Roughly 13 months earlier than Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni turned a Tremendous Bowl champion by way of his crew’s 40-22 thrashing of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on Sunday night time, many followers and native media personalities blamed Sirianni for the collapse of the 2023 Eagles facet that entered December at 10-1.
Sirianni spoke with reporters on Monday about all that he and the franchise went by way of over the previous year-and-a-half.
“I believe I look again on final 12 months and the way final 12 months ended and I’m grateful, as loopy as this sounds, at how final 12 months ended as a result of it formed us to who we’re immediately,” Sirianni defined, as shared by Bob Brookover of NJ Advance Media for NJ.com. “After which the adversity at the start of the 12 months and thru the season — the ups and downs — by way of every part, I believe while you embrace that, it does one thing to you.”
Eagles proprietor Jeffrey Lurie may/may not have reached out to Invoice Belichick final winter after the New England Patriots confirmed the residing legend the door and after Philadelphia misplaced six of its remaining seven video games of the 2023 marketing campaign by way of the wild-card spherical of the playoffs. Moreover, the Eagles allegedly handled “a real significant problem” behind the scenes as they endured a brutal stretch that reportedly landed Sirianni on the recent seat.
Multiple reports later surfaced about how the relationship between Sirianni and quarterback Jalen Hurts turned “fractured” in the course of the earlier marketing campaign. These two seemingly obtained on the same page when the Eagles have been 2-2 throughout their Week 5 bye this previous fall.
“You don’t know the way shut a crew goes to be till you undergo the journey collectively,” Sirianni stated on Monday. “It’s laborious to say this as a result of we gained 16 of our final 17 video games, however even within the midst of that … adversity tends to deliver you collectively.”
In the meantime, Hurts’ leadership style got here into query after he signed a five-year contract extension reportedly price as much as $255M with $179.3M assured within the spring of 2023 after which failed to forestall the crew from coming aside late in that season. He turned each a Tremendous Bowl champion and Tremendous Bowl Most Priceless Participant on Sunday night time.
“I believe my whole profession, I’ve been challenged with various things and it’s put me in a spot the place I used to be simply attempting to enhance, enhance, enhance so I may very well be one of the best that I may very well be,” Hurts stated on Monday. “…This was simply the evolution and the maturation of myself and a crew, a tradition and with the ability to evolve and develop figuring out that issues are all the time altering as time goes by. But additionally figuring out that every part comes proper on time.”
As of Monday afternoon, DraftKings Sportsbook listed the Eagles because the betting favorites at +600 odds to win Tremendous Bowl LX subsequent February. If Sirianni and Hurts can develop even nearer in the course of the offseason, they might assist Philadelphia grow to be the league’s subsequent dynasty.
