Sources: Eagles hire ex-Colts OC as consultant

PHILADELPHIA -- The Eagles person hired erstwhile Colts violative coordinator Marcus Brady arsenic a consultant, according to league sources.

Brady, 43, is moving chiefly with antiaircraft coordinator Jonathan Gannon and his staff, offering position arsenic an violative manager connected however helium would onslaught the Eagles' defense, a root said.

Having coached successful Indianapolis alongside manager Nick Sirianni for 3 seasons, Brady would person intimate cognition of immoderate of the violative principles the Eagles employ, seeing however Sirianni's clip successful Indianapolis played a large relation successful shaping the Eagles' coach.

The Eagles and Colts played past week, with Philadelphia edging Indianapolis 17-16. Brady came to Philadelphia past week to sermon a imaginable relation with the team, according to a league source. They waited until aboriginal this week to prosecute him fixed the sensitivity astir the game, the root added.

Brady coached the quarterbacks erstwhile Sirianni was the Colts' violative coordinator from 2018-20. He replaced Sirianni arsenic violative coordinator erstwhile Sirianni was hired to beryllium caput manager of the Eagles successful 2021.

Brady was fired by the Colts aft the team's 2nd consecutive nonaccomplishment successful which its discourtesy scored conscionable a azygous touchdown. At the time, manager Frank Reich -- who was fired 2 weeks aboriginal -- described the determination arsenic "an incredibly hard decision, but 1 I felt needed to beryllium made successful the champion involvement of the team."

It was an affectional instrumentality to Indianapolis past week for Sirianni, who counts Reich among his superior mentors. Late successful the game, with the triumph cemented, Sirianni approached the stands adjacent the visitors' sideline and screamed into the crowd: "That s--- was for Frank Reich."

He worked to cod himself arsenic helium walked done the tunnel, but erstwhile helium hugged Eagles wide manager Howie Roseman astatine the locker country entrance, helium welled up, wiping tears from his eyes arsenic helium went to code the team.

"I'm affectional due to the fact that I emotion Frank Reich. I truly do," said Sirianni, who served arsenic Reich's violative coordinator successful Indianapolis from 2018 to 2020. "He's 1 of the champion damn shot coaches I've ever been around. I was hoping that helium and I would beryllium capable to manager against each different this game. He is 1 of my biggest mentors.