3 head coach candidates after Eagles fire Doug Pederson

Doug Pederson is out in Philadelphia, and now the search begins to find the right guy to lead the Eagles into a new era. 

The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl three years ago, and made two more playoff appearances after that. But a 4-11-1 campaign this year, capped by trying to defend a quarterback change in Week 17 that was not done in the name of winning Pederson is out of a job.

The Eagles announced on Monday that Pederson was being dismissed of his head coach duties with the team.

Philadelphia already faced an offseason full of difficult questions that will shape the franchise’s future, and can now add who the head coach will be to the heap.

Those questions start but don’t end with quarterback Carson Wentz, who just had the worst season of his career. The departure of a lot of assistant coaches since the season ended has also been alarming, even it was simply rooted in contracts expiring.

So with Pederson out of a job, who is the perfect coach to lead the Eagles into the future?

3 candidates to replace Doug Pederson  as Eagles head coach

Bieniemy has interviewed with everyone who has a head coaching opening right now, this side of the Houston Texans anyway. So he has options, it just seems to be a matter of where he lands if he wants to make the jump when the Chiefs season ends.

The Eagles plucked Pederson from the tree of their former head coach Andy Reid when they hired Pederson, which may or may not be a factor in a pursuit of Bieniemy if they get a chance. But Bieniemy seems to be a totally different kind of coach, and even with the talent the Chiefs have offensively he gets credit for the kind of imagination Pederson does not have. Simply getting Jalen Hurts more snaps before he started games seemed to be a teeth-pulling exercise.

It’s not too likely Bieniemy lands in Philadelphia at this point. But if they do fire Pederson, it won’t hurt the Eagles to try to get him in for an interview