The Philadelphia Eagles ultimately decided to stick with Nick Sirianni as the team’s head coach, but it sounds like they very much considered replacing him with six-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick.
During a recent appearance on 98.5 The Sports Hub, Greg Bedard of the Boston Sports Journal said that the Philadelphia Eagles “were very interested” in hiring Bill Belichick if things did not work out with Sirianni.
“Probably the most interesting thing that I’ve heard, and again this is just Senior Bowl rumor mill, is that the Eagles were very interested in Belichick if things didn’t work out with Nick Sirianni and they could be at the front of the line if things again go poorly for him next year,” Bedard said on the show, according to Erin Walsh of Bleacher Report.
In fact, Bedard seems to think that the Eagles began reaching out to Belichick before the season was even over as things started to go downhill for Sirianni at the end of the season.
“I told you guys that before the end of the season that teams had already reached out to Bill, backchanneled on Bill, I thought the Falcons were definitely one of them,” Bedard said. “I’m now pretty convinced that the Eagles were the other one. When things were going south, they thought this might end poorly with Sirianni and I wouldn’t be surprised given the relationship that [G.M.] Howie [Roseman] and Bill have that the Eagles were one of those teams to backchannel through Bill.”
Obviously, the Eagles stuck with Sirianni, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t hire Belichick in the future.
