5 Positions where 2021’s Philadelphia Eagles must begin their rebuild
By Joe Walls
The Carson Wentz era is over for the Philadelphia Eagles, so what now?
The Philadelphia Eagles are in the middle of football’s version of a mid-life crisis. Supposed franchise savior Carson Wentz made his desires to play somewhere known. He then went silent. Philly fired Doug Pederson, the only Super-Bowl winning coach in franchise history, just three years after he brought the City of Brotherly Love its first championship parade.
They did so in hopes that they could retain their franchise quarterback, who was once an MVP frontrunner. The Wentz/Pederson relationship was rumored to be so fractured that they apparently didn’t speak for up to ten weeks as the 2020 season neared its close. How a quarterback and head coach compete in a football game while not talking during the week leading up to the said game is anybody’s guess.
Philadelphia followed that up by hiring Nick ‘second impressions are everything’ Sirianni. That was done in an attempt to appease their quarterback. Sirianni’s tutelage under one of Wentz’s former mentors, Frank Reich, was supposed to be enough to keep 11 in the fold. Philadelphia did everything short of hiring Frank Reich to keep the disgruntled quarterback in town.
Was it enough? No, it was not, and ladies and gentlemen. That’s where the story gets really interesting.