The Eagles’ latest collapse has revived the familiar noise around Nick Sirianni, but LeSean McCoy isn’t joining the chorus. Instead, the former Philadelphia star is pointing the finger at the side of the ball that disappeared when the game tightened: the offense.
After Sunday’s loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars in London, McCoy used his “Speakeasy” show with Emmanuel Acho to make his case plainly. “First of all, I’m gonna blame the offense first, right?”
McCoy said. “We can look at Nick Sirianni and blame this and blame that, but the truth is the offense did not play well.
The defense played great!”
McCoy doubled down on that idea by praising several parts of Philadelphia’s defense, including Jalen Carter and the secondary. “Did you see Jalen Carter today?
Jalen Carter hands down by himself was out there dominating them. Did you see the secondary?
They was locking things up out there.”
His frustration was aimed squarely at an attack that has gone flat for long stretches, especially late in games. “The offense did nothing today.
They put up what, seventeen points? Now at the end, I love how it starts how you finish.
So we did get Jalen Hurts to drive them down there and we scored, got a field goal.”
McCoy also pushed back on the idea that every problem should land on the head coach. “But overall, it’s four quarters.
We keep talking about this quarter, that quarter. It’s four of them.
And I don’t want to sit here and act like every call a coach is going to make is going to be perfect, because that’s not the case.”
He added, “A head coach goes out there and says, hey, it’s my fault, I did it wrong. But the truth is, I don’t know if Nick didn’t tell the secondary coach or the special teams coach or the kicker to do that. I’ve been around, seen that.”
That perspective comes as the Eagles continue to unravel in the second half. Their last fourth-quarter touchdown came in Week 2 against the Tennessee Titans, and the passing game has looked stuck in place. The Week 5 injuries to Devonta Smith and Saquon Barkley offer some explanation, but McCoy isn’t letting the offense off the hook.
Philadelphia has now dropped two straight games after blowing fourth-quarter leads against the Los Angeles Rams and Jaguars. ESPN’s analytics had the Eagles with better than a 98 percent chance to win both of those games, which only sharpens the anger around the team and the renewed “fire Sirianni” talk.
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