Eagles' Nick Sirianni Responds to Viral Social Media Video Of Possible Middle Finger to Fans

Whenever something happens in Philadelphia, it typically ends up on social media and goes viral. 

That was the case for Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni when he was walking off the field, as it looked like he might have given fans the middle finger. Sirianni has certainly been caught up in his fair share of drama with the fan base and opposing fan bases, but it never feels like he's stooped to that level. 

Whether that was the case or not isn't really known outside of what Sirianni tells us, but when speaking to reporters and questioned about it on Monday afternoon, he said that he “absolutely” didn't do that. He also added that his guys thrive off the crowd when they cheer for them, and he understands that in Philadelphia, there's always going to be some boos.

"Absolutely not," Sirianni said Monday. "That was a surprise to me [when a media relations staffer informed him of the speculation] but absolutely not."

"We thrive off the crowd when they cheer for us. That's all I'll say," Sirianni said. "We hear them when they boo. We don't necessarily like it. I don't think that's productive for anybody. But when they cheer for us and when we've got them rolling, we love it… "Right now we're going through the self-scout process. Guys are working on studies right now, and we're determined to figure things out and get on the right track, and that's what we're worried about right at this particular time," he said, per ESPN.

Even when the Eagles are the best team in the NFL, fans aren't interested in watching bad football. 

To put things as nicely as possible, this year has been filled with it. I can understand why fans have been booing left and right, and unfortunately for Sirianni, that's not going to change until his team starts to play better football.

At the same time, I think we can all recognize that the Eagles aren't going to be a much better team throughout a lot of the season, especially with some of the decisions it made at the trade deadline.

How he responds to that is ultimately going to be part of how people feel about him, but we all know that others already have their thoughts about Sirianni and whether he's the coach that needs to be leading this team.

This is part of the things that happen when teams start to play badly. Everything becomes bigger than football. Sirianni has to ensure he doesn't let that get to his head and start doing things he shouldn't.

Based on the video, it didn't look like he did anything with intent behind it, but who really knows besides him?