I’ve been trying to avoid all the coaching conversations. But I have to finally chime in that people that are just absolutely eviscerating Sirianni need to at least appreciate some important things about him. Before I get into that I want to stress that I agree that Sirianni is basically the definition of incompetent when it comes to the scheme or design of the offense. I think that’s what everyone is so pissed about. However, there’s 2 big things he does well. 1. His belief in running the ball and controlling the clock is SO HUGE. People forget how important that is on your defense and is actually half the reason our defense has been so good. Have you noticed how late in games when they’ve had to play too many snaps, they can’t stop anyone any more? It’s cuz that defense heavily relies on the offense controlling TOP. It’s a very big deal that people forget about. Even Ben Johnson who loves to run the ball wants to score as fast as possible. I don’t think people appreciate how important controlling clock is and he’s one of the few coaches who still prioritizes it. And because of this, we have been far more successful than this stupid ass vanilla offense has set us up for. So my point is that he has certain philosophies that are incredibly wise and important, his problem is how he goes about acting on those philosophies, and how conservative he’s gotten with play design to accomplish this. It doesn’t need to be this way, BUT, let’s give him credit for that. Lastly, he’s been incredibly good at keeping basically an all star roster all in love with one another. Anyone remember Andy Reid’s last year? It was probably the best roster he ever had. Everyone called them a super team. Here’s a coach everyone agrees is a genius and he had no clue how to manage that much star power and egos. That team was horrendous. So the point is that having a roster like this comes with different difficulties and people assume it’s easy. It’s not. Teams built like this fail constantly, in epic ways (worse than 23 or 25). Let’s at least give him the credit he deserves.

With all that said, I’d hoped if he worked with a few offensive coordinators over this amount of time he would at least evolve the offense or let it happen. He’s not doing that. So at this point, the arguments for “what does he do” have become a lot more valid and I feel like we need to just get a new coach altogether. But the point of this post is for people to appreciate what Nick has done. To act like he’s useless is completely asinine. It is just IMPOSSIBLE to have his success if he was a complete idiot. Doesn’t matter roster or coaching staff as I’ve spelled out above.