Eagles head coach Nick SirianniJulio Aguilar/Getty Images
To be fair, Sirianni’s job should be safe, considering he’s led Philly to the playoffs in all three of his seasons as head coach. Good coaches are hard to find and even harder to replace, but as ESPN’s Adam Schefter recently speculated, franchise owner Jeffrey Lurie might not accept conventional wisdom.
“The wild card to all of this, of course, is what does the owner Jeffrey Lurie think?” Schefter said on Sunday’s NFL Countdown. “And nobody really knows that. It’s not like he’s telling people, but if Lurie is unhappy with how this team shows out in the postseason, then it becomes an issue that could be worth tracking.”
Given the list of coaches who are available—notably, Bill Belichick, Pete Carroll, Mike Vrabel and Jim Harbaugh—Lurie will likely at least consider his options.
Belichick and Carroll have shown that they can win a Super Bowl with the type of talent that Philadelphia has. Harbaugh reached the big game in his second season the last time he was an NFL head coach.
Even up-and-coming candidates like Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson and Houston Texans offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik deserve some consideration.
The deciding factor might be Sirianni’s vision for the team.
When offensive coordinator Shane Steichen and defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon were hired away in the offseason, Sirianni promoted Brian Johnson and Sean Desai. Those moves haven’t panned out, and Desai was replaced by Matt Patricia as the defensive play-caller in-season.
If Lurie and longtime general manager Howie Roseman lose faith in Sirianni’s ability to put together a successful staff, change should at least be considered. The same is true if the Eagles don’t believe he can get his team to refocus.
“A team source described what they believed to be “too much finger-pointing” among teammates on both sides of the ball and not enough focus on the collective good of the team, ESPN’s Tim McManus wrote on Monday.
The Eagles certainly didn’t appear to be on the same page against the Buccaneers on Monday night. That’s a problem.
If change is the only way to get Philadelphia back on a Super Bowl track, a coaching swap must at least be on the table.
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