Eagles rent ex-Colts OC Marcus Brady as guide

PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles have employed former Colts offensive coordinator Marcus Brady as a guide, in response to league sources.

Brady, 43, is working primarily with defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon and his employees, providing perspective as an offensive coach on how he would assault the Eagles’ protection, a supply stated.

Having coached in Indianapolis alongside coach Nick Sirianni for 3 seasons, Brady would have intimate information of a number of the offensive ideas the Eagles make use of, seeing how Sirianni’s time in Indianapolis performed an enormous function in shaping the Eagles’ coach.

The Eagles and Colts performed final week, with Philadelphia edging Indianapolis 17-16. Brady got here to Philadelphia final week to debate a possible function with the staff, in response to a league supply. They waited till early this week to rent him given the sensitivity across the recreation, the supply added.

Brady coached the quarterbacks when Sirianni was the Colts’ offensive coordinator from 2018-20. He changed Sirianni as offensive coordinator when Sirianni was employed to be head coach of the Eagles in 2021.

Brady was fired by the Colts after the staff’s second straight loss during which its offense scored only a single landing. On the time, coach Frank Reich — who was fired two weeks later — described the transfer as “an extremely exhausting determination, however one I felt wanted to be made in the most effective curiosity of the staff.”

It was an emotional return to Indianapolis final week for Sirianni, who counts Reich amongst his major mentors. Late within the recreation, with the win cemented, Sirianni approached the stands close to the guests’ sideline and screamed into the group: “That s— was for Frank Reich.”

He labored to gather himself as he walked by the tunnel, however when he hugged Eagles normal supervisor Howie Roseman on the locker room entrance, he welled up, wiping tears from his eyes as he went to deal with the staff.

“I am emotional as a result of I really like Frank Reich. I actually do,” stated Sirianni, who served as Reich’s offensive coordinator in Indianapolis from 2018 to 2020. “He is among the best rattling soccer coaches I’ve ever been round. I hoped that he and I might have the ability to coach towards one another this recreation. He’s one in every of my greatest mentors.