Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni has leaned on a familiar move whenever the offense sputters: change the offensive coordinator and promise better results next year.

If you ask me, that option is now officially gone. The Eagles have already run through this cycle too many times, and the pressure is shifting directly onto Sirianni’s shoulders.

I discussed the state of Philadelphia’s coaching staff on the latest episode of 13 Personnel with co-hosts Austin Stanley and Easton Freeze. One point kept coming up. Sirianni has run out of people to blame.

The Eagles’ offensive coordinator carousel

We have seen this play out before. Brian Johnson took the fall once, and then Kevin Patullo followed after that. At this point, the cupboard is bare when it comes to scapegoats.

That brings us to Sean Mannion. I don’t think he was a good hire. That has nothing to do with whether Mannion will eventually become a good offensive coordinator, because he very well could.

It just wasn’t what this team needed. Philadelphia needed someone with experience calling an offense. Instead, the Eagles handed the keys to a first-year play caller and asked him to be the savior of a struggling unit.

If the plan is to fire Mannion and promise to get things right next year, Eagles fans shouldn’t buy it. Philadelphia has gone through that routine so many times that Sirianni can no longer get away with it.

I think this is the season he gets ousted, because the excuses are gone.

Losing Jeff Stoutland hurt more than people realize

I said this repeatedly throughout the offseason, and I still believe it. Losing offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland the way the Eagles did was crippling for this team.

Part of that comes down to stability. Stoutland was a fixture up front for a long time, and the offensive line was a strength because of him. The way he left is what bothered me most. From everything I gathered, he walked away over differences of opinion about how the offense should be run and what his role should be as run game coordinator.

That whole situation stunk. It wasn’t simply unfortunate. It felt like a sign that something behind the scenes in Philadelphia was not right.

What is Sirianni actually good at?

I know this sounds strange to ask about a coach who won a Super Bowl not too long ago. Still, I keep coming back to the same question. What is Sirianni legitimately good at as a head coach?

He was the offensive play caller early in his tenure. He gave up that responsibility because he wasn’t good at it, and that opened the door for Shane Steichen’s rise. After that, the pitch became that Sirianni is the good vibes guy and that players love him.

I don’t buy it.

We have seen too many situations where the Eagles had to put out fires because the locker room didn’t love Sirianni as much as people pretended. He also isn’t a great game manager. Take away the play calling, the vibes, and the in-game decision-making, and I’m left without an answer for what his best attribute is.

Stanley pointed to Philadelphia’s loss to the Jaguars in London as a moment that might have ended Sirianni in multiple ways. The Eagles let that game slip away despite holding a lead in the closing seconds.

Austin also raised concerns about Jalen Hurts dealing with blood clots before that game, which he said the team knew about. He doesn’t see how Sirianni comes back from that, and I tend to agree.

The Eagles have the talent to compete, which is exactly why the heat is landing on the head coach. Another coordinator firing won’t change the conversation this time.

If the offense continues to stall, the next move will have to come from the top, and Sirianni has nobody left standing between him and the blame.