The Eagles Are Bad. Get Over It.

Philly has two pastimes: destroying the city whenever anything goes right or wrong, and firing coaches.

Of course, the latter can only extend to the Eagles, because if there was ever a Philly coach who deserved to get fired, it was, and always has been, Doc Rivers.

Doc, I'll never forgive you for what you did to our GOAT, Ben Simmons.

But Nick Sirianni is the newest face in a long line of Eagles coaches supposedly ready to get kicked to the curb after starting the season 2–5. Does he deserve it?

I don't think so.

When we think about all the bad he's done in Philly, two things come to mind, and neither is necessarily good or bad: trying to kill Jalen Hurts (he has plausible deniability on that one, but again, let's just use our brains here) and crying during the national anthem at the Super Bowl (great memes).

He's got the highest winning percentage in Eagles history (outside of interim HC Pat Shurmur at 1–0, Bob McMillin at 2–0, and Fred Burney at 1–0).

He's done pretty well for himself, all things considered.

Now, I don't think this is a real argument. I think it got brought up on Get Up and First Take this morning simply because the Eagles are having a down year, and ESPN wants to get some clicks and fan the flames of a psychotic fanbase supporting a historically mediocre franchise that has enjoyed recent success and now believes it deserves 12-win seasons from now until the heat death of the universe.

That's just not how football works.

I mean, this is a city defined by "Trusting the Process" and dealing with decades of failure from the 76ers, only to build a winning basketball program and be met with even more failure.

Philadelphia is capable of handling bad coaches without constantly calling for their heads in the media.

Right, Doc Rivers?

Do the Eagles suck this year? Absolutely, they do. But it's not entirely the fault of slobbering Sirianni. It's a down year plagued by injuries, and I don't think we should remove a productive and capable head coach, despite his accomplishments, because of five bad games of football.

I mean, let's remember that this is a guy who hung 40 in the Super Bowl.

Let him stay. Let the program develop. I'm sure they'll be back to 10-plus-win seasons in no time before ultimately settling back down into their established, and quite frankly expected, 8–9 seasons.