EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Nick Sirianni stood at the podium and proclaimed his football team wasn’t a bunch of quitters. Even after losing five of their last six games, the Philadelphia Eagles have shown little indication publicly that they have given up trying to salvage a season that’s spiraling toward the brink of extinction.
The locker room vibe is a completely different story. Just like MetLife Stadium has been for the franchise that played there in a lost season, the Eagles quarters in Week 18 were similar to a mausoleum. It’s been that way for several weeks now — even after the lone win against the New York Giants in Week 16 — a locker room of coaches and players searching for answers, trying to figure out how things got to this point.
The message has been the same from Sirianni. But while just six weeks ago he could seemingly motivate his team through anything, now his comments just roll eyeballs.
“I know this group are fighters, I know this group will get up,” Sirianni said after the Eagles lost an embarrassing fashion to the Giants. “I know that we’ve all been through things in our life that we’ve all had to deal with shit, and we know how to get up.
“The same message that I talked to the guys about last year going into the NFC Championship game about not only are we physically tough, we’re mentally tough and think about all the stuff that you’ve been through in your life and why you’re in this seat right now, is the same message I would say right now.”
Sirianni admitted to using the same message to rally the troops, but this isn’t the 2022 Eagles. That Eagles team was a top five offense and points and yards per game and a top five defense in yards allowed per game (top eight in points allowed per game). Jalen Hurts was playing at an MVP level. Shane Steichen and Jonathan Gannon were the coordinators.
This year’s Eagles team finished seventh in points per game and…
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Author : Jeff Kerr
Publish date : 2024-01-08 16:21:45
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