{"id":89293,"date":"2026-01-17T09:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89293\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T09:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:05:36","slug":"nick-sirianni-does-a-lot-says-howie-roseman-despite-offensive-resets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89293\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Sirianni does a lot, says Howie Roseman, despite offensive resets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unprompted, Howie Roseman<\/a> listed Nick Sirianni<\/a>\u2019s responsibilities and accomplishments.<\/p>\n

Normally, a head coach one year removed from winning a Super Bowl<\/a>, who has taken his team to the title game twice, and to the postseason in each of his first five seasons, wouldn\u2019t need to be publicly lionized by his general manager. <\/p>\n

But these aren\u2019t normal times and not in Philadelphia. The Eagles got bounced from the playoffs in the first round and the expectations that have risen from recent success \u2014 in part because of Sirianni \u2014 have helped foster a distorted reality that has been amplified by a culture increasingly shaped by contrarianism, algorithms, and conspiracy.<\/p>\n

\u00bb READ MORE: Nick Sirianni looking for an offensive coordinator to help Eagles offense \u2018evolve\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Roseman heard several questions about the Eagles\u2019 next offensive coordinator when he felt compelled to jump in. He knew where the inquiry was going having sat in the same seat two years ago when Sirianni\u2019s authority seemed diminished and he was asked essentially: What is it exactly that you do here?<\/p>\n

The narrative that Sirianni was just a figurehead propped up by Roseman and his coordinators has hung over his tenure \u2014 even after winning a championship. But it gained steam again after he removed Kevin Patullo<\/a> as coordinator on Tuesday, and the question of who will replace him and how much Sirianni will be involved in the offense remains unanswered.<\/p>\n

There is truth to the notion that the selection of a pedigreed play-caller who has previously been a head coach \u2014 Mike McDaniel and Brian Daboll are among the top candidates on the list \u2014 will make Sirianni more powerless, perhaps put him on the hot seat as early as next season if things go poorly. Roseman might have been anticipating that narrative when he spoke on Sirianni\u2019s behalf during Thursday\u2019s end-of-season news conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of things that I\u2019d like to say about Coach and the job that he\u2019s done here,\u201d Roseman said. <\/p>\n

He then proceeded to spell out what he thought Sirianni, as a CEO-type coach, was \u201celite\u201d at doing: \u201cBuilding connections with our team, \u2026 talking about fundamentals, game management, situational awareness, bringing the team together, holding people accountable.\u201d <\/p>\n

The GM continued: \u201cWhen you\u2019re looking for a head coach, those are really the job descriptions. As you\u2019re building out a coaching staff, you\u2019re talking about being able to do that, being able to have elite play callers on both sides of the ball, and when you think about how hard it is to find those three things and that we have one, I mean, we\u2019re starting with a huge advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

To Roseman\u2019s point, it would be true to say neither McDaniel nor Daboll came remotely close to doing what Sirianni has done as head coach.<\/p>\n

McDaniel, who was fired by the Miami Dolphins over a week ago, and Daboll, who was fired by the New York Giants in November, will get some interviews for one of nine head coach vacancies. But they are more likely to be coveted by teams in search of a coordinator.<\/p>\n

\u00bb READ MORE: Nick Sirianni\u2019s forceful vote of confidence from Howie Roseman, and some A.J. Brown trade talk highlight Eagles news conference<\/a><\/p>\n

How much Sirianni is willing to cede authority could dictate how attractive the Eagles job is to the prospective contenders. Roseman\u2019s statement that the coach has given previous hires \u201cthe flexibility to put their own spin on things\u201d made it obvious he would give as much autonomy as he does to defensive coordinator Vic Fangio<\/a> \u2014 if need be.<\/p>\n

Sirianni, for his part, didn\u2019t divulge much about what he\u2019s looking for and how much will change in terms of his involvement and a new scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose decisions don\u2019t have to be made for a long time and, as the head coach, you always have to be oversight of everything,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cAgain, this year obviously I got involved more on the offense as the end of the season came because that\u2019s what I needed to do as the head football coach there. Many different ways to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that I want to be the head football coach and I think that that\u2019s what the team needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

But even though he gave up play-calling midway through his first season as coach, and more of his system after coordinator Brian Johnson was fired two years ago and Kellen Moore<\/a> was brought in as his replacement, the offense has remained relatively the same throughout.<\/p>\n

At least since Sirianni decided to abandon some of the scheme he brought with him from Indianapolis and cater his offense more to quarterback Jalen Hurts<\/a>\u2019 skill set, which meant more emphasis on the run game.<\/p>\n

The offense evolved over time and was most explosive in 2022 when the Eagles first reached the Super Bowl. But then-coordinator Shane Steichen left to take the Colts\u2019 head job, and running it back again in 2023 didn\u2019t work with Johnson at the controls.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, when Sirianni sat in the same chair and was asked about the next coordinator and his involvement, he said there would be a \u201cmeshing\u201d of systems. The Eagles hadn\u2019t yet announced Moore\u2019s hiring, but they had zeroed in on him.<\/p>\n

This year, they aren\u2019t as far along because the news conference came earlier than two years ago. They have also cast a wider net. Roseman will lead the search. Owner Jeffrey Lurie<\/a> and his son Julian, recently appointed to a formal role within the organization, will also be in the interviews, per a team source. Sirianni will be in the meetings too, but it is apparent that the senior members of the front office will be making the final call. <\/p>\n

\u00bb READ MORE: Will A.J. Brown and Lane Johnson be back? Those are key questions facing the Eagles and Howie Roseman.<\/a><\/p>\n

There don\u2019t appear to be any restrictions, but the Eagles will likely lean toward proven commodities. It has been suggested that they hire an offensive Fangio who no longer has head coaching aspirations because they previously lost Steichen and Moore to promotions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great compliment when guys get head coaching jobs from here because it means we\u2019re having tremendous success,\u201d Roseman said. \u201cAs much as you\u2019d like to have continuity and would like to have guys here for a long period of time, we want to win. We have an urgency to win right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the offense clearly needs a reset. Two years ago, Sirianni said the offense had gotten \u201cstale\u201d and that he wanted to bring in \u201cnew ideas.\u201d This year, he said the scheme needs to \u201cevolve.\u201d The Eagles were again at the lower end of being under center, using motion, and throwing over the middle of the field. They ran more hitch routes than any other team.<\/p>\n

From 2022-24, they had one of the NFL\u2019s best offenses, despite not necessarily being at the vanguard of modern offense. But they took a significant step back in 2025 for a variety of reasons. Patullo struggled as a play-caller, but he also took the brunt of the blame because he was the new piece. <\/p>\n

Hurts and others got off easier. Sirianni and Roseman, as expected, mostly praised the quarterback when asked about his performance this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all had a hand in our offense this year,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cGood, bad, you name it, we all had a hand in it. That\u2019s every coach, every player, myself obviously at the front of that list.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sirianni said it would be \u201cfoolish\u201d not to have Hurts involved in the coordinator search, but he also mentioned including other players in the same breath. Two of those players \u2014 wide receiver A.J. Brown<\/a> and tackle Lane Johnson<\/a> \u2014 may not even be on the roster for different reasons.<\/p>\n

Roseman called Brown \u201ca great player\u201d when asked about trading the receiver who is still under contract, but he didn\u2019t directly answer the question. And he declined to give an update on where Johnson, who turns 36 in May, stands on possible retirement.<\/p>\n

Hurts isn\u2019t going anywhere. He\u2019s been the one main constant in the offense since the beginning. Any good coach revolves his schemes around his players, but never more so than at quarterback.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how much Hurts kept the offense from evolving this season \u2014 or even doing what it did well previously in terms of him running \u2014 but Sirianni said the 27-year-old quarterback will be open to change.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you saw this year that he\u2019s open to do a bunch,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were under center probably more than we have been. Different motions, different things like that. Here\u2019s what I\u2019ll say: Jalen\u2019s proved this to everybody, that he\u2019ll do whatever it takes to win football games. Sometimes that\u2019s throwing it a bunch, sometimes that\u2019s running it a bunch, sometimes it\u2019s him handing it off a bunch.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019ll do whatever it takes to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that was far from good enough this season, at least on the offensive side of the ball, despite the Eagles having the most expensive unit in the league. There will be a balancing of sorts in the offseason through the draft. The offensive line may undergo some retooling.<\/p>\n

The defense will lose some parts, but young, homegrown talent will eventually need to be paid. Roseman, who like Sirianni had faced doubters despite winning a title, knows how to rebuild a roster. Both said the Eagles were in win-now mode. <\/p>\n

But the GM knew what kind of pressure that would place upon the coach, who has yet to win over a vocal segment of the fan base, and even himself. So he offered a parting clarification.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s important for our fans to understand, you can do whatever it takes to win now and still build for the future and still have those parallel paths,\u201d Roseman said. \u201cI just don\u2019t want it to get confused that we can\u2019t do whatever it takes to build a championship-caliber team next year and also continue to have really good players on this team for the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to make sure that we\u2019re on the same page on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good luck with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unprompted, Howie Roseman listed Nick Sirianni\u2019s responsibilities and accomplishments. Normally, a head coach one year removed from winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44292,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-89293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-nick-sirianni-jalen-hurts-new-offensive-coordinator-2026-nfl-season","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}