Nick Wright believes Nick Sirianni deserves the blame for the Philadelphia Eagles' Week 3 loss to the Chicago Bears. The Fox Sports pundit claimed that coaching made all the difference in Philadelphia's 27-7 defeat on Monday night. "Here is my single biggest takeaway from this game.
I don't think anyone can disagree with it," Wright said on his podcast Tuesday. "I think Eagle fans, as much as they want to be mad at me or dislike me, all will solemnly, begrudgingly nod when I say this. The Chicago Bears dominated the Philadelphia Eagles (Monday) night.
And if everything about that game -- as far as player health, player availability, all of that -- were the same but you flip-flopped the head coaches, the result would have been the exact opposite." Wright credited Ben Johnson for engineering a "masterclass" with third-string quarterback Case Keenum under center. It was a stark comparison to Sirianni's performance. "On the other hand, Nick Sirianni, out to lunch the entire game," Wright continued.
"That was a coaching disasterclass by Sirianni." Wright suggested that Eagles general manager Howie Roseman should second-guess his coach after Sirianni "went full bozo mode" during a costly sequence. After Jalen Hurts briefly left the game to get checked for a concussion, Andy Dalton promptly threw a goal-line interception to end a 12-play, 95-yard drive with no points. Wright thought Sirianni should have tried to stall and give Hurts more time to get cleared to re-enter the game.
"You must tell Andy Dalton, we are going to run this play clock all the way down and then we are calling timeout. And we are trying to buy Jalen an extra two minutes," Wright said. "Sirianni does not call the plays on offense.
He does not call the plays on defense. Big Dom seems to be the vibes guy. If nothing else, your job is to know game management stuff.
Extract — continue reading at the source.
