Would you rather have Bill Belichick or Nick Sirianni and Howie Roseman?
The New England Patriots will host the Philadelphia Eagles to open their 2023 season on Sunday. The Eagles are coming off a trip to the Super Bowl and look poised to make a deep run again. On Wednesday’s Felger and Mazz, the guys discussed the how the Eagles have been built and ponder whether they’d currently prefer to have Bill Belichick or Nick Sirianni as the head coach of their football team.
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Belichick or Sirianni and Roseman?
Felger: Would you rather have Nick Sirianni and Howie Roseman, which is again, the Eagles GM and their coach. Would you rather have the Eagles duo of Howie Roseman and Nick Sirianni or Bill Belichick?
Mazz: Philly.
Jim Murray: Philly’s duo. They’re more in tune to how the NFL is run now. You have an offensive minded coach and a GM that I think has done a pretty damn good job and has been aggressive. He goes and gets A.J. Brown like I want that.
Mazz: Philly and Roseman is a key part of it. I mean the way they built that team down there, how do you not like that? So that’s a key part of it. In fact, it was funny because when we were discussing stuff before the show and I saw in the email which one would you rather have as coach? I thought, do I get Roseman?
Felger: Yeah. So you do. You do. Because we got to make it apples to apples.
Mazz: I mean, I’m a talent guy. I believe in the talent first. And so at the end of the day, I’m going to lean towards that. And I think Sirianni is a pretty good coach and I don’t think Bill is better than pretty good anymore.
GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN – AUGUST 19: Head coach Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots looks on before a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on August 19, 2023 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
Felger: So this is why I sort of parse words like Bill Belichick’s a better coach than Nick Sirianni on every day of the week his whole life. I’d rather have Nick Sirianni for my team. He’s one of these young offensive guys. It’s the trend line of the league. And he’s not even one of these McVay guys. He’s come from Doug Pederson and Frank Reich and that thing. So he’s really more of a continuation of that. That was sort of interesting that they they blew out Pederson and brought back Sirianni, who was with Frank Reich in Indianapolis. He’s part of that group. So it’s not the it’s not the McVay offense purely, but he’s 41 years old. He’s one of the youngest coaches in the league. He’s offensive minded. The whole franchise says you know what we’re going to go with Jalen Hurts. We’re going to build around him, want to make sure that we surround him. He’s up for contract, we’re going to pay him. And they draft well, they pay well.
