The Eagles could use a veteran hand on the coaching staff.
On the day, it was reported that the organization interviewed 30-year-old Connor Senger to be the quarterbacks coach, comes the revelation that there is also interest in pursuing 62-year-old Greg Olson for the same position.
Olson started his coaching career in 1987 as a graduate assistant for Washington State, seven years before Stenger was born. In a 24-year professional career, Olson has been an offensive coordinator for Detroit, the then-St. Louis Rams, Tampa Bay, the then-Oakland Raiders, Jacksonville, and the Las Vegas Raiders twice, most recently finishing last season as the interim OC. His expertise has always been quarterbacks. Olson coached the position in college at Idaho and Purdue before jumping to the pro ranks by mentoring QBs for San Francisco. Along the way, Olson has also coached the position for Chicago, Detroit, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, the LA Rams, Seattle, where he mentored new Eagles offensive coordinator Sean Mannion in 2023, and Las Vegas.Eagles QB coach Scott Loeffler tutors Kyle McCord on May 2, 2025 at Rookie Camp. | John McMullen/Eagles On SI The dichotomy between the experience levels for Stenger and Olson is striking, but does run somewhat parallel to the offensive coordinator search that netted the Eagles the 33-year-old Mannion with two years of coaching experience despite interviewing possibilities like Brian Daboll and Matt Nagy. More so, the Eagles hired another finalist in their OC search, the 35-year-old Josh Grizzard, as their passing game coordinator. If the passing game in Philadelphia runs through Mannion, Grizzard, and Stenger, you’d be talking about a trio with a total of seven years of NFL experience past the quality-control level.Just as youth doesn’t guarantee creativity or innovation, experience is no assurance of competency. What past performance does provide, however, is a significant sample size to evaluate someone’s demonstrated performance and Olson is extremely well-regarded league wide. Meanwhile, there's been no word on the future of current Eagles QBs coach Scot Loeffler, who resigned as the Bowling Green head coach last year to join the Eagles' staff. The interest in outside options who Mannion might be more comfortable with would strongly indicate turnover from Loeffler, who remains under contract. Meanwhile, Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has had a different QB coach in each of the past four seasons and will likely make that 5-for-5 when things pick up in May.John McMullen is a veteran reporter who has covered the NFL for over two decades. The current NFL insider for JAKIB Media, John is the former NFL Editor for The Sports Network where his syndicated column was featured in over 200 outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Miami Herald. He was also the national NFL columnist for Today's Pigskin as well as FanRag Sports. McMullen has covered the Eagles on a daily basis since 2016, first for ESPN South Jersey and now for Eagles Today on SI.com's FanNation. You can listen to John, alongside legendary sports-talk host Jody McDonald every morning from 8-10 on ‘Birds 365,” streaming live on YouTube.com. John is also the host of his own show "Extending the Play" on AM1490 in South Jersey and part of 6ABC.com's live postgame show after every Eagles game. You can reach him at jmcmullen44@gmail.com or on Twitter @JFMcMullen
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