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Did Eagles coach Nick Sirianni think he was getting fired? originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
After the Eagles got blown out by the Bucs in the wild-card round, a week went by where we had no clue whether or not Nick Sirianni would get fired.
That 32-9 loss in Tampa capped one of the greatest collapses in NFL history.
The Eagles became the first team in 37 years and only the second team since the AFL-NFL merger in 1969 to open a season 10-1 and not win its division. They became the first team in 37 years to open a season 10-1 and lose five of its last six regular-season games. They became the first team in 54 years to open up 10-1 and not win 12 games or win a playoff game. And they became only the third team ever to win 11 games and lose a wild-card game by 20 or more points to a team that won nine or fewer games.
Yikes.
But the 2023 Eagles didn’t just lose football games.
They embarrassed themselves game after game, week after week, dropping back-to-back games to the 49ers and Cowboys by a combined 43 points, blowing a lead in the final seconds in Seattle, squandering a 15-point 3rd-quarter lead at home to the 3-12 Cards, suffering their worst loss to the Giants since Andy Reid’s final game 12 years earlier and finishing with the franchise’s worst postseason loss in 31 years and 2nd-worst ever.
They were out-scored by 82 points in their final seven games.
Even with a Super Bowl appearance in 2022, could Sirianni survive this?
While everybody else waited to see what owner Jeff Lurie would do, Sirianni just went to work every morning and claims he wasn’t concerned with what would happen next.
“I don’t know, I just didn’t think (about) that,” he said. “I didn’t think about that. Because at the end of the day, that’s something that’s not in my control.
“Now, us winning games and the product on the field, that was in my control. And at the end of the year, for seven games, I failed at that. And sometimes when (that happens), you have to play the…
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Author : NBC Sports Philadelphia
Publish date : 2024-07-16 22:29:37
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