Nick Sirianni had to be separated from Zach Ertz by Big Dom after the Washington game on Sunday because Sirianni didn’t like the force of Ertz’s high five. That last sentence was NFL Mad Libs. Jeff McLane told the story:

Sirianni is such an asshole and I love it. At least he’s authentic. He’s an asshole 100% of the time. If you’re going to be an asshole on the field you gotta be one 24/7, 365 or it’ll just become a tough guy act. He’s a little brother. Chirping Ertz for having one catch is classic little brother sore loser behavior. Probably went and cried to Lurie and Howie that Ertz was being a meanie too.

How about the rivalry with the Commies heating up for the first time in decades? These teams absolutely hate each other. There were unsportsmanlike penalties. Guys getting their helmets punched off. Ejections. Dirty hits. Shit talking. We had it all!

I can’t find video of this altercation anywhere, but here are a couple pics attached to this tweet of Ertz looking animated and Big Dom holding him back:

The part I would’ve been most mad about is having to get on a Zoom call with Nick so he could apologize. You don’t think someone in the Eagles front office has Ertz’s number? Couldn’t have just called or FaceTime’d the guy? He played for you. Having to download the Zoom app, log in, put all my information in just for a likely five minute conversation would piss me the fuck off. That’s the only thing I hate Sirianni for in this situation.


Imagine if this escalated. I would’ve killed to see Bob Lange, the Eagles now VP of Comms guy, get in another postgame handshake scrum like this one. Guy knows how to throw his weight around:

UPDATE: There’s video and it looks like it’s a whole bunch of nothing:

 

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The high five was an odd move by Ertz, but for Sirianni to flip out like that is just as weird. Ertz said people are blowing it way out of proportion so we can just leave this story in 2024 after this: