Eagles Fans Point Finger at Jonathan Gannon for Missed Opportunity with Vic Fangio

The head coach of the Arizona Cardinals is Jonathan Gannon. vic Fangio is the Dolphins' defensive coordinator.

Last season, Gannon was the defensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles. They think Fangio should have replaced him, and if the Cardinals had handled Gannon's hiring a little differently they wouldn't hesitate to say he would.

Tim McManus and Josh Weinfuss of ESPN put the timeline together in a story.

When Gannon was getting interest from other teams in head-coaching jobs early in the Eagles' playoff run, he said publicly that he planned on being DC for the Eagles.

As detailed earlier, following the Eagles' victory in last year 's NFC Championship Game, for example.

That wasn’t allowed, but Gannon doesn't think anything of it.

In the ESPN report, Gannon is quoted as saying that he wasn't sure if it would be a question of whether I was open to interviewing for the job. If there were still someone who wanted me. He didn't know that it wasn't allowed. Apparently, Ossenfort didn’t either.

Gannon never let on to the Eagles that he got a call so they had no idea whether or not it would be necessary for them to find someone else, and therefore did not speak about this with Fangio. Before the Super Bowl, Fangio was advising the Eagles.

But it was already too late. When the Eagles learned two days before the Super Bowl from your Cardinals that they planned to interview Gannon following, no matter who won this big game.

Already committed to the Dolphins, Fangio was linked with both Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins jobs. The Eagles tried to change his mind, but they couldn’t get him to decommit.

Gannon becomes the scapegoat for many Eagles fans. So now we have two things to blame Gannon's departure and “tampering”

In the estimation of Eagles fans, Gannon didn't do well enough to win because his head wasn't in it--it was on a job with the Cardinals. Now he is why Fangio isn’t their current defensive coordinator.