The Philadelphia Eagles marched into Dallas on Monday, only to get sent back home after a brutal beatdown.
Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott picked apart the Eagles defense and the Cowboys cruised to a 41-21 victory.
Such a big loss had Eagles fans going after everyone on social media following the game.
One person who was trending for some time was head coach Nick Sirianni.
He was talking a big game all week with a shirt one would expect to see on a high school coach.
Nick Sirianni with the “Beat Dallas” shirt: pic.twitter.com/yduyJMDrnJ
— Jimmy Kempski (@JimmyKempski) September 23, 2021
The passion is great, but he opened himself up for the meme treatment right away.
But the shirt was not his biggest problem.
No, instead it was the fact he made Jalen Hurts the entire offense in the loss to Dallas.
No Creativity On Offense
Hurts threw the ball 39 times and ran it another nine times.
The problem is the fact Eagles running backs combined for a total of three carries.
I can’t believe the stubbornness to not run the ball with Miles Sanders and help the struggling QB.
— Kevin Negandhi (@KevinNegandhi) September 28, 2021
That is simply unheard of and fans are left wondering why Miles Sanders only got two carries in such a big game.
And it is not like the Eagles were down big early.
They entered halftime trailing 20-7 and a Hurts pick-six to open the second half basically ended the game.
The next drive only drove home that point as it saw a Hurts incompletion, followed by two short scrambles and a punt.
Even just a draw to the running back would have fooled the Dallas defense at that point.
There is a difference between trying to let a quarterback work through struggles and just putting him in a bad spot.
Hurts was done no favors and even just a few more run plays would have shifted the defense’s sole attention off of him.
Still Learning The Game
Hurts may be a second-year player, but Monday was only his seventh career NFL start.
Anyone declaring he cannot be the team’s franchise guy has to remember just how inexperienced he is and the fact his rookie year came during the COVID-impacted season where there wasn’t a normal preseason.
Not to mention all the dysfunction already within that organization in 2020.
Hurts is young and his coaches should focus on having more balance on offense to make things easier for the signal-caller.
They cannot treat him like Lamar Jackson so young in his career and he is not that type of player anyway.
Hurts was, in fact, bad Monday night.
That can be true while also acknowledging the fact the Eagles coaching staff must make sure never to have a game plan like this ever again.
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