Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni is getting roasted after a recent analogy

When Nick Sirianni was hired by the Philadelphia Eagles as the 24th head coach in the team’s history (and their fourth coaching hire since 2013), we were told that he ‘blew Howie Roseman and Jeffrey Lurie away’ in the interview process. If there was only some way that we could board a time machine and travel back to that moment and just be flies on the wall.

Seriously, no one else has thought about what those conversations were about and what was said? Coach Sirianni’s first press conference didn’t go well. That’s putting things lightly. Neither did his second or his third, but looking back, perhaps we were all too hard on the man.

He most certainly doesn’t drink decaf, but the decision was made by just about everyone because we were excited about a new season, tired of bashing the man for no reason or won over by his enthusiasm (or a combination of all three). We’d back off, and give him a chance.

Then, the Birds began the season with a 2-5 record, and rather than force the Raiders to punt on 4th down, Coach elected to give Las Vegas a long third-down opportunity by accepting a holding penalty because he would have gone for it in that situation.

Avonte Maddox and his defense bailed him out after that, but that won’t make up for the fact that, with ten days to prepare for Week 7’s game, the Eagles played their worst game of the season.

And, then Nick Sirianni again stepped in front of a microphone on the following Wednesday to address members of the Philadelphia media.

The Eagles head coach gives ammunition to the criticism with a flower analogy.

Yep, you read that correctly. On the Wednesday leading up to the Eagles’ Week 7 game versus a winless Detroit Lions team, a game that is in no way an automatic win, Nick Sirianni sat with several members of the Philadelphia media, and here’s what he said.

"This is what I said to the team today, I said the results aren’t there right now but what’s going on here is that there’s growth under the soil. I put a picture of a flower up, and it’s coming through the ground and the roots are growing out and the roots are continuing to grow out, and everybody wants to see results."

Just wait. It gets better.

"Shoot, nobody wants to see results more than us. We want to see results too, but it’s really important that the foundation is being built and that the roots are growing out, and the only way the roots grow out every single day and they grow stronger and they grow better is if we all water, we all fertilize, we all do our part, each individual coach, each individual player, each everybody in the building that we do our part to water to make sure that when it does pop out it really pops out, it really pops out and it grows."

You can only imagine what’s happening on Twitter right now, can’t you? Here’s some of the reactions.

We’d really love to defend Coach here. Some of us would anyway, but let’s be frank. He doesn’t give us a lot that will allow us to do so sometimes.