Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni wasn\u2019t second-guessing himself after Sunday\u2019s 24-17 loss to the Commanders. <\/p>\n
Sirianni opted to rest starters even though the team began the day with a shot at the No. 2 seed in the NFC and he said he didn\u2019t think about deviating from that path when the Bears fell behind the Lions in Chicago. An Eagles win and a Bears loss would have pushed the Eagles into the No. 2 spot, but Sirianni said he doesn\u2019t think \u201cthat\u2019s fair to them\u201d when asked about putting starters into the game in the second half. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Again, you go through your process, you make what you think is the best decision for the football team, and that\u2019s what we did,\u201d Sirianni said, via a transcript from the team. \u201cI knew this was an outcome, that these things could happen. Like I said to you guys, one thing I could guarantee was giving them rest. I couldn\u2019t guarantee anything else. Us being healthy and going into the playoffs healthy is a big deal for us and that\u2019s served us well in the past. Again, I know there\u2019ll be debate on that, but I have to do what I think\u2019s best for the football team moving forward, and that\u2019s what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Eagles will host the 49ers next weekend and Sirianni\u2019s Week 18 decision could come under further question if the team has a flat performance at home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni wasn\u2019t second-guessing himself after Sunday\u2019s 24-17 loss to the Commanders. Sirianni opted to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-388664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}