Should the Eagles Fire Nick Sirianni? Assessing Performance

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00:03 The low was how they ended 2023, dropping six of their final seven games,

00:07 including getting bounced in the opening round of the postseason,

00:11 despite being a road favorite in Tampa on the Monday night football finale of

00:15 Super Wild Card weekend.

00:17 Through the first 11 games of this season, in the first 12 weeks,

00:22 the Eagles were the NFL's best team at 10 and 1.

00:25 So Donnie Reitstein, buy or sell, and I cannot wait for your answer.

00:30 The Eagles should fire Nick Sirianni.

00:33 >> I'm gonna sell that notion here.

00:35 Now granted, when you collapse at the end of a season, change usually is upon you.

00:39 And for the Philadelphia Eagles, yes,

00:41 they should be checking in to see what coaches are available.

00:44 But the reason why I say no here is you gotta go with the track record, right?

00:47 You bring in Nick Sirianni, every year he's been in the playoffs,

00:49 which included, for me, the best team in football last year,

00:52 double digit lead at the Super Bowl, weren't able to come through with that.

00:55 But he still made it there.

00:56 This year, after 11 games, 10 and 1 of the season, the bottom fell out.

01:00 Now, there's two ways that you can actually take a look at this and say,

01:02 well, Nick Sirianni just doesn't have the ear for the locker room.

01:05 Or you can say, it's actually amazing that that team was 10 and 1.

01:08 I don't know how Sirianni even got them to 11 overall wins with the way that

01:12 defense was shaping up the remaining parts of the season.

01:14 But also, when you look at the MO of the Philadelphia Eagles, right?

01:17 The last two head coaching hires, look at them.

01:20 Number one was Doug Peterson.

01:21 Yes, he won a Super Bowl.

01:22 But Doug Peterson was like the seventh choice on the board here when it was all

01:26 said and done, and they wound up with him.

01:28 Did it work out?

01:28 Absolutely, it did.

01:30 Then you go to Nick Sirianni.

01:31 I don't think Nick Sirianni was kicking down the NFL doors to be a head coach

01:35 in six to seven different cities.

01:37 You sort of wound up with Nick Sirianni, and we laughed at his first press

01:40 conference, but it did work out.

01:42 Because why?

01:43 The Eagles are a structured organization where the head of it,

01:46 obviously, is Jeffrey Lurie, the owner.

01:48 He doesn't really meddle, but he gives you unlimited checks to write for

01:52 whoever you want to succeed.

01:53 But also, Howie Roseman is really the brain of the franchise, which means I need

01:57 a head coach that's gonna go along with what I tell him as I set the roster, and

02:01 we work in lockstep.

02:02 If I want a certain wide receiver to play, I'll let Alshon Jeffrey to try to increase

02:06 his trade stock here, even though we know he's not a good football team.

02:09 Alshon Jeffrey's going to play.

02:11 When you saw Doug Peterson after his last game, Ben, in Philadelphia,

02:14 was that Washington Commanders debacle where they pulled their starters

02:17 in the fourth quarter to make sure they lost that football game here.

02:20 That didn't come from Doug Peterson.

02:22 That was a phone call from the GM that goes, yeah,

02:23 I don't care if you're winning this game or trying to win it.

02:25 Let's see what your other players have in this game.

02:27 Wink, wink, we want to lose this game.

02:29 You were not gonna tell that to Bill Belichick.

02:31 And that's the reason why I bring it up.

02:33 The Eagles aren't going to fire Nick Sirianni and hire Mike Vrabel and

02:36 or Bill Belichick.

02:37 Now granted, I could be wrong, but

02:38 that's not the organizational structure they like.

02:40 You think Mike Vrabel coming in this game, who when you saw that last game in

02:43 Tennessee, you think Tennessee ownership's, hey, what are you doing winning this game?

02:47 Lose it so we can get a higher draft pick.

02:49 Doesn't play in his playbook here, which means he is a headstrong quote coach and

02:53 the Eagles don't really run on that for the past couple coaches.

02:56 They learned their lesson under Chip Kelly and

02:58 gave the entire franchise over to him only for Jeffrey Little to fire and say, hey,

03:02 it's nice to actually get my own team back that I own and can have some input here.

03:05 So that's the reason I look at it, but also Ben, from a realistic standpoint,

03:09 if you go out and Nick Sirianni, he's still the head guy, CEO, head coach.

03:13 Hire an innovative young offensive coordinator, or maybe even I felt like

03:15 Cliff Kingsbury comes to Philadelphia, not to say that it's a great move, but

03:19 it brings innovation to an offense that was extremely stagnant over the last

03:23 eight games, and hire a Rex Ryan type defensive coordinator like Wink Martindale.

03:28 Hey, Wink, this is your defense.

03:30 Do whatever you want it.

03:31 I'll leave you alone and dominate over there so

03:33 I can focus on looking at the team as a whole.

03:36 That's the way I look at it here, and that's why I wouldn't fire Nick Sirianni.

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