‘I was having fun:’ Nick Sirianni discusses wacko behavior at end of Browns win originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
A few of his players told Nick Sirianni to just be himself.
Unfortunately, he was listening.
Sirianni was caught on the Eagles-Browns FOX TV broadcast having an animated shouting match with fans at the Linc in the final seconds of the Eagles’ win Sunday.
Video shows Sirianni holding his hand up to his ear in a sarcastic way of indicating, “I can’t hear you.”
Earlier in the game, fans were booing and chanting for Sirianni to be fired when the Eagles went scoreless in the first quarter for the seventh straight game, something they hadn’t done in 30 years.
They won 20-16 over the 1-5 Browns, improving to 3-2 but only 4-7 in their last 11 games going back to last year’s collapse.
Sirianni refused to go into any detail on what precipitated his post-game antics, but it’s not the first time he’s appeared unhinged in the final moments of a game. Usually, it happens on the road.
“I was having fun,” Sirianni said after the game, surrounded by his three kids at a bizarre press conference. “I was having fun and I kind of got some feedback from the guys (during the bye week) of the sense of, ‘We need you back, Nick. We need your energy. We need your focus.’ I got that from a couple players.
“When I’m operating, having fun, I think that that breeds to the rest of the football team. If I want the guys to celebrate and be themselves after big plays, then I should probably do that myself, right?
“There are times for that and times that are not for that. I have to have wisdom and discernment of when to do that and when not to do that.”
He may have been having fun, but this sort of behavior is unusual for NFL head coaches and it’s not a good look for a guy who’s always preaching even keel to his players.
Can you imagine John Harbaugh, Mike Tomlin, DeMeco Ryans, Andy Reid or Todd Bowles making faces at fans and screaming and yelling…
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Publish date : 2024-10-14 18:32:21
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