Nick Sirianni not a finalist for NFL coach of the year
The finalists are the Giants’ Brian Daboll, the 49ers’ Kyle Shanahan, and the Jaguars’ Doug Pederson, the former Eagles coach.
The Associated Press announced its finalists for NFL coach of the year and Nick Sirianni wasn’t among the three coaches with the most votes, despite the Eagles having the league’s best record at 14-3.
The Giants’ Brian Daboll, the 49ers’ Kyle Shanahan, and the Jaguars’ coach Doug Pederson, a former Eagles coach, were the finalists. The winner will be announced on Feb. 9 at the NFL awards show in Arizona.
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NFL writers vote for the award and voting was based on the regular season. The Eagles haven’t had a winner of the award since Andy Reid in 2002. Ray Rhodes (1995) and Buck Shaw (1960) were the franchise’s only other winners.
Sirianni has the Eagles in Sunday’s NFC championship game with the 49ers in only his second season. The Eagles went 9-8 and reached the playoffs as a wild card in his first season.
While Sirianni wasn’t honored, a few Eagles were named finalists for various awards. Jalen Hurts is in the running for MVP and offensive player of the year, while Eagles offensive coordinator Shane Steichen was named one of the finalists for the Associated Press assistant coach of the year.
During his Wednesday news conference, Sirianni feigned disappointment before addressing his exclusion.
“That’s something I can’t control,” Sirianni said. “Those awards are nice and everything like that — I’m really happy for Jalen and Shane that they’re on that — but we obviously have much bigger things ahead and in our sights than individual awards.”
Sirianni was named the winner of Maxwell Football Club’s Greasy Neale Professional Coach of the Year Award while Hurts won the Bert Bell Professional Player of the Year Award.