Since he was hired to replace Doug Pederson following the 2020 season, Nick Sirianni has guided the Eagles to their most successful run of success in franchise history.
The numbers are eye-popping.
- 59-26 record
- .694 regular season winning percentage
- Five straight postseason appearances in his first five seasons
- Two Super Bowl appearances
- One Super Bowl title
It’s as impressive a resume as one could ask from any head coach in his first five NFL seasons. And yet, the Sirianni naysayers remain.
He enters the 2026 season once again on the hot seat, although it is not as scorching as it was entering the ‘24 Super Bowl season. We’ll never how just how close owner Jeffrey
Lurie came to firing Sirianni following the Birds’ epic collapse in 2023, but rumors about Sirianni’s job security continue to linger, even given his regular season success and the fact he’s the only head coach in franchise history to take the Eagles to two Super Bowls.
The topic for this week’s debate is: What role does Nick Sirianni play in the Eagles’ success? It is perhaps a kinder way of asking the real question…
Is Nick Sirianni a good head coach?
If you do not follow the Eagles intimately, this might seem like a ridiculous and, even, an offensive question.
But for those of us who live and die with this team, it’s a questions we’ve all debated.
Eagles win because of Nick Sirianni
Being the head coach of an NFL team is no easy task and, by the numbers, one cannot argue with Sirianni’s record.
His .694 winning percentage is 5th-highest among all-time head coaches. The only guys ahead of him are all in the Hall of Fame: Guy Chamberlain, John Madden, Vince Lombardi and John Allen. He is ahead of Bill Belichick, Bill Parcells, Bill Walsh (there were a lot of great “Bill” head coaches, apparently), Don Shula, George Halas, Paul Brown, Tony Dungy, and every other great head coach the league has ever seen.
As mentioned above, it cannot be understated that he is the only head coach to take two different Eagles teams to the Super Bowl, and he did it over the course of three seasons. His team utterly destroyed a dynastic Andy Reid-Patrick Mahomes juggernaut in a way no Birds fan could ever have dreamed.
Just as impressive, he has made the postseason in each of his first five seasons, one of only four coaches to pull off that feat: John Harbaugh, Chuck Knox, Brown and Bill Cowher.
When you look at the raw numbers, Sirianni is keeping company with the greatest of all-time. No one should take any of that lightly. As we saw in Super Bowl 59, Sirianni was the one who implored then-OC Kellen Moore to call “The Dagger.”
Common sense will tell you that even if Sirianni isn’t calling plays and doesn’t have total control of any one aspect of the offense or defense, he is on track to go down as one of the game’s greatest head coaches.
Eagles win in spite of Nick Sirianni
People who believe this point to a number of factors.
- In 2022, failing as a play caller, he handed off those duties to Shane Steichen
- Sirianni has been given the most talented roster in the NFL for multiple seasons by Howie Roseman
- The Eagles’ collapse in 2023 was so historic it nearly caused his dismissal from the team
- His inability to fix the Birds’ offense in 2025 led to one of the most disappointing finishes in Eagles history
- The front office hired Sean Mannion to take total and complete control of the offense, leaving Sirianni’s impact on it exceedingly minimal
- The locker room distractions and noise in ‘23 and ‘25 bely his reputation as a CEO head coach
- Sirianni’s histrionics and antics on the sidelines have antagonized opponents, their fans and, at times, his own players
The rallying anti-Sirianni cry usually comes in the form of a simple question.
What does he do to give the Eagles an advantage on the field?
Sirianni’s offensive philosophy has always been heavily reliant on Jeff Stoutland’s offensive line being the most dominant run-blocking and pass-blocking unit in the league. It’s always been reliant on elite offensive skill position players — A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, Saquon Barkley — winning their one-on-one battles. It’s always been reliant on Jalen Hurts’ ability to make plays in the running game and in the out-of-structure passing game.
When all that stuff went away last year, Sirianni and his hand-picked offensive coordinator, Kevin Patullo, had no answers. The same thing happened in ‘23 with Brian Johnson.
The expectation should not be that the Eagles are going to make every Super Bowl every season. But sandwiched around their Super Bowl 59 blowout of the Chiefs, the Eagles have book-ended it with two very disappointing, underachieving finishes. And entering 2026, it sure has the appearance that the offense will be totally Mannion’s and the defense, as always, will totally belong to Vic Fangio.
He appears to be a head coach totally reliant on his coordinators for his success.
It’s fair to ask, what is Sirianni in charge of? Vibes?
So, what do you think?
