The Eagles’ 2-3 start has stirred up a familiar kind of anger in Philadelphia, the sort that comes from watching a game slip away in a way that feels painfully old. After five years of Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts giving the team a steadier hand, Sunday’s loss to Jacksonville pushed fans back toward a place they thought they’d left behind.
That’s what makes this stretch so jarring. It isn’t only the three-game losing streak, or the fact that the Eagles have the worst second-half offense in recent memory. It’s that Sirianni and Hurts suddenly look, to frustrated eyes, like the kind of coach-quarterback pairing Eagles fans spent years trying to escape - the duo that finds a way to make the wrong decision at the wrong time.
For a while, the formula worked with almost machine-like simplicity. Sirianni built a culture that rarely seemed to play beneath the opponent, and Hurts became the quarterback who wouldn’t give away games with the kind of reckless mistake that used to haunt this franchise. In the biggest moments, the Eagles seemed to take the easy answer, execute it, and move on.
Now that confidence has cracked.
There are those who point to Howie Roseman and argue that he deserves the real credit for the team’s success over the last five years, saying Sirianni and Hurts simply had to avoid major mistakes while playing on dominant rosters. But that line of thinking misses what Eagles fans have lived through for nearly three decades.
Philadelphia has seen this movie too many times. Andy Reid had a top-five defense for most of his run, along with a franchise quarterback and a strong running back, and still couldn’t get over the line because of the decisions that hurt the team in the biggest games.
Chip Kelly’s time in Philadelphia lasted three seasons. Doug Pederson did catch lightning in a bottle, but he never matched that level again in the years that followed.
Frustrating losses have always been part of the picture here. Sunday’s loss to Jacksonville was not some shocking one-off in Eagles history. It fits the pattern all too well.
And this isn’t even unique to Philadelphia. Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay are widely viewed as two of the best coaches in football, yet Shanahan has a habit of faltering in the biggest moments, and McVay has not returned to the Super Bowl since 2021. In that same span, the Eagles won a Super Bowl by 18 and reached another one.
That’s why the last five years under Sirianni and Hurts have carried so much weight. The success wasn’t just good by Eagles standards. It was the most consistent stretch of dominance the franchise has produced.
Still, patience is a tough sell in this city when losses start piling up. The arguments about whether the coach or quarterback needs to change will only get louder as long as the defeats keep coming.
That’s the real source of the frustration. It’s not only about execution, or a missed call, or one game in Jacksonville. It’s about the fact that nobody in Eagles history has won quite like Sirianni and Hurts did - and now, for the first time in years, it feels like they’re both running out of wins.
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