Midway through the season, the Philadelphia Eagles made a change at defensive coordinator as head coach Nick Sirianni demoted Sean Desai and handed coordinator duties over to Matt Patricia. And it doesn’t sound like that went over well with Eagles cornerback Darius Slay.
During an interview this week, Darius Slay – who was one of the captains of the defense this season – compared the situation with the two coordinators to a marriage to two women at the same time.
“I’ve never been part of that, a whole new coordinator coming in,” Slay said this week according to Pro Football Talk. “That’s tough, but I don’t control that kind of stuff. I just try to do my job the best I can. Trying to find two identities. It’s tough. It’s like having two marriages. You know how hard two marriages would probably be in a household? Two personalities of two women? That’s tough. No offense to the women. That’s crazy talk. One might want her feet rubbed, one might want her shoulder rubbed. That’s crazy.”
Obviously, it did not work well at all as the team went 1-4 after the coordinator switch and lost in a blowout to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Wild Card round of the playoffs.
We’ll have to see what sort of changes the team makes this offseason to address the shortcomings this fall.
