It’s the Ringling Bros. and Nick Sirianni Circus in Philadelphia — so says Damien Woody.
When rehashing the Eagles’ narrow 20-16 win over the Browns during Monday’s installment of “Get Up,” the ESPN personality chided Philadelphia’s head coach for chirping back at fans Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field.
“That was clown behavior,” Woody began, as covered by Awful Announcing. “You gon’ sit up there and argue with people who spend their hard-earned money to come watch you play? If you don’t put out a good performance, guess what, they have every right to boo you, and you need to take that because that’s part of your job as a head coach.”
As the clock dwindled Sunday and his offense lined up in victory formation, Sirianni turned his attention towards the Birds fans, who had been heckling him from behind the bench.
Sirianni puts his finger to his ear, a la “I can’t hear you,” before yelling in the fans’ direction.
When asked about the exchange, Sirianni replied, “Just excited to get the win.”
Woody, a former NFL guard for the Jets, Patriots and Lions, then turned his attention to Sirianni’s decision to conduct his postgame press conference with his children present.
“For you to sit there, and then have your kids in the postgame, to kind of deflect from reporters trying to come at you, it’s lame, it’s weak, he’s a clown, it just looks ridiculous,” Woody said.
The pressure has been mounting for Sirianni ever since last season’s second-half collapse, when the Eagles dropped six of their final seven games following a 10-1 start, including a wild-card playoff ouster by Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers.
The Eagles, now 3-2, will next visit the rival Giants (2-4), who are coming off a dismal “Sunday Night Football” showing against the Bengals (2-4).
