Nick Sirianni is the kind of coach that would make a pretty good Eagles fan.
He talked smack to Colts fans after a road win last season in Indianapolis. He taunted Chiefs fans - "See ya! - after the Eagles beat the Super Bowl champs this season. And don't forget the time the cocky coach stared into a TV camera and bobbed his head after a touchdown in a playoff game.
Kind of funny when the Eagles are winning.
When they're not?
Well, it's makes it easy for Eagles fans to turn on Sirianni for acting the fool. It makes it easy for the rest of the NFL fan base to troll him on social media, too.
See ya! And don't let the door hit ya on the way out.
Sirianni took the brunt of a popcorn shower after a disgruntled Eagles fan dumped his bucket on the field toward the third-year coach after perhaps the worst postseason loss in perhaps the worst final six weeks in franchise history.
Sirianni got off easy Monday night.
His luck may not extend to his employment. Sirianni is on the hot seat and there's little indication - aside from glum looks in his suite and no-comments to the media - which way owner Jeffrey Lurie will go. Take a look at the full picture and it almost seems silly to consider a change: Sirianni has three playoff trips in three seasons, a Super Bowl appearance and wins in 67% of his regular-season games.
But Lurie's call isn't all about three years. It's about everything that has happened since Nov. 26, when the Eagles were 10-1 and at the top of the NFL. It was three straight losses and five of six overall to close the regular season. It was a 32-9 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an NFC wild-card game on Monday night that assured changes - big ones - loom for the Eagles.
Sirianni may get a reprieve. His staff is sure to undergo a makeover.
Defensive coordinator Sean Desai already took the fall for the defense and his responsibilities were stripped down the stretch. Matt Patricia only made the defense worse. Offensive coordinator Brian Johnson couldn't do much right other than call for the "tush push" on fourth-and-1.
Jalen Hurts regressed. Wide receiver A.J. Brown sulked because of misuse, then missed a playoff game with an injury (Sirianni played his starters in a meaningless season finale). Haason Reddick went from feared rusher with 16 sacks last season to 11 through 13 games this season to none over the final five games after Patricia dropped him into coverage.
The Eagles lost to backup QBs. They lost to bad teams.
The biggest loss just may have been the Eagles' faith in Sirianni.
When Hurts was asked if he wanted Sirianni back, the QB simply said, "I didn't know he was going anywhere."
Pressed repeatedly on Sirianni, Hurts sounded more like an artificial intelligence version of what a QB would say after a preseason game.
"I have a ton of confidence in everyone in this building. Just a matter of us going out there and playing clean football, and that's been something we have not done," he said.
What a ringing endorsement.
Sirianni, for his part, said he was only "thinking about the guys" and not his job status.
It doesn't help that should Lurie fire Sirianni, the pool of candidates is particularly deep this offseason. Bill Belichick is on the market. Mike Vrabel is free. Even Jim Harbaugh might have an itch to return to the NFL.
Lurie, though, has hired only rookie NFL coaches in his tenure: Andy Reid, Chip Kelly, Doug Pederson and Sirianni. Based on past history, Lurie and general manager Howie Roseman are surely gathering names of unknown or perhaps unwanted assistants.
Maybe one of those potential candidates - or a hot new surprise - has a better handle on why the Eagles collapsed. Sirianni still isn't sure.
"Throughout the body of work of the season it was good, but it wasn't as good in the last couple weeks," he said. "I think you can look at everything, if you look at the body of work in a lot of different things this season, the numbers may say one thing but it wasn't good enough in the past month of the season, right?"
Right.