The Philadelphia Eagles made a change in their defensive staff last week by promoting Matt Patricia to the defensive play-caller role over defensive coordinator Sean Desai, but they have made no staff changes on the offensive side of the ball despite scoring no more than 19 points in each of their three consecutive losses. And head coach Nick Sirianni was asked about that this week.
During a press conference, Nick Sirianni made it clear that he thinks all the criticism for the struggling offense should be directed at him instead of offensive coordinator Brian Johnson because Sirianni is the one who designed the offense even if Johnson calls the plays.
“We have to put the players in more positions to create explosive plays,” Sirianni said. “But make no mistake about it, this offense is being run the exact same way the offense was run last year and the year before that. This offense is my offense; right? This is my offense. So, the criticism on the offense I think unfairly goes to Brian. Brian calls the plays. Brian calls the plays. It unfairly goes to Brian. The criticism on this offense should come at me because this is my offense. I was hired to do a job here and got hired because I was successful as an offensive coordinator with our schemes and the different things that we did to coach players and help players win. I’m committed to that. Like I said, the criticism should come at me, and I think it unfairly goes at Brian a lot of the times because he’s calling the plays.”
Whoever is to blame, it’s clear that whatever the Eagles have been doing the past few games is simply not working. We’ll have to see what sorts of adjustments they make as a result.
