The Philadelphia Eagles are reported to have placed head coach Nick Sirianni on the hot seat.
According to MLFootball, who cites ESPN, Sirianni’s dismissal is “in play” despite him taking the team to the Super Bowl a year ago and going 10-1 to start this season.
The Eagles went on a shocking run that saw them surrender the NFC and finish as the No. 5 seed following said hot start. They’re now preparing for a Wild Card fixture against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with multiple players, including Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown, nursing bad injuries.
“I just know the guys have been consistently working. Nobody was satisfied with a playoff berth,” Sirianni said this week. “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.”
Philly still had a chance to clinch the NFC East with two games left in the regular season but ended up losing to the Arizona Cardinals and New York Giants to hand it to the Dallas Cowboys. They finished the campaign on a 1-5 run.
“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.”
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Should the Eagles opt to get rid of him, even if they lose to Tampa Bay, it would come as a major shock given that he got them to the Super Bowl and the playoffs in two seasons.
