Eagles Spin Their Wheels As Hurts, Sirianni Come Up Small — Again

by recklessfear | 1 month ago | 0 Comments

Congratulations, Philadelphia. We just wasted another prime year of a Super Bowl window — and this time, we didn’t even make it interesting.

After sleepwalking through an up-and-down regular season, the Eagles folded up like a cheap lawn chair in the Divisional Round against the Bears. And look, Chicago’s a good team — but they ain't that good. Not good enough that a supposed "powerhouse" like Philly should get pushed around like a JV squad.

But when your quarterback can’t throw a basic 10-yard out without making you hold your breath, and your head coach is too busy high-fiving guys after field goals down two scores, well... here we are.

Let’s talk about Jalen Hurts, because someone needs to.
This is a man who was crowned the "future of the league" after 2023. Got the bag. Got the billboards. Got the MVP votes. Since then? Regression. Pure and simple. In 2025, Hurts looked like a guy who forgot what made him special in the first place. Tentative. Robotic. Turnover-prone. Watching Hurts "work" through his reads this year was like watching someone try to find the light switch in a pitch-black room. Spoiler alert: he usually didn’t.

And yet, here comes Nick Sirianni, Mr. Positivity, telling us every week that "Jalen’s our leader" and "we're close." Close to what? Missing the playoffs next year?

Sirianni getting extended this offseason feels like the Eagles rewarding the guy at Wawa who dropped your sandwich on the floor but still managed to wrap it up and hand it to you with a smile. Great vibes, terrible results. How many stacked rosters does he get before someone admits he’s just the football version of a motivational speaker who lucked into a real job?

Meanwhile, Saquon Barkley just became the first back-to-back 2,000-yard rusher in NFL history, and what does he have to show for it? A front-row seat to a slow-motion collapse.

Dallas Goedert — maybe the last reliable set of hands on the roster — is packing his bags because the team "loves him" but not enough to pay him. Awesome. Another veteran leader out the door while we pretend everything is fine.

Bottom line: Howie Roseman better have a miracle offseason, because right now, the Birds are closer to a teardown than another title.

If this is what "building the culture" looks like, someone should’ve torn it down a long time ago.