Nick Sirianni has won a lot of football games as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Through 60 games in Philly, including the postseason, Sirianni’s got a 38-22 overall record. His .633 win percentage ranks fourth among active head coaches with at least two seasons of NFL experience.
It’s the Eagles most recent sample size that has Sirianni’s job status in serious jeopardy through the quartermark of this 2024 season.
The Eagles (2-2) enter their bye week with just three wins in their last 10 regular season games, dating back to 2023. NFL analysts, like ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky, have hammered them for being a poorly coached team. If things don’t turn around soon, starting with Philly’s Week 6 home game against the Cleveland Browns, the clock could be ticking on Sirianni’s job, according to Bleacher Report’s Brad Gagnon.
Gagnon dropped this little note on the Eagles in his NFL musings for Week 5:
They have two weeks to fix this. A post-bye loss to Cleveland at home would likely be the beginning of the end for Nick Sirianni in Philly.
Sirianni is a polarizing figure in Philly and beyond. His teams have qualified for the playoffs in each of his three seasons, which includes coming a play or two shy of winning Super Bowl LVII against the Kansas City Chiefs.
He’s also got an awkward relationship with franchise quarterback Jalen Hurts, who’s now locked up through 2028, and a string of recent coaching decisions that have backfired in his face.
Call’s for Sirianni’s job will only get louder should the Eagles continue to middle behind teams like the Washington Commanders in the NFC East. But a regime change — led by Bill Belichick, anyone? — would be a disastrous result for a franchise currently in the middle of a Super Bowl window.
Firing Sirianni typically means his entire staff goes out with him. That would mark a third straight offseason with a new offensive coordinator for Hurts. We’ve already seen some regression since the 26-year-old's breakout 2022 season under Shane Steichen. Moving on from Sirianni, Kellen Moore and the rest of the current Eagles staff moves you further away from a championship, not closer.
The best-case scenario? The Eagles get right — and get healthy — during the bye week, look good in a win over the Browns in Week 6 at The Linc, and quell the demands for owner Jeffrey Lurie to blow things up.
But given what we’ve seen over these first four weeks of the 2024 season, Lurie might not be left with much of a choice.
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