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ESPN Insider Says Not to Rule Out Nick Sirianni Firing if Eagles Lose to Bucs

Kyle Pagan

By Kyle Pagan

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Dan Graziano from ESPN’s Get Up had this to say about the rumors Nick Sirianni could be fired:

“I don’t think you should rule it out because I think if the organization decides it’s gotten bad there, you know, inside the building culturally, all that kind of thing. I think they’ve shown in the past that they’re not afraid to move on. Doug Pederson was just two years removed from winning the Super Bowl, which no other coach in the history of the organization has ever done, and they got rid of him because of the way that season ended. So, I think it’s worth keeping an eye on if things go very badly for them Monday night in Tampa and you’re looking at the last two months and going this is not it.”

I think I’ve switched my stance on firing Nick 10 times in the last week.

I don’t think he’s as great of a coach as his record insists I just think he was handed the keys to a Lamborghini and was told by Howie not to crash it. Then again, he doesn’t pick the players, and it’s hard to win when you have XFL players at linebacker and in the secondary. But if he doesn’t call plays and he doesn’t pick the players you have to show that you’re good at something to stick around. He’s apparently part of the offensive game planning and the game planning sucks a bag of dicks, there’s turmoil in the locker room, and he doesn’t have his team focused and ready to play. Dallas Goedert even admitted the players took their foot off the gas and coasted at the end of the season:

Sirianni responded to those comments in his Thursday press conference and the second half of the quote sounds like a guy trying to remind people of his resume so he can keep his job, via Josh Alpert at Pro Football Talk:

“Dallas said what he said,” Nick Sirianni told reporters. “And maybe that’s how he felt. He obviously said how he felt. I just know the guys have been consistent working. Nobody was satisfied with a playoff berth. I know that. It’s what it turned into, just a playoff berth, not an NFC [East] championship, not a No. 1 seed. It was a playoff berth.

“And I know nobody was satisfied with that, just like nobody is satisfied with where we’re sitting right now, like, we’re in the playoffs. We want to go out and win this week and see what happens. . . . They’re excited that we’re here in the playoffs. We obviously have waited a long time to be back into this spot. Not everybody gets to go to the playoffs for three years in a row or back-to-back years even.”

Not having guys ready to play goes against every teaching Sirianni has sold us on over the last three years. What happened to the dawg mentality? Where’s the 1% better everyday? Where’s the insatiable desire for competition that makes you take your shirt off during a game of HORSE?

If I had to guess, he’s gone if he loses this weekend and the guys at Get Up definitely think it’s possible:

If he wins he’ll be back. There are a lot of good candidates out there that have been fired or will become first timers. A lot of them are defensive minded. Jeffrey Lurie hasn’t hired a defensive minded head coach since Ray Rhodes. But there aren’t enough strong candidates to fire a coach who just went to the Super Bowl. I do think both coordinators will be gone and Sirianni won’t make the decision on who replaces them. And if they get off to a slow start next season the Birds will let him go.

Fun times in Philadelphia!

Kyle Pagan
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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