Eagles fire coach Pederson after five years

The Eagles have confirmed the firing of the only coach in franchise history to win a Super Bowl championship.

A thousand and 72 days after Jeffrey Lurie and Doug Pederson embraced under a blizzard of green, silver and white confetti at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Lurie met with Pederson in Florida on Monday, their second meeting since the conclusion of a dreadful 4-11-1 2020 season. Eagles owner Lurie set up the session after a previous meeting, last week in Philadelphia, left him uneasy about the coach’s plan for getting the team back on track.

The decision to have a second meeting seemed ominous, and sure enough, it was.

“I guess the meeting didn’t go well,” defensive end Brandon Graham said after the news broke. “I am surprised. He gave me my first championship; he’s always going to be remembered here, for winning that Super Bowl.”

Graham said players would remember Pederson for “his humility, and for every day being the person he is.”

Sources told The Inquirer that last week Pederson proposed promoting quarterbacks coach/passing game coordinator Press Taylor to offensive coordinator, making passing game coordinator Andrew Breiner the quarterbacks coach, replacing retired defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz with either defensive line coach Matt Burke or former secondary coach Cory Undlin, and retaining special teams coordinator Dave Fipp, whose units endured their worst season since Fipp’s 2013 arrival.