Blame Howie Roseman, not Doug for losing this Philadelphia Eagles team

Not much has changed with the Philadelphia Eagles.

So, here we are, and in the end, much of the Philadelphia Eagles fan base got what they wanted. Doug Pederson is gone, just in case you missed the news. Not only that, there’s still a chance that Carson Wentz may follow (which is the other part of many of your fantasies), but there are a few things to consider.

One, Jeffrey Lurie is still here, and you can’t fire him! Call it a crazy theory, but is anyone else starting to see Jerry Jones whenever they look at the Eagles’ Chairman and CEO? Whether you want to admit it or not, they’re one in the same. Jeffrey is every bit the meddling owner that Jerry gets criticized for being. Jones just likes to be in front of the microphone a little more.

Then again, after Lurie’s latest talk with the media, it’s probably a great thing that we don’t hear from him as much. Who can forget his soliloquy about Philly’s ‘GM factory’ so to speak? Who knew the Birds had five general managers in waiting under Howie Roseman?

Speaking of good old Howie, he’s the companion piece in Philly’s modern-day version of ‘dumb and dumber’. This walking example of the Napoleon Complex got buried in Philly’s equipment room by Chip Kelly and didn’t like it a smidge, and ever since then, he’s taken every opportunity to let Birds fans, Kelly’s replacement (Doug), and anyone else who may have forgotten know who’s boss around these parts.

All that has been said to say this. Here’s the bad news if you haven’t figured out this out on your own. Unless, both Roseman and Lurie change how they operate and conduct themselves, it won’t matter who this team brings in as the new head coach.

Mull this over if you’re a Philadelphia Eagles fan.

Now, let’s get a few things straight. For those of you that are only willing to retweet the good things that are said about Carson Wentz, you have to admit, he was bad in 2020. We’re talking mechanically and statistically, and he should have been benched earlier than he was.

Some of that is on 11. Some of it, well a lot of it, was on Doug. Wentz’s regression lies partially at the doorstep of Pederson and his assistants, so ask yourself two questions. One, had Doug stayed and Carson left, what would have been better with Jalen Hurts at the helm?

The second question is this. Now, that Doug is gone, let’s say Carson Wentz is retained by the next coaching regime and Hurts returns to the second string. You still have the same issues, don’t you?

At what point do Philadelphia Eagles fans point fingers in the proper direction?

How on Planet Earth is a head coach going to sit in a meeting with his signal-caller and discuss the offensive game plan when the GM and owner haven’t told him who’s active and who isn’t? The coach can’t create a decent game plan when his assistants, many of whom were hired by Howie and not by the coach, are allowed to undermine him, now can he?

Doug Pederson had his flaws. What coach doesn’t? The point is this. Doug was a good man and the good soldier. So was Zach Ertz (we’ll get to him in a second). Pederson took the bullets that, at times, should have been aimed at his owner and GM, and more often than not, he did it with that famous smile of his.

Looking back, ask yourself a few questions. Remember when Malcolm Jenkins restructured his deal with the thought that he’d be taken care of later? He wasn’t, was he? Remember what happened with Zach Ertz this past offseason? Remember when 86 got in that shouting match with Roseman at practice? Does that even look like anything we’re accustomed to seeing from Zach Ertz? Hasn’t he always been the good soldier? Do you think other players aren’t watching that stuff?

We all remember that tank job, right? Now, looking back, are you certain that was Doug’s doing or are you questioning that a little? Why are you surprised when the national media says that this is a job that isn’t as desirable as it once was? Stop blaming Doug Pederson for this team’s collapse. Put the blame where it belongs, with Jeffrey Lurie and Howie Roseman.

Until they change, nothing that you see on the field of play will change. Good luck to any NFL head coach that can’t hire his own staff, play the guys he wants to play, or, from what we’re hearing now, manage the game as he sees appropriate, especially whoever takes this Eagles job. It’s never going to happen with a suddenly senile Jeffrey Lurie and ‘Little Napoleon’ aka Howie Roseman pulling the strings behind the scenes.