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00:00First of all, Scott, let me explain something,
00:03because this has been a hot topic of both sports stations
00:07here and talk radio in terms of, OK,
00:10who's going to replace Kellen Moore?
00:11Kellen Moore, of course, the new Saints head coach,
00:13is bringing a couple of Eagles assistants
00:15with him to New Orleans.
00:16But this is the story.
00:18Back here in Philly, as you know,
00:20one of the top three media markets in the country.
00:22And you mentioned the Eagles won the Super Bowl,
00:24but Kevin Petullo, the passing game coordinator,
00:26is now going to be the offense coordinator.
00:28He was promoted.
00:29So let me explain to you what the Eagles were thinking here.
00:31So Jalen Hurts, Scott, this will be his fifth play
00:35caller in five seasons.
00:37That's a lot.
00:37That's a lot of change.
00:38In fact, Jalen talked about it last spring
00:42that he had had 10 play callers going back to high school.
00:45This goes back to college, of course,
00:47with Oklahoma and Alabama.
00:48And his dad is his high school coach.
00:50So this is a lot of change.
00:52Now, what I'm told is, Scott, here, a couple of things.
00:55They wanted to keep this thing kind of the same
00:58as much as possible.
01:00Their plan is to keep the scheme the same,
01:02the one that Kellen Moore ran last season.
01:04Don't give Jalen another playbook to learn.
01:06This is just not, it's not the way you want to do it.
01:09You don't want to keep changing things,
01:10but they couldn't block Kellen Moore from being a head coach.
01:14So they want to keep the scheme the same.
01:16Petullo and Hurts have now worked together for five seasons.
01:19This will be the fifth season together.
01:20I'm told they have a good working relationship.
01:22Petullo is coach quarterbacks, receivers in his career.
01:26I've talked to people who've worked with him in the past.
01:29He's a pretty sharp guy,
01:30but you can't go over the fact that
01:32it's another guy in his headset.
01:34This is another play caller.
01:35And remember now, Scott, two years ago,
01:39they promoted Brian Johnson, the quarterback's coach,
01:41to offensive coordinator.
01:43Brian Johnson was removed after one season
01:45as the play caller, didn't work well.
01:47He's now in Washington working high up in their offense.
01:50But the bottom line is this is yet another change.
01:52So as we go forward here, Scott,
01:55this is a story to watch in their off season
01:57to get the training camp in the off season.
01:59It's going to be talked about.
02:00People are going to wonder.
02:01And one more thing, Scott,
02:03Kevin Petullo has never called plays before.
02:05Play Collins and Art, and you got to be careful.
02:07You just got to let it play out.
02:08I know the Eagles are very optimistic.
02:10He's very close to Nick Sirianni.
02:12But again, he's never called plays before.
02:14You don't usually know until you get there,
02:15until he's put into the fire,
02:17until you got to do it in game.
02:19But I know they're very optimistic.
02:20I'm sure the sports talk there in Philly
02:24on Whip and Fanatic is they're traumatized by the change
02:29and that the whole world is ending
02:31and there's going to be an earthquake and a tsunami
02:35and the river's going to overflow in Philly.
02:39But here's the reality of it.
02:41How about looking at it from the other side,
02:43the perspective of Jalen Hurts has been to two Super Bowls
02:48and now he's got a Super Bowl ring.
02:49I don't care who's his offensive coordinator.
02:51He's just a great football player.
02:53He adapts.
02:54He's been doing it since high school,
02:56getting screwed over and having 10 different coaches.
02:58It hasn't affected him.
02:59He keeps getting better and better and better.
03:01He just kicked Mahomes' ass.
03:04I don't care who his coach is.
03:06His coach could be, leave it to Beaver.
03:11Yeah, Jerry Mathers, but also no other input.
03:14Oh, with the Jerry Mathers, he knew his thing.
03:18I knew it, man.
03:19I was, hey, I was actually big.
03:21I was a big in the high school family.
03:22Yeah, but bottom line is with Hurts,
03:25it's another play caller.
03:26We got to be careful, but he's got more input
03:28and he's a veteran quarterback.
03:29But I know, look, Alex Smith went through it.
03:32Remember Jason Campbell, the former Washington quarterback
03:35who went through a number of play callers.
03:37You know, you get concerned about that
03:39because you try to get used to a scheme
03:41when you're a quarterback, then it changes again.
03:43And here's the other thing with Kelly Moore and Hurts,
03:45boy, they were great late in the season.
03:47They got on the same page and boy, Hurts really took off.
03:51And you mentioned the super capping up
03:52with a great Superbowl,
03:53but bottom line is he's going to have a new play caller.
03:56This is something to watch as we go forward.