Eagles coach Nick Sirianni knows all about what it takes to be mentally tough. And now his players do, too, after their NFC championship win, writes AlbertBreer
Nick Sirianni leaned against a wall in a Lincoln Financial Field hallway, and as the Eagles coach recounted his speech from the night before to his team, he’d jogged his memory to pull a full prognosis on a horrific leg injury he suffered as a Mount Union sophomore 20 years ago.
And that’s part of why this has all worked the last 24 months, even if few thought it would when Sirianni was hired in January 2021. He was a coach who had never even interviewed for another head coaching job, and one called to Palm Beach to meet with owner Jeffrey Lurie as he was wrapping up some family time on the other side of the state .afraid to open himself up, and the players saw it almost immediately after he had his infamous first press conference with the Philadelphia media.
The team leaned in to all of that through Jalen Hurts’s two-week absence down the stretch, rebounded in Week 18 to sew up the No. 1 seed and home field advantage through the NFC playoffs, and was ready to hit the gas in the playoffs—and has accelerated to wins by an aggregate score of 69–14 the past two weeks.There are plenty of football reasons the Eagles are here, too.
The approach, beyond just hiring a coach and GM, has led to pulling every lever in player procurement. They traded for disgruntled veterans and guys in contract disputes . They signed big-ticket free agents and older street free agents . They drafted and developed their own , and made up for their draft misses . They have an Aussie left tackle .
“There’s a recipe in football,” Johnson says. “A lot of times, even in college, you see what Alabama’s been doing—throw the football, but really pound it when they need to.” So as the offense grinded out drives of double-digit plays and over 65 yards for three of its four touchdowns , the defense took advantage of the 49ers’ struggles at quarterback, and that was that.will stand in the way of the third one bringing Philly its second Lombardi Trophy
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