Philadelphia Eagles: Jeffrey Lurie is the only one who can save this team

Owner Jeffrey Lurie can save the Philadelphia Eagles, but only if he’s willing to make some tough decisions.

The Philadelphia Eagles are currently spiraling out of control, and blame is being passed around to essentially everyone. Doug Pederson and Jim Schwartz are failing in their respective coaching roles, Howie Roseman built a bad roster, Carson Wentz is “regressing”, young players aren’t producing, old veterans aren’t living up to their contracts, etc etc etc.

You can make a genuine argument for any one of these statements to be true, as in reality the entire organization has been performing poorly, from top to bottom. No one person is above criticism, and there have been catastrophic failures at a handful of team-related positions. The front office has unquestionably been bad, the coaching staff has arguably been worse, and the players most definitely aren’t showing up on game day.

With all the said, there truly is only one person who can fix it all, and it’s not anyone that I’ve already mentioned. If the Philadelphia Eagles want to avoid becoming a bottom feeder in the lowly NFC East for the next couple of years, owner Jeffrey Lurie has to spring into action sooner rather than later.

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For the most part, Lurie has been an incredible owner since taking over the Eagles back in 1994. The team has been a consistent appearer in the postseason, Lurie has donated millions to charities and social organizations, and he ultimately guided the team to a Super Bowl victory in 2017. Some of the team’s best employees and players were hired and acquired under Lurie’s watch, and he’s always come across as incredibly “in touch” with the Eagles’ raucous fanbase.

Unlike John Middleton (Phillies) and Josh Harris (Sixers), Lurie is one of those billionaires that you feel like you can actually relate to on some issues.

For the last few seasons, Lurie has been able to sit on the sideline, basking in the vast success that his franchise has generated as of late. After all, he delivered the city a Lombardi, he had every right to put his feet up and relax a bit.

However, with his team now sat at 3-5-1 and absorbed up in all sorts of GM, head coach, and QB controversy, it’s time for him to prove why he should still be viewed as an above average owner. At some point, the time to say goodbye to the trio of Doug Pederson, Jim Schwartz, and Howie Roseman will be upon us; and it’s starting to feel like it could occur as soon as this upcoming offseason.

Lurie has proved extremely loyal to Eagles players/employees in the past, to a fault at times (Jason Peters for example). That simply cannot happen this time. Super Bowl aside for the moment, Lurie’s current group of employees are wasting away his quarterback’s prime, a quarterback who Lurie personally committed a #2 overall pick and $100+ million dollars to.

This isn’t Howie Roseman’s or Doug Pederson’s football team, it’s Jeffrey Lurie’s. If he wants things to turn back around in the near future, he ultimately has to be the one to step in and facilitate change. If he doesn’t, and continues to rest on his Super Bowl success from three years ago, it’ll be his personal bank account that starts to feel the negative effects.