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Eagles coach Nick Sirianni’s job is safe … but for how long? originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Twelve years ago this month, Eagles owner Jeff Lurie held a press conference at the NovaCare Complex to reveal Andy Reid’s future.
In 2011, Reid’s 13th season here, the Eagles had opened up 4-8 before four meaningless wins to end the season gave them a deceptive 8-8 record.
And when Lurie started throwing out words like “ludicrous,” “unfathomable” and “unacceptable” to describe the season, everybody in the room was sure he was about to fire Big Red.
“Just unfathomable that we would have the record we had,” Lurie said. “The consistent losing of games in the fourth quarter was bitter for me.”
Lurie could easily have said the exact same thing after this season.
The names have changed and obviously Reid was here longer than Nick Sirianni, but the parallels are impossible to ignore:
In both cases, Lurie decided to keep a head coach when there were some pretty compelling reasons for him not to.
Lurie made it clear that day in January 2012 that Reid was on the clock, and if the Eagles didn’t rebound he’d be gone. And they went 4-12 in 2012, and he was gone.
Those Eagles declined slowly. They went three years without a playoff win, and the Super Bowl was eight years in the rear-view mirror by the time Lurie finally gave Big Red his notice.
The process was accelerated this time around and the collapse was far more spectacular. But in both cases the head coach didn’t seem to have any answers. As successful as Reid was here from 2000 through 2010 and as successful as he’s been in Kansas City since, by 2011 the magic had worn off and it seemed clear that the franchise needed an infusion of new blood and a fresh vision.
The magic wore off pretty much overnight with Sirianni. Somewhere after the Bills game and before the 49ers game. And by the time the Eagles got back from Tampa with their sixth ugly loss in seven weeks, this too seemed like a…
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Publish date : 2024-01-23 01:12:50
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