The Philadelphia Eagles started the season 10-1 and were the best team in the NFL, but even while they were winning there were undertones of struggles that hinted toward darker days to come if not addressed.
While Eagles coach Nick Sirianni made attempts at shaking things up to stave off the impending doom, it arrived anyway, and ultimately Philadelphia ended its season on the bottom of a Wild Card Round game blowout against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who had just won the worst division in all of football.
“I think when the season ends the way it did, there has to be a finger pointed somewhere,” Eagles tackle Jordan Mailata said to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
“That’s just how the cards are played. I don’t know what happened.
Very rarely do they talk to us players about it. But when you see that kind of [losing] happening, somebody has to [go]. It’s the nature of the business.
More changes have been made, and one of the people to go – whether he had to or not – is former offensive coordinator Brian Johnson.
Johnson was a one-and-done offensive coordinator under Sirianni after he was tagged to replace Shane Steichen who was hired to run the Indianapolis Colts following the Eagles’ run to the Super Bowl last season.
