Nick Foles didn’t sugarcoat it. After watching the Eagles stumble through a fifth straight loss, the former Philadelphia quarterback said the problem runs deeper than one bad night or one bad sequence.
On his podcast Tuesday, Foles pointed to the way the team carried itself in Monday night’s 38-21 loss to the Dallas Cowboys, a game the Eagles led 21-20 before giving up 18 unanswered points.
“There is dysfunction in Philly,” Foles said on his podcast. “It was little things for me.
It wasn’t the execution that got me. It was culture things.
The number one thing isn’t scheme, a fancy coordinator, it’s culture. In Philadelphia, for the better of the past couple decades, they have had really good culture.
Something is changing.”
Foles also said his concerns started before the season, when he believed the team made a damaging move by pushing out Jeff Stoutland.
“When they got rid of [former Eagles offensive line coach] Jeff Stoutland, that really pissed me off,” Foles said. “I knew something bad was gonna happen.
He is a great coach. For him not to get the respect that he deserves, that frustrates me.
When guys are getting hit and offensive lineman are near them, is someone going to pick up the running back? He just got hit in the backfield.
That culture with Jeff, that would never fly. When we got hit, we were picked up right away by the offensive line.“
Asked about Foles’ remarks on Wednesday, Eagles coach Nick Sirianni pushed back without diving into the outside noise.
“I can only go off what my relationship is with the players and what goes on inside the building,” Sirianni said on 94WIP. “You know there’s always gonna be a report of this or that, our job is to not get wrapped up into any of that crap. Our job is to stay locked in within our organization … I think it’s natural to look for answers like that when you do drop five in a row.”
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