The Eagles coach has had so much success, it just makes you wonder.
Nick Sirianni is leading the Philadelphia Eagles to their second Super Bowl appearance in just three years. That type of success is extremely hard to find unless you are a fan of the opposing team in the Kansas City Chiefs. While Andy Reid may be the new “Bill Belichick”, there can only be one “number one”. If you can’t have Reid, Sirianni is a great second option. Sirianni called West 56th Street home from 2018-2020 as the offensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts. The type of success he is experiencing now, has to make fans wonder just a little bit about what might have been.
Sirianni was really good during his tenure with the Colts. He had a different quarterback each year and managed to make it work, helping the Colts make the playoffs two of those season. Even though he had three very different quarterbacks in Luck, Brissett, and Rivers, he managed to get the Colts into the top ten in points and yards twice. That is extremely impressive when every year you have to tailor your offense to match the strengths of a completely different type of passer.
There was no denying Sirianni’s abilities, and that is exactly why the Eagles hired him to be their coach in 2021. The Colts still employed Frank Reich at the time who would remain with the team until November of 2022. In that regard, the stars simply didn’t align. What if they had, though? Where would this team be? Maybe the Colts would be absolutely no where, and Sirianni would have already been let go. Maybe, just maybe, however, the Colts could be experiencing some of the same success the Eagles are. Making the Super Bowl twice in three years may not be the vision because a lot has to go right to achieve that, but being in the mix is certainly a possibility. Seeing a future, and fighting for a championship could have been a reality for the Colts with Sirianni at the helm.
We will never know what might have been if Nick Sirianni had stuck around another season plus and taken over as the interim coach instead of Jeff Saturday. All we know is he has found plenty of success in Philadelphia with a mobile quarterback and maneuvered them to two Super Bowls. That much is clear. The rest is just a daydream, over the course of a long offseason, of what could have been.
