NFC East

Marcus Hayes: Eagles in panic mode: Matt Patricia fails in debut as DC, Birds lose third straight, more changes coming?

SEATTLE — At some point between their 20-point loss at Dallas last Sunday and the week that ensued, Nick Sirianni, and maybe his bosses, too, lost faith in defensive coordinator Sean Desai. He handed the reins of the defense to Matt Patricia, who’d made his bones running Bill Belichick’s defenses at the end of the Patriots’ dynasty. Don’t be surprised if more big changes happen in the season’s final three weeks. Patricia proved first to be a bad head coach, in Detroit, then a worse offensive coordinator, back in New England, before the Eagles convinced him to join their reconstructed defensive…