Nick Sirianni Reviews How He Thought Joe Milton Looked in Eagles Debut

Throughout some of this season, the Philadelphia Eagles have attempted to get creative on both sides of the football, specifically offensively. That's part of the reason why we saw Joe Milton start for the Eagles on Sunday in Week 9 against the New York Giants, a decision that shouldn't have come as much of a surprise. 

The unfortunate reality for the Eagles right now is that they need a lot of help on both sides of the football, but offensively speaking, it's not going to change much until they get Jalen Hurts back, with the hope that he's going to return next year, as he currently deals with blood clots.

The Eagles will certainly hope that Hurts gets fully healthy, but there's much more to his situation than playing football. All anybody can do right now is offer their thoughts to the young man as he looks to get healthy and worries about real-life stuff that is far more important than football.

But as for the Eagles and what they need to do on the offensive side of things, it remains uncertain now if Milton is going to continue to play. Nick Sirianni clearly doesn't want to show his hand yet, especially with a young quarterback who doesn't have much time in this league.

When speaking to reporters about how he thought he played, Sirianni said that he was impressed with some of his work. He thought that there were a couple of things he needed to improve on, but mostly, a lot of that was because of the team itself needing to play better, not just Milton.

“I think just like everybody, he had some really good plays and then he's going to have plays that he's going to want back, naturally,” Sirianni said of Milton, per NBCS Philly. “But I thought he did a lot of good things, a lot of solid things, made some plays with his feet, gave our guys a couple chances downfield. Thought he was good in the play-action world. I thought he did some really nice things.

“Obviously, we have to play better complimentary football to be able to have the run game coincide with the play actions that we were running, but there were some good things that he had. But like I said, there's always going to be plays back throughout a game that you're going to want back, and Joe's no different than anybody else.”

Milton has been a very tough player to evaluate throughout a lot of his career. He appeared in four games last year for the Cowboys, but only attempted 24 passes. 

In the prior season with the New England Patriots, he played the final game of the year and looked great, completing 22 of 29 passes for a touchdown.

On Sunday, he wasn't terrible, especially with how bad the offensive line was, getting sacked seven times, but that was also partly his fault.

Simply put, he didn't answer many of the Eagles' quarterback questions, and I don't think anybody is going to until Hurts returns.