Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni is scheduled to have his farewell interview with team owner Jeffrey Lurie on Wednesday.
According to Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sirianni will address his players Wednesday before speaking with Lurie and general manager Howie Roseman.
McLane added that it’s “no secret” that if Lurie and Roseman decide to stick with Sirianni as head coach next season, they will ask him to make “significant changes” to his team.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that Sirianni was expected to “unveil his plan moving forward” during the meeting.
According to Rapoport, that plan could include changes at defensive coordinator and possibly offensive coordinator as well.
After losing five of their last six games of the regular season to finish 11–6, the Eagles were eliminated by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Wild Card round of the playoffs by a score of 32–9.
Philly finished second in the NFC East due to a late-season collapse that forced the Eagles to play a first-round playoff game on the road instead of hosting an opponent.
However, the Eagles were favored to beat the Bucs after making it all the way to the Super Bowl last season, but were substantially outclassed.
The offense, which occurred without star receiver A.J.
Brown could only muster nine points due to a knee injury and couldn’t get anything going on the court.
Meanwhile, Tampa Bay’s offense moved the ball to Philadelphia like a hot knife through butter as quarterback Baker Mayfield finished with 337 passing yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions.
The Eagles lost both of their coordinators last offseason, with offensive coordinator Shane Steichen becoming head coach of the Indianapolis Colts and defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon being named head coach of the Arizona Cardinals.
It’s fair to wonder whether Sirianni made the right decision regarding their replacements in the form of OC Brian Johnson and DC Sean Desai, who was replaced by Matt Patricia as defensive play-caller last month.
The Eagles ranked seventh in the NFL in scoring per game at 25.5 points, but from their Week 13 loss to the San Francisco 49ers to their playoff loss to Tampa, the Eagles averaged just 18.8 points per game.
Philly has been a defensive sieve all year, scoring the third-most points in the league at 25.2 points per game.
The secondary was deployed with ease even when the Eagles were off to a 10-1 start, and things only got worse as the season progressed, with Philadelphia allowing an average of 30.5 points per game over the final seven games, including the play-offs. .
Even though Sirianni led the Eagles to the Super Bowl last season and led them to the playoffs in each of his three seasons as the team’s head coach, there was speculation that he could be on the harness.
According to McLane, the exit interviews could essentially decide Sirianni’s fate, as Lurie initially planned to keep Doug Pederson as head coach after his 4-11-1 mark in 2020, but changed course after the exit interviews because he was comfortable with Pederson’s coordinator candidate.
was not satisfied.It’s fair to wonder if a similar fate could befall Sirianni, especially since there are some big-name head coaching candidates available in this hiring cycle, such as the longtime New York head coach England Patriots Bill Belichick and University of Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh. .
