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Is Nick Sirianni the Greatest Co-Worker of All Time?

Kyle Pagan

By Kyle Pagan

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Photo: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports

By now you’ve seen the quote from Nick Sirianni from Wednesday’s press conference about why Jalen Hurts threw deep to A.J. Brown when the Eagles only needed to get into field goal range. If you haven’t? Brace yourselves. It might be the dumbest answer of all time:

Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

If you believe that’s really what the playbook called for in that situation, you’re an idiot. We just watched them dink and dunk their way with short routes to set up a Jake Elliott tying field goal against the Bills a couple weeks ago. He’s covering for someone. The ultimate teammate. You eat some co-workers’ lunch in the fridge, he’ll take the fall. Numbers are down this quarter, he’s the first one to offer to work longer hours to get them right. Someone’s not pulling their weight? He’s there to cover it up. I mean, he even fired someone but couldn’t really fire them because he probably felt bad it was so close to the holidays. Is this good or bad? I don’t know. But I know one thing and that is Nick Sirianni is an ELITE co-worker. But he’s not a stooge. I mean we’re talking about a guy who would make love to football I.Q. if he could. It’s one of his core values:

He’s a foxhole guy. A guy who had brothers growing up and probably had to fall on the grenade and take the timeout when it wasn’t his fault. You’d want this guy in your corner. I just don’t understand how taking bullets left and right for Brian Johnson and Jalen Hurts is going to relate to winning football games. It’s one thing if you’re a cube monkey and you forget to save the slide deck on your computer. It’s another to get pantsed by two division rivals and Drew Lock while the entire fanbase wonders if they just ruined a 10-1 season. Great teammate, don’t get me wrong. We’d all love Sirianni in our bullpen. But you can only keep up with the dumb explanations for so long before management makes a change.

Kyle Pagan

Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com

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