{"id":418995,"date":"2023-03-01T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T17:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=418995"},"modified":"2023-03-01T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T17:55:57","slug":"eagles-c-j-gardner-johnson-blames-dc-jonathan-gannon-for-super-bowl-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/eagles-c-j-gardner-johnson-blames-dc-jonathan-gannon-for-super-bowl-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles\u2019 C.J. Gardner-Johnson Blames DC Jonathan Gannon For Super Bowl Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The previous defensive coordinator of the Eagles, Jonathan Gannon, and safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson are not friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Gannon, who was appointed head coach of the Cardinals after the Eagles&#8217; Super Bowl loss to the Chiefs, talked to the media on Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. He discussed wasted opportunities in last month&#8217;s humiliating 38-35 loss.<\/p>\n<h2>Eagles\u2019 C.J. Gardner-Johnson Blames DC, Jonathan Gannon, For Super Bowl Loss<\/h2>\n<p>In the upcoming weeks, C.J. Gardner-Johnson will become a free agent, and the safety is still reeling from the Philadelphia Eagles&#8217; Super Bowl LVII defeat. Throughout the course of the game, the Eagles let up 38 points, 24 of which came from a defence that was unable to leave the field on any of its four second-half possessions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gardner-Johnson calling out Jonathan Gannon just like Brian Dawkins did \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eagles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Eagles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8rGjhpJiRv\">pic.twitter.com\/8rGjhpJiRv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Thomas R. Petersen (@thomasrp93) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasrp93\/status\/1630919091446861824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Two days after the defeat, Jonathan Gannon, the Eagles&#8217; defensive coordinator, took the head coaching position with the Arizona Cardinals. Gardner-Johnson was poised to pounce when Gannon answered to a question at the NFL Scouting Combine this week. Gannon was eventually going to be questioned by the Philly media over the Super Bowl defeat.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, the<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliotShorrParks\/status\/1630930128061493248\"> tweet<\/a> was removed.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI obviously could have done a lot better job of coaching a couple of things that I wanted out of the calls so, tough to swallow when you look back at that because it\u2019s such a big stage and we didn\u2019t get it done.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eagles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Eagles<\/a> Safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson is calling out new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cardinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cardinals<\/a> coach Jonathan Gannon, his former Defensive Coordinator. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jTlUZ6ZjEi\">pic.twitter.com\/jTlUZ6ZjEi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL_DovKleiman\/status\/1630917702586957827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gardner-Johnson noticed Gannon\u2019s remarks and didn\u2019t hold back criticism of his former coach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou ain\u2019t put us in position to make plays,\u201d the 25-year-old defender tweeted Wednesday in a message that has since been deleted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After being acquired by the Eagles in a preseason trade from the New Orleans Saints, Gardner-Johnson had a productive season. Despite missing five games due to a lacerated kidney, he tied for the league lead with six interceptions. Despite the fact that Gardner-Johnson gave up four touchdowns, opposing quarterbacks only had a 63.8 rating on him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">C.J. Gardner-Johnson calling out Jonathan Gannon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RN7BB7JwN0\">pic.twitter.com\/RN7BB7JwN0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brenden Deeg (@BrendenDeeg_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrendenDeeg_\/status\/1630917941314109441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Gardner-Johnson only allowed one target in the Super Bowl, resulting in one catch for 11 yards. In the postseason, opposing quarterbacks completed 80% of their throws intended for Gardner-Johnson, resulting in a 79.2 passer rating (Gardner-Johnson didn&#8217;t throw an interception or allow a touchdown).<\/p>\n<p>Would Gardner-old Johnson&#8217;s coach&#8217;s tweet against him harm his prospects of staying with the Eagles in 2023 and beyond?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">C.J. 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Gardner-Johnson are not friendly. Gannon, who was appointed head coach of the Cardinals after the Eagles&#8217; Super Bowl loss to the Chiefs, talked to the media on Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. He discussed wasted opportunities in last month&#8217;s humiliating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":416644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[5507,5508,4986,2211],"class_list":["post-418995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-c-j-gardner-johnson","tag-c-j-gardner-johnson-jonathan-gannon","tag-eagles-vs-chiefs","tag-nfl-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}