Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni beforehand brushed aside opinions claiming he ought to take play-calling duties away from offensive coordinator Brian Johnson following double-digit losses to the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys.
Sirianni appeared to ship a direct message to his squad and to critics throughout his Thursday information convention.
“We’re not hitting a panic button so far as, ‘we’ve obtained to do the whole lot totally different,'” Sirianni mentioned, per Josh Alper of Professional Soccer Speak and Nick Shook of the NFL’s web site. “We didn’t play properly and we didn’t coach good the final two weeks. It wasn’t as much as our commonplace, so we’re p—– and we’re on the lookout for methods to repair that.”
Particularly, Shook talked about that the 10-3 Eagles are accountable for a degree differential of +21. To match, the first-place Cowboys (10-3) lead the league with a +188 level differential.
Earlier within the week, Eagles defensive coordinator Sean Desai fielded questions concerning why opponents are changing 48.1% of third-down possibilities in opposition to his protection this season and why the San Francisco and Dallas offenses dominated Philadelphia’s protection within the pink zone. Sirianni declined to get into specifics about how he’ll look to treatment such points starting with the upcoming “Monday Evening Soccer” sport on the 6-7 Seattle Seahawks.
“Like I mentioned, we have now our concepts of what we do, however then typically you take a look at totally different avenues of whether or not it is the criticism from the skin or it is an analytical factor,” Sirianni continued throughout his feedback. “There’s an artwork to realizing what criticisms you hearken to and what ones are jokes for that matter. However that is our jobs as coaches to go over the whole lot we presumably can do.”
As of early Thursday night, oddschecker listed the Eagles as 3.5-point favorites in opposition to the Seahawks. One wonders if Sirianni will not less than look towards the so-called “panic button” if his facet loses a 3rd straight sport forward of Christmas.