One of the weirdest things that happened on NFL Sunday this past week, was when the Philadelphia Eagles ahead coach was chirping with fans for his own team. At the end of a game NFL head coach Siranni was caught going back and forth with Eagles fans in the final seconds of their narrow victory against the Cleveland Browns.
Nick Siranni Apologizes For His Behavior
This is one of the most embarrassing moments ever caught on camera for a head coach in the league and it is almost unbelievable that he still has a job.
NICK SIRIANNI IS A CLOWN MAN
ACT LIKE YOUVE BEEN HERE BEFORE
BE A PROFESSIONAL
GOD HE NEEDS TO BE FIRED pic.twitter.com/1QG8D085m7
— Philly Sports Sufferer (@mccrystal_alex) October 13, 2024
Siranni has been under fire since the middle of last season when the team was imploding, and this year they are off to a very rough start. While the team is 3-2 they have not looked good for most of the year, and their head coach has seemingly been over his head since the beginning. While they have made the postseason each year, they have never looked great since their Super Bowl loss.
The head coach apologized for his actions but tried to explain them away instead of just saying that an NFL head coach should never do something like that:
“I was trying to bring energy yesterday, energy, enthusiasm, yesterday, and I’m sorry and disappointed in how my energy was directed at the end of the game. My energy should be all-in on coaching, motivating, and celebrating with our guys. I have to have better wisdom and discernment on when to use that energy, and that wasn’t the time,” Sirianni said. “We have the best fans in the world, there’s no place like this, and they show up and show out no matter where we are.”
Many analysts were quick to demolish to head coach for his actions, as it’s truly shocking to ever see something like that in the league. Just imagine Andy Reid or John Harbaugh talking smack to fans, it simply does not happen. Damien Woody, Rex Ryan, and Mike Greenberg did not hold back on the coach:
“You gonna get all in your feelings because fans are booing you because your team stinks? Like bro, come on,” Woody said. “….Then you’re gonna bring your kids into the post-game to kind of soften the blow from what reporters might ask you. This dude is a straight clown, bro. I just don’t have any respect for what this man is doing.”
Did the Head Coach Try To Shield Himself From Criticism
A longtime Eagles columnist Mike Sielski even went as far as to say that the coach brought his kids out with him in the media to avoid criticism for his actions on Sunday. It is one thing to not be great at your job, but another thing to be trash-talking with fans. Sirianni has been given this job and has been allowed to keep it so far. The number one thing for him should be to get his team looking like they should with one of the most talented rosters in the NFL.
Instead, he’s trash-talking his own fans and Sielski thinks used his children as shields from the criticism after their game:
“It was impossible to watch him on that dais — his kids smiling and squirming as he dropped a s— and an ass and smacked the table and monologued about the passion of a home crowd whose members spent most of the day sitting on their hands — and not see what was really going on,” Sielski wrote.
“This was an insult to everyone’s intelligence, an oh-so cynical maneuver from a coach whose team was fortunate to beat a bad opponent, a coach who tried to use the smallest and youngest members of his family to shield him from any pointed but appropriate questions, a coach whose future with the Eagles remains so uncertain.”
Many others shared this idea with Sielski, and it seems like Sirianni’s time in Philly may be coming to an end soon. The Eagles have moved off Super Bowl winner Doug Pederson, and one of the best coaches of all time Andy Reid. If Sirianni and this team do not turn their season around, and look like a real playoff team, this may be Siranni’s last year with the Eagles.