Nick Sirianni isn’t rushing to make a knee-jerk move during the bye week, even after the Eagles’ 19-11 loss to the Giants on Sunday afternoon.
Asked whether staff changes are on the table, Sirianni said the team will review everything, starting with himself, but stressed that he doesn’t believe in making changes simply for the sake of making them.
“We’ll talk. Obviously, right now my job is to be there for our guys and to go watch the tape and go look through everything.
I think we always think - we’ll do everything. I’ll do anything I can to help this team win football games.
Like I said, I’ll look at myself internally first and then go from there. My job is to coach the players and to coach the coaches, and anything I can do to help this team win games, we’ll do.
Everything can always be on the table, but I don’t think you change just to change because that’s what your record says that - you’ve got to look at what’s really real and not react to anything else. Again, I just don’t believe you just change just to change.
If you have a strong reason to do things in anything, not just change, but in anything and you’re convicted on it, that’s how we’ll go about our business.”
He was asked a second time what goes into that kind of evaluation, and his answer stayed in the same lane: look at everything, figure out what helps the team, and make the best football decision possible.
“I’m just looking at everything right now. What can we do to help our team get better?
I don’t have a playbook in that matter of anything like that. You just look at everything, and you make the best decisions that you can for the football team and that’s what we’ll do.
But again, you just don’t change just to change. You go through everything, and whether it’s that question or whether it’s what Jeff [McLane] asked me with simplifying (the offense to make it easier for the players) or anything like that, we’re looking for everything we can do to help our guys perform better, to help them play at the best of their abilities.
That’s our jobs as coaches.”
The bigger issue is that any evaluation of the staff is happening in a season that has been battered by injuries and roster turnover. The Eagles are down Jalen Hurts, DeVonta Smith, Dontayvion Wicks, and Lane Johnson.
Cam Jurgens was traded. Saquon Barkley isn’t close to 100%.
Tank Bigsby and Will Shipley are out, too, and the tight end room “kinda stinks.”
That has left the offense trying to piece things together with Tanner McKee, rookie Makai Lemon, Darius Cooper, Drew Kendall, Markell Bell, Elijah Mitchell, and now Joe Milton. The team has barely had a month with QB1 and WR1 available, and since then it has been a weekly scramble to keep the operation moving.
That’s why any judgment on the offensive staff is complicated. It’s fair to wonder how much can really be pinned on the coaches when the Eagles have been trying to survive with a roster that looks more like August than November. At the same time, it’s also possible that more than one thing is wrong at once.
What happens next depends on the bigger plan. If Jeffrey Lurie and Howie Roseman want to blow it up and start over the way they did with Doug Pederson and Carson Wentz after the 2020 season, then Nick would likely be out and the offensive staff could go with him, while Vic Fangio likely retires. If the organization wants to stay committed to Jalen Hurts, then this can be treated as a lost season, with the hope of patching the roster and bringing continuity back to a young offensive staff in 2026.
For now, Sirianni’s message is simple: review everything, but don’t make a move just because the record is ugly.
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