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Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni will meet with team owner Jeffrey Lurie on Friday for their customary exit interview at the end of the season, according to multiple reports.

Sirianni led the Eagles to a 10-1 start to the season before losing five of six games to end out the regular.

That late season collapse combined with the blowout 32-9 dismantling the Eagles received at the hands of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Wild Card Round have led to an overflow of questions about Sirianni’s job security.

A report from The Athletic’s Dianna Russini indicated that Sirianni ‘will be expected to have a plan for how he will improve the team,’ and that ‘will include a pitch on potential new coordinators and assistant coaches.’

The report also noted that Sirianni and Eagles general manager Howie Roseman had been reaching out to coaches and coordinators around in order to evaluate potential changes amongst the staff.

 Sirianni was named Eagles head coach in 2021 and was able to quickly right the ship in Philadelphia as he turned the team around from a 4-12 record in 2020 to a 9-8 record and a playoff appearance in his first season.

In their second season under Sirianni the Eagles soared to a 14-3 record and won the NFC title before losing in the Super Bowl.

Lurie has previously shown he is not afraid to make shocking coaching changes after previously firing Sirianni’s predecessor Doug Peterson only a couple of years after winning the Super Bowl.

A peek in the rearview mirror offers a glimpse at Lurie’s mindset on such matters.

He made what he called a ‘tough, but unemotional decision’ to fire Pederson at the end of the 2020 season because he felt the future was brighter with a fresh start. He followed a similar instinct parting with Andy Reid in 2012 while describing the move as ‘extremely difficult’ because of their close personal relationship.

‘My first allegiance is what will be best for the Philadelphia Eagles and our fans for the next three, four, five years,’ Lurie said shortly after firing Pederson. ‘It’s not based on does someone deserve to hold their job or deserve to get fired; that’s a different bar.

‘Very few people probably after success deserve to lose their job. This is much more about the evaluation of whether the Eagles, moving forward, our best option is to have a new coach.’

Eagles players lined up to go to bat for Sirianni on Wednesday.

Defensive tackle Fletcher Cox, who played for Reid and Pederson with the Eagles, passionately endorsed Sirianni in a heated exchange with media gathered around his locker.

Cox, who said he hadn’t decided whether to play another season, didn’t hesitate when asked whether Sirianni should be back in 2024.

‘What is there to talk about? This man is a winner,’ Cox said Wednesday. ‘He’s a winner head coach. Did we have some bumps this year? Yeah. But every team … goes through it.

‘But we don’t look at firing a man who has won 10-plus games two years in a row … (made the playoffs) three years in a row. Have some respect. He’s a good leader for this team, and he does a really good job. Did we come up short? Yeah. Did things happen this year? Yeah.’

The Eagles lost five of their final six regular-season games, tumbling from possible No. 1 seed in the NFC to hitting the road for the postseason as a wild-card.

Sirianni said after the game he wasn’t thinking about his future, and players said Wednesday that job status and returning next season wasn’t discussed in a team meeting before they were dismissed to start the offseason.

‘Think Nick’s a great coach, great head coach,’ center Jason Kelce said. ‘Obviously nobody was good enough this year. I wasn’t, none of the players, none of the coaches were good enough down the stretch. That’s the reality of this business. It’s a collective thing.

‘He does a lot of things structurally and organizationally that I think are really well done. Obviously we’ve got a lot of things to fix to improve the outlook of the offense in general, from my perspective, for next year, but I think very, very highly of Nick Sirianni.’

Kelce, who was drafted during Reid’s tenure and won a Super Bowl under Pederson, said reports of his retirement are premature, and he remains undecided about his NFL future