{"id":842061,"date":"2026-09-09T19:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842061\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T19:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:06:21","slug":"nick-sirianni-declines-to-name-a-backup-quarterback-for-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842061\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Sirianni declines to name a backup quarterback for Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagles did not specify whether Tanner McKee or Andy Dalton will be their backup quarterback when they released their depth chart for Week 1 and head coach Nick Sirianni passed on a chance to do so during a Wednesday press conference as well. <\/p>\n<p>McKee and Dalton were both listed with the second team on the depth chart and Sirianni said he doesn\u2019t want to give the Commanders a chance to prepare for either of the reserve quarterbacks ahead of Sunday\u2019s game. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have to make that decision quite yet or <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DyO6xvn7CLs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announce that decision<\/a> for competitive reasons,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cI don\u2019t want them to study one guy over the other. I\u2019m not saying we don\u2019t have an answer of who that is yet, but I don\u2019t just have to share that quite yet publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unlikely that any team will spend much time getting ready for an Eagles quarterback other than Jalen Hurts, but Sirianni isn\u2019t taking any chances and the wait to find out who will be the next man up may stretch all the way until inactive lists are revealed on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles did not specify whether Tanner McKee or Andy Dalton will be their backup quarterback when they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-842061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842061","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=842061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}