Eagles Finding Scapegoats

That may be a cynical title for this post, but it may also be accurate. The Eagles have fired two coaches in the last two days, and neither of them are named Andy Reid. Today it was defensive line coach Rory Segrest. Segrest was in that job for the last two years. Before that he was special teams coordinator, and we know how horrendous special teams were during that time (although they're not exactly stellar right now), so the fact that their D-line has been similarly subpar can't be much of a shock.

Yesterday it was defensive coordinator Sean McDermott. Reid said on Monday at his final post-game press conference that McDermott would be back. Why say that, only to dump him five days later? Some of the media pundits thought that if anyone should take the fall it was Segrest, so it's interesting that he actually lasted one more day than McDermott. (Is it that hard to fire more than one person at a time? Other teams do it.)

I was interested to hear today, on WIP, that former Eagle Jeremiah Trotter mentioned speaking to a current player who said that McDermott was the worst defensive coordinator he'd ever had. Perhaps that sentiment was shared by many players and they made their feelings known to Andy Reid.

This is fine, but barring something shocking, it's going to continue to be the same story with the Eagles. For all his success, Reid has enough flaws that it's hard to imagine him winning a Super Bowl here after all this time. The formula just doesn't work any more.