Searching for Answers

Posted December 6th, 2025

The Eagles have been an erratic football team all season. They are currently on a two-game losing streak. All of this has Nick Sirianni and his players searching for answers.

Will new messaging make a difference?

Can schematic changes help?

Is there a better way to use personnel?

Everyone is trying to figure out the thing that will get the Eagles to look like the Eagles. Saquon Barkley averages 3.7 yards per carry. The OL is struggling. The defense just gave up 281 rushing yards. The team is fifth in the league in penalties and penalty yards. Jake Elliott has missed kicks in consecutive games. This isn’t Eagles football.

So what is being tried?

Per Diana Russini…

The Eagles are trying to shake off that ugly Black Friday loss to the Bears. I’m told this week, the team had a series of "no-BS discussions” ahead of a "Monday Night Football” meeting with the Los Angeles Chargers. The message? Stop pointing fingers. "We are all done with the finger-pointing,” one Philly player told me. "It’s not just one thing that’s in our way. It’s not just Jalen (Hurts), it’s not just Saquon (Barkley), it’s not just (OC Kevin) Patullo, it’s not just the offensive line. … It’s a little bit of everyone.”

Landon Dickerson got a day of rest on Friday, sitting out practice in hopes that will help him.

The Eagles put in a waiver claim on Darius Slay, but Buffalo beat them out for his services. Slay isn’t reporting to Buffalo so we’ll see if anything changes on that front.

Jalen Hurts is going back and watching old games to see how things looked when life was good.

Will some of this work? Will any of this work?

We will find out on Monday in Los Angeles. I don’t think there are any magic fixes at this point, but there are small things that can lead to better play and better results. Just avoiding turnovers would have made a big difference in the past two losses.

If Sirianni, his staff and his players can figure out small tweaks that work, that would be even better. The Eagles came into the season with a loaded roster, but nagging injuries have had a major impact. People can talk about Landon Dickerson and Cam Jurgens as Pro Bowl players, but not the 2025 versions. Those guys have struggled in a big way. Jalen Carter has dealt with shoulder problems most of the year. Nolan Smith hasn’t been 100 percent all year. This is a year when the Eagles can’t just roll out a great team. The little things matter a lot this year.

Maybe all of this is a fool’s errand and this team just is what it is. But the coaches and players have to keep pushing buttons to see if they can find something to give them a boost. Since they played on Friday last week they have had a bit of extra time. We’ll see on Monday night if that time did the Eagles any good.

Is there any way this can fail?

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The Eagles job just got harder.

Hampton averaged 4.8 yards per carry before getting hurt. He’s got size and speed. The Chargers have a banged up OL and QB Justin Herbert isn’t 100 percent so they will want to run. Hampton gives them a big weapon in the backfield.

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Sirianni and KP this past week:

I heard that rabbit is the new play caller… If so this offense could be rampant.

Is there any way this can fail?

The one answer I've found is that it's now painfully obvious that Kellen Moore won the Super Bowl and not Nick Sirianni.

It's frustrating to see how the Super Bowl team, maybe the best eagles team in history, was taken apart and mishandled.

I know the salary cap and future contract played into it, but letting Sweat, Williams, Burks, Rodgers, Becton, Driscoll and Maddox go into free agency has been a disaster for this team. Not to mention trading CJGJ.....Sweat and Williams simply got too expensive, but they really could have used Becton, Rodgers and Driscoll. CJGJ brought attitude and swagger....

But the biggest blunder was handing over a Super Bowl offense to a first time offensive coordinator......the 2nd time Sirianni has done it with disastrous results. Sirianni has some great qualities as a head coach but much of it is offset by bad decisions and picking bad OCs......

The eagles are not going to, all of a sudden, turn into a top 10 offense. Their Oline is a mess and rest of them are going thru the motions.

I thought the eagles really had a great chance to repeat.....but it turns out they are a paper tiger.

6 hours ago, birdman#12 said:

The one answer I've found is that it's now painfully obvious that Kellen Moore won the Super Bowl and not Nick Sirianni.

And for that reason I am starting to think maybe this offseason is the time to move on from Sirianni? But I say that in full knowledge that I will catch some strays because of his winning record and because he's won a Super Bowl as our HC and got us to another only 3 years ago. The problem Sirianni presents is that when things are going well he is a good HC, and when they aren't he doesn't seem to have the answers. And on top of that because he isn't the offensive mind on the team we lack stability on offense and when the OC is not good the whole thing falls apart.

On 12/9/2025 at 10:47 AM, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

And for that reason I am starting to think maybe this offseason is the time to move on from Sirianni? But I say that in full knowledge that I will catch some strays because of his winning record and because he's won a Super Bowl as our HC and got us to another only 3 years ago. The problem Sirianni presents is that when things are going well he is a good HC, and when they aren't he doesn't seem to have the answers. And on top of that because he isn't the offensive mind on the team we lack stability on offense and when the OC is not good the whole thing falls apart.

Actually, instead of replacing Sirianni, they should keep him bu NEVER EVER let him pick an offensive coordinator,

Sirianni has lot of good qualities as a head coach but he should not be involve in hiring an OC.

12 hours ago, birdman#12 said:

Actually, instead of replacing Sirianni, they should keep him bu NEVER EVER let him pick an offensive coordinator,

Sirianni has lot of good qualities as a head coach but he should not be involve in hiring an OC.

No he shouldn’t ever be involved in hiring the OC. He does have a lot of qualities but then at the same time when things aren’t going well he isn’t really the leader we need. If this goes the way it looks it is going that’s 2 collapses on his watch. But then there’s the 2 SB appearances with a ring so it’s just so hot and cold.