6 takeaways from the Howie Roseman, Nick Sirianni end-of-season press conference

4. Sirianni on replacing Defensive Coordinator Sean Desai with Matt Patricia late in season

“At the time I made that decision, like I’ve told you guys, I made that decision because I thought it was the best decision for the team,” Sirianni said. “Obviously, we all fell short at the end, at those last six weeks of the season. All of us did. I’ll say obviously Matt was in a tough situation trying to – because you can’t completely change the defense, so he was trying to make some things happen with, quite frankly, things that weren’t his defense.

“I know I put Matt in a tough spot, and I know I put Sean in a tough spot, obviously. But at the time that I did that, I did it because I thought it was the best decision for the football team. There’s a lot of decisions I have to make like that, whether I go for it on fourth down in certain situations, what our philosophy is in a four-minute drive at the end of a game, and trust me, every time we do something like that and it doesn’t work, I think to myself, what was the best thing, and I can only come back to that answer to you right now, is that – and forevermore, that at the time when I did it, I did it because I thought it was the best thing for the defense.”

5. Sirianni on quarterback Jalen Hurts returning to MVP-level performance from 2022

“The one thing I do know about Jalen is when people or when there are things of his game that he needs to improve, he goes to work and he does – he busts his (butt) to do that. I think you saw such a – I think there were a lot of questions after that first year about some things about could he be the passer or whatever the questions were, and he came out and put together an MVP-type season the following year, and just the way he threw the ball, the way he delivered the ball, accuracy, all those different things. He just continues to grow.

“I said it last year a bunch. I don’t know if we know what this guy’s ceiling is because he’s going to work and do everything that he needs to do to get better. For 11 weeks this year, he was on top of the MVP talk. You guys asked about that, and then he was on top of the MVP talk of where he was through 11 weeks, and we all had a bad stretch through the last portion of it. In fact, there were games, like even though we were in a bad stretch as a team, I thought Jalen was playing really good football.”

6. Roseman on Nick Sirianni’s performance as the head coach

“I’ve had the…