“There’s No Recency Bias”: Owner Jeffrey Lurie on Why Eagles Retained HC Nick Sirianni

The Eagles started their 2023 journey headstrong but as the season went on, the Birds failed to keep up the altitude. Through observation, a plethora of reasons such as the inability to score from the red zone, overuse of the tush-push play, and shabby coaching became the boon of the team. Nick Sirianni might have been a catalyst in some of those problems, as deduced by the NFL analysts.

Sirianni switched Sean Desai and Matt Patricia around in hopes of getting a better output from their defense, but the move turned out to be unfruitful. Later he had a meeting with Jeffery Lurie, where he justified his actions and explained his future to the owner of the team. That worked in his favor, as Lurie recently elaborated how he thinks that he made the right choice to keep Sirianni as the head of the management.

Jeffrey Lurie banks on Nick Sirianni!

The Eagles owner acknowledged that the team failed to live up to everyone’s expectations. He mentioned how the last handful of games had been nothing but disappointing. But the Philly team is taking a hard look at the past, present, and future to rectify their mistakes, per the owner. In Lurie’s words, there isn’t any “recency bias,” emphasizing how it is the efforts and qualities of the members including Sirianni that have been acknowledged.

“We go through a very very intensive process after every single season. This season was no different. Extremely disappointing ending to the season, the last five six games, extremely disappointing to me, very frustrating,” said the owner. He added, “For all of us. But what we do is, and I insist on this is, there’s no recency bias, there’s no latency bias. There’s no bias.”

His decision to keep Sirianni stems from a sort of SWOT analysis that Lurie did. Players, personnel, culture, and anything that needs improvement, the Eagles owner is willing to fix it. But it’s not just Lurie making calculations on his own, it’s a joint effort from the GM to the Head Coach.

Maintaining the Eagles is a joint effort, per the owner

Nick Sirianni, in view of the NFL world, had been on the verge of being removed as the HC of the Eagles. But it was his clear communication to the owner and elaborating his plans for the upcoming season that made matters turn in his favor. Jeffrey Lurie was quick to acknowledge the same, mentioning how hearing out things from his team allowed him to sort out various decisions for the side along with planning things at an earlier stage.

“I do a lot of listening, I listen to uh, players, I listen to coaches, I listen to our personnel people. And once you know one can assess and meet with Howie, with Nick, go through a lot of details, and a lot of plans and a lot of philosophies, it was very easy to be very very encouraged of where we’re at,” revealed Lurie.

“It was extremely impressive meeting with Nick and with Howie on our plans for both roster development and player development, execution, every aspect of coaching, so, you know it was a very straightforward decision based on a very straightforward process,” reflected Jeffrey about their discussions and under-focus meet.

Lurie maintained his position that these were his efforts to maintain a championship-winning team, and addressed the aim to do well the next season.

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