Three years in the past, a fateful end-of-season assembly between Eagles coach Doug Pederson and proprietor Jeffrey Lurie bought Pederson fired. This yr, present coach Nick Sirianni appeared to be in peril for a number of days after the Eagles made an embarrassing wild-card exit from the playoffs, with a 32-9 loss to the Buccaneers. Sirianni’s assembly with Lurie went a lot better.
Assembly with reporters on the annual assembly in Orlando, Lurie defined the choice to stay with Sirianni for an additional season.
“The issues with Nick I’ve to say had been actually spectacular had been wanting to actually enhance the substances of the offense, really enhance who was gonna — when it comes to main the offense and the route it could go,” Lurie mentioned. “Needed to be far more progressive, far more dynamic. In fact convey the issues that introduced us plenty of success, however very open to discovering the absolute best offensive coordinator, and the identical with defensive coordinator.”
Kellen Moore is the brand new offensive coordinator, and Vic Fangio will run the protection.
“Nick’s aware want to have top-notch coordinators beneath him actually drove plenty of the technique, and he was hellbent on ensuring we had the most effective,” Lurie mentioned. “And, you understand, extremely inspired by his each evaluation of the place we’re at, no excuses, principally a elementary understanding of what must be higher than the final 5 – 6 weeks of the season.”
Whether or not that’s sufficient to assist Sirianni survive one other unhealthy season stays to be seen. He’ll be much better off if he leads the Eagles to a different good season.
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