The Philadelphia Eagles have had issues on the offensive side of the football throughout the 2025 campaign. Those problems are only becoming more troublesome now that the calendar has turned to December, which is the last thing that the defending champions were hoping for.
Following their disastrous performance against the Chicago Bears in Week 13, Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni met with the media on Monday and, rather vaguely, promised that changes would be on the way.
“We have to change some things. We can’t keep doing the same things over and over and over again and expect different results," Sirianni said, via John Clark of NBC Sports Philadelphia.
The problem with this promise from Sirianni is that it feels more than empty coming at this stage of the 2025 campaign.
Nick Sirianni Missed the Mark By 5 Weeks With Comments on Offense
For starters, Sirianni has already made it clear that there will not be a change regarding who calls the plays. So, offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo is safe. That in and of itself eliminates the biggest possible change that could have feasibly been made entering Week 14.
Had Sirianni suggested changes were coming during Philadelphia's bye week, which fell in Week 9, perhaps these words would carry some weight. At the very least, this would have put the Eagles in a position to make meaningful additions on offense, as they did on the defensive side of things, before the trade deadline passed.
With five weeks remaining in the regular season? This reeks of a head coach realizing entirely too late that he is the one who will receive the lion's share of the blame if, and given the way things are going, and when this season comes to an end without another Super Bowl championship.
For a head coach who admits changes are needed, the rest of his comments don't suggest that he has any real ideas on what to do other than offer up coachspeak at a press conference.
"We are looking for ways to help the guys more and execute better," Sirianni continued. "What necessarily worked for us in the past, doesn’t mean it will necessarily work in the future. We looked at ourselves first. We are going to ask our players to look at themselves. None of us are doing a good enough job right now.”
Since Philadelphia's bye week, the Eagles have scored more than 16 points on one occasion. That just happened to be the week they blew a 21-0 lead against the Dallas Cowboys. They have a 2-2 record over that stretch, falling out of the top spot in the NFC standings.
Perhaps Sirianni has some master plan that he is sitting on, which fans will see unleashed against the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 14. Anything is possible. I wouldn't suggest that fans in the City of Brotherly Love hold their breath until they see it happen, though.