Nick Sirianni inadvertently spills the beans on how Eagles view Jalen Reagor

How many of you noticed that, with a comfortable lead in the second half of the Wild Card Game versus the Philadelphia Eagles, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were still stacking the box to deter the Birds from running the ball? How many of you are still wondering about how Jalen Reagor kept his job as a return man even though it’s clear that he’s done nothing to deserve that role?

Sure, he had the punt return that he returned for six versus the Green Bay Packers in 2020, but ever since then, more often than not, we’ve been treated to one special teams snafu after another.

If you’ll remember, that aforementioned touchdown in Lambeau Field began with a muff. In his first-ever playoff appearance, Philly’s Wild Card Game versus the Bucs, Reag muffed another punt. The latter was truly costly as it led to a third touchdown by Tampa, a 24-0 lead, and a seismic shift in momentum that the Birds were never able to recover from.

Sometimes, people say a lot without saying anything. By stacking the box with a huge lead, what the Buccaneers and their defensive coordinator Todd Bowles were saying was this.

Even though we know the Eagles have to pass the ball to beat us, we have no fear of Jalen Hurts’ ability to do so. How the Eagles value Jalen Reagor hasn’t been discussed, but in a season-ending sit-down with members of the Philly media, head coach Nick Sirianni may have spilled the beans some. As a matter of fact, that’s totally what he’s done.

The Philadelphia Eagles seemingly now value Quez Watkins over Jalen Reagor.

As you might imagine, Philly’s young stars on offense, including their starting quarterback Jalen Hurts, were huge talking points during Nick Sirianni and Howie Roseman’s talk with the media. When asked about his receiver corps, Coach named Quez Watkins, not Reagor, as the second receiver on his depth chart.

In other words, Watkins, a sixth-round draft choice in 2021 and a man that was taken 179 spots after Philadelphia took Reagor 21st-overall has ascended past a guy that we honestly can’t make successful arguments for why he continues to get so much playing time.

Perhaps Sirianni didn’t mean to state that and do so publicly. Maybe he did. This hardly feels like a slip-up even though that’s what we’ll call it for the time being.

Whatever the case, the beans have been spilled and the word is out now. Reagor isn’t just seeing his approval rating plummet in the eyes of the fans and the media. The organization that pays him appears to be losing some faith in him as well.

Truthfully, that isn’t what you want to see. It confirms some of what we’ve been thinking all year, that the only reason he’s on the field is because of where he was taken in 2021’s draft.

Reagor will be back. That’s bad news to many of us, but as awful as all of this sounds, we can all agree that we still hope the former TCU Horned Frog proves us wrong.