After 17 days, the Eagles have their guy.

Sean Mannion is on his way to Philadelphia to serve as the team’s offensive coordinator. The former backup NFL quarterback is one of the most intriguing coordinator hires in recent years. He’s young (33), inexperienced (only two years of coaching experience) and has never called a single play in the NFL.

Yet here he is, tasked with reviving an Eagles offense that was hard to watch in 2025 and the biggest reason the team fell from the top of the mountain to far from elite this season.

And while I can already hear the rhetoric forming about Mannion’s ability to work with quarterbacks and the potential to revive Jalen Hurts into an NFL MVP candidate, I have a different theory on why the Eagles chose this coordinator.