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Point the blame for latest Eagles meltdown straight at Nick Sirianni originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
The unthinkable has become the norm. Nightmare endings have become inevitable.
It keeps happening and there doesn’t seem to be anything Nick Sirianni can do to stop it.
The players have changed. A bunch of ‘em. Twenty-two guys who started a game last year are gone.
The coaches have changed. Both coordinators and half a dozen position coaches are new this year.
The one thing that hasn’t changed, the biggest common denominator, is Sirianni, and when we start to assign blame for yet another preposterous nightmare Eagles loss, that’s where we have to start.
Because his job right now is setting the culture, preparing the football team, making the big decisions that set the tone for what we see on the field.
And what we’ve seen on the field way too often lately is disastrous.
They lost to the Jets after leading with 46 seconds left. They lost to the Seahawks after leading with 28 seconds left. They lost to the Cards after leading with 32 seconds left. And now they’ve lost to the Falcons after leading with 38 seconds left.
Sometimes you just get beat. Like the 49ers and Cowboys blowouts late last year. Those are almost easier to take than these. Because few things are worse than giving a game away in the final seconds, and the Eagles have now done that four times in less than a year.
These type of losses cut your heart out.
In four of their last seven losses the Eagles have led with under two minutes left.
Their previous 144 games, it didn’t happen once.
So when it keeps happening, you have to look straight at the head coach and wonder why.
He’s still got that gaudy won-loss record, one of the best in NFL history, and he’s done some really good things since he’s been here. This team played in a Super Bowl just 19 months ago, and there’s still a chance he can become that NFL rarity – a head coach who takes his first four teams to the postseason….
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Author : NBC Sports Philadelphia
Publish date : 2024-09-17 13:36:53
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