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Ralph Vacchiano
NFC East Reporter
PHILADELPHIA—When Nick Sirianni started preparing his team for its first game after the bye week, he knew he’d have to make them do something one of them wanted to do. He had to make his players watch the film of last year’s Super Bowl. He had to have them relive and remember what went wrong.
No, it wasn’t easy — not even for the coach — to relive Philly’s 38-35 loss in Super Bowl LVII last February. The Eagles (8-1) may have been focused on preparing for their game against Chiefs (7-2) in Kansas City on Monday night while watching the old film, but even Sirianni had moments where he wanted to scream at what he saw on the screen.
“There’s going to be things that make you say, ‘Oh man, that was a really good play,’ or ‘Oh man, I wish we could have that one back,'” Sirianni said. “Do you find yourself sometimes doing that? Yeah.
“But you’ve got to remind yourself that, ‘Hey, our job is to get prepared for this game.’ What happened in the past happened in the past. We’ll learn from our mistakes.”
That, of course, is the object this week as the Eagles prepare for one of their biggest test of the season and a game that has been circled on a lot of calendars since the schedule came out last April. To do that, Sirianni wants his Eagles to take their usual, focused approach and not get caught up in the memories and emotions of what happened nine months ago.
But that’s easier said than done. Already, left tackle Jordan Mailata admitted in a radio interview on Tuesday that the game is personal to him. “I’ll never forget that red and gold confetti falling on my head,” he told WIP radio. “I’ll never forget the emotions from that day.”
“Yeah, it’s personal to me,” Mailata said in the locker room on Thursday. “I know I’m not going to get that championship or I’m not going to get the rings back. But I don’t want to lose.”
Using that as motivation isn’t Sirianni’s preferred approach. He…
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Publish date : 2023-11-16 22:58:55
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