The biggest takeaway from this entire Philadelphia Eagles’ season is that they can never hire an offensive coordinator without experience again. Hear me out, because this goes deeper than one hire. As long as Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni is running the show, Philadelphia gets burned on both sides of the coordinator spectrum. Experienced or inexperienced, proven or unproven, the Eagles end up in the same spot every single time.

Let me walk you through it.

The Eagles lose either way with Nick Sirianni

Option one. The Eagles go out and hire a coordinator with experience, a guy who has already proven himself. Things click. They win games, they make a Super Bowl run, and maybe they even bring home another ring. Everything’s great, right?

Wrong. Then that guy leaves. And why wouldn’t he? He’s never getting the head coaching job in Philadelphia with Sirianni sitting in that chair. So the first team that dangles a head coaching gig in front of him gets his attention, and just like that, you’re back to square one.

Option two. The Eagles go the Brian Johnson, Kevin Patullo, and Sean Mannion route and hand the keys to a guy who has no experience. If that coordinator can’t do the job effectively, who fixes it? Not the head coach, because Philly doesn’t have a head coach who can step in and correct things when they go wrong.

That’s the part that drives me nuts.

Sirianni isn’t the CEO this team needs

Think about how a head coach is supposed to function. He’s the CEO. He’s supposed to manage every part of the operation. And how do CEOs become CEOs? They’re good at everything. They’ve risen through the ranks, done a ton of different jobs, and they can figure things out on the fly.

So when one part of the company is off, a real CEO steps in. He either finds someone who can do that job, or he puts his own input into it and fixes the problem himself.

Sirianni can’t do either. When the offensive coordinator struggles, there’s no safety net. There’s no head coach who can grab the play sheet and steady the ship. The Eagles just ride it out and hope it gets better, and we’ve all watched how that plays out.

So either way, the Eagles keep getting burned. Hire experience and lose it. Hire inexperience and suffer through it. Pick your poison.

The one exception I’d make

Now, I’ll add one addendum to all of this.

Let’s say the Eagles believe 110% that they have a young play-caller who is an offensive genius. He’s never called plays and never managed an offense, but you truly believe he’s a disciple of a Sean McVay or a Kyle Shanahan. I know that’s what they thought they had with Mannion, whether they actually do or not.

If you really believe that? Then you make that guy the head coach. Period.

Here’s why. If he fails, he’s gone, and you bring somebody else in to run the operation. The accountability finally lines up. The guy calling the plays is the guy whose job is on the line, and you’re not stuck propping up a head coach who can’t fix the side of the ball that keeps giving this team trouble.

What you can’t keep doing is exactly what Philadelphia has been doing. Johnson, Patullo, and now Mannion. Three swings at the same idea, and the structure around them hasn’t changed one bit. The coordinator changes, the results get picked apart, and the man at the top stays exactly where he is.

I’m not saying the Eagles can’t win with Sirianni. They’ve proven they can. But the formula is broken, and swapping out one coordinator for another isn’t going to repair it. Until something changes at the top, the Eagles are stuck on this never-ending hamster wheel with Nick Sirianni, and I don’t see another coordinator hire getting them off it.