Philadelphia Eagles fans were calling for Nick Sirianni's head after he settled for a Jake Elliott field goal during a tied game with four minutes left on the clock in the fourth quarter. 

The Eagles had Jalen Hurts run the ball twice followed by a screen pass to running back Kenneth Gainwell. They gained just five yards and gave the Cardinals enough time to come back and score. 

Defense is why they lost but this sequence was terrible in the 4thQ:

** QB draw
** QB draw
** Screen to Gainwell #Eagles

— Eliot Shorr-Parks (@EliotShorrParks) December 31, 2023

Directly after the game, Sirianni believed his staff had made the right call in the moment.  

However, after sleeping off the embarrassing 35-31 loss to Arizona, he admitted that they could have been more aggressive on that second-to-last drive. 

"I’m always going to look at myself first, was I aggressive enough keeping the lead offensively? You’re always going to think through that," Sirianni said on Monday afternoon. "And when it doesn’t go – like yesterday, when you come out on the losing end of it, you’re going to think through all those different things.

"So of course when I look at the game yesterday and we’re in that four-minute, we get the onside kick and we’re in that four-minute, I like the call, but you know, maybe I could have been more aggressive there. And that’s just me being honest with you guys."

Sirianni also admitted that there was some miscommunication and that he didn't handle the clock differently as well. 

"You try to use clock while still being aggressive," Sirianni said. "If that was easy, everybody would be able to do that, and so it’s not an easy task. I thought it was really important that we got ourselves points, obviously, there, but also get as many first downs as we possibly could and score a touchdown. Hey, it didn’t work out that way, and looking at it, we think to ourselves, all right, this didn’t work.

"So not saying next time or anything like that. Obviously, I wouldn’t say that. But you say, well, what would work in this scenario, and that’s — and you drag yourself through the mud and you hope that you come out cleaner on the other side because you’ve gotten better from the scenario that you went through in the loss that you went through."

Sirianni and the Eagles will try to move past this mess and finish the regular season off strong against the New York Giants on Sunday, Jan. 7 at 4:25 p.m. ET. 

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