Bleeding Green Nation
It’s time for Philadelphia to pay their Super Bowl-winning head coach.
One down, one major one to go.
The Eagles contractually locked in tight end Dallas Goedert for another year this week. He was about to enter a lame duck season, on the final year of a four-year contract that reportedly paid him $14 million per season. ESPN’s Field Yates reported this past Wednesday that his new deal will pay him $10 million this season, with the chance to earn $1 million more if he meets incentives.
That seemed to be the hard part of the Eagles’ offseason, since Goedert had been the subject of trade rumors.
Now comes what should be the easy part: Locking up Super Bowl-winning head coach Nick Sirianni, who this coming 2025 season will be in the final year of his contract.
It seems a foregone conclusion that it will get done.
But when?
What’s the holdup?
According to Front Office Sports, the top 10 highest-paid NFL coaches are:
1) Andy Reid, Kansas City Chiefs: $20 million
2) Sean Payton, Denver Broncos: $18 million
T-3) Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh Steelers: $16 million
T-3) Jim Harbaugh, Los Angeles Chargers: $16 million
5) Sean McVay, Los Angeles Rams: $15 million
6) Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers: $14 million
T-7) Ben Johnson, Chicago Bears: $13 million
T-7) Kevin O’Connell, Minnesota Vikings: $13 million
9) John Harbaugh, Baltimore Ravens: $12 million
10) Liam Cohen, Jacksonville Jaguars: $12 million
The next six are:
T-11) Dan Campbell, Detroit Lions: $11 million
T-11 )Sean McDermott, Buffalo Bills: $11 million
13) Mike Macdonald, Seattle Seahawks: $9 million
14) Dan Quinn, Washington Commanders: $8.5 million
15) DeMeco Ryans, Houston Texans: $8 million
16) Nick Sirianni, Philadelphia Eagles: $7 million
Chicago’s Ben Johnson and Jacksonville’s Liam Cohen have yet to walk a sideline as an NFL head coach and they will both make almost double what Sirianni’s makes.
Numerous current and former NFL coaches have said in the past that Sirianni’s “antics” and “arrogance” have rubbed many the wrong way. What none of them, however, have disputed is that he wins. He may not get merit Reid’s $20 million/per season, but he deserves to get paid in that vicinity.
“Yeah, superb job. I mean, Nick’s going to be our coach and we don’t talk publicly [about contracts], never have,” Eagles owner and CEO Jeffrey Lurie said during the Annual League Meeting back in March. “You guys, I’m sure, will find out soon enough that Nick will be our coach going forward, and he’s done an outstanding job.
“When we were 2-2, we went 16-1 after that, and the one was when Jalen Hurts, we were winning the game, got a concussion. So it’s not easy to go 16-1 in the National Football League, four of which are against playoff teams, one of which was the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl. So, outstanding job.
“Everything that I had hoped for with Nick, he embodies. Whether it’s connection, intelligence in so many ways, from football intelligence,...
