Despite a stunning collapse to end the 2023 season, Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni is seeming more and more likely to retain his job for the 2024 season. While nothing is done as of yet, ESPN’s Adam Schefter relayed on Saturday that the more time that passes since the Eagles loss, the better things are looking for the head coach.
It would’ve been a somewhat stunning move to see Sirianni fired a season after guiding the Eagles to a Super Bowl appearance and another playoff appearance in 2023. However, the Eagles lost six of their final seven games and looked disastrous on defense and without answers on offense.
It put Sirianni’s future in jeopardy, but it seems after a week of meeting with owners, he’s charted a path forward, for now.
“Meetings continue to go on between the Eagles and their head coach. But they lost on Monday night. He’s still the head coach now. And so the signs continue to point to Nick Sirianni returning. Nothing official. Conversations ongoing,” Schefter said at halftime of the Ravens-Texans divisional game.
With Sirianni hanging on, other changes are coming, Schefter reported, specifically on the defensive side of the ball. Philadelphia replaced outgoing defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon with Sean Desai, who was swapped out late in the season for Matt Patricia. Neither option did much for a unit that crumbled in the wild card game.
“There are expected to be changes on the defensive side of the football. But right now, Nick Sirianni still has a job and it’s trending to staying that way,” Schefter said.
Schefter previously explained the timeline for Philadelphia to assess things
Schefter revealed on Thursday that the Eagles were leaning toward keeping Sirianni, but it’s not yet official.
“At some point, he’s going to meet with Philadelphia owner Jeffrey Lurie, that meeting’s going to determine his fate,” Schefter shared on Get Up. “Now, the Eagles are acting and have been saying that Sirianni is going to be back, and he very well might be, but until we hear that from the owner and until the owner signs off on that, we don’t know that officially.
“Jeffrey Lurie is the same guy who fired Doug Pederson… fired Chip Kelly shortly after he was hired. We don’t know what Lurie is thinking… Until Sirianni sits down with him and they discuss their ideas and what their vision is for the team moving forward, we don’t know what the final conclusion will be.”
Eagles players emphatically defended Sirianni this week after the team’s first-round loss. Defensive tackle Fletcher Cox told reporters on Wednesday, “There ain’t even no f------ discussion.”
“I love the way the players defended the head coach yesterday, that was the right way to handle it,” Schefter added. “But still it comes down to that conversation with Sirianni and Lurie and what he wants to do.”
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