Nick Sirianni explains why he went for 2 late in win over Commanders

Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn was not happy with the Philadelphia Eagles and their head coach, Nick Sirianni, after Saturday's 29-18 loss. When the Eagles scored a touchdown with 4:26 remaining, Sirianni chose to go for the two-point conversion, which was successful, making it 29-10.

At some point after the two-point play, tensions erupted, and the two teams got into a fight. The fight led to Eagles guard Tyler Steen, Commanders defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw, and safety Quan Martin being ejected.

"I can only answer from my side and what I would do," Quinn said after the game. "But, hey man, like that's how they want to get down then. Like all good. We play them again in two weeks."

"If that's how they want to get down, all good. We'll play them again in 2 weeks”

-Dan Quinn If Commanders Felt Disrespected by Eagles leading to Fight after the 2 point try in the 4th pic.twitter.com/rizBKM0KPt— Jeff Skversky (@JeffSkversky) December 21, 2025

Quinn can be upset, so can the Commanders' players, but isn't it their job to stop Philly from scoring?

For his part, Sirianni explained why he chose to go for two.

"Yeah, we talked about it," he said. "We didn't want to go up 17, obviously, or we were up 17, to go up 18. We did the math and said, ‘Hey, we wanted to be able to make sure we were up 19.'  It was a little bit better that way. They could only tie you with a field goal and two touchdowns with a two-point conversion, so we were already up three scores. We wanted to make sure we went up that way, just in case and that was what our math told us in that particular case, and that's what we did. We went and executed."

Mathematically, that makes perfect sense. But come on. Everyone in the stadium and everybody watching that game at home knew it was over before Tank Bigsby scored.

Still, it's Washington's job to stop Philadelphia.

Sirianni and Quinn shook hands after the game, but it was brief. So, no words were exchanged between the coaches.

"I didn't," Sirianni said. "Again, we did that in the best, what we thought was the best interest, to get up one more point. In my mind, it's not that we're running up the score; we're doing that because they went right down and scored, so we're doing that to give ourselves the best chance to win."

The Eagles and Commanders do meet again in two weeks, but there's a good chance that Philadelphia plays none of its starters.

This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: Washington Commanders: Nick Sirianni on controversial 2-point try