Nick Sirianni emphatically backs OL coach Chris Kuper amid losing streak

Chris Kuper was dealt a tough hand, but this is bad. When the Eagles hired Kuper as their offensive line coach this offseason to replace the legendary Jeff Stoutland, the hope was that the Eagles would be healthy up front and return to dominance. That hasn’t gone to plan. And through eight games, the Eagles’ struggling offensive line is one of the big reasons they are 2-6 and losers of six straight. But head coach Nick Sirianni still believes in Kuper. He gave an impassioned defense of his OL coach on Monday afternoon. “Chris is coaching his [butt] off,” Sirianni said on Monday. “He s fighting his [butt] off, he s coaching his [butt] off on a daily basis. You guys don t get to see that. I get it on a daily basis. “You get to see that for three hours on Sunday, but he s coaching his [butt] off and he s fighting his [butt] off and I know he s giving the players good tools to use fundamentally and helping them be the best players that they possibly can be. But we all have to