Eagles’ Gardner-Johnson Blasts Former DC Jonathan Gannon in Tweet
The Super Bowl loss still looms in the City of Brotherly Love.
The Eagles’ loss to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl is not even a month old, but it appears that not everyone involved on the Philadelphia side has moved on.
Safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson posted—and later deleted—a tweet on Wednesday throwing some criticism toward former Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon. Gardner-Johnson shared a tweet in which Gannon offered his view on what went wrong in the Super Bowl defeat, before saying that Gannon failed to “put us in a position to make plays.”
Gannon was hired as the head coach of the Cardinals two days after the Super Bowl defeat. He spent two seasons as Philadelphia’s defensive coordinator, helping guide the team to a dominant performance in 2022 in which the Eagles led the league in sacks (70) and ranked second in total yards allowed per game (301.5).
But the Eagles didn’t generate a single sack against the Chiefs, and allowed Kansas City to score on each of its second-half possessions. Philadelphia hired Sean Desai, who was the defensive coordinator for the Bears in 2021 and an associate head coach with Seattle last year, as Gannon’s replacement.
Gardner-Johnson joined the Eagles shortly before the start of last season following a trade with the Saints. He tied for the league lead with six interceptions in 12 games.