Philadelphia Eagles HC Doug Pederson must do his best coaching job now
Philadelphia Eagles fans are going to learn a lot about what type of head coach they have throughout the remainder of 2019’s regular season.
At this point in his NFL head coaching career, the highlight of Doug Pederson‘s tenure has been Super Bowl LII. What’s crazy is that the game was oh so close to being a matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Thank goodness it didn’t turn out that way.
For Philly’s fairy tale season to have the pop that it did, that final game of the 2017-18 season couldn’t have been against the guys from Duval. It had to be a showdown with the greatest coach and team of all time, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots.
Just think about it. Is Philly’s underdog story the same if they had beaten the Jags? Sure, everyone would have appreciated the first Lombardi Trophy in team history all the same, but beating the greatest dynasty that has ever been seen in team sports put the Eagles’ win in a different category. It did the same for Pederson. He went head to head with Belichick and won.
The Eagles and their fans need a similar type of Herculean effort now. The ship is shaken. The storm has come, and Pederson needs to fix everything. Fair or unfair, that’s the job. Fair or unfair, the Eagles have been labeled as dysfunctional. It’s been said that they have a lack of focus, and it’s Pederson’s job to steady the course. It’s his job to finally make good on a promise he made during Philly’s victory parade and deliver the city that ‘new norm’ he talked about on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
An entire nation is watching, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to turn on a television without hearing about the dysfunction surrounding a team that had, for so long, been labeled as the model of consistency. Pederson’s performance in Super Bowl LII was amazing, and no Eagles fan will ever forget how his team erased decades of heartache in a single night.
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That was only the beginning though, and now, his best coaching job must follow. He has to prove it wasn’t all Frank Reich‘s doing. He has to prove he can pick his team up off the canvas. He has to prove he hasn’t already lost the locker room, but here’s the good news if you’re an Eagles fan. There’s no reason to believe that he can’t do it.