How Eagles coach Nick Sirianni turned a difficult week into a dominating win

How Eagles coach Nick Sirianni turned a difficult week into a dominating win originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

It was quite a week for Nick Sirianni, from his post-game antics at the Linc to his defiant press conference surrounded by his kids a few minutes later to his apology on Monday to preparing for a must-win road game during the week to celebrating the Eagles’ most lopsided win in two years.

The last thing this team needed was a distraction created by its head coach coming off a lackluster win over the Browns, but Sirianni and his players navigated what could have been a difficult situation, and the team responded with a 28-3 win over the Giants at MetLife.

“I think what I said to our team is obviously you try not to listen, but you do media (four) times a week,” Sirianni said after the Eagles improved to 4-2.

“I just told the team that … there was a bunch of different ways that I learned this week. It wasn’t just through the situation that I was in. I’m not even going to go into all that, but it’s like, you can be angry, but all anger does is cloud your ability to get better and control the things that you need to control.

“So what I said to the team is I put my head down. When you have criticism when you have those different things, you put your head down and you work even harder. The thing about that is the hard work that the team had and that we had throughout the week helped put us in position to be successful today.

“The other thing it does, to be quite honest with you, is it unites. You can look at it as a positive if you allow yourself to do that. I think that this game is constantly teaching us things, and that’s what it taught me this week.”

Say what you will about Sirianni, you can’t argue with 38-19 and a .667 career winning percentage that’s 14th-highest in NFL history (he moved ahead of 1950s Giants coach Jim Lee Howell Sunday).

He was in full damage control mode early in the week, but a 28-3 road win over anybody is…

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Publish date : 2024-10-21 13:24:44

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