Former Eagles star Chris Long suggests Nick Sirianni is 'under a microscope' due to in-game decisions

The Philadelphia Eagles and caput manager Nick Sirianni entered the 2024 play nether sizeable pressure. Philly has managed to triumph 2 of its archetypal 3 games this year, but the adjacent telephone against the New Orleans Saints this past Sunday and the precocious crippled illness successful Week 2 person failed to soundlessness immoderate of Sirianni's critics.

Former Eagles antiaircraft lineman Chris Long is 1 of those critics who has expressed uncertainty astir Sirianni's decision-making process during captious portions of an NFL game.

During a caller quality connected the Scoop City podcast, Long referenced Sirianni's erstwhile choices successful 4th down situations during caller games against the Falcons and Saints.

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Sep 6, 2024; Sao Paulo, BRA; Philadelphia Eagles caput manager Nick Sirianni during the archetypal fractional against the Green Bay Packers astatine Neo Quimica Arena. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

"My constituent is we are each of a abrupt supra taking 3 points successful games that are going to beryllium antiaircraft battles," Long said. 

"They're going to beryllium astir possessions and I conscionable thought successful those situations it was a amended clip aboriginal successful the Atlanta crippled and aboriginal successful the New Orleans crippled to instrumentality points."

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Long added that portion helium does person an appreciation for Sirianni, helium questions whether the caput manager ever has a bully grasp of the "flow of the game."

"I similar Nick. I deliberation Nick has done a bully job. No, truly I do. Right now, he's kinda nether a microscope due to the fact that of the decisions he's making. He's not adjacent calling the game. So that's my thing. You got to ain the feeling of the travel of the game."

Sep 16, 2024; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Eagles caput manager Nick Sirianni reacts during the 4th fourth against the Atlanta Falcons astatine Lincoln Financial Field. (Bill Streicher-Imagn Images)

Getting a 15-12 triumph implicit the Saints connected the road, contempt a fewer in-game miscues, apt prevented immoderate of the sound surrounding Sirianni from increasing louder.

Long besides pointed retired that the radical of players Sirianni is coaching present is overmuch antithetic than what helium coached successful the 2022 play erstwhile the Eagles precocious to the Super Bowl.

"I'd springiness him a mirror, look successful it, this is not the aforesaid team, surely it wasn't yesterday, that went to the Super Bowl 2 years ago, wherever you're going to people 40 points a game," Long said. "You person to sometimes laic up. And erstwhile you've got Saquon Barkley, sometimes you person to springiness him the damn ball, immoderate three-yard summation tin crook into 70."

Dec 9, 2018; Arlington, TX, USA; Philadelphia Eagles antiaircraft extremity Chris Long (56) connected the sidelines during the crippled against the Dallas Cowboys astatine AT&T Stadium. (Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports)

While Sirianni helped pb Philly to the NFC rubric and an quality successful Super Bowl LVII, the Eagles collapsed down the agelong past season, dropping 5 of their past six games. The Eagles proceeded to endure a blowout nonaccomplishment successful the wild-card circular of the playoffs. 

The Eagles brass decided to clasp Sirianni, but moved connected from the violative and antiaircraft coordinators.

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The Eagles volition look to enactment connected the winning way erstwhile they question to Florida for a matchup with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers connected Sept. 29.

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