Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni says he does not have any regrets about the team's pass-heavy approach in Sunday's loss to the New York Jets.
"There's some runs that are called that could get tossed out to the perimeter based off of the box count," Sirianni told Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie on Tuesday's 94WIP Morning Show. "That happened three or four times. Some things we consider runs, but they're forward passes.
"Some things get skewed too when the turnovers are the big issue obviously. It's hard to turn the ball over four times and win the game. But when a drive stalls out or stops because of a turnover, it's tough to get those run numbers up as well. I wouldn't say we had any regrets on how it played out. I thought we did a nice job moving the football and credit to the Jets, they created some turnovers and we contributed to those as well, obviously. I'm thinking more of the issues are the turnovers, that stops drives and your run numbers go down."
Eagles QB Jalen Hurts dropped back to pass 55 times in Sunday's loss, while he handed the ball to one of his running backs just 14 times.
While the Jets were without their top two starting cornerbacks in Sunday's game, they are among the NFL's worst rushing defenses allowing 135.2 yards per game on the ground—and that mark includes their strong 80 rushing yards allowed game to the Eagles on Sunday.
Former Eagle and current analyst Seth Joyner went off on the pass-heavy approach during Monday's 94WIP Morning Show.
"50 times? I mean you're asking for trouble," Joyner continued, referencing the amount of times Hurts was asked to drop back. "And I'm sick and damn tired of this mentality, 'Oh, you throw the ball early, then you get a lead.' The hell with that. You're a top two running football team in the National Football League. You ran the ball 48 and 40 times in Weeks 2 and 3...for over 200 yards. How in the hell do you go through a whole half of football and your running backs only touch the ball for a combined total of two to four times? That makes no sense!"
