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Three burning questions for 2025 Eagles
Philadelphia Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert. Eric Hartline-Imagn Images

Three burning questions for 2025 Eagles

The Philadelphia Eagles had all the answers on their way to winning Super Bowl LIX, but we have a few questions about their 2025 campaign.

What’s the deal with Dallas Goedert?

Actually he’s on the last year of a four-year, $57M deal that carries an $11M cap hit for 2025. Talented as he may be, that’s a lot of money for a 30-year-old tight end, especially one that's missed multiple games in each of the last three seasons.

Goedert hasn’t played a full season since his rookie year, missing seven games in 2024, three games in 2023 and five games in 2022. When healthy, the 6-foot-5, 256-pound pass catcher is one of the best tight ends in football, but one the team gave permission to seek a trade, without success, this offseason.

So does that mean he’s coming back?  

“Dallas is part of the team as we speak,” Eagles general manager Howie Roseman told reporters following the 2025 NFL Draft. “Obviously, as we go forward, we're going to continue to address things on this team and right now nothing further.”

Hardly a ringing endorsement, although the team chose not to add another tight end in the draft. A post-June 1 trade could save Philadelphia $4M against the cap but it’s hard to believe the team wants to start next season with Grant Calcaterra, a sixth-round pick in 2022, as its starting tight end.

Who will be QB3?

Kyle McCord, a sixth-round pick in this year’s draft, threw 34 touchdowns and led the FBS with 4,779 yards for Syracuse last season. Ordinarily, numbers like that would bump a player up the depth chart, but not in Philadelphia where Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts reigns supreme.

After Hurts, there’s 6-foot-6, 231-pound Tanner McKee, a sixth-round pick out of Stanford in 2023 and someone the team liked enough to deal Kenny Pickett to the Browns in the offseason. McKee led the team to a 20-13 victory over the Giants in last year’s regular season finale and is clearly the team’s No. 2 option.

So where does that leave Dorian Thompson-Robinson, the third-year quarterback acquired in the Pickett trade? Robinson appeared in 15 games for the Browns, with a 1-4 record in five starts. At the moment, he appears to be the odd man out, but with so little experience between McCord and McKee, the former Bruin may hold more value than expected.

Who is Kevin Patullo and can he call plays?

Patullo became the team’s offensive coordinator after Kellen Moore left to become the head coach of the New Orleans Saints. He’d been the Eagles' passing game coordinator since 2021, and was named as an associate head coach in 2023.

While Patullo will be entering his 16th season as an NFL assistant, he’s never called plays or held the title of offensive coordinator. In 2023, Philadelphia handed its offense over to quarterbacks coach Brian Johnson with disastrous results. Unlike Patullo, Johnson served as an offensive coordinator with three college programs, but also had no experience calling plays at the NFL level. 

Johnson was fired at the end of the season in favor of Moore, something Patullo clearly remembers and hopes to avoid as Philadelphia looks to repeat as Super Bowl champions in 2025.

Bruce Ewing

Bruce Ewing is 183 pounds of twisted steel and Happy Meals. His work has appeared on Yardbarker, 5th Down Fantasy, Inside the Iggles and MSN. Give a Philly fan a break and follow him on Twitter/X at @fantasybruce.

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