{"id":866655,"date":"2026-10-01T04:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866655\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T04:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:16:12","slug":"nick-sirianni-noncommittal-on-no-2-qb-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866655\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Sirianni noncommittal on No. 2 QB job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Eagles starting quarterback Jalen Hurts was undergoing a concussion check, Andy Dalton threw a red-zone interception on Monday night. Two days later, coach Nick Sirianni isn\u2019t saying who the backup will be this week.<\/p>\n<p>Tanner McKee has previously served as Hurts\u2019 backup, but Dalton beat him out for the No. 2 job for this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I have <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/philadelphiaeagles\/2026\/09\/nick-sirianni-refuses-to-say-if-andy-dalton-is-still-the-eagles-backup-qb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a lot of faith<\/a> in both of those guys,\u201d Sirianni said, via Johnny Gonigal of pennlive.com. \u201cObviously, what happened in the game, we don\u2019t want turnovers by anybody. . . . We can\u2019t turn the ball over. We did in that situation, and we lost points because of it. But I still have faith in Tanner, in Andy, in how [rookie] Cole [Payton] is developing. I still have faith in that room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked to clarify the backup job, Sirianni said he previously answered the question how he \u201cwanted\u201d to answer it. He then restated his \u201cfaith\u201d in all three backups.<\/p>\n<p>Both quarterbacks were inconsistent in training camp, and the Eagles opted to carry four quarterbacks because of the lack of a clear QB2.<\/p>\n<p>On third-and-goal from the 2, Dalton hit Bears rookie safety Dillon Thieneman in the hands in the back of the end zone. Hurts returned for the next possession, but the Eagles lost 27-7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI obviously didn\u2019t see the safety in the middle,\u201d Dalton said. \u201cHe just read my eyes real good and made the play. I can\u2019t put this team in that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Eagles starting quarterback Jalen Hurts was undergoing a concussion check, Andy Dalton threw a red-zone interception on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-866655","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\/866655","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=866655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}