The Philadelphia Eagles made a statement on Black Friday, it just wasn’t the one the team or their passionate fan base was hoping for.
The Eagles were pushed around at Lincoln Financial Field by the Chicago Bears, who outshined Vic Fanigo’s defense, won the physical battle at the line of scrimmage, and ran the football at will in a 24-15 win that wasn’t really that close.
Making matters worse was a charged-up Eagles crowd who let their team hear it from the first quarter on at The Linc.
Boo birds rained down from the stands throughout Philly’s dismal first half, which included just three points and two total first downs. They only got louder in the second half as the Eagles literally fumbled away the game’s most pivotal moment, after the defense forced a turnover that could have flipped the entire momentum.
But after Saquon Barkley, at last, came alive with three consecutive carries for 24 net yards, head coach Nick Sirianni went with the tush-push on third-and-one from the Chicago 12, and Hurts was stripped of the football as he surged forward for the first-down marker.
The Bears then marched 87 yards in 12 plays for a touchdown to up their lead to 17-9 with 12:49 remaining in the fourth quarter, and the Eagles' three-and-out punt that followed made it crystal clear on the Amazon Prime broadcast: The 2024 Super Bowl honeymoon? It’s over.
Eagles fans made their voices heard on Black Friday, and it was not a pretty sight for Nick Sirianni’s team
Eagles fans are a different breed. Were they passionately booing their 8-3, reigning Super Bowl champion football team off the field going into halftime? Of course they were.
It wasn't only constant boo birds, and the faces of exasperated Eagles fans on the broadcast after seemingly every incompletion; the crowd also loudly started a “Fire Kevin!” chant — directed at first-year offensive coordinator and play caller Kevin Patullo.
I’ve never seen a fanbase turn on their Super Bowl champion team faster.
— Marcus Mosher (@Marcus_Mosher) November 28, 2025
It’s all an extremely poor look for Sirianni and his program, as this has been brewing for months. Friday was just the boiling point for a team whose play, despite its strong record, has not come close to matching its talent level, never mind the standard set from last year’s group.
Patullo’s been under fire since September, but Sirianni has hardly acknowledged his play caller — and right-hand man — as part of the problem. The running game, Philly’s bread-and-butter throughout the Sirianni era, has been broken since Day 1 this year, and it’s hard to blame the Eagles fans in attendance for losing their patience on Friday, as the Bears seemed to execute and play the exact style of football they’ve come to expect and love from their own team.
Maybe the worst visual from Week 13 was the body language — starting with Hurts. The Eagles look like a team that’s frustrated and disconnected, and the fans are (and absolutely should be) reacting accordingly.
The Eagles were the team that nobody wanted to see on their schedule at this time last year. They’ve somehow become the team that everybody — including a young Bears team with a first-year head coach — wants to kick while they're down.
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Booing the Super Bowl champions hoarse is certainly unique to Philly, but that doesn’t make the fans wrong. Friday’s awful look on national TV falls squarely on Sirianni and the team, because the product right now is something one should be proud of.