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Nick Sirianni or Jalen Hurts: LeSean McCoy on Who to Blame for Eagles' Slump · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: My take with this Eagles team with the slower start
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  Speaker 1: to this year, and I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: thought they would win this division, I think it's just
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  Speaker 1: time with the Sirianni thing. It's just been too many years. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: there's time? They don't fire coaches during the season.
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  Speaker 2: Time for what?
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  Speaker 1: I think he's a dead man walking. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: going to take the fall. I think he's going to
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  Speaker 1: take the fall at the end of this year, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have a new coach in Philadelphia. I
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  Speaker 1: know this is your team.
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  Speaker 2: It's got to be cap.
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  Speaker 3: It's cap?
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  Speaker 2: You're joking with me, though.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, defend it.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't... My guy, Nick, the only thing he
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  Speaker 3: does is win. The only thing he does is win.
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  Speaker 2: At his worst, he wins. At his worst, he's in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. At his best... He's made the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's won a Super Bowl two years ago. Did we forget?
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: But the vibes right now are so bad. They're so bad.
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  Speaker 2: You know why?
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  Speaker 3: Because Philadelphia is that type of city. We have a
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  Speaker 3: standard no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. Other teams can lose two, three years in a row,
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  Speaker 2: and nobody cares. In Philadelphia, we can't have that. I
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  Speaker 2: will say this, though. As a head coach, he's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to take the heat for everything. I understand. I watch
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  Speaker 2: times where Andy Reid, we look terrible. He's an ex-model.
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  Speaker 2: It starts with me.
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  Speaker 1: I get that. But if you really watch his game, right,
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  Speaker 1: and you.
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  Speaker 2: Can pick out him going forward. I get all that.
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  Speaker 2: And we're an aggressive team. We go for it. Okay?
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  Speaker 3: But the thing is, it's a four quarters. I watched
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  Speaker 3: the second half. The office stayed in the locker room. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I watched it.
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  Speaker 3: I watched guys not block up front. I watched my
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  Speaker 3: quarterback miss reads and not throw the ball. I watched
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  Speaker 3: wide receivers not continuing their routes and finishing them.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: The running backs, we couldn't get off. So we can
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  Speaker 3: blame Mick Ceriani. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: the players have to play. Mind you, all the points
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  Speaker 3: we got were, and a lot of them was in
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  Speaker 3: the first half, where it was all set up from
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  Speaker 3: turnovers we got from the defense. Matthew Stafford gave us
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  Speaker 3: two turnovers. We stopped him on fourth down a couple times.
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  Speaker 3: What else do you want us to do?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so if it's not Sirianni to blame, who
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  Speaker 1: should be taking the blame for this? The offense.
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  Speaker 2: I think the offense has to make plays.
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  Speaker 1: The whole offense, not just a particular leader of the offense.
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  Speaker 2: Him too? No, no. Hertz needs to play better.
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  Speaker 1: Ten passing yards in the second half of that game. Ten.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't think how you can see that number
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  Speaker 3: and then blame Nick Sirianni for everything.
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  Speaker 2: But they're not going to.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to bench Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 3: Well, not bench, but like, so for example, the Chiefs, right?
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to compare us to the Chiefs, but
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  Speaker 3: the Chiefs had a bad year last year. They didn't
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  Speaker 3: go to the playoffs, right? And now they're back to
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  Speaker 3: doing what they do. This year might be a time
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  Speaker 3: of year where we don't do well. We'll still probably,
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  Speaker 3: you know, compete for our division, but we're not going
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  Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl this year.
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  Speaker 2: I can confidently say that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the defense is good enough to still carry, but
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  Speaker 1: then how do you fix this offense? Is it just
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  Speaker 1: players have to play better?
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  Speaker 2: Players have to play better. We have to get healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley, I mean, that one carry, I thought he
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  Speaker 2: was about.
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  Speaker 1: To take the lead. If Lane's going to be hurt,
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  Speaker 1: Lane's hurt, that's a brutal loss.
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  Speaker 2: Dickerson's been just, you know, our line is banged up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that's been the reason for success for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Our number one receiver, Smitty, Monte Smith, he was hurt.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't even play last game. So we had some injuries.
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  Speaker 3: But I just, I hate it when like, we want
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  Speaker 3: to go for Nick?
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  Speaker 2: Nick Sirianni?
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  Speaker 1: I know, but like, When we get into these situations
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  Speaker 1: and heads got to roll, we've changed coordinators for the
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  Speaker 1: last two years. We've seen this happen. It just seems
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  Speaker 1: like I'm not going to do the cliche of like
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  Speaker 1: he's lost the locker room, but like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The vibes are just so bad.
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  Speaker 2: If I just gave you this scenario, forget the names,
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  Speaker 2: forget the team. Sure. I say this team, this franchise, right?
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  Speaker 2: In the last seven years. No, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Last six years, we've been to all playoffs appearances.
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  Speaker 2: We won the division a couple of times. We have
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  Speaker 2: two Super Bowl appearances, one we won, one we lost.
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  Speaker 1: They fired Doug Peterson two years after he won a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's inside stuff you might not know about.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Doug's my guy, I won't say it.
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  Speaker 1: But overall, think.
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  Speaker 2: About what I'm saying. That's that resume you want.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm a GM or if I'm an owner, I say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I want to get a resume of this type for
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  Speaker 3: six years.
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  Speaker 2: They'll take that in a heartbeat. So let's just lay
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  Speaker 2: off the firing Nick Sirianni, please.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so I'm blaming Nick Sirianni.
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  Speaker 2: Big Don would kill me if I let you say this.
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  Speaker 1: And you're going to say the offense, one, just needs
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  Speaker 1: to get healthier.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And things will be all right. And just play straight
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  Speaker 1: up better. Everyone on that offense.
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  Speaker 3: If the offense even gave some type of offense or
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  Speaker 3: production in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You win the game.
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  Speaker 2: We win this game.
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  Speaker 1: You win the game. And we're not talking about this.
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  Speaker 1: And then we're talking about the Rams being really disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. That's how the narrative works.
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  Speaker 1: That's how it goes.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Fly was fly, baby. That is how we fix the Eagles.