Report: Big Dom had to separate Nick Sirianni, Zach Ertz in postgame altercation

Commanders tight end Zach Ertz and Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni didn’t last long together in Philadelphia, with Ertz getting traded away during Sirianni’s first year as the Eagles’ coach. Some lingering hard feelings may have come up after Sunday’s game between Ertz’s current team and his old team.

Sirianni and Ertz got into an altercation during postgame handshakes and had to be separated by Eagles chief security officer Dom DiSandro, according to Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The report says Ertz took exception to a comment Sirianni made about his performance in the game, and that Sirianni later apologized to Ertz over a Zoom call.

Ertz played for the Eagles from 2013 to 2021. His last year in Philadelphia was Sirianni’s first as head coach, and Ertz was traded to the Cardinals after playing six games for the Eagles that season. Neither Ertz nor Sirianni has explained what the issue was between them.

DiSandro, known as Big Dom, was ordered off the sideline last season after he got into a scuffle with 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw. This time it appears that DiSandro was a peacekeeper, not an instigator.