Last winter, after the Eagles went to the Super Bowl, Darius Slay campaigned for defensive backs coach Dennard Wilson to replace Jonathan Gannon as the team’s defensive coordinator. Wilson didn’t get the job, and head coach Nick Sirianni fired him. Wednesday, after the Eagles spent two months mired in a historic collapse authored mainly by its aimless, disorganized defense, I asked Slay if Wilson, now the DB coach for the Ravens’ elite defense, would have made a difference in Philadelphia. “I think he would have made a lot of difference,” Slay replied. “He was loved by us. I thought, for sure,…
