hurney, an advisor for the team last season, is not listed on the Commanders’ website.
His contract expired after the 2024 season.
Ron Rivera, who worked with Hurney in Carolina, hired him as executive vice president of football for player personnel in 2021. After the Commanders hired a new General Manager and head coach in 2024, the team kept Hurney on as an advisor.
Hurney began his career as an NFL executive in 1990 with the Chargers, working as coordinator of football operations until the Panthers hired him in 1998 as the director of football administration.
He worked his way up in the Panthers’ organization to director of player operations (1999-01) and then General Manager (2002-12, 2017-20).
Former Panthers quarterback Cam Newton recently said that he arrived in 2011 to a “locker room of losers.” Former teammate Steve Smith Sr. and other Panthers from the 2010 team took exception.
Newton addressed the situation on the latest episode of his Fourth and 1 podcast.
“When did we become so sensitive?” Newton said, via the Associated Press. “When did we become so sensitive to really speaking what the reality is? A locker room full of losers? Aggressive, but it’s true.”
Newton said he wasn’t referring to any particular players, but to the entire situation with a team that went 2-14 the year before the Panthers made him the first overall pick in the draft.
“I’m not specifically talking about those guys,” Newton said “I’m talking about the culture that was there prior to me coming into the locker room -- and it was a losers’ mentality.”
The Panthers improved to 6-10 in Newton’s first year. By his fifth season, he was the NFL MVP and the Panthers went to the Super Bowl.
“Is it me saying that, ‘Oh when I came, I made everything [better]?’” Newton said. “No. I never said that. What I said was if you’re getting drafted No. 1, you’re going to a bad football team. That’s facts. And that’s the point that I was trying to tell Travis Hunter. You see what I’m saying? For me, everybody is so taken aback, like, ‘Oh, Cam said this.’ Bro, it’s the truth. It’s the truth.”
His broader point — that the first overall pick ends up with the worst team from the prior year — is true. He still went too far in making it. Instead of acknowledging that, he doubled down.
We’ll see what, if anything, his former teammates have to say about his latest remarks.
