Jalen Hurts soft defense of Nick Sirianni last night is a strong indicator that the Eagles will be in the market for a new head coach in 2024

Jalen Hurts spoke with the media following last night’s final nail in the coffin of the 2023 Philadelphia Eagles.

When Hurts was asked about head coach Nick Sirianni, he basically avoided the question, responding by saying “I didn’t know he was going anywhere.”

After being told that there was tons of speculation about Sirianni’s job being in jeopardy, Hurts responded by saying  “I didn’t know that” and continued to dance around the question of whether or not he had confidence in his current head coach to fix issues by saying  “I have a ton of confidence in everyone in this building.”

Jalen Hurts on the future of head coach Nick Sirianni

The Philadelphia Eagles were a disaster throughout the 2023-24 season and honestly, I think we’re all in agreement that we should have seen this coming.

After starting the season 10-1, squeaking out comeback victories, the Eagles finished by losing five out of their last six games in the regular season. Toss in a loss to the Buccaneers last night, and they lost six out of their final seven games to put the final nail in the coffin of a historically bad fall from grace this year.

Side Note: It honestly should have been seven straight losses but for Tommy DeVito fever blinded the Giants for the first half of the Eagles lone win over the final two months of the season. 

Last night completed the slowest, most painful collapse of any professional sports team in Philadelphia in history. After nearly winning a Super Bowl last year, we’re now looking at Jason Kelce retiring, the careers of Lane Johnson and Fletcher Cox in question, and the entire Eagles’ coaching staff, including head coach Nick Sirianni, with their jobs in jeopardy.

The Philadelphia Eagles going from one of the best teams in NFL football to the worst team over the final two months of the regular season is absolutely insane and unlike Jalen Hurts, I’ll be totally honest about the future of Nick Sirianni and the rest of the Eagles coaching staff heading into next year.

Nick Sirianni and pretty much everyone besides Jeff Stoutland cannot return next season.

Obviously, whoever is coaching the defense and our clueless offensive coordinator Brian Johnson, should have been fired already. The fact that this coaching staff went into last night’s Wild Card matchup against the Buccaneers with literally no game plan while still running the SAME EXACT OFFENSE that has failed for 2 MONTHS was embarrassing and beyond frustrating. 

While blame can easily be directed to the coaching staff, Jalen Hurts certainly is not off the hook either.

When you get paid $255 million and allow your offense to look like absolute dog shit for nearly half of a season while failing to get vocal about it, then you carry just as much blame as the incompetent coaching staff that gave Eagles fans nothing short of organizational malpractice with what should have been one of the best offensive units in all of football. 

The Philadelphia Eagles paid Jalen Hurts $255 million to be their franchise quarterback. Last night, he failed to take the podium and defend his head coach. That’s a pretty strong indicator that Nick Sirianni will not return for a 4th season in Philadelphia.

Pretty insane given the fact that the Philadelphia Eagles were a powerhouse and just one year removed from a Super Bowl appearance but now, heads will roll and rightfully so.

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