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How Eagles’ training camp practice routine is changing this summer originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
If you think the Eagles should practice more, you’re getting your wish.
Just don’t expect Nick Sirianni to make wholesale changes in the way the Eagles hold training camp and run the preseason.
Because the Eagles have held the shortest training camp practices in the NFL since Sirianni became head coach in 2021 and with the late-season collapse last year and the addition of notorious old-school defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, there’s been a lot of speculation about how much — if at all — Sirianni’s practice philosophy will change this summer.
And there will be changes. Just not massive ones.
“What’s very important is that we don’t over-correct,” he said. “You have to adapt, you have to evolve (but) there’s a danger in over-correcting in my eyes.
“I put a lot of work into figuring out what it takes to win the first game, what’s necessary to win the first game. Last year we started off 5-0, the year before that we started off 8-0. Like, I don’t know how much to correct.
“The problem of where we stalled out last year had nothing to do with how training camp was.”
That’s a fair point. The Eagles’ issues with tackling late in the season had more to do with who was trying to make the tackles than anything the Eagles did at practice four months earlier.
Since Sirianni became head coach in 2021, the Eagles are 7-2 in September, the best September record in the league over that three-year span. Both losses were in 2021. They’re 17-6 in September and October, again best in the league. Overall the first 10 weeks of the season, they’re 20-8, tied with the Chiefs for best in the league.
So Sirianni is doing something right.
But a comparison of last year’s training camp schedule and this year’s shows some interesting changes.
We only have the Eagles’ camp schedule through the first preseason game — Aug. 9 against the Ravens in…
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Publish date : 2024-07-19 11:00:00
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