{"id":562053,"date":"2026-04-03T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/562053\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:18:09","slug":"eagles-mailbag-what-can-nick-sirianni-do-to-finally-receive-credit-in-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/562053\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Mailbag: What can Nick Sirianni do to finally receive credit in Philly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m back at it with a new Eagles mailbag following my first in a little mini-series on Tuesday<\/a>. I\u2019m handling a stack of questions from our loyal BGN readers over on The Feed<\/a>. I\u2019ll tackle some more now and then make my way through them as this week goes on.<\/p>\n

mpsufan3<\/a>: If the Eagles win the Super Bowl this upcoming season, will Nick Sirianni get any credit or does it all go to the new offensive staff and Uncle Vic? In your opinion, what does Nick have to do to get more respect or has that ship sailed?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m one of the most pro-Nick Sirianni people you\u2019ll find across the Delaware Valley. The easy answer is that there\u2019s nothing he can do at this point, inexplicably, to receive the credit he deserves for the Eagles being in the postseason annually and winning a championship.<\/p>\n

If the Eagles win this upcoming season\u2019s Super Bowl, yes, Vic Fangio will receive his laurels for being one of the best defensive minds of the century while Sean Mannion will likely be out the door for a head coaching job elsewhere. The narrative will be about that duo thrived and how Sirianni got out of his own way. If the Eagles bail out early in the postseason like they did this past winter, however, the blame will be laid at Sirianni\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n

I remember that old adage that if you win in Philly, \u201cYou\u2019ll never pay for a drink in this town again.\u201d I\u2019ve seen two Eagles head coaches win Super Bowls within the last decade. Doug Pederson was maligned often. Sirianni is frequently persona non grata here. That saying was ultimately nonsensical. That\u2019s just not how it works here.<\/p>\n

I always think that the two \u201csmart\u201d Eagles head coaches this century in Andy Reid and Chip Kelly never won the big one in Philly. The two \u201cdoofus\u201d head coaches in Pederson and Sirianni actually brought home the hardware. Food for thought!<\/p>\n

Hopkins48!!<\/a>: If Jeff Lurie spends cash on an upgrade to franchise player-related facilities, should he completely overhaul the locker room, or buy a team plane with only first class seating?<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Lurie is, unquestionably, the greatest modern-day Philadelphia sports owner. I\u2019m not going to name names, but there are other owners across the Sports Complex who are certainly easy to hate. That\u2019s never been the case with Lurie, who\u2019s overseen an unprecedented quarter of a century of success for this franchise. He says all the right things. He\u2019s kept the Birds in consistent contention for as long as I\u2019ve had concrete memories. Philly has been lucky on that front.<\/p>\n

That said, it is a little strange that the team always rates low and draws ire for the locker room status, travel, etc. in those NFLPA surveys given everything else we know about the team, right?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m all in favor of the Eagles being a first-class organization on every possible front. The Eagles aren\u2019t the Bengals, for instance, but the locker rooms, both at the facility formerly known as the NovaCare Complex and Lincoln Financial Field, are probably on the small side. From afar, it\u2019s baffling that any NFL franchise doesn\u2019t have their own team plane as well.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to be pro-player when it comes to these matters. Investing in your players\u2019 comfort and well-being should build morale and trickle down to a happier workplace setting, no?<\/p>\n

Hopkins48!!<\/a>: Will the Cowboys, as seems apparent, ruin their relationship with George Pickens, and then blame Pickens, like they did with Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence? (Not to mention many others.)<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t want anything more in this world of ours than for the Cowboys to drag out the George Pickens contract saga through the summer. On the simplest level, it\u2019s bad for their on-field product. Pickens is the archetypal brash, but undeniably talented Dallas wideout. Alienating him, and possibly getting him out of Dallas already, would be lovely for Birds fans. Who wants their most bitter division rival to have a guy going into his age-25 campaign coming off a 1,400-yard, nine-touchdown season?<\/p>\n

On a more neurotic level, I\u2019d much rather another fiasco down in Dallas dominate the 24\/7 NFL news cycle than anything dealing with Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown and the Eagles overall. Put the Cowboys under the microscope and let the Eagles cool off for a second!<\/p>\n

TheGreatJB99<\/a>: Will A.J. Brown be moved to a player\/coach role?<\/p>\n

My very real sources are telling me that A.J. Brown will be the first NFL player to be both a Pro Bowl wide receiver and Assistant to the Chief Security Officer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m back at it with a new Eagles mailbag following my first in a little mini-series on Tuesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,174605,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-562053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-analysis","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562053","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=562053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}