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The Eagles really needed Sunday. And the reason why—as their second-year coach, Nick Sirianni, saw it—was because the two games they just played without quarterback Jalen Hurts, back-to-back losses to the Cowboys and Saints, really surfaced some warts that might have been otherwise masked through a 13–1 start.
“Here’s exactly what my message was all week—Hey, listen, it’s healthy to drag yourself through the mud and really look yourself in the mirror and say, I’m gonna look myself in the mirror, and I’m gonna say, ’That really sucked.’ How I coached in that New Orleans game wasn’t good enough. That’s not my standard,” Sirianni told me Sunday night. “Here’s what I did, Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I needed to fix that.
