Will Sean Desai Emerge from the Howie Roseman Broom Closet, or Wind Up in Storage B with a Can of Pesticide?

Some clarification here on what exactly Sean Desai will and will not be doing on Monday night in Seattle:

There seems to be this “alternative” theory floating about.

Sean Desai is no longer calling plays, as team officially said. He will not have final say on the defense, as team sources have said. There’s no turning back. Odd to have him still on staff, but #Eagles and other teams… https://t.co/R0aF6RuK94

— Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) December 18, 2023

Per a league source, Sean Desai technically remains defensive coordinator but Matt Patricia has assumed defensive playcalling duties.

Patricia will be on the sideline during games and Desai will move to the coaches’ booth.

— Tim McManus (@Tim_McManus) December 17, 2023

Alright. So Desai remains defensive coordinator. He will not call plays. He will sit in the booth. This would be like Pagan taking over the website, and I don’t write any of the stories, but I’m still the “senior managing editor.”

I cannot think of the last time an arrangement like this has ever happened, but I assume there’s been a defensive-minded head coach who called the plays and had the next-highest-ranking defensive coach working from the booth instead. Surely we can find an example of that somewhere.

Trying to think of parallels here and I came up with two of them:

One, Desai could be the next Howie Roseman. Chip Kelly came in and Howie was banished to the broom closet in 2015, only for him to re-emerge a short time later and put together a Super Bowl-winning team. Is that Sean Desai’s redemption arc? What if Matt Patricia stinks, the Birds change their mind on Desai, give him a second chance, and he morphs into the second coming of 1991 Bud Carson? That’s storyline one.

Storyline two is that Desai becomes Milton Waddams from Office Space. They keep moving him from place to place until he winds up in storage B with a flashlight and a can of pesticide. Then he sets fire to the NovaCare Complex.

“Hi Milton, what’s happening? We’re going to need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We, uh, have some new people coming in and we need all of the space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, okay?”