Jay Glazer and Rap Sheet with Sunday afternoon bombshells:
A little @Eagles scoopage today: Philly very quietly made a change at defensive coordinator this week moving out Sean Desai to another position and replacing him with Matt Patricia. Desai remains with the team in different capacity but Patricia now runs and calls the defense…
— Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) December 17, 2023
Sources: The #Eagles have made a change to their defensive process. DC Sean Desai is in the coaching box… and Matt Patricia will call in plays to the green dot.
Story: https://t.co/OeXJWOgro5
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) December 17, 2023
Crazy, right?
We had a tipster send an email Saturday about this, and they explained the situation this way:
“Apparently the Eagles are trying to force (Desai’s) resignation and are having Matt Patricia call the defense. Eagles don’t want to fire him so they can save face/not have to pay the rest of his four year deal and he is obviously not doing that.
He is not even sitting in on team meetings this week and will be “coaching” from the booth on Monday night.”
Now, Glazer’s tweet says “Desai remains with the team in different capacity but Patricia now runs and calls the defense.” Nothing mentioned specifically about team meetings or asking for a resignation. Tipster makes it sound like they’re just sticking Desai upstairs for the time being, but we’ll probably get further elaboration from the national insiders. Tipster mentions Desai’s contract-length, so I’ll go back through old stories and try to corroborate.
For what it’s worth, Kevin Byard did downplay the story about the secondary handling this week’s scouting report:
This article is being taken out of context. It was a cool change up for each individual to present what they’ve watched on film before our first meeting of the week with our DB coaches. Nothing more nothing less. Please stop reaching for narrative that’s not there! https://t.co/fKvQLUXhyQ
— Kevin Byard (@KevinByard) December 17, 2023
Still, this is incredible. Demoting a defensive coordinator in the middle of a 10-3 season? That is unheard of in the NFL, or any sport really. Things must have been REALLY bad behind the scenes for this to happen. And I see people doing the conspiracy theories about Darius Slay being out the same week Matt Patricia takes over the defense. I see you.
EDIT –
Jeff McLane on the topic:
Sean Desai is no longer the #Eagles DC and has been replaced by Matt Patricia, an #Eagles source confirms @JayGlazer report.
Desai will remain on staff in another role.
Nick Sirianni shakes up his staff after two poor defensive performances.
— Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) December 17, 2023
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